I-290 Cameras
What took so long?
- Some 20 cameras have been put into operation in the last several weeks along the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago’s West Side in an attempt to crack down on drug trafficking — and the violence that comes with it — along what authorities have long called the “Heroin Highway.”
The announcement — by public safety officials at a news conference on an Eisenhower overpass — comes as federal, state, county and city law enforcement grapple with waves of overdoses caused by the powerful painkiller fentanyl mixed with heroin and other substances.
The cameras have been installed along about a seven-mile stretch of the Eisenhower — from downtown to Oak Park — due to the expressway’s notoriety as an access route for drug users from the suburbs and elsewhere to travel to the West Side for their fix.
The police can't profile drivers. Being from the burbs isn't a crime. If they flee, we can't chase them.
Well, that problem is fixed! On to the next one.
Well, that problem is fixed! On to the next one.
Labels: crime, dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
69 Comments:
This is great news. No more patrolling highways anymore. Cameras have it all covered. All those cameras in abla sure stopped that massacre. I’m sure these cameras will stop all drugs from coming in and out of the city
Gee this was genius move thought up by none other than ex merit boss Roti. You mean to tell me the most qualified guy to run Hidta was ex cpd that never passed a promotional exam. And to top it off he brought that idiot Anagrone to help him out. The two of them together dont even have half a brain. No wonder Chicago continues to be the main hub for drugs in the country. These two idiots couldnt find the Heroin highway if el chapo drove them to it.
And how exactly are these cameras supposed to identify drug traffickers that cellphones dont all ready do. Waste of money. How do detectives request the video for other investigations? Probably will have to jump thru hoops.
With all the fanfare do you think they will remain functional very long?
Yes more cameras will definitely solve the drug problem....just like they solved all the other problems in the city....SCC does anybody keep any kind of numbers on the crimes solved due to the cameras??? Like how many murders have been solved? How many drug arrests? How many false reports of hate crimes....ROTFFLMAO!!!!!
democRATS spending money they don't have, on shit we don't need, solving problems that don't exist with results that don't justify expenditures, raising taxes to fund these wasteful pork projects which benefit certain peoples pockets OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!
Make it 200 cameras. Heroine addicts don’t care.
They could use some cameras in Loyola Beach Park
The fact that they announced it indicates it's more of a discouragement for the buyers.
The sellers couldn't care less...its the police that are the problem, ask anyone.
Who's camera's? ISP, CPD, etc..? Do we have access to them.
Transparency here?
Now much did cameras cost? Open bids?
How are they monitored? There has to be some AI behind
this: plate readers, ect.
Is this just a big P.R. show?
I've worked in a hospital that had a camera in the narcotics
dispensing room. Funny thing, I learned thru scuttlebut that
the camera was non-functional for an extended period.
Only management and the supervisor knew. But word gets
around. Due to budgetary restraints, they had to wait until
next fiscal year to get repair funds.
Due DOT cameras always work? Most are online now, but
how many times have you tried to monitor traffic flow only
to find that camera was "down?"
I love the post about Roti & Angerone ... could not be more true ! Didn’t pass a promotional test between the two of them . That is at least 3 for Angerone if he wasn’t a Captain and 5 for roti. Four testable promotions for free. Same for Roti’s Godson that was dumped from FBI task force, he is waiting on that merit Lt. Bump too. All of it is disgusting . Roti is an arrogant fuck as well.
Roti never saw a mirror he didn’t like !
Vanecko Camera Co?
Honestly, who really believes that any criminal gives a crap if there's a camera or not? If ole boy is afraid of facial recognition and license plate readers, they'll just have someone else drive it, and get a ghetto temporary license plate to run up the highway... or something else to beat the system....
Cameras only tell you what happened after the fact... so this is going to be a total waste of money - again
Well I believe that is well intended what difference could it possibly make? The state won’t prosecute drug offenses. So why?
Illinois is billions and billions of dollars in the red as is Chicago. Let that sink in !!!!
Expressways and ramps belong to ISP
Nice that the press tips off the hooligans. They already mess with the pole cams, they can just reach over the railing and cut the wires. Money well pissed away.
Are the deals going down on the Ike? I mean, are people doing hand-to-hand transactions where the cameras are looking? I rather doubt it. So the cameras will see cars. Are cars with suburbanites and cash illegal now on that stretch of road?
