A visitors crash on the West Aspect yesterday afternoon demonstrates how issues work in Chicago lately: immigration brokers appear to be operating the present whereas native police supervisors do all the pieces they will to maintain CPD officers far, distant from the feds.
The Chicago Police Division, Division of Homeland Safety, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t reply to questions on what occurred at 2800 West Congress Parkway simply earlier than 2 p.m. That’s additionally how issues have been working recently.
In accordance with a Chicago Police Division visitors crash report obtained by CWBChicago, a 49-year-old lady was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital after one other driver slammed into the driving force’s facet of her Infiniti G37 in the midst of the intersection of Congress and California.
The motive force of the opposite car, a 2025 Chevy Malibu with “in transit” plates, ran from the scene.
A witness advised CWBChicago they believed Border Patrol brokers, who had been touring in about six unmarked autos, had been chasing the automobile that hit the girl. They mentioned the brokers chased after a person, and video shared on-line confirmed an agent detaining a handcuffed man by the neck on the crash scene as different brokers stood close by. Extra brokers directed visitors.
Federal brokers don’t normally spend their time dealing with visitors crashes. So, the place had been the Chicago police?
Inside a couple of seconds of the crash, a CPD officer monitoring a metropolis surveillance digicam rapidly confirmed the crash occurred and that ICE brokers had been on the scene.
For some time, the native district had no officers to ship as a result of it was in a “backlog,” which means dispatchers had a stack of requires police service however didn’t have any cops obtainable.
Almost half-hour after the crash, as phrase unfold concerning the heavy ICE presence, the primary CPD officer to move to the scene was the native district commander — not precisely the man who normally spends his day dealing with fender benders.
As soon as the commander, his aide, and a sergeant assessed the state of affairs, they rapidly established their priorities. Topping that checklist was making certain that nobody may declare CPD was serving to the feds.
“The [crashed] automobile can sit in the midst of the road,” a supervisor mentioned 45 minutes after the incident started. “So long as we’re not over there, it’s all that issues.”
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