Rumblings of Change
Even MORE changes afoot!
Rumor has it (yes, we deal in rumors here - it's like hard currency) that Friday will be the day for a massive series of changes not seen since O.W. Wilson had everyone called down to the old Amphitheater to listen to the new gospel of "Policing in Chicago."
We imagine that should this come to pass, everyone will talk about "the day that everything changed." We are hearing of almost 20 command changes that include promotions, demotions, double jumps and forced resignations.
It certainly would make our rumor of earlier this year of 70 lieutenants and above leaving look damn near prophetic.
Rumor has it (yes, we deal in rumors here - it's like hard currency) that Friday will be the day for a massive series of changes not seen since O.W. Wilson had everyone called down to the old Amphitheater to listen to the new gospel of "Policing in Chicago."
We imagine that should this come to pass, everyone will talk about "the day that everything changed." We are hearing of almost 20 command changes that include promotions, demotions, double jumps and forced resignations.
It certainly would make our rumor of earlier this year of 70 lieutenants and above leaving look damn near prophetic.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
202 Comments:
I want to be one of the officers who throws tennis balls at the Tact Guys in the crowd control class. How do I get that spot?
How crazy is it that CPD Inspectors have been scrambling to hammer POs for any infraction they could drum up.
Could it be true that they're worried about their jobs?
How many Inpsectors have put in their papers?
Curious minds want to know.
Get rid of that bullshit Inspector unit. There's enough Micro Managing in the Patrol Division enough as it is.
I hope they put "caution- falling personel" signs around hq.
Maybe some of these bosses that are getting the axe Friday will be waiting and the end result will look like the final battle scene in "THE WILD BUNCH".
Then , we'll truly have a fresh start..............
Work your magic, Supt. Weis and make me proud by removing the clouted, self-entitled, bald and grizzled, fat and arrogant false representatives of this soon to be fine Department.
Hear that the Woman of the Bureau of Patrol are all worried. Scared to death of the thought of being sent to a District.
Guess they all got fat and spent uniform checks on other things.
James G. Carroll= He Gone!!!
Anonymous said...
Chiczewski is on his way out putting in his papers friday.
I hope he will take out the lard bucket at the airports.
j fed..if you read this please leave leo in 008 where he is. great boss to us and is good to us. dont listen to the crap on this blog because im sure most of it comes from people who dont work for the guy or are mad because he dumped them off days and shipped them elsewhere because the were not good police officers.
Cronin is the greatest cop of all time. But if you ask no one can recall him ever arresting anyone.
Only Obama can really change things!
J-Fed or J-Fraud? You be the judge.
PPO arrested and fired in 5 yesterday for being dirty....
Will people ever learn...?
No wonder there is SO much mistrust with CPD
i think a previous post said that cronin was out. thought it was a rumor. here's the link:
how do they conclude that this stuttering prick "had 'more intelligence than anyone else' on street gangs", this jag is incompetent as they come!
o yeah, he worked his way up to deputy chief. ok, blow me!
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/814898,CST-NWS-fired27.article
Rumor has it Daley has convinced Sipowicz to be Chief of Detectives!
Lil J Edgar is in way over his head. He has never commanded more than 150 people. He has never had to deal with a union. He has never had to deal with the Daley Crime Family. He has zero police experience. His salery is an insult and an open fraud. He's filling two positions?. Sure he is.
Letting himself be part of Daley's fraudulent explanation for his inflated salery (theft) from the people of Chicago is sickening. As long as the totally corrupt democrat party rulse Chicago thngs cannot get better.
Interesting regarding the DOC meetings being canceled....even MORE interesting that members of CeaseFire were allowed to sit in!! No wonder dope spots changed back and forth and areas of the city seemed to lay low at times....
007 distict captain %% Captain bubble head KULBIDA 3rd watch is under investigation by agent Weis. Building a strong criminal case... STAY TUNNED AND BEWARE OFFICERS " search warrant" ILLEGAL GAMBLING .....
How about this... we adopt ISP policies, require every member to get in fucking shape (physical test every year) and then we will get retirement health insurance. Thats right. My father is a recently retired ISP M/Sgt. For the last 5 years or so he took the POWER test every year. He retired at age 50, has 80% and full health care as if he was still working. A big reason the insurance and the state agreed to this move is because, unlike the CPD, its members took an active, voluntary role in their health. They agreed to a physical fitness test once a year (and it's so fucking remedial either mile and a half timed run, or untimed 3 mile walk). Why cant the FOP get into this? Retirees BITCH about health care and insurance so much, DO YOUR PART! Maybe if we agree to doing our part, they will agree to do their part. See, by simply being able to run a mile and a half or walk 3 miles we show we are doing something... ahhhh I think Im wasting my breath... keep smoking, keep drinking, keep eating like shit and my pension will be just fine! just a thought
Chicago police chief suspends 'hot spot' meetings
More than 100 officials gathered weekly to analyze crime trends
By Angela Rozas | Tribune reporter
11:21 PM CST, February 27, 2008
New Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis has "postponed indefinitely" weekly meetings of more than 100 police officials to discuss trouble spots around the city while he evaluates if there is a more efficient way to implement crime-fighting strategies, officials said Wednesday.
The meetings were a visible centerpiece in former Supt. Philip Cline's crime strategy, started in 2003 with the creation of the Deployment Operations Center, a crime-analysis unit partly credited with reducing murders and crime in the city in recent years.
The center, modeled after the CompStat system in New York, helped top brass quickly evaluate where and why crime was happening in the city and where specialized units should be deployed to quell "hot spots."
About 100 to 200 top department officials, as well as visiting departments and outreach groups such as CeaseFire, attended the meetings at police headquarters. Weekly crime trends were displayed on large video screens, and commanders and deputy chiefs were often put on the spot to answer why crime was up in a particular area and what they were doing about it.
But the meetings were often lengthy, and sources said some in the department criticized what was sometimes seen as heavily bureaucratic meetings.
Though Weis has decided to suspend the weekly meetings pending a restructuring, the Deployment Operations Center will still operate, and its mission will continue, said department spokeswoman Monique Bond. Some top commanders and key officers in the department will continue to meet weekly to review crime trends and determine where specialized manpower units, such as the Targeted Response Unit, need to be deployed, Bond said.
Most of the information that was shared at the larger meetings is already being shared through the department's intranet, she said. Some options that Weis may be considering are to hold weekly meetings with only top brass or monthly meetings with all of the command staff.
"The goal is to make it more efficient," Bond said. "Is it smarter to have so many of the brass at the meeting at once, or would it be smarter just to get that information and funnel it down? That's what they're evaluating."
Weis has not laid out a plan yet for new strategies but did create a new bureau for officer accountability and has been promoting or pushing for the retirement of a number of top officials. Four top officials announced their retirement in the last two weeks, with longtime gang intelligence expert Mike Cronin added to the list this week.
***mike chasen is acting chief of detectives Area 3 Tommy Byrne acting deputy chief of field group A B and C. way to go Tommy!!!***
Mike McCotter will be named Chief of Detectives on Friday!!!! Tom Byrn will get a deputy chief spot.
Being Superintendant of the Chicago police Department is so easy even a caveman can do it!!!
Bye Bye Matt T!!
"How crazy is it that CPD Inspectors have been scrambling to hammer POs for any infraction they could drum up."
Almost as Crazy as Joe Berry retiring & coming back as an Inspector. WTF?
You need the Gun,Badge& recognition that bad Joe??
"Hear that the Woman of the Bureau of Patrol are all worried. Scared to death of the thought of being sent to a District."
More asinine sexist venom from Officer Neanderthal. It's the male yellow bellies that are really cowering & shuddering @ the thought.
Apparetnyl you're included in that equation & figure you'll deflect away from you to hide your cowardice. Nice try ain't working...
"007 distict captain %% Captain bubble head KULBIDA 3rd watch is under investigation by agent Weis. Building a strong criminal case... STAY TUNNED AND BEWARE OFFICERS " search warrant" ILLEGAL GAMBLING"
LONG, LONG OVERDUE, FORMER 011TAC SGT "I CAN'T KEEP MY HAND OUT OF OTHER PEOPLES POCKETS", BECAUSE I'M A DEGENERATE. THE POSTER CHILD FOR THE CLINE REGIME
off topic
heads up
the gps is no joke
squad will be able to see what page of sports section you're on in the car
it's being tweaked as we speak
only a matter of weeks
you're going to have to be mighty creative out there
if the system works as well as they anticipated
peace out
Holy Mixer Batman!!!
An era has pasted...and a new one begins...where?
We know J-Fed don't like old people. So if you got 29 and a day you might want to get those medical procedures done this year. Don't expect to have a future with this Department. Wonder how he's gonna treat our Senior citizens in the community? Typical yuppie- send them all to nursing homes.
We know he is getting rid of Daley's people too. Not just Cline's or anyone's else.
So how do the rest of us fair. A few might do well but for the most of us who work for a living I see more nonsense.
If he plans on filling all the openings (which is unlikly) it will take close to 20 promptions.
With dumps look for close to 25.
Jody: Get rid of Big Bird Inspector McMahon immediately!
He ought to be indicted for stealing so many paychecks while checking for loose threads. And a take home car! jesus H Christ. How many coppers did he screw out of their special employment pay when he wrote them up for no vest at the airport? What a total jagoff and he is so very useless. Launch his ass over to 003 or 006 or 007 or 005 and see if that puts some lead in his pencil.
