Saturday, July 11, 2009

Pay to Play?

From the comments:
  • off topic 19th ward GINGER AND TWO DEM SECRETARYS WERE TAKEN DOWNTOWN TO DIRKSEN FED. BUILDING MONDAY AFTERNOON, COULD IT BE OVER SPOTS SOLD ON POLICE FIRE TESTING AND OTHER JOBS GIVEN TO THE CHOSEN, SAY IT AINT SO...

    THERE SHITTINGS BRICKS IN 022ND DISTRICT TO NIGHT
This rumor is popping up with increasing frequency and not just here. We heard there might even be a wire involved - worn by someone who didn't get a promised promotion after delivering cash to certain people.

If, and this is a big "if," true, this could blow the lid off of a lot of testing irregularities and destroy the "merit" system. We know they used to sell spots on the job and on the lists back in the day, but the Civil Service exams were supposed to weed that out. In this day and age, to imagine an aldercreature would be anywhere near a potential scandal like this...well, they are aldercreatures after all, not rocket scientists.

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179 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Secret Study groups????

7/11/2009 12:38:00 AM  
Blogger OLD*6970 said...

MANY THINGS THAT WENT ON IN THE DAY
ARE STILL GOING ON BUT THE PROCESS IS DIFFERENT NOW... THEY BUILT THE SYSTEM, THEY KNOW THE SYSTEM, THEY ARE THE SYSTEM...

PAY TO PLAY, THE ONLY WAY?

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!

7/11/2009 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, please. Let it be true. Roll those dumbocrat heads. Too bad this isn't an election year.

7/11/2009 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Given some things I've been told and surmised over the years something like this wouldn't surprise me.

We had a former Judge spend some quality time at Club Fed for purchasing his position and I wouldn't be surprised if some meritcloutorious Cop or Fire promotions can be tied to some cash donations or what's the word I'm looking for........BRIBES.

As for some groups of connected cops doing suspiciously well on promotion exams I will not comment.

Oh what the hell. Does the phrase "statistically impossible" mean anything to anyone?

Ever notice how well some of the 35th Street contingent do on promotion exams? It's almost as if someone gave them a copy of the exam prior to the test.

Of course that would NEVER happen in Chicago.

7/11/2009 01:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wish they would publish a price list for special units and promotions.
I have some dough saved up, I'd pay to play.

7/11/2009 01:23:00 AM  
Blogger It's McTwitter! said...

Back in the early nineties, there was a captain (recently deceased) in the fifth district, who non-chalantly said he paid $10,000.00 to make his bars. He lived in Beverly before he retired. This was long before Rugai's time. The good news was: This guy was a smart captain, unlike the present day numbskulls getting made.

If Rugai is involved in selling promotions with Fitzy in town, she should get her head examined.

7/11/2009 01:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How did a female Sgt get merit in 022 she ran Rugi's fundraisers

How does that qualify someone to be a supervisor ?

7/11/2009 01:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As we speak alderscum joke and elbow each other over the naive former Lt. that overpaid (grossly)for a plum Capts spot. Because corruption runs wildly, freely and openly alderscum joked louder and louder and elbowed more and more people unable to mask their mischevious glee. There's a point where the Justice Dept has no choice but to investigate.

7/11/2009 02:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone knows it's the chicago way to pay and play. Nothing is free and I'm sure that's what blago saw going on from the start of his political carreer. The merit spots are always and still given to the connected. If you work hard but don't have a close relationship with the brass you will never be looked at. The connected always seem to do well on the tests too. Wonder how that happens?

7/11/2009 02:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?

7/11/2009 03:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey, i thought all those promos were legit? just ask these bosses...they ll tell you!

7/11/2009 05:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Heywood said...

PEANUTS, POPCORN, COLD BEER! Get them right here folks. Now enjoy the show. Oh, if only it were to be true! If only! I am getting giddy just thinking about it. I feel like a kid at the circus.

7/11/2009 05:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT- look for Lt. Gushes to be named Commander of Vice next week. Sorry, but true...

7/11/2009 05:18:00 AM  
Anonymous 19th Ward SGT said...

I have a feeling that nothing will come out of this one.

Ginger is done after this term anyhow, job is going to M.O'S. - so they will just let her close out her term, akin to doing time served.

7/11/2009 06:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bye Bye Lapa

7/11/2009 07:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this has been going on for years hope it true the real police

7/11/2009 08:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOCK EM ALL UP INCLUDING dALEY BECAUSE WE NEED A NEW SET OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS.

7/11/2009 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She's a POS.

7/11/2009 08:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The good old 19th ward.

7/11/2009 08:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely.

...and by the way, Beverly looks like shit lately Ginger.

---not a cop

7/11/2009 09:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can think of a few sgts,a lt, a couple of capt's and a former commander who are sweating about this unfolding invertigation.

7/11/2009 09:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ahhhhh--- so that's how some of these retards who can't even tie their shoes got promoted---- we know who you are--- we knew you were a goof the first day you came to roll call and opened your mouth----

7/11/2009 09:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Which of Chicago's elected officials will be honored with the olympic gold for corruption?

7/11/2009 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?
7/11/2009 03:01:00 AM
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
J-Fraud's crack "police group" was developed after he became "the sup"
They were hand picked by Daley=Mike Masters (not the police, never been the police but wants to be the police without taking the test!)
Masters picked Sgt. Roy Roy Hamilton (not the police, trys to be the police, still can't figure out how to be the police)
R. Homilton picks a couple of hot looking chicks with less than 7yrs on the job combined.
These are the people that guide the superintent with his day to day operations and decisions.

Is everyone laughing?
If not, you should. ALL of these people are jokes in their jobs. Not one has a clue.

7/11/2009 09:44:00 AM  
Blogger Reverend Al said...

Back when I was young and stupid, as opposed to old and stupid as I am now, my sergeant on Mole Patrol found me studying for the Sgt's test. "That's the wrong book to study," he said, "you should be studying your checkbook."
Despite being 3 on the patrolman's test (back in 1966 when they were giving the job away to get warm bodies), and number 2 on the dicks' test, which was graded in front of you while you watched, I didn't even show on the Sgt's test.
Things haven't changed at all. I should have listened to you, Sarge.

7/11/2009 09:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where the fuck do I sign up to get a piece of the lawsuit that comes out of the fed investigation into merit promotions.

PS. Are you hearing us FED Judge who's supposed to monitor this shit !!!!!!!!!

7/11/2009 09:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of merit, I see they didn't put out the assignments of the newly graduated Sgts. I guess they are top secret. Uh hum, I wonder why?

7/11/2009 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ask the exempts how much they paid? Who are they connected to? Hey sgt "merit" nice stripes how much? The manilla envelope companies business must be booming in shitcago!

7/11/2009 10:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd like to know how many U of I grads also do do good on promo tests.

7/11/2009 10:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here is how it works if mike madigan promotes you! You "giveback" 7% "tithe" a year in the form of buying fund raising tickets or bullshit ad book. If you don't you are not "protected", burke works the same way is this pay to play? ginger what is 19th ward scam? I am tired of these POS alderthieves, get the bus Fitz we will meet you at shitty hall and "load em up"!

7/11/2009 10:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They dont need "special study groups" or the answers or anything like that cause they make it on "Merit". part 1 of the test anyone can pass thats been through the police academy.

7/11/2009 10:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT. Im IRISH and I live in the 19th ward but I dont have any clout!!! DAMN!!!!!!!!!! I knew i should have dropped an envelope over to that office on Western

7/11/2009 10:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about the commander of the academy? Why do we need an ADS and a commander? 19th ward that's why.

7/11/2009 10:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is the #1 off of the Lt's list now? News Affairs so she can use that expert knowledge she gained working at 35th street all those years helping out the Dept. and where is the # 1 merit Lt. from that list Ike's Bro. A2"future commanders I bet" Got to love it folks. Please pass the 55 medical so I can get out of this chicken shit outfit.

7/11/2009 10:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Karin Stanford said...

LOCK EM ALL UP INCLUDING dALEY BECAUSE WE NEED A NEW SET OF CORRUPT POLITICIANS.

----------------

U gotz that right.

Jacka$$ $r. was conjugally close to Dart at the press conferences in Alsip, jockeying for camera time and attempting to show the new generation of Shitcago voters his name still matters. I can't help but think he's using the tragedy at Burr Oak as a pulpit to regain the limelight and in the process help reposition his kinfolk for the Mayoral throne.

A Jacka$$ shalt be made Mayor once King Dick the Two vaporlocks.

Have a Blessed Day.

7/11/2009 10:36:00 AM  
Blogger John Northen said...

A generation ago, the FBI and the Office of then U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas had initiated "Operation Phocus" concerning allegations of graft among CPD members assigned to liquor license investigations.

Valukas had signed on to a proffer for one Robert Purtill who had just been promoted to lieutenant in the first wave of EXAMSCAM (Rank #98).

In out-of-state storage, I still have a redacted photocopy of a FD-302 in which S/A Daniel Berger documents his "Operation Phocus" interview with "Lieutenant" Purtill.

Under penalty of "lying to the FBI", Purtill confessed that he handed "a (cash) campaign contribution" to then Ald. William Beavers. In a quid pro quo, Purtill was promoted to lieutenant despite his miserable failure in the legitimate component of the EXAMSCAM "process".

After providing a copy to Mike Lyons, BGA, I phoned both Purtill and Berger. Both refused to comment. Furthermore, Berger had the chutzpah to threaten my arrest for possession of a "confidential" FD-302. I replied that the document was circulating throughout the CPD. Berger hung up.

Valukas ignored Purtill's EXAMSCAM confession. In effect, he threw me to wolves LeRoy Martin and Richard M. Daley.

7/11/2009 10:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The power of ms.rugaui:

Commander of Area 2 Welch was given a list by Ginger of what detectives were going to be assigned to the 022nd District.
All the robbery detectives were picked and chosen by Rugai...
Sgt (HBT) hand carried the list from the ward office.
Ginger also made one request from the violent side. The two detectives that ran her golf outing were placed together in homicide. Young Det BJ (good worker) could not get days or midnights by bid.

