A&A is short for Attendance and Assignment Record used to keep track of Chicago Police Department personnel.
POD is short for Police Observation Devices, otherwise known as Surveillance or Lamp Post Cameras.
NVLS is short for National Vehicle Location Service, which is located in Livermore, California and is a subsidiary of Vigilant Solutions. It is essentially a database of automobile license plates and the corresponding locations and time-stamps of where the vehicles were found.
Ventra is an electronic fare payment system for Public Transit within the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
St. Francis. is the Patron saint of Gratitude.