Three Man Rapids
Well, it's finally happened. Reports are coming in that certain districts are so short cars (with ZERO pool cars available citywide) that after manning all the primary cars as 10-4, they have to put three officers to a car just to get people out of the station.
What the hell is Fleet doing to alleviate this?
What the hell is Fleet doing to alleviate this?
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
99 Comments:
Some cars are 4 deep great job,now that daley has billions from the thankfully failed olympics buy some cars,give us a 5% a year contract!
WaiT a minute!!
If the districts are short personnel, then how many vehicles are needed I'm every district... I'd like to see a poll on how many cars each district is short...wow...
Is this related to any of the mechanics at the garages being laid off and their buddies are slow in their repair time to get back at the city?
If I was a reporter I'd be all over this story. Who the fuck is driving vehicles the taxpayers have footed the bill for? Alderthieves personal valets, bookies, babysitters, significant others and the the one's on the side? Politically redundant job stealers? You betcha. The Sun Times wouldn't be able to print that fucking paper as fast as it would be selling off the news stands!!!!!! The pictures I'd have!!!!
Try 4 man cars in 010, with up to 7rapids down on 3rd watch, and ALL rapids downed on days because of no cars.
Next thing you know they will have us riding the CTA to jobs.
So I'm thinking, WHO CARES!
A three man car is more fun and safer than a two man car. It's not our fault the stutterin prick hired an idiot to run the CPD into the ground. I say let's just enjoy the ride!
Who Cares.
I got a foot post today. YEY!
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If Im told to sit in the back of a patrol car because I have the third person date today, Im going to refuse. The bad guys and their germs along with a locked door is a safety issue. They can kiss my ass!
The other day in the 10th district, the powers that be re-assigned some of the rapid officers to the desk because there were no cars available.
Cars are being pulled in early from days to man 3rd watch
If you think that's bad, you should see how bad it is with the wagons. Our wagon has 170,000 miles and is beat to shit. The front end rattles from bad front end parts, the driver's side of the dashboard falls right off into your lap, none of the interior lights work, the computer mount is broken, etc, etc, etc.
There's hardly ever any pool wagons, so we're usually stuck with what we got. When we do report the problems (when it goes down for grease and oil) somehow, it never gets fixed properly and we're back to square one with the same old piece of crap.
The city's solution is to phase in those stupid vans that requires a totally cooperative arrestee who's willing to crouch down and crawl in while their hands are cuffed behind their backs.
Have you ever tried to get a drunk, a mental or a police fighter into one of those things???
FO-GETTABOUTIT!!!
It ain't gonna happen.
The Tahoes aren't much better as regular squad cars, from what I've heard.
Whoever's in charge of the decisions on our cars and wagons should be arrested for assault on a police officer for the crap they give us to work with.
we had this problem in 003 last year. rapid cars were using tact cars
And I am getting denied time due due to manpower here in 008? We haven't had rapids in 5 months...maybe a car up every 2 weeks or so. I know, get your violins but really. The only saving grace is the 6-3 schedule.
It's been going on since at least last Winter.
Fleet just cannot get it correct and never will their commissioner is a police hater. A police car has no morfe priority than a dump truck, and officer safety means 0 to this political hacks. The fleet has not been managed well since it was given over to fleet in a more to save fleet, when the CPD ran it, the CPD brought in money to the city in the form of warrantee reimbursement and salvage savings to the tune of 3 million per year, fleet does none of this plus has loaded a good division up with non police hacks.
We have 4 man cars every once in a while. The area doesn't care.
did you ever hear of the possibility of NO MONEY?
What the hell is Fleet doing to alleviate this?
You mean Mike Picardi?
oh.
If I was a reporter I'd be all over this story. Who the fuck is driving vehicles the taxpayers have footed the bill for? Alderthieves personal valets, bookies, babysitters, significant others and the the one's on the side? Politically redundant job stealers? You betcha. The Sun Times wouldn't be able to print that fucking paper as fast as it would be selling off the news stands!!!!!! The pictures I'd have!!!!
