Merit Pool to Grow?
Once again, the Sun Times gets an important fact incorrect, but it's the Sun Times. We expect them to be half assed:
Police Supt. Jody Weis said Friday he is working to expand the number of officers who can be considered for merit promotions and, ultimately, make it a system where "you don't have to know someone.''
One of the more far-reaching ideas -- and one still in the planning stages -- would open up merit selection applications to anyone who has passed a test for advancement.
Um, newsflash? If you pass part one, you are already eligible for the "merit" selection process. It says so in the test order. And some people are so confident of their ability to get "merit" promoted, they don't even show up for part two of the test. Hey J-Fed? Did anyone ever tell you that part of the "merit" process? Maybe for the next round of picks, you could see what their combined score and actual test rank is? Bet you'll be surprised.
Here's an interesting thing we noticed. The Sun Times article is written by Anne Sweeney. If you go to the Southtown Star article, also written by Anne Sweeney, you get this incorrect tidbit:
Here's an interesting thing we noticed. The Sun Times article is written by Anne Sweeney. If you go to the Southtown Star article, also written by Anne Sweeney, you get this incorrect tidbit:
- Under current promotion practices, 20 percent of the positions are filled by those who are recommended based on merit. Most positions are filled based on a test score.
It's only 20% for Detective spots. For Sergeant and above, the "merit" selections are 30%. But it's amusing that two completely different errors can make it through into two different papers both owned by the STNG conglomerate and both errors convey to the reader that everything on the CPD is on the up-and-up when it isn't. Anne better have a couple of talks - one with her source and the other with her editors.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Since it is clear that the merit process cannot be cleaned up, why not just get rid of it altogether?
just ask "Matty" about the beauty of merit picks! Think I could test in Denver and miraculously be in the top 5 of every freakin test I took? Doubt it Im not "matty"
Will he also "grandfather" in the hardworking coppers without college? That would be the answer! "just do it jody do it"! And free COZZI from your fbi snare!
"Anne better have a couple of talks - one with her source and the other with her editors."
She did.
They're the ones who told her what to write.
It's really long overdue for every thinking person, living in this city, county, state and nation, to fully understand that the idiots writing the news, whether for print or broadcast media, do not have the final say on what gets printed or spoken.
It's those 'editing' the news copy that are primarily responsible for the sorry lack of accuracy, balance, fairness, substance and honesty contained within the most important 'news' issues of the day.
Nothing, and I do mean nothing, gets printed or broadcast, without having first passed through the filters of bias defined by those who 'edit' the news.
Bylines, with very few exceptions, mean next to nothing.
The talking heads are just that; heads reading a pre-written and pre-filtered (edited) script which is what passes for actual news these days.
The fact that these 'news' reporters provide what appears to be substantially truthful and accurate information on the events of the day, belies the actual fact that, since those reading or viewing the 'news' are rarely individuals who have had direct, personal knowledge of same, there is little valuable information contained within these 'news' reports.
The rule of thumb here is that for every truthful piece of information that is reported, 2 or more pieces of relevant info are omitted and/or are replaced with what are, for all practical purposes, lies and/or damn lies.
Most often the lies are ones of omission.
Almost as often, the lies are ones of subtle, and not so subtle, false implication.
And the occurrences of outright blatantly false info have been increasing as each year passes.
All of the above being approved and enabled by, you guessed it, the editors.
We must all realize that the presumption of 'innocence' is no longer a typically accurate one, when applied to these 'editors'.
They are far from innocent or naive, nor are they under informed, nor are they 'just doing their jobs with the best and most honest intentions'.
Our concepts of what constitutes journalism, and the nature of a journalist, must be reassessed and revised, to more accurately reflect the actual changes which have occurred within the once respected profession of journalism.
The 4th Estate has been just as compromised as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Most 'reporters', and their retarded cousins, the 'news readers', are now no more than puppets on strings and, as such, should be given no more respect than one would give a puppet.
Just what we need, with all the City job rigging, more MERIT.
END MERIT NOW..
THIS WILL NEVER STOP UNTIL WE VOTE DALEY OUT!
Daley backs the criminal element, but never backs the hard working Police. Daley said he knows the following convicted criminals, to be good guys (code for wise guys), Robert Sorich(Patronage Cheif), Patrick Slattery(Streets and Sand), Al Sanchez(Streets and Sand Commissoner). ALL THREE WERE CONVICTED IN A FEDERAL COURT FOR RIGGING CITY HIRING AND PROMOTIONS.
SIGNED; A GOOD FELLOW
SPECIAL K, PUT HIMSELF IN FOR ANOTHER MERIT.
