Clean the Damn Cars
We know many claim Dugan is a micro-manager. Lot's of people in positions of power are. But does he really have to send out a memo telling people to clean out cars and designate supervisors to check it out?
We know many have the attitude of "It's not my car - I didn't pay for it" and they treat that way. We've gotten into cars with under 1,000 miles and the steering wheel is cut, there's graffiti on the upholstery and all sorts of papers and garbage is on the floor. How much effort does it take to pull up to a garbage can and empty out the crap you brought into the car 8 hours earlier?
For the most part, all we leave in the car is the paper so the next watch has something to read. We understand there was that one incident where someone left a Styrofoam tray full of Maxwell Street cooked onions under the front seat on a warm summer night, but that was after they left the car on empty one too many times.
All kidding aside, cleaning out the car is a basic courtesy all too lacking lately, especially as there are no more "assigned" cars to specific beats. The city gives us crap equipment and shits on us constantly...do we really have to stick it to the next watch because we're too lazy to simply dump our own trash?
We know many have the attitude of "It's not my car - I didn't pay for it" and they treat that way. We've gotten into cars with under 1,000 miles and the steering wheel is cut, there's graffiti on the upholstery and all sorts of papers and garbage is on the floor. How much effort does it take to pull up to a garbage can and empty out the crap you brought into the car 8 hours earlier?
For the most part, all we leave in the car is the paper so the next watch has something to read. We understand there was that one incident where someone left a Styrofoam tray full of Maxwell Street cooked onions under the front seat on a warm summer night, but that was after they left the car on empty one too many times.
All kidding aside, cleaning out the car is a basic courtesy all too lacking lately, especially as there are no more "assigned" cars to specific beats. The city gives us crap equipment and shits on us constantly...do we really have to stick it to the next watch because we're too lazy to simply dump our own trash?
Labels: silly people
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
134 Comments:
JUST CLEAN YOUR GARBAGE OUT OF THE CAR!NO BIG DEAL,WE R ALL BLUE RIGHT!LETS WORK TOGETHER..NO STORY OR MEMO NEEDED!!
I recently found a half eaten bagel between the seat and the transmission hump.
But the worst was chicken and rib bones from the old timer M/1 (who overtly stated he hated all white people) who still used jeri curl who had the car on days.
He found a week's worth in a Jewel bag on the front hood of his Range Rover one day.
Dugie is right on this one......it is a shame there has to be an order to clean up after yourself.
...”The city gives us crap equipment and shits on us constantly...do we really have to stick it to the next watch because we're too lazy to simply dump our own trash?”
The sad thing is we have to address this shit! The City purchased brand new cars for us. Some of “US” live like the rats and roaches we lock up. Chicken bones, half eaten burgers, garbage, dirty spoons, cut up steering wheels,... Getting into a squad is like going into a project apartment. It’s fucking disgusting. I won’t get pissed about leaving me on damn near empty, I can see an accident every once and a while where coffee gets spilled, but almost every day is fucking unacceptable!
The sad thing is; it’s probably how some of “US” live.
I remember an asshole midnight copper notorious for leaving shit in the car. One morning, I opened up the car door and discovered the jagoff spilt an entire extra large cup of Dunkin donuts coffee with cream and sugar. It was all over the front and rear floors. Most of it congealed in the rear floor. A "discussion" was held in the lockerroom (sans revolvers). The attitude adjustment worked.
If the supervisors take a "solve it among yourselves attitude" then cops that leave squad cars constatly looking like shit or empty of gas deserve ass beatings. Period.
When I worked in 014, there was a certain sergeant who would leave all sorts of trash in the car...coffe cups, candy wrappers, pop cans under the seat and my all time favorite, a KFC snack box with chicken bones.
We were the only 2 people who used the car, since it was down on 1st watch. I confronted him several times and he denied he was leaving stuff in there. Said it must be people putting stuff in the car to mess with us.
Well, I fixed his @ss. I collected trash fro about 2 weeks and then left it on the seats and dash. Guess what? The car stayed clean from then on!
Suddenly, cars are dirty, small maintenance issues are ignored and beat tags are a rare commodity.
The fact is, and I'm not saying I agree with it, when you have the same car consistently, you keep it cleaner, you notice those little 'off' sounds that mean engine or brake trouble and the damned beat tag doesn't go missing (intentionally or not) on a daily basis because IT STAYS ON THE CAR.
And now, you get to play musical pdt every day! The pdt lottery means even the traffic car has no guarantee his assigned car for the day will have a computer in it!
Between the missing beat tag, finding a pdt that fit my empty computer mount and a radio battery that died before I left the lot today, forty minutes was lost this morning. Stupid.
This little car juggling experiment isn't working.
Man I picked up a pool wagon one day ( about 5 years ago )and drove back to the district. Befor my partner jumped in he went to throw out an old news paper on the passengers flore and under it was weeks (or days) old fried chicken with magots crawling all over the place!!!!!!!!!!!
We have assigned take home squads where I work, and don't have to deal with that B.S. It's your office for 8 hrs!!
It is problem and like children it has to be addressed. I used to clean my car out all the time! Now since we rotate cars I don't give a shit and just clean my own mess.
It just goes to show you that a small percentage of misfits can mess it up for the rest of us. There is actually a plainclothes unit that I personally observed arrive early about an hour ahead of their tour last summer and take their unmarked vehicle to the end of the lot in the district and take out the Armor-All / Turtle wax / Windex / and spit and polish the car inside and out. Those guys were workers too. They brought in arrests and were just great guys. Before long it seemed like the rest of their team was following in suit. Professionalism. We like to keep our car clean just because you can see if anything was dropped behind by our arrestee. It's a safety thing. Common sense would tell you to keep a car clean. But unfortunately,it's always that small percentage of goofs that ruin it for the rest of us, pissing off people left and right.
