You Better "Measure Up"
With murders up, arrests down and officers writing fewer parking tickets, Chicago cops will soon have to measure up in performance evaluations for the first time since 2002, top department officials said Monday.
The department hopes to have a new evaluation system in place by the end of the year, said Beatrice Cuello, deputy superintendent of patrol. Officers, sergeants and watch commanders will be evaluated.
The department is considering annual evaluations, said Ted O'Keefe, deputy superintendent of administrative services.
"The superintendent thinks a performance evaluation system is a key part of every organization to identify the people who are your top performers," O'Keefe said.
Officers, meanwhile, have written about 84,000 fewer tickets than last year. If that pace continues, the department will end the year with about 1.49 million tickets, down 9 percent from the 1.63 million police-issued tickets last year.
At $75 per ticket, the 84,000 ticket falloff would cost the city $6.3 million. If the fines averaged $100 a ticket, the loss would be $8.4 million.
We certainly hope the FOP, the media and the citizens are paying attention to what the Police Department is becoming. Or what it has already become. The crime rate doesn't lie.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
249 Comments:
I will give them a Bam to the left and a Bam to the right...and then Ginger will make me a SGT!!
BLOW ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must admit my enjoyment as I sit quietly in my beat car, watching rome burn. Cuello reminds me of Tariq Aziz(mouthpiece for Saddam) claiming victory as American troops shelled the outskirts of Baghdad..Don't worry, all is well.
Maybe jut maybe it has something to do with the decress in the amount of police on the streets.
The Billings Montanta newspaper????
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHICAGO_VIOLENCE?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
I for one only answer my calls. Thats it. I am tired of Mayor Daley screwing us every contract time. We go up to 4 years without a raise. We dont even get cost of living!
So until we get a decent contact ... to bad. I wont do nothing but answer my calls and there isnt a damn thing they can do about it.
If we do get a decent contract I will write 5 parkers a day and 1 mover. thats it.
Whatever
Measure up to what? Its all a scare tactic. Jfed you are pathetic.
That is a great point SCC; what does a high rating get anyone? You need clout or a phone call to get anything in this city as it is... unless that is the reward. Top performers will get a chinaman, good for use throughout the year!
Which begs to ask the question: will low performers get disciplined and what does the union say about this?
Are they setting up quotas??? What's going to be acceptable?
I'm disgusted. We haven't had a fucking contract in 14 months, no sign of a pay increase, and they're worried about fucking parking tickets. What do we get for writing more tickets? NOTHING! So WHY bother? They sure as fuck aren't going to reward us for doing more work, but could they really do anything to punish us for not writing tickets? Give me a decent contract with at LEAST a 3% increase and I'll be more than happy to write as many parkers as you want. But until then, no work J-Fed. The city should be more interested in compensating us for putting our asses on the line for the animal day in and day out and for being the public "ass wipers" rather than look for ways to grade us on being revenue generators. If they're worried about revenue, hire more meter maids. Put them on residential streets in the ghetto where there's an over abundance of "shit rockets" parked illegally waiting to pick up Shiquita, or parked in the bus stop outside of Harold's because they "just pult up so they girl can get their wings." I'll be answering the jobs in my stacking. Thanks.
I highly doubt the citizens of Chicago are upset in the lower parking ticket revenue. It is more than plausible that the 3,500 missing officers might have something to do with lower ticket and arrest numbers though, good point SCC.
Measure Up Or:
Get Suspended,Stripped,put on B/A,P/C,Sued,Indicted,Fired,Publicly Humiliated by the Media,Psyched?
Oh, I forgot that is what happens when you measure up now.
I will take my chances and have a shot at retirement.
I'm sure this performance idea came out of J-fed's "think tank group" I have heard from a reliable source that J-Fed uses many of their ideas and once was heard saying, "they do a great job for me and they come up was some really good policy ideas." Wonderfull! He has two P.O.'s and one SGT. all with less than 8 years on the job and they have influence on what happens. These goofs haven't done a lick of police work but can come up with "policy" Wish we knew the names of the policy group, or "J-Feds three" so we could watch for them on the merit list.
Gang loitering, mob action and d/c are now legitimate? I would love to see Frank Main track down the Honorable Judge Kowalski and have him input on a followup article.
At least the affluent suburbs are doing the smart and correct thing.
Evanston repeals handgun ban in wake of high court ruling
So far Morton Grove,Wilmette and Evanston have realized that violating the 2nd Amendment is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This is an obvious attempt to "hit back" at the increasingly large block of officers who are doing "only" what is required, i.e., responding to radio assignments and following direct orders. They know what will hurt you guys...time off, sidejobs, promotions, etc. This performance system will now give them all the justification they need to deny you these benefits. It smacks of desperation on their part.
Measure up to what? Our 'leaders' have set no example.
Other than a tsk-tsk from some white shirt not much than can do.
Would someone PLEASE send J-Fed a copy of our contract. He really clueless...
I was working in the station one day when a fellow P.O. got her evaluation(back when we use to get them.) She was so huff and puff mad that she went into the W.C.'s office bitching asking why it was 1 point lower than the last one! The W.C. called in the Sgt that evaluated her and listened to his side of the story. (I was waiting for the W.C. to approve an arrest by his door so I heard everything,,,in case your wondering.)
After several minutes of this P.O. interupting the Sgt. with her hooping and hollering yelling things like "oh no you didnt!" "you only doing it cuz i black!" (even though the evaluation of other black and white officers were higher than hers) the W.C. had had enough and ordered her out of the office keeping the Sgt.
The following conversation really rocked my world, being new to the job I belived that this job was all about fairness and that if you worked hard you could advance. I could not believe what I was hearing! After the P.O. left, the W.C. RECOMMENDED that the Sgt give her the score she wanted! Stated that because she was bringing up racial issues and that it wasn't worth getting into it with her. That because she "KNEW" (her son was a shithead gangbanger) people in the black community (REVS) it wouldn't be worth the trouble for the Sgt or him. The Sgt again argued his point but after a failed attempt, the W.C. ordered him to change it! The W.C. was a well liked and respected boss so the Sgt complied with no further duscussion.
Up until this point in my young career I had never seen this kind of behavior. Needless to say, it would never be my last. That is the kind of Department we work in. Racialy devided and clout heavy. Unfortunatly, it's probably the way it will always be. A real shame.
Scores don't mean a thing. anyone can get a good score.
The Motto of the CPD
It is not what you know
It is who you blow or who you know
It is not what you have done but what have you done for me
Can't you all see, I'm a merit wannabe
And what good happens if we work hard and give them their numbers? Nothing! Not even a slap on the back. But working hard and playing their numbers game can bring huge problems upon the P.O.! But not you boss, right? Now that there are red light cameras everywhere there should be a large number of tickets coming in, so why do they need us? Everytime they open their big lying mouths they take morale down even lower! They need to go to leadership school or something because they have no idea how to motivate us to work for them. Trusting them has to happen first though and a contract would be nice too!
Looks Like Our FOP Denies The Critical Manpower Shortage
Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the issue is "part of the consternation between some of our politicians."
"If the idea was there is a need for more police, they'd hire more Chicago police officers," Donahue said.
SCC:"Ah, the truth of the matter - we aren't the police anymore. We are money generators. We exist to feed the Machine. Law and order be damned as long as Daley gets his money."
Thank you thank you thank you SCC!!This job isnt what its supposed to be.Officers are nothing more than traffic pimps and agents of the nanny state.
Jam your "performance ratings" up your asses, Cuello and O'Keefe.
Historically, with no written standards and criteria in place, all subjective "evaluations" on the job are rigged. They reflect nothing more than clout.
The troops doing the heavy lifting in the districts are told that an 85 is an outstanding rating. Compare this with the worthless house mice, specialized units and other clout baby spots where with a maximum score of 100, they average in the high 90's.
Off Topic:
Black SUV spotted in 006th District containing several M/2's with professional video cameras filming officers on stops! Possibly related to the Anarchists that caused all that trouble in 007 not too long ago! Man why couldn't they be the victims that were shot up with an AK-47 in 006 last night. It was relayed over the zone about this SUV, wonder if these idiots have police scanners???
This is better than any movie!!! Keep up the good work, folks. They're finally starting to take notice - and the fact that the media is too, is just the icing on the cake. Intestinal fortitude must continue! Full steam ahead!! P.S. - Fuck You, Jody.
Now that we can't really be aggressive and do real police work we're going to be evaluated. Are we going to be rewarded for good numbers or are we going to be looked at closer by the brass? Because if our numbers are better than the average P.O. then we must be doing something illegal, right?
Where was this when guys were really doing good work and not just justifying their existence with event numbers? God, I feel bad for young guys who really wanted to be the police, they just came on at the wrong time.
Great, all the house mice that kiss butt get great ratings, and us work horses get dumped on because we don't like getting sued and don't make as many arrests.