Daley knows more MERIT workers than anyone, ask Special K and Co.
We needed THE UNTOUCHABLES to clean up the corruption in the City like back in the 20's and they send us J-Fed. We are doomed!
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I was at the Medical Section on Friday. I over heard the Departments Physiologist say after reading the news papers on the current events with the Department. In His professional opinion He finds Daley to be Bi-polar with Psychotic episodes and Mood Disturbances. In order to treat this manic(Daley) they would have to pay him more. The Lt. said to him "your out of luck, he's in charge and now playing SIM-OLYMPICS"
I hope the Mayor has Psychiatric treatment in his retirment package, I hate to see him at the Picific Garden Mission next term.
I survived the 4,000 Man March, and the big talk was to vote out Daley.
Don't worry brothers and sisters this guy is never again going to get a vote from my family or friends. I hate to thing that I once backed him.
As a Detective I conducted a fact finding mission of my own. With help from interdepartment C.I.'s.
25 Districts
5 Areas
5 Area Mantance Buildings(Police use)
1 Headquaters
1 Training Division
1 Homan Squar(Verious Units)
5 covert Internal Affirs Office Buildings
22 Safe Houses
12 Warehouses (ERPS & Euipment & Supply).
1 Boat House Marine Unit
1 Halopad
1 Horses Stable(63 Horses)
1 Mayors Unit 35th Normal
1 Rented spot for TRU (39th Street)
1 JIF Center (39th Califonia)
There are plans in the Assistant Superintendent Office to rebuild all of these, remodel and join some together at a projected cost of $46Billion Dollars.
I wounder how much of this will be done by walsh construction.
And you said you are building us a police station Mr. Mayor
And some people are so confident of their ability to get "merit" promoted, they don't even show up for part two of the test. Hey J-Fed? Did . AS A SGT..I SAW IT 1ST HAND, BUT I WISH I HAD GOTTON THE NAME...IN PT 2 OF LT TEST , A WHITE GUY WALKS IN, SIGNS IN, SITS DOWN, AND 3 MINUTES BEFORE THE TEST, COLLECT HIS STUFF & WALKS OUT...NEVER SAW HIM BEFORE OR SINCE, BUT DID HE MAKE IT? AS A SOUTH SIDER, HAVE NOT SEEN HIM, ASSUMING HE'S A NORTH SIDER...THEN THERE'S THOSE 5 MIN AFTER THE TEST WHO CALLED BIFF MALLOY AND ASKED WHAT THE RIGHT ANSWER WAS? WTF...
EDITORS? they were probably the 1st to get fired. A year from now their all gone.
90% MERIT
10% TEST
That is what the city wants
You don't have to know someone to be merit.
You have to be in a unit to be a merit
Kind of an oxymoron.
More people can be "considered" for the merit pick but the people with a phone call will still be the ones who get made. Just more smoke and mirrors
The way I read the article it seemed that what Weis meant was that officers could be considered for merit WITHOUT needing to be recommended by an exempt. They would be able to submit their resume, activity, whatever directly for consideration.
It is confusing as written, but if you read it carefully, that does appear to be what it means...
The merit system here is a joke. It will never go away. However, it would be nice to see the CPD define MERIT and what makes a person qualify to be promoted by merit. The brass should also put in writing, where everyone can see, why they nominate someone for merit.
It will never happen. This dept. sucks.
Damnit! Here we go again with "MERIT"?
It's a fair and completely reasonable request.
Will the City of Chicago give a categorical and unequivocal written definition of their use of the word "MERIT"?
Any fool knows that it is anything but the definition of actual merit which appears in Merriam-Webster.
Also explain the criteria and standards for so-called "merit". Is that asking too much? We think not.
And to the Annie Sweeney's of the media: If the City refuses to comply, would you DEMAND a comprehensive definition of "merit" from the city before you disseminate that bastardized word to your readers (radio listeners and TV viewers).
Ms. Sweeney: You are giving uninformed, naive Sun-Times readers the obvious implication that CPD promotions are legit.
CPD "merit" is nothing more than arbitrary management discretion without regard to any standards of excellence. Many Chicagoans and certainly the entire CPD know that CPD "merit" is merely a euphemism for CLOUT.
For the love of Sweet Jesus Christ, STOP USING THAT WORD "MERIT" UNLESS AND UNTIL IT'S DEFINED IN WRITING BY THE CITY OF CHICAGO!
Are we asking too much, Tribune and Sun-Times editors? Do you really wonder why your industry is following the course of Pravda?
