STATE SECURITY by BRIAN R. LUNDIN (best finance books of all time TXT) 📖

was reading the news.

SUSAN
(sliding a sales page over to Robert)
Look at these shoes aren’t they the bomb?

ROBERT
(glancing at the page)
For two hundred bucks they should explode.

SUSAN
(laughing)
Once a Pollock always a Pollock.

Robert continues to read and stop at as ad for the Chicago Housing Authority.

ROBERT
The CHA is opening bids for private security guards.

SUSAN
What you know about security?

ROBERT
Nothing really but I was a Cook County Sheriff for ten years and shit, policing is policing! I think I will check it out.

SUSAN
Why not, the real estate business has gotten really slow, we haven’t sold any property for three months and our saving is dwindling down.


INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY OFFICES- JUNE 11, 1989-MORNING

Robert is greeting by a pleasant elderly black woman.


ROBERT
I’m interested in getting some information on the security bids.

WOMAN
(pointing to a table in the rear of the room)
There are packets on the table that for the security bids, help yourself!

Robert thanks the woman and picks up the packet.
INT. STARBUCKS COFFE SHOP-MORNING
Robert orders a black coffee sits down and began to read the packets. After an hour he leaves and returns home, Susan is trying on her new shoes.

INT. 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-JUNE 11, 1989-AFTERNOON

SUSAN
(walking around)
You like?

ROBERT
I though you said our savings were dwindling down.

Susan come close to Robert, hugs him and start rubbing his penis.

SUSAN
Let’s go to bed, I’ll make you forget about our savings and everything else and don’t forget we’re having dinner with uncle Vito.

INT. COMO INN ITALIAN RESTURANT-SIX PM-12 JUNE 1989
Robert, Susan, Vito Carmine and Maria Blanca a black haired beautify of twenty-two are sitting in a rear booth in a private room. Robert is sipping a scotch and soda, Susan and Maria a Margarita and Vito a glass of Chianti.

VITO
Susan was telling me you are thinking about goin’ into the security business.
ROBERT
Yeah, the CHA is taking bids for contracted security guards and I picked up some literature this morning.

VITO
How does it sound?

ROBERT
Its sound good but you got to have a big buck upfront.

VITO
How big a buck?

ROBERT
Well first you got to have a million dollar insurance policy, then you got to
hire and equip the guards and they have got to armed, you got to have a communication system, radios and shit, I figure to get started, if I would get the bid, I will need about a million dollars in cash or line of credit.

VITO
Well put your bid in and we’ll see what happens.

SUSAN
We decided to name our company State Security.

INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CONFERENCE ROOM- JULY 11, 1989-MORNING

A short stocky black man stood at the podium in front of ten men sitting in the audience.

WOODS
Thank you all for coming. My name is Reginald Woods and I am the Legal Counsel and Chief Operational Officer for the CHA. I will give you some insight on what we are planning that requires private security. the chairman has gotten the approval from Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to begin a massive make-over in our high rise building and senior citizen’s buildings. He is adamant in bringing safety and sanity back to the city's public housing developments that are home to an estimated 175,000 people. In the first six months of the year, 39 people were murdered in public housing complexes. Last year, 68 died on Chicago Housing Authority property. There are some 25,000 units that are in need of substantial rehabilitation, These projects, like many in other cities, had become the poster children for the media’s discussion of rampant drug abuse, gang violence, dysfunctional family life, the evils of welfare and the bureaucratic incompetence of public social welfare programs. There are 28 16-story buildings mostly in U-shaped clusters of three, containing almost 4,300 apartments and 27,000 people in the Robert Taylor Homes alone and the Cabrini Homes, houses 25,000 people. Although the ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit hoping to block the inspections the chairman has instituted an unwritten policy to conduct warrantless searches of entire buildings if random gunfire became too frequent to ignore. Just last week there were more than 300 separate shooting incidents and 13 people were killed and a manager was forcibly removed from a building at gunpoint and the closing down of management offices. This violence was the result of a "war" between two rival street gangs concentrated in five buildings, we have identified 125 buildings which need to be inspected and secured but eventually all of the buildings will be “swept.” What the chairman is proposing is a series of unannounced “sweeps.” These “sweeps,” will be coordinated with the Chicago Police and our maintenance, building and inspection department. Police officers will accompany our inspectors as they inspect the apartments and if contraband is found the police are there’re to make the arrest. The inspectors will ensure the lease holder is the person living on the apartment and unauthorized people will be arrested. After the inspections our maintenance department will make any repairs needed in the apartment and building. Our building department will construct guard sheds in the lobby and private security guards will man these sheds and the building will be locked down, only residents of the building will be allowed in.
The chairman is also planning to start a CHA Police Department. As I’m sure you know the high rises are breeding grounds for criminals, the residents are afraid to leave their apartments because of the gangs that do their drug dealing business in the hallways and lobbies. Innocent children are being injured and killed on their way to school or playing in the playground by drive-bys. This will be a big undertaking and we will need a lot of guards. The packet you all received lay out the requirements we expect from you, are there any questions? If not Mrs. Robinson will now pass out the bidding forms and the bids will be sealed and once the chairman has selected the lowest bidder you will be notified and you have a week to submit them, thank you for coming.
INT. 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-JULY 11, 1989-AFTERNOON

SUSAN
How did it go?

