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The warehouse at 940 W. Exchange should be one of the most secure municipal buildings in Chicago.
Not only is it home base for city crews that install and maintain security systems at local government facilities, it’s outfitted with surveillance cameras and an alarm.
So how could four spools of copper-lined industrial power cable that weigh more than 1,000 pounds apiece disappear in March in a still-unsolved theft?
Turns out the building’s alarm system was on the fritz at the time, and many of the security cameras weren’t working, several sources told the Better Government Association.
What’s more, the cable (worth at least $20,000) had been left out — and wasn’t kept inside a locked storage area as it was supposed to be, the sources said.
The city’s inspector general now is investigating, and exploring the possibility that the heist was an inside job, the sources said.
This isn't the only theft of wire though. We've gotten word from a couple people who know and it seems that a bunch of subcontractors are in the habit of leaving spools of this stuff on trailers at job sites - overnight and unsecured. And then everyone is "surprised" when the trailer is found empty the next day.
Anyone want to bet on what kind of connections might be uncovered if someone actually started poking around? Maybe a few "Outfit" connections?
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:35 AM
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"Your winnings, sir."
Off Topic:
Here is a puzzle to solve.
Chicago Police Department is budgeted for approximately 13,000 officers.
They are currently at about 7,000
Where is the rest of the money going?
Why can't they hire to fill the gap which they are already budgeted for?
Another question, there are apparently several hundreds of former officers wanting to come back to work from their leave of absence but are all in limbo. Why can they start re-treading these trained officers?
Anyone with insight please respond.
Curious public.
billy hanhardt and the boys will take care of this one.
I’ll bet the city has purchased the same spool of cable from the same connected contractors twenty times.
OT:
The heat strikes again, and it actually, kind of, got coverage.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chibrknews-northwestern-chicago-police-warn-about-mob-action-attacks-20110604,0,5088461.story
Hey. It fell of a truck.
OT - Media gone wild(ing)... oh, wait. The media said nothing until the University released the story!
Could THIS have been due to the heat also?
7 Arrested In Mob Action Attack At Northwestern
More than a dozen young men attacked a person Saturday night in the Streeterville neighborhood outside a building on Northwestern University's downtown campus, according to an alert issued by the university.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/
local/chibrknews-northwestern-chicago-police-warn-about-mob-action-attacks-20110604,0,5088461.story
OT:7 arrested in mob action attack at Northwestern
About 8:30 p.m., the victim had parked his motor scooter outside the building on Chicago Avenue, a little west of Lake Shore Drive, when about 15 to 20 males--believed to be in their mid-to-late teens--approached him, according to the alert, which categorized the incident as an attempted robbery. One of the males in that group threw a baseball at the victim's face and knocked him to the ground, the alert stated.
Sounds a lot like an episode of the Sapranos :)
OT - Riverside (KS) Officer Dies After Lightning Strike in Joplin
The Riverside police officer struck by lightning while helping with the Joplin tornado died this morning at a Springfield hospital.
Jefferson “Jeff” Taylor, who volunteered to go to Joplin, was 31 years old. He is the first Riverside officer ever to die in the line of duty.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/03/2923902
/riverside-officer-dies-after-lightning.html#ixzz1OOZazdVy
OT days off. How about half off fri,sat the other half of sun,mon switch every six months to a year? Some burbs do this.
Uncle Luke, Co-Founder Of Urban Beach Week, No Longer Attends Event
MIAMI (CBS4) – Although he was one of the early pioneers of Miami Beach’s Memorial Day hip hop extravaganza, even Luther Campbell says he no longer makes his way to South Beach during that weekend because it’s become too rowdy.
This year the (Memorial Day) event ended in a barrage of gunfire. One person was killed in the melee that saw a dozen cops firing more than 100 rounds at the driver of a car that allegedly attempted to run down five police officers.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/uncle-luke-co-founder-of-urban-beach-week-no-longer-attends-event/?src=lion
where was richie???
K.S. In way over her head in A5
To all the recent dumps from msf and tru. The fantasy super bid after 90 days will be the same districts as the super dump 90 days prior. I feel for you northsiders. That commute this coming winter will be horrible.
Funny how convenient those cameras were off. Kinda like the mob guy assigned to the evidence room and some mob-associated evidence disappeared?
Mob Action
How did the B.G.A get cellphone numbers of guys interviewed by I.G sounds like they got nothing so they leaked info to press ?????????
"The Daley crime family" is not just a catchy name.
A few years ago, while working a part time job security for the park district, I was asked to do a security survey of a garage that housed park district tradesman on the north side ( I had experience doing this in the military ). I uncovered massive theft and misuse of govt. property by the tradesman to include trucks, tools and expensive equipment, large amounts of copper piping and electrical supplies. I turned the report in to the park district head of security ( a CPD lieutenant detailed to the parks who later went on to gold star status who was also the head of the Hombergs). He read it and put it in his desk drawer and nothing was ever done about the garage. They wanted to know, but did not want to know. The tradesman were doing a lot of private work on the weekends using park district trucks tools and parts. Everyone had keys to the garage and the alarms were turned off. The garage manager knew everything. I guess things have not changed much in 20 years.
