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The Fraternal Order of Police is fuming about the city’s decision to grant a permit that paved the way for a Memorial Day weekend march honoring the birthday of David “King David” Barksdale, founder of the Black Disciples street gang.
The parade along Ashland Avenue was held on Saturday, apparently without incident. Chicago Police officers assigned to the event were forewarned to expect trouble because the Black Disciples have “strong ties” to the Black Gangster Disciples.
“It’s an anti-violence group very similar to groups like Cease Fire. They use their life experiences to deter youth from going down the wrong path. We also have information from police on the scene that group participants were holding signs that said, `Put down the drugs. Put down the guns,’ “ she said.
Bond insisted that there was “nothing in the permit that indicated criminal activity or a threat.” Why, then was an advisory issued to police officers three days before the event?
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posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
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Mr. Mayor, Supt. Weis, and local media ,
The take home car by the majority of POLICE employees is a criminal act that should stop immediately based on the current financial crisis experienced by our city.
There are very FEW positions that CPD employees are currently assigned to that require that they need a city vehicle paid for by the taxpayers of Chicago at their personal disposal. If a member is not needed for a specific technical skill that needs an immediate response (SWAT, District Commander), the taxpayers are truly suffering by paying for take home cars that are not required.
For administrative officers and supervisors to have a take home vehicle is a gross misappropriation of funds we cannot afford anymore. A take home vehicle, which saves a POLICE employee approximately $8,000 a year (Vehicle Loan, gas, insurance), is nothing more than a favor based on nepotism or political friendships. How can a Deputy justify a free take home car to their friends/family/political liabilities that are assigned to administrative positions when the employee has NO justifiable need to respond immediately to situations directly from their residences, after they are off duty, to a scene because on-duty CPD employees cant handle the situation.
A $100 political contribution, a x-mas present or a purchase of a promotion party ticket is all that is needed to save $8,000 from the benefits of a free city take home car.
Units such as Vice, NAGIS, Asset Forfeiture, many Headquarters positions, Traffic Section, etc. have many employees with free take cars that are truly not needed but cost the taxpayers very much in the long run. Even if a CPD employee has to change their regular duty hour every so often, that is still no justification for the free city vehicle the connected employees benefit from, also with weekends off, when the average beat copper drives to the district station everyday on their own dime, especially on midnights.
Sit outside of any school and watch the “M” plates drop off their kids daily on the city dime and against department rules.
Or worse yet, all the undercover cars dropping their kids off and shopping, even on their off days because "they are on call", which the public never knows about because of the regular passenger ILLINOIS plates.
Mr. Mayor and Supt. Weis, if the patrolman are getting GPS’ in all the marked cars, when are you going to wake up and regulate the abuse of the unmarked city take home cars that the taxpayers are paying for in our horrible economy.
Or Mr Mayor, are you afraid the political contributions will stop because no favors are owed to you???
even Todd Stroger has better PR people
12:39 AM
Bravo! It's just another perk for useless clout babies.
monique is seriously the worst..seriously
I can't say that I disagree with her. Cease Fire and these gang rats have always been associated.
Big gang money now flows into the democRAT party.
"...The take home car by the majority of POLICE employees is a criminal act..."
Medication not working properly.
Try Prozac.
I saw those signs Monique was babbling about. They actually said--"Five-Oh--put down the guns, put down the drugs, and RUN."
Monique the mouth has no clue. I almost feel sorry for her. Please find a job for her that avoids public contact. Someone needs to monitor her statements. Even Stroger hired competent personnel to handle the press. We are the laughing stock among other city agencies.
To: 12:39
I don't have a take home car, however, why do you come on here and bitch. When you were a kid I bet you cried to your mommy and daddy that "Jimmie, got a new red bike, why can't I get a new bike, it's not fair".
News flash "life's not fair". Some units get take home cars, "its a perk". Chief's and commander's need take home cars because when the "real police" get into shootings, the boss may be on call and have to respond to the other side of the city.
I can assume by your bitching that your probably a democrat. I'm sure you feel that everyone should get equal pay (doctors, nurses, police officers etc).
I feel that people like you don't belong being the police, but you are. Back in that day we called people like you "rat bitches". Police officers like you are what' s wrong with our police department and part of the reason why morale is at an all time low. Try and get hired by the corporate world and see how life is not fair.
