Parking Enforcement Agent Speaks
Someone see if they can track this down:
- Now...........the good news.
It came down last night at the end of the shift.
Marked CPD Squads are not at risk now.........Someone called our Deputy Director and Director and convinced them that having PEA's writing Mark Chicago Police cars was a bad idea.
Read that line again...
MARKED POLICE CARS ONLY are getting the pass.
Not quite a capitulation, but at least following the rule of law where Illinois Statutes are concerned.
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posted by SCC at 3:45 PM
56 Comments:
This is THE most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my entire life. I mean, it's head shaking ridiculous.
This City is beyond redemption. I cannot believe the Mayor and all the aldermen/women have not been indicted.
---not a cop
Using the psychological theory of projection---when anyone or thing (government) goes after, for example in this case, law enforcement, meaning attempts are made to disengage, prohibit, interfere with the enforcement of the law, it's a sure bet and insight that there is wickedness going on.
Take a look at the DOR personnel badges. THey look just like CPD's old badges and they also wear CPD regulation pants and vest cover. So seems like they must be loving this new "jam it to police" duty.
ATTENTION DEPT. OF REVENUE
you are picking a fight you cannot win. use common sense before you guys end up ticketed, locked up, and your vehicles impounded. you better think twice even three times before you consider writing marked or unmarked squad cars. trust me you will lose this fight.
****OFF TOPIC****
A Calumet City police officer was shot Tuesday afternoon while in pursuit of three alleged bank robbers who crashed on the Bishop Ford Freeway during a police chase.
The incident began after three alleged suspects robbed the Citibank at the River Oaks Mall in Calumet City at gunpoint about 2:15 p.m., according to Illinois State Police Sgt. Juan Valenzuela, who said it appeared the suspects involved in the robbery were in pursuit by Calumet City police when their vehicle crashed on the Bishop Ford near 130th Street near the Beaubien Woods Forest Preserve.
The offenders fled from the vehicle and one offender fired shots at a Calumet City police officer, Valenzuela said.
The officer was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with non-life threatening injuries, a source said.
One of the alleged bank robbers was taken into police custody, Valenzuela said. Unconfirmed reports said a second offender was caught by Chicago Police near 130th and Ellis about 3:45 p.m.
The second offender was allegedly apprehended in a swampy area near the Altgeld Gardens housing project. He reportedly has a gunshot wound to one of his arms, according to unconfirmed dispatch reports.
I'm sure some genius will start obtaining a C.R. # on all illegally parked marked units THEN you will get an automatic day.You will be forced to fight it and justify what you were doing.
With appologies to Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles....We just sent back for a shitload of quarters!
I call bullshit. Everybody is up in arms about this already. Has anyone seen an order? No. Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. If you're going lights and sirens to a man with a gun call and you park illegally in a tact car, how in God's name can they write you a ticket??? "Oh darn, I can't find a legit space, but there goes bad guy with the gun running down the alley. Give me a break.
So, an M plate isn't considered marked?
Don't let them get us off topic ...this is not about parking tickets and creating a war with meter maids ...this is still about not having a contract .... This is your typical downtown distraction BS ...
Heard an "officer down" over ISPERN radio this afternoon - I94 @ 160? Hope everybody important went home ok.
Dammo. Does anyone know if Stanley's still has free valet parking? Thank 4 gawd Barleycorn is close to the Children's Memorial Hospital parking garage.
They are writing unmarked cars parked at meters. Several have been written in northside districts. Assholes.
What a joke
ON any given day if they look hard enough those TMA guys can write a zillion parkers. Screw the MEDIA TRUCKS, SCREW all the construction guys, ect... WIll those people come to their aid when they write someone and piss em off?!?!?
how can parking enforcement agents tell if officers away from a CPD unmarked vehicle are in a nearby alley looking for a man with a gun, following a thief on foot, doing a narcotics surveillance, watching some gang-bangers, etc; and are on official business doing their jobs covertly, or not? Another BRIGHT idea by our College-Edumacated Whiz-Kids...What a bunch of chicken-shit, nit-picking Assholes, on Orders of the Council on Corruption; aka City Hall/Shortshanks. No wonder Morale is worse than ever. don't pull into a no parking zone, bus stop big enough for 3 busses, or elsewhere and go out on foot after criminals, just let em get away while you ride around in circles for 10 minutes looking for legal parking. GREAT LEADERSHIP, [for the Criminals!]
They have the arrest numbers since JFed was made. JFed is aware. Da mare is aware.
They have refused to release these statistics to the media.
2008 stats for FELONY arrests were a little more than half of 2005. 2009's pace is even below 2008.
The drop is so dramatic that the State's Attorney's Office could be forced to make layoffs if the County rolls back Toddler's tax increase.
Da Mare and Da JFed are scared out of their minds. They are just now realizing that they have completely loss control of the rank and file. Surveys, tickets, denied time due, denied pay increases, these are the acts of desperate men.