10/08/2009 12:23:00 AM
This sounds like a job for Mike Anzaldi!
---not a cop
That makes sense to me. I'm not a PO, but over the last few weeks, I have seen a good amount of cars with 3-4 POs. I know they ride together at times, but usually not in marked cars. I have seen this in 8, 9, 10, 12 and I think 1 because I travel/drive a lot in for my job. So, aside from being short POs, we are short cars for these shorted POs? Be afraid...be VERY afraid!!
Bids are due for serveral types of police vehicles on 10/23. See the City purchasing site.
Stop whining all you two year wonder,hair gel police. What's the big deal? When I came on we didn't even have many cars, most guys were on foot beats. The cars we did have didn't have radios, air conditioning, cloth seats etc. We didn't have this bullet proof body armour stuff, computers, portable radios,mace,Tazers or any of this other high faluttin stuff you crybabies have now. If I wanted to talk to my Sgt or W/C I had to walk down the street to a callbox and use that. Stop complaining, and make do with what you have.
http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1036123_aussie-sourced-chevrolet-caprice-police-car-coming-in-2011#
New caprice,more room rear wheel drive coming in 2011 for police only watch video more room inside and has a 6.2 liter V-8, more power than the "slow vic" we drive. safer than the shitty tahoe also,as from the start designed only for police!
Anonymous said...
Next thing you know they will have us riding the CTA to jobs.
10/08/2009 12:28:00 AM
And paying to do it.
SO WHAT R ARE THOSE PROBLEM SOLVING COMMANDER DOING 2 FIX THIS.
IT FALLS ON THE WHITE SHIRT!!
TOO SCARED TO DEMAND VEHICLES.
FUNNY THING IS EVERY DISTRICT IS HIDING THEIR DESK DOLLIES ON THE SHEETS.
IT SHOWS YOU NOW, NO 1 GIVES A FLYING F@$CK ABOUT CRIME OR THE SAFETY OF WORKING OFFICERS IN BUSY DIST.
THE TRAINING ACADEMY DOESNT NEED 15 CARS. CMON DICKWEED!
BUT 4 OFFICER IN A CAR IS LIKE THE SCENE FROM WAYNES WORLD
MAMA MIA MAMA MIA.
The Impalas were a huge waste of money. Junk, just like the CHA police Luminas... That $ should have been spent on Crown Vics.
What is fleet doing? Fleet is hiding cash like every other dept. else.
If you drive a shit unsafe squad car its only your fault. I will keep refusing a squad car until I get one thats safe by MY MEANS! All this bitching and no action...let a boss order me to drive a car. And if something happends CHA FUCKING CHING LAW SUIT!
No cars for PO's to ride in? - no problem. They'll just reduce the number of beat cars like in the past. Years ago 014 had 25 primary beats and 20 rapid or sector cars. No cars? reduce the number of beats to 16 primary beats and 16 sector cars. What, still not enough squad cars? Reduce the the wagons to 1 wagon in each district.
maybe we can get some golf carts from somewhere temporarily until the baron meister buys us some more new rides--- the new 2010 camaros look good--- those golf carts might get a little drafty in the middle of january though, good time to hit the medical.....
I thought the complaint was about one man cars? If there is a car shortage and they have to double and triple up in cars, how could there be any single man cars?
A police car has no morfe priority than a dump truck
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Sometimes it shouldn't. Its about proper management and prioritization. Good management is not something any department of the city has ever shown.
SCC, as my partner and I were driving around the other night we saw construction about to begin at a school on the north side. Of course we were guessing exactly what it was that was going to be done. My partner said they were probably putting in trailers to address overcrowded classrooms- which is probably correct. I then asked "How is it that in the past our city built incredible buildings with such amazing architecture and now we have to settle for trailers to educate our children?" If you look around the city the oldest buildings must have cost a fortune (if adjusted for today's rates) with all the labor needed to create them. How is it that the city managed to not be broke then? The answer was simple.....
