What Hath Ron Wrought?
First, he saddles the Department with a completely unworkable computer system that took nearly a decade to iron out all the problems with.
Then he manages to run OEMC into the ground. They're still recovering over there.
Now the CTA has blown an application deadline for some $153 million in Federal aid and increased "slow zones" once again:
Then he manages to run OEMC into the ground. They're still recovering over there.
Now the CTA has blown an application deadline for some $153 million in Federal aid and increased "slow zones" once again:
- CTA trains are again operating at lower speeds over more track because of an increase in potentially unsafe conditions, a discouraging about-face for a transit agency that has worked hard for more than a year redirecting limited funds to reduce slow zones.
With the reverse-Midas effect, everything Huberman touches turns to crap. And since Chicago Public Schools are already "slow zones," we imagine that they'll be going backwards very shortly.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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How many years does he have to work there to get a CPS pension, too?
You know, wearing expensive suits doesn't guarantee common sense or management ability.
Why won't the media look into this? More Daley corruption so easy to see. So Sad!
"With the reverse-Midas effect, everything Huberman touches turns to crap. And since Chicago Public Schools are already "slow zones," we imagine that they'll be going backwards very shortly.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM on Mar 20, 2009"
Huberman learned everything he knows from mentor Shortshanks, who also can turn a golden egg into a cruddy, smelly TURD !!!!!!!
But they sure can make their bank accounts shine !!!
Daley is just grooming his little pet toward a future goverment job in Washington. You can take that to the bank!!
Sadly, the entire city is going to turn into a gigantic slow zone. If it isn't the potholes, then it is caved-in catchbasins and gutter boxes at the curb or manholes (not Luberman's hangout) in the middle of the street.
At least we'll have a lot of freshly paved roads that lead up to the imaginary olympic campus.
Ron Huberman was not responsible for the computer system initially called CHRIS and eventually renamed CLEAR.
The individuals responsible for CHRIS were Superintendent Terry Hillard, Deputy Superintendent John Harris and Project Manager Kathy Kolb. They ignored the concerns raised by the Detective Division and jammed it down their throats and then blamed the Detective Division when it did not work!
When Barbara McDonald replaced Harris she finally listened to the Detective Division and brought in Huberman who listened and who finally addressed the problems they raised.
When Barbara McDonald replaced Harris she finally listened to the Detective Division and brought in Huberman who listened and who finally addressed the problems they raised.
3/20/2009 06:42:00 AM
OKAY COMMANDER LEWIN, THE CLEAR SYSTEM IS ALSO A PIECE OF CRAP.
Look at all the other government computer systems in this state and city and you can see that the CPD systems are not any real different.
Underpowered, overpriced, and contracts let to political cronies. Just the way this city and state operates.
Don't forget that former Chief Helm is a Huberman creation, and from the sounds of it the G is looking at her financial dealings. Hence the enormous dump and being hidden away at Personnel.
Ron Huberman was not responsible for the computer system initially called CHRIS and eventually renamed CLEAR.
The individuals responsible for CHRIS were Superintendent Terry Hillard, Deputy Superintendent John Harris and Project Manager Kathy Kolb. They ignored the concerns raised by the Detective Division and jammed it down their throats and then blamed the Detective Division when it did not work!
When Barbara McDonald replaced Harris she finally listened to the Detective Division and brought in Huberman who listened and who finally addressed the problems they raised.
3/20/2009 06:42:00 AM
You are so wrong. Blame former DS John Harris, and then CHRIS Project Managers Kevin Byrne and Marikay Hegarty for the CHRIS fiasco, not the then named Data Systems or CPD civilian K. Kolb of Data Systems. The Data Systems team tried to explain the need to fix CHRIS, but Harris would not listen because he would not embarass himself, Byrne or Hegarty. It was full speed ahead regardless of the consequences suffered by the Detective Division. You are throwing shit at the wrong people and praising the wrong people. After Harris, Byrne and Hegarty were gone, leaving a mess behind them, McDonald and Huberman were just smart enough to do enough in order to avoid blame for the CHRIS mess. They put a retired detective in charge of Data Systems and CHRIS was neutered and buried under the larger CLEAR.