Granted it will end up costing us in the long run, but, every time you get your "squat car" washed, it comes out of city coffers. The stuttering prick will think twice about clean cars when he can't line his, or some family member or friends' pockets. And sinc the city owns the cars, and he thinks he owns the city, just sign his name on the car wash sheet...and dat ain't no hibbity jibbity...mmmm hhmmmm...
VOTE NO TO JUDGE JAMES EPSTEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pass the word on!
Hey how about the mayor let us wash the cars again ?! Who cares what's on the inside if we still have 2 year old salt crusted on the wheel wells, u cheap bastard!!!!!!!j
I have had people leave plastic cups filled with chewing tobacco in the car. It's absolutely disgusting what people will leave in the car and anyone who complains about cleaning or taking care of the cars has no right to complain about the city not providing quality equipment. If you're not willing to take care of the crap they give us I wouldn't blame the city for not buying us anything of value.
It's disgraceful, and there's no excuse for it; having said that, the number of places to get a car washed has all but dried up.
Unti people get written up for this nothing will change. And then when someone does all you crybabys will bitch that the admin doesnt have anything better to do than to pick on P.O.'s. Most everyone comes in 20 mins early for check off anyway. Clean up your mess while your sittin in the lot waitin.
Dan Dugan has completely lost his marbles. Look at all the wacky shit he has put out in the last year: 1st he said all desk crews should have no more than 2 p.o.'s and 1 desk Sgt.......oh and eliminate the watch secretary. I haven't found one district that did eliminate the watch secretary because if you did then all that stuff falls to the w/c. Next our boy Dan decided that under the new 4&2 desk crews and lockup crews are now supposed to take a lunch. The desk and lockup have never had lunches as far back as I can remember they've had a straight 8 hour tour while the cars have had 8.5 . In the departments infinite wisdom they decided that their would be a 2 hour overlap between 3 rd and 1st watch desk and lockup crews? How is that logical?
Dapper Dan figures that one of the overlapping desk crews can do some nonsensical, non essential bullshit like clean up the bulk storage area! Now he's saying that Lt.'s have to make sure the cars are clean and if we're short on cars then Sgt.'s will ride with p.o.'s? As I said before this guy has lost it. He obviously is very far removed from how a watch in a district operates. I'd venture to say he spent little if any time as a Sgt or a Lt on a watch. If it wasn't so ridiculous it would be funny. Dan what will you come up with next?
i can deal with the garbage left behind but being stuck in a car for 8hrs where some scumbag used the cup holders as an ash tray and you cant get the stench out for the whole tour is about the worst.
HAA I have been waiting for this comment when I go to the carwash I know I ask the attendants to vacuum beneath and behind the car seats and sometimes volumnes of trash is removed then I ask the attendant to clean interior glass partitions and finally I ask the cashier to include tire dressing! Then I go cruising thru DA HOOD!
Same crap, different City. What is the purpose of cutting (or eating) the steering wheel? Sunflower seeds all over the floor? Empty mustard packets stuffed in the console behind the siren box? Six thousand napkins stuffed above the sun-visors? Coffee cups and soda bottles under the seats? But nothing pisses me off more than finding the car parked next to the pumps, and left on empty!
I love the asshat in 5 on 2nd watch who leaves sunflower seeds all over the car. On the seats, pdt, dash, everywhere. I even saw him one day as i was heading to roll call and asked him about it. He said it was his partner. Jagoff works 99. I would have prefered him to tell me to fuck off instead of looking me in the eye with that BS like the pussy he is.
LMFAO! An old partner and myself did the Maxwell street trick to a long haired, liberal, freak of a cop who did not believe in bathing! The head rest would smell of his greasy, oily hair. The rest of the car would reek of body odor covered by cheap cologne every day we got into it! We told the oncoming shift to take out another car that day to spare them what was to come. Boy that squad smelled of onions and peppers for a week! The hippie bitched up a storm! But it was a huge improvement!!! The hippie eventually started to bathe after he found out the tight rubber band he held his pony tail together with was the cause of his constant migraines. The point is exercise some common sense people, clean the cars and yourself once in awhile. You are in a six foot by six foot hot box for eight(+) hours a day, show some consideration for the next watch.
This comes from the crying found on the CPD talk to the Supt. "blog". Read the shit posted on it, i.e. "How come I can't be on the 4 & 2's and I'm in a unit." "The cars are dirty!". And on and on, you get the gist of it. Boy there's a lot of crying on it and kissing up to the Supt. Makes you want to gag.
I'm afraid to clean the car, I might get electricuted from all the wires hanging out.
i love getting in a squad car wit greeeezzzy chicken grease on the steering wheel and on the pdt screem/buttons
What a great idea. Sgts ride in beat cars. Now both a sgt and PO's have to work! Brilliant.
1/25/2010 06:10:00 PM
Says who? It didn't say the sgt would have to work. Only that they ride in a beat car. Get REAL!!!!
Once upon a time in a faraway land there was an asshole Sgt. After riding around for days in a very smelly car, in very cold fall weather, with the heater blasting, he just couldn't understand how a 12lb salmon had got way up under his dashboard next to the heater blower.
While I agree that a clean car is nice, nothing beats leaving a strategically placed open tin of sardines in the car of the jagoff that consistently increases my workload by blowing-off or staying down an exorbitant amount of time on jobs. Those little fish, particularly when packaged in the mustard sauce, will funk-up a beat car like you wouldn't believe.
Everyone's got a couple of slouches on the prior or latter watch that deserve this bit of well-played retaliation...you just have to let the good guys on the other watchs in on your little prank.