#1. Everyone pulled their weight. I'm sure there were programs to help some people then but I'm sure it wasn't nearly the vast amount of "nipple sucking" we have going on today
#2. I'm sure there were the back door business deals then and clout still gave way to clout but it probably was a drop in the bucket compared to the crap goin on in Crook county and Shitcago that's goin on today.
#3. People were not lazy. Men who went to work were proud of their jobs. It truly was an honest days work for an honest day's pay. Today, it takes 5 guys to do the job 1 man did and 4 of the 5 bitch they are working too hard.
Catholic/private schools were filled, not closing yearly. "Illegals" were almost non existent.
Americans bought American goods, and Americans were PROUD to be American. Were there many foreign flags flying on peoples cars back then??
This city....hell, this country is being run into the shitter and it breaks my heart to think about what it will be like for my children to have to grow up and live their lives in this place.
And before you trolls say "well leave then." just tell me of a place that was the way America used to be and I'll gladly go there.
Sorry for the rant SCC. I just know at least you'll take a minute to listen.....
If 003 is short of cars down over 35 po's all I have to say this is terrible auto shortage. Maybe we could get some corporate sponsers like burger king or the weinermobile to patrol the district. In my district we never have the people to man the rapids so our problem goes the other way.
I gots the trunk, gots my squooshie pillow wiff eer plugs an blinded fowld
or i could just stay in the station playing on the net
If that Lover Boy over at fleet was doing his job rather than playing golf and chasing broads perhaps you would have some decent equipment. Wagons? Fleet has not purchased any wagons since they took control of EMMD. Pool cars? Fleet sold them all as junk to Northshore towing. Salvage parts? Fleet took all the salvage parts that were aquired, & warehoused by the EMMD police administration and literally through them away. Fix cars? Forget about that, fleet jobs out whatever they can. Don't expect their political hack staff to fix anything, they have no skills. I could go on about this but it comes down to the fact that the main guy, Lover Boy, hates the cops and encourages his staff to be less responsive to the police than they would to a garbage truck driver pulling into one of their facilities. However, take notice of things like, Lover Boys city car! Loaded with police radio's, full unmarked light and siren package. The garage managers and ranking supervisory administrators all drive police unmarked vehicles. Take notice when your around a fleet police facility of fleet personnel driving police vehicles, to go to lunch or for personal business. Hell, even the R men use your marked cars as their service vehicles. Sorry to say but thats how it is and it is not changing anytime soon!
Yup, SCC. You're right with this post.
I was at the A/3 garage yesterday and the service writer confirmed that they are balancing one or two pool cars to cover all 10 districts.
They're down mechanics and are trying to do more with less.
Unreal. I haven't had a car with a working PDT in over 10 days.
4 man cars in msf for a long time nothing new
can a 4 man unit be written up for congregating at a restaurant?
doh!
Maybe, JUST maybe, we could have used those Homeland Security dollars for cars instead of the useless camera on every other block. Thanks again Daley you prick!
souns like we are fully staffed !!! all 10-4 bear cars and 3 man rapids !! WOOO HOO
Which is it SCC ?? low man power or car shortage??? cant have both
It's been going on since at least last Winter.
It will be easier to push the car out of the snow with 3 dudes in it. think positive.
You think the marked car situation is bad the unmarked car situation is in shambles. Fleet has not purchased a new unmarked in 3 years!!! U go to the garage they tell you there are no unmarked pools anywhere. Then u look in the back and there are 20-30 unmarked cars parked nicely in rows of 5. So I ask the guy, "what about one of these?" he replys no sorry those are exempts pool cars! Are u fuc$ing kidding me???? I'm supposed to be in an unmarked car now I'm in a marked car from the district I work in. And these clout take home car asses have 20-30 waiting for them? Bullshit
Wow ur district has rapids??
Former EMMD said...
Fleet just cannot get it correct and never will their commissioner is a police hater. A police car has no morfe priority than a dump truck, and officer safety means 0 to this political hacks. The fleet has not been managed well since it was given over to fleet in a more to save fleet, when the CPD ran it, the CPD brought in money to the city in the form of warrantee reimbursement and salvage savings to the tune of 3 million per year, fleet does none of this plus has loaded a good division up with non police hacks.
