Money Wasted?
Regarding that abysmal clearance rate on CTA property, a reader had a good question:
- Millions of dollars on cameras covering almost every inch of trains, buses, platforms and stations - and 90% of crime goes unsolved? Were taxpayers sold a bill of goods?
Yeah, pretty much. But some connected companies got paid. And they paid politicians. Who voted for more money to be spent. And the Circle of Corruption continues.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
89 Comments:
Those 480 x 160 pixel cameras were State of the Art baby, State of the Art!
Shit, record all you want... is any one even watching the live videos? Are there even enough cops out to take the report, cause no one is getting arrested... no man power
It wasn't that long ago that the trains used to have a worker walking car to car. Now it's cameras no one watches. CTA can't even control the stations properly. There was a crazy lady at Washington/Wells this morning sitting in the middle of the damn stairs messing with her phone. The crowd struggling to get past and not a worker in sight.
With modern HD cameras and computer searchable databases, how are these guys not being caught? You've got their picture at the station entrance and then again on the bus or train. Can't those pictures be matched up against the driver's license/state id database?
No one has to use the CTA, but it is a convenient way to get about Chicago cheaply. The taxpayers dollars were well spent.
The Circle of Cicero
as in 1600 Austin Blvd
I believe Kanye West said it best "The twerp murder mayor don't care about taxpayers"...
Why do you think hoodies are so popular?
Up, over the head, and shielding the face where the cameras are.
Do the deed, get away.
Find a spot without cameras, hoodie goes in the backpack with the loot.
Stroll away chill.
Watching CTA video is like playing "Where's Waldo" it's impossible to locate a uniformed officer. Tact is easy to spot, just look for the plain clothes guy writing an ANOV on State street to a homeless panhandler.
Does mass transit have a tactical unit ? Maybe time to put everyone in uniform and ride trains and buses throughout their tour of duty.
If you want footage of a crime that occurred at 8pm good luck on a saturday. The video retrieval people only work monday -friday until 7pm.
The cameras were coming, regardless of the clearance rates for CTA crimes. It's a Homeland Security thing, and even SCC would know that.
The CTA doesn't clear up crimes that occur against its riders while on CTA property. That would be the job of the CPD, in Mass Transit unit and of course, all you folks who work Special.
Maybe the CTA needs to go back to getting its own police agency. It would probably work out better for them than the current system they have in place now.
Here is a prime example of more time and money wasted why in this environment would you as a Chicago police officer put yourself out in the media like this?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-video-release-met-20170731-story.html
Police video highlights blurred line between excessive force, typical policing in high-crime areas
Young police officers come on use your head as more than a hat rack, why bother as a matter fact after dealing with this individual from the way things look I would hope you file a report and possible communicable disease is make sure you get tested for hepatitis and HIV I would've set the individual to the hospital if you wanted to go the insanity of getting involved just jeopardizes you and your career! Even though you try to do the right thing you will be scrutinized by the media are Chicago dishonest media 24 hours a day seven days a week stay fetal you can keep your job keep your family most of all keep your freedom and your sanity!
Maybe they could hire more detectives to follow up on all this video that's being created.
Does shot detector solve gun crime?
In case you don't know it every dollar the city spends is wasted. Rahmie and his 50 thieves will always find ways of wasting our money. Coruption at its finest!
That's the story of Rahm with our tax money and his TIF funds. But the Feds are not going to persecute another thieving democrates. Maybe the new US Attorney General under Trump will prosecute the criminal democrates like Eric Holder "Fast and Furious" and "let's talk grandkids" Loretta Lynch.
Rahms gifts if our tax money to DePaul basketball Arena, Marriott Hotels, Buona Beef at 107th & Western and how many others are there?
Unless there is someone to investigate the crime...and prosecute, cameras are useless.
why would anybody question vanecko's pie eyed myopic peek-a-boo peep show security camera company?
vanecko camera company......
Hey media if you want to skyrocket your newspaper sales just run a week long story regarding the crime on the REDLINE from Chinatown to 55th st, it's staggering especially the robberies and Mass Transit officers are never anywhere to be found from 3pm-11pm when many of those crimes take place. CTA Officers do not respond to crime at the El Stations just listen to the dispatchers when they give out the jobs, um no mass transit is not available. The Red Line is a huge target for criminals. Signed, Chicago's Finest.