Your inaction and deafening silence only confirms what we know: the local Fourth Estate rests in King Richard's hip pocket.
Prove us wrong, Sweeney, Main, Spielman, Rozas, et al. (and your editors), not to mention the producers of local radio and TV news.
SCC has been doing God's work in exposing what lies beneath Daley's flower planters and the wrought iron fences. I don't want to ever have to repeat this post again.
P.S. to SSC: Quotation marks every time you use that fucking word "merit". PLEASE!
"Police Supt. Jody Weis said Friday he is working to expand the number of officers who can be considered for merit promotions and, ultimately, make it a system where "you don't have to know someone.''
An impossibility in itself.
Why so more merit can come from units?
End Merit.
The recent captains promtions were all "merit". District law enforcement lieuts all worked long and hard on their application package in hopes of being "considered." I'd like to see one deputy supt.or member of the merit board who could look us in the eye and say they read one single application. The list was a who's who of lieut's with connections to the upper echelon deputies. Why do you think a disproportionate number of merits come from specialized units? Everyone will be "considered" (drink the kool aid).
The new lieutenants class starts Monday morning. The good thing was the FAX message listed the merit selections.
The new lieutenants and DOA are:
Merit selections:
001 BLISSETT, Rodney 4/90 M/1
314 LIEBAS, Phillip 10/86 M/4
153 MARIANOVICH, Mark 02/87 M/2
189 MOORE. Marc 12/87 M/1
650 PENA, Maria 12/87 F/4
606 VELEZ, Carlos 11/86 M/4
Rank Order:
166 CASE, David 09/86 M/2
192 DARLIN, Randall 12/93 M/2
620 DEENIHAN, Brendan 05/97 M/2
004 DOHERTY, Raymond 10/94 M/2
006 GILL, Phyllis 01/91 F/1
012 KINGSLEY, Dale 03/90 M/2
650 KLICHOWSKI, Greg 02/83 M/2
055 MACK, Paul 06/91 M/2
253 RYAN, John 11/93 M/2
011 SCHMEER, Paula 01/92 F/2
018 SCRAFINI, John 11/82 M/2
017 SESSO, Jacq. 09/97 F/2
124 SESSO, Steven 12/93 M/2
017 STISCAK, Michael 09/92 M/2
make it a system where "you don't have to know someone.''
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DID THEY REALLY WRITE THAT??!!
Who do I have to know? Can some one please tell me ?
how about we just stop all of the cheating?
"...I hate to see him at the Picific Garden Mission next term.
4/05/2009 01:35:00 AM"
No you wouldn't.
And neither would I.
I was sitting in bar when I over heard a guy name McGuire say just that. "I didn't even have to take the second half of the test". Well, i thought was a big j.o. all those hard working po's and he had the balls to thing he deserves it.
Hey Weis! The instructions for the last Sgt test was to write my name on the cover IN PENCIL!
Boy would I LOOOOVE to see my answer booklet again!
Anonymous said...
90% MERIT
10% TEST
That is what the city wants
4/05/2009 03:21:00 AM
That is the way it is already with those study groups.....
funny..how many office and caps people are merit bosses now? or look at the LAPA list of multiple promoted?
Who needs "merit" when you get daddy's legacy to make a phone call?
20 lts promoted. 15 off list 5 merit. That is 25o/o.
The city has the ability to promote 30 o/o. But they don't have to promote any by merit.
Don't get me wrong. There are a few that deserve merit but not many. I have a problem with people that get multiple bites of the merit apple.
It is a system that helped destroy moral but no one cares. Promote off the list and give a handful merit. One or two per class not anywhere near 30 o/o.
INTERESTING ARTICLE:CHICAGO POLICE STAND UP AGAINST DALEY'S OLYMPIC BID!
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Make more detectives from the list but not merit. Hire more police or this summer will be worse than last far as homicides. It's a now brainer, just do it!
We are staring back logs in early moring hours between 0900-1130. We are short manpower.
I definately trust the city to make the merit picks wisely and not use patronage and clout to fill out the picks................
Ok, this is the same Sperintendent who allowed Daley to pick a Chief of Staff for him a chief of staff with no police experience. The same Sup. who has allowed Daley to pick his Legal Council, News Affair Director, Director of Personnel, and most of his exempt staff. The same Sup. who has created a spot for a poltically connected Lieutenant. in news affairs. It os obvious right now that mots of those commanders are geeting told who to pick for merit picks. Oh yeah, give him more choics of who to pick so the calls can come right from city hall with out the middle men. This is the same Sup. that wants us to trust him after the Cozzi case and turning over evidence taken in an administrative DUI case to prosecutors so the copper can have it used in a criminal case.
