The bike team is invaluable because it is quick and silent. For months, police made arrests at a building located in the 7800 block of South Saginaw Avenue, but they never could apprehend the main drug dealer because the building's design made it easy for lookouts to spot police.
Officers stand out a mile away.
Working with the bike team, residents started a neighborhood watch group and met with the building's landlord to voice their complaints. Bike team officers made several arrests including the arrest of the main drug dealer when they rode up on gang members dealing drugs in the back of the building. No car can actually get through there. We just rode right up on them. Now, the neighborhood is back to the way it was.