And while we're on the topic of car interior conditions, shall I even begin to address the amount of farts that have been force-fed into the seat foam of every car? Six different asses over a 24 hour period depositing rancid methane that could easily fog a West Side 6-flat of several generations of roaches ...you do the math.
Let's see...things I've found in squad cars in 011....full cartons of milk ready to explode, a ham sandwich, chicken bones, spit cups for chew, sunflower seed shells soaked in spit, ice cream all over the pdt..I could go on and on. Also, people on days like to smoke cigars in the cars while keeping the windows up. Had to wash my clothes twice to get the stink out after riding around in that ashtray for 8 hours. Grow up and quit being slobs people....I can't even imagine what your houses must look like...
Didn't you get the memo which stated, "what goes on in the car, stays in the car ".
I give Dugan two big THUMBS UP if he sent out a memo like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry but the biggest slobs I have ever met in my life don't live in the ghetto. They are Chicago Police Officers!!!!!!
Two times in my career I was blessed to get a new car on this job. Once on the gang team and once as a beat officer. I swear once a week I had to take the car to a car wash and vaccum it out. The slobs on other watches and teams were scum bags. I was too embarrassed to just take it to the car wash without cleaning the inside up a touch.
I could swear when I worked in the district there was always a car inspection on Sunday mornings. I think if the car is dirty during the inspection the officer/s should take a day who had the car last.
just so you know Lt. I tea bag every car I get.LostTbgr in Fillmore. wanna see my flying Squirrel?
chicken heart?
fruit basket?
the goat? (AKA.Jpud)
STOP ME BEFORE I T-BAG AGAIN!!!!!
Dapper Dan figures that one of the overlapping desk crews can do some nonsensical, non essential bullshit like clean up the bulk storage area!
Hey, how about having them clean the station. That way the department could save money on at least 1 shift of cleaning crews. Then with the money that was saved, those poor exempts wouldn't have to take their 24 unpaid furlough days!
Some cops are the worst scumbags you can run into. Some do empty their garbage from the car, right into the station parking lot. These scumbags eat in the car and leave food all over. They are fucking disgusting! They don't stop there. You see the same shit in the CPD lockerrooms. There are garbage cans all over, but they throw their shit on the floor. They just need to be taught a lesson because mama ain't around to wipe your ass and pick up after you!
The car wash attendants on 87th Street will ask to be "blessed". If you tell them no, they won't finish the job and the car still looks and smells like crap.
ACTUALLY I DO THINK WE NEED A MEMO ON THIS I AM ASSIGNED TO A BEAT CAR AND USED TO TAKE CARE OF IT ALONG WITH OFFICERS THAT WORKED OTHER WATCHES BECAUSE FOR ALL INTENSIVE PURPOSES IT WAS OUR OFFICE BUT NOW THAT I HAVE A DIFFERENT VEHICLE EVERYDAY I FEEL LIKE WALKING INTO SOMEBODYS HOUSE ON A DOMESTIC IN THE WESTSIDE GARBAGE EVERYWARE, WE ARE POLICE OFFICERS WE SHOULDNT WORK AND THRIVE IN THE SAME LIVING CONDITIONS AS THE SAVAGES WE DEAL WITH
Dan Dugan made Lt. in 95 and went straight to 001 tac. I am sure he filled in as a WC once or twice.
If the supervisors would do their jobs, and spot-inspect the squads, and give out SPARS forthe slobs that leave em dirty, it wouldn't happen as often. Supervisors, get off your Asses, and Lead By Example. Earn your Pay-to-Play ranks.
Philly... said...
Same crap, different City. What is the purpose of cutting (or eating) the steering wheel? Sunflower seeds all over the floor? Empty mustard packets stuffed in the console behind the siren box? Six thousand napkins stuffed above the sun-visors? Coffee cups and soda bottles under the seats? But nothing pisses me off more than finding the car parked next to the pumps, and left on empty!
1/26/2010 07:11:00 AM
Hey Brother from Philly;
R.I.P. brother Danny Faulkner, and doing our best to get a boycott of a Ben& Jerry's soon to open in our neighborhood, that's loaded with police officers and their families. Hope all Cop-Killers burn in Hell.
I have never seen graffiti in 10yrs on the job and if I do I WILL fuck the others who work the car. If your that big of a pussy that you write in cars, you either need to be fired or have your ass kicked. OR BOTH!! As for cleaning out your garbage you are simply a piece of shit if you dont. Same for those who leave cars on empty, pieces of shit. I hate when I hear guys say "oh well they dont fill it so fuck them im not either." I like to think I wont stoop to the level of pussies on this job. be a man and clean the shit out, if a boss has to issue a memo to tell you that, maybe you should quit and go work for mcdonalds although Im quite sure you wont make it there either
That being said, the dept doesnt care about the cars they give us as 90% are dangerous to be in. So dont stoop to their level, be the bigger man and at least clean the fucking car
Face it. That's what we've become. We're a bunch of lazy, whining, young hair gel, college educated bitches! We have good jobs in a time when the employment rate is through the roof everywhere in the country, and we do nothing but whine!
Why don't we clean out our cars?? Because we're fucking lazy!
-am a cop
HEY! HOW ABOUT NOT SMOKING IN THE SQUAD CARS. NOT ONLY IS AGAINST GENERAL ORDERS. ITS DISGUSTING. I HAVE TO GO HOME AND HUG MY KIDS SMELLING LIKE CIGARETTES AND THE OTHER FUNKY SCENTS ASS,BODY ODOR, ETC.)THAT COME FROM THE SQUADS.
Danny boy truly has lost it. Time to retire Dan before this job get's you like it has in the past, to many who were greater than you!
whatever happened to Sunday vehicle inspection??
