GPS Disaster

The whole system is in failure.

We're getting reports of paper surveys being filled out and faxed to Patrol so they can produce some dummied up report for the mayor to review. And the comments are alive with the tales of wasted money and resources:

• okay, here's the deal about pdt's and gps, from my impeccable sources...when gps was installed, it was incompatible with the vehicle electronics, causing the vehicle engine light to stay on, among other problems);
  
  as of late, apparently, shortshanks wanted a "gps report" (i.e., tell me how it's working!); oemc folks discovered that some gps units don't work, so....some pdt's were fixed....folks were saying that the pdt mounts have to be replaced ($700 per mount?, not sure about that, but it's Chicago, no?); anyway, the pdt's are supposed to be divided into thirds, yellow, blue, and red dot marked (with corresponding metal mounts);
  
  but the guy that paints the mounts works in fleet, while the guy that paints the dot on the pdt works in (who knows?, and do they talk to each other, no), so...when cars get downed for service, depending on how many of what dot color they are, there may or may not be enough pdt's available for the replacement cars (if any) that come back (i.e., blue dot car goes down, you get a red, red goes down you get back a yellow (on the mount), then hunt for a matching pdt in the station.
  
  hey, look at the bright side, it's like the Chicago version of an Easter egg hunt....

The Chicago way.