General Iron!
More than a dozen young men attacked a person Saturday night in the Streeterville neighborhood outside a building on Northwestern University's downtown campus, according to an alert issued by the university.
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"Young men" connotes a good image. Why can't they just say 'criminals' or 'suspected gang members'? Young men, my ass. Since when does being a thug qualify you as a 'young MAN'. Is this the stuff "MEN" are made of?
WTF?
I'm sure they just wanted to take turns riding his scooter. And since they don't have one of their own, the young, spoiled man on the scooter should have shared with them. And given them some money, so they could buy themselves some lunch, because they're used to getting free stuff all the time.
I tell you what, I'd rather give up my wallet than pay taxes. I could save a LOT of money!
I’ll bet the city has purchased the same spool of cable from the same connected contractors twenty times.
6/05/2011 02:34:00 AM
Oh my God! Truer words were never spoken!
Classic example of "Carry and Conceal Firearms Law" for all private law abiding citizens of Chicago.
Just think if that Honest, law abiding, minding his own business citizen were to protect himself and let off a couple of rounds in the chest of the bad guy who threw a hard league baseball at the victims face and knocking him down so his buddies can kick the shit out of him. We would have shitbirds mama with their 8th grade picture on TV.
Then again, Chicago Mayors tend NOT to follow the laws of the United States Constitution of the 2nd Amendment!
Chicago Mayors, tend to enforce their own home rule made up laws which should be banned and are illegal!
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♫ ♫ I volunteered for the Army on my birthday / They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway / I done two tours of duty in Vietnam /
And I came home with a brand new plan / I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico / I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
/ Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air /I wake up screaming like I'm back over there / I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know / You better stay away from Copperhead Road
Could it be connected to the "daley crime syndicate?"
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT days off. How about half off fri,sat the other half of sun,mon switch every six months to a year? Some burbs do this.
6/05/2011 05:25:00 AM
Lets modify that half work sun mon half work fri sat the other days we are closed1
Pffft. The copper on the spools goes round and round ....all through the town.
Maybe, Just maybe an inside job. Warm up the lie detector.
maybe the copper was repossessed
I’ll bet the city has purchased the same spool of cable from the same connected contractors twenty times.
6/05/2011 02:34:00 AM
Damn...lol. Now that's some crooked BS!
Anonymous said...
billy hanhardt and the boys will take care of this one.
6/05/2011 02:18:00 AM
William A. Hanhardt, also known as Federal prisoner #13236-424, age 82, former Chief of Detectives on the Chicago Police Department, is still in federal prison in Terra Haute, Indiana. His anticipated release date is 01-13-2012.
What Aldermans district is that??Just wondering who got the kick back.
OFF TOPIC said...
Uncle Luke, Co-Founder Of Urban Beach Week, No Longer Attends Event
MIAMI (CBS4) – Although he was one of the early pioneers of Miami Beach’s Memorial Day hip hop extravaganza, even Luther Campbell says he no longer makes his way to South Beach during that weekend because it’s become too rowdy.
This year the (Memorial Day) event ended in a barrage of gunfire. One person was killed in the melee that saw a dozen cops firing more than 100 rounds at the driver of a car that allegedly attempted to run down five police officers.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/uncle-luke-co-founder-of-urban-beach-week-no-longer-attends-event/?src=lion
6/05/2011 05:31:00 AM
You missed the best part:
As it stands now, Campbell complained, Miami Beach officials are running the risk of creating the perception that blacks are not welcome on the Beach.
“What I am worried about is the backlash,” Campbell said. “You have cities around America where African Americans know that they are not wanted because of some racial statement or some sort of ordinance that was put in to prevent African Americans from coming to that city. I don’t want that to happen to my town.”
Anonymous said...
Off Topic:
Here is a puzzle to solve.
Chicago Police Department is budgeted for approximately 13,000 officers.
They are currently at about 7,000
Where is the rest of the money going?
Why can't they hire to fill the gap which they are already budgeted for?
Another question, there are apparently several hundreds of former officers wanting to come back to work from their leave of absence but are all in limbo. Why can they start re-treading these trained officers?
Anyone with insight please respond.
Curious public.
6/05/2011 01:01:00 AM
Dear Curious,
Your numbers are off.
The CPD is not 6,000 short of budgeted strength but is over 1,000 officers short. The "money" does not go anywhere. It is simply imaginary money included in the budget that is not spent. The City operates at a deficit so this so called "extra" money doesn't really exist. The budget includes as "income" such nebulous income sources as union concessions not yet negotiated.
That is like including future lottery winnings and money expected to be found on the sidewalk in your family's projection of future earnings.
If you were also to include a couple of Ferraris and vacations to the south of France that offset the expected lottery winnings the little lady might scream for her red Ferarri because it is "in the budget."
If there were such a thing as a "correct" set of books, it would be interesting to see a comparison between budgeted amounts and actual expenditures.
But since you will never see true figures come out of City Hall we will never really know.
Just shut up and keep paying.
Anonymous said...
