Chicago police to implement “heat list,” where future crime victims and/or perpetrators are warned.

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A 17-year-old girl was shocked to learn she was among a handful of women on the list. Since police have contacted people only in Austin so far, the girl, who lives in the South Chicago neighborhood, hasn't been officially informed by police that she made the heat list.

The Dunbar Vocational Career Academy senior said she was arrested only once as a juvenile for mob action in the River North neighborhood.

"I'm not the bad guy," said the girl, who plans to attend college. "There's people out here doing stuff every day. And that (arrest) was years ago. I haven't been locked up ever since."

But the list proved prophetic in the case of Jacobi Herring, who was fatally shot this month as he walked home in his South Chicago neighborhood. The 21-year-old had just left a late-night party a few blocks from his home when he was gunned down at East 79th Street and South Yates Boulevard, an area known to residents as "Terror Town" because of its incessant gun violence and gang activity.

His uncle, Koland Herring, was not surprised to learn that his nephew was on the heat list, saying he succumbed to peer pressure in the neighborhood.

"He's not a hard-core gangbanger. He was never a shooter, burglarizing or stealing cars, anything like that," Herring, 49, said outside his nephew's home as friends and relatives stopped by to pay their respects to the South Shore High School graduate. "Some of the people that he knew did. They're hard-core. And in order to get around and to be accepted out here … you have to be around them."

Cook County court records show Herring was arrested only a handful of times, mostly on suspicion of trespassing and gang loitering. However, four others who were once arrested with Herring also made the list. In addition, another man who was once arrested with Herring was shot and killed in March in broad daylight. And Herring himself was shot in 2008 at 79th Street and Essex Avenue.

Herring's father, Floyd Redmond, recalled that the two had planned to attend the Bud Billiken Parade on the Saturday that Herring was killed.

"We talked about him getting shot all the time," said Redmond, 41. "I used to see my son hanging out, and I used to ride down on him. … I feared for my son being out on these streets because I know what these streets are all about, man."

To kick off the pilot program last month in her district, West knocked on the doors of about two dozen people on the heat list in Austin over about a two-week period. Christopher Mallette of the City University of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who accompanied West door to door, said not all of the people were home, so they spoke to relatives and left letters warning those on the heat list of the consequences of continued criminal behavior.

After West talked about their criminal records and the dangerous crowd they hang around, Mallette offered them a chance to obtain job training, substance abuse counseling, better housing options or an array of other social services.

Some were more receptive than others.

"Some of them ... acknowledged, 'You know what? He's a bad seed.' We had two or three people say, 'Thank you for doing this,'" said Mallette, who wore a bulletproof vest his first night out with West. "It's not a threat. We're giving you information. Not just the law enforcement information ... information that there's no excuses for anyone to be out there shooting and killing."

But Arthur Lurigio, a psychology and criminal justice professor at Loyola University Chicago, said the message could be a hard sell, particularly the warnings of a police crackdown if necessary.

"Young men entrenched in a criminal lifestyle are fatalistic and are generally undeterred by the prospect of future punishments," he said.

A Tribune reporter who later went to some of the Austin addresses on the heat list found out that a number of the people didn't live at those locations or were locked up.

For instance, Daniel Hill, 21, is serving two consecutive four-year prison terms for selling heroin. His mother, Bridget Hutcherson, said she never got a visit from West, but she wasn't surprised to hear that her son had made the list. She said he is autistic and started getting into trouble in his early teens.

"If you're selling drugs or you get convicted of selling drugs, it more likely is associated with a violent crime," Hutcherson, 38, said from her front porch.

Next door lives Yvonne Carroll, who identified herself as legal guardian to Terry McCoy, 20, who also made the list.

Carroll wasn't surprised to hear McCoy was singled out because he's in the Cook County Jail awaiting trial related to a 2012 armed robbery case. But she questioned the value of the list and wondered if police were merely profiling her son.

"They stereotype a lot of the blacks anyway," said Carroll, who is African-American. "The black community is not the only community that has violence. They have it in other neighborhoods, but ... they don't stereotype it like that like they do in the black community."

But police officials defended the list, noting that the names aren't chosen randomly.

As for McDaniel, in spite of his misgivings over being named to the list, he's considering taking Mallette up on his offer of social services, especially because he has a 2-year-old daughter and another child on the way.

But he insisted he doesn't belong on the department's radar.

"As far as them trying to make me a product of their work," he said, "I don't too much appreciate that."

Tribune reporter Rosemary Regina Sobol contributed.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-heat-list-20130821,0,1220974.story?track=rss

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Great idea.Pinpoint the potential perpetrators and warn them in advance that they are being watched

If they don't comply pop their fuccin melons
 
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s.free;6181587 said:
Lamilton3000;6181570 said:
sounds like minority report

Yep the first steps. I swear that movie was like a training vid for the government lol. Everything tech in that movie is popping up.

Been had this tech. Predictive analysis. Pre crime. They have cameras that record conversation, the little police cameras on street lights.

Report on a minority.
 
Makaveli Joker;6181352 said:
so basically...a list of niggas

Lamilton3000;6181570 said:
sounds like minority report

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I use to stay on 77th and Colfax that was the worst 2 years of my life... Them niggas was like you either with us or against us over there... Stayed my cool ass in the house or over my grandmas. Them niggas was at me damn near everyday thinking I was Folks
 
WhoisDonG???;6182895 said:
I use to stay on 77th and Colfax that was the worst 2 years of my life... Them niggas was like you either with us or against us over there... Stayed my cool ass in the house or over my grandmas. Them niggas was at me damn near everyday thinking I was Folks

Damn! I know a female there. In don't go around there but one day I had to drop her off. Worst experience ever.
 
@WhoisDonG and @MikeydaGawd did you guys see that study that was on Fox32 yesterday morning about the difference of crime between the Northside and Southside. 2 fuckin different worlds yo.
 
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WhoisDonG???;6182895 said:
I use to stay on 77th and Colfax that was the worst 2 years of my life... Them niggas was like you either with us or against us over there... Stayed my cool ass in the house or over my grandmas. Them niggas was at me damn near everyday thinking I was Folks

I'm sorry
 

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