Now he should send out a memo that if you find any personal equipment left behind by the previous watch, please turn it in! Please do not convert other's property to your own use to include: raincoats, flashlights, ticket book holders, cell phones etc. etc etc.
30 years ago we had a good cure for the problem. Back when we all had mail boxes we would just take out all of the shit and put it in their mail box. Fixed the problem.
TRP
WTF is wrong with some coppers! I am in the KMA club on days,everyday I take the beat car to car wash,get fuel and if it needs anything go to the garage,or call r man! Boys and girls that takes me about 1 1/2 hour a tour,that means i can get coffee,read a paper and relax! Then the next watch comes in the car is ready to go,and they do not throw shit everywhere! I know we are rotating cars now but i still do the same thing,as I want a clean car and it costs me nothing! Why not do this? Some coppers say I am to busy to get a wash! WTF are you thinking? That is time you don't have to deal with the animals!
Area 3 is the worst. Nobody has any courtesy when it come to cleaning the vehicles. One certain old timer who keeps his Mercedes super clean refuses to clean the car. It is pathetic There goes the Area Three image NASTY!!!!!!!
THE KING, I mean the king of squad car trash is ex P.O. Valleyfield. White trash hiself. He used to put BBQ chicken bones in the vents, under the rubber floors,and under the seats. Peanut shells were also a favotite. He would drive around all night thinking of new places to hide food to make the car stink for the next crew. If you ever meet him ask him what a waffle is.
Truly an american hero.
Out.
I am nobody's mother, nor their maid but I am NOT A RAT either! I have been on for almost 17 years and will continure to clean the car to my standards when I am using it, even if it means cleaning other peoples garbage out. Another officer is not going to get written up because I cried about what pigs they are. If it really bothers me that much I will take care of it in person. There are other ways to deal with it than to RAT someone out and get them written up. Don't make enemies with the people that you work with, others hate us enough and beef on us plenty.
I am not saying its right but we can't justify a wrong doing to a fellow officer because they are slobs. We used to be a family and dealth with things in house. Now it sounds like we are a bunch of jail house rats! When we divide ourselves anyone can break us and invade our home!
I can only imagine how some PO's houses look...
When I was in patrol, the car I was assigned to on 3rd watch was used by a park detail car on days.
You guessed it, no gas and tons of crap left in the car EVERY day.
Put up with it for a while, then started to gather his waste and pack it in his department mailbox.
No change, like this guy would every get court papers, mug pix [yes, it was a while back] or any police work related mail.
Solved the problem though - I saved two weeks worth, drove up to 017 and scattered his crap all over his porch and front lawn.
This angry inch Irish prick whined to the WC the next day and was told to clean his shit up, "you know that guy on 3rd watch is crazy and will keep delivering your shit to your home"...
Never found excessive amounts of debris in the car again.
I'm guilty of all the above and I am truly sorry.
RUMOR HAS IT SUPERVISORS WILL B RIDIN 10-4,TO ANSWER CALLS FOR SERVICE DURING THIS MANPOWER SHORTAGE!EARLY LT AND SGT,AND 2 LATE SGTS!!NICE...890 AND 810 GIVE ME A NUMBER FOR A 0486 SQUAD!NICEEEE!!!!!
Dugan only cares about Dugan. He is all about being the next Supt. Thats all he cares about and get out of his way
PAPER UNIFORMS FOR THE POLICE ARE THE ANSWER;
MAYOR RICHARD M. DALEY
i agree... just clean out the damn car ya slobs... And stop getting chicken grease all over the inside of the damn car!!!!!! Use a napkin or just dont order chicken and gizzards while working.
JUST RELAX, TAKE YOUR TIME, HOLD YOURSELF DOWN ON A CAR WASH, AND, OR CLEANING OUT YOUR SQUAD. THEN TAKE A PERSONAL TO WASH UP WHEN YOU'RE DONE. BEAT THE CHEAP CITY AT ITS OWN GAME, GOOD FOR AN HOUR DOWN-TIME. 2 MORE LEFT TILL LUNCH!
YOU DONT HAVE TO SUBJECT YOURSELVES TO A FILTHY, GERM FILLED SQUAD CAR.
Before they started this new rotation of cars i used to clean the car inside and out. i knew the guys and gals after took care of the car. now fuck it im nobodys mama you leave me on empty so i put in enough to get me through my tour. you leave a mess of garbage its gonna stay there. happy 4-2 !!!!!
I don't know if this is citywide, so bare with me, in 008, we no longer get the same car everyday, it's some stupid color coded system, that I still can't figure out why...we get a different car every day....with the old system, we had real good car integrity with the other watches on our beat, the car NEVER needed gas when I got in it (if it did there was a note left explaining late arrest or whatever), it was clean...now with this STUPID system, First thing I do 5 out of the 6 days is get gas, and clean the crap out of the car, because people figure we won't know who had it before us now...Is this system going on city wide???
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS DISRESPECTING EACH OTHER.
WERE BECOMING JUST AS IGNORANT AS THE PEOPLE WE ARREST. THIS LACK OF COMMON COURTESY TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER IS INCREASING, AND IS OUR OWN FAULT!
WE HAVE LOST SIMPLE VALUES AND THIS MY FELLOW OFFICERS IS WHY CITIZENS DON'T TRUST US AND HAVE NO RESPECT FOR US.
WERE STARTING TO LACK BASIC MANNERS AND SELF RESPECT AT EACH OTHER....
W.GODINEZ 013 DIST.
Besides throwing out your trash how about filling up the gas tank from time to time for the next watch. So sick of coming in on 1st watch all the time to find the squad car on empty.
