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South Barrington may get another camera to read license plates of passing vehicles
Posted in Big Brother, Illinois Tollway, Police Reports, Property Taxes, Public Safety, South Barrington, Taxes, Topics Of Interest, VBHPD on April 13, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Suburban ne’er-do-wells, beware — South Barrington officials are set to increase the village’s already-hefty arsenal of crime-fighting automated license plate readers.
The village board on Thursday could vote to acquire another camera designed to read and record license plates and other automobile information.
The village began installing plate readers in neighborhoods in 2020, Village Administrator Bob Palmer said. About 50 are active in town.
The cameras passively scan passing vehicles and record images. The system alerts police when a car suspected of being used in a crime passes a camera, based on manufacturer, model, color, distinguishing features or marks and license plates. Information about cars without plates can be used, too.
The village’s cameras have come from Atlanta-based Flock Group, and the new one would, too. The lease for the new camera, if approved, will cost the village $2,500 annually, officials said.
Read more here.
Related: “Barrington considers installing cameras to read license plates,” “Barrington trustees vote to spend $70,000 on license plate reading cameras,” “Privacy concerns raised over proliferation of license plate cameras,” “Libertyville police planning license plate readers at five locations,” “Lake County officials wary of license plate readers’ potential privacy issues,” “Editorial: Do those multiplying license plate readers mean Big Brother is watching?”
Editorial: Do those multiplying license plate readers mean Big Brother is watching?
Posted in Big Brother, Crime, Deception, Ethics, OP/Ed, Police Reports, South Barrington, Topics Of Interest, Unions, VBHPD, Village Code, Village Government on February 28, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Given how crime has dominated the news, including the race for Chicago mayor, you might feel like celebrating the rise of automated license plate readers, an increasingly popular security tool that can help deter wrongdoing and track down criminals.
These compact devices use high-resolution cameras to record vehicles, including those traveling near crime scenes. The state has rolled out the cameras along its busiest highways, with our support, in part to identify suspects in hard-to-solve expressway shootings. There are far more of these cameras in Chicago than many people realize and they can snag fleeing wrongdoers several miles away from where they committed their crimes.
An increasing number of suburbs (including Barrington, Barrington Hills and South Barrington), are installing vehicle-scanning equipment as well. One of the leading providers, surveillance company
Given how crime has dominated the news, including the race for Chicago mayor, you might feel like celebrating the rise of automated license plate readers, an increasingly popular security tool that can help deter wrongdoing and track down criminals.
These compact devices use high-resolution cameras to record vehicles, including those traveling near crime scenes. The state has rolled out the cameras along its busiest highways, with our support, in part to identify suspects in hard-to-solve expressway shootings. There are far more of these cameras in Chicago than many people realize and they can snag fleeing wrongdoers several miles away from where they committed their crimes.
An increasing number of suburbs (including Barrington, Barrington Hills and South Barrington), are installing vehicle-scanning equipment as well. One of the leading providers, surveillance company Flock Safety, says its customers include neighborhoods, businesses and law enforcement in 2,000-plus cities — and counting.
License plate readers evidently work as advertised. Last year, when Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill expanding their use on state highways beyond the Chicago area, Director Brendan Kelly of the Illinois State Police gave an enthusiastic thumbs-up: “Automated license plate readers play a growing, critical role in ISP investigations and arrests in the Chicagoland area,” Kelly said. “ISP now routinely uses this technology to track down expressway shootings and carjacking suspects, so the expansion of this technology across Illinois expands our ability to protect our interstates and bring violent criminals to justice.”
We are 100% in favor of bringing violent criminals to justice, and, as everyone knows, many crimes involve the use of vehicles. It’s easy to imagine how collecting images and data from license plates could provide unbiased, objective evidence in a way that hasn’t been possible up to now. These gadgets can help rescue kidnapped children, recover stolen cars and bust the gangs stealing catalytic converters, a costly auto part in high demand from scrap dealers.
But it’s also easy to see how the devices could be abused.
Read more here.
‘Awareness is everything’: Barrington-area leaders discuss efforts to address crime
Posted in BACOG, Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce, Clown Car, Crime, Elections, Mówimy po polsku, Organizations, Police Reports, Politics, Property Taxes, Resident Spotlights, South Barrington, The New Normal, VBHPD, Village Government, Village President on February 9, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Barrington Hills President Brian Cecola (far left in wrinkled blue jeans) blamed residents for, “about 90% of car thefts in the Village,” due to their own negligence Wednesday.
Barrington-area leaders are emphasizing public safety, including through the adoption of technology to combat crime.
A recent spike in crime was among the topics discussed Wednesday when officials from nine communities gathered for the Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic summit, the “State of the Greater Barrington Area.”
In the wake of last month’s thefts of several vehicles at Motor Werks of Barrington, and ensuing crashes that injured five, Barrington Village Manager Scott Anderson said police are having ongoing conversations with dealerships on crime prevention.
The village also plans to install license plate reading cameras at 12 locations in town, and the police department is part of an auto theft task force.
South Barrington was among the first communities in the Chicago region to install license plate reading cameras, Village President Paula McCombie said.
“We have 52 license reader cameras that we have had there for several years now. And that has really helped us to chase these guys out of town,” she said.
Barrington Hills Village President Brian Cecola noted that about 90% of the car thefts in the village are because residents are leaving their key fobs in the cars. He encouraged residents to call 911 if they see anything suspicious.
“I know a lot of residents are hesitant, but they (officers) don’t mind the calls,” Cecola said.
Read more here.
4 years in prison for man convicted in high-speed drunk driving crash that killed 5-month-old baby in Barrington Hills
Posted in Accidents, Crime, Police Reports, VBHPD on February 5, 2023| 2 Comments »
Brayer Arias-Colazo, 30, of Carpentersville.
