The New Euphemism
Instead of coming right out and telling everyone that people are hired on the basis of who their relatives happen to be, the Cook County State's Attorney Office has come up with the following explanation for overlooking the criminal records of those they hire:
- Teri Sanchez sponsored her niece's employment, but she was not involved in the hiring process, Gorman said. Teri Sanchez also sponsored Rodriguez, her niece's husband.
You got that? It wasn't nepotism. It was "Sponsoring!"
We hear there is a blue ribbon panel researching similar euphemisms to cover up for the "merit" selection process that currently plagues the Police Department. Possible explanations include "earned," "politically reliable," "diversity insurance," and "well, I knew his daddy when..."
We hear there is a blue ribbon panel researching similar euphemisms to cover up for the "merit" selection process that currently plagues the Police Department. Possible explanations include "earned," "politically reliable," "diversity insurance," and "well, I knew his daddy when..."
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
70 Comments:
Whenever someone gets around to investigating the "merit" part of CPD promotions, the first place to look is at the paperwork/files; but, keep in mind that many of the exempts are now smart enought o kep their comments "verbal" and not on paper; so, maybe it's time to get folks in before a federal grand jury........
Yawn second is boring.
Your past FOP president Bill Nolan sold us out on merit promotions years ago. A couple of lawsuits were filed in the past but went absolutely nowhere.
Now if a few kids were hired fresh on the job without any of the current requirements then you'd have a beef but as it is, bohica.
Off topic..BUT IMPORTANT! I'm sorry to report that after working until 3:00am July 3rd I woke up around 1:30pm today only to hear some asshole screaming outside. I then went to the window and saw this jagoff waving a huge Italian flag outside my balcony! I became enraged! This asshole, who I have met before was celebrating the Italians defeating the Germans in the world cup! IT'S THE 4TH OF JULY!!!! This clown was born in America and would rather celebrate the world cup over the 4TH of JULY!!! It's sad that the Polish community can celebrate for days, the Puerto Rican community gets a whole neighborhood to celebrate for a week, but we can't even have one day for America! Many have given their lives for what we celebrate on July 4th! But we have a few assholes that know nothing about sacrifice and would rather celebrate the Italians defeating the Germans!!! If I weren't the Police I would rip that Italian flag ouf of his fucking hand!! God Bless America!!!!
scc
the fop drinkfest convention is coming to your neighborhood. Compliments of the dues payng members of this lodge.
will you have round the clock coverage of the important work of fop
the speeches by OBAAAM and Blogo see our leaders shit all over themselves trying to line up jobs for post retirement.
you would think that issues of fop would at least earn a place next to some of the threads you feel are newsworthy....
I had a anstolishly eye popping exprience when I vistited OEC on Monday. So of you may know this already but I could not believe how the OEC people can track our every movement. Cars are now being installed with GPS and I the dispatcher showed my how she could track every car with GPS in 011. She could also bring up the speed they were going a complete history of where the car has been for its entire tour. It was unbelivalble. She then showed my how she can bring up information on how long it takes a beat car to respond to its job after being dispatched a call.
Boys and girls be careful out there. They know everything about where you are and where you have been.
Be safe and remeber that we have to back each other up.
7/05/2006 07:27:28 AM
More rubbish!
Hey can anyone recall any retired policeman who wasn't Irish being hired as Cook County States Attorneys Investigator? And I don't mean Hanhardts former tact leiutenant from 014, he, er, shouldn't count.
An Irish guy named lYons from OCD was hired there a few years back.
He wa supposedly very "Technical" and could do spy stuff.
He helped us out in the D - unit a few times and he screwed every "Technical" thing up.
He always had an excuse why things didn't work.
Now he makes 50K to fetch lunch.
Lucky his wife his heavy with Daley
What a joke
I personally know two Puerto Rican's, a Mexican and several Italians who were hired as SAI's,as well as a few Irish, so I guess your theory is flawed. Sorry you couldn't get a job there. Maybe people just don't like you, or you're not as good as you think you are. Could be...
Okay so it's affirmative action sprinkled with outfit phone calls?
Is this the agency retired connected Italian Viola works in or is he now corp council? Has a profitable cement co. and did alot of favor's for boss's. Is it true he did his buddy Lt. J Conlisk, whose wife Lydia is in ops and sister in law Deena a civi with pd do his driveway while working. Any truth he was layin low during trucking scandal. That's the way to get your job's along with donation's to the right outside elected chinaman. What a farce city, state and county is, sure their cleaning it up, get right to it.