I agree Dugan should not have to put out this memo. But he does have to because of the filthy idiots and crybabies who don't have enough decency to clean up after themselves. Imagine what their homes look like. If some of these people just acted a little more mature this would not be an issue ever.
Second watch should take care of the car wash & garage service when needed. First & third watch should be responsible for fueling the vehicle. There is no reason to start a tour with an empty tank because the prior watch was too lazy to fill it up.
Ususally the Jags who leave the car a mess and on empty are the same ones who have the imaculately clean new cars that are never dirty even during the winter.
Lets be realistic here. Today, I went for G/O, but had to get gas first, figured may as well get it washed. Not even trying to dog it either- 3 hours total!
I think they should have assigned, personal take-home car for officers who work a beat. NOT for those inside hidding from the streets. Then you would have people bidding for a spot in the district.
But does he really have to send out a memo telling people to clean out cars and designate supervisors to check it out?
Sorry SCC but after some of the cars I've gotten lately YES HE DOES. It's not hard people. You're driving around for 8hrs, find a can and throw your shit out!!!!
SCC this is one of your more sensible postings in a very long time. I wholeheartedly agree with you and others. Just dispose of your garbage after your done with the beater you were using. Common courtesy.
Remember Dugan was Mcnulty's protege!
SCC
Amen!
Dan is Correct! Garbage in = garbage out. The scumbags that were the blue and drop the shit in the cars should look in the mirror. They are the same that shitbirds to everyone they meet including off duty cops and our families-Semper Fi
Hey SCC, this is a great topic for most of the dirty people to read and be shamed for!
Squad! Can I get an event number, please!
Read on!
Most of these bozos would be real pissed if I had left junk, garbage, sticky candy wrappers, half drank pop cups and such in their BMW's, Cadillacs, Toyotas and Lexus cars that some of these inconsiderate, moronic Police Officers drive to work!
Then the way these goofs drive these cars are just pathetic, too!
Some Officers laugh and shrug it off and call Ford cars junk!
Hey ASSHOLES, how would you like it if I drive your personal car over curbs doing 30 mph! You would be trying to start a fight with me!
Let's NOT even get into the assholes that smoke in squad cars and leave ashes all over the place! Then when you roll the window down to get a breeze you look like a snow globe going down the road with all the ashes flying around! People who smoke in squad cars, I hope choke in their own shit, too!
19-Paul Squad!
NO ONE CARES ANYMORE, YOU NEVER HAVE THE SAME CAR TWICE, LET THE OTHER GUY WASH IT OR TAKE IT FOR A OIL CHANGE!
what about the copper in 019 who now works days in review, he actually received a CR for picking his nose and placing the boogers on the visor on a daily basis. Was attempted by the other watches to be handled discretely but the SOB refused to stop gobbing his nose and placing on the visor. Finally a CR was obtained and he was removed from the car... Boogergate is a real true story.
Did anyone mention spare tires? I mean the ones in the trunk. Not the ones under the gunbelts.
Here is a suggestion DUGAN. Don't tell me you or one of your minions does not religiously read this blog. You would be a fool if you didn't.
SUNDAY VEHICLE INSPECTIONS: Do Not have them immediately after Roll Call. Conduct them at about NOON, or when the vehicles are turned over to the 3rd Watch crew. This will give the Second Watch time to take their vehicle (maybe more than one vehicle) to the carwash and the fuel depot. Then have the vehicles at an outdoor rollcall in front of the station or in the sally port and really look at them.
This will force the vehicles to be washed and cleaned out at least once a week.
Stay safe, the Department will never do this as a whole, it makes too much sense.
you should do more than clean it in and out, think of all the cops who touch all the scummy bums, hypes , addicts, etc. you are constantly exposed to hiv, tuberculosis, scabbies, flu, and
a myriad of other wonderful diseases from your greatful public.
i ever so often get some cleaner and a good scrub brush and clean the car inside. believe me you will feel much better if you kill some germs!
YOU THINK DAN IS A MICRO MANAGER WAIT TILL STEVE GETS HIS FINGERS IN THE PIE.
let the car wash clean them. Cleaning is not part of the contract or in the job description.
It should be mentioned that abusing equipment, computers, etc. is in the same vein. Putting shit on the computers (games, wallpaper), spilling, breaking them intentionally, this is just stupid.
A suburban cop would laugh in your face if he saw how unprofessional we are.
I am one of those "Your ride is your pride" motherfuckers. I don't eat in my personal car... never. And no motherfucker eats in my car.
I do the same with the squad. I don't bring food into the car. That solves a lot of shit.
What the fuck are you? Some 17 year old eating in your car at Superdawg?
It's OK with me if you leave garbage in the car.I will empty your garbage at the beginning of the tour and empty mine out at the end of the day.But,I would like to castrate the assholes who blow their nose and leave the Kleenex in the door handles and coffee cup holders.
Get a car wash its free! Try having the smell of your dirty ass cleaned on the inside too! Thats my office too.
I will say now that the cars are in rotation, the cars are not taken care of. Gas on 1/4 tank; filthy inside & out. I don't like having to clean out someones snot rag from the side door panel.
I use clorox wipes every day when I get in the car. Just disgusting!
Suddenly, cars are dirty, small maintenance issues are ignored and beat tags are a rare commodity.
The fact is, and I'm not saying I agree with it, when you have the same car consistently, you keep it cleaner, you notice those little 'off' sounds that mean engine or brake trouble and the damned beat tag doesn't go missing (intentionally or not) on a daily basis because IT STAYS ON THE CAR.
--YOU Are SOOOO Right! Every day I have to make a paper beat tag now that the cars are being changed daily. People filled up for the next guy and MOST; not All cleaned up the inside of the car.
Dam I thought the wheel cutting was a NYPD thing nice to hear CPD has it share on kid cops too
Anonymous said...