10/08/2009 05:54:00 AM
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Former fleet guy, are you taking English classes now that you’re laid off?
i will tell you what fleet is doing, they are off weekends and go home at 7pm. im sure its the cutbacks. but area 4 is closed after 7. what a joke.
I call shotgun!
As long as they give us a car w/o a cage, I'll gladly sit in back. It allows me to stretch out, take the boots off & settle in for a nice long nap during the tour. ZZZZzzzz
AGAIN
Why isnt the FOP suing the city on the grounds of personell safety?
Come to the 15th district I think we have all the cars. I can't believe how many are sitting in our lot, seriously there is a shit load. At the end of tour you can't even find a place to park. You need them we got'em.
In my unit we have 4 down cars with not one pool car.
A three man car is more fun and safer than a two man car.
Sure, unless you are the guy in the back seat behind the cage!
In Area Two the garage is only open on days during normal buisness hours. The cars are just stacked up out in the lot. Saw a midnight nite tact guy out on an ATV. No shit. Funny as hell.
I call back seat!
so then were not shorthanded. if they are putting three men in a car manpower must be fine, its just a shortness of cars. quit your complaining people, riding three and four deep always makes for a good time. stop taking this job so seriously. if I could work a rapid ridin three deep it would be alot more fun at work.
10/08/2009 5:54am
Learn how to spell and formulate a sentence properly.
51st closed down garages third watches and weekends,layed off a bunch of mechanics. cars arent getting fixed because no one there to fix them. And yet 51st street calls the the garages and tell them to work harder to get the cars back in service..but they close the garages and lay off people...but you must work harder...but you layed off my workers...and cut our hours...but you must work harder....but...
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh BOOM!
nuclear winter for chicago...LMAO
Lost In Fillmore!!!
ha, don't tell. I love sitting in the station for 3-4 hours a day surfing the web. However so true
Tire fell off a car the other day in 015. nobody hurt.
A point of information; fleet recently hired a couple of new guys to fix the radios. The first guy was a light bulb and telephone changer at police headquarters. The second guy was a Kronos swipe clock installer for the city. Neither of these two hacks have the appropriate FCC license to work on those police radios but got the jobs anyway. One is an 11th. ward heavy and the other is a local 134 heavy. Shows you how much fleet cares about Officer safety. Those radios represent the lifeline for a PO.
you know what we need, a 24 man car-- just like the old task force days-- the wagon pulls up and 22 guys jump out of the back and lump the fuck out of everything in sight-- did someone explain this phenomenon to duncan and his buddy--- i thought the slaying of holt was going to solve all the problems facing us--- his slaying was also captured on video and all the experts were going to put an end to this violence--- to all you ghetto types who may briefly peruse this police blog, nothing will ever change because your community is full of losers who don't make the city, county, or state any money--- your residents are expendable, they contribute zero to the bottom line.... it's all about the money and always has been----- until that changes we will be reading the same story every month forever.....
009 is the most political district that they will never be understaffed. Plenty of cars, rapids, wagons to go around.
Rapids, what the hell are rapids?
Daley has tapped one million for united way, for jobs for "troubled youth," the money tapped from the sale of the parking meters, which proves he is sitting on money and making us beg for scraps......
What's even worse is the order they had to buy more Crown Vic's was cancelled. No unmarked pools at the area garages and maybe 3-4 marked pools available. With the money they spent on the Tahoe's they could have gotten 20 percent more Fords.
Fleet just cannot get it correct and never will their commissioner is a police hater. A police car has no morfe priority than a dump truck, and officer safety means 0 to this political hacks. The fleet has not been managed well since it was given over to fleet in a more to save fleet, when the CPD ran it, the CPD brought in money to the city in the form of warrantee reimbursement and salvage savings to the tune of 3 million per year, fleet does none of this plus has loaded a good division up with non police hacks.
