Willieboy
03-19-2011, 12:57 PM
Years ago, I was enrolled to a Criminal Justice class as part of my degree program. The instructor was a police officer from a Chicago suburb. He came to class one night and was visibly upset. He explained two of his good friends had been murdered in their home on the northeast side of Chicago. The neighborhood is known as Rodgers Park. It turns out two members of the crooked hat club from the southside broke into their home through the couple's ten year old son's bedroom window. They beat the little boy in his bed, using the boy's baseball bat. Thinking the boy was dead, these two scumbags moved to the parent's room where they raped the mother, in front of the father, and then killed them both. They stole the couples credit cards and their car, among other things. This is what the LEO/Instructor told us that evening. Before dismissing us for the evening though, while near tears, he told us he hoped he would be the arresting officer when the killer/killers were caught.
The following week we returned to class and the officer was in much better spirits. He explained the perpetrators used the credit cards in their own southside neighborhood and then, geniuses that they were, parked the couple's car in front of their own house. The little boy was able to give a description of the two burglars. They were arrested by the Chicago police. Then, with a wink and a nod, the instructor explained that the suspects attempted to escape from a third floor interegation room in a Chicago precinct house. Unfortunately, there was no fire escape and they plunged three stories to the alley below. Oh well.
The following week we returned to class and the officer was in much better spirits. He explained the perpetrators used the credit cards in their own southside neighborhood and then, geniuses that they were, parked the couple's car in front of their own house. The little boy was able to give a description of the two burglars. They were arrested by the Chicago police. Then, with a wink and a nod, the instructor explained that the suspects attempted to escape from a third floor interegation room in a Chicago precinct house. Unfortunately, there was no fire escape and they plunged three stories to the alley below. Oh well.