We have assigned take home squads where I work, and don't have to deal with that B.S. It's your office for 8 hrs!!
1/26/2010 12:38:00 AM
Thanks Bartender Bea, Maybe you can get all of us a car like yours!
THANKS!!!!!! SCC
IT REALLY SUCKS TO GET INTO SOME OF THESE CARS!!
LIKE IF BUMMS WERE IN THEM ALL NIGHT AND THE SMELL THAT WONT GO AWAY!!!!
I AGREE!!! CLEAN YO MESS PLEASE!!!!!!!
SORRY
....Some coppers say I am to busy to get a wash! WTF are you thinking? That is time you don't have to deal with the animals!
1/26/2010 11:01:00 AM
They are too busy handling jobs for the dog-asses on the Watch.
LADIES AND GENTS,ITS TIME FOR A LITTLE HEALTH 101!OK,WE R HATED IN THIS UNIFORM SO WHY WOULD U EAT OUT AT WORK?U R SAYIN F WITH MY FOOD!BRING YOUR OWNH HIGH FIBER FRUITS AND VEGIES AND MAYBE A CAN OF FISH!U WONT HAVE SWAMP ASS AND U CAN THROW YOUR BAG IN THE NEAREST GARBAGE CAN!PROBLEM SOLVED!ALSO WASH YOUR HANDS!
"Hairy Magic Nose Goblins" on the pdt keys?
...Yup!
Steering wheel carved off the metal insert?
...Yup!
A fucking chicken cemetery under the seats?
...Yup!
A glove box full of funky-ass coleslaw cups in the summer?
(Damn, tell the order taker at the rib shack you don't want it!)
...Yup!
God knows what liquid/body fluids on the seat?
(OK, fuck this. Bringing a cushion from now on.)
...Yup!
Getting a pool car from A/4 and turning on the a/c only to be greeted by a swarm of west side man eating gnats?
...Yup!
Some asshole burying the car a block from the station to hide the damage from running over shit/sleep driving?
(ya hump! report the fucking damage and own up to it instead of playing dumb!)
...Yup!
"Squad hold us down doing preventive maintenance on the vehicle."
Following behind some people on these cars make you wonder if they even bother taking the dishes out the kitchen sink before taking a piss and doing a shake off in the general direction of the curtains...
It's simple. Have a little consideration for the next crew. In the meantime, a toothbrush, sturdy wipes, rubber gloves and rubbing alcohol are new tools of the trade...
I don't know if this is citywide, so bare with me, in 008, we no longer get the same car everyday, it's some stupid color coded system, that I still can't figure out why...we get a different car every day....
1/26/2010 02:13:00 PM
You are probably the same guy still trying to figure out how we work 5 days a week (most weeks) when we have a 4 and 2 schedule...
what about the copper in 019 who now works days in review, he actually received a CR for picking his nose and placing the boogers on the visor on a daily basis. Was attempted by the other watches to be handled discretely but the SOB refused to stop gobbing his nose and placing on the visor. Finally a CR was obtained and he was removed from the car... Boogergate is a real true story.
1/26/2010 04:45:00 PM
Any relation to the guy in 015 on midnights? sounds like they're cut from the same cloth.....
Jam a live SuperDawg box under the seat with all the fixins. It will smell like death in about four hours.
Worked with Dugan. Calling him uptight, inflexible and the ultimate control freak, while simultaneously being out of touch and unable to see the big picture, is taking it easy on him. Pray he never makes the top job.
And while we're on the topic of car interior conditions, shall I even begin to address the amount of farts that have been force-fed into the seat foam of every car? Six different asses over a 24 hour period depositing rancid methane that could easily fog a West Side 6-flat of several generations of roaches ...you do the math.
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ROFL! What do you expect them to do though, hang that shit out the window while ripping ass? It's cold outside!
This topic has kept me laughing form beginning to end. My FTO used to mail garbage to the F on days that left the car all shitty. The napkins in the visor comment is classic. How about when you open the glove compartment and there's another 600napkins in there?
I have been known to "Mail" the previous (1st) watch their trash... Once in awhile your in a hurry and it happens...But I can usually tell which idiots worked the car by the mere grease spot on the drivers side window and the lack of gas... I throw their Shit out on the ramp and dare anyone to say a Word! I'm not Walking their Trash to the garbage cans Everyday! Let the poor District Custodians pick it up! At Least they get Paid to do it! Sorry!
Northside districts go to 2111 Fullerton for a car wash. They clean the squad inside and out and do a great job. If you feel like it give them a couple bucks at the end and they really do a tremendous job.
Anonymous said...
Face it. That's what we've become. We're a bunch of lazy, whining, young hair gel, college educated bitches! We have good jobs in a time when the employment rate is through the roof everywhere in the country, and we do nothing but whine!
Why don't we clean out our cars?? Because we're fucking lazy!
-am a cop
1/26/2010 10:15:00 AM
Young, hair gel, college educated, these attributes have nothing to do with it. Slobs have been around from day one. My first day on the street the 2nd watch before us left all sorts of garbage in the car.
Anonymous said...
what about the copper in 019 who now works days in review, he actually received a CR for picking his nose and placing the boogers on the visor on a daily basis. Was attempted by the other watches to be handled discretely but the SOB refused to stop gobbing his nose and placing on the visor. Finally a CR was obtained and he was removed from the car... Boogergate is a real true story.
1/26/2010 04:45:00 PM
I fling mine on other cars stopped in traffic. Or under the seat. But never ever on the visor!
There was a dirty spot on the driver's door constantly. Always near the top, right behind the mirror. Finally I discovered why, cigar ashes, that is where the guy tapped his car to get the ashes off. Every day. They stayed there during a rain too, had to be scrubbed off.