This city is way to corrupt for a system like this to work. Now lets hire one of its politicians into the White House.
What happened to the fornication, defication and urination Bud Billiken Parade reports? What really happened there?
"Measure Up"? "Measure Up"? To what? What fucking standard do you want us to "Measure Up" to? Yours Mr. Superintendent? So I can do only half my job, and get paid twice as much? Sell out other Officers? Not pay attention to the real issues that plague this Department? Accept the job for “blood-money” to buy Mayor Daley more time out of prison?
“Master Daley wants more money, fuck manpower, cause all that extra cash will go right back to Master Daley! Oh, that reminds me, I got to call a buddy of mine from the FBI, see if he wants a job for 150K a year!”
“Fuck that Officer that ‘pimp-slapped’ that guy, I’m gonna jam it right in his ass, but that bitch that commits armed robbery at the Starbucks, since she’s connected, well, we’ll just suspend her!”
“Hey Monique, bring those ‘fish-lips’ over here, and give me the name of who you want to be a LT!”
“Medical? Oh, those officers are probably all legit! Let me see, stress related shits? I can see that! Off for God knows how long cause ‘cause of your bunions? Yep, that’s OK, just sit your ass at home for another month! While you’re at home, you can do push-ups, that will keep you in better shape, so you don’t go on the medical any more!”
“OOOOOHHHHH, look, a neat M-4 in a Tahoe, I like that, that’s nice, I’ll bet if I give them this, that all of them will love me!”
“I don’t drink, so fuck any one else that does! And tell them I better see a receipt that proves they paid full price for every thing! OOOOHHHH, lookie here, its like Christmas around here with all the benefits I’m getting being a boss!”
“Just one of those officers fucks up, I want them DICIPLINED ASAP! OOOOOHHHH, lookie again, my license plates for my motorcycle just came in, hope those aren’t expired for Insurance! By the way, what’s that little orange tag on the bikes for?”
Yep, guess I better start to "Measure Up" real quick! But since I cant "Measure Up" that high, I guess I’ll set my sights on “clue-less” Cuello or “stalker” Shields! Or the hundreds of other hacks of all ranks throughout the department that have hidden out in an office for years, never been more than an armed secretary and have no clue how, or want to do police work!
I’m not new on the Job, but I still got a way to go till I’m in the KMA club. I’m not delusional either; I know that statistically 20% of the officers do 80% of the work. Now that you fucked over/pissed off the 20%, now what? Oh, the old “The beatings will continue until morale improves!”
Oh I forgot: "Morale is not what the people are making it out to be," Cuello said. "There is an adjustment period in any organization."
Because cops are focusing on violent crime, arrests have slipped for less serious crime like disorderly conduct, trespassing and public drinking, Cuello said. Arrests for violent crimes do not seem to have fallen as much, she said.”
I’m callin’ BULLSHIT on that one! Morale is in the shitter because this Department has turned into a fucking joke lately! It was a double-edged sword you created when you wanted a better educated Department. See, since we are smarter, it's that much easier to see thrugh all the bullshit!
New idea for the "Chalkie": T-Shirts!!! "MEASURE THIS!" with a downword arrow on the front. Mr. Chalkie on the back with a 2016!
...................:)
What happened to the old 012th District poleeecee??
Why they resorting to writing police and other tax payers tickets around University Village, commons and station? please go F*cK with the dirt bags. Or have you lost all your balls?
smoke and mirrors
Some of us remember a time when we looked forward to coming to work.
It's a shame what this job has become.
i am a police officer... i come in with my one bad guy a night. i dont care, i will continue to bring in my bad guy a night instead of tickets. if i wanted to write tickets i would work for a useless suburb like palatine... i am a police officer...so i will do police work...f the money generator
Ok J-Fed...Get that ruler out big boy! Shavedlongcock says measure me up!
All smoke and mirrors. Again.
Big deal, so you get a grade?
How many princesses got 99.9 on their evaluations when they were working the desk or in the D/C's office? Many!
What is J-Fed going to do? Make us have our parents sign our report card? Summer School Training for bad grades? Give me a break, just more bullshit to hide the fact that this department is mostly being ran by asshats with no real police experience.
Since I see J-Fed getting a "F" for his grade, I say 99.9% of this department is doing better than him.
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Additionally my prayers and wishes for the police officer who was shot tonight and my condolences to the family of the woman who was killed.
Last efficiency was plagued with clout, politics and untrained white shirts punishing officers. You based activities around efficiency points, not crime. Never was objective, always subjective. With efficiency grades, might as well establish quotas for tickets and arrests. What will be the benefit of a high performance grade? Clout still runs this department.
SCC - you're old enough to remember the old "efficiency" card system. In fact, city ordinance requires it.
Municipal Code - City if Chicago 2-84-400. Efficiency rating system.
It shall be the duty of the board to maintain a system for the ascertaining and recording of individual efficiency of each member of the police department. Such system shall be as nearly automatic as possible and its application shall be uniform throughout the department.
The efficiency reports respecting the appointees in the classified service of the department shall be submitted to the civil service commission not later than two weeks following the thirty-first of December of each year.
It's still on the books, just not enforced since Cline took over. Don't get everyone all worked up over it. More wondow dressing.
I have a brilliant idea.
Performance Evaluance for Exempts!
We really need to have an evalucation system on here to show who is performing up to standards in the exempts. Not many.
Hey Jody and Aunt bea, I checked off with a big fat ZERO yesterday and plan on a big fat ZERO for activity today. Keep on screwing with us and less and less will get done and crime will keep soaring.
Our first and most important priority is officer safetey. I know their is not enough units on the street to assit me when a stop goes bad, therefore I am only able to respond to dispatched calls.
how do you measure police work? lrts start with calls for service. 99.9% of all calls for serice are answered by the beat car. 10% reduction for inside people and units. physical arrests are handeled by units , beat cars and tact. 10% reduction for inside people. traffic tickets and parkers are handeled 90% by beat officers. 10% reduction for inside people and 5% for units.
yes those of us in beat cars are now called dogs and lazy. we are tired of a department that treats us like we are children but expect us to to do most of the work. Soon they will be taking our side jobs away while the house mouses get to keep going with 99.9%ratings . In the words of a wise man; " BLOW MEEEEEEEEEEE !)
Mayor Daley recently brought in Police Supt. Jody Weis at $309,996.00 per year, an increase up from $185,000, and now wants the city workers to take unpaid furlough days because of a budget deficit? I wouldn't blame only the economy. City workers shouldn't have to pay the price for poor hiring practices and lack of common sense.
Verizon wireless and 65,000 employees come to an agreement on a new 3 year contract giving them a 10.5% pay raise over three years. Amazing, a wireless company with 65,000 employees can come to terms only 9 days after their previous contract expired. This is a huge wake up call that shows what the Mayor really thinks of us,what a fucking insult. If this doesnt make you want to do the bare minimum, then nothing will, pass the word. Hey FOP, how about getting some public support for us and a contract, lets go!!!!!!
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g0KAJT6za6rPmGKM4ztdB1KwiKzQD92G4R7O0
HMMMMMM! No contract and no man power has nothing to do with anything? Duh!
The revenue the city gets from parking tickets and a percentage of the moverws (Cook County fees so we only get a part of it) has always been in the budget as a line item under "other revenue". The ccity has always pushed for "a mover a day." Used to be part of the efficiency.
Why doesnt the city divide the money up that they are saving by not hiring the 3500 PO's and split it up with the ones that are here as our raise. That might improve moral a bit. And then they wouldn't have to find new money.
I've never heard the term "Shit Rocket" to describe a ghetto mobile. I like it and will adopt it officially to my language bank.
Thanks
I am NOT going to perjure myself nor do anything to inflate the numbers for this City while bosses want to throw you under the bus for the most stupidest thing!
FUCK YOU WEIS and your FED crew!
Don't let them try to scare you! NO CONTRACT=NO WORK!
Fuck you !
ATTN JOHN KASS,HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!Could someone in the media bring to light we are 3,000 officers short.We can't physically be in 3 places at the same time.It's seems like the harder we work the less we get accomplished.Where is the $$$ budgeted for 13,500 officers?
I know in my district that chasing my backlog all watch riding 99 makes it impossible to write parkers or make pro-active arrests. Hire more cops to put on the streets.
OFF TOPIC:
IF U LIVE BY UIC THEY HAVE A VERY SPECIAL POLICE FORCE ITS CALLED THE UIC POLICE.
THEY RIGHT TON OF PARKERS!
AND THEY BURN UP LUNCH LOCATION ALL AROUND THE AREA...
I LOVE WHEN THE PULL OFF DUTY OFFICER OVER AND TELL THEM TO DRIVE SLOWER IN THEIR REPLICA CPD UNIFORM.