His partner SOCRATES (NO IT ALL) DIGGER had the time. The two ran Ms Rugais golf outing with all the other patronage hacks. The outing was a success and Comm. Welsh being the patronage hack he is followed the alder creature’s orders. THE young detective and his partner displaced p/os who had been detectives for 12 to 14 years longer on the second watch.
This pissed off several non merit real sergeants assigned to the area.
POWER TO THE WARD.
This was just one division with in the police department.
How many sgts and detectives did she make? How about the special units and do nothing jobs.
Rugais niece is getting sgts pay in the crime lab. Yes sir, her ten year veteran niece (blond) mysteriously passed over veteran evidence techs and forensic investigators with decades of more experience.
One big rumor that is not confirmed is that she is worried about what she asked BIG IKE for on the last sgts and lts classes.
Trivia fact: 022 has the most merit appointees in the city.

How many Fire lts. Captains and Chiefs?
How about streets and sanatation.
the power of ms.rugaui:

PLEASE INDICT THEM ALL

7/11/2009 10:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With all the stuff you all see....and with all the stuff you blue know....

Why don't you all get off your collective asses and go talk to a Fed Prosecutor?

7/11/2009 11:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM  
Blogger ynot said...

And this is a surprise to you?

7/11/2009 11:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe we are talking about Merit Spots, not that many 19TH Warders were high on Sgts or Lts lists.

7/11/2009 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My old grandfather God rest his soul when asked why he never went higher than Captain in the CFD used to say: "I didn't have the money."

7/11/2009 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Commander R.W. of the police academy must be shitting bricks. Ginger made her.

7/11/2009 11:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It appears the new " Commanders application packet" is by invitation only. No patrol Lts to be considered. As usual the " transparent" process is opaque.

7/11/2009 11:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh dear Lord, please let Ginger Rutabaga be indicted.

Let the house of cards finally fall!

7/11/2009 11:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?

7/11/2009 03:01:00 AM
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The 3 women with less than 6 years on the job is true, but I'm still trying to figure out what they do. One walks around like her shit doesn't stink and thinks she's hot, but I'm not impressed the least bit (Not jealous either, so save your breath).

7/11/2009 12:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The FEDS should squeeze JOHN HARRIS on what he knows about the so called MERIT process that started when he was Deputy Superintendent of Administrative Services.

7/11/2009 12:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ike don't take the fall
tell all about cpd promotions

7/11/2009 12:50:00 PM  
Anonymous HATER said...

HO HUM PEOPLE STILL THINK COPIES OF THE TEST ARE PASSED OUT?

LET ME EXPLAIN QUICKLY.

THE SUPES PICK ABOUT 5 EXEMPTS TO FORM A TEST...

EACH EXEMPT HAS A STAFF W/ A LT HIDDEN IN THE STAFF AND OF COURSE SOME SGT'S.

THE EXEMPTS DONT TYPE UP THEIR OWN REPORTS DUE TO LAZINESS...

EVERYONE IS TOLD TO STUDY ABOUT 350 VARIOUS ORDERS, RULES, AND LAWS.

NOW THE FUN PART THE EXEMPTS PICK WHAT IS ON THE TEST.

SO LETS SAY IM THE SUPE AND I HAVE A SON WHO WANTS TO BE A DICK W/ 5 YEARS ON I TELL HIM WHAT TO STUDY.

yOU KNOW WHAT COLOR PEN IS USED?
RULES 4 A CHASE
HOUR A JUVY CAN BE HANDCUFFED...

NOW MY SON ONLY STUDIES ABOUT 100 THING INSTEAD OF 350.

MY SON BECOME DICK W/ HIS TACT BUDDIES AND THEN BECOMES A SGT A FEW MONTHS LATER BECAUSE THE CITY LET PEOPL TAKE PROMOTIONS THEY KNOW THE ARENT GOING TO KEEP.

DID I TELL MY SON THE ANSWERS?
NOPE
DID I GIVE OUT THE TEST?
NOPE.
DID I HAVE A SPECIAL STUDY GROUP?
NOPE.

GO DOWN THE MERIT LIST AND U WILL SEE THE CAUSE AND EFFECT.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS.
IF THE FEDS REALLY WANTED TO RESEARCH THIS CAUSE THEY WOULD PULL THE OLD TEST MATCH THEM UP W/ MERIT PICK AND SEE IF THEY TOOK BOTH PARTS OF THE PROMOTIONAL EXAM.

WHATS WRONG J-FED SCARED TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
THE DEVINES AND CLINES OF THE CITY WOULD GET A LITTLE NERVOUS.

STICK WITH GOIN AFTER OFFICERS WHO SLUG ASSHOLE DATS WHAT UR GOOD AT!!! U COULDNT DO A LEGIT CASE IF THE PAID U!

7/11/2009 12:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please let it be true !!!!!!

Aldercreatures are just as stupid as the people they merit into supervisory & Gold Star jobs on the Dept.

Lock all the MO FO's up and throw away the key !!!!

7/11/2009 01:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Secret Study groups????

you mean secret "fix" groups that the bosses kids and relatives were in, the study group with the test answers for all the clouted???

7/11/2009 01:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

19th Ward SGT said...
I have a feeling that nothing will come out of this one.

Ginger is done after this term anyhow, job is going to M.O'S. - so they will just let her close out her term, akin to doing time served.

7/11/2009 06:53:00 AM
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Well thats good news everyone!! I was worried that we would have to wait till the election was over to find out who the new CHOSEN ONE was?!?!? Im glad they picked him/her out already.Why wouldnt they,you dont want someone in there that would rock the boat and actually do anything ABOVE the table....like,oh i dont know?? BEACCOUNTABLE FOR THE 1.3 MILLION SLUSH FUND...HELL I COULD GO ON ALL DAY. Funny thing though the persons last name starts with "O'S" who would have thunk it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FED UP

7/11/2009 01:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DAMN, JUST WHEN I HAD ENOUGH SAVED UP TO GET PROMOTED....

7/11/2009 01:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT..didn't little Danny Hynes' papa complain loudly to the press years ago that he could not survive on the money he was making? before the ill-fated run for Mayor as the "Chicago First" candidate; yeah, it is all legit...carry on.

7/11/2009 01:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how many cook county sheriffs deps bought thier badges in the late 80's early 90's

7/11/2009 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a pro

F the 2 of u useless females. Merit Sgt Patches Melch assigned to 005 as Sgt. Didnt like it, sent to 004. Cried didnt like, begged for 022nd Dist. Got it. Civil service non merit sergeants cant leave 005 or 004 with years on the job. Patches is moved on telephone orders. Patches replaces male sgt on tac unit so that she can run ward fund raisers from the tac office. Sadly the handicapped commander allows this to occur.

Patches is to be the subject of a future law suit waiting to be filed. City is appealing a recent victory by the firefighters, as soon as this mater is resolved patches and her girlfriends will be history. And Patches have personnel fix your resume, you never received four hundred complimentary letters. The were generated electronically by yourself you over paid waitress.

7/11/2009 03:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Tru Dat said...

Commander of Area 2 Welch was given a list by Ginger of what detectives were going to be assigned to the 022nd District.


I have to call BS on this one. There may be half truths like most rumors, but I am assigned to the 022nd District in the D-unit and I am a registered Republican (Take alot of shit for since I live in Beverly). I don't know or have ever met Rugai.

7/11/2009 03:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1110:

Take all those awards and stick them on you ass they'll still stink you fuck.

Awards mean shit you useless fuck.

7/11/2009 03:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

NO WONDER WHY SHE'S NOT FOCUSED ON STOPPING THE HUGE RASH OF BURGLARIES IN BEVERLY.

7/11/2009 03:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

George Koste never made any bones about telling everyone how much he paid the alderman to make him a sergeant back in the "day"....

7/11/2009 03:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The 3 women with less than 6 years on the job is true, but I'm still trying to figure out what they do. One walks around like her shit doesn't stink and thinks she's hot, but I'm not impressed the least bit (Not jealous either, so save your breath).

Hope they enjoy it now. The clock is ticking. Feb 2011 is not that far off. J Fed will be gone, and his crew will be banished, and no police will have any pity on them.

7/11/2009 03:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Matt O'Shea is the next "chosen" one no doubt. Rugai will be gone after this term. That is how the 19th ward works.

My problem with Ginger is the fact that no matter what anyone tells her about beat car 2211, she denies it. I have called Rugai's office and asked why on midnights is 2211 in the Racine Courts? Why is 221 on Church Street detail? The answer: i am mistaken. So I pulled up the history of 2211 and faxed it to the office. Also delivered a copy of this. The response from Beverly Ginger: this information isn't right. Of course, there is now a North Beverly detail (guess who lives there?). Ginger, you have never given a shit about Mt. Greenwood. 111th from Sacramento to Homan looks like Englewood. Meanwhile, 95th street from Western to Leavitt looks like the Magnificent Mile. I can't wait for the day that you and Dick Daley walk arm in arm in cuffs to federal prison you bitch.

7/11/2009 03:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM

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403 complimentary letters? does this person type the letters up for people to send in?

even if you get one a month, it would take you 30+ years to rack up that many.

you know anyone who gets one a month? that's fucking crazy, and in absolutely no way legit.

7/11/2009 04:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of merit, I see they didn't put out the assignments of the newly graduated Sgts. I guess they are top secret. Uh hum, I wonder why?

You should wonder why you are so stupid....Yes they did put it out...

7/11/2009 04:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

from above post- i also have more awards in every catagory you listed for sgt DM, except for complimentary letters, which i admit, is considerably, considerbly less.

still though- i have 8 DC's, 120+ honorables, 3 joint operations, 1 DOC (tied), no lifesaving (but i did get 2 PO of the month awards), 7 fitness, and 6 problem solving. plus i got an appearance award once.

who put sgt DM in for merit? cause i wanna forward my name to them.