ATTENTION: George Ryan, Daley and Blago.
Ken Lay escaped spending the rest of his natural life in federal prison. He sustained a massive and fatal heart attack in Aspen this morning.
I'm reading this book:
When Corruption Was King : How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down
Pretty good. I'm sure it's not 100% truf full, but eye opening non the less.
"Sponsor?"
LOL I had plenty of "Sponsors" when I played softball and we had to wear the uniforms with their name on it.
Maybe we should get shirts made up for all these people who got their jobs due to clout! Have their "Sponsors" name on the back!
To 0157 AM
If it makes you feel better while the Italians were celebtrating their victory, they were also cheering for our Independence Day (4th of July)in Rome. The Italians were celebrating a World Cup victory. Unlike the Pol's PR's etc who do the same shit every year this happens every four years. I could assure you many Italians were celebrating the 4th of July also. I for one am a proud Italian with a large AMERICAN flag outside my front door. Have a nice day and most importantly Stay Safe.
The Mysterious Death Of An Enron Exec
CBS) It may be the biggest outstanding mystery in the Enron story: the death of Cliff Baxter, a former top Enron executive. He'd just agreed to testify to Congress in the Enron case. A congressional source tells CBS News that Baxter wasn't a target in the probe, he was to provide evidence against others.
But on the morning of January 25th he was found in his car - shot dead.
Police were criticized for calling it a suicide before investigating, so they kept the case open. The fact that it's still open more than two months later has made the Cliff Baxter case prime fodder for murder conspiracy theories, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.
When Corruption Was King!!
I'm telling everyone about this book and to read it. They're already interested when I start feeding them bits of pieces of it...
We're all sick of this bullshit in our city
Off topic..BUT IMPORTANT! I'm sorry to report that after working until 3:00am July 3rd I woke up around 1:30pm today only to hear some asshole screaming outside. I then went to the window and saw this jagoff waving a huge Italian flag outside my balcony! I became enraged! This asshole, who I have met before was celebrating the Italians defeating the Germans in the world cup! IT'S THE 4TH OF JULY!!!! This clown was born in America and would rather celebrate the world cup over the 4TH of JULY!!! It's sad that the Polish community can celebrate for days, the Puerto Rican community gets a whole neighborhood to celebrate for a week, but we can't even have one day for America! Many have given their lives for what we celebrate on July 4th! But we have a few assholes that know nothing about sacrifice and would rather celebrate the Italians defeating the Germans!!! If I weren't the Police I would rip that Italian flag ouf of his fucking hand!! God Bless America!!!!
7/05/2006 01:57:19 AM
Va fa ingulu....stronzo
Out of 50 Alderperps between 03-05 46 voted with Daley between the figures of 70-100. 100 hitter's were; James Balcer, George Cardenas, Edward Burke, 97 was; Virginia Rugai, 96's were; Todd Stroger, Daniel Solis, Issac Carothers, William Banks, Margaret Laurino, 93 was Theodore Matlak.
For full record:
www.uic.edu/cuppa
(Great Cities Institute @Univ. of Il. Chg.)
I work at 35th Street and wanted to let everyone know that there is no Sgt's list today. And there wasn't one yesterday or the day before.
Sergeants list will be sent out this Friday after 1500 hrs. 35 test 15 meritorious total 50 from old list. CONGRATS !! You were right (wink-wink) !!
euphemism: the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something sinister and offensive.
In the Chicago Police Department, "merit" is nothing more than a euphemism for clout, nepotism and political patronage.
sycophant: a servile self-seeking flatterer, brown-nose, suckhole, toadie, apple polisher, fawning cocksucker, "yes" man, Stepford type, Kool-Aid drinker.
In the Chicago Police Department, all so-called exempts are sycophants.
Grab a program from the annual awards banquet. Look at the people who win the medal of valor, blue star, and police medal.
Now, check that list against the names of merit promotees......how many matches do you find?
Merit? Yeah! Sure!
I think the Cook County States Attorney's Office has hired a few token colored people in their investigation division. Mostly they do the food runs and misc. errands. I really don't think they do any real investigations or are trusted to do any.
As soon as they get their suspended or revoked drivers licenses fixed, they may hit the street. But the office will have to supply them cell phones because theirs have been cut off for non-payment.