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THEY PULL OVER CERTAIN COLORS OF PEEP MORE OFTEN THAN OTHER.
I have the feeling the bosses STILL HAVE NO IDEA what is going on.Hey guys/girls we're all on the same team,we just don't have anyone on the bench.The people that you need so much would be the wons affected by this the most.IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.
we used to have performance rating's . They were bs. A person who worked the desk received 90's while a po on the street 70's & 80's .I hope our union steps in and put a stop to this non-sense
Lets put it like this.It cost the city about 8 mill in tickets,if they push it anymore.It will cost them 18 mill.then 32 mill,then 50 mill.
seems like this place is just as phony, or phonier than ever before. Unbelievable.
The bottom line is tell your "Think Tank", you start doing performance reviews, you piss off even more cops. You lower the performance reviews and deny raises, then raise taxes, the prices of food and shelter, you cause more corruption out of necessity. Police will be stealing left and right. You have to reward good performance, not punish, punish, punish. Give us a good raise, stop charging police to park to go to traffic court to defend TICKETS written for the city and give rewards such as additional time off for great job performance.
This "I'll show them attitude will get you nowhere...may make things way worse. Take care of your police and they will take care of you.
"You Better "Measure Up"
Oh yeah?
I have over 25 years and am over 50 years old so Kiss My Ass. Save that shit for the kids who you can still intimidate.
Hey Jody, come measure this.
"So far Morton Grove,Wilmette and Evanston have realized that violating the 2nd Amendment is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
8/13/2008 01:06:00 AM"
Actually, they've realized it's too expensive to fight the NRA in court.
Unconstitutional has nothing to do with it, it's all about $$$.
G*d bless lawyers.
G*d damn Oak Park!
I'll "measure up"! And all w/o the weights and roids......
I am in favor of regular evaluations for everyone, but this seems like an attempt to bring back ticket quotas. instead of ticket quotas, why not evaluate cops on how many felony arrests they make? or other actually useful things they might do on a typical day. why is it always about $$$$?
Hey 1251, here are the names: hamilton, brennan, bartuch. You will see them again on some list.
Which begs to ask the question: will low performers get disciplined and what does the union say about this?
We dont have a union. FOP will say whatever Mayor Daley tells them to say!
OT. Area 2 Detective Division is going to 10 hr. days starting 1st. period next year.
Give me a decent contract with at LEAST a 3% increase and I'll be more than happy to write as many parkers as you want. But until then, no work J-Fed.
Your fucking nuts....no less than 5% a year.
Looks Like Our FOP Denies The Critical Manpower Shortage
And would you expect anything other than that from the FOP and Donahue?
BLOW ME, and what if i don't?
To make things more idiotic the new order is out revised on secondary employment seems dick daley does not want us to work anywhere unless he knows about it! Maybe we should all stuff some envelopes and get a contract! hello eddie burke what do you think? Could you help us? You gave your detail a 2on 3 off schedule how about the rest of the coppers that actually do police work and make less than D-3 pay plus all the overtime and new cars!
"PUT THE SCREWS ON US, AND WILL SCREW RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER YA" I THINK THEY MIGHT BE A LITTLE SCARED
Is the mayor that dumb that he can't figure out that having less officers to deal with more crime and handle more calls doesn't leave much time for proactive policing let alone revenue generation? He got what he bargained for. He has allowed Chicago to become a sanctuary city for illegals, gang bangers, thugs, etc. to satisfy his appetite for political power and votes. His rein of power is slowly spiraling out of control!
If Weis reads this blog, when will he realize this is Chicago. Your evaluation will depend much more on who your supervisor is than on your job performance. And how about this idea...The watch as a whole gets to evaluate the watch commander. And the patrolmens under a Sgt., get to issue evaluations for their Sgt. It would of course have to be anonymous, and you'd have to factor in the extremely good and bad evals, but it should give a general pulse of what the blue shirts think of the job their white shirts are doing.
Anonymous said...
Only work to fight violent crime that way the housing of the mope along with our court time costs the city. Do not write tickets which make the city money. That way no one can say you are not the real police and violent crime will go down. After all people do not like getting tickets. Havent you heard " why arent you busting real criminals"? well there you have it, bust real criminals earn overtime and court time and bring in notinig for king richie. People don't want tickets they want to see crime go down.
8/12/2008 10:27:00 AM
This was from an earlier post but it does have some merit. How can they give you a bad evaluation if you lead the district in arrests and part 1's plus you give King Richie nothing.
1.4 million tickets??? WHO ARE THE RETARDS STILL WRITING PARKERS??? TO YOU I SAY GO FUCK YOURSELF!!! I mean, here we all are...in agreement the city is and will continue to bend us over backwards stick it in and break it off and you fuck sticks dont seem to get it... STOP GENERATING REVENUE FOR THIS PLACE!!! The 84,000 can easily be chalked up to manpower shortages, not any kind of organized work stoppage... If you as much as write one parker during the shift... you are a company man! FUCK YOU!!! What are you getting by complying with the city? Yes, by writing parkers/movers/any revenue generating arrest you are siding with the city!!! LIKE IT OR NOT!!! SCC, this has got to stop!!
Do they think enough time has passed so ratings can be introduced as some great new idea? They tried several and it always came back to a popularity contest and the commanders crew had to get high marks.That became a big joke and it always will be. There was a point system once where you get so many points for each activity. Part I , II, were so many points. We learned that if you got a certain number of bus checks you could equal a mover , parkers or other offenses. It is all bullshit. You need solid leadership, fairness and backing to motivate and lead the troops. They can't see whats going on if they feel they have to constantly look over their shoulder at their own. Why does the Mayor hate us ????
From anither thread
Murphy is still sworn....though on a loa... Was/Is a good boss. I am not, in the least, worried about his pick...even if he is told to pick someone, I trust he will choose who he thinks is best. The others, well...
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If you read your own post you contradite yourself.
even if he is told to pick someone, I trust he will choose who he thinks is best.
If he is told who to pick that is who he will pick. Even if the person is a total asshat. Or Murphy will be looking for a real job. He does not make choices himself, his clout makes it for him.
And I know Murphy, but he has to do what he is told
As far as letting P.O.s pick who should get merit. It wouldn't work. It would just be a popularity contest, whoever is liked the must would win, even if they were a total ass. If you don't believe me just look at the asshat that runs the FOP. He got the most votes from th P.Os and he is useless.
DO AWAY WITH MERIT
Why cant the union ever use something like this to their advantage? The city does not function without the police, bottom line! I dont know any coppers that give a flying fuck about generating money for this shitty city. We do things because we either want to do them or we need the OT for going to court. i dont see any other reasons. Fuck the mayor, fuck the supt and fuck this city. They have created this and I hope they burn. You fucked every copper that did his job and tried to do the right thing, so we have stopped doing shit, which is EXACTLY what we should have done! The only thing politicians and Daley undersatnd is MONEY. When they see it declining they take notice, well thank you for noticing NOW GET FUCKED. We werent hired to be revenue generators and we will not be! Welcome to the circus bitches!!!!!!!!
When is this guy going to be a team player ? Can't he stop and think what's happening with this dept is partially because of him . You can't blame him for everything but I'll bet it's close . J-FED , please go back to the FBI .
Evaluations dont mean shit. Yes I remember the days when the sgt would call you in and hand you your evaluation card with a score breakdown and a comment section. I was one of the top 5% of go-getters in the district. You get a 95-100% and think "cool". But then you find out the couple female dogs on the streets or numerous of the male gangster coppers on the street that never came in with shit and laid down on their jobs what little ones they handled got the same score as you did. Then you come to find out from the sgt that the racist lt or commander made the sgt give them those scores. Typical and I'm sure the same will happen if they bring the evaluation system back.
ha this is great. I was out of the car the other day relaxing looking at the beautiful sky when a car went down a one way and a citizen said "arent u going to get that guy and write him a ticket?" HA I said UM NO, I really dont care, welcome to the city your mayor has created. The liberal walked off and I smiled in my enjoyment. I truly DO NOT CARE!!! Hmmmm whats that called? Officer discretion right?
I love when people say Oh you just try to make Daley more money or u must be getting bonuses HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH what a naive city we live in? They actually believe that the police LIKE the city and DALEY and WANT to do things for him? Be real, we dont give a shit
Suck it up and stop bitching!!! CRY CRY CRY CRY!!!We still make really decent money. All u really have to do is just show up and drive around in a car. If its that bad then quit
Can't you guys keep the arrests up to get the muggers, gangs, and druggies off of the streets?
I understand why you guys are slowing down and I totally agree you need a good contract with raises, but the arrests down does nothing to motivate the mayor. He only cares about the tickets.
The lack of arrests only hurts us citizens.
And don't go saying that our voice will then get the mayor to act - it never does. His trip to China has probably just cemented his dictatorship over us here.