This is what happens when there is just toooooo much graft.
SOME of the tax money NEEDS to actually go to infrastructure!
Ugh, give the Huberman bashing a break. We get it, you don't like how he took a police pension.
The FACT is that he vastly improved the CTA over what Kruesi had done. Did you read the entire article? Slow zones are up because work can't happen during the winter.
First, he saddles the Department with a completely unworkable computer system that took nearly a decade to iron out all the problems with.
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really ?? becuase 10 years ago we didnt have ANY computers, so ill take what we have.
Remember having to call in for an I,R, number than faxing that out for a criminal history ??
"completely unworkable" i dont think so, perfect of course not.
Hillard was a dummy!
Harris was an arrogant individual, who thought he was never wrong! He is now getting what he deserved from the Feds.
Kathy Kolb was an 11th Ward creature who was not qualified to run a program like CHRIS.
Huberman came in an fixed the problems with CHRIS rapidly and he should be commended for that.
Sooooo.....let's see.....aw screw it...I'm OVERWHELMED!!!!!
Ugh, give the Huberman bashing a break. We get it, you don't like how he took a police pension.
The FACT is that he vastly improved the CTA over what Kruesi had done. Did you read the entire article? Slow zones are up because work can't happen during the winter.
3/20/2009 11:07:00 AM
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Let's get our facts straight. We're unhappy because he's a golden boy, barely-the-police-for-five-seconds politically connected hack who was made a COMMANDER of real police officers at a point in his career when someone taking a TEST can't even be promoted to SERGEANT yet. Pretty gutsy on the part of all parties involved in that sham.
Then, he made comments to people that he'd engineered the computer system so he would be indispensible, the only person with full knowledge and access to the programs.
Then he went to several other City positions and managed to twist them into mangled messes and promptly left those messes in the hands of his successor.
THEN he tried to steal a police pension. He was unsuccessful.
He simply can't be the ONLY person in the city, or the state, or the country, who can take these positions. He must have one hell of a collection of photos of high-profile persons in VERY embarrassing positions. It's the only possible explanation.
P.S. The CTA has repeatedly stated they can't do this work because of the budget crunch. But you know better.
Luberman's gonna outspend anyone who's come before him in the CPS while achieving NOTHING in the way of actually educating kids or building a better school system.
He'll do what he knows best, what Daley tells him to do, and that's spend taxpayer dollars on Daley's friends and family while bankrupting the CPS just like he bankrupted the CTA. This fuckwad can't do a damn thing for himself except take the shit for Daley's chronic corruption. And for that, he gets to go somewhere else where Daley can use him to waste our tax money on his friends.
There's really nowhere left to go in this shit town until Byrne dies and opens up THAT spot for corruption spending.
It's not Luberman that fucks up what he touches, he's just the useless tool used to cover up Daley's corruptive spending, and he'll be moved wherever there's Federal money coming in to misspend.
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First, he saddles the Department with a completely unworkable computer system that took nearly a decade to iron out all the problems with.
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really ?? becuase 10 years ago we didnt have ANY computers, so ill take what we have.
Remember having to call in for an I,R, number than faxing that out for a criminal history ??
"completely unworkable" i dont think so, perfect of course not.
3/20/2009 02:21:00 PM
Right, 10 years ago. Still many years after most of the rest of the countries police departments computerized their police departments. I recall many suburb departments were using computer case reporting in the early 1990's.
Almost the whole State of Illinois uses in-car computers to do traffic crash reports using standard software that the State of Illinois provides FOR FREE!