When POS Fred Rice introduced hero Gregory Jaglowski to the press upon his release from the hospital he stated Greg was being meritoriously promoted to detective. But off to the side he then told Gerg he was actually being promoted to youth officer. POS Fred Rice went on to explain that the press might not understand what a youth officer was, or did, so this just made it simpler during the press conference. Your right. Not to many real hero's get anywhere.
Gregory Jaglowski was shot up because the female partner he was working with walked into that school carrying her little snub nose so her womenly figure wouldn't be disturbed by a duty belt. Oh and no bullet proof vest either, one can't admire her hard nipples and the attention they drew with a thick vest on. Its a joke. Women are useless on this job.
I CANT BELEIVE HOW LAZY ALL OF YOU NORTHSIDE COPS ARE....WHAT A JOKE....
To be an S/A investigator they want you to be a Sgt in the city or sticks. Then the Chief judge makes the appointment based on your political affiliation. Divine has a say but the jobs are doled out by the Chief judge-neutrallity/bs/ thru the political party process. These are the same bastards who want merit judges. They had two openings at the SA Investigators office 783 applied and the 19th ward filled both positions. When you are retired and served with a subpeana, you are not served by retired CPD officers but by retired State troopers in the office. They cant run the expressways but locate our retired dicks. My uncle got in thru the eighth ward even though he is lilly white and lives in the 13th ward. U work ten years and get a fifteen year county pension with free health insurance to 62.
Several of the minorities have been fired from other county departments, as well as the vowel people. What a joke they get a car and work four hours a day.
Were is the GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Bulls sign Rasheed or is it Malcolm for 60 mill. They signed Tyrus for 60 mil. andlast year signed tyrone(?) chandler for 64 mill. I don't know the difference between Tyrone, Tyrus, or Rasheed(ben) but just keep going to the games and paying high prices cracker. 18,500 in the stands-4 of us. CRACKER BE STUPID!
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Make MILLIONS and blow it and also have a open sore dick. They are unreal.
Why is it that more than 500 people every year go to Hiawatha park and blow off fireworks and have a good time but two or more mules get together at Garfield park they have to kill, mame, or rape each other? Good thing 1631 never has beat car cause they along with dickhead 1690 would try to shut it down.....
Arizona’s Sheriff Joe is torturing his jail prisoners!
http://crimefilenews.blogspot.com/2006/07/another-hilarious-production-by_05.html
Lay off 016! We are working our asses off to keep crime levels in our community down. Fireworks at Edison school bring about "riff raff" and thus are subject to our policing. You whine about crime rates, yet when we enforce the law...ie fireworks, you become enraged. 025 should stick to fighting the criminals in their midst as we continue to curb activities which may bring about crime!
-pissed off in 016
Sheriff Joe is DOING what we all should be DOING!!!Torture the mutts and be merry!!!
-007 copper
Mt. Greenwood is changing their name effective Jan 1 2007.
Canaryville South
We're moving on up, to the southside! We heard we can get teeth up there.
Mt. Greenwood will be Mount Blackwood soon. Six black families have already moved into different houses (Not condos but actual houses) on Pulaski between 105 and 109 via section 8 relocation program. A few more are actually in Mt. Greenwood too. I see white Irish flight soon. Once the first little white girl is grabbed, raped and killed.... watch the for slae signs go up faster than the brother man fleeing the police.
Glad the governmemnt can fuck up so much and screw the hardworking people.
Mexico Pres. Election update:
Obrador Boxes and ballots found in garbage dump from 3 precinct's.
No true tally yet from Sunday's vote.
“El que nada debe, nada teme,” is a popular Mexican expression: He who owes nothing, fears nothing.
If they are so sure they “won,” being Fox's guy Caledron why do they oppose a full recount?
At stake: criminal penalties for IFE bureaucrats if it is found that ballots were tampered with or “disappeared.” That is one fear. The other – justified or not – is who wins the presidency of the Republic of Mexico.
If the IFE tries to rush to judgment and declare a winner prior to a full recount, Mexico will explode. The IFE, the PAN, Fox and Calderón are thus playing with fire.
To be continued…
Now will you please knock off the porn.
Mt. Breenwood WILL NEVER be Mt. Blackwood. Why? We coppers in the Wood love to hunt at night. Guess what we hunt sucker?
From what I hear from a Lt. I know who lives in Mt. Greenwood, his black neighbors are fine, they maintain their property, even help him out with things he's doing around his own house. I hear that his real problem in Mt. Greenwood is a hillbilly heavy metal family that keeps shit going all night long on his block; he's even had to go out there with gun & badge to make the hillbilly Alice Coopers keep it down. And you
other Mt. Greenwood redneck badge carrying do-nothings are worrying about a few blacks in your neighborhood....what a joke!
