Arlington Heights police received a report about 1:10 PM Tuesday of a residential burglary near the intersection of Arlington Heights Road and Burr Oak Drive Arlington Heights, IL. Police received a report that two offenders were inside the victim’s house when the resident arrived home.
Neighbors described the case involved two male/black teen offenders that escaped out the back door. Apparently they kicked in the front door and were collecting and staging items in the garage, and getting the items ready for removal.
Police at the scene of a house where a resident arrived home to find two burglars inside gathering items from the house and placing the items in the garage, apparently for removal.
Buffalo Grove police assisted Arlington Heights police as there was an extensive police search in the area Tuesday afternoon.
The time of the crime and the details of the burglary are not confirmed by Arlington Heights police.
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Cardinal Note: As of June 5, 2013 — up to and including the date of this article — police incidents related to the above police agency are not reported in real time or within a prompt time period. Police protecting their realm of investigation and police activity, have chosen to use secret military-grade encrypted radios to withhold their police communications, which were previously open to the public and news media via monitoring of public safety scanning radios — with no known negative results locally.
The delayed knowledge or entirely blacked out knowledge resulting from encrypted police communications may protect certain police operations and investigations, but it also puts the public at risk in situations such as when armed and dangerous offenders are at large and when other similar situations occur. In other cases, the delayed or blacked out information inhibits or prohibits the possibility of the public providing early witness accounts before a criminal trail goes cold. Citizens are much more likely to recognize or recall suspicious or criminal activity if they are aware of the criminal incident within minutes or hours of its occurrence. The most serious incident involving dire results would be a trail that is allowed to go cold in the case of child abduction.
The lack of real time information from public police dispatch also weakens an effective neighborhood watch program mostly working to prevent property loss, but also working to prevent possible violent crimes.
Police have alternate ways to transmit tactical, operational or investigative information, while still keeping their main public dispatch channels open for the best balance of public safety and police safety.
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