Manpower (again)
In an effort to generate more interest in how the department can better allocate manpower resources, we offer the following observations:
- What's with the "Operation Closed Market" garbage? When they first started it up, they claimed it was going to be used exclusively to close down open air drug markets in 006, 007, 015, and 011. Now, we are told by numerous sources, the department is using them as an endless source of available manpower for everything except open air drug markets. They are guarding and processing crime scenes, they are used downtown for orange alerts in the tubes, they are patrolling high schools at closing time. If the department needs extra manpower, hire it. If they need people in Mass Transit, fill the spots. If they need high visibility at schools, start up the school patrol again. What would the aldercreatures think if they heard all those open air drug markets were flourishing again?
- We've said it before, but we'll say it again: what's the idea with sending sergeants-to-be to detective school for 10 weeks? Why hold these guys/gals out of the districts a second longer than necessary? Get them some seasoning in the districts so we aren't saddled with so many half trained bosses who aren't going to end up back at the D units anyway. You need manpower in the D units? Hire some FREAKING DETECTIVES! You'd think the same brainiac who came up with the idea to take Closed Market cars off their primary mission came up with this idea ... oh wait, he probably did.
- One hundred recruits a class? That's it? One hundred? And only three classes of one hundred and then a class of fifty? Has anyone downtown even given a thought as to why we can't keep up with retirements? About why no one wants this job anymore? About why morale is in a constant tailspin? No, we don't think so either
Tell you what. Just remap the districts already. You know you want to. It will let you achieve your goal of an under 9,000 man department, you can claim all those savings for eliminating thousands of job positions, we'll be able to finally get time due when we want it again and everybody can be happy with the 50% clearance rate for index crimes.
posted by SCC at 9:30 PM
53 Comments:
The Dick class for sgt's is only to justify those few juice babies that end up back in the D-Unit, that were probably never there anyway....
Three hundred recruits ain't shit. Remmember that they now spend over 6 mths in the academy. Tha means tha if thye are hired in December they will not hit the districts untill jun-jul if the dept doesn't decide to keep them in the academy for an extra 2-4 wks. Phil wants a Dept. under 10,000 around 9,000 max. He don't care about anything but reducing violent crime ie. homicides. Other than thaat just give em an RD# and Event # and they will all be circle jerking themselves at the DOC mtg.
Look at TRU. I know everyone hates them, but there is a lot of man power there. Instead of having 25 cars drive around a 2 square block radius, change it up! Homocides are up 6 from last year. Do you think the bangers are used to / adjusted to "The Swarm"??
How about a day shift for TRU? How about sending some of them to hit the CTA or the hotter school closings? Might envigorate the troops AND keep the bird on their toes........
How about having the Mass Transit do more than ANOV citizens then runing their stupid name checks on CW1!!!!!
Like you have to name check a 60 yr old M/2 from Inverness over smoking a cig on a CTA platform! What's he going to be wanted for? Accounting fraud?!?!?!
Let's start a petition to get Mass Transit and the gawd-awefull traffic aides of CW1 !!!!!!!!!!
closed market... when they were sitting on the dope spots in fillmore, the dope boys got to know that the 2800 units can't/won't/don't know how to do shit... eventually they became bold enough to sell right around the corner from the 2800 unit. let's face it closed market is a bunch of pencil pushers, that were put on the street for appearance purposes only. they don't take reports when someone walks up to the car, instead call for a beat car, because they don't know how to give a bullshit report for a westside domestic. they are more trouble than they are worth, and i would be happy if they were riding the trains or guarding crime scenes, or better yet, sitting on prisoners in the hospital.
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You want to translate that??????????
read down, not across
HEY those recruits are taking very important classes. Like CAPS, Ethics, leadership, Step-a-ro-bics, 80 hours of report taking, of which they will never remember once they take their first call.
This Dept is the highest trained Dept in the nation!
TO MY FELLOW OFFICERS AND OR KOMRADES:
I AM RAISING $$ FOR A FUND FOR THE OKLAHOMA SUICIDE BOMBER. HE TRUELY IS A PATRIOT. WE MUST HONOR AND REMEMBER HIS SACRIFICE AGAINST THE EVIL BUSH WAR MACHINE AND THE EVIL USA.
ANY $$ U CAN DONTATE I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE. LONG LIVE FIDEL, VIVA CUBA, THE CCCP WILL RISE AGIAN. I STILL HATE GEORGE BUSH.
YOUR LOYAL KOMRADE
P.O. TIM O'GRADY AKA LEFTISBEST,SHADY, U KNOW ALL MY NAMES.
23 RD DISRTRICT
2ND WATCH HOMELESS CAR
(BUSH IS RESPONSIBLE 4 THEM TOO)
(ABOVE POST BY ROBERT "DEAD WEIGHT BT. 2372 CHUCKY" LOTTMAN- A.K.A. THE POLICE NAME & ADDRESS DROPPER... IMPULSE CONTROL, CHUCKY)
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TIME MAGAZINE
Sunday, Oct. 09, 2005
Rove Redux
By VIVECA NOVAK, MIKE ALLEN
As top Bush aide Karl Rove prepares for his fourth grand-jury appearance, the federal probe into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the media is believed to be wrapping up. But the investigation has taken a toll on White House aides, many of whom now fear that the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, is intent on issuing indictments. "Fitzgerald's office, although very professional, has been very aggressive in pursuing people," the adviser said. "These guys are bullies, and they threaten you."
