Community News story posted on 7/2/07:
Burglaries have been on the rise in parts of Uptown recently, causing concern for area residents and police officers. At recent community policing meetings (CAPS), officers said this is not unique to the 46th Ward or the 23rd police District, which runs from the lake to Clark Street between Lawrence and Fullerton avenues.
"Burglaries have gone up all over the city," said officer Margaret Murphy, Beat 2313 in Uptown. "My house was just burglarized, and we have an alarm system and a big dog."
With nine reported in a two-week period between June 8 and June 21 in Beat 2312 alone, burglaries were at the top of the list at three Uptown-area CAPS meetings in June. Citywide, burglaries have decreased 4.4 percent and auto thefts dropped 21 percent in the first five months of 2007 compared to 2006, according to crime summary reports released by the Chicago Police Department of so-called "index crimes."
Other crimes on the "Top Ten" lists for three Uptown beats in May 2007 included battery (15 to 21 incidents) and narcotics (13 to 20 incidents), followed by theft, which includes motor vehicles, with 12 incidents per beat. Burglaries were much lower, with 2 or 3 incidents per beat.
Murphy and other 23rd District beat officers have been checking doors, garages and cars to try to reduce the number of break-ins and thefts in the North Side neighborhood. They say a warm-weather spike is normal, and residents can help prevent these crimes.
Full story:
http://chicagotalks.org/wiki/crime-and-grime-update-from-uptown
(c) Keri Lynch 2007
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