Palatine police responded about 7:34 PM Thursday to a shooting at 1881 North Green Lane North Palatine, IL. Police received a report that a person was shot and was located outside near 1881 North Green Lane North.
The location of the offender was unknown at 7:33 p.m.
Firefighter/paramedics were moved up from staging at about 7:41 p.m.
A second ambulance was dispatched by 7:43 p.m. for a second gunshot victim. At least one patient transported to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
FIREFIGHTER/PARAMEDIC UNITS ASSIGNED …
ENGINE(S): E82
SQUAD(S): SQD85
TRUCK(S): T ??
CHIEF(s): BC8
EMS: A81
LIVE TRAFFIC MAP of neighborhood to a shooting at near 1881 North Green Lane North Palatine, IL …
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.
Lack of real time information from police dispatch also delays public awareness or eliminates public awareness of general hazards and traffic or other situations in every day living in an otherwise economically thriving community.
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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