Re: Take home Cars
Well Asset Forfeiture lost their cars except a certain female sgt who is in charge of case management, the same sgt who got kicked out of nagis for never being on the street with her people, same sgt who stayed on medical to study for lt exam what a true leader?
F U cops its about voting in the one party system that we have here.You guys think your doing police work.You will never stick together
SWAT doesnt need cars.They should have people on duty on all shifts
PLEASE GET RID OF BOND!!!!!!!!!!!!
She totally ruined what Mark said in the article. DUMB BROAD
Back in that day we called people like you "rat bitches". Police officers like you are what' s wrong with our police department and part of the reason why morale is at an all time low.
Well said.
After reading the first posting about a gang obtaining a permit to have a parade to honor their POS former leader, I was hoping that it was not true. Now I read that Monique Bond, our official spokesperson of the department is saying that the group is cease-fire like. That is like comparing John Wayne Gacy to Mr. Fricken Rogers. This is what is wrong with this place, people are in positions they have no clue about. I still can’t believe the thing about the contact cards (It’s like a warning!?!?). How do these people look at themselves in the mirror in the morning? Do they have any self respect? Any?
The FOP should file a permit to have a parade for the families of police officers from across the state of IL to honor hard working people that keep this state from total anarchy and we should be able to walk down Randolph Street to Grant Park like a bunch of illegal, yes illegal residents of this city. Something tells me that we wouldn’t get a permit like the gangbangers, or illegal people that shouldn’t even be here were able to.
I am done.
Let the bodies hit the floor—Drowning Pool.
I feel that people like you don't belong being the police, but you are. Back in that day we called people like you "rat bitches". Police officers like you are what' s wrong with our police department and part of the reason why morale is at an all time low. Try and get hired by the corporate world and see how life is not fair.
5/28/2008 06:28:00 AM
And you must be in a specialized unit with a car? I am tired of clouted persons receiving perks while working inside. At least give cars to those working the street. Why should a sgt or PO performing secretarial duties receive a car? Because they are someone's kid or girlfriend? Call me a ratbitch but this has to stop. In the corporate world they would never tolerate such abuse. Never compare CPD with a real job. 10% medical abuse? Non-producing workers protected? Never tolerated outside of government work. I worked in the corporate world and they demand 8 hours of work. Not happening at CPD. Ask any LT.
Ms Bonds, I hope you don't know what you are doing.
RE: Take home cars
I work in the Narcotics Section (Nagis is history). The house people in Narcotics lost their cars. Asset Forfeiture lost their cars. Gang Intel is next to be minus take home cars. The ball is already rolling down hill on cars.
Narcotics has a board they have to mark their milleage on every time they come or go from the office. We are only allowed to driver are cars to and from work (we can't even drive them on our off days to and from court). I drive my vehicle when allowed, nothing more. I don't have clout and they are waiting to make an example of somebody and take a car away for violating the rules.
Another poster already said it. The complainer of this policy truly is a crybaby. Do you have any knowledge of the Narcotics game? Shithead does countersurveilance all the time. One officer was burnt up not long ago after the shithead followed the officer back to the unit. Shithead would have gotten the officers home vehicle had we have to switch are cars everyday. Safety measures are part of the reason we get to take home our vehicles.
Another falsehood. We don't need insurance??? Thats amazing!!!! I still have two cars that I pay insurance on. I had two cars before I was in Narcotics and I'll two cars after I leave someday.
Do some officers abuse this policy??? I would bet a years pay on it. That is the vast minority. The majority of people in Narcotics don't want to be dumped or lose their cars. They are following the rules.
By the way Narcotics brings in more money than we spend. We seize thousands of dollars every week. We drive some really shitty cars. What do you do crybaby????
Chicago is the next Detroit
Gang bangers need P.R. too. They came up with the catchy slogan, DON'T SNITCH! They came up with the palm slap to the forehead before V8.
Ok dickhead, we get it. You don't have a company car so you want to make sure no one does.
You must have had your ass kicked and lunch money taken everyday as a kid.
Now get over it, or start signing your name so the the guilty can see question their accuser.
Got to go now.
I have to wash my take home car.
Why dont you QUIT. If you do not like the job then leave. Nobody wants you, cry baby.