Anonymous said...
What a great idea. Sgts ride in beat cars. Now both a sgt and PO's have to work! Brilliant.
1/25/2010 06:10:00 PM
Says who? It didn't say the sgt would have to work. Only that they ride in a beat car. Get REAL!!!!
1/26/2010 08:26:00 AM
Thats the way MSF does it. The Supervisors are required to be in the POs car or they will be disciplined. Sgts are expected to work. Team concept. C.R.'s include the Sgt too!
Once I opened the back door of a squad car and found a dead squirrel! And your all complaing about food!
I'm glad I'm not a germ freak. think about the times the steering wheel is sticky?
I have OPPOSITE problem... The guy that shares my car is the throw it out police...lol...Its all in good fun, but yesterday I put like 10 VINS and a couple misdomeanors in the glovebox. (in my dist, 10 vins is enough for a year or two lol) And stocked the center console with the envelopes for ticket writing. Yup. First call today, Im calling a car to meet me so that they can drop off a vin- Mind you, its MY fault for not being prepared, just thought it was funny to have the exact opposite problem as many of you lol...
my partner once ordered a mongolian beef, extra large size--- finished about half and deposited the remainder in the trunk for a take home snack--- guess what happened, yup, forgot it and we were both rdo for a few days--- man, that car stunk to high hell, like being on a cha elevator-- the poor coppers who had to ride around in that thing must have been gagging... if you really want to fuck a guy, leave some type of seafood in the trunk.....
OK I'll clean the car between the 35 jobs I get a night and denied lunch because were in a RAP.
I never understood why coppers picked up their lunch through a drive through window. I always went inside. At least you could see them cook/make your food. Subway and Chipolte (SP?) are the best as they make the food right in front of you.
Dugan only cares about Dugan. He is all about being the next Supt. Thats all he cares about and get out of his way
1/26/2010 01:44:00 PM
B-I-N-G-O!!!!
Pay attention to the above statement, boys and girls... its 110% TRUE!
1/26/2010 08:26:00 AM
Thats the way MSF does it. The Supervisors are required to be in the POs car or they will be disciplined. Sgts are expected to work. Team concept. C.R.'s include the Sgt too!
1/26/2010 10:58:00 PM
Sooo, who does the CR? The Lt's?
Im not saying having a SGT with you (depending on the Sgt) would be a bad thing, but it's looking like Sgt's are becoming nothing more than "glorified patrolmen".
(I kinda remember a certain Dugan telling a Sgt's class recently, something along the lines of "you arnt 'managment' yet"...)
fillmoregal said...
This topic has kept me laughing form beginning to end. My FTO used to mail garbage to the F on days that left the car all shitty. The napkins in the visor comment is classic. How about when you open the glove compartment and there's another 600napkins in there?
1/26/2010 09:29:00 PM
Hey, we use those napkins to clean up after the slobs on the previous watch!
ez take the car to the wash whenever you get in it? dep doogie is a moron!
He is still trying to figure out how to sort out the carless overlap with the new schedule.
And he is patting himself on the back with the fewer desk personal order. Open your eyes! They just hide them. Get a clue already, retire and let someone with a brain trying fixing it already!!!!!!!!!
It seems the Commander's staff in the front office of 019 is now complaining that they don't work the 4-2 schedule and have asked for the 4-2. Can you imagine that? Those who consider themselves privileged and mini-exempt blue shirts and who haven't worked the streets in years want to work the same schedule as the street officers. And I hear they are adamant about it and feel entitled to the 4-2.
Funny they never apologized for working a 5 day schedule when the rest of us worked 6 in a row. Now they people from the land of sharp staples and paper cuts and who talk down to street police want the same schedule.
Does this shit happen anywhere else besides 019?
All the food talk right..., really think about that swamp ass. Bet the station toilets are dirty than the subways. Washing of the hands? Gets in the car touchin everything. Think about the seven elevens door handle next time you touch it. ANY door handle. If you think your clean, not anymore.
Anonymous said...
It seems the Commander's staff in the front office of 019 is now complaining that they don't work the 4-2 schedule and have asked for the 4-2. Can you imagine that? Those who consider themselves privileged and mini-exempt blue shirts and who haven't worked the streets in years want to work the same schedule as the street officers. And I hear they are adamant about it and feel entitled to the 4-2.
Funny they never apologized for working a 5 day schedule when the rest of us worked 6 in a row. Now they people from the land of sharp staples and paper cuts and who talk down to street police want the same schedule.
Does this shit happen anywhere else besides 019?
1/27/2010 05:27:00 AM
Relax, Dennis. They took care of YOU a number of times!
It seems the Commander's staff in the front office of 019 is now complaining that they don't work the 4-2 schedule and have asked for the 4-2. Can you imagine that? Those who consider themselves privileged and mini-exempt blue shirts and who haven't worked the streets in years want to work the same schedule as the street officers. And I hear they are adamant about it and feel entitled to the 4-2.
Funny they never apologized for working a 5 day schedule when the rest of us worked 6 in a row. Now they people from the land of sharp staples and paper cuts and who talk down to street police want the same schedule.
Does this shit happen anywhere else besides 019?
1/27/2010 05:27:00 AM
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Hopefully your Commander has the stones to tell these whiners "sure you can work 4/2...ON 1st or 3rd WATCH"! If a boss caves in to the inside people like these SHAME ON HIM/HER!
Mnay years ago, when I was a detective working mids,we had a problem with the day crew who regularly used the same car we did; they refused to wash or service the car. Apparently, it got int he way of their laundromats business. So first we tried the maxwell street wrappers and onions stuffed in the steering wheel,and that failed to elicit a response.