The Commish of streets is retired Dep. Byrne, hopefully things improve somewhat...
WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT THE SHORTAGE OF CARS OUT THERE? THE CAR(S) WE USE SMELL GOOD AND RUN GREAT, OK THEIR NEW BUT HEY IM IN CHARGE OF THE CARS. I HAVE HAVE NO COMPLAINTS. PLUS IT'S MY WAY TO GET YOU GUYS CLOSER AND HELP WITH THE MORALE ISSUES EVERYONE IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT. WELL, GOT TO GO KNOW BUT I'LL CHECK IN AT A LATER DATE TO SEE WHAT ELSE GUYS N GALS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT.
ON BEHALF OF THE IVORY TOWER STAFF.
napa is in need of federal scrutiney
Last time we had three manned cars was in the Blizzard of 1979. One to drive and stay with the car. The other two were needed to push because the car would get stuck every 15 minutes or walk the rest of the way to respond to the job. Nothing was moving and the ruts would normally lead to a stranded vehicle blocking the street. Went on for about 5 successive 3rd watch tours. It was fun!
Cars are being put down for bullshit reasons...
I am an old timer with a knowledge of the history of the city and this department, the city and of the Daley Crime Family. E.M.M.D. or Fleet Management may be going about this the wrong way.
Remember that we use to have TEAMSTER City Tow Truck Drivers, but they would play games with that job. Set us easy Tow Zone traps, tow 7 cars and they could go home (or to their other job.)
Two hours into our our tours and we couldn't get tows.
Richie "outsourced" their job to E&R towing with a little help from State Senator Jeremiah Joyce.
We used to have UNION Janitors, here again they would let our station look like shitholes (cops can be real slobs). They laid down on the job, sometimes literally and now Aguirre Building Maintance has the contract.
So be careful, Shortshanks probably has a Campaign Contributor lined up ready to take your jobs.
It is a waste of resources...three in a car, four in a car...they did that in the movie "Mulholland Falls"...a waste of resources
Fleet Sucks, just ask any mechanic in the garages, all 4 garages have managers that do not a thing about cars and how they run, Granted the city has not purchased anything new since 2005, and then a couple of hundred Tahoos. The mechanics got screwed so why should they work extra hard, they do the work by book time, and if they finish earlier then they just stall around, take a car in for an oil change and you may, I say may get it back, The mayor does not want any cars out on the street that have body damage, he went crazy when he saw a squad on T.V. with the paint peeling off the bumper, well that goes to show you that his political friends who own the body shop are cutting corners, because the paint on the bumpers does not peel if done right, he doesn;t care that the cars are beaters, its all smoke and mirrors. someone please call the newspapers. What about NAPA and thier contract for parts, we have so so many cars done waiting for parts.
Im' a P.O in the Strike Force, we have a bunch of ratty squad cars but we have a Sgt. who is in charge of the cars, This guy is a miracle worker, I don't know how he does it but he gets them fixed, We just leave him a write up note and he gets it done, He is in charge of the Command Van & All the trucks in the unit and this guy knows his stuff, He has been driving trucks longer then I have been on this earth, too bad he will be retiring someday. I really don't know what they are going to do without this Sgt. He is a top shelf guy and a real gentleman. He's a hold over from SOS and has tons of knowledge, I wish we had a few more like him.
Can you imagine how much trouble the Commander of motor maintenance would have been in if this present situation was present a few short five or six years ago when motor maintenance was part of the police department?
Anonymous said...
A three man car is more fun and safer than a two man car.
Sure, unless you are the guy in the back seat behind the cage!
10/08/2009 02:30:00 PM
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no way Im sitting in the back seat of a cage car. No boss cannot order you to do so.
Area 4 garage closes 1530 hours not 1900. no layoffs just shuffled personel to area 3 and area 1 garages. r trucks just have further to travel.trucks are downed for furlough days with no pay per mayor. will stay this way till something big happens in a negative way. not gonna get any better, sadly
Why don't they borrow some cars from 003?