Reporter Judith Miller is set to meet again with prosecutors to discuss notes from a conversation with Cheney aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby that turned up after her Sept. 30 testimony. Meanwhile, lawyers for possible indictment targets are boning up on the Espionage Act, used to charge Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon papers, say people close to the probe. Fitzgerald would face fewer hurdles proving a case under the statute, which bars transmitting "information relating to the national defense" to anyone not entitled to receive it, than under the more exacting Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But national-security lawyer Kate Martin says, "Civil libertarians have always objected to [the Espionage Act] being used to prosecute leaks to the press." Though Ellsberg's indictment was dismissed, the statute was used to convict naval analyst Samuel Morison, in 1985 for giving a satellite photo to a defense magazine, and Pentagon official Lawrence Franklin last week for passing secrets to a pro-Israel group. --By Viveca Novak and Mike Allen
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1115661,00.html
BY THE WAY LOOSE LIPS LOTTMAN- I AIN'T "LEFTISTHEBEST"... ANOTHER OF YOUR WET DREAMS QUICKER-PICKER UP'D! ENJOY YOUR FURLOUGH!
Regarding hte above post, Is Vivica Novcak related to Robert Novack, the Suntimes columnist that this all started with?
I READ ON A COUPLE THREADS THAT THIS OGRADY GUY IS STARTING A FUND TO RAISE MONEY FOR THAT STUDENT THAT BLEW HIMSELF UP, WHO WAS AN AL QUEDA SUPPORTER. IS THIS TRUE OR JUST BS?
THE REAL REASON FOR THE EARTH QUAKE IN PAKISTAN IS GEROGE BUSH.
I HATE HIM, I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HATE HIM.
OH! GOTTA GO TAKE MY MEDS, YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I GOT PROZAC, ZANAX,ZOLOFT IN MY TUMMY.
9,900 - 9161- P.O.'s
899- 9165- Det's
54- 9162- Gang Crime Det's
184- 9167- Youth Det's
1218- 9171- Sgt's
272- 9173- Lt's
76- 9175- Capt's
Total-12,603
1,137 Det's 1,566 Supervisors(not encluding exempt)
No rapid response cars or close to none in 004th Dist, 005, 006, 008,and please include any District where the people don't get the police numbers they pay for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ain't Tim O'Grady, never met him, and never heard of him until this blog. The only Tim O'Grady I know is the Irish writer who wrote the novel, "If I Could Read the Sky," made into a film a few years ago.
How many on the medical and disibility rolls?
10/10/2005 10:36:21 PM wrote:
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What does it mean to be Rearded? Is that Canaryville speak for rear-ended or ass-raped? If you are going to get on here and rip people, make sure you're bullet-proof.
The idiot forgot the "T" he meant retarded.
Manpower: How about four straight days in September that beat 811 (with 20,000+ residents, encompassing 2 square miles of Chicago) had no beat car on midnights? A hell of a lot of us live out there. If you have to, go on a uniform adjustment to your house on midnights so that at least a squad car will at least be seen driving through the neighborhood.
Its a Federal and a state violation to have a beat car and not manned, the suburbs have to keep so many cars on the street or get fined and so do we. Make a copy of those sheets that show all the cars down send them to the media, alderman and other politicians. Education of whats going on is the key and do it properly and you will be heard. Remember if someone gets hurt from lack of manpower no exempt is exempt from being sued.
TRU doing platform checks and babysitting schoolkids....next we can have SOS doing bus checks, maybe visiting the elderly to make sure they haven't died of heatstroke. Narcotics, mount up, you are going to enforce the proposed jaywalking ban downtown.
i'm sick of going to the bar and hearing all of the stories people from 011 have... i think i'm gonna call my dad, who is a lt., and get me transferred from 016 to SOS. then i can be the real police and 1 bag someone. or maybe TRU so i can really fight crime by locking up every public drinker. i can't wait till they hear my stories then.
Almighty Fillmore Rules!
Regarding Finnegan, he might be an asshole, but I submit he is not the worst one in his family;
After Dan Doffyn was killed, a benefit was held for his daughter, Finnegan and his buddy Munyon ran the committee;
Great party;
Lots of fun;
Lots of money raised;
Problem is it was never given to Doffyn's family;
Doffyn's father finaly complained;
Never heard the result.
True story
T.R.U.???? What the hell do they do????? Level 2 DOC in 008 and still 2 people shot, and one of them dies. Guess what T.R.U. was in 008 even worse in the DOC that night. Close that unit and send them PPO's back to the districts to help in manpower.
T.R.U. will not be disbanded simple fact is that they are a money making machine for the city. You see all them impounds those PPO's are bringing in????? Hey let them do there one bagers, drinkers, TVB's, sound impounds, and lets not forget gamblers because nobody in that unit is worth a dam and the Sgt's are balless and worthless. Maybe one or two bosses there with some sack (more than 5 years as Sgt) the rest are scared bitches.
