More Cameras, but...
After an epidemic of school shootings and a bloody weekend for Chicago Public Schools students, Mayor Daley on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster school security by linking 4,500 school cameras to police districts, squad cars and the 911 emergency center.
Chicago's existing surveillance network includes more than 10,000 public and private cameras. Adding school cameras will boost that number by 45 percent, creating an integrated camera network that Police Supt. Jody Weis said has "evolved into a national model."
The $418,000 upgrade is being financed by federal Department of Homeland Security funds. It follows the shooting at Northern Illinois University and a weekend that saw four CPS students shot and killed and five others wounded in separate shootings.
Frustrated aldermen Thursday demanded to know why the latest class of Chicago Police recruits were sent home before beginning their five months of training, contrary to Mayor Daley's promise to put 75 more officers on the street this year.
"I can't imagine the mayor's intention would be that the new officers not be on the street until, what, December?" said Ald. Marge Laurino (39th).
Red light tickets are expected to rise with the installation of 200 new cameras. We wouldn't be surprised to see the number of homicides climb at the same rate due to falling manpower numbers.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
32 Comments:
the departments throwing money everywhere to get these damn car cameras, school and pod cams up and running and yet i've operated a year without a damn pdt in my car. instead of attacking these monster million dollar projects maybe weis should secure equipment, get the new gun programs up and running for his troops first then worry about all the bells and whistles to boast to the papers and cater to the reverends about.
Inch by inch, step by step, we are being insidiously nudged closer and closer to the the edge of the precipice.
Big Brother is watching YOU.
Are you a RIGHT thinker or a WRONG thinker?
Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men?
Burn baby, burn!
It doesn't mean a thing, if you saw the Sun Times headline Saturday morning. There was another student shot and killed with cameras and police around. The department responded by saying they possibly had a person of interest as a result of seeing them on one of the cameras. I say, who cares, so the cameras are to identify a person after the crime? This is a joke, when are the citizens of Chicago going to stand up to our mayor and ths new sup. and demand action. It seems to me the new guy is too concerned about our weight and incompetence than he is about kids dying, why doesn't this make the headline!! I would like to see the Sun Times have J-Fed on the front page answering questions about how he plans to combat the violence and not talk about how he is a bodybuilder and his wife a personal trainer. Hell if I had no kids made a ton of money and could work out and eat healthy all the time it would be great. He needs to realize we all have families, most of us work a second job just to be able to afford our homes and send our kids to a decent school since our public schools are a joke. He is so far removed from what the life of a police officer is, until he goes to work at midnight comes home and takes his kids to school, then goes to his 12.00 an hour side job until time to pick the kids up he will never feel for us or understand what it is like. And after all of this maybe you can lay down and get four or five hours of sleep before you can do it all over again.
Red light cameras, need more. How about those speeder cameras like the state uses? Locater chips in all new firearms made to track a weapons movement. All this can be done with modern tech. which is available now.
One recruit group in the academy. The last recruit group that came in for training was at the end of October. So for the last 5 months, none have been hired to even make up for retirements.
5 MONTHS with NO NEW OFFICERS and they wonder why police service sucks and officers are stressed out. Figure it out People!
"Red light cameras, need more. How about those speeder cameras like the state uses? Locater chips in all new firearms made to track a weapons movement. All this can be done with modern tech. which is available now.
3/08/2008 09:35:00 AM"
Freedom is Obsolete
Privacy is Obsolete
Technology is God's Gift to Man
Big Brother loves you ... to death
Welcome to the Brave New World
Good job mayor $418,000 well spent. How about replacing the mircoslate in my squad car first you jerk!!
Who cares as long as the Supt can get all cops into the gym....THATS WHATS IMPORTANT.....crime can wait!!
After watching robocop, Daley has granted a city contract to the producer of the movie. Plans are under way to use money saved by the canceling of recruit classes to fund the new physically fit versions of Robocops. Also a city contract has been granted to Saudi Arabia. Money will be invested using pension funds to furnish the oil needed for the project.
And now I have officially joined the KMA club so we are down one more P.O. mr. dumb dumb daley, you can kiss my ass.
If they would expell these kids that cause this mayhem in our Public Schools intead of letting them run amok we would not have all these problems. Also I heard the incident that involved the choir boys at Crane was over grade point averages.