They got like 35 openings.. So they must have cars.
All the pools are in the districts on the 4 & 2 and 6 & 3 schedules. Another dumb move. Does Weis have any idea whatsoever?
This problem has been building ever since Fleet took over. Ritchie's childhood buddy Degnan was in charge at Fleet. If a private company ran itself like Fleet is handling our cars they'd be out of business. The situation would be laughable if it weren't so downright dangerous. I think it's time for the F.O.P. to make a statement and let the public know the sad state of affairs at Fleet. The public really should know how Ritchie has chosen to pinch pennies and it's directly affecting our,and consequently their,safety.
Ritchie: maybe it's time to put the failed Olympic bid behind you and start tending to all the things you've ignored over the last three years while you had tunnelvision on the Olympics.
Im' a P.O in the Strike Force, we have a bunch of ratty squad cars but we have a Sgt. who is in charge of the cars, This guy is a miracle worker, I don't know how he does it but he gets them fixed, We just leave him a write up note and he gets it done, He is in charge of the Command Van & All the trucks in the unit and this guy knows his stuff, He has been driving trucks longer then I have been on this earth, too bad he will be retiring someday. I really don't know what they are going to do without this Sgt. He is a top shelf guy and a real gentleman. He's a hold over from SOS and has tons of knowledge, I wish we had a few more like him.
10/08/2009 09:01:00 PM
Wow!....THE.....STRIKE......FORCE!
You're dangerous Maverick!
I'd like to see that little fake copper try to impersonate us now! He's gonna really stand out fake-driving an imaginary squad down 71st and East End. Although they say he's good with a con, so you never know.
If you'd listen to Former Fleet instead of ridiculing him you'd learn quite a bit. Sometimes it's even important to listen to what you DON'T hear. Fleet is probably never supervised on weekends because some people are canoodling at a lakeside Michigan condo w/an indoor parking garage. I can talk now, I told the feds months ago. I hope the Skyway toll was paid if company time was stolen. That would be just too stupid to save a couple bucks and sign the board with the vehicle# right? Who's that dumb?
Anonymous said...
Stop whining all you two year wonder,hair gel police. What's the big deal? When I came on we didn't even have many cars, most guys were on foot beats. The cars we did have didn't have radios, air conditioning, cloth seats etc. We didn't have this bullet proof body armour stuff, computers, portable radios,mace,Tazers or any of this other high faluttin stuff you crybabies have now. If I wanted to talk to my Sgt or W/C I had to walk down the street to a callbox and use that. Stop complaining, and make do with what you have.
10/08/2009 07:19:00 AM
I was here before all that stuff also but the bad guys then didn't have the stuff they have now! Mentals were kept in hospitals, nursing homes were for the elderly. Bad guys couldn't get around any better than us. We are out manned and out gunned AND everyone is for the HONOR STUDENTS..not Us! People back then had respect for the badge...NOT NOW! These kids are at a disadvantage.
And before you trolls say "well leave then." just tell me of a place that was the way America used to be and I'll gladly go there.
Sorry for the rant SCC. I just know at least you'll take a minute to listen.....
10/08/2009 09:21:00 AM
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Check out the Capitol city of Montevideo.
Stop whining all you two year wonder,hair gel police. What's the big deal? When I came on we didn't even have many cars, most guys were on foot beats. The cars we did have didn't have radios, air conditioning, cloth seats etc. We didn't have this bullet proof body armour stuff, computers, portable radios,mace,Tazers or any of this other high faluttin stuff you crybabies have now. If I wanted to talk to my Sgt or W/C I had to walk down the street to a callbox and use that. Stop complaining, and make do with what you have.
10/08/2009 07:19:00 AM
wtf? did you come on in the 1920s?
This problem is not going away anytime soon! Picardi takes over the police garages and the police fleet of vehicles, fucks everything up! He is then moved to streets and sanitation, fucks everything up! Guess what? They move him back to fleet so he can make matters even worst for the police. Could it be that the little cocksucker from the fifth floor is using Picardi to extract his revenge on the police? Just wondering.