Oh oh. Boo Boo Kitty time. It looks like Nick and Kenny both pissed in someone's Cheerios.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Vanecko Camera Corp, LLC will be doing the installs
Hopefully this will also help with the expressway shootings that happen all the time. Load up the cameras on the Dan Ryan as well.
Caneras will reduce drug problems the same way they reduced shootings. Oh, that didn't happen.
They had to put then up on the expressway because no one will make a stink about profiling white suburban drug users, but profile drug dealers selling drugs is a media taboo!
A fine example of how brazen these corrupt assholes are. No fear of any consequences for their behavior.
"The police can't profile drivers. Being from the burbs isn't a crime. If they flee, we can't chase them."
Exactly
Smoke and Mirror's, all bull shit!
Yup, and we know how those million dollar cameras on the CTA made all the crime disappear.
Next year they are going to televise and have an award ceremony for the best crime captured on the CTA with related awards, i.e. Best Costume/Hoodie, Best Supporting Accomplice, Best Court Defense, Best Visual Effects (sideways gun etc) Best Felony Revue Disapproval of Charges, Best Media Film Editing, Best Escape Car Chase Crash, Best Chicago Lottery Family Payout.
Watch for it next year on a local Chicago station, 'The Crimees.'
Cameras do not prevent crime.....they capture it
Except they don't actually buy right on the highway, they travel into the neighborhoods and the cameras there have done nothing to stop violent crime or dope sales.
This sounds pretty racist. I’m surprised the white liberal Oak Parkers allowed this to happen.
Cameras on expressway will be used to identify Claif or Az license plates. Quick computer cross reference and you know quite a bit.
Make the stop and seize $500k in cash. It isn't about stemming drug supplies, but about creating revenue. Will County just pulled $400k from a car for failure to signal.
Follow the money.
https://www.theherald-news.com/2019/01/25/will-county-sheriffs-deputies-detain-ecuadoran-man-with-400k-in-cash/agcrwkr/
Profiling?
One name for you: DeWayne Craddock
CHECK EVERYBODY For Suspicious Activity
With plate scanners, excellent revenue source--seatbelt violations and expired tags
What will these do to control the "heroin highway" exactly? City already has pod cameras in the neighborhoods watching the drug transactions where they occur. How is this not a complete waste of taxPAYER money? Who sold this farce onto useless politicians?
It for the dope heads and the problems they bring.
May as well legalize recreational harr’ron.
I’m pretty sure it’s just some politicians cousin has a stockpile of obsolete cameras were sitting in a dilapidated warehouse owned by another politicians nephew that was able to convince J-B Toilets and the ISP to buy the lot ...at a generous markup.
Just like the proposed FOID fee increase, nothing to address the root of the problem. Take a page from all the illegal crossing cameras along the southern border, all they got is a images of droves of feral coming in without any penalty.
Can’t publish images of johns arrested along Mannheim, ACLU is balking, so it’s likely the bright idea was just a ruse to spend money on some politicians kids wedding or graduation.
And anyway, where will they prosecute these camera images, at video court? It won’t be Cook County that’s for sure.
I will say one thing about Tollway cameras, they work darn good and make sure they’re getting every nickel they can from IPASS holders that actually pay. As anyone who pulls any boat across to WI will know. Tried many times to scoot and bunch up between semi tractors to hide a skimpy pop up trailer. No dice, they picked up the tag along which is the normal booth rate.
Read that Democrats with all their progressive agendas could turn IL into Red in 2020. Apparently the masses outside Cook Co are getting quite fed up lately with all the quacks from abortion laws to church and levies to taxes. Wouldn’t that be nice.
MAGA Country right here in the Midwest.
And just how the hell are they going to identify a heroin purchaser on the hiway.
Saw the news clip...HIDTA Groups are nothing but a clusterfuck hiding place for the clout connected.
And an unbelievable waste of taxpayer money.
Brian, you looked scared to death during the Press Conference.
Wonder if any video will ever turn up of that fatal?
Anything’s possible. Asshat.
They don't have to travel to the city anymore for Heroin satellite dealers operate out of apartment complexes in Naperville, Schaumburg, Palos Hills, Bolingbrook, Woodridge, Gurnee and Orland Park. They don't even realize how big of a problem they have on their hands!
Great! Now we’ll have low-resolution video of drug-runners as they cruise down the road.
And that will help because.....?