We waited for a nice hot summer evening, just before our 3 day weekend; about 4 AM we stopped at a 24hour grocery and bought a pound of frozen shrimp. Before we parked the cara in the lot, we popped both front wheel covers and put half of the shrimp in each cover and carefully replaced them. When we came back from our weekend, the car was washed, the interior cleaned, and a note was found (from the day crew) admitting defeat.
I used to be in Unit 153 and now I am working in 018 of my own choice. Boys, the grass is definitely greener on this side. The antics of Lt PK are not missed around here that's for sure.
I have peace of mind and I don't even miss the 10 hr schedule. Seriously boys, MSF is a sinking ship with a pitiful excuse for a Lt trying to be the top dog. Save yourselves and return to beat patrol. Tell him to fuck off as you submit the PAR form! God Bless the old SOS!
Loving 018!!!!
Anonymous said...
I don't know if this is citywide, so bare with me, in 008, we no longer get the same car everyday, it's some stupid color coded system, that I still can't figure out why...we get a different car every day....
1/26/2010 02:13:00 PM
Nope---you are the only one affected
Does this shit happen anywhere else besides 019?
1/27/2010 05:27:00 AM
No.
Yahoooooooooo.
Grant Park fireworks cancelled this year!
Smaller fireworks north and south sides.
Keeps the trouble local.
1/26/2010 08:45:00 AM
LOLZ like a mofo to West Side, Inside Do-Nothing.
Hey Hey watch that now!
Don't take King Oscar lightly! He ain't nobody's bitch!
The half eaten catfish dinner from hooks/jj fish/wallace's/coleman's left to decay under the seat (especially in a pool car) was some netherworldy, dank-ass shit too!
("For the good of mankind we must find that which is stinkin' so damn hard in this car." Normally it would've been "fuckityagottanothercar?")
Still wishing we knew who that fool was stockpiling the slaw cups in the glove box... That was just wrong!
YEP,U CAN GUARANTEE SGTS WILL B RIDIN 10-4 AND WILL B REQUIRED TO HANDLE JOBS INCLUDING PAPER!ORDER IS COMIN DOWN..U HEARD IT HERE 1ST!!THEY CAN MAKE ARRESTS 2!!MAKES YA WANNA GO BACK 2 BEIN A DICK DONT IT??
019 falling under the microscope of peer scrutiny yet again, due to gross mismanagement of full duty officers, the mutiny is brewing all over the building. I used to laugh..but, hell we are so far down the rabbit's hole, of crazed w/c s poor ability to use reason/logic instead of acting out like 3rd world dictators...well I' m free falling and no longer care; so I now fit in with the rest.
Hiding the desk crews? Everywhere but 016. One doing the reports and one doing the watch secretary work AND the radios. Unbelievable. How many are in Dugans office to do all HIS work?
"Let's NOT even get into the assholes that smoke in squad cars and leave ashes all over the place! Then when you roll the window down to get a breeze you look like a snow globe going down the road with all the ashes flying around!"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't forget the Clorox wipes.
haha i know this guy in 014 who hates when people eat in the squad car. I'm gonna pull the maxwell street onion trick on him.
Hey Box Chevy Phantom:
You listed just about every yardbird place I'd frequent on a semi-regular basis when I roamed the streets of 011. Ain't nothin' better than a greasy 4-piece with extra hot sauce ("never you mind them pin feathers" my first black FTO once said)... and save the bread and hot sauce-drenched fries for the end to be consumed as a French Fry Sandwich. Second only to menudo to cure that omnipresent hangover.
And don't forget to give major props to Uncle Remus..aaaahhhhh, good times!!!
>>>Im not saying having a SGT with you (depending on the Sgt) would be a bad thing, but it's looking like Sgt's are becoming nothing more than "glorified patrolmen".
(I kinda remember a certain Dugan telling a Sgt's class recently, something along the lines of "you arnt 'managment' yet"...)
1/27/2010 12:31:00 AM<<<
"management"...that's part of the problem, a big part.
Managers handle things, leaders handle people. "Bosses" bring the two skills together.
We now have managers, few leaders, certainly fewer "bosses".
We have people in positions, who have authority, but don't know how to use it, certainly not how to use it wisely.
We have people in positions of responsibility who have never had the experience of a street education.
"Boss" is a title of respect on this job, did you ever hear anyone say, "OK Manager."
There are some managers that protocol demands that you call Sir or Ma'am. But, all things considered I would never call Dugan "Boss".
I used to be in Unit 153 and now I am working in 018 of my own choice. Boys, the grass is definitely greener on this side. The antics of Lt PK are not missed around here that's for sure.
I have peace of mind and I don't even miss the 10 hr schedule. Seriously boys, MSF is a sinking ship with a pitiful excuse for a Lt trying to be the top dog. Save yourselves and return to beat patrol. Tell him to fuck off as you submit the PAR form! God Bless the old SOS!
Loving 018!!!!
We are glad to have you. All are welcome -- even ex-priests. PLENTY of openings for any other lost sheep on the "elite" Michigan Avenue and Entertainment Details. Don't let the zero openings on the last vacancy announcement discourage you -- make that clouted phone call TODAY!!
Thanks to all the tobacco chewers in MSF. you guys are sickening, throwing your juices all over the cars, Big joke, Huh, wait, the other shoe is going to fall and besides tearing up the cars like a bunch of gel haired little bitches who can't grow up, when the Sgts start banging you guys, maybe then you will keep these lowly cars clean for the rest of us who want to do the right thing. We have a good crew od LTS. here and they have just about had it with you guys. we are not getting any new cars so grow up. I don't chew or smoke but I do keep the cars clean with my partner.
Motorized Dumpsters with a backseat and a broken PDT!!
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