A man has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty in a high-speed drunk driving crash that killed a 5-month-old baby and left other children injured in Barrington Hills.
Brayer Arias-Colazo, 30, of Carpentersville, was charged with eight counts of aggravated driving under the influence, reckless homicide and speeding 35 mph or more over the limit.
Court records show Arias-Colazo entered into a negotiated plea deal in November.
He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated driving under the influence causing death, a Class 2 felony.
The crash occurred around 7 p.m. on November 3, 2016, at the intersection of Route 25 and Silverstone Drive on the border of Algonquin and Barrington Hills.
The Barrington Hills Police Department said Arias-Colazo was traveling southbound on Route 25 in a 2001 Ford pickup truck.
More here.
Barrington reaches three-year agreement with its police union
Posted in Clown Car, One Barrington Hills, Pension Funding, Police Pension Board, Police Reports, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, Unions, VBHPD, Village Board on January 12, 2023| 1 Comment »
Barrington has reached agreement on a new, three-year contract with its police officers. The deal gives officers annual 3% raises and allows the department to make lateral hires. (Daily Herald File Photo)
Barrington officials signed off this week on a new contract with the village’s police officers.
The agreement with Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #177 began Jan. 1 and includes 3% salary hikes for each of the three years of the contract. It was approved by the village board Monday.
Under the new contract, the new officers will start with a $76,620 salary. After six years, an officer could achieve the top pay of $109,977.
Police Chief Dave Dorn said Barrington’s recently acquired home-rule status enabled the contract to allow the hiring of “lateral” transfers — officers currently employed by another agency. Bringing in lateral transfers has advantages, he said.
“You can look at a broader applicant pool. You can speed up your testing process as well,” Dorn said.
Dorn said the agreement would have been negotiated quicker if wages had been the only focus. But contract talks also involved incorporating 12-hour shifts for patrol officers from a separate memorandum of understanding into the main contract.
More here.
Editorial note: Makes one wonder where we stand with our own Village Police agreement(s)?
Village Board of Trustees meets tonight
Posted in BACOG, Board of Elections, Building Department, ePacket Agendas, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Finance Committee, Mac's Property Management, Minutes, Plan Commission, Police Pension Board, Police Reports, Property Taxes, Roads & Bridges Committee, VBHPD, Village Attorney, Village Board, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Director of Administration, Village Engineer, Village Government, Village President, Village Treasurer, Zoning Board on December 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Our Village Board of Trustees will be conducting their regular monthly meeting beginning this evening at 6:30 PM. A copy of the agenda can be viewed and downloaded here.
Donnie Rudd dies in prison: Ex-attorney was convicted of killing his wife in a staged car crash 45 years after her death
Posted in Accidents, Crime, Police Reports, VBHPD on September 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Cindy Mulligan, stepdaughter of Donnie Rudd, in 2016 near Bateman and Dundee roads in Barrington Hills, close to the site where Noreen Kumeta Rudd died in 1973. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)
Convicted murderer Donnie Rudd has died while serving his prison sentence — 49 years to the day after the death of his wife, whom he was found guilty of killing in 2018.
Rudd was an attorney and school board member in Hoffman Estates in 1973 when his wife of less than a month, 19-year-old Noreen Kumeta, died from what police believed at the time were injuries from a car crash in Barrington Hills, with Rudd behind the wheel.
Despite some of the unusual circumstances of the case — including that Rudd had been living with another woman and her children up until his wedding to Kumeta — Rudd remained a free man for four decades.
But authorities were prompted to take a fresh look at the case in 2013, after an Arlington Heights detective — while reviewing the 1991 unsolved murder of a local woman who was Rudd’s client — raised new suspicions. Kumeta’s body was exhumed and a pathologist found she’d died of blunt-force injuries to her skull that were inconsistent with a car crash.
In 2015, Rudd was arrested in Texas and charged in his wife’s murder. He was convicted in 2018, despite his continued assertions of his innocence.
Rudd, who was sentenced to 75 to 150 years in prison, died Wednesday.
Rudd was 80.
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Algonquin teen charged with driving under influence, causing crash that killed man in Barrington Hills
Posted in Accidents, Police Reports, VBHPD on August 11, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Police say a 17-year-old Algonquin boy was driving under the influence and using an electronic device during a crash that killed a 26-year-old man in Barrington Hills.
The 17-year-old, whose name was not released because he is a minor, was charged in a juvenile petition with aggravated driving under the influence, reckless homicide and aggravated use of an electronic communication device.
All of the charges are felonies, the most serious being aggravated driving under the influence, which is a Class 2 felony.
The charges stem from a two-vehicle crash on May 21 that left Ismoiljon Khakimov, 26, of Elgin, deceased.
The incident occurred around 11:10 p.m. at Route 68 and Bateman Road, according to Barrington Hills Police Department Press Information Officer William Walsh.
Two vehicles were involved and Khakimov was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The juvenile was injured and transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Walsh said.
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Related: “One driver killed, another injured in Barrington Hills crash”
Police investigating vehicle thefts near Oak Knoll and Buckley Roads
Posted in Crime, Police Reports, VBHPD on November 11, 2021| Leave a Comment »
From the VBHPD:
“The Barrington Hills Police Department is currently investigating the theft of two vehicles from an unlocked detached garage in the area of Oak Knoll and Buckley Roads. Anyone who may have information is asked to contact the Department’s Investigations Division.
Please remember to keep your vehicles locked at all times and refrain from leaving keys inside your vehicles.”
The VBHPD can be reached at 847-551-3006.
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