Anonymous said...
James G. Carroll= He Gone!!!
2/28/2008 12:22:00 AM
Let's hope he takes his stooges sgts with him! Right sgt eBay?
Farewell to one of city's best cops
February 28, 2008
This is a word of farewell to a cop. Specifically, we're talking about Mike Cronin. A good Chicago cop. One of the best ever.
But take this, if you will, as a farewell and a thank you to all the good police officers, the ones who never make the news because they never do anything wrong -- just a lot right -- and never get shot, thank God, in the line of duty.
They are the cops who go to work each day and do the job of trying to make this town a little bit safer. They go places the rest of us would not dare, take risks we cannot imagine. And then one day, without fanfare, they put away the badge, share a couple of beers with their buddies from the station house, and go home for good, where they lock up their gun and wonder what comes next.
Detective Mike Cronin, after 35 years on the force, was asked to leave the Chicago Police Department Tuesday by the department's new superintendent, Jody Weis, who's trying to shake things up. Weis has every right to do that -- every obligation -- and we're not about to second-guess him. Maybe it's for the best. Even the best cops, like Cronin, can't go on forever.
But we can't let Cronin walk away without telling you why he made Chicago proud. To begin with, Cronin never should have been a cop. As a Marine in Vietnam, he got his left foot blown off, and who needs a one-footed cop?
But, as it turned out, Mayor Daley did. That would be the first Mayor Daley, Richard J.
Daley didn't see a missing foot, just passion and smarts. He made the kind of phone call his kid couldn't make today, and Cronin was on the police force, where soon he was leaping over fences chasing drug dealers.
For most of his career, he worked gangs and drugs on the West Side. He developed a reputation among his fellow officers for fearlessness and a deep knowledge of the streets. He walked into drug dens alone, his gun holstered.
He developed a similar reputation among the bad guys, who respected his integrity and knew his word was good. Cronin, they knew, aimed for the worst dealers and thugs, not the pathetic corner dopers.
Cronin retired, for the first time, in 2006, but Daley -- the son this time -- hired him back as a civilian consultant to the police department. Cronin was thrilled.
The mayor once called Cronin "the best policeman" in Chicago, a sentiment his father may have shared. But on Wednesday, Daley's press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard, said the mayor would not ask Weis to reconsider. Daley's smart that way. He knows Weis can't really take charge if he gets in the way.
But Cronin will be missed, like every good cop is missed, even if we don't always say so.
Thank you, Detective Cronin, and farewell.
NOW IF WE CAN ALL SEE THE LIGHT AND START WITH DUMPING THAT PAIN IN THE ASS FEMALE LT IN 024.HOW ABOUT DC DON'T YOU THINK ITS TIME TOO LEAVE LET SOME NEW BLOOD IN GO ENJOY THAT PENSION IN LINCOLNWOOD!!THAT SGT. KOKO 2430 SHOULD LEAVE ALSO CAN'T HE SEE THAT WE ARE TIRED OF HIS BABY ANTICS INSULTING PO AND PPO'S YOUR OLD AND ITS TIME TOO GO NOW YOUR GOING TO SCREAM AT US ALL CAUSE WE SPEAK THE TRUTH ARE WE IN GRADE SCHOOL WE R ADULTS
007 distict captain %% Captain bubble head KULBIDA 3rd watch is under investigation by agent Weis. Building a strong criminal case... STAY TUNNED AND BEWARE OFFICERS " search warrant" ILLEGAL GAMBLING .....
2/28/2008 02:09:00 AM
i dont kmow how the hell captain bubble head is still on the job!!!!i hope they boot him out soon.He protrays himself as an outstanding boss but everyone that works for him knows the truth!!! the most corrupt boss on the job captain bubble head
I didn't know outside groups sat in on the doc meetings.
Having outsiders attend is the tell tale sign that is was pure dog and pony show.
It's one thing to have meetings with community groups, it's another to allow them the ability to compromise police operations. It also is a officer safety issue.
Good riddence cline.
On hind site j-fed meeting with the revs. Is a good strategic move. The revs. can air their grivences and j-fed gets insight into these clowns. At some point he's going to ask them to intercede with the community When they can't produce results he can put them on the spot for a lack of community involvement. Remember, craps is a tow way street.
022 1st watch made an excellent pinch early Wednesday morning on a garage burglar hitting places in the Beverly area. Last I heard, they hooked him up with 5 cases, and the detectives were digging through the case reports for more. The guy was singing.
Maybe, just maybe, the wannabe's who bitch and moan about how lazy people in 022 are can at least throw them a kudo. There are workers here protecting the homefront, but they never get acknowledged from some of the more overbearing and ignorant people who bitch and moan here
TO: QUIT CRYING OLD TIMERS
If you think the City wants you to be in shape when you retire....you're wrong!! The longer you live after retirement the worst it is, because the more pention they have to pay out. Sorry they want you dead after retirement!! Thats why they dont care if were in shape or not.
anybody who never saw Mike Cronin arrest anybody hasn't spent 10 minutes with him. He may not be "the greatest policeman ever" but he is a damn fine one and better than any heterosexual FBI agent in that bureau's history. While I'm at it, I'll tell you another certainty: If you read, contribute or fail to condem this press created blog, take a look in the mirror at your self. YOU ARE NO POLICEMAN! and likely never have been. I hold myself to the same standard and I won't be back
I wonder if Frank Gross's legendary 15 minute standing ovation at Clines last Doc meeting will be rewarded by the current regime? Time for fake kiss asses to go...bye bye
Prophetic ???? More like prophylactic !! Put some hair-gel on top of your swelled head and stuff it inside a condom....please, stop patting yourself on your back !
0812 was a wagon last night......wheres the shortage of cars???
How about this... we adopt ISP policies, require every member to get in fucking shape (physical test every year) and then we will get retirement health insurance. Thats right. My father is a recently retired ISP M/Sgt. For the last 5 years or so he took the POWER test every year. He retired at age 50, has 80% and full health care as if he was still working. A big reason the insurance and the state agreed to this move is because, unlike the CPD, its members took an active, voluntary role in their health. They agreed to a physical fitness test once a year (and it's so fucking remedial either mile and a half timed run, or untimed 3 mile walk). Why cant the FOP get into this? Retirees BITCH about health care and insurance so much, DO YOUR PART! Maybe if we agree to doing our part, they will agree to do their part. See, by simply being able to run a mile and a half or walk 3 miles we show we are doing something... ahhhh I think Im wasting my breath... keep smoking, keep drinking, keep eating like shit and my pension will be just fine! just a thought
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The only thing more annoying than a health freak telling you how to live is an "educated" p.o. with his degree telling you how to be the "police"
shove it!
ISP don't have city residency and have to work two f'in jobs to support kids Catholic school and mortgage.
Nothing wrong with being in shape, not everyone has the time to do it.
from: an in-shape p/o/
Doty in 006, is telling everyone that he isn't going anywhere. If the new guy keeps him it just proves he ain't about fixing anything.
How crazy is it that CPD Inspectors have been scrambling to hammer POs for any infraction they could drum up.......
Right on brother. We need to help those who got canned for nonsense; like the ppo 2 days from probation who was fired because a nurse made a mistake on his return to work papers from a injury he had. Never should ahve been let go.
Anonymous said...
PPO arrested and fired in 5 yesterday for being dirty....
Will people ever learn...?
No wonder there is SO much mistrust with CPD
2/28/2008 12:56:00 AM
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Kingpin dirty or Pigpen dirty?
To the person that posted at 12:42 AM & 1:34 AM: You are entitled to your opinion about Cronin, but pretending to respond to an earlier post(12:42) with your own post(1:34) is bullshit. The thread was just posted last night and the 22 comments were not shown by SCC until this morning, so there was no way for you to respond to anyone's post. Say what you want about the man but don't try to stir up the pot just because you don't like him. Go visit some chat room with that high school shit.
Meet the new boss same as the old. Nothing will change for the no clout Patrolmen. They will still be the whipping boys for this dept.
MT was given a vote of confidence by Jody last week at the W/C meetings. Jody told all that he and MT are working together to revamp the FTO program from top to bottom. If MT was on his way out, why would Jody mention him by name and set himself up for possible embarassment. Jody knows (FBI sources) that MT is not going to be part of the SOS scandal.
bye bye keating see you on beat 120 saturday.
HEY JFED, YOU WANT TO MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CPD. THEN HIRE DAVE DIAL (POLICE CHIEF) OF NAPERVILLE P.D. AS A HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFICIAL. READ HIS RESUME. VIETNAM VET, WINNER OF BRONZE STAR AND VERY INTELLIGENT AND ARTICULATE, HE SHOULD BE RUNNING OUR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPEMENT. ALSO ANOTHER GOOD OUTSIDE PICK WOULD BE JACK HARRIS PHOENIX AZ. POLICE CHIEF. YOU NEED TO THINK OUT OF BOX. THE BOX HERE IS STILL FULL OF MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE.
totally corrupt democrat party rulse Chicago thngs cannot get better.
Stop it with the silly nonsense. The Daley administration is corrupt no matter what party he belongs to this country has plenty of republicans who are corrupt. I'm independent and a realist try and think for yourself my friend.
Change wont do a damn thing for morale. Its to far gone.
We need a contract with a raise thats comparible to what the politicians get without losing all out benefits.