7/11/2009 04:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm retired a few years and was number one on a Detective test which they scored in front of you, some years later in my career I took a Sgts test in which in the oral exam they asked " what is the most important piece of equipment that an Officer has with him, guess what, it was not a gun, radio (ect) the answer was pencil and they were serious, I learned that the hard way, I flunked the oral test and retired as a Detective, oh well, thats Chicago

7/11/2009 04:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ginger also made one request from the violent side. The two detectives that ran her golf outing were placed together in homicide. Young Det BJ (good worker) could not get days or midnights by bid.

His partner SOCRATES (NO IT ALL) DIGGER had the time. The two ran Ms Rugais golf outing with all the other patronage hacks. The outing was a success and Comm. Welsh being the patronage hack he is followed the alder creature’s orders. THE young detective and his partner displaced p/os who had been detectives for 12 to 14 years longer on the second watch.

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Those 12-14 year dicks obviously didn't have the time to make the bid either. So, they requested that the commander use a MANAGEMENT spot on them.

God forbid the commander actually use his management spots to select workers like BJ AND his partner (who made the bid anyway).

What an argument!

I suppose it goes something like this:

"I was getting special treatment until it got taken away and given to someone else who works harder than me."

7/11/2009 04:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Sgt. CK- Your friend Sgt.DM certainly has a nice set of awards. But I recieved all those and then some for arrests I made off duty, on the way home from work. I am I supposed to think your friend Sgt. DM is something special, some kind of super cop?

7/11/2009 04:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is Jaba the Hutt in 006 sweating?

7/11/2009 04:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gushes a Commander! If it is true we are truly at the bottem of the shit pile. After fucking up Vice she gets rewarded with the Commander slot. UN-FUCKING-REAL

7/11/2009 04:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck her--she's useless to mt. greenwood & beverly---except around election time. then all the cops & firemen that she got hired, promoted, or put in a nice "spot" come out and support her. isnt this true mags?

7/11/2009 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck her--she's useless to mt. greenwood & beverly---except around election time. then all the cops & firemen that she got hired, promoted, or put in a nice "spot" come out and support her. isnt this true mags?

7/11/2009 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?
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Yes there is a policy group. They are like FDR's "Think Tank."

7/11/2009 05:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What kinda bullshit is being served up here. An officer has earned 403 complementary letters in her career? In 30 plus years I've worked with some highly decorated officers but 403 legit C/L's takes the cake.
One thing that isn't B.S. is the D/C's keeping the aldermen happy. It is and has been the highest priority for longevity as a D/C. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.

7/11/2009 06:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IF ture and i say if true i want a flying skateboard .... WTF

7/11/2009 06:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SOCRATES if he was in the 95 class ... he was dumb as a stump and he works homicide... god bless this department

7/11/2009 06:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WOULD NOT ENFORCING THE CITY STICKERS BE A JOB ACTION?? say no to writing city sticker tickets !!

7/11/2009 06:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the policy group only puts on classes at hq. I guess that's policy. Didn't know there were 3 chicks. Only dealt with one broad a couple times I had to come down there for meetings. Concluded she was clueless and obviously had no time or street experience. One thing stuck out though, she was a major ass kisser but only to bosses. Anyone without rank she changed her attitude quick. It made me chuckle.

7/11/2009 06:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Retired + Loving It said...

"Reverend Al" 9:52 AM

God, can I relate.

I got the top score on both the patrol officers' civil service exam in 1966 and the then legit 1969 dicks' exam. I just squeaked through for my chevrons and then "flunked" EXAMSCAM for lieutenant.

I would never pay the rotten cocksuckers a nickel. Clout and political corruption has irreversibly destroyed the integrity, honor and morale of the CPD.

My performance as a street cop with well over a thousand Part I felony arrest incidents spoke for itself.

If that wasn't enough, fuck 'em.

P.S.: While you probably are a decent fellow, I find your nickname nauseating.

7/11/2009 06:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard Captain Magliano wasn't charged a flat rate. They made him pay by the pound. 19th Ward made a mint on him.

7/11/2009 06:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is the disgusting part of being raised in Chicago, city workers and all citizens long ago became complacent with "pay to play" aka bribery to get what you want. Whether it be a garbage can, a license, a contract, a job, a promotion.

And to the lengthy explanation of how the exam works: nice try, and that may be one way. But I am telling you for a fact that many of us know that exempts have given the actual test out. Your former con artist supt was the number one offender with test handouts to his golden seed, who was stupid enough to share it with alot of big mouth partners of his - TWICE!!! So take your head out of the sand.

I do have a question if somebody can help. Can any of us sworn go to FOP and request a copy of all merit promotions? Thanks.

7/11/2009 06:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rugais niece is getting sgts pay in the crime lab. Yes sir, her ten year veteran niece (blond) mysteriously passed over veteran evidence techs and forensic investigators with decades of more experience.

Gee that wouldn't be JC would it? walks around on scenes like she is God's gift, except for the fact that she has to be told what to do because she is clueless! big surprise there... thanks for the revelation, wasn't aware of the connection to Rugai...

7/11/2009 07:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HATER is right on. If there is truely an investigation, cline and devines's buddies should be intervewed/interogated. One of them would break because most of them became very humble and embarrassed.

7/11/2009 07:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The 19th Ward Madame (Rugai) personally made two Commanders with the Cook County Sheriffs Police.

I can't believe that the three to six years of experience of both Commanders, Dwyer & White were not enough to have them made just on their experience and "dedication" in the operations of the 19th Ward. I doubt that the envelopes they passed to Rugai had any influence.

Hopefully the AUSA will talk to these two and put things right. It is the same all over Chitcago & Crook County.

Wait til Chicago had to deal with the CORRUPT Sheriff Dart as mayor. You have no idea. He is not even close to being as clean as he tries to appear. Good luck CPD

7/11/2009 07:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Think about this!

If any of this is true...

then isn't Jody part of the conspiracy...

couldn't he be indicted for complicity...

couldn't he be jailed...next to Richie...

shouldn't he resign.

THAT'S IT JODY, RESIGN OVER THIS SCANDAL!

7/11/2009 07:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM

Please. The award process is, at times, almost as embarrassingly skewed as the promotion process. The clouted have always been the recipients of more awards than the unclouted. No, I'm not jealous. I've got a few of my own. Some of them are for horseshit.

7/11/2009 07:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM

Well Sgt CK I have 22 commendations and over 300 honorable mentions. I never got a DOC award(????), however I did get put into BIS and dumped out of my job for all that work I did. Later the city had to pull me out of the program (along with hundreds of others) and the union told me "be happy wit what you got kid"; even though I'm 45yoa with 20+ years. Now...I'm still pushing a beat car and no one, and I mean NO ONE, has ever asked me for a merit package. I may not be able to run a golf outing or memorial run, but I can police (as in "action verb") like a motherfucker. When a young police officer has a question or a beef they come to guys like me, not the Sgt Dawn's of the world. So fuck you, your clout friend, and your sense of entitlement. Those stripes buy compliance (and only when ordered) not respect. Respect is earned, but you probably don't give a fuck about that. This is just a great city job with a lot of time off for folks like you.

7/11/2009 08:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM

ALL WORTHLESS, ALL THE CLOUT FUCKS LOOK LIKE PANAMANIAN GENERALS!

THE CPD AWARDS ARE A "WHO'S WHO" OF THE "CLOUT BABIES"

7/11/2009 08:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There are probes underway, tying "things" back, all the way to 2001.

7/11/2009 08:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the poster who doesnt like that the new guys name starts with O'S, may I suggest you find a candidate. I have a ffeeling that if the 19th ward doesnt pick her successor you my friend will have an alderman YOU REALLY wouldnt like. Oh and last i checked RUGAI isnt an IRISH name

7/11/2009 08:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The power of ms.rugaui:

Commander of Area 2 Welch was given a list by Ginger of what detectives were going to be assigned to the 022nd District.
All the robbery detectives were picked and chosen by Rugai...
Sgt (HBT) hand carried the list from the ward office.
Ginger also made one request from the violent side. The two detectives that ran her golf outing were placed together in homicide. Young Det BJ (good worker) could not get days or midnights by bid.

His partner SOCRATES (NO IT ALL) DIGGER had the time. The two ran Ms Rugais golf outing with all the other patronage hacks. The outing was a success and Comm. Welsh being the patronage hack he is followed the alder creature’s orders. THE young detective and his partner displaced p/os who had been detectives for 12 to 14 years longer on the second watch.
This pissed off several non merit real sergeants assigned to the area.
POWER TO THE WARD.
This was just one division with in the police department.
How many sgts and detectives did she make? How about the special units and do nothing jobs.
Rugais niece is getting sgts pay in the crime lab. Yes sir, her ten year veteran niece (blond) mysteriously passed over veteran evidence techs and forensic investigators with decades of more experience.
One big rumor that is not confirmed is that she is worried about what she asked BIG IKE for on the last sgts and lts classes.
Trivia fact: 022 has the most merit appointees in the city.

How many Fire lts. Captains and Chiefs?
How about streets and sanatation.
the power of ms.rugaui:

PLEASE INDICT THEM ALL

7/11/2009 10:52:00 AM


WHY DON'T THEY [SUPERVISORS] JUST ROTATE THE DETECTIVES TO DIFFERENT DISTRICTS EVERY 3 MONTHS OR SO? IS THERESOMETHING ELSE BIGGER GOING ON?

7/11/2009 08:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM

I didn't write the post, but allow me to comment.

Sounds like she's a great blue shirt, and should have stayed one. If you don't test well, you have no business being a boss. If you don't know the material well enough after studying, what good are you at using that knowledge on the street to do the job effectively?

We don't need brave cops when the shit hits the fan and careers are at stake, we need smart bosses; bosses that have the knowledge and experience to get the difficult job done right, then and there.

There are some really brave soldiers who would make terrible officers in the military. They're good at their jobs but would be terrible leaders and managers.

