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http://www.suntimes.com/9853704-417/feds-find-failures-in-cook-co-homeland-security-project.html
Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers’ dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.
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Fixed cameras mounted on poles also were problematic, according to the report. “These camera often targeted police parking lots, streets and intersections with questionable homeland security benefits,” investigators found. Fixed cameras were even placed in police station lobbies.
Almost from the beginning, some of the 128 suburbs opted out after technical snafus. And in the end the IG found “32 never had equipment, 9 left the program” and at the end, just “71 have vehicle video systems.”
The FBI, according to sources, investigated, but no charges have been filed.
The report takes FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to task for lack of oversight.
Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) grants were funneled from DHS to the State and on to Cook County.
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