We get a raise and half of it is taken away in medical and taxes.
But it doesnt bother me because I have moved on. My check is there on the 16th and 1st and if a copper doesnt call for help I dont go unless its assigned to me.
The reason the mayor and FOP gets away with screwing us is because we let them.
FOP states well then go to a meeting. What will that do? NOTHING!
Hey FOP why not state..."this is how we are going to fight for your contract please come to a meeting to get involved." But no you just blame it on the members. We pay the FOP to fight the fight not blame us for them being in bed with daley.
The FOP has given up many benefits all the while stating...." its good faith blah blah blah."
What does the city do in good faith for us?? You should be a thorn in the mayors ass, but thats impossible becasue the FOP's lips are all over the mayors ass.
I am amazed at how corrupt this city is.
Has SWAT been given a list of names that will "hole-up" this Friday night after getting the axe?! Ha-Ha..... Like the General that puts on his class A's one last time in A Few God Men. SO-Long Chizewski, take Green with you to Hell.
I was at the O.W. Wilson meeting. He basically said "Go and sin no more, your past is forgiven." What he forgot to tell us was how to live on $199.50 twice a month.
I agree Leo S is a great boss. We haven't had a competent one in years. His appearance commands respect,he knows his zhit, good to the guys and he's actually out there with us on the street. But he does allow his CAPS people pull the wool over his eyes and that may come back to bite him.
The original mamagement design installed by OW Wilson gave the Superintendent some direct control over officers.
Weis' new management theory appears to be that direct supervision of patrol officers from the Superintendant's Office will end.
Weis will remove the ADS position and just hold the highest commanding officer on the scene responsible for command decisions.
This is actually a return to the days before OW Wilson.
The problem is that Hillard and Cline made Captains and Commanders who are TOTALLY INCOMPETENT. These positions are patronage jobs. Basically a show up and do nothing job. If anything serious happened, the Superintendant's office took over through the ADS.
Can you imagine some of these W/C's in charge during a police shooting? Most lose their mind if an arrestee tells them he's sick.
Only time will tell how this works out, but W/C's suddenly will have a lot more authority than they or we are used to.
I think this will be a total disaster.
Anonymous said...
Interesting regarding the DOC meetings being canceled....even MORE interesting that members of CeaseFire were allowed to sit in!! No wonder dope spots changed back and forth and areas of the city seemed to lay low at times....
2/28/2008 02:03:00 AM
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Unless you can keep teh location secret, teh DOC is a joke. can't find a drinker in the DOC but people are getting shot 2 blocks away.
Your average Chicago gangbanger is a very adaptable ANIMAL.
See, by simply being able to run a mile and a half or walk 3 miles we show we are doing something... ahhhh I think Im wasting my breath... keep smoking, keep drinking, keep eating like shit and my pension will be just fine! just a thought
2/28/2008 02:36:00 AM
Dude! SHUT UP. Do you want a pension or not?!
Boy, if I was a retiree I'd smoke a cuban cigar a day eat 2 filet mignons frolm that place on Lawrence and drink beer all the time. Yep, that's what I'd do.
About 100 to 200 top department officials, as well as visiting departments and outreach groups such as CeaseFire,
Ohhhhhhhh so that's how the gangbangers knew better than we did where we were supposed to be!
heard a rumor that their will be one inspector permanently assigned to each police district. looks like some guys are going to make lieutenant off this list who scored low and thought they never had a chance. good luck.
CPT Kulbida in 007 drove off the illustrious leader of 013 JM. JM now has more power and influence thanks to Kulbida's boneheaded move!
We all folow JM in 013, because he is HEAVY and a future Supe!
fed..if you read this please leave leo in 008 where he is. great boss to us and is good to us. dont listen to the crap on this blog because im sure most of it comes from people who dont work for the guy or are mad because he dumped them off days and shipped them elsewhere because the were not good police officers.
2/28/2008 12:22:00 AM
goddamn leo! i know your desperate but come on, its getting pretty sad now.
All that Sgt Angelo Hitiris gives to the TRU Unit hopefully he will be on J-Fed's new short list for an upcoming promotion.
bye bye CRONIN!!!go make other people lives miserable
I cant wait...nuff said..mabye this department will change enough that the little guy will actually have a chance...without a phone call...Thanks Sup Weis
Hey if Ralph C. leaves what happens to his know nothing do nothing daughter that did whole 3 year career at easy school car on days in 011. She is in Narcotics now bragging how she is the police????? Shut up and admit you are and never were the police. I heard she is bragging she will be LT within next 7 years! Hush.
His salery is an insult and an open fraud.
Come on dude you can't spell "SALARY"??????? Seems like an insult to me to know you are are a cop and getting paid at least as much or more than me.
Control the officers but not the criminals.
Control the laws not the enforcers, good start.
Jody, you are the best. Thank a God that we have a REAL REFORMER and not just another chief who reiterates the same old lines. Jody, God bless you and I will keep you in my prayers so you can continue to do a good job.
A little background on Merit Promotions for the Superintendent:
Merit promotions have a LONG history of litigation in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
One big case is Allen v. Chicago in 2003.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/7th/023743p.pdf
To file these suits, officers must first show that the promotion had a disparaging impact on a minority racial group.
If they can, then the City must show that despite the impact, the promotional system is "job related."
The officers can still win if they can show there is an less discriminating alternative the City refused to adopt.
In the Allen case, minority officers' suit after the 1998 Sgt. Test was thrown out.
This long quote is from the case:
"In January of 1998, 3201 officers took the written qualifying
test: 1672 were white; 1074 were African-American; 414
were Hispanic; and 41 were of other races. Of the officers taking the written qualifying test, 2682 passed: 1518 of
whom were white; 787 of whom were African-American;
340 of whom were Hispanic; and 37 of whom were of other
races. The success rate was 90.8% for whites, 73.3% for
African-Americans, 82.1% for Hispanics and 90.2% for those
of other races. Under a test for statistical significance, the
written qualifying test had a disparate impact on African-
Americans.4
A total of 251 officers were subsequently promoted to
sergeant. 178 were promoted on the basis of performance on
the rank-order assessment exercise. Of this number, 140
were white; 26 were African-American; 10 were Hispanic;
and 2 were of other races. The success rate was 9.8% for
whites, 3.4% for African-Americans, 3.1% for Hispanics and
5.7% for those of other races. Under the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) Uniform Guidelines,
the assessment exercise had a disparate impact on African-
American and Hispanic officers.5
Seventy-three officers were promoted on the basis of merit
selection. Of this number, 40 were white; 23 were African-
American; 9 were Hispanic; and 1 was of another race. The
success rate was 2.9% for whites, 3.0% for African-Americans,
2.7% for Hispanics and 2.9% for those of other races.
Merit promotions had no disparate impact on any racial
subset under the EEOC Uniform Guidelines."
The success rate for MERIT PROMOTIONS is based on the number of people from that race that passed the first part.
The first part (written qualifying) and second part (assessment) had a disparaging impact on blacks, but the court held the test was "job related" with no other alternative available.
I thought Mike McCotter retired several years ago. I promise to pay more attention to who's who in the PDs who's who. McCotter has a a good sense of humor and brains.
Mike would be a good choice, Tom Byrne is a thinking, level headed policeman who does listen and ask. Congrads to both.
j fed..if you read this please leave leo in 008 where he is. great boss to us and is good to us. dont listen to the crap on this blog because im sure most of it comes from people who dont work for the guy or are mad because he dumped them off days and shipped them elsewhere because the were not good police officers.
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I could agree with you if he made it priority to have a police presence on the tax-paying west end of 008. 811 & 812 get pulled east all the time due to 4 or 5 down cars, especially on every 1st watch. I know some would say it is not the commanders fault, but I put blame on him. He makes over 120K a year, so step up to the plate and get some more P.O.'s on the watch and man the beats. 009 and 007 never have near as many down cars and they are just as busy of a district. Rick Flair probably doesn't care about the west end of 008, because white people don't make as much of a stink about things.
Now with the weekly crime meeting gone what are the "staffs" of the Dept. Supts, chief's and deputy chief to do to play "gotcha on the commnaders. Wasn't this Cline's greatese backstabbing game, he liked to sit back and enjoy the battle in the arena.
This was Cline's method of managing, thank god this boob is gone hoefully his minnions will all soon be gone.
I raise a glass to William F.. Buckley after his death. I have never understood anything he said but I agree with it all.
If I watched him talk for more than two minutes I would laugh, not at him, but at myself who was straining to understand what the hell is this guy saying.
Elliot Ness being brought back to life(cryonics)like Austin Powers gonna head new bureau.
Ret.Dep.Risley made an appearance at TRU roll call Wed.thanked the troops and rode off into the sunset, gotta give him credit for showing up didn't have to but showed some real class
TO- " Anonymous said...
PPO arrested and fired in 5 yesterday for being dirty...."
See what could happen, guys. Make sure you scrub yer a$$ before going to work, stinky.
The rumbling you are hearing are the intestines of the exempt members as they take their nervous poops! Waiting for the ax to chop off their gold star!
To 2/28/2008 02:36:00 AM,
Screw you, your father, and the four wheeled cash register he drove. The ISP is hardly a police department and your father was not the police. A Chicago Police Officer will do more in a single tour than your fifty-year-old he-man power tester father ever did in his brief career. Nobody in my family ever retired from the CPD before age sixty-three, nor will I. This is a real law enforcement career that I would still dearly miss even if I lived to work until I was 100! By the way the ISP was at the forefront of affirmative action hiring and political appointments. How else could you explain idiots like Gainor at the helm. You Sir, are as soft as shit.
