CALUMET CITY â Christopher Fletcher remembers when paperwork lived up to its name for police officers.
Fletcher, now the chief of police in Calumet City, got his start in the profession in Chicago in 1986.
Those were the days of contact cards, which detailed officers interactions with the public. You run into a person, write their name and information down, put (the cards) in a pile, Fletcher said. Hopefully, it s alphabetized. You know, I m looking for a guy named Johnny, (around) 79th and Halsted (streets). We d have to look through thousands and thousands of cards.
Now, thanks to Calumet City s ongoing public safety spending, officers can have access to that kind of information in seconds through upgraded in-car computers and record-keeping technology.
2 teens shot, 1 fatally, in Calumet City
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Two teenagers were shot, one of them fatally, Wednesday in south suburban Calumet City.
Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 3:15 p.m. found a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound in the 700 block of Buffalo Avenue, and learned the shooting happened about a block away, according to Calumet City Police Chief Christopher Fletcher
There, they found 19-year-old Jocari Chapman unresponsive in a vehicle, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Fletcher said. He was rushed to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died hours later.
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Two teenagers were shot, one of them fatally, Wednesday in south suburban Calumet City.
Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 3:15 p.m. found a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound in the 700 block of Buffalo Avenue, and learned the shooting happened about a block away, according to Calumet City Police Chief Christopher Fletcher
There, they found 19-year-old Jocari Chapman unresponsive in a vehicle, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Fletcher said. He was rushed to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died hours later.
The 17-year-old was also taken to a local hospital, and his condition was stabilized, Fletcher said.
Police found the man and teen boy, both with gunshot wounds, inside a vehicle while responding about 3:15 p.m. to the 700 block of Buffalo Avenue, police said.
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