Parking Courtesy
The readers have come up with a few suggestions to keep Pammy in business. We doubt she'll take anyone up on them though:
- Start at "reverend" Meeks church. Courtesy double parking blocking streets, sidewalks and curb cutouts for blocks around. And if rumors are to be believed, on-duty tact teams providing all sorts of free traffic control and direction at the behest of the District Commander.
- Work your way north from there. All sorts of "reverends" demanding (and receiving) parking courtesies from Commanders they helped appoint.
But that wouldn't be politically correct, would it Pammy? Would anyone believe how often we see media vans parked illegally on hydrants, bus stops and no parking zones, yet they never get written because HQ non-suits media tickets as (wait for it...) a courtesy!
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
58 Comments:
Parking courtesy is just that, a courtesy. If Pammy needs it in writing, let's just have the print shop make up 'Courtesy Parking Only' signs and Streets and San can deliver them to each venue before the event. Post them over existing signage and let's be done with this petty little issue.
How about
Sweet Holy Spirit Church
8621 South Chicago
Bishop Larry Trotter.....
There's a politician tie there, right?...Any relation to Donne?
Double parked for blocks on South Chicago every Sunday.
Then they get offended when an emergency vehicle on a call blocks their exit.
NAIL 'EM ALL!!!
Drive down Racine on a Sunday around 78th street...
1) TRIPLE parking (racine is BLOCKED)
2)hydrant parking
3)sidewalk parking
4)a certain Escalade owned by a priest of St. Sabina parked in said street (initials M.P.)
So driving home I have to turn off Racine, shoot down to Morgan (cause the other streets are blocked) and then drive back to Racine because.....the REVERAND Mike Faker has a mass going on? Yet, zero tickets are given to these people? Why? Because we are told this would be "bad" public relations. OK, whatever boss, but how the hell does Fr. Faker afford a Caddilac Escolade on his "meager" salary? Investigate that Pam or don't you want to anger the "scary people"?
When I officially gave up on the media was when Officer Nathaniel Taylor was killed in the line of duty. The Sun Times, who is often quick to judge our SPLIT SECOND LIFE OR DEATH DECISIONS, ran the name as DANIEL Taylor. They had a FULL DAY to get this headline right as PO Taylor was shot at approximately 6am and the headline occurred the next printing. How did the Sun Times apologize? Online ran a cover with the right name. NEVER reprinted a cover with the right name (on the FRONT page). This right then proved to me that the media could care less about us.
I watched Zekman's piece and what really made me wonder was the end whan she was live in the studio with her two ass-kissing anchors. Pam states that the "fans are FURIOUS" over this development to which her cohorts respond "i'm sure they are. It's expensive to park." During this interview, Pam had the time to speak to 3 cops, 4 people trying to park and kept filming others trying to park. Yet, she only had the time to interview ONE (1) person who was upset about this practice? Interviewed same guy in Cub pullover. This institutes a "FURIOUS" reaction? Buddy of mine said he was asked about the parking and he responded "wish i got here early to get it." He's not a cop. Where is this on Pam's report? Pam had nothing, so being the useless, talentless, lazy reporter that she is, she ran the ONE guys quote to get her sheep to baaaahhhhh.
Remember, the MOST important day for the CPD is coming up: MAY 3RD, St. Jude march. Yes, the media will give it limited coverage to show how they "love" us. Ignore them. Don't speak to them. But if they corner you, be courtious. This day is not about us, it's about PO Francis, PO Taylor and PO Airhart. This is not a time to air our grievances. It's about those who have fallen to protect those who don't understand what we do, why we do it. It's a time to be filled with pride that you are doing good. At the end of that march there are people waving signs in support. There are posters of those that have fallen. There are widows and children of the fallen. And yes, there are citizens there to support us, people who may have never called for our service, yet there to say thank you. These are the people we march for, the people the media will never speak to. These are the people that make my eyes tear up at the end of St. Jude every time. These are the people that make me proud to wear the uniform of the CPD. If anything, show up for them. Disregard the Zekman's. Disregard the media in general. Just march because you are proud of what you do. Just march for those who have fallen. March to see the happiness on PO Taylor's daughters face. Do it because we are proud. No matter what the media says, these moments can't be taken away from you. Please march in St. Jude. It really does mean a lot to others. Stay safe
Oh, and dont forget the Catholic Pastors and their Parish They also receive courtesy parking. The one in Bridgeport is a good example
There is a church at 83rd and South Chicago that is always a mess with illegally parked vehicles. They are double parked, on hydrants and there are many-many compliance violations (i.e. missing plates, cracked windshields, no city sticker, etc.). The WC often says "give them a break...we got a call."
We give churches all over this city parking courtesies on Sunday, and it's not because of some edict on high. Most folks do it for just that reason, it's a "courtesy".
