A reader with a sharp eye and an even sharper memory dug up this little beauty from Crain's in 2002. Sounds an awful lot like the puff piece Crain's just did on Masters:
- Paperwork, the bane of every beat cop's existence, will be shelved for good here.
"Within 12 months, the Chicago Police Department will go completely paperless," says Ron Huberman, a uniformed officer who carries a gun and two master's degrees. "I am 100% confident Chicago will be the leader in police technology."
Already, Chicago police officers can mine a database with 4 million arrest records to track down a suspect by nickname or the description of a tattoo.
Mr. Huberman, who heads the office of information and strategic services, is working with California-based database software giant Oracle Corp. to put a laptop in every squad car, extending the computer revolution to all aspects of police work.
That means detectives will start working a case five minutes after the beat officer files a crime report, instead of three days later, says Mr. Huberman. "They will spend more time solving crimes."
The technology vision starts with Police Superintendent Terry Hillard, but Mr. Huberman's job is to make it work on the street.
So evidently, we went paperless in sometime in 2003, We have laptops in every squad car...oops, we mean every Tahoe, and the Detective division is working cases 5 minutes after we submit a report on AIRA.
That 5 minute window doesn't begin until we locate a Sergeant to approve the case report in AIRA, who spends 25 or 30 minutes attempting to locate the report after it disappears into cyberspace, and the hour or two the report bounces back and forth between rejections and final approval. And that doesn't include the massively overloaded and shorthanded Detective Division that hasn't seen a Detective promoted in 2 years and counting now. How's that clearance rate looking compared to 2002? 33% and falling? Wow.
And meanwhile, Huberman has gone through two more non-police jobs while simultaneously attempting to steal a police pension. Amazing.
That 5 minute window doesn't begin until we locate a Sergeant to approve the case report in AIRA, who spends 25 or 30 minutes attempting to locate the report after it disappears into cyberspace, and the hour or two the report bounces back and forth between rejections and final approval. And that doesn't include the massively overloaded and shorthanded Detective Division that hasn't seen a Detective promoted in 2 years and counting now. How's that clearance rate looking compared to 2002? 33% and falling? Wow.
And meanwhile, Huberman has gone through two more non-police jobs while simultaneously attempting to steal a police pension. Amazing.
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