Whoever referred to the poster as a rat bitch probably has a take home car and contributes politically to keep it. A 'perk', are you kidding....a $8,000 perk while you are working for the taxpayers on their dime, remember you are a pubic sector employee.
Instead of name calling, why don't you be man enough to justify the hundreds of unnecessary take home cars by useless CPD members because of 'who they know' costing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Justify what they did to actually get in their clout position to have that free car.
Otherwise FU and go drop your kid off in the city car and then go home and cut your grass while your officially on duty while you wait for that free tip from the 'G' where some dope actually is, tough guy!
well put. now go to the open meetings and tell weis.
5/28/2008 12:39:00 AM
Get a life. I don't have a car, but one day may. Quit being a whiner and get some time on the job, and then you might be able to bid to afternoons.
Almost forgot the take home cars why does burke and the city treasurers drivers have take home cars? Why does the tresurer even have a huge detail? Why does the new city clerk refuse a detail and drives himself? Maybe he is smart! Why if burke and the treasuer (who is it anyway) have cars park them at 35th everyday and the detail could get the cars in the morning and drive them around as they valet their cleaning!
Gee,ya think CPD has a gang infiltration problem??
Hey why don't you follow these people and take pictures or video then you can turn them into IAD. That is what you really want to do don't you? because thats what you just did asshole. If that is how you feel turn them in mabe they will give you one of their cars for a reward. Stand tall be proud take the credit let them know who you are you are a crusader for justice and you should be rewarded.
I DON'T CARE IF THIS PARADE WAS ABOUT CEASE FIRE OR WHATEVER!!!!
MEMORIAL DAY IS SHOULD ONLY CELEBRATE THE MEMORIES OF OUR FALLEN WAR HEROES!!!
MONIQUE, THIS MEANS NO GANG BANGER PARADES...THEY ARE THE OPPOSITE OF WAR HEROES SERVING IN OUR UNITED STATES MILITARY...THEY ARE SCUM.
IF THEY MUST PARADE FOR CEASE FIRE THEN IT SHOULD BE SOME DAY OTHER THEN MEMORIAL DAY. YOU SHAME THE NAME OF ALL MILITARY PERSONAL. YOU SHAME THE NAME OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONAL...SHAME ON YOU!!!! WHERE IS YOUR BRAIN???
WAKE UP WOMAN...CEASE FIRE PARADE ON MEMORIAL DAY...SHAME ON YOU!!!
As usual Monique the seminar sewer is out of her league. Her true ignorance is only shown each time she opens her mouth.
Why do they all get take home cars when I have to drive a pool car with 120,000 miles on it. Think of the new beat cars that could be purchased with the amount of money saved by not buying take home cars. Not to mention how much faster a beat car could be repaired if it wasn't competeing with take home cars for service. I thought patrol was the backbone of the department. Wait...what was I thinking....
F-CKYOU MONIQUE YOUR A LIBERAL POLICE HATER . ANYWAY I DON'T GIVE A SH-T ABOUT THE PARADE THE ANIMALS HAD ANYWAY,. AS AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN I SPENT MY DAY ATTENDING THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IN NAPERVILLE. VERY PATRIOTIC AND BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. MAYOR PRADLE NICE JOB. AND GOOD BLESS AMERICA , STAY SAFE.
RE: Gang parade. What do you do when gangs send there own to CAPS meetings?
RE: Take home cars, so what? I don't want every joe-blow shithead driving thru my neighborhood knowing I'm the police. Leave it to those "take home" car people to take the spot light off of me. It's just like have a giant target parked outside of your home. It's just like putting those stupid FOP medallions and stickers on your cars. It attracts the assholes.
What the hell is wrong with you guys?!? The GDs are on parade, yet you bash each other instead! Screw the take home car, PAY ATTENTION to the fact that OUR CITY GAVE A PERMIT TO A GANG THAT SHOOTS AT US!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!
Here is my $100, now where do I sign up for the free car?
All p/o's, Sgt's, Lt's, Capt's want one also!
Gimme Gimme Gimme!
Monique destroyed News Affairs and this department's relationship with the media. She ousted Pat Camden and lost the only other competent person in that office, Sgt. Eugene Mullins, to Stroger's office. She is useless and has no clue how to represent this department. She has never been the police and has not one clue as to what we do on a regular basis. She is only worried about Daley and city hall and could care less what happens to us working coppers on the street. She needs to go!!!!
funny the day after the parade i saw all kinds of the peeps wearing Barksdale t shirts.