ROBERT
Ok, I believe there is some money to be made here I am going to bid twenty dollars a guard and see what happens. That uncle of yours is something else he must use a lot of Viagra to keep up with those young fillies.

SUSAN
Uncle Vito likes his young women and by the way I got you some Viagra for your old age.

ROBERT
(rubbing her behind)
I’ve got your Viagra right here.

A week later Robert turned in his sealed bid and two weeks later he got a call from Attorney Woods.

WOODS
I ‘m calling to inform you that the chairman has accepted your bid of twenty dollars per guard but before your bid is approved you must first bring in a million dollar insurance policy from a reputable insurance company when you get the policy let me know.

ROBERT
Let’s call uncle Vito!

Vito Carmine sixty years old was the senior capo in the Chicago Outfit or crime syndicate and he was Susan Carmine- Malkowski uncle on her father’s side. Vito control all the Outfit rackets on the north side of the city and the Outfit controlled four bank and three insurance agencies they used to launder their money. He arranged the million dollar insurance policy and three million dollar line of credit at his banks. A week later Robert called Attorney Woods and told him he had the insurance policy and he would have a copy sent over by messenger. Two weeks later he was contacted by Attorney Woods and set up a meeting with the chairman.

INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN OFFICE – AUGUST 20, 1989-MORNING

CHA Legal Counsel Reginald Woods introduced Robert Malkowski to Chairman Charles Longstreet. Chairman Longstreet fifty-two, tall probably six-two and looked in good shape and carried himself with confidence. He had made his fortune in a black website and made substantial contribution to black causes and rumored to be the leading candidate to be the next HUD Secretary. He was handsome, single and known around the city as a ladies’ man.

CHAIRMAN
I have approved your bid and look forward to working with you. I have also accepted the bids of three other security firms and I hope we can get the ball running by spring 1992, do you think you will be ready?

ROBERT
Yes sir we’ll be ready.

CHAIRMAN
If you have any questions contact Reginald he’ll be my point man.

INT. CHICAGO POLICE ACADEMY-SEPTEMBER 1, 1989- MORNING

Sergeant Chrisopher Luden was a thirty year veteran of the department and was anxiously looking forward to retiring in January 1992. He was a highly decorated officer and had a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Virginia and a graduate of the FBI National Academy. The sergeant was the Commanding Officer of the Human Behavior Unit at the academy and also taught classes to police recruits. He was in his office when Chairman Longstreet and Attorney Woods entered who introduced themselves.

WOODS
We have heard some good things about you sergeant and we was wondering if you would come to work for us.

LUDEN
Well yes, I’m planning on retiring in January and we can talk then.

CHAIRMAN
We’re not talking about January we’re talking now.

LUDEN
(surprised)
I can’t possible leave now that would mess up my retirement.

CHAIRMAN
We’ve already talked to the superintendent and he will give you a leave of absence until January, so your retirement won’t be affected.

LUDEN
What will my job be at the CHA?

CHAIRMAN
You will be our Deputy Chief of Police.

LUDEN
When do you want me to start?

WOODS
This Monday! I will have a car pick you up at home Monday morning at eight.

LUDEN
Whew, you guys move fast.

CHAIRMAN
We have too, time is running out, Monday we will meet at my office and we will tell you our plans.

LUDEN
See you Monday.

INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CONFERENCE ROOM- SEPTEMBER 3, 1989-MORNING

Sergeant Luden and Reginald Woods sat in the attorney’s office. There were fresh pastries, pitchers of orange juice and coffee on a table in the rear of the large spacious office.

WOODS
Your leave of absence has been approved by the superintendent effective today now let me explain what we are planning. The chairman is intent on providing safe and decent housing to the CHA residents and he is determined to make the high rise and senior citizen buildings safe for the residents. Next year he will start performing what he calls “Sweeps.” These “Sweeps,” will consist of various agencies in the CHA making inspections of every apartment, making repairs and evicting the squatters and people not on the lease. CHA personnel will inspect the apartments and will issue photo identification cards to residents. Tradesmen will also determine what physical improvements are needed, such as repairing elevators and painting over graffiti, fixing leaking sinks, etc.

Violence at the Taylor Homes, as well as Stateway Gardens, directly to the north, has escalated during the last several