The law and our contract do not demand that we do anything other than show up. We aren't just winning. They finally realized, we've already won.
WOW a real bullshit artist !!!
SCC post the FOP update... its all a rumor.
Please pray for Pedro Medina from 014 who was critically injured in Afghanistan when a building he was in collapsed. Broken neck. Movement in hands and feet today so that is good.
Will update when I can.
a bit off topic ---- but what about cars with handicapped plates? I called the infamous 311 and they don't have a clue if they must feed the meters or get ticketed.
OT-
Overhaul at Streets and SanCommissioner likely out after snowplow snafu, offices to be cut
May 19, 2009
BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com
The Daley administration is mapping plans for a break-up and shake-up of the Streets and Sanitation Department that could remove layers of field supervision, transfer key functions to other departments and sweep out embattled Commissioner Michael Picardi, City Hall sources said Monday.
Last winter, Mayor Daley lowered the boom on Picardi -- and dispatched Transportation Commissioner Tom Byrne to Snow Command -- after the city spent $490,000 on snow removal during a relatively minor first-of-the season snowstorm.
The Daley administration is mapping plans for a break-up and shake-up of the Department of Streets and Sanitation that would remove layers of field supervision and purge embattled Commissioner Michael Picardi.
Picardi landed in the doghouse, even though a City Council rebellion subsequently forced Daley to reverse a cost-cutting policy that saw City Hall use less salt, plow side-streets during normal working hours to reduce overtime and skip side-streets altogether after minor snowstorms.
A longtime Daley favorite, Byrne is a former high-ranking Chicago Police officer brought in by the mayor in 2005 to clean up a Transportation Department hard hit by the Hired Truck and missing asphalt scandals...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/
cityhall/1580473,CST-NWS-
shakeup19.article
From what I saw and heard, Mike Picardi did a good job keeping the streets cleared winter before last -- and that was a sixty-incher too. I saw and took pictures of plows staging all over town, salt filled, radio crackling, driver with coffee and all set to go if (when) it got worse. Picardi was out there on the radio at 3 AM getting reports on conditions, etc. "Yes Sir, Commissioner. No Sir, Commissioner."
Picardi didn't screw up last winter under nearly identical weather conditions -- that was Daley ordering that side streets not be plowed and salt not be used. My knees STILL hurt from a fall I took -- Ace bandages still every day.
That little twisted-faced, shanty-Irish motherfucker -- and now he's axing Picardi.
Here come the non-union "outsourcing" contractors with their bribes and their kickbacks and their illegal-alien labor..
Off Topic:
News flash - GPS system scheduled to break down by 2010. Ours already has.
Cant believe I WATCHED A TREE COP WRITE A BULL SHIT SPEEDING TICKET!
That's too bad. I was really planning on having a good time with this one. Lights on, dead batteries, wasting time looking for parking.
Oh, well. They'll come up with another retarded idea soon enough. Then I'll stick that one up their asses too.
Dip shits.
Daley is angry that we marched on city hall, we stopped being pro-active, ticket and arrest numbers are down, etc.
Do not play into his hand by writing every thing in sight. Write only those who you must, and those, like the Dept. Of Revenue who strike the first blow.
It seems to me that it is time, once again to march on city hall. This time carrying signs that air all the dirty laundry. What more do we have to lose???
Ticket my squad?? WTF.........TMA's stand by........your vest wont help you at all in gettingout of a ticket.........
A car or two (unmarked) were written parkers in 011 on Monday. If you never been to Fillmore, they could write a hundred cars around the station OR tell the ASA's and the Judges to park on the street (get them out of the parking garage) so the unmarked cars can be parked legally.
epa's are backing down because they can't win this one
when they park illegal
write them a ticket
cars parked illegal by fire plugs , bus stops , crosswalks
write the ticket
This is bullshit, SCC. Lots of tact guys write tickets to justify traffic stops that evolve into PCS, UUW and PSMV arrests. Those traffic tickets usually wind uo being transferred to TRAFFIC CT., which means tact guys wind up appearing there in unmarked squads. They should be offered the same protection from "ticket harassment" as any other on duty LEO driving their assigned (unmarked) squad to traffic ct.
Why would the officer be held liable for a parking ticket?? Shoundnt the OWNER of the vehicle be held liable??? Why the double standard, if I loan my car out and it gets a parker I'm liable even though I was not driving the car...stands to reason that the city should be held liable! HAHAHA when pigs fly...Oh they already have, I heard a SWINE FLU !!
Start locking up revenue and tma people. Just watch 'em they'll give you an excuse.
If I were to get a ticket, on my squad car, would I have legal standing to fight the ticket at 400 W. Superior? It's not my car, it belongs to the City who has absolute liability on the parker.
Also would the union have to provide me a lawyer as this was duty related?
That someone actually implemented this asinine edict in the 1st place,& it took a day to correct it speaks volumes to how F'd up this City& Dept really is. This is what happens when you have civilians who couldn't find their ass w/ both hands dictating policy.It's only going to get worse...