In one of Jody's meet the troops gatherings, I submitted the following:
All of us are aware of the process known as grooming. If you have the right clout you can go right to tact, make Merit Det.,make Merit Sgt., make Merit Lt., and so on. Of course on the surface these people look like superstars who are climbing the ladder to success, in reality it is politics as usual.
If you look at the Lt's list just released you once again see people who are getting their THIRD MERIT promotion.
Jody you cannot say it slipped by, you had no idea it was happening. To add insult to injury you want to hand out even more merit promotions.
Its really quite simple, Det's must have 5 yrs on the job, Sgt's must have 8, Lt's and Captains don't even think about it if you don't have at least 15 years. Exempts, only Lt's and above, making a Patrolmen an Exempt, should be a big No No. Make everyone, even merit take both parts of the test (Since some merit get the answers ahead of time this shouldn't be so difficult for them) Then only one merit promotion allowed per person. 20% merit across the board, and finally, a novel idea i've heard bantered about a few thousand times here and elsewhere, provide officers with immediate results. Problem Solved...
Rumor is that Daley and Weis want to make the rank of Lieutenant a Senior Executive Service position. Just like the Captains it would be all "merit", (clout), and are trying to find out if they can do it without it being voted on by the P.B.P.A. Lieutenants Association.
Anyone have info on how many will be in next Sgt's class and when?
So everyone can put them selves in, BUT THEY STILL DO THE PICKING. HHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! is this a joke. nothing changes.
END MERIT NOW.
You don't expect proof reading and editorial oversite with all the recent cuts do you? I mean c'mon.
O/T
Once again, Northside nails it.
I used to love reading some of his reports. I remember 1 where a woman complained that a guy forced her to perform a deviate sexual act. Under questioning of the victim, John unfounded the case saying that she admitted to making the complaint "because the offender ejaculated in a manner which the victim found to be distasteful". Write a book, Northside.
All promtions should be merit.
Everybody loves me. I'm a shoe-in.
Why do we have to submit ANYTHING to the Department for Merit-Hack-ulous Promotions? Doesn't the Department know who does what? Don't THEY keep proper records? Isn't it their job to keep track of this stuff, not ours? They should be able to tell by just checking our names. Are they to LAZY to keep proper records of achievements, Medial abuse, CR#'s, etc? Also, FOP, where are you? And also, J-Fed, please explian how politically-connected Cops working in S-L-O-W Districts in the Low-Crime Areas, with only 1 to 10 years on the job, can possibly have more Department Awards than the working stiff cops with 10 to 25 years or more on the job , all those years working in the highest crime areas in the City, yet they have less? Could it be that Mommy or Daddy got their Kids/relatives; etc to that SLOW District Spot via politics, and they got Awards for Bullshit, and now look much better for Merit-Promotions that the real street cops, who deserve those awards, but seldom get them?
Does anyone honestly think you can put yourself in for a merit selection and even be considered? What a joke. End merit now.
20 lts promoted. 15 off list 5 merit. That is 25o/o.
The city has the ability to promote 30 o/o. But they don't have to promote any by merit.
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Your public skool education is showing. Go back and count the list again. It's 14 rank order, 6 "merit." That's 30%. And by contract, all fractions are rounded down for the promotional process.
I love you Jwad!
HEY SUPT. DO I STILL HAVE A CHANCE AT GETTING PROMOTED AFTER I SPENT YEARS COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS JOB AND HOW I HAVE LOW MORALE BECAUSE I PUT MY SELF THERE BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH COMPLAINING..... IF I STOP COMPLAINING AND TELL EVERYONE MORALE IS GOOD WILL I GET PROMOTED???
IF I DON'T GET PROMOTED, I WILL CONTINUE TO COMPLAIN!!!!
WEST SIDE BLUE SHIRT
WGN just talked about foreclosures and listed 65th & TULLMAN as an hard hit area. I'm sure they meant Talman?
Sloppy. Someone on this board said, there are no real reporters anymore and I agree. Half these people proofing these stories have probably never set foot in Chicago or do all their work on a keyboard without ever going out on the street to "report."
The only way to be fair about the merit promotion is to get it all out in the open once and for all and announce, in advance, with enough warning for all, the exact date and time they are all going to be posted on eBay.
That way there is no bullshit blog speculating on who knows who and who fucked who and which wife fucked which boss to get her and her husband promoted.
Merit promotions will finally at long last be out there for all to see, we all will know exactly what the closing bid is, the final selling price is there. That is the only way to be fair to let everyone get in there and bid the motherfuckers up there and high bid wins.