Sorry if they don't test well, but that's life. Not everyone is cut out for every job. The merit system is just another excuse to get political hack, useless know nothings stripes and bars while the truly deserving get passed over by them.

Would you want a merit doctor to operate on you? She just didn't test well, you know. She's such a great person that we felt she could do the job if it weren't for that little issue of testing subject matter knowledge. Give me a break.

Make that gung ho bad test taker an FTO or something, but keep them away from management. If I step on my pecker out there or there's something really bad about to go down that I'll need help with, I want a smart, knowledgeable, experienced supervisor there. You can have the well intentioned second rater or political hack on your side.

7/11/2009 08:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the last day of selling city stickers at the ward office, while in line, I was asked if I had anything to address to the ward.

Boy, did I, so I offered my suggestions in a priority order, starting with a having a beat car presence in Mt. Greenwood.

While giving the young girl my "list" a ward hack approached me and asked if I was "complaining"?

I said "Yes."

I also inquired why, in the 17 years of office, has Gigi neglected redevelopment in the greater downtown Mt. Greenwood area.

The loitering of the honor roll students after they are dismissed from Agricultural High School was also a concern. Students are spewing bottles, jimmying car door locks, jay walking, as well as a host of other extra curricular activities.

I mentioned since over 10% of the CPD as well as the CFD live in a one-mile radius, why hasn't she fought RMD about giving them a contract. It should be her #1 priority.

I also suggested that term limits for alderman be introduced -- this ain't their playground!

Per the tool's response, in reverse order:

Term limits: He laughed... I don't think he knew what they are.

Agriculture honor roll students loitering: He instructed me to call 911.

And last, but not least... When I asked for a police beat car to work Mt. Greenwood, he told me, "There are hundreds of cops who live all over, what do you need more cops for..."

I looked the tool dead in his eye and said, "Not fucking funny."

He then replied, "Why not just marry a cop then you'll have police presence 24/7."

I responded, "Why not just give us a property tax break, if we are not going to get a beat car? We can lay off jerks like you and give a bit back to the community -- let's spread this wealth, then we'll call it even."

So, the answer to police presence is to marry a cop... What do I do when the police officer goes to work on the west side, go with him?

I could not think of a finer group of people that this could happen to.

Let's get to heart of them all, and not JUST Gigi... What about the Joyces? There is a litter of corruption there.

Having never been brought in, it makes one think whether Jeremiah cut a deal with the feds?

It wouldn't be the 1st time, would it?

(Cough, cough -- Danno.)

7/11/2009 08:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Northside

Very interesting stuff. Why didn't U.S. Atty. Valukas do anything about Beavers and the bribe? Could he have been in collusion with Shortshanks? Like you, I got cheated out of my lt. bar.

7/11/2009 08:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Alderwoman gives a list of people she wants assigned? What is that all about? If I were the cmdr of the area I would have notified the feebs right away on this. Wire me up!!! Nothing like city hall rats running the cpd.

7/11/2009 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The 3 women with less than 6 years on the job is true, but I'm still trying to figure out what they do. One walks around like her shit doesn't stink and thinks she's hot, but I'm not impressed the least bit (Not jealous either, so save your breath).

7/11/2009 12:07:00 PM

arrogance will get you nothing. karma is a bitch. ask J Harris.

7/11/2009 09:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"ike don't take the fall
tell all about cpd promotions"

I doub't "Sleepy Ike" has much to say about this. Wouldn't want to jeopardize his hack meritorious brother.

7/11/2009 09:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm studying for the damn test and these bastards are studying the test. WTF Lock all those bastards up and send me my federal class action law suit check dammit!!!

7/11/2009 09:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To post 2:07pm you are correct 20 yrs ago one of my relatives asked me if I wanted to be a Cook County Sheriff it would cost me $500 bucks take the test and give test paper to a certain female. I didn't but 2 of my cousins did, been employed there for 20yrs.

7/11/2009 09:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM


AND GOFURSELF WITH THAT AWARD NONSENSE. WE ALL KNOW MANY SUPERVISORS WHO ARE IDIOTS BUT WRITE UP A PO BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO WORKLOAD (LIKE SOME OF US) AND BECAUSE THEY WANT TO JUMP ON THE PAPER. I AM SICK THAT I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO WRITE AWARDS FOR THOSE UNDER ME BECAUSE OF THE WORKLOAD I CARRY. THANKFULLY THEYRE GOOD GUYS WHO UNDERSTAND AND DONT COUNT NOTCHES ON THE BEDPOST. DONT EVER TOSS QUANTITY OF AWARDS OUT AS A DEFENSE OR PROOF OF QUALITY OF POLICEMAN. THOSE OF US WHO BEEN AROUND KNOWS IT MEANS SHIT.

7/11/2009 10:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do the police always bitch about other police? Stick together in an effective way, and maybe you'll see some contract progress!Stop bitching all the time!

7/11/2009 10:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

gushes wont be a commander ever. she just got done ratting herself out that brown hates her and that he told her that shes going before anyone else in the unit. calm down. dEVious is only promoting herself on the blog trying to make everyone sweat because she is.

7/11/2009 10:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes there is a policy group. They are like FDR's "Think Tank."

What do they Think about? You're telling me that officers with under 6 years are thinking about my future and this department status? You are joking right?

7/11/2009 10:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?

Got news for you KB, the 3 year wonder is stepping on alot of toes. She runs to the Supt. and Masters when she doesn't get her way and guess what? They bolster this goof by ordering people to do what she wants. Don't be shocked if she is promoted before he leaves. Either way I think she is in for a rude awakening.

7/11/2009 10:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Got news for you KB, the 3 year wonder is stepping on alot of toes. She runs to the Supt. and Masters when she doesn't get her way and guess what? They bolster this goof by ordering people to do what she wants. Don't be shocked if she is promoted before he leaves. Either way I think she is in for a rude awakening.
___________________________________

Can't make her a sergeant 'cause she doesn't have the time on the job. Can't make her a Detective 'cause with three years on she wouldn't have even taken the test. Maybe back to 023 or SWAT.

7/11/2009 11:02:00 PM  
Anonymous WTF SGT CK! said...

403-Complimentary Letters,
there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!!

from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

7/11/2009 11:10:00 AM



Are you shitting me? Char, is that you? You were a do nothing in 8 and now you're a SGT in 22, and you're sticking up for patches?

WTF!

Can you please tell me Char, err, SGT CK, how the hell does one person get 403 complimentary letters? Please, give me a VALID reason for that one....

When will YOU people learn? When you GET a spot that you DON'T deserve, just shut the fuck up, do your job, and do not complain. Do not try to make LT, be happy that you got OVER promoted from PO to SGT - that should be enough. Finally, do not stand up for your friend, when your friend is a political hack — it only defame you in the process SGT CK.

7/11/2009 11:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of merit, I see they didn't put out the assignments of the newly graduated Sgts. I guess they are top secret. Uh hum, I wonder why?

7/11/2009 09:59:00 AM

There was a list, but one of the sgts who was sent to 009? Right back to the court section, instead of call-back or the district desk like every other pregnant female. It will be interesting to see if she ever sees a district or goes right back to the court section after having her baby. Rules are different depending on who you know.

7/11/2009 11:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was 1988 Manos. Give it a rest you cline blowbitch

7/11/2009 11:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just got back from furlough and read the latest bullshit PAX501! What kind of children wrote this? Let me guess the 6 year never worked the streets wonders? Grow a set!

7/11/2009 11:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am tired of these POS alderthieves, get the bus Fitz we will meet you at shitty hall and "load em up"!


Everytime I read this part it makes me laugh..thats a good one!

7/11/2009 11:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

KB from the policy group has not been eligble for the last promotion tests, so there is no way that she can get a merit spot and her boss and his crew will be gone before another test is administered, graded and classes made. She better enjoy this while it lasts.

7/11/2009 11:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OT- look for Lt. Gushes to be named Commander of Vice next week. Sorry, but true...

7/11/2009 05:18:00 AM

Anonymous said...
gushes wont be a commander ever. she just got done ratting herself out that brown hates her and that he told her that shes going before anyone else in the unit. calm down. dEVious is only promoting herself on the blog trying to make everyone sweat because she is.

7/11/2009 10:16:00 PM

Gushes is a incompetent political animal. Her special degree does not make her qualified to be a real commander. Really, think about it. Gushes as a exempt in control of a unit? She does not have a clue how to manage a unit let alone a command. No street experience and taken care of since day one.

7/11/2009 11:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK, I'm doing something I never thought I'd do, sticking up for a politician. First for all those who will call me suck ass and so forth, My name is Sergeant Dennis O'Brien and I have never voted for Daley and never will, and even if he's not corrupt (I know, silly comment) just for the way he disregards my family and yours I can't wait until he is gone.. So there, with my name on it..
Now as for Alderman Rugai: I moved to Mount Greenwood nine years ago and am not a native, born with a Notre Dame hat on backwards. I am a hard core republican and at the time my story takes place I had yet to cast a vote as a Mount Greenwood resident. My son, who was doing volunteer work St Christina parish was looking for a summer job before he left for Villanova University. One of Rugai's secretaries ran the volunteers at St Christina and told my son to apply for an internship with the Alderman. I laughed and told him there was no way he'd get hired. I said some rich kid from Beverly would get the spot not him. My son, who attended Villanova on a full academic scholarship, was Valedictorian at St Rita High School where he was also the school paper's editor, an Eagle Scout, scored a 35 out of 36 on the ACT, did volunteer work at St Christina and an MDA camp where he cared for dying young kids. Now if anyone had a better application then him, I'd like to see it. Well, to my shock Alderman Rugai hired him for the summer and has been very kind to him ever since. She never, nor anyone, has ever asked me for a cent or for anything. She came to my daughter's wake and my son and I stood in line with her at Nate Taylor's wake where she refused countless offers to jump to the head of the line. These are my experiences with Alderman Rugai. I don't profess to know much about her but I would be surprised if all these allegations were based in truth. I wish her well..