007 distict captain %% Captain bubble head KULBIDA 3rd watch is under investigation by agent Weis. Building a strong criminal case... STAY TUNNED AND BEWARE OFFICERS " search warrant" ILLEGAL GAMBLING .....
He was a Cline guy who worked for Cline in 011. Rumors abound about "bubble head" in 011 when he headed the golf outings.
On a different note; any Fenwick H/S alumni reading? I have a child that will be attending highschool this fall. I wa considering Fenwick and checked their website. Seeing mary mitchell as a guest speaker definitely left a bad impression with me. What is Fenwick doing alowing that race baiter speak to impresionable children? Is David Duke also going to speak. Needless to say, I believe I'll be sending Jr. elsewhere.
Maverick
J-Fed or J-Fraud? You be the judge.
2/28/2008 12:51:00 AM
no, J-Fed works just fine
Anonymous said...
007 distict captain %% Captain bubble head KULBIDA 3rd watch is under investigation by agent Weis. Building a strong criminal case... STAY TUNNED AND BEWARE OFFICERS " search warrant" ILLEGAL GAMBLING .....
2/28/2008 02:09:00 AM
And you know this how? I don't know anyone involved here but why spread rumors?
All that does is gives the media, which views this board daily, more ammunition to hammer us. Things will happen regardless, no point publicizing it.
It's time we got a break.
Good bye mr. Sherwood Williams, good bye Ms Cynthia White.
Good bye Eddie Welsch, sorry no midgets need apply. Nothing against midgets.
Good bye all district managers.
Mr. Williams:
Besure and give your thanks to White and Reynolds for destroying your district. It must be a great honor to lead the cpd in tranfer requests, and supervisor tranfer requests. Why cant you keep a sergeant.
Blame it on thighs Shahill
Work your magic, Supt. Weis and make me proud by removing the clouted, self-entitled, bald and grizzled, fat and arrogant false representatives of this soon to be fine Department.
2/28/2008 12:16:00 AM
And thats just the Female Bosses :)
j fed..if you read this please leave leo in 008 where he is. great boss to us and is good to us. dont listen to the crap on this blog because im sure most of it comes from people who dont work for the guy or are mad because he dumped them off days and shipped them elsewhere because the were not good police officers.
2/28/2008 12:22:00 AM
Signed Leo
A little off topic but important:
I was in the restaurant today with my units tact team and they could not tell who was who on the ballot (kids!). As the 2nd watch, Watch Rep. they asked me to put together a list for them. So for the un-initiated this was my list:
Seventeen names of unaffiliated PO’s that I was going to vote for. Not perfect by any means, but better than the other names. I have nothing against the names I left off but had to cut it off at 17 for my guys:
Allen
Bober
Bunville
Burke
Flores
Francis
Fujara
Larcher
Lonergan
McNulty
Moriarty
Owens
Richardson
Rick King
Stajcic
Thigpen
Tierney
THE HALF-WIT GROUP:
Brown
Hornowski
Lash
Mack
Mulder
Nash
Peterson
Podgorny
Pollack
Roman
AND THE DO-NOTHING GROUP:
Aguilar
Armstrong
Bailey
Bourret
Bullock
Butney
Duckhorn
Garza
Graham
Hanley
King
McDonagh
Rutherford
Schorsch
Shogren
Skelly
Trevino
I was happy my guys were not bought off by a cheap book cover. And who’s is pay for the extra calendar books the do nothing group was passing out? Just wondering! Feel free to print it out and pass it along!
Off topic:
Anyone else think the purple and black bunting hanging above the door of the now retired D.C. at Area 3 is uncalled for? It's nice that you loved your boss and he let you work great hours (especially holidays and weekends) in your ratty blue jeans but I and others think that the hanging of the bunting is a real slap in the face to any member of the CPD who lost his or her life and were so honored.Take that down immediately, you look like real jerks.
scc i am fairly new to this blog like to read and post . but if i may, i think its sickening to see other cops usin it to trick on other po's.when i started on this job from the trades what i really liked was the brotherhood. dont get me wrong this blog is great to say stuff about management without fear of punishment, great way to vent. but po to po should be handled like men. anyway even if joe blow makes you mad we still should try to stick together. after all the bosses bad guys cityhall and the clergy are enough to fight with.great blog.ps even though i dont agree with some i dont ever want it censored.
5:19a.m. Let me guess. You must be an Irish Caveman
Hey what about my DOC award? Will I still get it? I want a ceremony and pictures of me and the family with the Sup. Please don't tell me this has been suspended also
PPO arrested and fired in 5 yesterday for being dirty....
IF TRUE MATT YOU BAD BOY THEY ALL GET CAUGHT EVEN YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY OUT. YOUR EGO AND TURNING AGAINST YOUR BEST FRIENDS IS WHAT IS GETTING YOU THE BOOT!
"j fed..if you read this please leave leo in 008 where he is. great boss to us and is good to us. dont listen to the crap on this blog because im sure most of it comes from people who dont work for the guy or are mad because he dumped them off days and shipped them elsewhere because the were not good police officers."
Signed,
Rick Flair
(has anyone seen my American flag tie laying around?)
Rick,
It's right next to the piano tie you wore last xmas.
SCC, congrats on the interview at Chicagoist. Hopefully you'll post this link so everyone can see it.
http://tiny.cc/Chicagoist
Cronin is the greatest cop of all time. But if you ask no one can recall him ever arresting anyone.
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Cronin is the greatest self -promoter of all time. He's great. just ask him, he'll tell you.
I want to see the new Sup out there in the field this summer in 011, 015, etc when the next alter boy-honors student pointing a gun at police gets shot. Let him "rebuild the trust of the community" by facing the angry rock/bottle throwing mob directly. Maybe he can even give out pre-printed business cards with his cell phone number. That should sooth their anger
James G. Carroll= He Gone!!!
2/28/2008 12:22:00 AM
what goes around comes around.
I thought McCotter was retiring although I hope he doesn't. He is a smart and fair boss and knows how to manage.
I hate Frank Spielman. What an insult to the police department to compliment that useless fraud of a nepotistic supervisor.
MC as a gang specialist was nothing but a west side dime bag poacher. That got him enough court to hang out at 26 street 3-4 days week and schmooze the attorneys and give the appearance of a hard working knowledgeable street cop.
Nothing but another Phillusion.
TO 3:43
Why would that blog make this guy an "Irish Caveman"? It sounds like he is not a fan of the "NEW RAT FUCK BEEFING WHORES THAT THE CPD HAS HIRED. Yea, kinda like youself.
Let's hope he takes his stooges sgts with him! Right sgt eBay?
2/28/2008 07:10:00 AM
And the rest of his merry men, especially Donny Shakes the ghost rider! And how about KK, hey KK time sheets corrected yet?
Reform !!!!!!!! Mr. Supt.
Where are the Italian, Polish, German or any other European making exempts?
Same old shit in this city, give the Irish, Blacks, and Mexicans the exempt jobs. Reform my ass.
Cline and Hillard did promote shit and so far you named more incompetents with CLOUT.
Also, Bye Cronin, you hack.
022 1st watch made an excellent pinch early Wednesday morning on a garage burglar hitting places in the Beverly area. Last I heard, they hooked him up with 5 cases, and the detectives were digging through the case reports for more. The guy was singing.
Maybe, just maybe, the wannabe's who bitch and moan about how lazy people in 022 are can at least throw them a kudo. There are workers here protecting the homefront, but they never get acknowledged from some of the more overbearing and ignorant people who bitch and moan here
2/28/2008 08:12:00 AM
pat pat pat.. only sound i hear as this stroke pats himself on the back..
per the 008th district commander, he doesnt care how much the residents of garfield ridge bitch and moan, you are not getting more police out there. apparently the residents in the doc area are paying most of the taxes.
McCotter put his papers in but they asked him to yank them and stick around. He agreed. One of a handful of people that could led this department.
Anonymous said...
All that Sgt Angelo Hitiris gives to the TRU Unit hopefully he will be on J-Fed's new short list for an upcoming promotion.
2/28/2008 11:18:00 AM
.........
Signed,
Angelo (I Love Myself) Hitiris.
P.S.
I hope the keesing bandit will kiss me. I'm Greek so you know where I want it.
To 2/27 at 11:43-
Go talk to Sgt. Tom, Sgt. Steve or Lt. Vic. I caution you that it takes years of experience to get a spot like that. If your resume measures up I'm sure they will consider you.
Hey guys can't you see the writing on the wall.............This is a back door Consent decree just so we can get the Olympics........All the Feds here running things. Dont even kid yourself that it is not
DANGER DANGER
ALL YOU DICKS NOT AT AN AREA BETTER GET YOUR PLAID SHIRTS IRONED AND YOUR MICKEY MOUSE TIES PRESSED.
J FED ORDERED MANPOWER ASSESSMENTS FOR ALL DICKS.
MEANING IF CLINE HID YOU IN A DO NOTHING UNIT WITH A TAKE HOME CAR YOU MIGHT BE HEADING BACK TO AREA 1 OR 2.
