CALUMET CITY â Christopher Fletcher remembers when paperwork lived up to its name for police officers.
Fletcher, now the chief of police in Calumet City, got his start in the profession in Chicago in 1986.
Those were the days of contact cards, which detailed officers interactions with the public. You run into a person, write their name and information down, put (the cards) in a pile, Fletcher said. Hopefully, it s alphabetized. You know, I m looking for a guy named Johnny, (around) 79th and Halsted (streets). We d have to look through thousands and thousands of cards.
Now, thanks to Calumet City s ongoing public safety spending, officers can have access to that kind of information in seconds through upgraded in-car computers and record-keeping technology.
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