Dennis O'Brien

7/12/2009 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

403 complimentary letters, ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY!!!!!!

An investigation should be launched into these bogus letters, complete bullshit!!!!!!!!!

Lets do some math here, if she worked a beat car and came across a stranded motorist (single) vehicle with four (4) flat tires, and she chanced each tire and received a complimentary letter for each tire, she would have to encounter 100 vehicles with FOUR blowouts.

That would leave her with a remainder of three (3) which is more reasonable!!!!

7/12/2009 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Got news for you KB, the 3 year wonder is stepping on alot of toes. She runs to the Supt. and Masters when she doesn't get her way and guess what? They bolster this goof by ordering people to do what she wants. Don't be shocked if she is promoted before he leaves. Either way I think she is in for a rude awakening.
___________________________________

Can't make her a sergeant 'cause she doesn't have the time on the job. Can't make her a Detective 'cause with three years on she wouldn't have even taken the test. Maybe back to 023 or SWAT.

7/11/2009 11:02:00 PM
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Yeah, so they'll give her a COMMAND.

7/12/2009 12:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WHY DON'T THEY [SUPERVISORS] JUST ROTATE THE DETECTIVES TO DIFFERENT DISTRICTS EVERY 3 MONTHS OR SO? IS THERESOMETHING ELSE BIGGER GOING ON?

7/11/2009 08:33:00 PM
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Who ARE you!? Sergeants don't determine who worrks where in the detective division. Lieutenants rarely get much input.

Now, area commanders, deputy superintendents, aldermen... THEY get to decide.

7/12/2009 12:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
To the poster who doesnt like that the new guys name starts with O'S, may I suggest you find a candidate. I have a ffeeling that if the 19th ward doesnt pick her successor you my friend will have an alderman YOU REALLY wouldnt like. Oh and last i checked RUGAI isnt an IRISH name

7/11/2009 08:23:00 PM
Well FRIEND, you are right its not an IRISH name. BUT, in chicago it may as well be. You are right on not likeing the new alderman IF one isnt appointed....i can only imagine the CIRCUS that election would be. I think you are takeing my post the wrong way. I dont have a problem with the nationality of the person, im just SOO TIIREDD of the same old song and dance. How each spot is really worth in MONEY ALONE 1.5-1.6 million that i know of. There are normal people as well as city workers that are without jobs or being threatened with layoffs and furlough days.They have families, houses, bills, cars,food to pay for.While the PART TIME aldermen make what like 116k, vote themselves a raise as well as other things{being untouchable by police, i.g.} Then KING RITCHIE gets on the news and says EVERYONE IS FEELING THE PAIN???? There is a list on the internet with all the aldermans names and what theyve given up{days}not many have given up any some a few, BURKE NONE!!! and all took the 6% raise EVERY YEAR. Im just tired of the do as i say and not as i do!!! Find my own candidate??? Theres a novel idea!!! How about me, would you vote for me??? Or would you risk losing the spot with ginger or matt??? I at least have 1 up on a lot of them..IVE NEVER BEEN ARRESTED..OR ANY TIES TO THE MOB, CORRUPTION, FELONS, PAID TO GET A SPOT.They would never LET me run. I would be threatened,harassed, garbage not picked up.WORSE, id show up to work one day to find out i was detailed to the farthest district from my home, and be on midnights.PEOPLE THIS IS THE POLITICAL STRUCTURE YOU VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION!!!!!!!!! FRIEND let me know if you wanna help collect my signitures to run.......

7/12/2009 12:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Sarg CK said...

......403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM

Twen.t.and.out SAYS........

Is that a TYPO? was that supposed to say 403 complimentary WORDS in her complimentary letter? If the Sarg licked the ass of every victim in the district he/she would not have 403 complimentary letters....or that sergeants family just like to write a lot.

7/12/2009 01:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm old, I'm tired, some of you young one's need to get hip. Did you come out of a fucking cave? Read between the lines. The female and male doing all the vile gossiping live in 022. NOT work in 022. Fem is new Cpt, male is newly ret Lt. Neither is Acad fem. Cripes! Local businessman overhears psycho conversation but you can (almost) hear it on SCC Blog. Meanwhile Batman across the city, Federal employees investigating corruption (but not just then) eavesdrop on very "loud talking and back slapping, clinking brandy snifters, joking, yes about this pathetic dumb ass of a female police officer" (he specifies these are their words) handing over this shockingly obscene amount of cash for the purpose of a promotion! It defies the imagination" The conversation was between two male politicians from 19th ward. Dunno who. The Lt ret who lives in 19th is some weirdo, jealous also he didn't get spot. So my guess is that new Capt and ret Lt both gave ginger campaign contributions for that spot. But they could'nt have been dumb enough to tell on her for not coming thru right? Someone will know.

7/12/2009 04:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

403 complimentary letters!?? c'mon, we know the clouted and unit folks get more awards than regular p.o.s but, 403?? it doesn't even make sense.

7/12/2009 04:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10:09 pm You are an asswipe if you are not writing your own guys up for good work. 10:09's guys You are the biggest losers on this department if you are working for this loser hump that just had the balls to come on a PO's blog and try to justify (sounding like the biggest pussy ever) why he never writes you any good paper when we ALL know weis reads paper, in order to justify why u should KEEP working for this troll. Please, allow me to speak for you officers. Hey, Useless Grant, Get your own numbers, Signed, we still got plenty of uniforms and we hope u do too porky!

7/12/2009 06:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Every Commander was made by an aldercreature or the mayor. No wonder your children are all retarded morons. We've said this seventeen thousand times for eight years. We even wrote it on a piece of paper, tied it to a rock and threw it through each and every one of your kitchen windows at dinner time. Got it? The one's that would be worried are probably the fem cpt living in 022 near a golf course who is poor as a churchmouse. A ret male lt lives in 022. Formerly acad co's sgt, don't know where or when. He's creepy gossipy tho and real jealous. oooooohhhhhhhhh

7/12/2009 06:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is so cute and sweet. That person doesn't know the federal prosecuters are crooks. Didn't you watch Dateline last night? Fed prosecutors helped Whitey Bulger make good his escape and then, while finding Connelly(the fed that gave Bulger the OK to murder and commit other felonies indiscriminately) guilty, they also recommended probation for the crimes. Conelly rec'd probation.

7/12/2009 06:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember an old timer with money to spend asking around about who to pay to get his Sgt. stripes. That guy had the $5,000 but no one to give it to!

Promotions here mean nothing, it is like a South American General, fancy uniform that means nothing. Now a US Marine Gunnery Sgt., now that one is earned.

7/12/2009 06:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep talking about those complimentary letters PLEASE. I used to like you two until today. Are you kidding with these BS postings? Is this even the two of you? I heard crazy stories in the past about the BS Letters Campaigns.....I said "No Way. they're normal. Tune in tommorow sunday at 8pm Chicago time to find out exactly how you can amass that amount of citizens congratulatory letters in your file without donating a leg or kidney.

7/12/2009 07:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SOCRATES = Carrothers guy?

7/12/2009 07:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Speaking of merit, I see they didn't put out the assignments of the newly graduated Sgts. I guess they are top secret. Uh hum, I wonder why?

7/11/2009 09:59:00 AM

Yeah they did, Dork!

7/12/2009 07:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

while not 19th ward related our infamous Big Bird was part of the pay to play. He paid $10'000.00 for his chevrons many years ago. This is the truth and was even confirmed by his wife at an event many years ago. Are you nervous Terry?

7/12/2009 08:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Stupid is as stupid does."
-Forest Gump

7/12/2009 08:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Now a US Marine Gunnery Sgt., now that one is earned."

So is fry cook @ Mickie D's whats your point asshat?

7/12/2009 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To "Northside", did you know that Lt. Purtell confessed to his FBI agent brother in law about the 10,000 payoff and he was allegedly wore a wire till they dumped him to the 004th district where he retired from.

7/12/2009 09:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The academy comm needs to be looked at. She raised alot of doe for Ginger. She and her blond side kick ran alot of fund raisers !!!

7/12/2009 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Where is the #1 off of the Lt's list now? News Affairs so she can use that expert knowledge she gained working at 35th street all those years helping out the Dept. and where is the # 1 merit Lt. from that list Ike's Bro. A2"future commanders I bet" Got to love it folks. Please pass the 55 medical so I can get out of this chicken shit outfit.

7/11/2009 10:27:00 AM
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Must be a new spot. They've never had a Lt at news affairs before.

7/12/2009 10:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

TO: Dennis O'Brien

I commend your heartfelt, sincere letter. We are all allowed our opinions but I have found that some people on this blog resort to name calling and out right hostility when a fellow cop disagrees with their opinion. I happen to agree with your assessment of Virginia Rugai. She does go to bat for her constituents and maybe if more people asked they would get help.

Also please accept my condolences on the passing of your daughter. I know that someone going out of their way at a time like that goes a long way.

Also I admire the use of your real name. It is a show of courage that can be lacking with certain individuals with the biggest mouths on this site. Actually in the last week I have starting noticing more coherent, well-thought out letters then usual. Maybe we can start getting more of them and less of the "fck everyone in the work" rants that are getting boring. This blog would be much more helpful if people actually felt they could talk and get a decent discussion going.

Just this cops opinion.

7/12/2009 10:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

JN:

I was also screwed over in examscam. I hope Valoukas knows that he had a golden opportunity to end all of the dept. promotion corruption back then and he blew it. It sure wasn't for you not giving it your all. Shortshanks is the devil. Maybe Valoukas was another of his puppets.

7/12/2009 11:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm a former resident of the 19th Ward and recall positive experiences with those in the organization: former Ald. Jeremiah Joyce, Sheriff Sheahan, Skinny Sheahan and Alderman Rugai.

Jeremiah Joyce sponsored the best foreman we have who respects all of his people. I'd much rather work for him than the stone cold strokes from Cubbie Land.