The CTA security system does take excellent photos of suspects, but they won't release to the media because nearly 95% of the offenders are black or Hispanic. It would be "too racially sensitive" to the PC liberals. The losers: the innocent citizen trying to get to work. Bring back the "decoys" at mass transit.
How many of those do you think are dummy cameras? That’s what BART has in SF. Turns out when they try to pull tape they found out the hard way.
But someone got paid. Just like here.
It never fails when I take the train downtown, every crazy, pan handling, thug, bum, angry baby mama, filthy, smelly, pervert wants to approach me, stare at me, sit by me, yell and scream, ask me for money. SHIT MAGNET!!
Hey how many good pinches have been made with those shot spotters?
Another fucking scam.
Shot spotter devices, how many arrests with that bill of goods ? What a waste of money but they continue to sell this stupid. City's now park police cars near stores and malls..crime prevention? Yes to so exstent but the reason the cars are empty is because they spent the budget on shot spotter and cameras that capture a hoody. Yes license plates lead to a car nut many times not
CTA produces great bulletins which are sent via email to tons of members. Most just delete them and I have never seen any posted. That is about to change. Stay tuned.
Didn't they give Mass Transit to someone on a scholarship? Who brought in many more undeserving people who don't do anything. The video is great, someone simply has to ask for it and contact a victim. You know do some detective work,but we're only worried about murders. Forget all those tax payers that are trying to get to work to pay more taxes. They'll do what their told. "Vote democratic!"
The only time the commander of Mass Trans is at a Cta station is to stand behind Rahmn at Cta station renovation tv announcement
So getting back to the guy with the AK47 on the platforms. We have all these fancy cameras but it took a citizen to call in that the guy had a rifle on him? Get this, he used a hoodie to conceal the rifle. That just proves how useless the cameras are. We spent millions on cameras and now what? Nobody is watching them.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-belmont-red-line-rifle-arrest-20170730-story.html
And the next wave of smoke and mirror nonsense continues with Shotspotter
8/01/2017 06:02:00 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If you want footage of a crime that occurred at 8pm good luck on a saturday. The video retrieval people only work monday -friday until 7pm.
And most cameras only record for 48 hours, so anything on a Friday night will have been recorded over by Monday morning.
How about arm Aviation and put them on the trains.
Money waste? Lets address the fact that Chicago had over 400 murders for July. Lets get all the desk jockeys out on the streets since the Mayor does not hire officers. We have a shortage of officers and yet still have tons of do nothings riding the desk in sitting inside. We need coppers on the street not inside. Lets get real. Just a couple months ago Ed Burke was even complaining about the manpower in News affairs at a desk. He demanded they hit the street. Coppers are not hired to sit at a desk they were hired to be a peace officer. Citizens need to speak up about the manpower shortage. Why do we have so many cops inside doing nothing? talk about wasted money
...and much money is wasted in Detective Division man hours watching video trying to get a usable pic?.
I work back office in Mass Transit and the Commander is a nice lady who has the same rats lined up at her door to beef on other cops,I can't stand the site of them anymore,
At least you get a HD video of you getting a PHD and robbed of your cell phone. Yippie!!
IMO- The City/CTA sold a Homeland Security financed Mandate (cameras covering 90% of CTA property) as a Panacea of crime reducing tools for Police. In all actuality, the footage is good enough for release to the News outlets.
I dont know if the technology exists that Facial Recognition would require. Guess its time that a full face scan replaces the existing mug shots.
I guess when you look at the amount of passengers that use the CTA/Metra daily and the amount of reported crime its pretty safe(?). I guess those (un-massaged by City Hall & CPD)numbers will never see the light of day.
Money spent on perception.
Many, not all CTA cameras are not upgraded, they are installed and positioned (for some unk reason) in odd locations giving perhaps a 50-50 chance of capturing a identifiable image. And the regular pickpockets thieves know this because their public defender always asks for video images that almost always never exist.
They may have put in thousands of hi-def cameras but there is zero upkeep, location assessments and management of the entire video system, to say there's 24 hr. monitoring is a no brainier.
The video image retrievals are generally quick if you have the locations and time frames.
I never had a problem with that team of guys whatsoever.
Secondly, there are very few victims that want to do anything more than report the crime so they can at least get a replacement phone or for a medical insurance claim.
Many targets are tourists, tolerant snowflakes, stink eye thug vs. thug.
Anyone have a count on how many CTA incidents are reported to 3-1-1, I'd guess 90%.
