block it is. evanston is not the only community battling gang activity from the city. it s a widespread phenomenon, fueled in part bit closing of chicago s public housing projects. now, gangs are sprawling into 88% of the suburbs throughout cook county. the chief of police asked me, how do you know i 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 it track the chicago s area 70 plus gangs and estimated 100,000 gang members is at the jail. most detaineeies here are held for trial as they ve been charged but not convicted of crimes investigators with the criminal intelligence unit, or ciu, are assisting multiple police stationes from one. from evanston police, to schilling pd to the sheriff s police and sharing the latest
expression of lies for the lies and statistics. different towns have different agendas. most of them are noble. but there are other ones that the last thing they want to do is acknowledge a crime problem because it might impact housing and the rest. so there is an educated guess. the public would be flabbergasted if they knew how little police departments actually talked to each other. but one thing is certain, as theciy demolished more than 25 public housing units, the gangs moved out ward. they became a part of 100 thousand residents from other low-kin um sites, forced to relocate during the past two decades. that s made a lasting impact on communities to the south and to north, including evanston. evanston is kind after mini chicago. we have the diverse wit the
neighborhoods. we have $5 million house oepts lake and a lot of section eight housing and poverty and pockets of bad areas within the good areas. evanston police officers, liz lynn and jimmy pim ars are part of the police. they i have sai they know the drug tealers in town and have recruited informants to help bring them down. we do what it takes to get good charges on them. there is a lot of drugs here. this is the the hub. yeah, the epicenter of this area. you will see guys posted up here as either look outs or whistling down block. or handing out business cards. that too. we got this guy was handing out business cards. this particular business card. at one of the red lion stations and he actually gave it to one of my informants. his card says, a hundred bags, call me first.
downstairs, down stairs, go!sta. downstairs, down stairs, go! whatever you find belongs to me. whatever you find. you want us to tear the place up or are you going to tell us? no, i don t have there s heroin and a scale, it s mine. so anything else you find, i forgot about it or you have anything else on you. you? can pat me down too. i don t have anything on me, man. nothing. okay, we re going to taert house up. for what? i just told you there ain t nothing in there. evanston police have been waiting to tag this target, an alleged heroin dealer for a long time, pu they couldn t do it by themselves. not in a criminal commune think the small. they needed be a ace up their sleeve. we don t do much undercover with our own officers in town. it s almost impossible for us to get into the drug dealers because they know us, and our faces so we have to bring in outside people.
after candy. i m looking for the skit eles. all right wp let me know what paper is too. all right, cool. she asked me if i wanted a jar, which is a hundred. i said no, half a jar. but police buy 15 pills because that s all they need to buy. so we will get a search warrant and hopefully get it out of her also. hey i was going to be in the area in a bit. i was going to see if i could roll through. we try to talk like they do. a lot of people that we arrest, you will know terminology that they like use. call me back. you can probably count the steps he s doing. he s probably on his 500th step. yeah, he paces. wear out a piece of the grass up there. each time that ridgeo and his fellow officers launch a new operation in evanston, they face a shrewder more calculating