7/12/2009 12:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remember a couple years ago when the Sun Times had Ginger on Page 1 on a Sunday? St. Christina's gave a few hundred to her golf outing, and she got them $135,000 in "environmentally friendly" landscaping and a roof garden for their new gym?
A neighbor of mine in 022 is a lawyer in Houlihan's office. Her 1st year there she's given 4 tx to his golf outing. She buys one and returns the other three. Her boss takes her aside, tells her that you don't return tx. Sell them or eat them. 3 years ago the Nat'l night out in 022 had to spend almost $2,000 to have a movie shown in the parking lot. John Summerville would have done it with the same equipment for $125, but Pat Garrity said he couldn't use Summerville. Her OK for any project is available for a price. Summerville promised transparency, and came really close in the last election (He got more votes than most winners that day.) BTW, for the guy who said Rugai isn't Irish: that's her hubby. She's Irish. In the 19th ward, if you aren't in the inner circle, you're nowhere. Hey Fitz: Wake up and smell the corruption. And while you're at it, talk to Sheehan and Joyce. We're only as sick as our secrets!
Soon to be retired and never made sgt!

7/12/2009 02:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OK, I'm doing something I never thought I'd do, sticking up for a politician. First for all those who will call me suck ass and so forth, My name is Sergeant Dennis O'Brien and I have never voted for Daley and never will, and even if he's not corrupt (I know, silly comment) just for the way he disregards my family and yours I can't wait until he is gone.. So there, with my name on it..
Now as for Alderman Rugai: I moved to Mount Greenwood nine years ago and am not a native, born with a Notre Dame hat on backwards. I am a hard core republican and at the time my story takes place I had yet to cast a vote as a Mount Greenwood resident. My son, who was doing volunteer work St Christina parish was looking for a summer job before he left for Villanova University. One of Rugai's secretaries ran the volunteers at St Christina and told my son to apply for an internship with the Alderman. I laughed and told him there was no way he'd get hired. I said some rich kid from Beverly would get the spot not him. My son, who attended Villanova on a full academic scholarship, was Valedictorian at St Rita High School where he was also the school paper's editor, an Eagle Scout, scored a 35 out of 36 on the ACT, did volunteer work at St Christina and an MDA camp where he cared for dying young kids. Now if anyone had a better application then him, I'd like to see it. Well, to my shock Alderman Rugai hired him for the summer and has been very kind to him ever since. She never, nor anyone, has ever asked me for a cent or for anything. She came to my daughter's wake and my son and I stood in line with her at Nate Taylor's wake where she refused countless offers to jump to the head of the line. These are my experiences with Alderman Rugai. I don't profess to know much about her but I would be surprised if all these allegations were based in truth. I wish her well..

Dennis O'Brien

7/12/2009 12:15:00 AM
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dennis, you're a great guy. you were my sgt in the academy and in 006. you're one of the few people that ginger took care without clout or a "donation".
as a lifelong 19th ward resident and assigned to 022. ive seen personally and professionally how ginger neglects mt greenwood/bt 2211. there is rarely a squad car west of western ave. but yet 115th/church & racine courts get 24/7 coverage. 2211a -3rd watch is never here mostly due to radio assignments over east. bts 2211 & 2212 all watches regulary get assigned to one or both of these details. the m/1 &f/1 who work 2211-1st watch do NOT patrol 2211's beat at all. ginger needs to be more involved w/ mt. greenwood just like other aldermen are in their wards/police districts. it's been common knowledge that u need clout or money to get anywhere in 022/19th ward. if proven true, i hope that bitch rots in hell. also where was she for the FOP march?

7/12/2009 03:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazed that it took so long. The whole gang of them - Ginger, Hynes, Meany, Mike Sheahan, Skinny, Jeremiah, Kevin and Michael Joyce, Matt O'Shea. They are crooks and rats. Anyone sticking up for them is a sucker or a hack. They have done nothing to help Mt. Greenwood but just sit back and watch it get destroyed.

To the idiot who said Ginger isn't Irish, you must think we are fools.

Yes, she is... Rugai is an Italian name and her married name. Her husband, Ado Rugai, is a double dipper, States Attorney's office and CTA.

She attended St. Sabina with Jeremiah Joyce and worked for him as his legislative aide in Springfield.

Skinny and Mike Sheahan are brothers and Matt O'Shea is married to their niece, Cara.

Matt O'Shea employs Marty Walsh, who is a cousin to the Joyces.

The Careys, as we all know, are married into the Joyces - Marsie Carey Joyce is the wife to Jeremiah and her sister is Eileen Carey, former superintendent of streets and sanitation.

This is insideous and gross.

Of course, Ginger passed money -- it has been going on for YEARS.

Each and every tavern owner on Western Avenue can attest to that -- the pay outs were made to both the ward and the commander.

GIVE US OUR POLICE BEAT CAR IN MT. GREENWOOD, BITCH, OR WE WILL TALK MORE.

7/12/2009 06:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would Ruth get demoted?

7/12/2009 06:52:00 PM  
Blogger John Northen said...

The following letter was mailed to Anton R. Valukas, the then U.S. Attorney via Certified Mail (P908386757) over my signature: The letterhead reads "9171 COMMITTEE/AN AD HOC COMMITTEE REPRESENTING MORE THAN 600 WHITE, BLACK, HISPANIC AND ASIAN-AMERICAN SERGEANTS. OUR MISSION: A FAIR PROMOTIONAL PROCESS WITHIN THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.
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Dear Mr. Valukas:

On behalf of the 9171 Committee and our membership, the undersigned formally requests that your office initiate an investigation into the police promotional examination for the rank of lieutenant which was administered by the City of Chicago during 1987 ("ExamScam").

As you are no doubt aware, the oral board component of this examination was the focus of a four-part investigative report which was aired last week on the local NBC affiliate, WMAQ-TV. This series concluded a ten-month investigation by the Better Government Association in colloboration with Unit 5.

The BGA-NBC inquiry corroborates our charge that City officials conspired to rig four of eight items in the scoring key with trick responses which were subsequently leaked to favored candidates, assuring ultimate success. Conversely, the overwhelming majority of the 852 sergeants faced an insurmountable competitive disadvantage. In further aggravation, this unprecedented treachery was executed directly beneath the nose of a federal judge, using Title VII compliance as a subterfuge. Indeed, the City actually inflicted adverse impact upon our most deserving minority candidates, making a mockery of the very principle which they so ardently embraced. Nowhere is this more strikingly evident than in "the Gates Paradox": William L. Gates, a black sergeant, attained perfect scores in the first two components of the exam and "flunked" the oral which was arbitrarily weighted at 80 percent after the fact.

Cold mathematical precision sets the odds at 13.8 trillion (13,800,000,000,000) to one that the oral board component is a flagrant fraud. It has become obvious that only extraordinary investigative measures will penetrate the eerie silence of City officials in this matter. Meanwhile, the morale of the nation's second largest police department is in shambles. We are painfully aware that we and all Chicagoans are the victims of the greatest police promotion scandal in U.S. history, bumping Atlanta (1977).

At a recent meeting, 9171 members unanimously agreed that only a most thorough investigation by your office would be acceptable under such singularly tragic and desperate circumstances.

s/(Sgt.) John Northen
9171 Committee

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NOTE: "9171" is the CPD payroll designator for Sergeant of Police.

Mr. Valukas never responded to the above letter despite the fact that over 93 percent of the 652 victimized sergeants contributed at least $100 to the legal fund.

7/12/2009 07:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

REGARDING:
Are you shitting me? Char, is that you? You were a do nothing in 8 and now you're a SGT in 22, and you're sticking up for patches?
RESPONSE:
I am not Char nor the author of the above post but I too am a Chicago Police Officer that resides in the 19th ward and not particularly fond of the political process that takes place here and throughout the City of Shitcago, however, The above Sgt. you have so HORRIBLY referred to as "Patches" is probably the nicest, kindest, do anything for you person I have met in my 18+ years on this job. You have a problem with merit? Yeah, so do I! You have a problem with Ginger? Yeah, so do I! You have a problem with the politics of this city? Yeah, so do I! But the biggest problem I see is your ability to display such childish antics as referring to Sgt. D.M. as "Patches" Grow Up Jag wipe!!!! God knows if something happened to anyone of us on this job or even off-duty, this Sgt. will donate her time to assist each and every one of us and has proven that on numerous occassions. You have a problem because she has a BIRTHMARK?? YOU ARE A LOSER! God willing nothing ever happens to you or a family member and people like Sgt. D.M. aren't around in your time of need. I feel very sorry for you

7/12/2009 07:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Last election the then dopey commander of 022 just happened to get 022 to be a level II DOC and swarmed the place with police. 7 days later they were all gone and no coverage like that since. But it worked she(Ginger) kept her job and he kept his(for awhile)

7/12/2009 08:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many bosses now "studied" with Mauer. We can thank him for a bunch of guys in charge with no brains. Two of them have the same first name...steve.

7/12/2009 08:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I could not think of a finer group of people that this could happen to.

Let's get to heart of them all, and not JUST Gigi... What about the Joyces? There is a litter of corruption there.

Having never been brought in, it makes one think whether Jeremiah cut a deal with the feds?

It wouldn't be the 1st time, would it?

(Cough, cough -- Danno.)

7/11/2009 08:54:00 PM
WOW heres a blast from the past as they say!!! danno joyce....why did the greek kid go to jail and the irish kid from the CONNECTED family do 6months?was it?? in a fed pen as a show of faith for his talking?? he is still worth more than most of us reading this blog every day...his dad has all the concessions at ohare airport,worth millions every year, why didnt he do all the years to like cappas did...he was his COLLECTOR. dan knew all the secrets, and through his intimidation helped the 2 kids to take thier own lives GOD REST THIER SOULS!! if you have lived here long enough you know the TRUE STORIES of chicago and the 19th ward...PEOPLE NEED TO START TO TALK AND GET RID OF THE CRIME AND CORRUPTION ON THE 5TH FLOOR AND WITHIN THE "CHICAGO WAY POLITICS" before we are broke and become detroit#2.....remember 4-4.5 billion daley has hidden for the olympics no one wants....he plans on dividing that money up between his family and friends and leaving politics...then he will be the one saying let the city burn!!!