OT:7 arrested in mob action attack at Northwestern
About 8:30 p.m., the victim had parked his motor scooter outside the building on Chicago Avenue, a little west of Lake Shore Drive, when about 15 to 20 males--believed to be in their mid-to-late teens--approached him, according to the alert, which categorized the incident as an attempted robbery. One of the males in that group threw a baseball at the victim's face and knocked him to the ground, the alert stated.
6/05/2011 05:04:00 AM
Mob Action, like in this instance, that inflicts bodily harm, is a class 4 felony. However it is more likely that the lesser Class C misdemeanor was the charge. And it is ever more certain that the charges will be tossed the first time up.
You can bet your next retro paycheck that our illustrious Cook County Felony Review would never approve felony mob action charges against the youthful thugs.
Anyone in 018 care to illuminate us on which charge was used? Class 4 Felony or Class A or C misdemeanor?
Anonymous said...
OT days off. How about half off fri,sat the other half of sun,mon switch every six months to a year? Some burbs do this.
6/05/2011 05:25:00 AM
I suggest you go apply to the burbs which have a schedule to your liking.
Our work schedule is set down in our contract, on paper and in ink and is signed, sealed and delivered.
Why are you engaging in endless mental masturbation about a subject that is settled?
Read the contract, work schedule is done. Don't believe me, call FOP.
no security guards assigned
something stinks , have area 1 investigate , not inspector general
it's only going to be 80 degrees today so the beaches will remain open , mcguff do not believe your commanders
Me thinks that you're mistaken about the mob connection. I would bet my gimme check that there is a Daley connection, maybe Walsh construction should be looked at a little closer.
Joey Bagadonuts ???
Yep, there's only one spool of cable and it keeps getting stolen, insurance pays out, no fuss about 'phony' requisitions from OEMC.
Hey Louie, wanna roll dat spool back over to da yaaaaad !
That $20K cable so far cost the city $150K.
Now Vanecko Cable & Strorage can stay afloat, through these tough economic times. People are suffering and it's time we make sacrafices.
How about a 2 commander and 17 officer detail to protect that yard?
Chicago Police Department is budgeted for approximately 13,000 officers.
They are currently at about 7,000
Where is the rest of the money going?
Why can't they hire to fill the gap which they are already budgeted for?
OK, first off we are budgeted for 13,500 SWORN. That includes detectives, sgts., lts., capt., exempts. Anyone sworn with power of arrest. It is NOT the number of officers with the job title code of 9161. That being said, run the numbers. We are short somewhere in the area of 1200. I won’t make any comments on how these people are deployed. That is for you to form your own opinion. It appears that based on percentage, the most depleted rank is that of lieutenant. They are about 19% understaffed.
As to the budget: Just because the department is budgeted for 13,500 SWORN, it does not mean that the cash is there to pay for these people. The budget is based on revenue projections from all revenue sources. If one of these sources does meet the budgeted amount, then there is a deficit. The current budget is technically in the red. It is only being balanced by using monies that are in reserves. There is NOT enough income to meet the current expenses. We are living off of our savings. With that in mind, every dollar that is saved by not hiring, not promoting, cutting overtime or not making purchases means that we have to dip less into our savings. Although you end up sacrificing services, and in the case of police and fire maybe safety as well, it is a good fiscal move from an accounting point of view. So every police officer that is not hired makes the big budget hole a little smaller.
you mean it wasnt free? Like every thing else in this crap hole city........lol
seen a little dwarf nosing around the area.describe him as follows,big cigar in hand with a pinky ring.they said he was in charge.
leave the gun....take the canoli.
Are these the same sparkeys that swipe in\out at A/1 and 022 and when you ask them to fix a light they tell you to ask the engineer.
Then they get theyre work order and show up and say yep the lights out we have to get parts.
Then maybe three weeks later they come back and put in a new lamp. WOW.
I can only hope they don't get paiud full scale, they should be paid about 10hr for this type of work.
Anonymous said...
maybe the copper was repossessed
6/05/2011 11:24:00 AM
With the way the city pays, or doesn't pay, the bills, you might have found the answer.
Simple, Chicago is the most oorrupt city in the world!
Although you end up sacrificing services, and in the case of police and fire maybe safety as well, it is a good fiscal move from an accounting point of view. So every police officer that is not hired makes the big budget hole a little smaller.
6/05/2011 02:51:00 PM
Not when you end up paying millions in settlements, it doesn't. I think the good citizens have every right to sue and a fair amount of basis to win, when the city deliberately understaffs its first responders and people's lives are comromised.
A private contractor, City Lights, with ties to Luis Guttierez, has a yard and a garage with trucks with booms and winch lines a block away from the city yard.
dumpdaley said...
A private contractor, City Lights, with ties to Luis Guttierez, has a yard and a garage with trucks with booms and winch lines a block away from the city yard.
6/06/2011 01:20:00 PM
Yep. That sounds about right. As bad as you think things are in this City after 20 years of Daley. They are worse. Lttle Louie, what a steaming pile of dog shit.
A private contractor, City Lights, with ties to Luis Guttierez, has a yard and a garage with trucks with booms and winch lines a block away from the city yard.
6/06/2011 01:20:00 PM
never trust a midget with a midget mustache.
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