You inbred alcoholics deserve each other!
TO: 025th Dist Copper
Maybe 1631 and 1690 did the right thing at some point when the rest of the neighborhood got fed up with the explosions and the rest of the BS that goes with that park...Good job to 016, only wish it became a permanent policy there... Also, what about the ODPO that got Battered up there, they should ignore that too 'cause it was probably some upstanding coppers kid who got his 17 or 18 year old ass drunk with mommy and daddy's help....
Coppers are definitely becoming the problem in 016 (and I'm sure 022 too) that my little Johnny didn't do anything. Even when another copper witnesses the offense and informs the on duty, daddy says that guy is lying.... NICE EXAMPLE for the kids...
Why is it that more than 500 people every year go to Hiawatha park and blow off fireworks and have a good time but two or more mules get together at Garfield park they have to kill, mame, or rape each other? Good thing 1631 never has beat car cause they along with dickhead 1690 would try to shut it down.....
7/05/2006 04:43:09 PM
Congrats, Asshead! Thanks for the invitation to next July 4th's shin dig at Hiawatha!
Nope. Have to disagree. The Lt. is obviously neglecting to tell you that the "cousins" of the good Huxtable family are indeed causing trouble. Ask any 022 copper who has had to respond to a domestic at the household of a black family in Mt. Greenwood-they will tell you the "cousins" caused the disturbance. Go figure!!!
Precisely why we are moving out of the area! Not to mention the Alice Cooper metalheads...the inmates are running the asylum. The asylum being Mt. Greenwood. 022 had better start chasing off the "cousins" too, before we white coppers who reside there-start our own form of justice!
-007 copper
My wife and I pay good money to live in Mt. Greenwood and raise our three children. We have noticed more and more blacks and hispanics are settling in. As such, we have observed children getting beaten up at the parks they used to play ball in. What is happening to the white pride that Mt. Greenwood stood for? Coppers used to beat the bloody hell out of thugs in parks that harmed children. We used to scare the badguys off just by looking in their direction. Not now. Now you have the gangs sneering at our children as they tag the playgrounds.
White coppers in Mt. Greenwood we must unite and take back our streets, before we become like Englewood. Remember the days of Eric the Red-now we have McDuffy's which is drawing the thugs to our daughters. This has to end. Lock and load my brothers and sisters...Before we lose our homes to the animal!
Move to Kenwood. Buy the mansion next door to Calypso Louie Farrakhan and get free security from the Fruit of Islam.
Do any of you read your shit befor you post? How racist your tone is? How is it that if a little green motherfucker like ET moved into your nieghborhood, you would fall all over yourselves to have bar-b-que after bar-b-que to invote the little green bastard over to phone home. But...one or two black aliens move into the neighborhood and you start to bleed at the ears. Pathetic - may G-D have mercy on your souls. What would Jesus do?
Farrakhan moved to Kenwood? He used to live in Beverly. Weird that.
Oh and the stories of young Abner starting a fire at his old high school. Any old timers here got that story and how it was buried?
To: 7/05/2006 11:41:51 AM
Are you an American citizen? If so, you are a fucking AMERICAN! If you love your country of heritage so damn much, go back.
To: 7/05/2006 08:13:40 PM
Organized religion is a crutch for the weak-minded. Instead of thinking about what jesus would do, try living by the example your father set. Or do you not know who he is?
To: 7/05/2006 08:13:40 PM
We Would shoot ET on site in Mt Greenwood. Also, as for what would Jesus Do? After you and your family gets raped and murdered by Dude and his cousins you can ask Jesus in person.
If ET were black he wouldn't be phoning home from WHITE, RACIST Mt. Greenwood!!! You fucking people are sooooo prejudiced that's why I left my white boyfriend for a REAL man of color. This man knows how to treat an Irish lass' pussy--unlike you drunken know it alls who are afraid to go downtown when we're menstrating. Girls, black guys will give even when Aunt Flo is visiting.
-Irish ex-wife of a Mt. G copper
The Cubs WON. Oh my GOD. and so did the SOX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE CAN LIVE IN MT. GREENWOOD IF WE CAN AFFORD IT. JUST LIKE ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. FROM A PROUD AFRICAN AMERICAN.