Monique Bond is a fish lipped over-paid useless media puppet. She shouldn't be allowed to do a dish detergent commercial, let alone be spokesperson for CPD. Where did she get her degree from anyway, Truman? Wright? And can someone tell her to lay off with the collagen lip injections...your mouth is big enough. Oh wait, I forgot-- you've got alot of ass-kissing to do if you want to keep that do-nothing job of yours! And to whoever said the "majority" of police have take home cars, most of the working men and women in blue do not enjoy that luxury. As for the rest of the command staff that do, I say let them use their own cars - they make enough. And don't forget to include the aldermen too - they are freakin millionares in this corrupt city, so they can more than afford their own cars and gas. And Daley, well he should be riding a bicycle - he needs to lose a few lbs.
the point on take hoke cars is that the average joe can't even be put in a position to be in unit that gives cars as perks. Again it all comes down to clout. And in the units with cars, the officers make phone calls tot their clout because they want certain vehicles that other officers have. If you can't see the layers ypon layers of clout influence in every aspect of this job, you are blind or have a clout spot and pretend that you are that great of an officer in a fair department
WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GIVING SOME USELESS P.OF SHITZAM A RIDE SOMEWHERE LIKE (AFTER A DOMESTIC) OR GIVING YOUR KID A RIDE TO OR FROM SCHOOL. THE ANSWER IS (DRUMROLL) FAMILY FIRST.
Anonymous said...
monique is seriously the worst..seriously
5/28/2008 02:30:00 AM
the sad thing is she is terrible, she knows it, but doesn't care. not an eloquent speaker at all, then she makes shit up just to make it appear that she knows what she is talking about. i.e. contact cards are like warnings. remember that OMG
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Leave us alone with your take home car complaint. Just so happens that I cant afford a private school for my kids. They wont let me work overtime. Wont let me do side work because of alternate schedules. The car is the only perk I have. Besides, you should see the look on my kids face when we are running late getting my kids to school. Lights and Siren get us there so much faster. The smile on there face, priceless!
I don't have a take home car, however, why do you come on here and bitch.
you sir are a douche bag and probably a clout baby or an fop patronage hack.
hey this job blows I cannot get promoted on time because of the merit pukes, several of whom now in the academy all had take home cars. This is an issue my vehicle has 170,000 plus miles and it appalls me to see two city vehicles with M-plates every morning on 112th Street and Artesian and also the retard assigned to the US Marshall's task force. I waited four years to make sergeant because of these clout babies, merit suck holes and I am in a district which no one bids to but I despised going there in the beginning but caught a great desk crew field lt, and captain. Fair is fair, I will always be a blue shirt at heart, these political morons have ruined this department.
I only wish the media would concetrate on these professional thieves.
So let me get this straight. Gangs can get permits to march on public streets in Chicago, but a sponsored event for motorcycle enthusiasts in Lake County gets the kibosh BECAUSE some OMG members may show up.
We live in an insane world.
Take home cars???? Who cares? We are losing respect, authority, and rights everyday and you worry about that nonsense.
We should have sanctioned cage matches in the octogon so we could beat the bloody piss out of them!
Please remember one thing above all others -
NO-BAMA
NO-BAMA
or any other useless Democrat.
The end.
12:39 SHUT THE F#@% UP! What is it that you do since you have so much time on your hands to stalk these people Are you stealing city time following these people in maybe you marked car off your beat. In times like this we need to be united. ( maybe your a supervisor trying to bring down morale even more if thats possible) keep you crying in the locker room where it belongs Bitch !!!!!!!
Stop the Insanity!!!! Put Monique back at the airports.
I drive 7 miles to work. 7 home. Thats about 3290 miles a year. figure 29 mpg thats 114 gallons of gas. Thats $453 a year Who the fuck is saving 8 thousand dollars a year dumb fuck. Take the fucking thing I give a shit.
I don't have a take home car and I could care less who does. Quit crying and keep working your nice lock up or desk job that you have. There are more pressing issues than crying about take home cars.
SCC,
Don and Roma,WLS 890AM morning talk show hosts had this as a discussion topic this morning.
Ironically,they were shocked that the City of Chicago let a mob of gangbangers parade on the sacred holiday of Memorial Day on the city's streets while relegating the Chicago Police Department to an obscure lakefront path were nobody would or could possibly observe them. This is an absolute slap in the face to coppers and veterans.