12:39.....right on the money
cameras caught our elected state legislators celebrating the passage of recreational weed. They looked like they just won the lottery! huh. wonder why they were so happy? my cynical side smells b.s.
Uh
overdoses are ems problems
not the polece
mass incarceration of victims who are drug users is wrong.
or at least that whats the sjw will tell you.
I just guess that I am a skeptic when it comes to liberal democrats and the legislature. I suspect that these cameras are just a test and the prolog for something else in the future; speed cameras on the Interstate. These speed cameras are a common thing in Western Europe. They are on every freeway in France, Germany and Belguim. It is a 350 Euro fine for speeding ( In don't know the grace speed). They even have mobile plate readers in vans . They make plenty of money. I imagine if they actually had speeding plate readers on the Dan Ryan here they could fully fund out pensions overnight. Superintendent Johnson was actually asked about this possibility and he laughed it off as a joke saying that there is no way someone can speed on the Ike.
No thought about stretching into the "hood" of Maywood?
1stt though 25th I can see at least six or seven standing along Harrison waiting for them to get off 290 and jump right back on.
Anonymous said...
The fact that they announced it indicates it's more of a discouragement for the buyers.
The sellers couldn't care less...its the police that are the problem, ask anyone.
6/01/2019 01:46:00 AM
it's them whites peoples fault visiting 11, with fancy vehicles, buying dopes
With all the fanfare do you think they will remain functional very long?
Good thing Gary Mc Streeetlight shooter is off the job. I would like to see a roving gang of taggers painting the red light camera speed traps.
Smile! You're On Candid Camera!
I'm no Allen Funt, but I'll say these cameras could turn
out to be a white elephant or a .45 with a silencer
(pardon the reference).
You just be assigned to that stretch of highway, either
in a marked or unmarked vehicle. So while you think
they're watching the public, they just may be watching
you.
Watched the presentation and how many pension bites Roti, Cpd deputy pension, then worked as big boss for Leo in isp position, now government Hidta head 3 bites, 3 pensions yep keep working blue shirts as the pigs get fat, no wonder pension reform is needed now!
Trib says plate readers at undisclosed locations.
Show stock photo of officer at computer bank.
Just data; no vehicles or highways shown.
There's a story out there on VICE website.
Most fentanyl is moved thru FedEX and USPS.
Both have drug inspectors at key facilities.
Problem with FedEx: "insiders" (read relative's ,
friends) tip off senders to work schedules of
inspectors, vacation time, ect.:::in other words,
opportune "windows" to ship contraband.
Who is to say that won't happen here?
Don't ever say "It can't happen here."
Roti & McStreetlights both like MIRRORS.
Let's team them up as TV co-anchors!
Both of these guys would live for commercial
breaks: Makeup! Straighten those ties!
Sit up straight! Tea with shooter for Roti!
Jack Daniel's Black for McStreeter!
Lights, camera, action.
On Air in 5-4-3-2---ONE.
My Give A Damn's Busted
Looking for some "Color TV," I drifted over to CWB.
To my surprise, there's black yutes stopping traffic at
night, paralyzing a car, then one kid dancing on the hood.
Guys, it's not even the heat of summer, but these kids
are fearless. You got a real problem in Chicago.
First, they defy motor vehicles and the public. Then
they move onto defying the police. Is it any wonder
that their instincts are to "run from police" when trouble
goes down? This is how these kids wind up at room
temperature on a stainless steel table.
Video courtesy of CWB (actually taken by a black male.
I don't know how CWB scored it, unless they sent it over.
BOLD!)
So, it's Saturday night. I wonder if Special Ed
is watching the PPV fight or listening to The 1975?
You know you could really make some money on
this blog if you created a SCC Podcast. Get amateurs
or voice actors depending on the budget. Permanent
voices for Lori, Kim, all the big wheelers & dealers.
That's entertainment.
Nick Roti was a good fair boss and a great cop. If you say otherwise, you must be one of those lazy slugs who couldn’t get on a unit that you requested, or got on and you were such a ass clown, that you got dumped.
Cameras wont stop the shootings, however may aid the police by getting the vehicles plate or photo of the firing vehicle.
SCC podcast would be good shit and would actually work out.
"...Roti never saw a mirror he didn't like..."
He does have that rugged Eye-tralian persona about him.
I have to sit down now. I think I am getting a case of the vapors.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Anonymous said...
