Sad New Normal

These used to be reasonably rare, the subject of jokes at the desk when they ran the rap sheets. Now we hear about them every week or so:

• A six-time convicted felon has been arrested for at least the 66th time in his adult life, charged with stealing packages from a Lincoln Park apartment building. He’s also on pretrial release for allegedly stealing packages from the same building last fall while he was on parole for stealing packages in Lakeview.

Last we heard, County intake wanted a full printout of the criminal arrest record - two or three copies. This guy's would have to run thirty-five to forty-five pages (twenty-three double sided pages) for the arrest package which was already twenty pages.

Don't you wish you had the copy paper contract for the CPD? And the copier/printer maintenance and ink contracts? We wouldn't have needed to work all that OT for all those years.