How much more can the CPD possibly take???
5/28/2008 12:39:00 AM
Sounds like a job for a reporter. Why don't they follow THEM around so the public can see that crossing guards and secretaries get brand new police vehicles for their (unjustified) convenience while police officers on the beat drive crap cars that are falling apart.
By the way, if you are "on call" and you have your kid in the car do you take your kid with you while you respond to a call?
5/28/2008 06:28:00 AM
Oh, I bet you DO have a take home car.
to 6:28 kudos to you I couldn't agree with you more, wahh wahh they took my car wahh wahh the female sgt has her car wahh wahh grow the fuck up already I've been in patrol for 25 years never had a car but if I could work a "specialized unit" I could give a shit if ANY supervisor be it female or male had a car I'd just be f$#@&% happy that I was in a unit and to 6:35 you just sound like a wahh wahh I don't have a car crybaby. Why don't you guys just STFU and grow up already now lets move on with REAL police business
The first couple of times I heard Monique comment to the press I was shocked at her lack of knowledge.
One would think, the powers to be would send her to charm school, or at least review what she has to say before, letting her say it.
No such luck.
No one cares.
Seems like the only people held accountable for their actions are the foot soldiers.
Dear Monique:
Shut the f*ck up.
Anonymous said...
Mr. Mayor, Supt. Weis, and local media
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Who is this cry-baby? Obviously, does not have a city vehicle.
Units such as Vice, NAGIS, Asset Forfeiture, many Headquarters positions, Traffic Section, etc. have many employees with free take cars that are truly not needed but cost the taxpayers very much in the long run.
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Asset forfeiture does not have take home cars, neither does traffic,...get your facts straight before you start your major jealous whine.
To the officer with a problem about take home cars, I think you should focus your attention somewhere else. You mean to tell me you wouldnt jump at the opportunity to have a take home car? I was fortunate enough to have a take home car for approximately four years and it did save me alot of money and wear and tear on my own personal vehicle. But I tell you this, I never used the vehicle for nothing other than official police business, even though I had regular plates on it. Get a life and bitch about something else such as the current contract.
""News flash "life's not fair". Some units get take home cars, "its a perk". Chief's and commander's need take home cars because when the "real police" get into shootings, the boss may be on call and have to respond to the other side of the city""
Hey dipshit, when its my tax $$$$ I do care. If you're exempt and don't have a car, perhaps we can work something out...If you do, I'll pay you mileage; hell, I'll even pay to put the blue lights on. If they call a plan red or a plan blue, are you not going to respond because you don't have a take home car????
How about the marked squad cars parked every night in 016, 017, 08,09, 01 etc... that headquarters house mouses drive to and from work while they park their personnel cars in station lots to save gas?? We in patrol could really use those marked cars!!! throw in a cage and a light bar and were ready to go!
I heard through the grape vine these cars are for lunch runs AT HEADQUARTERS, but I see 5 or 6 a night parked in my station on the north side. same on south side!!!
What the hell is a marked squad w/o a light bar or cage anyway??? USELESS!!!
Take pool cars for headquarters lunch runs, or just traDE THEM AROUND join our world of 1000,000 plus mile on a car in patrol!!!!
anonymous said...
Back in that day we called people like you "rat bitches". Police officers like you are what' s wrong with our police department and part of the reason why morale is at an all time low.
Well said.
5/28/2008 07:25:00 AM
No, the do-nothing losers who - by virtue of their clout or sexually generous natures -- are why morale is at an all-time low. And the dirty pigs in SOS and other takers are what's wrong with this department. The arrogant years of acting as if we're above the law ourselves and better than everyone else are finally over, and some of us are relieved that the scum is floating to the top, and in the open.
This Shity is a joke. Now go back re-read the thread about bt 822 turing in a blank humber! Wonder why????
The NAZI's also said put down your GUNS all for in the name of PEACE and they were a street GANG as well, until a man by the name of ADOLF HITLER who knew how to organize a bunch of retarded gang members created one of the greatest fighting machines and political take overs the world has ever known. Unfortunately over 2 million JEWS were murdered but who cares they were just numbers right, or were they individuals who all deserved the right to live peaceably without being murdered.
Where is my AR15??
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