THE LIST IS VERY INTERESTING I WAS SURPRISED AT THE NUMBER OF PATROL OFFICERS HIDDEN IN THE DETECTIVE DIVISION WITH WEEKENDS OFF.
ITS ABOUT TIME SINCE FUGITIVE APPREHENSION CANT TOUCH INVESTIGATIVE ALERT ANYMORE AND ARE LOCKING UP PEOPLE FOR MISDEMEANORS WARRANTS IS THEIR CUP OF TEA.
SEND ALL THOSE DICK BACK MAYBE WE CAN GET THE HOMICIDE CLEARANCE ABOVE 30%(THE REAL CLEARANCE RATE.)
Jody knows (FBI sources) that MT is not going to be part of the SOS scandal.
2/28/2008 09:58:00 AM
How can a commander of SOS who was a micromanager not be aware of JF and other crimes? Who signed off on killed CR#s and court deviations? I was in SOS during his time and MT was aware but looked the other way for high numbers. JF's team was always high in arrests and CR#s. Cline, Kirby and MT knew but looked the other way. Now it is too late. If MT stays then clout has returned. Everyone in SOS was aware. Hiding head in the sand will not work. Cline was dumped, Kirby gone, your turn MT. Many of your crew were also dumped to districts. Your close sgt friends stripped. And you still claimed to be innocent? So sad, 1590 on midnights.
All that Sgt Angelo Hitiris gives to the TRU Unit hopefully he will be on J-Fed's new short list for an upcoming promotion.
List all the accomplishments, please, we are all holding our breath.
Its a fact Ralph Price is getting his rat whiskers ready to go back to IAD.
MC as a gang specialist was nothing but a west side dime bag poacher. That got him enough court to hang out at 26 street 3-4 days week and schmooze the attorneys and give the appearance of a hard working knowledgeable street cop.
Nothing but another Phillusion
He really Cleaned the westside of all the gangmembers,You cant find one out there,What will we do without him?
I was at the O.W. Wilson meeting. He basically said "Go and sin no more, your past is forgiven." What he forgot to tell us was how to live on $199.50 twice a month.
At that time your mortgage was 50 dollars a month ad food was 25 dollars a week total bills 199.50 for the month that leave you with one paycheck to do as you please. I remember going to the store for my father and paying 115 for a gallon of milk and two loafs of bread. Times are different now.
Change wont do a damn thing for morale. Its to far gone.
We need a contract with a raise thats comparible to what the politicians get without losing all out benefits.
We get a raise and half of it is taken away in medical and taxes.
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you got it brother!!! all the rest of the people here think that dumping bosses will help us...they are all nuts!! we need a good contract and a bettr union!!!
To 2/28/2008 04:45:00 PM,
No, super cop, merit sergeant John Hamilton holds that distiction. What a fraud.
5:19a.m. Let me guess. You must be an Irish Caveman
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FUCK YOU!!! IRISH MY ASS!!! I GOT YOUR IRISH!!!
"Tom Byrne is a thinking, level headed policeman who does listen and ask. Congrads to both"
He still does what he's told as most folks in their positons do. Nothing Changes....
On a different note; any Fenwick H/S alumni reading? I have a child that will be attending highschool this fall. I wa considering Fenwick and checked their website. Seeing mary mitchell as a guest speaker definitely left a bad impression with me. What is Fenwick doing alowing that race baiter speak to impresionable children? Is David Duke also going to speak. Needless to say, I believe I'll be sending Jr. elsewhere.
Maverick
2/28/2008 02:08:00 PM
Fenwick?
Are you serious?
Do you and your kid a favor,
Send your kid to St. Pat's!
Why is it the CMDR of 024 can live in LINCOLNWOOD and send his daughters to suburban schools their whole life.Yet his "PET PEEV" is repremanding "working" police officers who come in to check off before 5 after the hour,on Christmas of all days!
..."four wheeled cash register he drove."...
Now that's funny!
Did he have a change maker on his belt?
Here's what I gotz to say. Fug all this who is moving up - down or sideways. It's a new deck of political cards but it won't mean crap towards a contract. J Fed has already shown his Daley hand in the deal and he's doing nothing for our benefits. Inflation is on the rise and our pay is at a fuggin stand still.
HEY JFED, YOU WANT TO MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CPD. THEN HIRE DAVE DIAL (POLICE CHIEF) OF NAPERVILLE P.D. AS A HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFICIAL. READ HIS RESUME. VIETNAM VET, WINNER OF BRONZE STAR AND VERY INTELLIGENT AND ARTICULATE, HE SHOULD BE RUNNING OUR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPEMENT. ALSO ANOTHER GOOD OUTSIDE PICK WOULD BE JACK HARRIS PHOENIX AZ. POLICE CHIEF. YOU NEED TO THINK OUT OF BOX. THE BOX HERE IS STILL FULL OF MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE.
2/28/2008 10:03:00 AM
I'm starting to think you have a sexual attraction to this Dial guy. Me thinks it's time for you to move to Naperville and pursue your love interest!
Big Bird is a TOOL! He was a beat-off in 009 as a P.O. AND a Sgt. He was the biggest do-nothing pice of work in the district. He made Sgt AND STAYED IN 009!! He supposedly was promoted and assigned the old-fahioned way...he paid for it!! How many of those promoted stay in their districts? Veeerry RARE!!
Hopefully the new guy will realize the inspectors are doing a job that can & should be handled by those Officers' direct supervisors. That would free up a bunch of Lt's, free up cars & save on gas, maintenance, etc.
BE SAFE!
hello, just wondering if commander carroll gets launched will i still be allowed to stay at home with my airport radio until a job comes out? also can i still continue to pick up my son from school in my k9 truck? i hope the new commander also enjoys my homemade tacos so i can start sucking up to him. RUDY
Anonymous said...
MT was given a vote of confidence by Jody last week at the W/C meetings. Jody told all that he and MT are working together to revamp the FTO program from top to bottom. If MT was on his way out, why would Jody mention him by name and set himself up for possible embarassment. Jody knows (FBI sources) that MT is not going to be part of the SOS scandal.
2/28/2008 09:58:00 AM
100% bullshit. He ever said any such thing
Anonymous said...
HEY JFED, YOU WANT TO MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CPD. THEN HIRE dd (POLICE CHIEF) OF NAPERVILLE P.D.
2/28/2008 10:03:00 AM
Yeah, right. That's the corruption fighter that hit people with days off for accepting discount ribs at the Naperville Festival, right?
Anonymous said...
To the person that posted at 12:42 AM & 1:34 AM: You are entitled to your opinion about Cronin, but pretending to respond to an earlier post(12:42) with your own post(1:34) is bullshit. The thread was just posted last night and the 22 comments were not shown by SCC until this morning, so there was no way for you to respond to anyone's post. Say what you want about the man but don't try to stir up the pot just because you don't like him. Go visit some chat room with that high school shit.
2/28/2008 09:45:00 AM
HEY DIPSHIT, I WAS REFERRING TO THE POST THAT WAS POSTED A DAY OR TWO AGO ON THE "Why J-Fed.." column. below is the comment i was following up on.
Anonymous said...
Per Fox news this morning, Cronin was asked to leave by J Fed.
2/27/2008 07:12:00 AM
But it doesnt bother me because I have moved on. My check is there on the 16th and 1st and if a copper doesnt call for help I dont go unless its assigned to me.
2/28/2008 10:05:00 AM
You are another one of the major sissies! You WAIT till a copper calls for help? If you're not on a job, why wouldn't you swing by a fellow Officers assignment of a domestic, battery offender on scene, street disturbance, etc. Why wait till things go south. You've obviously never had to call for help, when 2 minutes feels like 2 hours waiting for your help to arrive. Any jackass can show up when someone asks for help! You think you're going above & beyond? You're a hand-job! If more Officers showed up on their fellow Officers jobs, less Officers would have to call for help. Remember....THERE'S STRENGTH IN NUMBERS!!!
Nothing wrong with LS of 008. He was a great Sgt. in A/5, and did a good job as a Lt., even with the A/4 gun team. Don't blame him because one of his Sgts. couldn't keep it together while out with his team. Poor decisions were made in the bar; they have no one to blame but themselves.
With regard to 008 lacking enough presence on the "police" end of 008...cops always find enough time to eat, eat again, relax, drag out arrests well past a reasonable amount of the time required to put some goof into the lockup...If 008's west end isn't being adequately policed, it's the fault of the people in the blue and white cars.
I work in a district that is full of CPD residents; I live there myself. I always find the time during my tour to patrol past my neighborhood at least 3 or four times during my tour, and it's not my beat. Anyone who works and lives in 008 who isn't taking care of the homefront should follow the lead of those who have turned in their stuff in the past week or so, and move on.
2-28 @ 1005 am
I can tell already. Its everyone elses fault. You don't go to FOP meetings, but want better pay and benefits given to you. You don't have enough pay and benefits so you are a dog.
Face it, you are a lazy sack of shit whining complainer who bitches about everything and never helps fix it.
If they paid you in prime pussy and gold doubloons you'd still have some excuse to be a lazy dog.
My district has plenty just like you, bitch bitch bitch, and never a positive thought.
Get over it.
To 10:03am
What is it with you and David Dial? Do you have some homo-erotic fantasy about him? You were shilling for him when we were on Superintendant watch and now you want him to be a boss here..you need to get a life.
