Tape Delay
Posted on April 1, 2014
Everyone is familiar with the yellow and red crime scene tape that surrounds crime scenes all over the country. Now comes word that Rahm wants to change when crime scene tape is used in an effort save money.
“Mayor Rahm Emanuel said during a radio appearance this morning that he doesn’t see the need to waste crime scene tape on single homicides.
“I don’t think it’s realistic given the city’s current financial health to be using valuable crime scene tape for a single homicide,” Emanuel told Eddie and BloJo on B96 this morning.
“From the TV shows I’ve seen,” Emanuel said, “those big season cliffhangers always involve double or triple murders, as such, it would make sense to only worry about those.”
He went on to say that crime scene tape should only be used for double or triple homicides and stressed that the potential cost savings from such a move could top $5 million per year.”
Wow, $5 million. Impressive. We’ll assume most of savings will come from the elimination the Taping Interaction Technical Specialists (TITS) position. Which is too bad, because everyone loves the TITS.