Everyone get worked up when we had performance evaluations before. Not one P.O got screwed with the old system, even though many simply came to work to barely answer their 19p calls. If a system is institued that is subjective, we will either deal with or not deal with it. UNTIL WE KNOW THEN SHUT UP AND GO TAKE YOUR NAP AT WORK
Not sticking up for Cuello or Weis, but since the last evaluations (2002) the department has been looking fro a batter evaluation system. Even when Cline was still here. Look back at past orders.
FOLLOW THE LEADER:
Measure up to J-Pud.
He's been pathetic in numbers since his first evaluation, even with the bean counters trying desperately to kill crime.
I remember the "old" system of evaluation. They had to be filled out in pencil. New guys automatically got 78% and were told that that was the way it was.
Tact guys could get 99%'s if the Sgt. liked them but even those Sgts were told to "average the scores" so the inside guys could keep up.
They had to be signed, in ink, even though you knew they were inaccurate and would be changed anyway.
The real death to the evaluations came after the new hiring quotas were established, more black, more women, more hispanic, more college, more Shackman, less veterans, less height requirements, less competence over all.
The new hiring offered a downward spin on police activity. The evaluations became a farce.
How can a sgt.low ball an average working kid when the "new guys" never did squat? How can a sgt low ball the avg. working kid when he's compared to the female who's been on the medical for heel spurs for over a 7 month span of time.Year after year.
These inequities eventually became so blatantly unjust that the system had to self destruct.
Just like the evaluations in the D unit. Same thing. In order to low ball the average dick he had to eventually be compared with the non-clearing, know nothing, quota , clout, reverend's guy.
The system was made to fail.
Brighter and much more Machavellian,(sp?)
sorry about the spelling, minds were active in those days believe me, to screw with people they did not like at the expense of fairness than those mimi-bosses of today who never felt the sharp pens of revenge.
Don't worry too much. This city is so far gone that for every demerit given out there will be 5 to show as a counter balance. Guess who it will be favored on the side of?
Because of that reason alone evaluations are moot.
Be smart, CYA always, and stay safe.
Wish we knew the names of the policy group, or "J-Feds three" so we could watch for them on the merit list.
8/13/2008 12:51:00 AM
Log onto I-CLEAR
In center, click on Policy Group - there they are, all w/E-Mail addresses and contact numbers.
Ain't no big secret Bo-Cha
Mayor Daley, give us a fair contract and hire more officers if you want to save Chicago from becoming a hell-hole and if you still want a shot at getting the Olympics in 2016.
If you refuse, watch your city become the next Detroit, where houses now sell for one dollar... the cost of a McDonald's double cheeseburger.
Check it:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/METRO/808130360/&imw=Y
8/13/2008 06:00:00 AM Said:
I have a brilliant idea.
Performance Evaluance for Exempts!
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If you havent been around long enough to remember the "025 District Gallows" was the forerunner and the cutting edge of Evaluations of White Shirts. So your idea isnt really original.
Remember watching that roll out of the FAX machine, and then straight to the copier and burn off about 25 copies.
Police Journalism at its FINEST
does that include movers or just parkers? how many movers would we be down? i know were down at least 2500 arrest each month if not more.
Our mayor went to China and praised the brutal and oppressive communist goverment there. But he slams the second amendment to the constitution here. But being a good sheep dog I just obey my master and dont ask questions. COMMUNIST CHINA GOOD , AMERICAN CONSTITUTION BAD.
To whomever said, "Performance Evaluance for Exempts!
We really need to have an evalucation system on here to show who is performing up to standards in the exempts. Not many.
I will start, Commander Mealer of 017 gets an F. Morale in 017 is so low because of this guy. Just look at the lastest transfer orders, everyone is bailing out as fast as they can. It has never been like that in 017 for as long as I have been there (10+ years).
I did the math. We are down 84000 parkers for the year and 3500 PO's. That means if we were at full strength those 3500 PO's would have only have had to write 24 Parkers each for the whole year.
Anonymous said...
i am a police officer... i come in with my one bad guy a night. i dont care, i will continue to bring in my bad guy a night instead of tickets. if i wanted to write tickets i would work for a useless suburb like palatine... i am a police officer...so i will do police work...f the money generator
8/13/2008 04:21:00 AM
Hey tuff guy.... If your still bringing in one bad guy a night,,,, you are a complete idiot!!!!
Who is Jack Diamond?
God..... you guys are gonna become the Illinois State Police. You wanna see a flawed performance evaluation system, look no further than the I.S.P.
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Well of course it has. That is because we are not getting rear ended in the ass by our supervisors for bullshit beefs.
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Remember when your supervisor had to grade you and it was worth 33% of your grade towards a promotion to Detective. The thing was so fucked up that they had to get rid of that part of the test. All the tactical guys were getting 99 and everyone of the watch was getting 85 what a crock of shit. Fucking 019 tact guy getting 99 and watch guy in 011 getting 85 fuck this department and all their bullshit.
IN ORDER TO GRADE THE POLICE YOU MUST BE THE POLICE, J-FUCK YOU ARE A JACK ASS, My stats for today will read as follows 0 0 0 0 grade them apples.
"8/13/2008 12:51:00 AM"
The names are not a secret, though, it's not necessary to know, specifically, who they are.
If there ever was any doubt about it, it's crystal clear now that Weis is an exceptionally expensive bought and paid for whore for the Daley regime. Period.
Nothing will change while Daley and his crew are running this city and county into a multiple generational debt burden that our grandchildren and great grand children will be cursing us for.
I was at the academy today and someone there metioned that they were talking to afriend who is a narcotics court States Att. She said that narcotics cases are down 35% from last year, who knows this may eventually solve the over crowding at Cook Cty Jail.
it was only used as a abuse of power last time out and I'm sure under this watch it will be ten fold
This would all fix itself, if only "dickhead daily" would just shelve the olympic prospects. He's just squirreled all that money away waiting for the right time to plink it down on the olympic dream.
Hire more cops and the revenue machine will be back up and running.
Terminate the TMA program and let recruits work traffic, just like the old days.
Daley and the city just gave ward superentendents ( a political hack job) raises retroactive to 1 Jan. But we are supposed to take days off with out pay. We have been without a contract for 14 months. Daley is a scumbag.
The old cards were a joke. I never had been on the medical, never was late, and always got around mid 80's for this category. The desk crew on the other hand always got 100's. Same with activity and the other category's on the cards. Supervisors used to tell me that you couldn't get 100's as it would draw attention. Used to tell them feel free to give me the right score and deduct from the attitide portion of the card. yes my attitide sucked as I did my job and still got screwed, while house mice got better ratings.
PS I was on the job back when ratings were 30% of your test scores. Just another way to screw with the unclouted workers.
Some shit never changes. So glad im at the end, and by the way feel free to give me a negative number with my current attitude.
A timely reminder:
Meter maids are now the primary writers of parkers.
Don't blame the police when you find that orange love note on your vehicle.
Blame Daley.
They cannot do a legitimate rating system. It would destroy the entire deparment.
From secret racial quotas, gender quotas, clout quotas...
A legitimate computer generated activity rating would prevent them from promoting the people they want to promote. How could they possibly justify some of the bosses they hope to make over the years by merit and by exempt if the computer scores them at zero productivity?
It has been on the drawing board forever. It will stay they forever.
The last thing this department or this city want is legitmacy.
Move on.
"Thank you thank you thank you SCC!!This job isnt what its supposed to be.Officers are nothing more than traffic pimps and agents of the nanny state.
8/13/2008 01:24:00 AM"
That would be true only if officers cooperate with the scheme.
Does the word 'discretion' still have the same meaning it used to?
"It smacks of desperation on their part.
8/13/2008 01:08:00 AM"
And we all know the results of decisions being made out of desperation.
Ambition, Arrogance and Desperation, the Trifecta of bad choices.
"If the idea was there is a need for more police, they'd hire more Chicago police officers," Donahue said.
8/13/2008 01:22:00 AM
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Subtle sarcasm is not Mark's forte.
FUCK YOU J-FED...
Municipal Code - City if Chicago 2-84-400. Efficiency rating system.
It shall be the duty of the board to maintain a system for the ascertaining and recording of individual efficiency of each member of the police department. Such system shall be as nearly automatic as possible and its application shall be uniform throughout the department.
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Then, coppers on the desk should be rotated in with those on the street to make these "evaluations" credible.
Am I missing something? The Department is talking this percentage of activity is down, those numbers are down. Aren't they really saying we aren't keeping up with their imposed quotas? But wait I've heard time and time again the department doesn't have any quotas. Who's shitting who?
They're getting a taste of the department they created and they don't like it. The evaluations were a very flawed snapshot of someones performance in the past and I see no change of that in the future. The chosen ones routinely got mid to high nineties while the grunts doing the real work never even approached those scores. They can go fuck theirselves. This department is so broken from upper echelon snafu's, indifference and just plain incompetence that I don't see it being fixed anytime soon. And certainly not under the current regime.
