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The DuPage Crime Stopper		DuPage's Only Crime Stoppin Electronic Publication August 2004

Greetings!

This is Issue #8 of a monthly electronic newsletter publication with all your latest Crime Stopper news, DuPage County doings, individual city or town happenings and anything else of interest.

Readers please feel free to forward this to other interested parties. Police and Fire Chiefs this means your staff; Village or City Officials this means your employees; Civic Groups this means your members; and Home Owner Associations this means your neighbors. Anyone may e-mail the editor with suggestions, articles, classifieds and opinions.

In this issue:

	Stopping Crime One Call At A Time Welcome Winfield Police Chief Kruger R x R - Look, Listen and Live! Dumb Criminal Acts Chipping In To Fight Crime

Welcome Winfield Police Chief Kruger

James R. Kruger Jr. officially took office as the new Police Chief for the Village of Winfield, August 1st. Chief Kruger comes from Carpentersville where he was a Day Watch Commander with 20 years of service.

James is married to Karen his wife of 25 years, has one daughter who is married, one son in college and one grandson.

R x R - Look, Listen and Live!

According to Metra it takes the equivalent of 18 football fields to bring a commuter train traveling at a high speed to stop. A freight train traveling at the same high rate of speed takes 1.5 miles to stop. The fact that 63% of the vehicle-train collisions are occurring at crossings with active warning devices indicates that more than crossing devices and a $500 fine are required to stop the needless loss of life, injuries and property damage.

Common Causes Of Crossing Collisions *The driver sees the train coming, but misjudges speed and distance. *The motorist races the train to the crossing and is either struck by the train or runs into the side of it. *As a train clears a crossing, the motorist immediately starts across the tracks without looking for other trains and either strikes or is struck by a train running on an adjacent track. *The driver fails to observe and obey the advance railroad warning sign and other crossing warning signs and signals. *With air conditioning and radio running, a motorist cannot hear an approaching train, and he fails to look. *Driving along and carrying on conversation with passengers in his vehicle, the driver's attention is primarily on the conversation, and he ignores signs and whistle warnings. *Windows of the motorists car are frosted up or dirty.

Dumb Criminal Acts

After representing himself in court and twice winning acquittals on charges of writing worthless checks and assult, the defendant lost his third case. He was convicted of theft for having stolen law books from the court house library to prepare his defense for the first two cases.

Chipping In To Fight Crime

Remember the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police will sponsor a golf outing on Friday August 27, 2004 at Urbana's Stone Creek Golf Club that will benefit the Illinois State Crime Stoppers Association.

The number of golfers is limited, so register your foursome soon in the IACP golf outing for $75 per person. ($75 entry fee includes light breakfast, range practice before round, a round of golf, cart, lunch, some beverages, and prizes.) Collared shirt required at Stone Creek Golf Club.

If you can't make the outing or just don't play golf but would like to show your support, sponsor a hole or holes. There are two levels of single hole sponsorship: a $100 Basic Sponsor and a $250 Gold Sponsor. A $1,000 Platinum Sponsor will sponsor every hole. The donation of $100 Basic Sponsorship or $250 Gold Sponsorship includes: a sign with your business placed at one tee along with your company name in the program.

If you have any questions, want to register or sponsor a hole, call Troy Daniels, Chairman, IACP 2004 Golf Outing, Deputy Chief of Police, Champaign Police Department at 217-403-6909 or email him at troy.daniels@ci.champaign.il.us. If you use email, please title the email "Golf Outing" in the subject area.

Stopping Crime One Call At A Time

Sometime between 9 p.m. on Saturday July 24th and 6 a.m. Sunday July 25th one of DuPage's Dirtbag(s) severely vandalized a Deputy Sheriff's squad car located in Downers Grove.

Crime Stoppers has pledged its maximum reward amount of $1000 to the first person who can provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of the offender(s).

See Something - Hear Something - Say Something, if it makes you wonder call the Crime Stopper number 1- 800-424-9119. Remember the Crime Stoppers web site is continually updated, so check often for the latest crime updates.

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