But NOT the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago has a series of kludge cobbled together computer applications that cannot talk to each other and are still, in 2009, many years behind the curve and many years behind departments in places like, oh, New York and Los Angeles.
It is a damn disgrace. It is precisely assholes like Huberman that helped prevent an actual computer technology company from coming in and building us an integrated enterprise wide computer system..
What we have now is, in a word, shit.
Millions upon millions flushed right down the toilet of corruption, inefficiency and graft.
I have met officers from out of state who simply cannot believe that we still do reports on paper with multi part form-sets and carbon paper and ball point pen. This is no joke, they are astounded and can't believe it. We are 15-18 years behind other large departments.
But the Mayor doesn't worry when Ron Huberman is in charge because he can sleep at night.
First, he saddles the Department with a completely unworkable computer system that took nearly a decade to iron out all the problems with.
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really ?? becuase 10 years ago we didnt have ANY computers, so ill take what we have.
Remember having to call in for an I,R, number than faxing that out for a criminal history ??
"completely unworkable" i dont think so, perfect of course not.
3/20/2009 02:21:00 PM
Okay Huberman you can get off the blog know.
Don't forget that former Chief Helm is a Huberman creation, and from the sounds of it the G is looking at her financial dealings. Hence the enormous dump and being hidden away at Personnel.
3/20/2009 09:31:00 AM
..sounds like a scoop
really ?? becuase 10 years ago we didnt have ANY computers, so ill take what we have.....
No, because everyone else had a better system ten years prior dick
Yeah, slow zones went from 23% down to 7%, and then back up to 8%. What a horror Huberman unleashed! His vaunted elimination of more than 2/3 of slow zones turns out to have been an elimination of very close but not quite 2/3 of slow zones.
Normally, you seem to think before you post. What is it about Huberman that short-circuits the normal process for you?
Colin Howe said...
Ugh, give the Huberman bashing a break. We get it, you don't like how he took a police pension.
The FACT is that he vastly improved the CTA over what Kruesi had done. Did you read the entire article? Slow zones are up because work can't happen during the winter.
3/20/2009 11:07:00 AM
He DID NOT take a police pension.
He's a fall guy,
jesus get with the program.
I still find it amazing that someone with ZERO education experience was put in this position.
And people still wonder why this city is so screwed up.
Check the Sunday Sun Times. The city has pulled the 16.1% offer off the table setting the stage for a possible arbitration. Not good news. So much for the Olympics as a bargaining chip. Dont forget guys and gals this is all Daley plain and simple. 20 yrs of unchecked power. If you go out and bust your ass do it for the good citzens and for yourself. There has to be an end to this BS of these days
Gee I wonder if their gonna have a helicopter escort like the recent gangbanger funerals on the southside, and car 4200 was heard over the air reprimanding the air one for attempting to help locate an armed offender by a grade school, officer safety was put to the test and we failed thanks for the morale and air support Weis and car 4200, Dugan would go nuts if he heard that exchange, thanks again Commander/Sgt R. Hope u never need support, we will be given an escort to a gangbanger who was just shot. Dugan please review tapes
Dickhole Daley talks about how the cpd leads in technology. Bullshit! Look at other depts. And we are years behind. But remember guys we have cameras (that don't work very well).
Kolb was an incompetent from the 11th Ward and deserves all the blame heaped on her.
Kevin Byrne, nephew of Tom Byrne (retired backstabber), was another incompetent involved in CHRIS. He shut down the stop order system and told no one in the Detective Division that he had done this. The SAO declined to authorize warrants and demanded stop orders and the Detective Division had no choice to comply. Ten months later the Detective Division discovered what Byrne had done but he had moved to another city job and Deputy Superintendent Harris declined to accept any responsibility and Hillard agreed.
Hillard is a dummy, Harris a jerk and Byrne and Kolb political incomoetents!
3/21/2009 06:15:00 PM
You have printed a large amount of misinformation. You must be drinking as you post because your words make little sense.
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