We must stick together though. We have definitely gotten the department's and king Ritchie's attention.
Good luck getting the 019 dist. tactical team to do any work!
Or the caps office!
Or the gang team!
I'm on midnights in 003,.....what else can they really do to me with a bad evaluation, send me to 018 3rd watch? Jeez you have to be a retard to get promoted here.
Arresting felons does not bring revenue to the cith other than shysters. All of the crap that brings fines are money makers.
As far as the stats tell the truth, this is bullshit. I had to sit through a "stats class" many years ago in dicks school. Had a Sgt. who told us that when the stats showed a "DECREASE IN THE INCREASE OF CRIME" was one phrase they use to show how great things are made me laugh at that time but I realized they actually beleive there own bullshit.
THey have been fudging the facts for years. Now the squares come in and think it's all on the legit and WOW, crime has gone up, from thefts to murders.
The basement is flooding and the shit is rising to the top of the stairs.
You want to see murder and other crime rates go down, bring back Cline of Rodriguez. The only problem is one will OD on foor and the other on whiskey.
am a police officer... i come in with my one bad guy a night. i dont care, i will continue to bring in my bad guy a night instead of tickets. if i wanted to write tickets i would work for a useless suburb like palatine... i am a police officer...so i will do police work...f the money generator
8/13/2008 04:21:00 AM
You are not the police ... you are a TRU-TARD!!! 1 head a night keeps the bosses happy SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? Another fucking yes man!
Anonymous said...
Are they setting up quotas??? What's going to be acceptable?
8/13/2008 12:41:00 AM
Yes;whatever is the flavor of the week.Infection has hit CPD.
Which begs to ask the question: will low performers get disciplined and what does the union say about this?
8/13/2008 12:38:00 AM
Yes;they will do nothing.
Suburban guy.
Get us 80/20 retirement and you'll get the hardest working dept in the land!
These downtown shithead bosses can threaten all they want about what they THINK they're gonna to, it still doesn't mean SHIT.
You can evaluate me all you want assholes, give me a fucking 2 out of 100 if you want. I couldn't care less what number you write down.
When you attempt to thwart my last pay longevity raise with your bullshit numbers, I haul you into court and expose the fact that it hasn't stopped me from getting raises thus far, and that your demanding more revenue in order to allow me to receive my longevity raise is a blatant labor law violation we'll see just how much more of the taxpayer's money you wanna spend losing THAT battle.
Fuckin' idiots. You really don't have a clue that you don't really control SHIT within this department do you?
You dipwads will never learn what everyone else in this city likely realizes, and that is that WE control the direction of where this department goes, NOT YOU. We, the INDIAN, control YOU through action or inaction and you have no control over it. You can try, but in court you will lose, and that is where any attempt to prevent pay raises based on longevity will land you.
Longevity raises have LONG been a staple of nearly ALL departments nationwide and they AIN'T going anywhere dopes.
So, play all your little threat games you want, in the end I couldn't give half a FUCK what number you write down on your little minded secret dossier on me, cause I'm here on the 1st, the 16th, and at all times when my job description AS CHARTERED BY LAW comes into play, which for the rest of my career means answering the radio and any emergent crime that comes to my attention.
Anything other than that, and you can fuck yourself till your ass bleeds 'cause you don't control shit.
Point of Interest for the younger Officers;
We use to be rated on Efficiency cards. They were handed out to each Sgt. on each watch. Each Sgt. was suppose to rate the Officers he/she supervised based on there performance in the field.
Ha Ha.
It really was a popularity contest of who they liked best. Many hard workers got low marks because they were not liked by certain bosses.
You were asked to sign the card after you read it (you could refuse) then the Sgt, Lt, Capt, and D/C also had to sign it, and many times the grades would be changed after you signed it without you being told of the change.
Your extra points might be given to another officer to boost them for an upcoming test/promotion.
Their was an average grade of 85 which eveyone was suppose to achieve on the watch. If they gave you an 80, they could use the 5 points to give somebody else an 90 etc.
Some Sgts would even ask you to take a lower score to give your points to somebody they were trying to get promoted. (2 guys score a 99.8 on sgts test, A has an 85 mark, B has an 99 mark, B gets promoted first).
The entire system was corrupt from top to bottom.
Some officers were rated by bosses they never worked for. That boss was just given the card and told to fill it out. Some bosses were told by higher ups what kind of grade to give, no matter what your activity was.
Now we have BOZO (excuse me J-Fed) going to come in and clean up the mess? I think not!
The rating system Never/Ever worked equally for all!
If You got lower than a 76 you might not get a step raise, lower than 70 and you definitely would not get a raise and would have to be consoled or possibly dumped from the watch, dist, or unit.
The GOLDEN BOYS always got the extra points to move up!
I may have missed a few things, but thats pretty much the whole story.
Comments, Complaints!
Old Timer.
know what will hurt you guys...time off, sidejobs, promotions, etc.
8/13/2008 01:08:00 AM
??? Exactly how are they going to hurt me? They've already lost the time off issue, and as soon as they get shit on at their appeal they might even be taking a nice ass fucking in the wallet if they have to cough up punitive damages for failing to abide by a court ruling. After their injunction is lifted, then can be hit with an additional suit for damages, so they ain't hurting me there.
Sidejobs? Yet another labor law violation by attempting to stifle our ability to provide income for our families. It will boil down to another lawsuit which will seek damages against the city for unlawfully attempting to control our lawfull actions to produce income during the time we are NOT working for them. For over 20 years, I have had sidejobs that have never been found to conflict with my work performance which is proven through collection of all my activity since my coming on this job in comparison to what it is now. Couple that with the fact that I'm doing even LESS work now and their thinly veiled excuse of not letting secondary employment interfere with my employment with the CPD will take a long needed SHIT all over itself as well.
They can call this shithole job my "primary responsibility" all they want. It's nothing more than THEIR opinion and it ain't THE LAW or MY opinion. I show up and do the required workwithout incident and THAT'S THE END of my employment or responsibility to these assholes. What I do on my off time for money will NEVER pass the eyes of the court when they can't prove my secondary employment has affected my bullshit employment with the CPD.
So good luck, and don't forget the give the citizens of this city a courtesy reach around for wasting their tax dollars on more lawsuits your destined to lose at every turn.
I, for one, will never have a second thought of holding these assholes accountable in the courtroom for their unlawful attempts to damage my right to conduct business outside the 8 hours I waste for them.
And ass for promotions, they can fuck themselves there as well. I earn more with my secondary employment alone in a year than any earned promotion could ever pay me here so why in the fuck would I give a shit about taking rigged tests and a corrupt process just to wedge myself into a poorer position of accountability to exempt assholes? No thanks there boys, I'll take my blue job of simple responsibility and high contractual labor protections coupled with cheaper medical protection and a white collar secondary job to earn more than any gold star exempt can and I go home happy and richer without the stress of maybe I'll be detailed to a shithole district, maybe I'll be forced to supervise people I can't stand or maybe I'll have to kiss someone's ass so I don't get fucked with.
They can keep their 100G a year, the little silver bar, the white shirt, and the blame that goes with it. I'll keep setting myself up for a better retirement while laughing all the way to the bank.
Wow Aunt Bea, have you done anything at all to actually try to raise moral??? Maybe some of you exempts should be evaluated. Maybe some of you exempts should have to prove why you hold your position. Bring back the stupid evaluations. "Officer, why haven't you written a ticket this year?" "Because sir, I've been too busy handling the backlog for the last 7 months."
1.49 MILLION TICKETS?!!!!!!
THAT IS WAAAAAY TOO MANY.LETS BRING IT DOWN A FEW HUNDRED THOU........
SO FIRE ME GOOFS,who are you going to replace me with?
Off Topic: From a P.O. who used to drive the Tahoe, they get just slightly better gas mileage because it's a 6 cylinder compared to the Crown Vic's 8. They are not safer, nor are they any better in bad weather. If the road is wet with snow, ice or rain, the Tahoe WILL slip and slide all over the road. They are very top heavy and I had to drive it like I drove the wagon. Very cautiously. I don't know who is saying that the Tahoe is a safer vehicle, but do not be fooled by the "SUV" status. They are a lot more comfortable to drive because of the extra room, however do not drive them like the crown vic. Even on 10-1's I still had to fight with my adrenaline and drive safely to get to the scene. I'm not saying no to the Tahoe, but just use caution and common sense when driving it. Be Safe.
last week a black dodge suv in 015 with one attractive f2 and her dog unknown male in suv with camera and about 15 bangers stopping traffic and hanging out with her....ran the plate and it comes back to fox tv...nice not covering news but creating crime to get it on film...go f ur self fox....
