Fitness Standards

Once again, J-Fed throws a big old wrench out there and watches everyone scurry around like it's the second coming. A few weeks ago, it was the 12 hour day proposal. The comment section went nuts and we here at SCC had a difficult time keeping up with the traffic. The entire incident was kind of enlightening in that negotiations are already underway on a different schedule and there have been ZERO proposals, studies and input from the people who'd actually be working the schedule. The variables would give a cautious person pause and as we are cautious by nature, we'd have to see a lot more info on this before implemented.

Friday, we have the "fitness" debate.

We're in favor of fitness. Fitness is good. Fitness will enable us to live longer while eating cat food since Daley and his criminal enterprise will have bankrupted the pension by the time we're eligible to collect anything. By being fit, we'll be able to piss on the graves of more than a few people who had a hand in the pension's demise.

J-Fed can throw anything he wants out in the media and it means exactly zip until it's in front of the negotiators. And as the union will probably demand massive concessions for this to become binding, we imagine it'll be a throwaway item. By the time it gets revisited, J-Fed's 3-year contract will be over and Daley will be moving on toward Olympic dreams while handing the reins of power to Jesse Jr. or some similarly corrupt enterprise.

Reading Fran Spielman's article was amusing though. On many levels:

• “If you want guys to work out, let them park the car and go work out, like I’m sure he does…Give us time during an eight-hour shift. That way, we’ll be sure to get it in,” said Greg Bella, the FOP’s third vice-president.

  “When they come on the job, everybody’s in shape. But people eat because of stress. How much stress is put on these guys because they’re working six days a week? If they’re so concerned about our health and they know stress triggers a fat problem, why do they deny us time off?”

  Specifically, Bella demanded that Weis:

  • Carve out one hour of every workday to allow officers to work out on city time.

  • Install kitchens with stoves and refrigerators at all police stations so officers can cook and eat healthy, instead of relying on fast food.

  “Let’s bring some broccoli and cauliflower and let us boil it. Let’s get healthy. Maybe J-fed [Weis, a former FBI agent] would like to stock the fridge for us so we can have healthy food,” Bella said.

Numerous municipalities (largest among them Los Angeles) grant officers time during their shift to work out.

We fight the City tooth and nail to get time and ammunition to practice and qualify with - we don't see them supplying us with fresh produce.

Bella calls Weis "J-Fed" and Spielman prints it. That is priceless.