Six months ago, on July 14th, 2004, DevCorp North received a presentation from Sergio Serritella of Tactical Solutions Group, INC. TSG is a private security company who hires off-duty Chicago Police officers to patrol private and public areas of the city, anywhere they can secure a contract off these presentations. TSG carries guns and claims they can make arrests.
How many of the nine commissioners voted and who voted which way on Tactical Solutions Group as their security choice? What were the other companies who submitted bids? Did the nine commissioners review all bids?
These TSG off duty officers must not feel the city of Chicago is paying them enough? How many hours a week does an average employee work at TSG?
Does TSG offer heath insurance better than the City of Chicago Police Department?
Does TSG have a union it belongs to, offering job security?
Does all this overtime these off duty officers put in effect how they perform during Chicago Police Department hours? Does this account for not wanting to walk foot patrols on Morse Avenue during Chicago Police Department hours?
Why would these off duty officers want to break up the Morse Avenue Open Air Drug Market when the same regular Chicago Police Department officers who work shifts can't?
Here are just three of Segio's wild claims. We will examine this futher in the future.
Can making false claims void a City of Chicago Special Service Area contract?
1. Tactical Solutions Group response to crimes in a minute to a minute and a half using cel phones.
The Rogers Park Police response time is 10 to 15 minutes, according to Tactical Solutions Group!
If we had a shoplifter on Clark and Estes at 2:30PM, which is in the SSA #24 area. Who does the shopkeeper call, a unknown cel number or 911? Say at 2:37pm a gun battle breaks out on Morse and Glenwood, who do they call? How is the Rent a Cop on a cell phone going to get to Morse and Glenwood in a minute from Clark and Estes, while still dealing with the shoplifter? What happens if he gets shot, who covers the medical expenses? What happens if TSG shots an innocent bystander? Who is going to be responsible TSG, DevCorp North, the City of Chicago Special Service Area #24, the nine SSA #24 commissioners or the taxpayers of Special Service Area #24?
More questions?
How many rent a cops and how many man hours will they work for $55,000 a year?
What will be their hours of operation?
What is the cel phone number for us citizens to get the Special Service Area #24, 1 minute response time?
And on top of this, we have Sergio dissing and badmouthing the regular police officers who routinely tell us they respond in under 2 minutes... also. Not 10 to 15 minutes as Tactical Solutions Group says.
2. Deeply discounted Background Checks and Undercover surveillance.
What computers are they using to perform this service. Does TSG do this service while they are working on Chicago Police Department time and on Police computers or just some basic 14.95 a month internet background checker like I have? Again, why would they set up a undercover sting, when they can't seem to put the sting on the Open Air Drug Market Salesman of Morse Avenue when they are on regular Chicago Police Department time?
3. DevCorp North's biggest problem is it's own employees.
No question here, Sergio from Tactical Soulution Group was dead right on this one!
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Wow, this post has been up since last night. No responses yet. Bet there was a special chat session to figure out the next steps on responding. Hope they're more substantial than the usual derails and wannabe jokes.
3. DevCorp North's biggest problem is it's own employees.
What was the context of this statement?
Are these folks already under contract?
Michael C.
Sorry but I am looking for a response from DevCorp or a board member, they read the site. I got a personal email from Kevin O'Neil thanking me for the blog site mention.
Unless you are Michael James or a DevCorp North Board member like Kevin O'Neil, I can not accept the responses. This thread needs last names for comments, all others will be deleted.
I have asked Kevin, Joe Rene and Sergio these question personally and got a "working on logistics" answer.
Seems they have been working for 6 months on this subject. They claim many, many meeting with the Commander but records indicate only one. More on this in the future. Stay tuned.
DevCorp North come clean.
saw this on www.craigslist.org and just had to pass it along.
Remove if you wish....
Lincoln Park safe? That's funny. Do you really think that robbers go to poor neighborhoods? To steal what - the $29 DVD player from Wal Mart? . And the cars are better in Lincoln Park - who wants to steal a beat up Honda in Rogers Park when you can find a nice Lexus SUV in Lincoln Park?
And Hugh.....
I know Toni and Hugh personally.
Alderman Moore knows Toni and Hugh personally, nothing hidden here.
DevCorp North knows Toni personally and Hugh by last name.
Heck, all three of us have most likely been researched for DevCorp by TSG?
There's enough chatter on this topic to get the Rummie and CIA worried.
Michael C...Ask Charlie D my last name Michael C. He knows it. He's on my news email blast list. Be glad to include you too.
http://www.bartleby.com/165/137.html
The open air drug market on Morse is extremely resilient. It is not a few punks, it is highly organized crime. I think it is clear at this point that it is not the kind of situation that a private security force will fix. We need police, real police.
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