What can you relay about the Chicago program where police are paying for citizen reports of potential DUI?
I saw this on one of the national news channels. I’m not sure if it is all throughout Chicago and it’s many suburbs, or maybe it is contained to one or two areas. But apparently, citizens can call the police to report another citizen who they have knowledge of that is driving and has been drinking…and they get paid a reward of something like $100 for turning that driver in (and I imagine, only if caught and convicted).
Apparently the program has become fairly popular (at least for the citizens reporting others) and has been a real help to the police.
Do you have any details about this program that you might share? Does a person reporting need the driver’s license plate number, make & model of car, and name of driver? Must they have witnessed that person imbibing alcolhol? Or must all they observe is eratic driving & suspect that driver of DUI and report the license plate, make, model, color, etc.?
At what point do they get the reward?
Application to other crimes?
Sounds like a great program… the police get a tip and when it’s proven correct, they pay for the information ! If you drink… don’t drive and if you see a person doing so, turn them in… they may hit your Momma in a crosswalk or kill your little sister in a car accident !
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