"After watching robocop, Daley has granted a city contract to the producer of the movie. Plans are under way to use money saved by the canceling of recruit classes to fund the new physically fit versions of Robocops. Also a city contract has been granted to Saudi Arabia. Money will be invested using pension funds to furnish the oil needed for the project.
3/08/2008 01:47:00 PM"
Thank you for your cooperation.
J fed has to keep bringing heated topics that put the policeman in bad light, that's all he knows how to do, he doesn't understand day to day operations, as a fed they had months to make their cases sometimes we have hours(48).
He is doing a fine job at keeping the p/o's fighting each other with his bullshit issues. Remember people its contract time, the city and j fed throw these bullshit issues at you and come contract negotiations your are willing to give up certain rights so some of these bullshit ideas dont come to fruition.
did you not see the article where fop pres. donahue said there is no way the fop would support mandatory fitness? well if the city decides to bring it to the table, we'll have to give something up to get rid of it or trust the arbitrator.
Come on people wake up, stop supporting Jfed with your bickering and start supporting your fellow p/os who have earned the right to wear the uniform!
hey scc, how about putting a folder together in the right margin with all the jib jab posts?
How's those PODs working out over by Crane?
That's the federal way: it's not what you do, it's how you look doing it. And, may I say, you look mah-velous!
I can understand why J-Fraud wants coppers in the guy. they would look better, just like FBI agents. You have to admit that most FBI agenst look in shape. Youu also have to admit that maybe less than 5% of them has ever made an arrest or ever will.
Just curious, how many ACTUAL arrests has J-fraud made? I dont mean like the usual FBI arrest where the local police do the actual arrest and then FBI takes credit in the papers.
ACADEMY TO CLOSE DOWN IN 3 WEEKS AND THEN THE HOUSE CLEANING BEGINS!!!!
Need more money mr. mayor, well we will just shorten the yellow lights a little more.
Keep voting democratic. Obama or Clinton will see that the investigation into the Daley machine goes away.
In separate interracial homicides, a pair of lovely coeds from Georgia were shot and killed near the campuses of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and Auburn University, Alabama.
In both cases, a camera photographed the separate murderers.
hey 1:53
NEW RULE. if youre a KMA member... post your name. otherwise no one cares.
i thought the cameras were supposed to be the end of crime and chicago was to become a utopia? oh wait we dont have enough cameras yet..
Hey, maybe if they had Eddie Burke's personal camera at Crane this shit wouldn't have happened.
But Eddies ego is way more important that a kid's life. Remember, this is Democrat Chicago.
Cameras will catch the bad guys and if you are a cop and fucking off , then oh well. All the coppers that decided to go into being A GANGSTER, BROUGHT THIS ON TO US, SO EVERYONE STOP CRYING LIKE A LITTLE BITCH AND BE HAPPY YOU HAVE A JOB, THANK JERRY, ABATE ETC FOR THIS, ISNT LIFE GREAT.
Just like in Robocop, privatize the police dept. Put out bids for a Company to run it and disolve the CPD.
I think Daley Jr. would be the perfect choice after he leaves the army with all that experience.
with all these cameras will i need to wear my shoes when i am in my cruiser?
Also I heard the incident that involved the choir boys at Crane was over grade point averages
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N0. It was over a "Buck Fifty". If you don't know what that is, it is a baseball hat with an authentic working timepiece in the front crown and sells for $150. That was what it was over. So drink your forty, wear your buck fifty and have some respect for the young man.
That "buck fifty" could have been his grade point average......
Homicides,agg. batts. rising out of control.Maybe we should have a unit that goes out there and kicks ass!Oh wait,we had a unit like that.It was called S.O.S.Like them or not,at the very least crime went drastically down wherever they patrolled.Way to go Dana,Risley,Ralphy(Assholes!)
If J-Fed keeps putting cops in a bad light it helps the city in Union talks. ie: Why should a bunch of lazy fatasses get such a big raise?
"If J-Fed keeps putting cops in a bad light it helps the city in Union talks. ie: Why should a bunch of lazy fatasses get such a big raise?
3/11/2008 05:17:00 PM"
Because those 'lazy fat asses' are the only thing between daley and a lynch mob, that's why.
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