Just sounds like alot of jealousy over tru, they get to go to different districts every night, eat wherever they want, do what they want, in the level2 doc and the bosses there aren't balless, they take care of them pretty good, they have some excellent sgts. and 2 great lts. commander is awesome.
To 4:59..
Sounds like you are descibing most Tac Teams......
Any real word on the next detectives class? Sgts class ?
hey I should be excempt for this idea... how ' bout t.r.u. tact ?
Yeah, you'd make the perfect exempt, now just learn how to spell it dumbass!
Since when does atrocious spelling disqualify a suckhole from becoming exempt?
What's the word on the lawsuit filed regarding the study group at 35th street. Is the old list still up until that is settled?
Sounds like some people are salty because TRU has to come in and clean up their shitty areas because they are dogasses and can't figure out how to do it themselves
What area has TRU cleaned up????? Go back to TVB's and impounds you PPO. I know your not cleaning up the areas where most of the city workers live, so go chase a crack head and tell yourself you are making a difference.
TRU tact? Dont you have to have three years on to go tact? Maybe two people in that bullshit TRU have three years on and believe me one can tell listen to them on radio they are a joke.....
I wasn't refering to t.r.u. tact in the sense of actual police work. No, the Districts can do that. What I'm thinking is the appearence of more civilian dressed officers on the streets. . . more contact cards, dispersals, possibly even an anov or two. I wouldn't want my tru tacts tied up on arrests. That would keep them off the street. Appearence is everything.
12:26:03
My dog just took a shit . . . can you tru guys come over and clean her ass. She ate a string and is dragging her ass all over my yard. I need some expert help !!!
jealous of t.r.u. (Truly Retarded Unit) because they "go to different districts every night"?
Not really...
example 1. "Male black, white t-shirt blue jeans, west-bound in the north alley of Central Park and Hamlin".
example 2. "We just on-viewed a domestic disturbance (after convincing joe he needs a report), we need a beat car to take paper" so we can go lock up a public drinker even though the district we're in is in a rap and has been for hours.
example 3. A unit is calling for help but won't come to help them, even though they are only 2 blocks away, because a misdemeanor arrest is more important than the safety of a P.O. (hey a head is a head), unless there is a gun involved.
and they wonder why people don't like them???
TRU are just a bunch of posers, trying, but miserably failing to be the "police".
I never once did a TVB or a drinking arrest. Certainly can't recall not assisting a unit that has ever called for assistance....try again.
Face it TRU is the wannabe big unit now in CPD and every bosses kis is here. You should see the desk crew, mostly females that have daddy to thank for their spot. TRU you can keep that crap Im going back to a district, and the Sgt's hahahah not a set of balls in the joint.
Dont be mad you can't be part of our elite unit. Mauer said it right we are better than SOS and we are the future of CPD. Dont be hatin cause you cant be in TRU you mush.....WE ARE THE REAL POLICE and dont you forget it!!!!!
TRU = Tact Rejects United
HEEEYYYYY ! ! ! Where is the tru unit!!! My dog is still draggin' her ass all over my yard with that shit string hangin' out her ass. How can yous claim to clean the shit out of the Districts if you can't even help out a fellow P/O and his desperate dog.
Elite? Come on thats what they tell you fools to pump you up and get you to do what they want. You guys are out there working hard, but most of you don't have the experience to make good arrests. The other problem is a lot of you guys come from slow districts and think that 3 bags of weed on a traffic stop is a quality arrest. Very rarely do you get guns, significant quantity of dope or actual bad guys. You should be called TSU, the traffic stop unit. But we all get a huge laugh when you come in the station with that crap and stut around like you own the place....its cute.
I now have no faith in TRU ! Damn dog passed out, dragging it's ass accross the lawn, chasing it's tail . . and these guys brag they come into the districts and clean OUR shit up. Hey tru, you can redeem yourselves though. Man I got soooo much dog shit in my yard. I'm gonna call a tru mission. You could inventory the bags. Just don't c.b. my puppies on a drop case.
What's a drop case?
Enquiring minds at Unit 253 want to know.
In response to 8:09,unit 253,tru
Oh how do I explain this to you, youngster.A " drop case" is "casting refuse". Getting excited ?!!
I can see anov's dancing in your head.Well a " drop case" is what happens when you approach those guys on a corner for your contact cards. How many times have they " dropped " those sandwich baggies with all those itty bitty little ziplocked bags of chunks of drywall or brown sugar ? Or maybe the bundles of aluminum foil with that paint thinner smelling stuff? That's a " drop case". What we veterens call casting refuse. Now go get them litter bugs boys!!!
10/13/2005 08:09:45 PM was a joke, get it, joke. Thanks for playing the bright one though. The more stupid shit I read about TRU on here the more I like them.
8:39=REAL POLICE=IM SO FUCKING COOL
To 8:09 Sgt class 24th or 31st. Dicks will be mid January was the last I'd heard. Said one more Sgt's class in the spring and a new test would be offered at the end of 06 or begining of 07.
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