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Faulty police equipment may have wasted $43M in Ill.

By Carol Marin and Don Moseley Chicago Sun-TimesCHICAGO — Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers' dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.The failed Cook County initiative was replete with equipment that failed to work, missing records and untrained first responders ...

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