Hey Pam Zeckman , YOU ARE ONE SOUR DUDE !!!!!
When are you coming up with a "News Worthy" expose ???????
Pam--
Your story would have probably been okay if you took it up the chain of command. Instead you dropped it on the lowly beat coppers who are just following orders.
Why didn't you follow up with WHO GIVES THOSE ORDERS?
Prepare to have your police sources dry up, just like you.
I guess I will be fair and tag all the parisioners who cannot park legally on Madison or Chicago Avenue. I mena hey what's fair is fair. And oh I almost forgot about all those news trucks and the newspaper trucks that are committing violations.
Hey Pammy how about the pension board refusing to honor the supenias issued by the Inspector General investigating the Mayor's nephew and his little band of thiefs. Might be a really BIG story here!
lil' george said...
Remember, the MOST important day for the CPD is coming up: MAY 3RD, St. Jude march..................
4/29/2009 04:07:00 AM....
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You said it best. Will see you Sunday, A wife.
Hey Pam,
It must feel like shit to have your career peak in the 1970's (Mirage). Yet the corruption is still bigger than ever. Why don't you mentor some fine young reporters and maybe they'll get the big one, because you just don't have it anymore.
009 cop.
How about when Alderscum IKE Has parties at his house & calls the station and were told in roll call to extend parking courtesy to that block, Should I keep going? Churches, Shithead funerals, Yes even Gang bangin funerals. Drive on the west side on a sunday morning. I'll give you some pointers. Madison ave, Chicago ave, Division, Central Why don't you see how bad traffic is. See how long it takes you to travel two blocks when "Church" is being let out.
Anyone who has worked the 30 sector in 008 knows of the "Courtesy" parking we have to extend to the, gulp, C.R.O.E organization on Wed and Fri nights. We even have to down a car fpr 3 hours in the busiest beat in 008 for them. Believe me, not because we want to, but because it's what WE WERE TOLD to do. Get all the facts Pam!
Its just that..a courtesy. How many times in the C/O book is there a memo asking for parking courtesy for a church, community event, moving day for a citizen's moving truck? Not to mention the unwritten policy of not bothering the news media (any outlets), delivery trucks, and the like. Sorry you ugly little troll, you are reporting on nonsense.
Father Phlegar is big pimpin :)
driving an escalade........
Yeah, that's a hell of a better story for Pam the Scam. Start writing about church "revruns" and their followings with all their illegal parking while "they be gettin' their prayer on."
The End of an Era...2016-Chicago
Drive thru the 2nd district on any Sunday.
Church parking lots cost money. Less tax free money for the rev to use for more important sh**.
three words:
Cell
Phone
Cameras
they are used against us all the time.
A little off the topic. I have been retired for about 20 years. I saw a guy, I think he was CPD on one of those "segways" I think you call them, drinking a cup of coffie, while the thing was moving. Parking enforcment I guess. I looked at him in amazment, he must of thought I was "nuts". I did not know wheather I wanted to push him off it or ask him for a ride? Those things are a lot easier to hide than a three wheel motorcycle.
OT
I only wish our union leadership was made up of Rottweilers instead of Chihuahuas ! This would have been the perfect opportunity to show strength and solidarity and our continued resolve over contract issues AND extend our NO CONFIDENCE vote to the superintendent and mayor.
IMAGINE ! No one shows up for the mayors' St. Jude's Parade but we all attend an alternative St. Jude's Memorial, fully honoring our fallen brothers but rejecting the arrogant politicians and exempts ? News coverage ? I think so ! Maybe next year if we still don't have a contract !
IMAGINE ! Embarrassing those who think they can just walk all over us and have us watch their cars for them while they enjoy free parking and opening day at the ballpark ?
Shouldn't FOP try to continue our emergence of activism as a Union and continue our assault against unfair bargaining practices and ineffective leadership in our Department ?
Was ONE march around City Hall enough to create any change ?
We need to KEEP PRESSURING and embarrassing the mayor, don't we ?
Why wasn't there a subsequent no confidence vote taken at the last FOP meeting to verify and strengthen the original vote and show it was not just a fluke, or just a small minority of disgruntled officers, as the superintendent suggested ?
Will our union leadership appear at the hopefully heavily attended meeting of the pension board ?
You know that if the union were to show up, it would be newsworthy and the media would probably cover it ?
The Wilbur Milktoast leadership that we accept from our union, is all we will ever get. Don't expect any inspiration from them... they seem as clueless as the mayor and won't step outside of their comfort zone unless forced to do so !
Time to get a CR on the person who tells you to stop writing tickets in certain locations.
People should write tickets around these "churches" and then file a FOI request regarding the payments of these tickets. Now Pammie that would be investigative reporting.
Anonymous said...
