Bad Search...SIX TIMES?

We usually try to limit our "fair use" of media material to three paragraphs and then direct the readers to the actual website to complete their reading so as not to deprive the originators of visiting eyeballs. We took a bit more of this article to drive home a point. It regards the gun found in the Cook County Jail laundry room earlier this month:

• A 39-year-old man is accused of trying to bring a gun into Cook County Jail complex after he was arrested and taken there for a bond hearing, officials said. Bennie Ellison, 39, was charged today with possession of contraband in a penal institution stemming from an incident earlier this month in which a gun was found at the jail.
  
  
  Ellison was arrested on March 18 on a possession charge, said Cook County Sheriff spokesman Steve Patterson.
  
  Ellison tied a small 38-caliber handgun to the strings of his shorts, Patterson said.
  
  The suspect was searched by Chicago police officers on the scene and taken to a district station, according to the spokesman.
  
  Ellison was searched a second time and then taken to central booking where he was patted down a third time, Patterson said.
  
  On March 19, Ellison was searched a fourth time by a court deputy before he appeared in Central Bond Court, Patterson said.
  
  After his bond was set, Ellison was transferred to intake were he was supposed to pass through a pair of metal detectors. But he avoided doing so by slipping into a line of men who had already gone through the detectors, Patterson said.
  
  At that point, Ellison tossed the gun into a laundry pile in a loading area outside Division 5 at the jail.

That's THREE Chicago Police searches, ONE County search AND he avoided TWO County metal detectors.

WHAT THE FUCK?!? How many cops did he come in contact with? How many sheriffs? This guy could have executed any number of law enforcement officers over the course of two days. If you aren't going to do the searches to keep yourself safe, do it for the poor bastard who has to handle your prisoner after processing or transporting who might have someone who misses them at home.

And yes, we've seen the comments popping up about the gun making it into the 011th District lock up. At least their lock up found the damn thing after just a single miss by the 012th District officers. This one was about SIX misses by two different commands (district, central detention) and two different departments and had to rely on the honesty of a Cook County inmate working the laundry room to find the pistol.