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At a Evanston City Council meeting, a plan to send crisis responders, instead of the Evanston Police Department, to low-risk 911 calls was approved.
The Evanston Whole Foods Market near Church Street and Chicago Avenue was evacuated after a bomb threat, the Evanston Police Department said.
This is my block, no, it's not. i'm going show you whose block it is. >> evanston's not the only community battling an influx of gang activity from the city. it's a wide spread phenomenon fuelled in part by the closing of chicago's public housing projects. now, gangs are sprawling into 88% of the suburbs throughout cook county. >> chief of police asked me, how do you know you have a gang problem? i tell him, chief, i have this. i understand what this stuff means. i can't be a gang expert if i don't know what this means. >> one of the best places to track the chicago area's 70 plus gangs, estim...
It's something cool to try, and dies the first time. >> they begin planning another major operation with the evanston pd, this time they'll move higher up the food chain. >> some of these guys, they don't sell from the houses. they learn that police buy from the house, they come and get a search warrant at their crib. now they do their sales on the street. they're mobile. they feel a little more secure because they're mobile, they're moving, they're watching. what we'll do is make our buys from there. we adapt to them. >> hey, anyone from evanston? evanston? 71st? there's been a lot of shootin...
Operation in evanston they face a shrewder more calculating adversary. >> we basically teach them how to do their job better so we need to adapt to that, as well. >> you have to think like them to a point. after doing this so:s many year i've had people tell me that i'm tarnished. my wife is a pharmaceutical rep. i go to their pears or a dinner, i can't relate to these people. after doing this job so long it's hard to relate to normal people. then she says, are you sure you're not the police. i say, no i'm not the police. i wish i was, i would have a real job then. all right, cool. she counted...