Also, quit the all caps, it is hard on the eyes
Serious - How can I get out of the FOP? Will I still be bound by whatever decisions they make for all cops or do I lose benefits such as those I don't need like their attorney's which I haven't been impressed with anyway. I'd like to know. I could use that money I pay each paycheck to that union.
no 1020...
Anonymous said...
What's the difference in what Jodi is doing and what Cline did? He brought all his close friends and gave them jobs, he promoted Steve Peterson because he knew him and they were FBI Academy brothers, he promoted a few others who he did not know and just got a good feel for them. All ex Superintendents did the same thing.
How does that make him smart by promoting Commanders to the upper ranks? I'm not an Exempt and will be retiring in a matter of months, but that is like promoting a Cadet to a Lieutenant. What about all the knowledge and experience you get going through all the positions in between? That aspect of intelligence, experience and strength is lost and will never be recovered.
Did Jodi or the Mayor ever look at the promotees track record? One has at least 2 sustained cr#s and one includes sexual harrassment, one is just plain or weird, one could not carry a conversation with a platter, and the main one is just plain old stupid. Look at some of the decisions they have already made and it has not even been a month!
Jodi, all of this BS motivated me to do what I need to do. Thank you
2/27/2008 07:10:00 PM
Most honest post I have seen on the blog!
Keith Reynolds was a tool when he was a P.O. in 009. No surprise to me he still is a beat-off!
To the person that posted at 12:42 AM & 1:34 AM: You are entitled to your opinion about Cronin, but pretending to respond to an earlier post(12:42) with your own post(1:34) is bullshit. The thread was just posted last night and the 22 comments were not shown by SCC until this morning, so there was no way for you to respond to anyone's post. Say what you want about the man but don't try to stir up the pot just because you don't like him. Go visit some chat room with that high school shit.
2/28/2008 09:45:00 AM
Now THAT'S what I call detective work DAMMIT!
How to FTO 1. Stay awake 2. Make an arrest 3. Stay awake 4. Put recruits with workers a couple of days a week. 5. Give the workers a CAR 6. Call recruit in to observe on significant arrests 7. Mandate gang knowledge.
I NEED A CAR
Cronin was a tool. He did something really stupid. It will be out in a few months...........
Its nice to bring in fresh ideas but I think we need the "old timers" with wisdom and balls. The new bosses tend to come with them clipped...
just a thought...
I'm sick,,,, can we clean up our stations... water that runs for at least a minute instead of all the water saver bullshit. Ventillation in the processing areas would be nice and how about huge containers of sanitizers everywhere. A drinking fountain for police in the area where they work. 2nd time I'm sick since Dec. Does anybody realize how many disease and germs we are exposed to ?????? Might actually save on medical time. Just enter any station and look how many sick/zombie P.Os are doing there job. IM SICK OF BEING SICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a bunch of whining bitches on this blog. They can't get into K-9, break it up. I don't get a company car, WHAAAAAAA. I am not inside. Put everybody on the street. I can't get into a unit because I'm a dogass, break up the units.
There is no hard job on this department. From patrol all the way up. If you are that miserable, shut the fuck up, quit your whining and find another job. More crybabies on here than kids in pre-school. Worry about yourself and not what everybody else is doing. Do your job instead of dogging it and maybe you will earn a decent spot.
The two officers in 22 who cleared up 5 different case reports-4 for burglary 1 for CDDP may have cleared even more---there was a detective memo out about a crime pattern in 22 in the beverly area -- 11 cases--the detectives are looking into clearing some of those cases also from a simple routine patrol stop at 0630 in the morning----great job officers--you girls should be proud!We are!! The neighborhood of Beverly should be also!
How honest is Jody? Everyone knows that Jody's supposed second position is a total fraud. Yet holding two positions was the head of the Daley Crime Family's explanation for Giving Jody his huge and undeserved salery. We all know that Daley is a crook. Jody must know Daley is a crook but he readilly agreed with the lil rat's explanation of whey Jody deserved the mega salery. Would an honest man?
Anonymous said...
hello, just wondering if commander carroll gets launched will i still be allowed to stay at home with my airport radio until a job comes out? also can i still continue to pick up my son from school in my k9 truck? i hope the new commander also enjoys my homemade tacos so i can start sucking up to him. RUDY
2/28/2008 07:55:00 PM
Rudy is more of a whining dog than his dog. When carroll goes; so do you jar head!
To 2/28/2008 04:45:00 PM,
No, super cop, merit sergeant John Hamilton holds that distiction. What a fraud.
2/28/2008 07:16:00 PM
P(H)ony tail john? What a cry baby. Cried all the time after he got dumped to 002.
How much did you steal from the traps john?
Hey SCC,
We could all use a little laugh these days.
Post this link of two PO's at Midway dancing on their Segways:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=81OhyAOF0Z8
Be advised that many of these specialized units were created to specialize in certain tasks and did start out that way and were successful.
Thanks to the past 4 years under PC, the dept supts and chiefs redesigned the missions of these units and nobody in the unit had a say so. PC wanted quantity not quality.
Lets hope that JW gives the order to these knuckleheads to let us be the specialists we were trained to be and arrest the killers and not the probation violators.
What started as a hostage situation aboard a bus transporting inmates to the federal courthouse Downtown on Thursday morning ended with a suspect hospitalized after being Tasered by a U.S. Marshal.
The incident started about 8:30 a.m. Thursday when a busload of inmates from Kankakee County arrived at the Jackson Street entrance to the Dirksen Federal Building for their court hearings, according to Deputy Chief John O’Malley Jr. of the U.S. Marshals Service. When the bus stopped, one of the inmates on board was holding the other inmates and a deputy marshal at bay with a homemade shank, he said.
The deputy marshal on the bus finally convinced the inmate to let everyone else go, but when he refused to surrender the weapon, which O’Malley said was made of plastic and “probably appeared more dangerous than it was,” the marshal used his stun gun.
The deputy struck the inmate with a Taser round and he dropped the shank, O’Malley said. The inmate was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital as a precaution. None of the other 15 male inmates on the bus, nor the deputy marshal were injured.
You have got to be shitting me!!
Two managers cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the 2003 stampede at the E2 nightclub that killed 21 filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing top Chicago officials of conspiring to scapegoat them for the tragedy.
Calvin Hollins Jr., 57, a manager with a ownership interest in the club, and his son, Calvin Hollins III, 33, an assistant manager, claimed that prosecutors, police and Mayor Richard Daley engaged in a smear campaign to hold the club's managers and owners responsible for what they say was an accident.
"This occurred weeks before the mayoral elections," said Gregory Kunis, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "We believe that [the Hollinses] were made fall guys to divert attention from the city's inadequate rescue. . . . It's not good politics to have 21 people die right before an election."
The 21 victims died trying to escape the nightclub in February 2003 after security guards used pepper spray to quell fights.
The Hollinses were faced 63 counts of manslaughter but were acquitted on all counts in March.
In their Cook County lawsuit, the Hollinses faulted the city, saying police waited at least half an hour to rescue victims and prosecutors failed to charge a guard who used the pepper spray.
They are seeking more than $2 million in damages.
"The tragedy speaks for itself," said the younger Hollins, who said he had tried to save clubgoers that night. "But we had no way of really defending ourselves at the time because we were going through the criminal prosecution."
But experts said the two would appear to face an uphill battle to prove that they were wrongly prosecuted.
"Suits of this type are filed with some frequency and are successful almost never," said Mark Rotert, a former federal and state prosecutor now in private practice. "Generally the law does not want to second-guess the decision to charge if there is any arguable basis for the charge."
Craig Futterman, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, agreed.
"These are incredibly difficult cases to win because you're literally taking on City Hall and all its resources," Futterman said. "They have to show not only are they innocent but [also] that there wasn't any probable cause to show they committed a crime."
Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for the city's Law Department, said the mayor's office is still reviewing the suit but "finds it completely without merit, both factually and legally, and fully intends to vigorously defend the city."
**Can you tell me why we have FTO's working inside spots without recruits that are still getting the pay, but not the 1/2 hour of OT????? Something isn't right! You shouldn't get the pay if you are not with a recruit.
2/28/2008 06:37:00 PM
I'm sure that Buffo and Canady agree.
Why is it the CMDR of 024 can live in LINCOLNWOOD and send his daughters to suburban schools their whole life.Yet his "PET PEEV" is repremanding "working" police officers who come in to check off before 5 after the hour,on Christmas of all days!
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HIS PET PEEVE is actually the knit winter hats, for your information. He beat the system on those other points, suburban living, free high quality suburban schools for his kids. He did what he had to do. He did what you wouldn't, he lives like you couldn't.
The best perk is using your canine truck to shop, and pick your kid up from school, especially if your connected to a certain sgt and do cable repairs! who could it be now?
2/28/2008 07:16:00 AM
I saw that jar head at St. Daniels.
He once did a cable job for me when he was in 008. But later got the airport gig when he cabled up an airport pimp.
Hey KK, break out the extra big bottle of vodka~your going to need it!!
Nothing wrong with LS of 008. He was a great Sgt. in A/5, and did a good job as a Lt., even with the A/4 gun team. Don't blame him because one of his Sgts. couldn't keep it together while out with his team. Poor decisions were made in the bar; they have no one to blame but themselves.
With regard to 008 lacking enough presence on the "police" end of 008...cops always find enough time to eat, eat again, relax, drag out arrests well past a reasonable amount of the time required to put some goof into the lockup...If 008's west end isn't being adequately policed, it's the fault of the people in the blue and white cars.