Good luck getting the 019 dist. tactical team to do any work!
Or the caps office!
Or the gang team!
8/13/2008 03:23:00 PM
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You're a one-trick pony. Can't you think of ANYTHING else to post? I just realized who you are; you're half of the brother act that lives on the medical roll. Now that you left 019, you have the gall to bitch about it?
ha this is great. I was out of the car the other day relaxing looking at the beautiful sky when a car went down a one way and a citizen said "arent u going to get that guy and write him a ticket?" HA I said UM NO, I really dont care, welcome to the city your mayor has created. The liberal walked off and I smiled in my enjoyment. I truly DO NOT CARE!!! Hmmmm whats that called? Officer discretion right?
8/13/2008 11:39:00 AM
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You're ignorant.
Any lawyer types out there that have an understanding of the "no confidence" vote. Can't it be used against the government? ie. the mayor. The city is being run into the ground at our expense and his reward.
A) the comment re: decrease in prosecutions is correct. CCJ is "less over crowded".
B) down 84000 parkers? How many have been written by Revenue and Streets & San?
C) enough already with the "we're down 3000 (or is it 3500?) officers. NO WE'RE NOT. And every time some knucklehead says we are city hall laughs at how stupid we show ourselves as. It's a red herring. We're down about 400 - 750 less than budgeted strength. Period. Fact. You can count everyone if you'd like, but that's what it is. If you can't figure out that 13,500 sworn IS NOT 13,500 POs, then don't embarass yourself by continuing to post.
Let's see we are being told to measure up by a Supt. that has never been the police. By Cuello who is the ultimate product of clout. Just what has she done during her career?? can anyone tell me? A Supt. who has never been the police wants to set standards to a profession in which he has no clue!!!! Being in the fbi does not translate into local policing, it's a totally different concept. The best thing for each of you J-Fed and Cuello to do is step the hell out of the way, because neither of you are the answer to the problems of this department, you are now the "PROBLEM" of this department, more now than ever!!!!!
"Fucking 019 tact guy getting 99 and watch guy in 011 getting 85 fuck this department and all their bullshit.
8/13/2008 02:05:00 PM"
What did the 019 Watch guy get?
011 Watch Oh I forgot, you're the annointed ones who walk on water...
anonymous said...
Not sticking up for Cuello or Weis, but since the last evaluations (2002) the department has been looking fro a batter evaluation system. Even when Cline was still here. Look back at past orders.
8/13/2008 12:07:00 PM
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Are you soft or what? "the department has been looking fro a batter evaluation system" Oh yeah? Where have they been looking? At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean right next to the Titanic? You sound like an R&D suckhole.
You really think it takes 6 years to come up with a better evaluation system? This is the same stroke police department run by incompetent political hack corrupt mother fuckers who took so many years to approve a semi-auto pistol for duty carry!
The US Military, not exactly a model of efficiency, went through their semi-auto pistol trials to replace the model 1911 .45 cal pistol and the military did it TWICE long before the Chicago Police Department even did it ONCE! The military first picked the Beretta, the other manufacturers sued and the military did it a second time. They again picked the Beretta.
And they did it years sooner than the CPD could even figure out that we needed high capacity pistols. Even then, the CPD pistol order was as thick as a small town phone book and required us to use low power sub sonic 147 grain horseshit 9mm ammo.
Now the trend is to go back to what the US Army figured out back in 1911, use a .45 cal pistol. I do and I carry 230 grain +P hot shit in it.
This department is a fucking joke, it has been for my 25 years. Now it is even more ridiculous of a farce of a police organization. Years ago there was still pride in the work we did and there were some warrior bosses around that could still lead other warriors.
That has all changed now; it has all gone to hell. I wouldn't follow Jody Weis into battle nor would I trust him to find the right people to give me orders in an emergency situation. I trust myself and my 25 years of experience, nothing else.
In the late 1990's, pre commander sullivan, 016 had 6 foot posts, and these guys wrote a book of parkers per guy per day...roughly 24,000 per year. All of those foot posts are gone, and this is just one districts example, there are 24 other mismanagement stories out there.
I remember a tact Sgt. who used the exact same wording on all his evaluations for his whole time only changing the order of the sentences. Every time. Without fail. All his troops got the same thing. Every time. No problem.
When on the street I never got higher than a 94. Inside I got straight 99's. Evaluations were a joke and now I don't give a shit, shove their fucking evaluations. I will do little, what can they do? I have no more step raises coming.
If they try to counsel or discipline me I will counter that my low activity is the result of poor training and demand to be retrained. Then I will get my knee operation. Than my other knee operation. then my shoulder operation. Then retire.
Fuck Jody. Does this fed moron think he can fuck with long time Chicago Police Officers? It has been tried by better than him. And failed.
Please start an exempt thread...who makes the cut, who doesn't, SSC style, of course.
Those efficiency cards were a joke...most people got the same numbers, the workers, the in-betweens and the absolutely do-nothing loafs.. a joke.
what evaluations?? an 008 P.O. spent over 40 minutes in a Burbank store today ..full uniform yet..smart move ..with the car parked around the side
ow many princesses got 99.9 on their evaluations when they were working the desk or in the D/C's office? Many!
What is J-Fed going to do? Make us have our parents sign our report card? Summer School Training for bad grades? Give me a break, just more bullshit to hide the fact that this department is mostly being ran by asshats with no real police experience.
Since I see J-Fed getting a "F" for his grade, I say 99.9% of this department is doing better than him.
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8/13/2008 05:15:00 AM
come on...SCC don't like you criticizing them female princesses
Why won't Commanders and above be evaluated.
Just think, if it wasn't for that jagoff Abbate, Cline would still be Supt. and Weis would be in Philly.
Just on Chicago Tonight...city ward bosses getting raises while union workers get unpaid furloughs.
Who is Daley fucking shitting? They always seem to have money for what they want, don't they?
"....This department is so broken from upper echelon snafu's, indifference and just plain incompetence that I don't see it being fixed anytime soon. And certainly not under the current regime.
We must stick together though. We have definitely gotten the department's and king Ritchie's attention.
8/13/2008 03:19:00 PM"
The first step in curing a disease is to recognize that one is ill.
The second step is to identify the symptoms.
The third step is to determine the cause(s) of said symptoms.
The fourth step is to understand the mechanism(s) involved in said cause(s).
The fifth step is to discover and/or devise the means to disable and/or eliminate said mechanism(s).
The sixth step is to implement the means devised to disable and/or eliminate said mechanisms.
The seventh step is to observe and evaluate how effective said means are proving to be, in disabling and/or eliminating the mechanism(s) determined to be the cause(s) of said symptom(s).
If the means being applied prove to be effective, they must continue to be applied, until such time as the symptom(s)' absence indicates the elimination of the cause(s) of the diseased condition.
Those who recognize that they are ill, understand the need for treatment, accept said treatment in it's entirety, and commit themselves to said treatment until such time as the absence of their symptoms indicates the termination of the cause(s) of their disease, will, in all likelihood, no longer suffer from said disease.
Those who choose to deny their diseased condition(s), or to refuse effective treatment(s), or to abandon said effective treatment(s) prior to successfully completing same, will, no doubt, remain ill.
It has been observed that there are some who are susceptible to others touting ineffective, attractively painless and over simplified 'cures' to their illness(es).
These 'some' will, no doubt, remain ill and diseased.
To restate the obvious, the disease is the infection of the Daley/Stroger/Madigan/Jones/etc., corruption machine(s), the cure is currently being provided by those whose experience has given them an excellent understanding of both the disease, it's mechanisms and the various means to disable and/or eliminate said mechanisms, and the only question remaining is whether enough citizens, whatever their employment, will accept and embrace said cure.
SCC is a large part of the vehicle providing access to that cure.
Which is why those infected with the disease of corruption are so intent upon disabling said vehicle, and/or discouraging those suffering from the effects of said disease from believing they are, in fact, ill.
It's as if a group of lepers were protesting their being accused of suffering from leprosy, while seeking to infect everyone they come in contact with.
All the body paint on the planet can't conceal the oozing, pustulant sores covering every inch of these diseased government 'officials' bodies and souls.
"New income for the city." Everyday hundreds of Mexican immigrants come into the 012 because they lost their ID. (Matricula) Now they use to do lost and found reports but it got so out of hand. Now they get a Misc X card and the Mexican consulate accepts only the little orange card. People come from the suburbs with Police reports and the consulate sends them to 12 for the Misc X. Let’s charge these people $5 or $10 and make the Mayor a couple of million.
Can't you guys keep the arrests up to get the muggers, gangs, and druggies off of the streets?
I understand why you guys are slowing down and I totally agree you need a good contract with raises, but the arrests down does nothing to motivate the mayor. He only cares about the tickets.
The lack of arrests only hurts us citizens.