7/12/2009 08:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the poster who said maybe no one asked Ginger for anything. Try getting past the jerks who answer her phones. They are rude and far from helpful. This year they sent a college student door to door asking what we wanted. No action but she has a summer job.
Glad she came through for Sgt. O'Brien but that is the exception not the norm for her and her office. Useless.

7/12/2009 08:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for Jim McMahon (retired CPF) for Alderman, he lives in the 19th Ward. AFter reading his letters to Father Flakey and others, I truly believe that he is man who will not bow down to the democratic hacks. Why would we want to vote for someone the outgoing Alderman is putting out there? It's time for some fresh, clear, and intelligent thinking. Plus, he's from Mt. Greenwood, Beverly has had their 20 years of favoritism, now its MG's turn.

Who's with me?

How about it Jim?

7/12/2009 08:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I always wondered how some of those who made Captain got it over some of those Lieutenants in Patrol.

The clout angle, the 35th St inside angle, LAPA, the race card all I figured kept good people from getting ahead. But, I thought straight out bribe your way to the rank went out with the death of Old Man Daley.

So is that why Jody gets his $300K out in the open, to let this go on.

7/12/2009 08:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Post 1:46 Are you jealous?? Not everyone is an excellent test taker which is where merit should play into it--Did you know that female sergeant has received 6-Department Commendations, 86-Honorable Mentions, 3-Problem Solving Awards, 1-Joint Operations Award, 1-DOC Award, 1-Life Saving Award, 403-Complimentary Letters, 4-Physical Fitness Awards so F--- You--there have many other merit people that didn't have a quarter of these credentials!! So why don't you just pick on someone else !! from Sgt. CK a proud friend of Sgt. DM
Yes these are also "fixes" based on females getting credit for far more achievements that male cops do, but get little or nothing for, and in certain slow Districts [ie: 022;] you can get an award for something a busy District Copper does weekly or monthly, and never gets anything.. I remember arresting a spanish gangster disciple decades ago with a full-auto Uzi machine gun, and at a local bar to one of the "clout-ones" from 022 brag about an arrest of some Goof illegally selling flowers on the Street, and having some alleged bad checks on him. She said she was sure to get an Honorable "Mention" for that brillient piece of police work.. My drift is that if you are of a certain political group of Clouted Ones whose parent or relative is heavy, you'll get taken care of for the slightest policework, it will even be built up on paper by bosses to be far more that it really was, if you are associated with the right political gropup of Supervisors. Otherwise, how the Hell can it be possible that a Copper with 15-20 yrars on,constantly working in the busiest Districts on Tact Units, etc. out South, can have less awards than the officers of the slowest Districts, ie: 016, who don't even have one 5 year bar on their uniform sleeve yet? This place has got to be one of the phoniest organizations in the USA.
It's all easy, this way, the worst workers in the slowest places, who can't deal correctly with real police work in busy places, are rewarded, and their awards can be used for their "Merit-cloutorious "N Promotions, and by not giving anything on paper to the really hard-working cops, the City can keep them down in the trenches of the ghetto forever, as they are just great coppers with NO Clout. It's all about discrimination and nepotism by the City. Great Grampa was a CPD boss in the early 1900's so of course, great-grand-daughter with 5 yrs. on the job, in a stressful Unit like Personnel, is , without a doubt the best Supervisor material in the year 2009, as long as the Clout and glorification system is still rolling.

7/12/2009 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn't Ginger use to be a waitress at Field's restaurant on Western back in the seventies?

7/12/2009 09:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Now a US Marine Gunnery Sgt., now that one is earned."

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Do you fucking jarheads ever stop loving yourselves?

US Army Vet.

7/12/2009 10:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regarding 2:39 pm, I should be happy (I guess) that my Alderman is just a lazy drunk who gets into bar fights, falls off bar stools, fights with paramedics and treats coppers like shit.

Aside from the fact his office staff treats citizens like crap when they are contacted for a request, he don't do shit.

7/12/2009 10:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
OT...I hear J-Fed's policy group(whatever that is) is made up of three P.O. women with less than 6 years on and a Sgt. making major decisions. I never heard of a policy group. Is this new, who are they and what do they really do? Anyone with answere's to the questions?
7/11/2009 03:01:00 AM
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J-Fraud's crack "police group" was developed after he became "the sup"
They were hand picked by Daley=Mike Masters (not the police, never been the police but wants to be the police without taking the test!)
Masters picked Sgt. Roy Roy Hamilton (not the police, trys to be the police, still can't figure out how to be the police)
R. Homilton picks a couple of hot looking chicks with less than 7yrs on the job combined.
These are the people that guide the superintent with his day to day operations and decisions.

Is everyone laughing?
If not, you should. ALL of these people are jokes in their jobs. Not one has a clue.

Well that's typical of this joke of a dept. Pick hot chicks and give them a great spot. The sad part is these ding bats make decisions just because they are pretty. I guess things will never change. How come there are no guys in the policy group?

7/12/2009 11:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Now a US Marine Gunnery Sgt., now that one is earned."

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Do you fucking jarheads ever stop loving yourselves?

US Army Vet.

7/12/2009 10:20:00 PM

NO, you jealous bitch, NEVER!

7/13/2009 12:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WITH TALK OF ALL THESE AWARDS, I FEEL I HAVE TO MENTION MINE AS WELL. I HAVE BEAT HALO 3 ON MY SONS XBOX 360, OH AND BY THE WAY I DID IT ON HEROIC. SO THERE STUFF THAT IN YOUR ASS MASTERS YOUR FUCKING TOOL BAG,

7/13/2009 12:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
"Now a US Marine Gunnery Sgt., now that one is earned."

*******************************

Do you fucking jarheads ever stop loving yourselves?

US Army Vet.

7/12/2009 10:20:00 PM

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You Army guys just don't get it, never will.

Promotions, especially to the Staff NCO ranks are EARNED in the Marine Corps, not just from having time in grade like the Army.

Marines also don't look like the Boy Scouts with patches, badges, BS ribbons and those cute berets.

You see a ribbon on a Marine, that is earned too. The Marines haven't done a major uniform change since the full khaki uniform was dumped in the early 70s. The Army is now on their 5 major uniform change since WW2.

Those Army black berets are really, really snappy. The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Wilson, in the mid 70s was asked about putting Marines in a beret,,his response was "I don't want my Marines looking like Frenchmen or Faggots"

An Marine E8 or E9 gets more respect (from both officers and enlisted) than most Generals.

Interesting statistic, 49% of the USMC is either E1, E2,E3. Officers and NCOs make up the other 51%, less supervision per man than any other service.

The only Army units worth a salt are the Rangers, Special Forces and Delta.

7/13/2009 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
To the poster who doesnt like that the new guys name starts with O'S, may I suggest you find a candidate. I have a ffeeling that if the 19th ward doesnt pick her successor you my friend will have an alderman YOU REALLY wouldnt like. Oh and last i checked RUGAI isnt an IRISH name

7/11/2009 08:23:00 PM

Anonymous said...
Amazed that it took so long. The whole gang of them - Ginger, Hynes, Meany, Mike Sheahan, Skinny, Jeremiah, Kevin and Michael Joyce, Matt O'Shea. They are crooks and rats. Anyone sticking up for them is a sucker or a hack. They have done nothing to help Mt. Greenwood but just sit back and watch it get destroyed.
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This is what i hoped for, a person who could do the "FAMILY money TREE" off the top of thier head.THANK YOU!!! Now my "FRIEND" again to drill the point home i dont care who the person is IRISH or not "we" dont want the same game differant face in the 19th ward..its been going on for so long people act like a battered scared wife.They think its ok to get beat by the abusive husband!!! WELL ITS NOT OK AND IT IS {sorry cuz now i hate this phrase}TIME FOR A CHANGE!!!! Most people that dont live here, dont know the "shenanigans" that go on ALL THE TIME!and if you post anything bashing me or think im over the top....you're probably part of the problem, or more that likely in this family tree somewhere.John Summerville had them worried...HELL GINGER HAD PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE SUBURBS BUSED IN TO WORK THE POLLING PLACES, SHE CALLED IN ALL KINDS OF FAVORS!!! So when im asked if i want Matt or leave it to chance???I say, who gives a shit!!!! Id vote for the dead guy from WEEKEND AT BERNIES!!! At least with him we all have a chance to get some things done in the whole ward not just BEVERLY,MAYBE HE WILL OPEN THE BOOKS AND SHOW HOW HE SPENDS THE 1.3 MILLION EVERY YEAR!!! To the guy sticking up for matt, or maybe you are matt....youre awefully quiet... see what happens when you start to poke a hornets nest with a stick....im sure there ar A LOT of people that know more and didnt speak up YET.....TO BE CONTINUED....

7/13/2009 02:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

big bird was in the 009th dist in the 1980 /1985 could not find anyone to work with him he lived in the 13th ward and guest who made him i am sure he paid to get where he is today if he said somthing to me and i was in 022nd dist i just kick his ass fuck terry the real police

7/13/2009 07:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The civil service system fixed nothing. I came on in 1968 and you had to have a sponsor. I just got out of the army and was in top condition and still needed a sponsor. The head of the civil service system, Cahill, had police drivers and they always got promoted to sergeant. It was fixed then and probably still is, but to a lessor degree. Every department in the city is patronage. What makes you think that the police and fire department are above this?

7/13/2009 11:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our great mayor was a marine reservist during the Vietnam war. A little knowwn fact. Daddy kept him safe.

7/13/2009 12:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Must be a new spot. They've never had a Lt at news affairs before.

7/12/2009 10:16:00 AM


It is a new spot. The Lt. is the Commanding Officer of News Affairs.

7/13/2009 12:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Northside

With USC changing hands between Purtell and Beavers and the smoking gun of the rigged oral, Valukas had to be in cahoots with the stuttering prick.

Why else would he blow it off?