I work in a district that is full of CPD residents; I live there myself. I always find the time during my tour to patrol past my neighborhood at least 3 or four times during my tour, and it's not my beat. Anyone who works and lives in 008 who isn't taking care of the homefront should follow the lead of those who have turned in their stuff in the past week or so, and move on.
2/28/2008 08:02:00 PM
Spoken like a true TOOL. Do me a favor and please...please stay where you are ok and do not pollute the rest of this department with your fucking nonsense. You don't work in 008, you dont live in 008 so dont go assuming that it is like where you work ok. Blue and whites fault huh! Maybe 5years ago, but not now you asshole! Sounds like you are just a troll trying to stir some shit up!! And to top it off you are gonna defend probaly one of the most clouted, heavier then whale shit bosses on this job!!!!! Pluuuuuuuuuuhlease! Here's a question for you then..WHERE DO YOU WORK?
I'm sick,,,, can we clean up our stations... water that runs for at least a minute instead of all the water saver bullshit. Ventillation in the processing areas would be nice and how about huge containers of sanitizers everywhere. A drinking fountain for police in the area where they work. 2nd time I'm sick since Dec. Does anybody realize how many disease and germs we are exposed to ?????? Might actually save on medical time. Just enter any station and look how many sick/zombie P.Os are doing there job. IM SICK OF BEING SICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you ! thank you !
Im tired of this bull crap. We are exposed to all types of bacteria, viruses, blood born pathogens in these funky districts, cars, and locker rooms. everything is disgusting. No wonder we all get sick. Its gross. It really is. We need a lysol,airborne,prescription allowance as well. maybe 100 dollars a month? think about it. These sick ass people pick their noses and everything else then they touch every door knob and steering wheel and expect us not to get sick. Who are you trying to kid! Try bringing a telescope and look onto the face of a pdt. Disgusting! Half of these Po's Eat in the car. I love when I find spitters left in the car. Nothing like starting you day off with a open bottle of spit tobacco! yummy. Or how about sunflower seads all over the car. Thats classic.
That would be a riot. Do it. You will be a legend.
Just so we're clear. ALL Capts. have juice. They must. There is no test for Capt. It is an appointment given thus. Per District three captains. Mayor-1, Alderman-1, Commander-1. The re-establishing of the position of useless political captain achieved exactly 100% what mayor daley hoped. He divided and conquered the police. Before that you never would have heard police calling eachother jagoffs, calling IAD on each other, snithing because a guy drops his kid off at school in a squad, etc. So just don't say capt. so and so is a political hack. It's in the job description baby. They're ALL political hacks. They ALL helped ruin the dept. as we knew it.
022 1st watch- Was it those two female officers that I've mentioned before? I always see them driving around on midnights. Working, not drinking coffee and reading at White Hen.
On a different note; any Fenwick H/S alumni reading? I have a child that will be attending highschool this fall. I wa considering Fenwick and checked their website. Seeing mary mitchell as a guest speaker definitely left a bad impression with me. What is Fenwick doing alowing that race baiter speak to impresionable children? Is David Duke also going to speak. Needless to say, I believe I'll be sending Jr. elsewhere.
Maverick
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Expensive but Excellent
THIS JUST IN: RUMOR HAS IT THAT A UFO WAS SITED OVER THE 7TH DISTRICT PARKING LOT EARLY FRIDAY MORNING; THE UFO LANDED IN THE 7TH DISTRICT PARKING LOT, AT WHICH TIME AN ALIEN MADE EXIT OUT OF THE UFO. THIER HE MADE CONTACT WITH TRU OFFICERS, WHO PLACED THIS INTERGALACTIC TRAVELLER IN CUSTODY FOR FALIURE TO PRODUCE AND UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF REGESTRATION. THE FEDS WERE CALLED IN TO INVESTIGATE WHY TRU OFFICERS WERE IN 007, SINCE THE DOC WAS NOT THIER AT THE TIME. WORD ON THE STREET WAS THE TRU OFFICERS WERE THIER LOOKING TO ARREST ANGIE FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION, SINCE THEY COULD'NT FIND ANYTHING IN 011, 015 OR 025. SO JUST REMEMBER, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S WATCHING YOU.
P.S. IF YOU THINK THAT'S SILLY, JUST REMEMBER THAT'S HOW HALF OF YOU PEOPLE SOUND ON THIS BLOG.......STAY SAFE, BACK YOUR FELLOW OFFICERS UP AND SAY NO TO CHINESE RESTAURANTS ON NORTH AVENUE.
At that time, 80s thru the early-mid 90s that I knew them. Those guys in Gangs West, South, North. were, bar none, the best. All of them. Cronin WAS a great cop. Those people would teach you anything and everything. How to write a warrant. Check an address, a phone number, etc. mid 80s thru mid 90's there were some pretty wild gang shootings citywide. In the jets, one bldgs shooting at another on the south end and same thing on the north end. Districts counted on the Gang units for help. They really knew all the players and if they didn't, they weren't too arrogant to ask for info. Cronin was greater cause he did it all on one fake foot. It was harder for him.
CAPTAINS AND Commanders that are totally ....Patronage? Hold on there cowboy. They PAID a pretty penny for those spots!
"Four-wheeled cash register" I am still laughing my ass off as I am typing
When this all shakes out,it will be a southside irish clique running things in the CPD.
Here we go. ALL CAPS GUY is off his meds. Whoever the hell Dave Dial is, he probably doesn't even know you. Jack Harris CPD Lt. 004, wouldn't move back to Chgo for all the tea in China. So don't solicit job offers for people that don't want them psycho! Get back in your unit before the nurse notices the empty bed.
THE TWO OFFICERS IN O22....I just read something that said you girls should be proud. I KNEW it was those two females in 022 that I always see rolling all night long in 022. I've mentioned them several times on this blog because they are the only car I have ever, in the history of time, seen rolling all night long in 022 on a consistant basis and not in the White Hen. They work. The watch CPD and CFD homes and kids. Great job!! Right on!
"Tom Byrne is a thinking level-headed policeman" Yes he is. And he's also heavier than a pile of 10 stolen sewer covers and that don't hurt.
J-fed or Fed-head? either way, everyone knows every good chief wears a headress.
The Commander running around making arrests with you??? Whats up with that? Get your ass behind that desk. He's getting big money to sit there and cover our asses. He's OUR Commander, not our partner. How can I take a 45min. lunch,leave the dist,see the master blaster, swear like a MF'er. Be afraid.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
MT was given a vote of confidence by Jody last week at the W/C meetings. Jody told all that he and MT are working together to revamp the FTO program from top to bottom. If MT was on his way out, why would Jody mention him by name and set himself up for possible embarassment. Jody knows (FBI sources) that MT is not going to be part of the SOS scandal.
2/28/2008 09:58:00 AM
MT will stay at academy. He did a great job in the last two years. Excellent training, morale is high and he developed ethical standards with recruits. I do not know why the attention on MT? SOS was not his fault and his record is very good. Move on already! FBI not concerned, why should we? Worry more about out of control inspectors writing every violation. What is up with inspector unit?
"P(H)ony tail john? What a cry baby. Cried all the time after he got dumped to 002.
How much did you steal from the traps john?
2/28/2008 09:46:00 PM"
Or while 013 when he was supposedly "Shot" in the Projects. Then again that might get him promoted to Lt., it worked for Dewitte.
anonymous said...
Serious - How can I get out of the FOP? Will I still be bound by whatever decisions they make for all cops or do I lose benefits such as those I don't need like their attorney's which I haven't been impressed with anyway. I'd like to know. I could use that money I pay each paycheck to that union.
2/28/2008 08:09:00 PM
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Go to your unit secretary and ask for a PAR form and an exit interview, fill them out indicating "resignation", sign them and submit them and you will never again have to pay one cent to the FOP.
anonymous said...
2/28/2008 02:08:00 PM
Fenwick?
Are you serious?
Do you and your kid a favor,
Send your kid to St. Pat's!
2/28/2008 07:20:00 PM
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Yup, send your kid somewhere else. It is already too tough for people to get their kids into Fenwick, lessen the load a bit. Consider Taft for the little genius.
Sgt Angelo Hitiris hardly ever leaves the office.................watches t.v. all night..........LAZY! but he is a nice guy but please he is no jesus christ
No, super cop, merit sergeant John Hamilton holds that distiction. What a fraud.
2/28/2008 07:16:00 PM
wow, a post about the skullet, have heard this name in a while.
I work in a district that is full of CPD residents; I live there myself. I always find the time during my tour to patrol past my neighborhood at least 3 or four times during my tour, and it's not my beat. Anyone who works and lives in 008 who isn't taking care of the homefront should follow the lead of those who have turned in their stuff in the past week or so, and move on.
2/28/2008 08:02:00 PM
officer next door program, must be nice raised, work, live in 007
That "Lincolnwood D/C" should think about all his years in Neighbors and the theft he got away with before pimping on some midnite slug trying to get home to open presents with the kids! Also tell his sidekick to check his books cause the IRS is watching..
I can tell already. Its everyone elses fault. You don't go to FOP meetings, but want better pay and benefits given to you.
Thats right... I want the benefits and pay just like the mayor and alderman get.
real K-9 said...
