Arlington Heights police received a report about 11:31 AM Friday of a vehicle burglary in the block of 1000 South Evergreen Avenue Arlington Heights, IL. Police received a report that an unknown offender gained entry to the victim’s unlocked black 2013 Lexus GX470. Loose change was removed from the vehicle. The victim observed the incident and described the offender as a male/white subject, 5’09″ 150 LBS, very short brown/gray hair, bright blue, and wearing a faded brown leather jacket and blue jeans.
The crime is reported to have occurred on Friday May 16, 2014 between 11:25 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
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IMPORTANT ALERT …
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, such as when desperate offenders of property crimes are eluding police. 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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