Watched the presentation and how many pension bites Roti, Cpd deputy pension, then worked as big boss for Leo in isp position, now government Hidta head 3 bites, 3 pensions yep keep working blue shirts as the pigs get fat, no wonder pension reform is needed now!
6/01/2019 04:29:00 PM
Hey know nothing, probably do nothing troll, Roti gets one (1) pension from CPD. Roti was at ISP “for Leo” for about 3 months after he retired from CPD (I’m sure you would have dropped your papers if you could, have you seen the bosses they want now?) then accepted the job at HIDTA, which is a straight salary. I’m sure if you ask most Police Officers at HIDTA, they are glad they have him. I also bet if you ask ISP troops they would tell you they wish they had Leo back. So go back to your hole and get some more sleep.
Nick Roti was a good fair boss and a great cop. If you say otherwise, you must be one of those lazy slugs who couldn’t get on a unit that you requested, or got on and you were such a ass clown, that you got dumped.
Funny how you left out the fact that he never passed a promotional exam.
Nick Roti is a stand up guy who always took care of his men and even helped out guys not under his command.
Need to start having some CPD start "leaking" photos and stories to us in the Alternative underground blog media.
Yeah, sure - leak photos of suburbanites going to the West side to buy heroin.
Leftists do this all the time - post photos of their perceived enemies.
Suburbanites subsidizing the Black AA West side gang heroin dealers.
Sure - just do it.
Who are the Suburbanites? what do they look like? Where do they live? What do their rich parents do as they are obviously not spending their time being good parents.
JR
Left behind in Chicago
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Watched the presentation and how many pension bites Roti, Cpd deputy pension, then worked as big boss for Leo in isp position, now government Hidta head 3 bites, 3 pensions yep keep working blue shirts as the pigs get fat, no wonder pension reform is needed now!
6/01/2019 04:29:00 PM
Hey know nothing, probably do nothing troll, Roti gets one (1) pension from CPD. Roti was at ISP “for Leo” for about 3 months after he retired from CPD (I’m sure you would have dropped your papers if you could, have you seen the bosses they want now?) then accepted the job at HIDTA, which is a straight salary. I’m sure if you ask most Police Officers at HIDTA, they are glad they have him. I also bet if you ask ISP troops they would tell you they wish they had Leo back. So go back to your hole and get some more sleep.
6/02/2019 08:57:00 AM
Pension reform how can you retire with a 401scam????
Anonymous said...
Uh
overdoses are ems problems
not the polece
mass incarceration of victims who are drug users is wrong.
or at least that whats the sjw will tell you.
6/01/2019 12:54:00 PM
Less crime in Portugal after full decriminalization see a Doctor not a judge and prison Police can go after real crimes plus search for these missing children.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Nick Roti was a good fair boss and a great cop. If you say otherwise, you must be one of those lazy slugs who couldn’t get on a unit that you requested, or got on and you were such a ass clown, that you got dumped.
Funny how you left out the fact that he never passed a promotional exam.
6/02/2019 09:48:00 AM
Untrue. Definitely passed sgt. test. Not sure after that.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Need to start having some CPD start "leaking" photos and stories to us in the Alternative underground blog media.
Yeah, sure - leak photos of suburbanites going to the West side to buy heroin.
Leftists do this all the time - post photos of their perceived enemies.
Suburbanites subsidizing the Black AA West side gang heroin dealers.
Sure - just do it.
Who are the Suburbanites? what do they look like? Where do they live? What do their rich parents do as they are obviously not spending their time being good parents.
JR
Left behind in Chicago
6/02/2019 05:55:00 PM
What do their rich parents do? A lot of the customers ARE the rich parents.
Nick Roti made sergeant before 1998. That was the year they started merit promotions. He had to have passed the earlier exam.
tech won't stop stupid people from doing stupid things... but it WILL help show a jury (if it gets there) the actions to prosecute (well, wait, I assume that means charges won't be dropped like Jussie)
What do their rich parents do? A lot of the customers ARE the rich parents.
6/02/2019 09:25:00 PM
Now is that a crime of poverty?
cameras caught our elected state legislators celebrating the passage of recreational weed. They looked like they just won the lottery! huh. wonder why they were so happy? my cynical side smells b.s.
6/01/2019 11:35:00 AM
I saw that and thought the very same thing! Who’s relatives are about to be rich?
Why do they keep bringing up the south suburban airport? Relatives of the connected getting richer!
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