Hey Pam Zekman , YOU ARE ONE SOUR DUDE !!!!!
4/29/2009 07:03:00 AM
Ever notice that you've never seen Pam Zekman or Gilbert Godfrey at the same time or place?
Same person !
I for one will not compare people parking at church services with people parking at a sports venue, some how I see a difference, bias it maybe....how many coppers want professional courtesy extended for church parking?
same shit in 014
Hey, pam? Know when your big ole' van parks partially blocking a lane of traffic so you can get your 'scoop?' That's called courtesy parking. Cant' wait to ticket your company trucks. I work downtown, so it's gonna happen honey!
ZEKMAN is a vertically challenged troll and by law can park virtually anywhere she pleases as long as it's under a bridge.
OT. talking about parking. Why is it that the lots around Addison and Clark that provide parking for a fee do not have fences ,aka Daley wrought iron? Just saw the old gas station at Patterson and Clark get taken down and a big white tent in its place. Everyone else has to put up fences when they have a lot and they have to make it "green friendly" also.
Your silly...
Didnt you get the memo?
Black Reverends are above the law.
Will Pam Zekperson be out there fuming that there is Clout Parking at the Park District Lots during the St. Jude Parade?
Hey Pam, Fume This!
Whew! Now that the parking problem is solved the city is a paradise.
Working in 001, I am proud to day that I have hung tickets on every news vehicle(CBS, ABC, NBC) in the last 2 days. ZERO Tolerance
Just because they are a media vehicle DOES NOT give them Special Dispensation to park illegally. That News Media parking credentials they all display gives them the authority to park in areas that have signs posted for them to park. According to what Ive read.
CBS2-Hope Potbellys was good.
ABC7-Bus Stops are a no-no
NBC5/Telemundo- Chipolte is in 15min loading zone.
CBS Channel 2 has been opting to use their "unmarked" Dodge Durango the last 2 days!!
Forgive me for writing the tickets, but if what you say is correct then they are non-suited at HQ anyway. Revenue neutral but I had fun doing it.
Time to start taking pictures and sending them to SCC.
Kotlarz is a convicted Tollway swindler and still gets a 3 digit plate and free Cubs parking.
It seems to me that there's a difference between cutting someone a break to help them do their job, and giving them free parking (for a amusement event) as a favor.
Zekman's story was about favors for political insiders, not a slam at the police.
Just A Civilian
Check out Alderman Burnetts office at Blackhawk and Sedgwick on a Monday night - parking violators EVERYWHERE, but residents get tickets on a daily basis from the 18th District.
Heard a rumor that because of Pam Z and her report the Park District is gonna charge police to park for ST. Jude.No more Courtesy parking. Anyone hear this
The practice of privledged parking at sporting events has been going on for decades and everyone, including the media knew about it. What is really at issue hear is, what happened to precipitate such a response by Channel 2 news?
Anonymous said...
People should write tickets around these "churches" and then file a FOI request regarding the payments of these tickets. Now Pammie that would be investigative reporting.
4/29/2009 10:44:00 AM
You can look up the payment status yourself on the cityofchicago.org using the plate number and owner's last name.
https://parkingtickets.cityofchicago.org/CPSWeb/web/SearchTickets.jsp
Of course if it is given a "station adjustment" nothing will show up.
The only ones on a restricted allowance are the nuns, about a $100 dollars a month. Any money a nun makes goes directly to the church. This does not apply to the priests. The priests have a much larger stipend.
"OK, whatever boss, but how the hell does Fr. Faker afford a Caddilac Escolade on his "meager" salary?"
Most priests do not take a vow of poverty-all nuns do.
That's why they keep having to raise money to support the old nuns-there's never a fundrasing drive to save the old priests from poverty. Because they are not poor.
Go figure!
IMAGINE ! No one shows up for the mayors' St. Jude's Parade but we all attend an alternative St. Jude's Memorial, fully honoring our fallen brothers but rejecting the arrogant politicians and exempts ? News coverage ? I think so ! Maybe next year if we still don't have a contract !
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The MAYOR doesn't HAVE a St. Jude parade. WE do. The mayor can't be bothered to ATTEND our St. Jude parade, which already IS in honor of our fallen.
Anonymous said...
IMAGINE ! No one shows up for the mayors' St. Jude's Parade but we all attend an alternative St. Jude's Memorial, fully honoring our fallen brothers but rejecting the arrogant politicians and exempts ? News coverage ? I think so ! Maybe next year if we still don't have a contract !
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The MAYOR doesn't HAVE a St. Jude parade. WE do. The mayor can't be bothered to ATTEND our St. Jude parade, which already IS in honor of our fallen.
4/29/2009 08:46:00 PM
Absolutely correct. The mayor doesn't go to St Jude and as near as I can tell, never has.