If a bidder fails to pay within 24 hours they get a negative feedback and are banned for life from bidding again.
That is the only way to make it even and fair, the money goes to the cash strapped City and the promotions go to the high bidder.
Now what the fuck could be more fair or more American than that? Sell the goddamn fucking things at auction on eBay and good luck to all. May the ones with the highest line of credit take home he stripes or bar(s).
If anyone has a better idea I'd like to hear it.
"The same Sup. who has created a spot for a poltically connected Lieutenant. in news affairs."
WHO DAT BE??
Do you know why they have merit. First class of lieutenants in 1995 ( arthur andersen test)- first deputy townsend comes into the class. There is a class of 54, he introduces himself and only knows 2 people in the class. A short time later, they add "merit" selections, 13 of them.
That along with the 1988 sgts. test where there were not enough of one race. GER sent us home because of it. Later they put in some of these merits, - one turned out to be a Deputy Supt.
It is not on the legit.
"017 SESSO, Jacq. 09/97 F/2
124 SESSO, Steven 12/93 M/2"
JUST LIKE WHEN TOMMY & SUE CLARK MADE LT.
YOU KNOW THE MATHEMATICAL CHANCE OF RELATIVES BEING PROMOTED AT THE SAME TIME IS??
ANOTHER FINE EXAMPLE OF WHAT A COMPLETE F'NG JOKE THE PROMOTIONAL PROCESS IS!
Merit won't end until Daley is out.
Perhaps, you need to check out the general order 09-02 regarding efficiencies that are going into practice effective 01 apr 09.
This is the new "merit" promotion tool. It has got to be one of the best kept secrets. Because I've not seen anything from FOP about it.
Ratings 1 & 2 allow the graded officer to be ELIGIBLE for merit promotions, special assignments and special employment. Level 3 does not allow any of those, but most interesting is level 4, which two consecutive ratings of a level 4 "begin the termination process".
Very interesting reading on what is being graded.
However, it further goes on to add that if you've been on the medical,or iod, or a leave of absence for 6 months you cannot be graded, but doesn't explain that actually completely enough. What happens if you cannot be graded, do you miss your step raise??? Are you disqualified from Merit promotions for the year???? Or what???
wow I didnt know you can be LT will only 12 years on...must be some real superstars in this class!
At 9:30 AM, I spoke to Mr. Dale McCulloch and "Netty", Chicago Sun-Times, alerting them to this "MERIT" thread.
Both assured me that they will advise City Editor Paul Saltzman and reporters Annie Sweeney, Frank Main and Fran Speilman to read this thread in its entirety and respond.
I also left my phone number and my eMail address cpdfop7@yahoo.com for the Sun-Times response. The Sun-Times should also send a copy of their reply to SCCmaillist@yahoo.com.
The main phone number for the Sun-Times is (312)321-3000.
I also phoned the Chicago Tribune and spoke with Mr. Andrew Wang, City Desk. He assured me that he will relay an identical message to editor Peter Kendall and reporter Angela Rozas for a response to the content of this thread. Tribune: (312)222-3232.
As time permits, either YOU and/or I can notify respective news mgmt. at local TV and radio stations.
Our message is clear: When the City of Chicago uses the word "MERIT", call it CLOUT or at the very least, encase the word "MERIT" in quotation marks.
I will keep all SCC visitors informed of the media response.
Hey stupid, It stands to reason if your heavy, you work in a specialized unit. Therefore you should have first dibs on merit promotions because your heavy, got it. Now go read your general orders.
Maybe the merit pool should be expanded. It continues to deny 1920a merit promotion. The pathetic begging of exempts for a promotion will go on till he reaches age 63. Suicide watch once again. Get a life D.C.
Anonymous said...
Maybe the merit pool should be expanded. It continues to deny 1920a merit promotion. The pathetic begging of exempts for a promotion will go on till he reaches age 63. Suicide watch once again. Get a life D.C.
4/06/2009 01:25:00 PM
Um, are you talking 2nd Watch 1920?
Let's play find the TRIPLE MERIT PROMOTEES on the latest LT promotion. Hint: There are four of them. Yes four who have been meritclitoriously promoted to Detective, Sergeant, and now Lieutenant. WTF, are these people that fucking outstanding that they deserve a merit promotion three FUCKING TIMES. I know each of them and believe me NONE of them have been so outstanding in their career as to warrant THREE FUCKING MERITORIOUS promotions. FUCK YOU J-FED AND ALL YOUR FED BULLSHIT. DO US ALL A FAVOR AND RESIGN.
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