CTA is not worried about crime on the trains or buses, ridership will not decrease, until Voters get to have a say.
I have to wonder and someone should know by now if there's video of the Red Line Loaded AK-47 (it's just property) parolee ?
So a group trends go, getting away with stealing on the CTA is going to continue...it a property crime and KimPhoxxx has to allocate her resources elsewhere.
CTA isn't about to get its act together unless Rahm says so, they currently are on the KimPhoxxx Restorative Justice A-Train too.
BTW, Granny Clampett's Oakland PD / BART System refuses to release the recent wilding feral youth (40-60 savages) doing the train robberies...to "avoid stereotyping".
With modern HD cameras and computer searchable databases, how are these guys not being caught? You've got their picture at the station entrance and then again on the bus or train. Can't those pictures be matched up against the driver's license/state id database?
8/01/2017 12:28:00 AM
Bahahahaha. Now that was funny. Clearly this is not a Chicago copper or even a City of Chicago employee.
Tactical unit??? Mass transit has skeleton crews that make no arrests.
Young guys just need to shut it down. Let the ghetto do the ghetto. Answer your calls, go home, repeat.
The video gives you an offenders photo doesn't give you his name, birthdate and address.
OT: Texas Resident Defends Herself. Neighbor Cathy Hanks Explains The Law of Texas!
A 60-year-old Texas woman in Harris County, Texas shot and killed an intruder during a home invasion on Monday, 31 July 2017, according to officials.
The woman, who was not identified, grabbed her pistol and confronted the two armed men as they entered her home through a garage door, according to KHOU Television News.
According to police, the woman fired several shots and struck at least one of the men, who collapsed and died in her yard.
“It’s the state of Texas, if you’re going to go into someone’s home, you’re going to get shot,” Cathy Hanks, a neighbor, told a KHOU TV News Crew. “That’s really how we are. That’s just Texas.”
Officers found a pistol next to the dead man’s body. The other suspect, a man in his 20s, fled the scene.
The woman was not injured. According to police, she did not know the intruders.
Lieutenant's and Sergeant's classes in September. Congrats to those who earned it.
They should use CTA money to clean the sergeant's vest that works in mass transit.
http://www.inquisitr.com/4396720/shameless-season-8-open-casting-call-seeks-drunk-naked-man-junkies-and-more/
Here is a important question with this headline:
Dow hits record high, inches closer to 22,000
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/wall-street-set-to-open-higher-on-earnings-momentum.html
How many millions are we with "our" pension money making? We must be rolling in extra money with the great investment advisors we have right kenny hauser,and Mike Lappe? Now with Mike Shields hopefully winning a place where he belongs back on pension board (we know your all scared he may be loud and expose some tricky shit), How is our money doing? Did rahm make the required contributions? Have you been looking into ending the gold braid bill from the pension hogs? How about you were looking into all the made up "security specialist" positions given out? You know they get commanders and sergeants pensions while being nothing more than connected valets qualified to hold clothes and run red lights you even wonder patrolman Brian Thompson quickly retired from rahms detail grabbing that commanders pension?
Kevin Graham you came in like the lion but now your quiet like the mouse! The stress is obviously overwhelming, recently was at fop offices tell you what a diet for many would be the thing to do, looked like a "weight gainers" meeting! Not saying to flame but hopefully to motivate,if you want to lead you must be in condition and keep your health!
Don't forget the PODS. They are for shit too.
What good are all these cameras if there is no one allowed to protect themselves, arrest, prosecute and jail offenders?
Anonymous said...
Does mass transit have a tactical unit ? Maybe time to put everyone in uniform and ride trains and buses throughout their tour of duty.
Mass transit barley has 100 officers 4 all 3 watches. Thats about 4 (2) man teams per watch to cover 6 lines and 6 day off groups. And special has so many special attentions they have to man ,with most dealing with the animals on the south side, that most of the lines and almost all the buses have no police coverage.And the cta main goal now is to kick off all the homeless at Ohare so 1 of the many crazies that ride the line can harass the money paying customers that fly in and out of Ohare. Sure that idea came from 9.5...
Follow the money.
Just like the latest rage in the districts : Shotspotter and hunch labs.
Somebody is getting their beak very wet off of this hocus pocus.