And don't go saying that our voice will then get the mayor to act - it never does. His trip to China has probably just cemented his dictatorship over us here.
8/13/2008 11:55:00 AM
"Can't you guys...."
Oh be quiet! Go buy a gun and protect yourself. I'm a private citizen and I say...Lay down on that motherfucker Weis! Lay down on all of them. Keep up the pressure. It's the only real control and power the cops have. The harder admin pushes, the more they prove that the slow down is working.
Love,
Mom
On the subject of "measuring up"...don't steroids make your pee pee shrink? Maybe that's what's wrong with Weis.
hey powers that be try firing me for not measuring up..
LOST IN FILLMORE!
If I hear one more retard rave about the 10 hr day I'm going to puke!If you are stupid enough to trust the city and want to BURN ALL YOUR TIME vote yes."I CAN GO TO DA TAVERN,WIT MY BUDDIES".How stupid are you going to feel when you see the inside morons leaving 4hrs before you.How great will it be to be feeding your family dinner at 8pm,if you are on days.THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO DEPLETE ALL OF YOUR ACCUMULATED TIME DUMMIES.
Chicago Tribune had a 4.5 billion dollar loss for the last quarter. Go tribune. They are up to their ass in debt and if it was anyone else but Zell , I would say they could go belly up. He has laid off tons of useless people.
If anyone reads this blog, how about some decent in depth investigative reporting. There is corruption up the kazoo in this city and no one reports it. I wonder why. Maybe they would sell some papers and generate some interest.
The only real reporter is Kass.
The drunken copper stories do not cut it anymore.
Cuello is a FUCKING JOKE....LOOK UP HER "AWARD HISTORY". Five honorable mentions. That's right FIVE HONORABLE MENTIONS for nearly twenty-two years of police service and this DO-NOTHING MERIT-CLITORIOUS HACK wants to impose standards on everyone else. Listen Cuello and listen GOOD: Leaders LEAD by EXAMPLE and your fucking police career is a JOKE.
How does someone get MERIT-CLITORIOUSLY PROMOTED with FIVE HONORABLE MENTIONS, NOT JUST PROMOTED ONE TIME MERIT-CLITORIOUSLY, BUT EVERY FUCKING TIME.
Cuello you cannot ask people do something you have never done yourself. YOU need to get in a beat car and see what it's like to be a police officer, you do nothing political hack. Do us all a fucking favor and GET OFF THIS JOB. You are a complete and total embarrassment.
i'll write a book a day if we get 4-5 percent a year.
Saw a meter maid for the first time in 10 years living on the west end of 008 today @ Archer & Neenah.
there will now be a bureau of performance ratings
1 ADS
1 Chief
1 comdr
4 Lts
8 Sgts
16 P.O's
time keeper
secretary
4 civilians
radios
cars
New idea for the "Chalkie": T-Shirts!!! "MEASURE THIS!" with a downword arrow on the front. Mr. Chalkie on the back with a 2016!
**and for females what should it say... measure these with an arrow pointing up?
Give me a decent contract with at LEAST a 3% increase and I'll be more than happy to write as many parkers as you want. But until then, no work J-Fed.
**Are you f*in kidding me suck hole?
hey powers that be try firing me for not measuring up..
LOST IN FILLMORE!
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You always measure up with me Big Guy. And MB.
FOUND IN FILLMORE
Remember the rating system in the past, what a joke, If you had a hammer its was all good if not they tried to make you look bad by giving you a lower efficiency total. all about the juice.
"8/13/2008 08:40:00 PM"
Why the ? at the end?
"8/13/2008 08:35:00 PM"
As evidence of how desperate the thieves at city hall are, they are now willing to send their pickpocket troops, aka department of revenue agents, into the neighborhoods where regular, employed voters reside, including those employed by the city and county.
When a regime begins to actively feed off of it's own, you know that regime is close to the end of it's reign.
What's next, arming these DoR agents with M4's?
"i'll write a book a day if we get 4-5 percent a year.
8/13/2008 08:20:00 PM"
You cheap whore.
"8/13/2008 08:11:00 PM"
It's called Patronage.
IF U LIVE BY UIC THEY HAVE A VERY SPECIAL POLICE FORCE ITS CALLED THE UIC POLICE.
THEY RIGHT TON OF PARKERS!
AND THEY BURN UP LUNCH LOCATION ALL AROUND THE AREA...
I LOVE WHEN THE PULL OFF DUTY OFFICER OVER AND TELL THEM TO DRIVE SLOWER IN THEIR REPLICA CPD UNIFORM.
YOU WILL ALSO NOTICE THAT THEY PULL OVER CERTAIN COLORS OF PEEP MORE OFTEN THAN OTHER.
What the fuck are you soft? You must be, what a punk ass.
"Love,
Mom
8/13/2008 07:24:00 PM"
You make me happier every day, that I bought you the computer and internet service and showed you how to surf the net.
Love, The Cyclone Kid
what evaluations?? an 008 P.O. spent over 40 minutes in a Burbank store today ..full uniform yet..smart move ..with the car parked around the side
Teacher! Teacher! Johnny did it. Your a sorry punk.
there will now be a bureau of performance ratings
1 ADS
1 Chief
1 comdr
4 Lts
8 Sgts
16 P.O's
time keeper
secretary
4 civilians
radios
cars
Very Funny but it wouldnt surpise me.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story...151302&catid=3
"Just think, if it wasn't for that jagoff Abbate, Cline would still be Supt. and Weis would be in Philly.
8/13/2008 07:12:00 PM"
And the majority of blue shirts would be still pissing in the wind, so divided by their individual gripes that even an SCC couldn't unite them.
So, next time you happen to think of Abbate, or Finnegan, or whoever you figure was the motivation for Daley bringing in Weis, pause for a moment, consider the sequence of events and, perhaps, marvel at the mysterious ways of the works of the Lord.
the dumb-Ass who thinks a 3 % Raise Contract is good is far too stupid to be on this job. It won't even come close to breaking even on all the taxes, price increases, and user fees the City has.
I may have missed a few things, but thats pretty much the whole story.
Comments, Complaints!
Old Timer.
Lets not forget that the efficiency cards were given to the supervisors to rate their own wives, sons, daughters. girlfriends, etc. What a joke that was.
"You're ignorant.
8/13/2008 05:51:00 PM"
I know you are, but what am I?
"8/13/2008 05:44:00 PM"
Sounds more like the f2 and dog were there to sell their 'services' to the bangers, with the 'action' captured on video by the '..unknown male in suv with camera..".
Independent film making at it's finest.
CAN WE EVALUATE OUR INCOMPETENT, BONE-HEAD BOSSES??!!
Anonymous said...
It's NOTHING COMPARED TO THE OUTRIGHT THIEVERY AT O'HARE BY "K.K." and that greedy clouted crew.Hey media,JOHN KASS it's like hitting a 16" softball,it's bloated,easy crush,and full of MUSHES!
A. Pitman will come close to KK when they round up her check stubs and T/A cards. This is the timekeeper that padded her own card.
And the thing about the efficiency grades were that they were supposed to be "even" and average to about 80-85% So for every 90 there had to be a 70. As usual the house mice got the 90s and the street people got the 70s. They even used to take some of your arrest, ticket, and the like and give it to the insiders so they could get credit for doing something other than answering the phones. And none of this was published so you never knew the difference.
It seems like the City is adopting the new and improved "rating game". Don't be fooled (which I know most are not). Just look at it as a new disguise. It is another way for the administration to exert their authority over the city without repercussion. Nothing will change anytime soon. So where does that leave the rest of the dept.
? Well, right where you are now.
If you haven't noticed that our society is and has been changing. It has been for the longest time and will not stop. be smart and invest your time and money and prepare yourselves for the unexpected. Unless the PD stands as one, nothing will be done.
I've read quite a few blogs referencing racial divide/ political correctness as being a motivating factor, which is hindering any real comradeship. This my friends is the tactic being utilized to bring the police to their knees.
"United we stand, divided we fall".
Stay the course and don't give them an inch without one hell of a fight.
God Bless America!
Who is that dumb fuck M/2 that just came off probation and would do anything to stay on days in 021 that gives coopers tickets?
Cuello is a FUCKING JOKE....LOOK UP HER "AWARD HISTORY". Five honorable mentions. That's right FIVE HONORABLE MENTIONS for nearly twenty-two years of police service and this DO-NOTHING MERIT-CLITORIOUS HACK wants to impose standards on everyone else. Listen Cuello and listen GOOD: Leaders LEAD by EXAMPLE and your fucking police career is a JOKE.
How does someone get MERIT-CLITORIOUSLY PROMOTED with FIVE HONORABLE MENTIONS, NOT JUST PROMOTED ONE TIME MERIT-CLITORIOUSLY, BUT EVERY FUCKING TIME.
