We were contacted today by a detective from the sex crimes unit who asked us to see if we could pick up a guy wanted for criminal sexual assault of a child. We of course said yes and she gave us all the information. After going through all of the case reports and follow up interviews with the 12 year old victim, I asked why we were only now receiving the information, rather than back in March when the crime occurred. Her response: "manpower." She has so many other cases, some more heinous than the case we were working, that she was only able to get to this case today. She then said that it was only by chance that our paths crossed, allowing her to ask us to go out and see if we could track this dangerous offender down. Its sad when government waste and the misappropriation of City funds lead directly to an understaffed, overburdened police department.
We left the office at 1pm and am happy to say that by 1:45pm, this dangerous offender was in custody. All it took was a former address and a little bit of detective work of our own to track the offender down. Well, that and a little athletic skills to apprehend him when he leaped out of the home's rear window and fled on foot. Another dangerous offender is behind bars and our community is a safer place because of it.
But, we cannot forget why this dangerous offender was on our streets for almost three months before detectives were able to put some hours into this case - again, that reason was manpower. Alderman need to address this specific issue and treat public safety as the priority we know it to be because the safety and security of our community is paramount. The City of Chicago must hire more police to attack crime and work to reduce Chicago's high crime rate. I promise to do just that when I am elected Alderman and will work to make that a reality with property tax reform, reallocation of spending, and most importantly, TIF reform.
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