Meanwhile we can't even get decent desk chairs to sit on. All of the ones that came new with the district all busted within the first few years..... every time we complain and ask for new chairs " they're working on it".... but millions upon millions can be dropped on these "situation rooms"
surprise at the beginning of season 8. OF blue bloods
Jamie and Eddie have only been officers of the NYPD so far, but it sounds like they'll be getting promoted to detective rank in Season 8. A promotion makes sense, considering how Jamie was complimented for following his instincts like a detective in "The Thin Blue Line," which led to the capture of a killer. I have to wonder if things will get complicated all over again with Jamie and Eddie with promotion to detective, so it should be pretty interesting.
even seiser records n then watches blues, in new york even he knows who runs it
Follow the money. Handing out contracts to selected vendors has been going on for decades. The vendors then make political contributions to the same hacks who helped them get the juicy contracts. Any wonder this city is broke.
Since Bruce vetoed hundreds of millions for the Chicago public schools pathetic system is our mayor going to skyrocket property taxes again? Maybe if our mayor would obey a federal immigration laws and allow the federal authorities to remove the criminal illegal invaders things would be better;
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/education/271280281-story
Starting one month from today September 1, 2017 we will lose hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government that is being used for policing in this carnage murder capital of the United States the city of Chicago the county of crook!
Unless there is someone to investigate the crime...and prosecute, cameras are useless.
Thank you, Mr. Southside! So what is our Mass Transit team doing about these crimes? Detectives?
(crickets)
Do not buy proctor and gamble products. They posted a commercial about blacks not coming home after being pulled over by the police. Then they show a black teenager walking down the street and looking over his shoulder when he hears sirens.
60 Mins videotaping squads at Midway today for some reason. They were asking about our lights being red and blue and why. Anyone know why?
Toni we're calling you crazy Toni soda consumption is that a 31 year low how low will it go now in crook county?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2017/08/01/american-soda-consumption-plunges-31year-low/103953632/
Put shot spotter on all Cta trains and busses, no more crime
That is because people rob others and jump off and run away. People are also careless and do not pay attention to their surroundings.
Disband that useless unit!!! Worst thing that ever happened was when O'Neil allowed it to become a biddable spot .
Disgusting how little they do and how much they complain.
We are a third world city.
The cameras are to watch us.
Rumor is that the Commander from Mass Transit is getting a new Lt and the one she has will go where the new one comes from. (Hint 002)
the person spreading rumors about a Lts and Sgts class in September stop your BS. Captains then Lts and maybe Sgts in early 2018..
Scc
I love this photo
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-says-ipra-considered-clearing-cop-later-charged-by-feds/
Anonymous Anonymous said...
60 Mins videotaping squads at Midway today for some reason. They were asking about our lights being red and blue and why. Anyone know why?
8/01/2017 05:07:00 PM
There is more to it they were at O'Hare also be careful!
London has a first class camera system.
But they maintain them, have personnel to
monitor, and a sane and orderly storage
system.
But in the USA, we have word of mouth,
dinners, golf outings, envelopes.
12:27:00 PM
Let the ghetto do he ghetto
Whatever will be, will be
The future is not ours to see
Let them kill themselves
Let them kill themselves
It's way down in their DNA
What the fuck do you even care
Vigils can't bring them back
It's God's way to depopulate
Just go home and bank that check
City Hall wants it that way
No matter what they might say
Just police the scene
Don't let the shit make you mean
There's a lot you haven't seen
So just blow it off
Bring in a NOBLE Lt, that will fix everything.
Nope that ain't my job
NYPD has the right way to do things with copper' on house arrest. They have a viper unit all the POW' watch the video' and call in crimes in progress.
The call back unit has double of what work in two districts. Bull shit light duty babies that are afraid of the street, from Lt' down. Call 311 and get a total attitude !
There are POW' in call back in the back of the medical district that have their own parking spaces for being POW of the month after some being there for 5 years or more. Ask around what beef some of them are accused of and the evidence on them. Some should of been canned years ago, with major beef after beef. Where there' smoke there is fire. Juice rules !
But IAD will push working copper' status to get fired for doing the right thing.
P & G has always had that crescent moon symbol
with 13 stars. Some consider it to be satanic in origin.
I was gonna stop buying Pringles, but they were bought
by Kellog's.
Who is their advertising agency? Who dreams up this
bullshit? Is this a woman-owned minority company
partially subsidized by the taxpayers?
If this was done by Jackson & Sharpton, I could understand.
Until we get to the bottom of this, boycott P & G!