Anonymous said...
hello, just wondering if commander carroll gets launched will i still be allowed to stay at home with my airport radio until a job comes out? also can i still continue to pick up my son from school in my k9 truck? i hope the new commander also enjoys my homemade tacos so i can start sucking up to him. RUDY
2/28/2008 07:55:00 PM
Rudy is more of a whining dog than his dog. When carroll goes; so do you jar head!
2/28/2008 09:44:00 PM
Hey sarge can i buy you lunch like I do everyday! sgt eBay can I stay home and keep my radio on? Huh can i can I?
Anonymous said...
Its nice to bring in fresh ideas but I think we need the "old timers" with wisdom and balls. The new bosses tend to come with them clipped...
just a thought...
2/28/2008 08:50:00 PM
I second that!
Face it, you are a lazy sack of shit whining complainer who bitches about everything and never helps fix it.
If they paid you in prime pussy and gold doubloons you'd still have some excuse to be a lazy dog.
My district has plenty just like you, bitch bitch bitch, and never a positive thought.
28/2008 08:03:00 PM
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Believe me, I know what you mean. I've only been in this District for a couple of periods, but, I am already sick and tired of this particular ass---- who always bitch about almost everything and never shut his mouth while we wait for rollcalls. I worked at other Districts before, but never, ever saw a whining cocky lazy piece of shit MoFo like this one before.
ACADEMY STAFF STOP WRITING ABOUT TOBIAS THAT HE IS A GOOD GUY. IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS YOU WILL BE BACK ON THE STREET WHERE YOU CAN'T WORK 3-4 HRS SHIFTS. STOP LEAVING EARLY YOUR BEING WATCHED!
7:33AM
Ahh leave him alone. Im glad at this point he's mostly watching TV.
He paid his dues a long time ago.
Let him enjoy his rock star status.
2/29
3:09am
Bullshit I was in 015 through the time you talk about and ask any copper who ever worked there Cronin nor any of your fucking heroes ever worked there or came into the 015. Must not have been any gang bangers in the district back then. You guys are full of shit it gets real old hearing about all the heroes from these bullshit units that never spent a day in the trenches in the ghetto rotating watches and pushing a beat car. Fuck Cronin tired of hearing about the guy he never set foot in 015. Next I want to hear one of you hero worshipers tell me what a great hard working cop Patton was. Another guy on this job never wore a blue shirt but you idiots praise these guys and you wonder why the new guys come on this job and think working a beat car is no good. They hear you hero worshipers talking about all these "real" police who were always taken care of and never spent any time in a district in a beat car.
I appreciate the segway dancing clip
SoS was MT fault he was there with them as a Sgt. as A Lt. and as the commander. MT handled the CRs and had knowledge then when it gets to the media MT is moved and promoted it is a joke and goes to show responsibility means shit if your one of the chosen ones. MT was a supervisor in sos during most of the scandal and the Commander for the last 18 months or so of the corruption but he gets a free pass because of his cnnections.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
NOW IF WE CAN ALL SEE THE LIGHT AND START WITH DUMPING THAT PAIN IN THE ASS FEMALE LT IN 024.HOW ABOUT DC DON'T YOU THINK ITS TIME TOO LEAVE LET SOME NEW BLOOD IN GO ENJOY THAT PENSION IN LINCOLNWOOD!!THAT SGT. KOKO 2430 SHOULD LEAVE ALSO CAN'T HE SEE THAT WE ARE TIRED OF HIS BABY ANTICS INSULTING PO AND PPO'S YOUR OLD AND ITS TIME TOO GO NOW YOUR GOING TO SCREAM AT US ALL CAUSE WE SPEAK THE TRUTH ARE WE IN GRADE SCHOOL WE R ADULTS
2/28/2008 07:29:00 AM
Is that Lt. Allison Schloss you are referring to? If so, she is not bad. Just don't get in her way and don't ruffle any feathers. Different people have different leadership style and once you get to know how she operates, she isn't that bad.
sounds to me like somebody is jealous...
Narc guy said...
Hey if Ralph C. leaves what happens to his know nothing do nothing daughter that did whole 3 year career at easy school car on days in 011. She is in Narcotics now bragging how she is the police????? Shut up and admit you are and never were the police. I heard she is bragging she will be LT within next 7 years! Hush.
2/28/2008 11:46:00 AM
The two officers in 22 who cleared up 5 different case reports-4 for burglary 1 for CDDP may have cleared even more---there was a detective memo out about a crime pattern in 22 in the beverly area -- 11 cases--the detectives are looking into clearing some of those cases also from a simple routine patrol stop at 0630 in the morning----great job officers--you girls should be proud!We are!! The neighborhood of Beverly should be also!
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It was more like 230 in the am. Those two Officers 1-po, 1-ppo did a great job stopping and holding that guy. There's been about 20 garage burgs in the north beverly area, and watch them stop now. Dude did 6 yrs for the same thing-same area. just good street level police work. Hold your heads up Officers, the people in the neighborhood thank you. GREAT JOB.
Hey everyone, we have to stick together. The next few months, make that years, are going to be "TOUGH". King Jody is going to make a name for himself by "disciplining" rather make that incarcerating police officers. Back eachother up, be sure of yourelf and who you are working with. Don't trust your Sgts. This is the greatest department in the country. Just like O.W.Wilson int he 1960's. Jody will ride off and never to be seen in our city. But our kids will still live here, and some will become Chicao Police Officers. We will retire here and complain about the taxes that we are paying. But it is OUR Department, OUR City, not Jody's. Keep the good work up, stay positive, and don't do anything stupid in the near future, and this to will pass.
Pluuuuuuuuuuhlease! Here's a question for you then..WHERE DO YOU WORK?
2/29/2008 01:48:00 AM
I work in 017. Love it there. There is crime, gangs, etc., but we also have quiet, peaceful neighborhoods where coppers live too. I'm one of them. And I make sure between my calls, personals, transports, assists, etc. that I police my own neighborhood. A number of us here do that every day during our tours. And you know what? We don't have cars full of shitheads sitting on our blocks, getting high all night. No burglaries on my block in the past 4 years. I'd like to think I've contributed to that, even though my beat is on the other side of 017. If you guys aren't looking out for your own in "your part" of 008, shame on you. And whether or not Leo is heavy, he's a good boss. A huge improvement over that incompetent lardass you lost to O'Hare, so deal with it. That's the trouble with this job; a lot of you wouldn't know a good boss if you fell over him, too many of us in "bitch&whine" mode.
SoS was MT fault he was there with them as a Sgt.
Point of FACT, which is something you don't see to often on here, but MT was never a SGT in SOS. He went to 001 when he was promoted, and then to the Academy on the Range. From one who knows.
whoever said kupczyk has't sufferred from his wrath. if this guy doesn't like you for some reason, n
he will find it in his power to make your life miserable. you'll find that you can do nothing right. this fat piece of ass is vindicative, lying, word[twisting, kniving man who will stop at nothing. he wants to win and the only way he can is make one feel bad. if he was really good he would just be good. one hopes that he'll find the error of his ways. but this fat ass will stay til he is tossed out cause he has a scam why go to work if they pay you
$100,000 a year and you lack intergerity, ethics, and a sense of right!sir yo are no dalhberg!!!!
st pat's = policeman
fenwick = doctor or lawyer
let's see rough choice
Anonymous said... STOP LEAVING EARLY YOUR BEING WATCHED!
2/29/2008 10:52:00 AM
Jealous? Who cares. Find a life and quit watching others. MT is staying and will lead academy to the future. Staff works very hard. Many projects to finish. Get a life.
Anonymous said...
HEY JFED, YOU WANT TO MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO THE CPD. THEN HIRE dd (POLICE CHIEF) OF NAPERVILLE P.D.
2/28/2008 10:03:00 AM
Yeah, right. That's the corruption fighter that hit people with days off for accepting discount ribs at the Naperville Festival, right?
2/28/2008 07:58:00 PM
What the fuck is it with this Naperville shit? Do you know that the police chief had an officer suspended for thirty and sent for a psych eval for saying "what the fuck are you doing" to some man who was interfering with the fire department? He's a fucking jagoff. Stop already with the campaigning for this asshole.
If you guys aren't looking out for your own in "your part" of 008, shame on you. And whether or not Leo is heavy, he's a good boss.
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In no way shape or form is the 17th district like the 008th district. I'm glad to hear that you are keeping your homefront safe. Not too many people get the chance to work in the district where they live and with the bonus of being on or near the beat they live. With that being said........you had made comments about blaming us Blue and whites for not keeping our side safe which I told you was wrong of you to do because once again....you cannot compare 17 with 008 other than the fact that police live there. You worry about 17 and I'll worry about 008. Take care and be safe.
whoever said kupczyk has.....@2/29/2008 05:23:00 PM
Hey Liz S,get over it, only the bigest loosers were ever ridden by the 1st watch W/C in 011..best boss I ever had.
"You cannot compare 17 with 008 other than the fact that police live there. You worry about 17 and I'll worry about 008. Take care and be safe."
True, you can't really compare 017 to 008. Those of us who live and work out this way will never allow our neighborhoods to fall like our SW side brothers in blue. And no, I won't worry about 008 at all. I just don't like to read here how the cops who work and live there blame their commander for problems in their neighborhood that they could resolve in large part by themselves, if they had the gumption to do so. Stay safe out there in 008 too. And do whatever you can to protect your own homefront.
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