Lake County Sheriff’s Police, Arlington Heights Police, Illinois State Police, Palatine firefighter/paramedics and Long Grove firefighter/paramedics responded about 6:30 PM Monday to an aggravated battery at Lake Cook Road and Route 53 Long Grove, IL. Police received a report of an aggravated battery at Lake Cook Road and Route 53.
A victim was possibly pushed off the bridge or was forced to jump from the Lake Cook Road bridge onto Route 53 below. The victim was reported be down in the northbound lanes of Route 53 right beneath the Lake Cook Road overpass.
The victim was a 20-year-old male, who was on the outside shoulder directly under the overpass. He was transported by Palatine firefighter/paramedics to Northwest Community Hospital.
Police received a report that offenders fled the scene in three groups.
All of the offenders were described as male/Hispanics.
One of the groups of subjects were in a red Ford Expedition and fled westbound from the scene.
An unknown amount of offenders were last seen eastbound on bicycles.
A third offender was last seen walking southbound on Hicks Road from Route 53.
One of the offenders was wearing a blue shirt and blue shorts
One subject was armed with a bat and one subject implied that he had a gun.
The crime is reported to have occurred at 6:30 p.m. Long Grove firefighter/paramedics responded at 6:33 p.m.
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IMPORTANT ALERT …
Cardinal Note: Police incidents related to the above police agency (Arlington Heights and Lake County Sheriff) are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use secret military-grade encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.
The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.
The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.
Lack of real time information from police dispatch also delays public awareness or eliminates public awareness of general hazards and traffic or other situations in every day living in an otherwise economically thriving community.
Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.
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