60 Mins videotaping squads at Midway today for some reason. They were asking about our lights being red and blue and why. Anyone know why?
All taxi way lights on the air field are blue. So they add red lights to the police vehicles that work the airports.
Let someone with a permit shoot one of the thugs and all of a sudden the cameras will work as sold to the public. And yes I know you can't carry on the CTA. You can no longer depend on the police to protect you it' your job now. It always has been your job.
Money waste? Lets address the fact that Chicago had over 400 murders for July. Lets get all the desk jockeys out on the streets since the Mayor does not hire officers. We have a shortage of officers and yet still have tons of do nothings riding the desk in sitting inside. We need coppers on the street not inside. Lets get real. Just a couple months ago Ed Burke was even complaining about the manpower in News affairs at a desk. He demanded they hit the street. Coppers are not hired to sit at a desk they were hired to be a peace officer. Citizens need to speak up about the manpower shortage. Why do we have so many cops inside doing nothing? talk about wasted money
How about you get enough time to bid to the desk & stop bitching!!
Shot spotters, hunch labs, situation rooms, etc... All of that is liberal bull shit politics designed to fool the baaaa baaaa sheeple 🐑 in to believing that their liberal puppetmaster is really serious about them having a safe environment. 👌 The pathetic part is that their are people so naive and gullible that actually believe it.🍕
Anonymous said...
Disband that useless unit!!! Worst thing that ever happened was when O'Neil allowed it to become a biddable spot .
Disgusting how little they do and how much they complain.
8/01/2017 08:27:00 PM
that has been a useless unit long before O'Neil had anything to say about it, When their office was on Illinois Street you could find the entire tact team at Blackie's or at a private club up north. One quick arrest and then to the club. The same for the uniform guys. useless with no decent supervision. I doubt that anyone worked more then a few hours each day. Make it all fixed posts in uniform and a lunch relief, no personal cars allowed.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
60 Mins videotaping squads at Midway today for some reason. They were asking about our lights being red and blue and why. Anyone know why?
All taxi way lights on the air field are blue. So they add red lights to the police vehicles that work the airports.
8/02/2017 04:42:00 AM
so that is why state police cars have the blue and redlights!
look at money spent on the no gun zone signs on CTA property
good way to let chicago thugs know it will be easy pickings
5:56 AM you are right , FOP should publish a list of housecats at 35thST , Homan Square , Police Academy , every District has patrolman , sergeants that do zero
check gps of sergeants if you want a good laugh
look at officers assigned to a district and officers assigned to beat cars
hey if we can't use the cameras to prosecute how 'bout sort of a highlight film every Dec, 31st - a sort of year in review?
Come on Higgins, get your shit in order.
and send it to former Attorney General Eric Holder III so he can have that discussion (with himself) about race in America
Working the back office in Mass Trans I see the same copper coming in ratting out his partners, he even comes in on his day off or hours prior to work, and yet he's the biggest Medical Abuser on the Dept. I've seen him walk out out of Commanders office with tissues, about his dieing father, I've been in unit long time, his father has been dieing last two decades!!
60 minutes?
Why, that is almost a good as Live PD coming to ChicagoLand but staying away from Cook county (where all the murdering is happening) and instead go to Lake County.
Hey are you CPD coppers up next? Gonna go LIVE for the whole nation to Ride Along?
The stock market hits an all time high today. This is what happens when the business community has confidence in a president who is a businessman, not a community organizer.
It's almost all black and brown males committing crime on mass transit. even if they distrusted these photos to the media, the media wouldn't report it. They like going with the "generic" reporting and leaving race out of it.
Lots of sex crimes on mass transit the public has no clue about. They should post these photos of all suspects who are pictured master bating, feeling and touching female passengers, etc all over the transit system.
Why not spend the money on increasing the number of officers at Voluntary Special Employment CTA, or increase the number of officers assigned to the unit that works CTA? Wouldn't that make sense?
Mass Transit should've never become a biddable unit, all it did was allow all the dogs in districts to bid there and do less than they did before. Should be like all the other units so it gets people that actually want to work. That unit is also extremely short handed, with skeleton crews working most days. The CTA special should all be fixed posts in the worst areas on the line, which would then allow the personnel they do have to work in covert capacity and actually grab some of the mutts. It's not rocket science it just requires someone to actually care about the system and the people who use it daily. This dept could care less about Mass Transit, which is amazing considering it's such a target rich environment for terrorism.
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