Why didn't Peter Karl the TV reporter follow up on this?

7/13/2009 03:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazed that it took so long. The whole gang of them - Ginger, Hynes, Meany, Mike Sheahan, Skinny, Jeremiah, Kevin and Michael Joyce, Matt O'Shea. They are crooks and rats. Anyone sticking up for them is a sucker or a hack. They have done nothing to help Mt. Greenwood but just sit back and watch it get destroyed.

To the idiot who said Ginger isn't Irish, you must think we are fools.

Yes, she is... Rugai is an Italian name and her married name. Her husband, Ado Rugai, is a double dipper, States Attorney's office and CTA.

She attended St. Sabina with Jeremiah Joyce and worked for him as his legislative aide in Springfield.

Skinny and Mike Sheahan are brothers and Matt O'Shea is married to their niece, Cara.

Matt O'Shea employs Marty Walsh, who is a cousin to the Joyces.

The Careys, as we all know, are married into the Joyces - Marsie Carey Joyce is the wife to Jeremiah and her sister is Eileen Carey, former superintendent of streets and sanitation.

This is insideous and gross.

Of course, Ginger passed money -- it has been going on for YEARS.

Each and every tavern owner on Western Avenue can attest to that -- the pay outs were made to both the ward and the commander.

GIVE US OUR POLICE BEAT CAR IN MT. GREENWOOD, BITCH, OR WE WILL TALK MORE.

7/12/2009 06:37:00 PM

Jesus! If all this is true, nothing like a ride downtown to jumpstart a nice shot of adrenline to the bowels.

7/13/2009 03:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for Jim McMahon (retired CPF) for Alderman, he lives in the 19th Ward. AFter reading his letters to Father Flakey and others, I truly believe that he is man who will not bow down to the democratic hacks. Why would we want to vote for someone the outgoing Alderman is putting out there? It's time for some fresh, clear, and intelligent thinking. Plus, he's from Mt. Greenwood, Beverly has had their 20 years of favoritism, now its MG's turn.

Who's with me?

How about it Jim?

7/12/2009 08:41:00 PM

Ok, but the mustache has got to go. They tickle.

---not a cop

7/13/2009 03:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When was she taken downtown? Interesting but Mt. Greenwood has been saturated with guys filling potholes since last Friday night. Yep, they are filling each pothole about eight inches higher than the street making driving almost impossible. What the fuck?

7/13/2009 04:42:00 PM  
Blogger John Northen said...

11:48 AM

Wrong. I took the civil service test in 1966 after college. My Dad was a captain at the time. He wanted me to go into computers, law, medicine or plastics. I didn't tell him that I took the civil service exam until the first class was announced, myself included.

I then told him. His response: "You rotten cocksucker. I send you to four years of college and now you wanna be a cop."

Using my "clout", I spent my first three years working the mean streets of Fillmo'. Dad later admitted that he thought I would quit because of the most hazardous of assignments.

Sorry, Dad. I LOVED the nonstop action. I'd probably still be there if they hadn't promoted me to dick three years later. I learned more in 011 in six months than many cops learn in their entire careers.

Civil service actually bordered on legit. Now they just rig them and call it "merit".

Could you be a "clout baby" tossing out a "red herring"?

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3:50 PM

Your questions would best be addressed to Valukas and Karl. Shortly after his "expose", Karl signed a six figure P-R contract with the Daley administration. He never returned my desperate phone calls. I would have had better odds in locating the Loch Ness monster in the Chicago River before "Judas" Karl would respond to my plight.

I'm sure that Richard II, Richard Brzeczek, LeRoy Martin, Tim Degnan and Susan S. Sher could also provide some interesting facts. Fuck all of 'em!

7/13/2009 05:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I could not think of a finer group of people that this could happen to.

Let's get to heart of them all, and not JUST Gigi... What about the Joyces? There is a litter of corruption there.

Having never been brought in, it makes one think whether Jeremiah cut a deal with the feds?

It wouldn't be the 1st time, would it?

(Cough, cough -- Danno.)

7/11/2009 08:54:00 PM
WOW heres a blast from the past as they say!!! danno joyce....why did the greek kid go to jail and the irish kid from the CONNECTED family do 6months?was it?? in a fed pen as a show of faith for his talking?? he is still worth more than most of us reading this blog every day...his dad has all the concessions at ohare airport,worth millions every year, why didnt he do all the years to like cappas did...he was his COLLECTOR. dan knew all the secrets, and through his intimidation helped the 2 kids to take thier own lives GOD REST THIER SOULS!! if you have lived here long enough you know the TRUE STORIES of chicago and the 19th ward...PEOPLE NEED TO START TO TALK AND GET RID OF THE CRIME AND CORRUPTION ON THE 5TH FLOOR AND WITHIN THE "CHICAGO WAY POLITICS" before we are broke and become detroit#2.....remember 4-4.5 billion daley has hidden for the olympics no one wants....he plans on dividing that money up between his family and friends and leaving politics...then he will be the one saying let the city burn!!!

7/12/2009 08:08:00 PM

Thank you for informing everyone of the sliminess of the Joyce family. After the phone was tapped, Daddy Jerry Joyce never ran again for State Senator (rumors still around they - the feds - had him too, but let him go).

They also have the Pickles Joyce, who has a mush brain from his boxing years. As a friend of mine once said, "Only people older than 55 and younger than 21 like Pickle, everyone else can't stand him."

7/13/2009 05:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"How many bosses now "studied" with Mauer. We can thank him for a bunch of guys in charge with no brains. Two of them have the same first name...steve."

Add in Kennedy from 001, he and stevie boy were Mauer's admin sgts before the
Lt's test they finished #1 and #2 on, and "uncle Jimmy" developed the test. Yup, its all legit. Lets not forget subject matter expert Capt. Jan who also ran an invite only study group. Of her group, two of which were her desk sgt's, the other two of which she went on regular vacations with, all four finished in the top 35 on the last lt's test. Funny how that happens. Yup, its all legit.

7/13/2009 06:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amazed that it took so long. The whole gang of them - Ginger, Hynes, Meany, Mike Sheahan, Skinny, Jeremiah, Kevin and Michael Joyce, Matt O'Shea. They are crooks and rats. Anyone sticking up for them is a sucker or a hack. They have done nothing to help Mt. Greenwood but just sit back and watch it get destroyed.

To the idiot who said Ginger isn't Irish, you must think we are fools.

Yes, she is... Rugai is an Italian name and her married name. Her husband, Ado Rugai, is a double dipper, States Attorney's office and CTA.

She attended St. Sabina with Jeremiah Joyce and worked for him as his legislative aide in Springfield.

Skinny and Mike Sheahan are brothers and Matt O'Shea is married to their niece, Cara.

Matt O'Shea employs Marty Walsh, who is a cousin to the Joyces.

The Careys, as we all know, are married into the Joyces - Marsie Carey Joyce is the wife to Jeremiah and her sister is Eileen Carey, former superintendent of streets and sanitation.

This is insideous and gross.

Of course, Ginger passed money -- it has been going on for YEARS.

Each and every tavern owner on Western Avenue can attest to that -- the pay outs were made to both the ward and the commander.

GIVE US OUR POLICE BEAT CAR IN MT. GREENWOOD, BITCH, OR WE WILL TALK MORE.

7/12/2009 06:37:00 PM

Oh God, she married an Italian? What a fool.

---not a cop

7/13/2009 08:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ginger - Why is her office doing nothing about all the new gang graffiti popping up all over Beverly? GDN

7/13/2009 09:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our great mayor was a marine reservist during the Vietnam war. A little knowwn fact. Daddy kept him safe.

7/13/2009 12:55:00 PM

No fucking way that little twirp made it through boot camp. No fucking way.

7/13/2009 09:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting statistic, 49% of the USMC is either E1, E2,E3. Officers and NCOs make up the other 51%, less supervision per man than any other service.

The only Army units worth a salt are the Rangers, Special Forces and Delta.

7/13/2009 12:28:00 AM

The paratroopers always kicked you asses.

7/13/2009 09:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How come there are no guys in the policy group?

7/12/2009 11:42:00 PM
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You've got Mike Masters and Sgt. R. Homilton.

Well, I guess you really can't call them guys. Sorry.

7/13/2009 09:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for Jim McMahon (retired CPF) for Alderman, he lives in the 19th Ward. AFter reading his letters to Father Flakey and others, I truly believe that he is man who will not bow down to the democratic hacks. Why would we want to vote for someone the outgoing Alderman is putting out there? It's time for some fresh, clear, and intelligent thinking. Plus, he's from Mt. Greenwood, Beverly has had their 20 years of favoritism, now its MG's turn.

Who's with me?

How about it Jim?

7/12/2009 08:41:00 PM

Ok, but the mustache has got to go. They tickle.

---not a cop

7/13/2009 03:56:00 PM

I Suspect A SCAB Unless Proved Otherwise

7/13/2009 10:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

God must love stupid people; He made so many.

7/14/2009 12:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your old man was wrong, Northside. You received your honorary DOCTORATE in EBONICS. You could talk and translate that shit better than most of the mutts in 011.

I still laugh when I think of your crazy phone calls to the radio talk shows.

7/14/2009 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He never did boot camp. His entire military service was spent at 35 & Normal. His daddy had a bunch of clout with Pres. Johnson.

7/14/2009 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WITH TALK OF ALL THESE AWARDS, I FEEL I HAVE TO MENTION MINE AS WELL. I HAVE BEAT HALO 3 ON MY SONS XBOX 360, OH AND BY THE WAY I DID IT ON HEROIC. SO THERE STUFF THAT IN YOUR ASS MASTERS YOUR FUCKING TOOL BAG,

7/13/2009 12:11:00 AM

HEROIC???????

You ROCK the HALO world.

7/14/2009 08:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with poster about childish stupid remarks regarding Sgt. DM. She is a better person than most people can ever hope to be. The fact that she is from the 19th ward is her only real negative. Class act if you knew her.

7/14/2009 04:52:00 PM  

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