OEMC And City of Chicago failings of security: No one working for the city is a bit surprised.
Homeland Security grant funds and still only at the early stage of interoperable emergency communications. A state of Art City? We have plenty of well paid boss's but little progress and we don't think their at fault since their required to call upon a higher power the Mayor. OEMC is no longer a new fresh agency! Just keep in mind their, (whomever they are) will be and are currently working on the expansion with the radio frequency problems and interoperable issues. Will fiber optics actually be the end all solution sooner or later and eventually? Then again who has the time to wait for the over due communication?
Now ask yourselves, can we really afford the Olympic Games and do we really need it now or in the near future, now that this reality has finally been picked up by the Media? Then again this is Chicago and it would appear there will be the usual rantings of concern and further slug motion of operational movements in the highest priority area of (safety for the entire city.) How little progress we have made but no one ever listens to the workers anyway, so its back to business as usual here in the Windy City of Chi Town. No security concerns at all, not a one, we remember reading that somewhere.
Chicago, Cleveland and Baton Rouge, for example, were judged to have accomplished the early stage of governance coordination. Mandan, N.D., and the territory of American Samoa were both found to have gotten to the early stage of their actual usage of interoperable emergency communications.