A point of information; fleet recently hired a couple of new guys to fix the radios. The first guy was a light bulb and telephone changer at police headquarters. The second guy was a Kronos swipe clock installer for the city. Neither of these two hacks have the appropriate FCC license to work on those police radios but got the jobs anyway. One is an 11th. ward heavy and the other is a local 134 heavy. Shows you how much fleet cares about Officer safety. Those radios represent the lifeline for a PO.
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Now tell me that shortshanks & Picardi don't have a vendetta against the police!
In the A3 lot there are dozens of downed cars but no mechanics to fix them. The mechanics who were not laid off are behind and they are still forced to take extra days off... nice incentive to work harder eh short shanks?
If you'd listen to Former Fleet instead of ridiculing him you'd learn quite a bit. Sometimes it's even important to listen to what you DON'T hear. Fleet is probably never supervised on weekends because some people are canoodling at a lakeside Michigan condo w/an indoor parking garage. I can talk now, I told the feds months ago. I hope the Skyway toll was paid if company time was stolen. That would be just too stupid to save a couple bucks and sign the board with the vehicle# right? Who's that dumb?
10/09/2009 12:24:00 AM
Greedy people who think they have it coming and won't get caught.
---not a cop
Somebody should ask Picardi and the other high ranking administrators over at fleet police if they ever heard of "Shakman"? They may have fucked with the wrong person!
I will gladly take a CTA bus to my radio assignments if it comes to that. Then I will announce to every person on every bus what I am doing and why. I will urge every citizen on every bus to make waves and call their alderman or call a radio station or newspaper or the mayor's office, whose phone number I will gladly provide. I will then walk from the bus stop to my assignment and tell the person who called the police the exact reason why it took so long.
Use your heads office, they make our working lives miserable, throw it right back at them. Tell the truth to the citizen tax payers who depend on the police showing up when they need a cop.
The city is $600MIL in the red. Thats their number, who knows what it really is? You are not getting more cars. Someone posted you are going to have to take the bus to jobs? Heres an idea from a citizen troller. Thumb it. We citizens will be happy to give you a ride to the job. But no shooting! How is that for thinking outside the box? Its either that or you will have to cab it. But more cars? Forget about it.
If you get Jfed to make all the people in HIS office give up cars, we would have enough cars for a whole fucking watch! Why does Mike Masters have a car. Isn't a Chief of Staff an Administrative function?
The city is $600MIL in the red. Thats their number, who knows what it really is? You are not getting more cars. Someone posted you are going to have to take the bus to jobs? Heres an idea from a citizen troller. Thumb it. We citizens will be happy to give you a ride to the job. But no shooting! How is that for thinking outside the box? Its either that or you will have to cab it. But more cars? Forget about it.
New vehicles being bought with stimulis money....
we had this problem in 003 last year. rapid cars were using tact cars
10/08/2009 01:37:00 AM
with all the open slots to bid in to your district you would think this wouldnt be a problem
I heard a Sgt from Unit 212 Midnight gangs made some of his team members go on patrol on confiscated bikes that were in the 005th District garage. No bike helmets, and in plain clothes. No cars available!!! Ridiculous if you ask me!
"We didn't have this bullet proof body armour stuff, computers, portable radios,mace,Tazers or any of this other high faluttin stuff you crybabies have now. If I wanted to talk to my Sgt or W/C I had to walk down the street to a callbox and use that. Stop complaining, and make do with what you have."
When I started my illustrious career as a Chicago Police Officer, I had to pay the watch commander and sgt. $40 a month for a Michigan Ave. footpost. Those were the days, my friend...
To: 10/08/2009 07:19:00 AM
From : A "Hairgel"
Subject: You are a cranky old coot
You also sold pencils on traffic stops, drank on duty, and made $10,000 a year. Should we continue to do that also? Oh, that's right, you also scored 4 touchdowns in a single high-school football game. Times change, and you can't live in your glorious past forever.
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