This is News Why?
- Chicago Police Department documents, some of them marked as confidential, were found this week in a trash bin in a Wisconsin cemetery.
The manager of Prairie Home Cemetery, in Waukesha, just west of Milwaukee, said the binders contained photos of crime suspects and descriptions.
"The contents had what looked to be a publication of some sorts that said 'police confidential,'” explained manager David Brenner.
He said there were between six and eight of them, each about two inches thick.
"These were records from 2001 [and] 2002, just lots and lots of these," he said.
Chicago police officials said the reports don't contain any sensitive information but it still wasn't clear Wednesday evening who threw them out. A department spokesman said the documents appear to be old reference material, possibly study guides for police sergeants.
Just about every piece of paper produced by this Department is marked "police confidential" or "restricted LEO only." That doesn't mean much. And if it's bound up as training material, someone is just cleaning out an attic or tossing Dad's old papers.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Someones collection of Daily Bulletins???
Sounds like Commander McNaughton left his binder full of known gang members behind... Didn't the news just do a piece on his binder???
Okay, which Daley relative has a summer home on Pewaukee Lake :-)
Thats a good spot for them! I ain't studying shit no more for this City or Police dept.!
We are the paperless Department, now. This is impossible. It couldn't have happened.
The best officers not only backed up their own files but also retained contact card info, arrest reports with IR & CB #'s, arrest cards (huh?), gang and other affiliations, and mug shots after their arrests.
Most of this information was pitched due to legal changes within the department. Mandated destruction was the result.
Many of the best officers kept these files and assorted info in their homes, lockers, garages, or other safe areas.
They protected years of collection data.
These references were priceless to policing.
Once these older officers retired they relocated, or cleaned house etc.
It stands to reason that landfills, in or near the Chicago region contain most of these discarded gems from days gone by.
In some cases there are those who NEVER forget or "pitch" old records.
The computer rule of garbage in garbage out shall never seem to be wrong.
Intelligence is only as good as it's recorders.
Face to face is a priori.
Back up your data.
Maybe the original files on the Cover Up of Daley's nephew finally turned up!
Gee, look through our trash sometime.
Tons and tons of rap sheets that can't get sent to court because they don't say "IUU Complete" on the top. Not to mention copies upon copies of god knows what when the copier decides to work again and shits out a weeks worth of stored documents.
Now, is the shredder at the desk? of course not, it's locked up in the commanders office. World class.
So some cheese-head was picking garbage. That is what it boils down too.
Ban garbage cans!! Oh wait that's Wisconsin. And garbage cans don't get used anyway on the south/west sides. What them crazy cheese heads pickin around the trash fer anywho.
Cemetary in Wisconsin?
The Department has always been very careless about information security. That's why when you have search warrants served on gang chiefs you find sensitive CPD files.
Some thirty or so years ago I was going out the back door or 11th and States. On the loading dock, piled for pickup with garbage were scores of very thick books of bound of tractor feed computers paper. These books, recently obsolete, contained the name, address, sex, race, star number, employee number, DOB, home address and phone number, social security number, unit of assignment of every sworn and civilian member of the Chicago Police Department.
Can you imagine all that information just piled up like garbage just waiting to be picked up. I did pick up one of those books and did make good use of it over the years for good purposes.
Another thing to beware of is that most these printers and Xerox machines that the Department, and every other business and government agency use have a digital memory. They will retain a copy of everything they have copied or printed for who knows how long and unless erased or destroyed can be hacked and used by whoever gets their hands on that machine.
There should be a sign on all these machines: WARNING THIS MACHINE WILL RETAIN A DIGITAL COPY OF ALL DOCUMENTS THAT IT PRINTS. Identity theft rings buy these used machines.
Cemetery in Wisconsin? They must be dead files. LOL
You guys are too funny! In your own words " Nothing to see here, Move along" Ha!
There should be a sign on all these machines: WARNING THIS MACHINE WILL RETAIN A DIGITAL COPY OF ALL DOCUMENTS THAT IT PRINTS. Identity theft rings buy these used machines.
7/27/2013 01:16:00 PM
True dat. There was a news story a while ago on just this. Apparently you have to pay Xerox extra if you want the copier to securely 'shred' your saved copies. They do sell the machines secondhand with the hard drives intact. I use a propane torch on the platters in my HDD's -- end up with a nice pile of molten aluminum when I'm done.
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