VIDEO: Residential burglary investigation about 20 minutes after offenders fled and a neighbor reported to Arlington Heights police that suspicious activity was occurring at a neighbor’s house.
Arlington Heights police received a report about 9:54 AM Wednesday of a residential burglary in the block of 500 East Frederick Street Arlington Heights, IL. Police received a report that an unknown offenders burglarized a single-family home.
A neighbor noticed two women walking northbound between his yard and a neighbor’s yard, which was an unusual traffic pattern for strangers to be walking on a weekday morning. The two women got into a silver Chrysler 4-door and left with a male driver northbound on Haddow Avenue.
The witness described the women as female white subjects in their 40s or early 50s — possibly “Eastern European.”
The offenders’ vehicle was described as a silver Chrysler 4-door with license Z83 6658 or similar alphanumerics.
The crime is reported to have occurred just before 9:54 a.m.
The offenders worked in broad daylight while movers were working at another house nearby. Arlington Heights police canvassed the neighborhood — going door-to-door to ask neighbors if they saw anything suspicious. The movers reported they saw two woman walking in the neighborhood Tuesday.
Police also inspected the inside and outside of the home. The two women were seen leaving the property on the east side of the property. The offenders broke the glass on a rear door into the house located adjacent to a backyard patio deck. Police photographed footprints believed to have been from the offenders.
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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