I'm tired.......
Off the subject
An update from Oklahoma.
The state law passed today, 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values...!
Guess what..........We did it anyway.
We recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from, unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. Hope we didn't send any of them to your state. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Guess what..........we did it anyway.
Yesterday we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegals to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional.
Guess what........We did it anyway.
Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. That, for your information, makes Oklahoma and Texas the only states to do so. Guess what.........More states are likely to follow. Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, both Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, just to name a few. Should Mississippi act, so willFlorida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again.
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a set back for the Kennedys and Ms Pelosi.
Guess what..........We did it anyway.
By the way, Obama does not like any of this.
Guess what....who cares...were doing it anyway.
Please pray for Pedro Medina from 014 who was critically injured in Afghanistan when a building he was in collapsed. Broken neck. Movement in hands and feet today so that is good.
Will update when I can.
Best wishes Pedro. My prayers are with you.
One hell of a P.O. and a great guy.
OT: 5/19/09 City has put another economic package on the table, get this, it is half the amount of the previous economic package that was laughed at.
This is true as stated at FOP meeting.
Now go out there and work hard, keep your morale up, write tickets and make arrests and bring the K-Y jelly to keep your ass lubed up.
And say a prayer nightly for our mayor, Richard M. Daley, the source of all evil within the City of Chicago.
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Saw an M plate unmarked car getting a ticket from a meter maid parked at a meter on 35th parked right by headquarters today. WTF?? seriously, unbelievable
I am waiting to read the Memo from Police HQ regarding parking enforcement on vehicles with M plates. Am I mistaken? but are TMA's and DOR the only agency that issues parking citations? Hey Jody I am waiting for my Memo.
FOP contacted Dept. of Revenue, they said its all B/S
One ticket issued today across the street from the 008th district on the meter.
Dept. of Revenue wrote approx. 20 tickets in Tally's Corner today. Great, thanks. City sticker, city tax, and you want me to pay for a residential parking permit? Eat my fucking balls.
Anonymous said...
ATTENTION DEPT. OF REVENUE
you are picking a fight you cannot win. use common sense before you guys end up ticketed, locked up, and your vehicles impounded. you better think twice even three times before you consider writing marked or unmarked squad cars. trust me you will lose this fight.
5/19/2009 04:27:00 PM
Uh huh Id be careful working with this guy
It is just Ginger sending in retribution for Mt Greenwood not sending$ or attending the Dem.19th ward fundraiser next month. More fees, more taxes, no contracts and a cut in city services and jobs. Mount Greenwood will not be there, so should we expect more tickets to be written?
ON any given day if they look hard enough those TMA guys can write a zillion parkers. Screw the MEDIA TRUCKS, SCREW all the construction guys, ect... WIll those people come to their aid when they write someone and piss em off?!?!?
5/19/2009 06:47:00 PM
No but neither will I.
PEOPLE!!.Remember the Bus driver Red Light debacle?? Bus drivers are not liable for fines, the city/taxpayers are liable.....so until they implement an ordinance requiring drivers to pay redlight violations, I don't think we need to sweat this RUMOR!!
"Dept. of Revenue wrote approx. 20 tickets in Tally's Corner today. Great, thanks."
You're welcome, Mr. Tally. Next time park the car in Oak Lawn. Do you and your neighbors still prevent non-anglos from moving in?
"Uh huh Id be careful working with this guy
5/20/2009 01:02:00 AM"
As if you ever work....
Hey Oklahoma
Take a chill pill man!
By the way, Obama does not like any of this.
Guess what....who cares...were doing it anyway.
5/19/2009 10:41:00 PM
OOOooooooklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet. When the wind comes right behind the rain.
"You're welcome, Mr. Tally. Next time park the car in Oak Lawn. Do you and your neighbors still prevent non-anglos from moving in?
5/20/2009 10:14:00 AM"
Why yes we're one of the few remaining South suburbs that has stable property values & doesn't look like Tijuana or Detroit. Keep your Savagery in the Ghetto or Barrio where it belongs
"Hey Oklahoma
Take a chill pill man!
5/20/2009 06:40:00 PM"
You mean the same pill you took, right before you voted democratic?
Why yes we're one of the few remaining South suburbs that has stable property values & doesn't look like Tijuana or Detroit. Keep your Savagery in the Ghetto or Barrio where it belongs.
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It's swell that Oak Lawn still has a trailer park, not many south suburbs with stable property values can boast about that. Your pride glows like a worm.
As of 8:45 a.m. today, "Tally's" is still part of Shitcago. You must be confusing it with the "Bally's" by Centennial Park. And Tally's Corner has no savagery, just plenty of Irish and Italian Catholics. I can see why you were confused.
Yeah and now the Aldermen want special treatment, "official placards" to avoid tickets,give me a break.
It is state law cars with handicap plates and placards do not have to feed the meters
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