Kenneth Robertson was arrested again (1/11/12)...

and charged with Felony Bike Theft. Press Release is below. This should make it much more difficult to beat the two prior felony bike theft counts which were brought against him in July. We love the Wilmette police department.

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Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on January 13, 2012 at 6:51am

Hey Howard...

Have you considered giving an award to the Wilmette PD at the swap meet?  It might make for some great public recognition for their work as well as some great press for Bike Winter and the Stolen Bike Registry.  You can invite the people from the trib and suntimes and anyone else that did an article about these knuckle heads so they can do a writeup about it.

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on January 13, 2012 at 7:09am

This is a great idea! I dunno if the swap meet is the ideal venue for it given that most of the people in attendance are scattered all over the site at any given moment.

Perhaps at the Bike to Work Rally? or some other event with more focus on events on a stage? 

A.K.A Paul said:

Hey Howard...

Have you considered giving an award to the Wilmette PD at the swap meet?  It might make for some great public recognition for their work as well as some great press for Bike Winter and the Stolen Bike Registry.  You can invite the people from the trib and suntimes and anyone else that did an article about these knuckle heads so they can do a writeup about it.

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 13, 2012 at 7:20am

I'm not sure how we use giving an award as a positive for us, or in furtherance of the "anti-theft" cause. Personally, I prefer the idea of sending the Wilmette Police Department half a dozen Chicago-style pizzas as a showing of our appreciation.

Tony Adams said:

This is a great idea! I dunno if the swap meet is the ideal venue for it given that most of the people in attendance are scattered all over the site at any given moment.

Perhaps at the Bike to Work Rally? or some other event with more focus on events on a stage? 

A.K.A Paul said:

Hey Howard...

Have you considered giving an award to the Wilmette PD at the swap meet?  It might make for some great public recognition for their work as well as some great press for Bike Winter and the Stolen Bike Registry.  You can invite the people from the trib and suntimes and anyone else that did an article about these knuckle heads so they can do a writeup about it.

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 13, 2012 at 7:27am

I like this idea (in addition to pizza).



Cameron Puetz said:

The problem with both of those venues is that they're in the city. I'm not sure you'd get a Wilmette detective to drive in for either one to accept an award. Although if they were already downtown for court they might step outside for the bike to work rally. The best thing you could do for them is something public in Wilmette, like an open letter to the police chief and mayor. Or call internal affairs with a compliment, since all they normally get are complaints, a compliment is likely to get noticed.

 

Tony Adams said:

This is a great idea! I dunno if the swap meet is the ideal venue for it given that most of the people in attendance are scattered all over the site at any given moment.

Perhaps at the Bike to Work Rally? or some other event with more focus on events on a stage? 

Permalink Reply by Kevin Mulcky on January 13, 2012 at 7:46am

 I'll pitch-in for pizza!

Permalink Reply by ID on January 13, 2012 at 8:17am

While not as hands on as your idea, I took the internet approach and sent a message of thanks to the Wilmette Police Chief and his staff of detectives.

I'm sure they are used to getting a lot of complaints and even though I don't live in Wilmette, I like to hear stories about the police taking bike theft seriously as we struggle to contend with highly able bike thieves.

You can email the Wilmette Police Department staff here.



Cameron Puetz said:

The problem with both of those venues is that they're in the city. I'm not sure you'd get a Wilmette detective to drive in for either one to accept an award. Although if they were already downtown for court they might step outside for the bike to work rally. The best thing you could do for them is something public in Wilmette, like an open letter to the police chief and mayor. Or call internal affairs with a compliment, since all they normally get are complaints, a compliment is likely to get noticed.

 

Tony Adams said:

This is a great idea! I dunno if the swap meet is the ideal venue for it given that most of the people in attendance are scattered all over the site at any given moment.

Perhaps at the Bike to Work Rally? or some other event with more focus on events on a stage? 

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on January 13, 2012 at 8:29am

Don't forget to mention Detective Landon Girard.

Cameron Puetz said:

After reading the Wilmette PD's website on sending compliments and complaints, it sounds like writing the Chief is a good idea. Even though none of the involved officers are named, it's a small enough department that any praise should get to the right people.

 

http://www.wilmette.com/departments/police/complimentscomplaints.aspx

 

Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on January 13, 2012 at 8:32am


Ian Dinsmor said:

You can email the Wilmette Police Department staff here.

Permalink Reply by dan brown on January 13, 2012 at 8:35am

>>Reply by h' 1 hour ago

>>Good reminder that we do want to have something on bike theft at the swap.

>>30-minute presentation?

>>Table with some sort of option to quasi-register your bike on the spot?

 

Howard, et al : At one of charity the bike washes this summer (at S & G's) there was a guy (chainlinker) doing on the spot registration. Can't remember his hame, maybe Joe Sak knows or he is reading this ?

 

DB

 

 

Permalink Reply by Vilda on January 13, 2012 at 8:35am

My e-mail to the Chief in Wilmette has been sent. But anything positive sent is a good thing. Shows that it's of greater community interest and something they should continue to pay attention to ;-) LOVE that Kenny got picked up again.

Permalink Reply by ID on January 13, 2012 at 9:06am

As an aside, I emailed the Chief and had a personal reply in less than a half hour.

I know its 100% unrealistic both budget and personnel wise, but I can't help but think that when thieves think there is even the remote chance the are being watched that it might serve as some sort of deterrent. However, as a regular visitor to the stolen bike registry, it seems that there's a fair share of surveillance video of people walking off with bikes completely undeterred by the thought that someone saw them. <shrug>

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on January 13, 2012 at 9:11am

Good points Cameron! I forget that downtown Chicago is not really the center of the universe.

Thanks for emailing the Chief everyone! I plan to do the same. If the pizza fund happens I'm definitely willing to contribute.

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