Cuello you cannot ask people do something you have never done yourself. YOU need to get in a beat car and see what it's like to be a police officer, you do nothing political hack. Do us all a fucking favor and GET OFF THIS JOB. You are a complete and total embarrassment.
8/13/2008 08:11:00 PM
Cool!!!! Does that mean I'll get taken care of cause I have at least 180 honorable mentions, 7 D.C.'s and 2 officer of the month. Along with with Problem solving award and numerous letters of recognition and over 2000 arrests. Nope you know why, cause I have no clout. Worked my ass off in fast southside districts for 10years for nothing. I'll be taking my merit promo to Sgt please....only in my dreams on this job.
STEP 2
MY BROTHER I BELIEVE ITS TIME TO TURN UP THE HEAT ON THE CITY!
MANY OF YOU HAVE HANDLED ACCIDENT INVOLVING CITY VEHICLE, BE IT A BUS OR A GARBAGE TRUCK.
THE CITY BULLIES US WHEN WE ASK FOR MINOR THINGS LIKE HEALTH CARE AND RAISES.
I THINK OFFICERS SHOULD INVESTIGATE THESE "ACCIDENTS" WITH DUE CARE. TICKETS SHOULD BE ISSUED TO THE CITY VEHICLE IF THEY ARE AT FAULT.
THE REPORT SHOULD CLERLY STATE WHO WAS AT FAULT AND LEAVE NO ROOM FOR IT TO GO TO COURT.
JUST PICTURE YOUR WIFE TRYING TO FIGHT A TOW BY THE CITY OR UR SON THINKING HE DIDNT DESERVE A PARKER B CUZ NO SIGN WAS POSTED. PICTURE THE INSPECTOR GIVING U A DAY B-CUZ UR PLATES JUST EXPIRED. PICTURE THE CITY WANTING TO POST UR NAME IN THE NEWSPAPER IN THE NEXT CONTRACT.
THE POWER OF THE PEN MY BROTHERS
IF THEY WANT TICKETS MAY BE THOSE HAZRDOUS CITY DRIVERS NEED TO BE GOING TO COURT ON THE CITIES DIME!!!
AM I WRONG FOR WANTING TO FOLLOW AUNT BEA ORDERS.
EVER TAKE A PISS TEST ???
Ask them about "random" computerized selections.
They might tell you about the 1-9
frequency code programed into the random test selection.
This is how you'll be screwed in the computerized way on any evaluation.
If you're given, say, a #1 designator you might be called
X number of times per year to give the pee sample.
However if you're given an 8 or 9 you might have to pee once a period.
This is NOT RANDOM SELECTION !
Once again , you all can check your number if you ask for it.
Knowledge is power.
As far as I'm concerned, do away with evaluations and do away with awards and do away with merit.
We can go to work and complete our daily duties and the tour is over. Then it's an even playing field for all.
Pull our names out of an electronic lottery every so many years for promotions.
This job has become debilitating, so whats the difference?
I worked the west side years ago on a Tact Team Making felony pinches and the guy handing out radios got a better evaluation % score than I did.
i agree with the guys saying we should be down way more on the parkers... there are alot of pussies and fraidy cats on this job.....oh, if i dont write parkers i ll lose my day management spot or they ll take me off an early car. boo fucking hoo! or the 3 year wonders locking up people because they re afraid they ll lose their spot on tact or gangs.crybabies afraid to go back into a blue uniform. these are the same nimrods that couldnt find an arrest if it jumped into their back seat! THERE ARE ALOT OF WEAK P O S....SHOWS SOME BALLS AND DONT BE EXPLOITED OR EXTORTED BY THESE BOSSES. if you need to work days....go to where you can bid in. or get a fucking different job.dont get me started on the grading system....some house mouse gets a 99% because of her rack and you get lowered. the bosses will give any excuse/reason to give one of the beautiful people a high grade....and look for any reason/excuse to fuck the people they dont like
Anonymous said...
Suck it up and stop bitching!!! CRY CRY CRY CRY!!!We still make really decent money. All u really have to do is just show up and drive around in a car. If its that bad then quit
8/13/2008 11:52:00 AM
I got something for you to suck up, bitch!
JUST ANSWER YOUR CALLS. JUST ANSWER YOUR CALLS. That is our responsibility and do that alone and nothing extra.
anonymous said...
hey powers that be try firing me for not measuring up..
LOST IN FILLMORE!
8/13/2008 07:58:00 PM
Hey, knucklehead, if you are in fillmore, you are NOT LOST. LOST IS 007 on midnites after getting dumped out of a unit. Fillmore is a phone call. Suck it up.
Anonymous said...
ha this is great. I was out of the car the other day relaxing looking at the beautiful sky when a car went down a one way and a citizen said "arent u going to get that guy and write him a ticket?" HA I said UM NO, I really dont care, welcome to the city your mayor has created. The liberal walked off and I smiled in my enjoyment. I truly DO NOT CARE!!! Hmmmm whats that called? Officer discretion right?
8/13/2008 11:39:00 AM
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Me I tell them an array of things like:
- In Mexico they drive wherever they want and with no licenses, I explain that spanish is our second language in the US too!
- Or I say , OH HELL NO...Ol boy jus forgot he aHHHHHHHHIIIIIITTTEE!
-Sometimes I say , HUH? Who me? No I just came out the house!
Either way the Yups or whoever just look at me so confused....
Low morale is in response to the constant negativity on the job and in the department. If the city waits longer and longer to heal the hurt or continues to put more pressure and bs on the officer, there will come a time the officer feels they have nothing left to lose. If it gets to that point, it won't be pretty (and I think we are close). With recruits down and retirements up, the thin blue line is getting thinner. J-Fed- stop and think about what you actually want and do what it takes to get it done. Working on that premise, what you want done is pretty obvious- damn the police and the citizens of Chicago. You have your contract which has you in charge of OEMC also......hmmmm, doesn't OEMC have civilian dispatchers working double shifts and O/T soaring? And, dispatchers are "working through lunch". Too bad this doesn't apply to the few police officers assigned there, too. It takes a phone call to even get a job there. Nice secret. I think 35th and Michigan needs a reality check. The real deal is out on the street. People are working 99; cars don't have computers; cars are breaking down and there are no pools; less time is spent on patrol and more on outside roll calls, pod watching, school, library and park visits, etc. This is very sad.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I must admit my enjoyment as I sit quietly in my beat car, watching rome burn. Cuello reminds me of Tariq Aziz(mouthpiece for Saddam) claiming victory as American troops shelled the outskirts of Baghdad..Don't worry, all is well.
8/13/2008 12:14:00 AM
Tariq Aziz also said "the dessert will by our swamps and the cities will be our jungles," he was right about that.
""With murders up, arrests down and officers writing fewer parking tickets, Chicago cops will soon have to measure up in performance evaluations for the first time since 2002, top department officials said Monday.""
They've been threatening evaluations for the past year to be brought back, adding this time they can use medical time AGAINST the officers performance.
Who gets to rate the W/C's????
I'd like to evaluate some of the prairie dogs in 021 on 3rd such as J.C on the medical every year for at least 3 months.Her 2008 scam 4 months for bunion removal now followed up by who knows how many more months on light duty for recovery.Of course she's been bangin a white shirt (he must be blind) so I guess she deserves a pass.Another worthless cow M.S hurts her ass falling off a horse that was good for 8 months.S.B about 7 months for having the shits. This is all absolutely true.
Capt. Red a good boss but he loses his brains when anything without a penis looks at him.
"Then, coppers on the desk should be rotated in with those on the street to make these "evaluations" credible."
I would love to see a lot of the "REAL" police ever work the desk in a busy district (009th DIST desk does not count). You'd be crying for a reprieve.
I'm sure this performance idea came out of J-fed's "think tank group" I have heard from a reliable source that J-Fed uses many of their ideas and once was heard saying, "they do a great job for me and they come up was some really good policy ideas." Wonderfull! He has two P.O.'s and one SGT. all with less than 8 years on the job and they have influence on what happens. These goofs haven't done a lick of police work but can come up with "policy" Wish we knew the names of the policy group, or "J-Feds three" so we could watch for them on the merit list.
8/13/2008 12:51:00 AM
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Hey 1251, here are the names: hamilton, brennan, bartuch. You will see them again on some list.
8/13/2008 09:54:00 AM
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Hey 0954 AM
Would those J-Fed "Think Tank" guys be from 025? Cuz those names sound awfully familar..
hmmmmmmmmm...
Suck it up and stop bitching!!! CRY CRY CRY CRY!!!We still make really decent money. All u really have to do is just show up and drive around in a car. If its that bad then quit
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Tell yourself that bro when you try to get out of hospital detail
i got 12 inches is that good enough
8/13/09:32:00am.
AMEN BROTHER.
22yrs on this job and I've never seen us more united.
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