I worked in 016 for a little more than a year and had to bounce a lot when I didn't have a partner. The people on 1631 drive around that beat obsessively. They do not leave their beat for anything. They do not park the car to relax either. You are lucky my do-nothing ass is not sitting in that car because I would be sitting at an undisclosed location until a job was dispatched to me and then I would take my time getting to that job. I had to leave 016 because those coppers take everything just a little bit too seriously and are always turning a molehill into a mountain or just doing some plain silly stuff. Nice people who mean well though. But they all do complain about the off duty coppers always calling.
For once I can agree with you Lefty! BTW, Nice glasses Tim!
I NEED A BEER DAMM IT!!
To the 025th district copper:
First of all, fireworks are illegal. Second of all, think about your statement, 500 people, don't you think that is a little unsafe. You are missing several points here. It's obviously all about you. The park closes at 23:00, after that enough is enough. I know your going to tell me it was before 23:00 but I'm saying it doesn't stop the either. Do you ever pick up your mess when your done because most people don't and then it ends up blowing over to our houses. Also, I don't know about you but I have kids that cry to me that they can't sleep because your little show going on all night. Lastly, if you feel the need to blow off fireworks and aggravate both the working coppers and the people that live by the park then why don't you blow them off in your own backyard. Oh I know because then you would actually have to clean up instead of leaving your shit just laying there like the westside mutt you are. Better yet why don't you tell me where you live and I'll be sure to visit you next year with some friends. Lay off 016 I'm glad they finally did some police work for the good people. Kudos to you 1631 and 1690. Keep up the good work, we appreciate it. By the way I DO NOT WORK IN 016.
Signed: A policeman's policeman.
I too support the police that work in 016. I wouldn't want the job of dealing with all the asshole coppers, (never mind the firefighters), and their "can't do anything wrong" kids. The firework displays you are talking about are ILLEGAL, you are not above the law, so deal with it!
Signed, a working copper that lives, but doesn't work, in 016.
My wife and I pay good money to live in Mt. Greenwood and raise our three children. We have noticed more and more blacks and hispanics are settling in....
Damn, and I am leaving Garcia Ridge to go to Mt. Greenwood because I thought I would get a break from all these damn Mexicans moving in and turning the neighborhood into 26th street with the gangs, graffiti and the constant family parties where they invite all of their gang banger relatives over and think they are impressing the block because their 1987 Chevy Caprice has a sound system in it and they want to show it off at 3:00am....guess there is no other place to go. And I'M Mexican!!!!
wasnt teri sanchez dan burkes secretary? Or is she still part-time? just asking
I am staying in Garfield Ridge to much crime in Mt Greasewood sorry happy to hear the homies are going they also after all the housing is cheaper
To 025 copper: You're a dick.
Been in 016 for twenty five years and never saw 500 people gathered for an illegal fireworks display at a city park, or school lot. But times have changed. Edison Park as rapidly changed from a quiet, cosmopolitan community of modest, yet well built homes to a vinyl sided Irish ghetto. The place sucks. Hillbilly turkey fireman everywhere and are the stupid. We're thinking of moving to Lakeview or Lincoln Square. Oh, and where is the alderman as Harlem Ave. and Northwest Hwy are being re-settled with subsidized housing? Five hundred assholes in a school lot should have been chased from the school back to Canaryville, or Cragin. You woudn't see this in Glenview or Park Ridge. And they have the nerve to talk about duke.
I live in 016 and can say that PO Hollie(?),bt 1631 2nd watch is the only decent Officer on that beat.The F/4 on 3rd watch doesn't do jack shit. If she and her partner ever got their asses out out of their car and did their job, we the off duty coppers would not complain. I have personally witnessed them in inaction after having identified myself as a po to handle a disturbence. They are good if you need a parker written-anything else forget about it!Now on 1st watch, Can't find them so can't comment on their actions or non-actions.
Don't know the 1st Watch officers names on 1631, but when they aren't detailed out or covering the wagon, I have seen them around... That being said, seeing them and watching them actually do something besides drive by are two different things.
P.S. Hollie on 2nd Watch, one good guy. So is Elmer
Hollie and Elmer sounds like they should be working in Mayberry.....Give me a Hans or a Big Vito.....
State's Atny Inv. job became political only after Mr. Devine was elected. Prior to that under Mr. O'Malley, all hireing decisions were made by the 3 top bosses there, all retired cpd guys.
Basically they took homicide dets
After Devines election it all became totaly political
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