I wrote a letter to Mayor Daley asking why I never saw him at a St Jude parade. I sent this in May 1997. A few weeks later, in June 1997, I got a reply from Thomas P. Needham, then Assistant to the Mayor. My Needham explained that Sunday is special to the mayor, that he reserves it for his family.
I like days with my family too but I guarantee if I were mayor of this city I would never miss a St Jude parade no matter what my family had planned.
Mayor Daley had us pushed off of Michigan Ave and doesn't have the decency to ever attend this one day to honor for men and women who gave everything for this city.
Those same men and woman paid into the pension fund that the mayor's pal Allison Davis and his nephew Robert Vanecko have been looting.
I still have that letter from Mr. Needham. I looked into my old files to see exactly who signed the thing. Sure enough it was there in one file of letters, stapled to the envelope.
It's OK Mayor Daley, don't break tradition now, please stay away. I am sure you know how much you are despised by most police officers anyway. Have a nice day with your family. I will be with my extended family in blue.
>>>IMAGINE ! No one shows up for the mayors' St. Jude's Parade but we all attend an alternative St. Jude's Memorial, fully honoring our fallen brothers but rejecting the arrogant politicians and exempts ? News coverage ? I think so ! Maybe next year if we still don't have a contract !<<<
Who the hell wrote this?!?
I have gone to almost every St. Jude Parade for 32 years. When I started, Richard J. Daley was there and this current mayor wouldn't make a pimple on his ass.
We go there not for the mayor, or for the bosses, but for each other and our departed. If we make a big show, then Shortshanks knows we have power.
Stay safe, screw Daley, he won't be there, and show up and march.
Hey, pam? Know when your big ole' van parks partially blocking a lane of traffic so you can get your 'scoop?' That's called courtesy parking. Cant' wait to ticket your company trucks. I work downtown, so it's gonna happen honey!
4/29/2009 12:29:00 PM
Calm down Missy. You might relapse.
Time to start taking pictures and sending them to SCC.
4/29/2009 04:58:00 PM
Great idea.
"OK, whatever boss, but how the hell does Fr. Faker afford a Caddilac Escolade on his "meager" salary?"
4/29/2009 08:45:00 PM
He a Mac Daddy pimp.
Anonymous said...
Anyone who has worked the 30 sector in 008 knows of the "Courtesy" parking we have to extend to the, gulp, C.R.O.E organization on Wed and Fri nights. We even have to down a car fpr 3 hours in the busiest beat in 008 for them. Believe me, not because we want to, but because it's what WE WERE TOLD to do. Get all the facts Pam!
4/29/2009 08:59:00 AM
7100 S. artesian come on PAM LOOKY HERE! FAIR IS FAIR HO'
Listewn Up Folks: I have first hand info that the House of Hope out in the 5th district has on duty
police working traffic control on Sundays and they let folks park any where they want, and instead of having cops on patrol they have them down all day at the church, what's wrong with the parisoners helping direct the folks out of the lots. Hey Pam, check it out
It seems to me that there's a difference between cutting someone a break to help them do their job, and giving them free parking (for a amusement event) as a favor.
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So how is it that Pam (and the rest of the media) never cuts us a break to help us do our jobs?
I tried to call down there to get on the list for a cubs game and I was told only exempts. Pam exposed the fact that it is just for clout, police or not they even had a convicted felon parking there. So a copper from 007 is not good enuff to park there but a convicted felon friend of da mayor is. I am not a fan of pam but she did expose some legit BS.
Anonymous said...
Listewn Up Folks: I have first hand info that the House of Hope out in the 5th district has on duty
police working traffic control on Sundays and they let folks park any where they want, and instead of having cops on patrol they have them down all day at the church, what's wrong with the parisoners helping direct the folks out of the lots. Hey Pam, check it out
4/29/2009 10:55:00 PM
And the copper that runs the parking is paid extremely well hello griff!
Anonymous said...
We give churches all over this city parking courtesies on Sunday, and it's not because of some edict on high. Most folks do it for just that reason, it's a "courtesy".
4/29/2009 07:02:00 AM
I have seen it at a few Jewish services, but its apredominately at Black churches.
"I am not a fan of pam but she did expose some legit BS.
4/30/2009 08:58:00 AM"
The problem is that she emphasized the officers just doing what they are ordered to do, and the part of her story you speak of got lost in the telling of the tale.
Why was the leading blurb, and the emphasis throughout her piece, all about 'cops giving a pass to .....'?
Why wasn't the leading blurb, and emphasis throughout, instead, 'clouted/connected to city hall insiders get free parking, with cops being ordered to play parking valets, while our streets are running red with blood, as a result of patrol being so grossly undermanned'?
Cars filla whole traffic lane on traffic on Logan Blvd.
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