The Captain called me back and here is what her officer informed her.
The State of Illinois has its own database specifically for law enforement officials to report AT THEIR OWN DISCRETION anyone they feel has been doing something that they felt was suspicious or unwarranted EVEN IF IT IS NOT A REPORTABLE OFFENSE.
The acronym for the database is STIC (I think I got that right). and apparently is not widely known about (DSP) yet ... but this particular officer who is a member of the larger tactical force has already been made aware of its development.
I have yet to find out the details of STIC ... but it doesn\'t sound good. I don\'t know if it stays in Illinois as part of the tactical \"maybe bad boy list\", or if it feeds up to the Federal stuff. Sounds like some sort of \"little black book\" that Illinois LEO is sharing within the state. Of course, I don\'t know much about it yet, so I\'m only guessing right now.
There are all kinds of things that one can conjure up from this point @ this. I\'m glad to learn that I\'m \"off the hook\" on this one ... BUT ... BUT ... BUT ... okay, you guys can fill in the rest. It wreaks of McCarthyism-like mentality ... a paranoia driven list at the discretion of authoritative suspicion without a a meritable objectivity.
Again, I don\'t know much more @ STIC (yet) other that what the Captian told me, BUT apparently it is a real-life \"double secret probation\" ... in the State of Illinois anyway.
The Captain called me back and here is what her officer informed her.
The State of Illinois has its own database specifically for law enforement officials to report AT THEIR OWN DISCRETION anyone they feel has been doing something that they felt was suspicious or unwarranted EVEN IF IT IS NOT A REPORTABLE OFFENSE.
The acronym for the database is STIC (I think I got that right). and apparently is not widely known about (DSP) yet ... but this particular officer who is a member of the larger tactical force has already been made aware of its development.
I have yet to find out the details of STIC ... but it doesn\'t sound good. I don\'t know if it stays in Illinois as part of the tactical \"maybe bad boy list\", or if it feeds up to the Federal stuff. Sounds like some sort of \"little black book\" that Illinois LEO is sharing within the state. Of course, I don\'t know much about it yet, so I\'m only guessing right now.
There are all kinds of things that one can conjure up from this point @ this. I\'m glad to learn that I\'m \"off the hook\" on this one ... BUT ... BUT ... BUT ... okay, you guys can fill in the rest. It wreaks of McCarthyism-like mentality ... a paranoia driven list at the discretion of authoritative suspicion without a a meritable objectivity.
Again, I don\'t know much more @ STIC other that what the Captian told me, BUT apparently it is a real-life \"double secret probation\" ... in the State of Illinois anyway.
Thoughts ...
Mar 12, 2012 at 08:29 PM
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