Police Budget
Mayor Richard Daley today ordered a review of Chicago Police Department management that he said is designed to ensure more officers are returned to street duty.
"There's a variety of things we're looking at in terms of management, but the key is police officers on the street," the mayor said at City Hall news conference.
The police review came as the mayor announced a 6 percent budget cut for city departments, except for those dealing with “critical safety operations.” The cuts also will not affect “service delivery,” Daley said.
The Sun Times takes a swipe at Daley in their report:
Nearly 20 years ago, Daley spent more than $1 million to have a consulting firm study the police department, only to end up ignoring the most dramatic recommendations from the firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton.
The report suggested altering police beats and shifting them periodically according to a formula that would take into account several key factors — major crimes, all crimes, calls for service and population figures.
Booz Allen recommended closing seven police district stations, altering responses to 911 calls and ending a policy that allows officers to take to take up to 365 furlough and sick days off every two years.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
218 Comments:
“As the last is a contract issue, we don't see that changing in the near future.”
Not to doubt you, but do ya really think the FOP won’t sell us out?
“ The closing of stations is a political suicide mission no one will touch.”
Wouldn’t the changing of 3/4ths of the command staff? What makes you think he wont piss off people again? It might just be J-Frauds parting gift as he exits stage right (and not soon enough).
How about emptying out those bloated front office staffs,
bloated command staffs at 35th,
and bloated training staff at the Academy!
That will clear up several hundred officers and white shirts.
p.s. and no drivers for anybody, your old enough to drive yourself and required to have a valid license!
You can't mean the "my kid sassed me and I can't make him go to school" calls, can you?
Or maybe it's those "the snowplow plowed me in last night and I can't get out of my parking space" calls (very popular right now - apparently these women think the big, strong policemen are required to push cars out of parking spaces).
Or could it be the anonymous calls about the barking dogs? Or the school wanting two six year olds arrested for a playground shoving match?
But the calltakers take 'em, the dispatchers give 'em, and off we go to solve everybody's problems.
Get these people back into patrol!
I like the idea of the sat teams and such but we really could use the bodies back on the watches and then they could still saturate the certain areas by getting on rapid cars and stuff.
I do admit though, those saturation guys do work in our area and are always around the areas they're supposed to be and it sure is nice having the backup seconds away when you need it. So thanks to you guys for the many times assisted me in the past.
911 responses will be changed, it's been in the works since last summer, should be done before summer starts, hope so, we need the help wherever we can get it.
Dear Mr. Daley: You ranted about saving dollars and nickels today in your press conference about wanting the Department to do a comprehensive study on its budget and deployment policies.
You can save a quick HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS by paying Jody Weis only for the job he is doing, since you snatched the OEMC job away from him immediately after he arrived here.
WHY are the taxpayers paying him twice what any superintendent ever got paid and he's doing only ONE of the two jobs he was contracted to do?
First the clouted house mice that are close with the brass aren't going anywhere. They will cry scared because they haven't worked the streets since they got off probation and their clout will write something saying. "how essential they are and that the dept. won't function without them inside." Second, no one gives a shit about the districts and 35th will continue to fudge the numbers making them looked more staffed than they are. If city hall wants to save money get rid of some of the exempt positions. There is no police department in the world with as many exempts as chicago. It's a JOKE!!!
Hey SCC when we civilians call 311 on gangbangers trespassing drinking in public and such we get re-routed to 911...
Really? A concerts announced and your bringing it up? Her 15 minutes is not up? Nothing new? You need a new insider.Who left hq recently that is leaving SCC without the inside info???That is the real question???
2/11/2010 10:35:00 PM
Ruth, who are you calling a spy? Surely not McCotter!
Daley wants more officers on the street.
Answer : Hire 2,000 police officers and replenish the diminished ranks.
Where has the $ been disappearing to?
The CPD is budgeted for 13,500 police officers but has less than 11,5000.
Where is Daley skimming all this money to?
Anyone with CLOUT will be untouched by any of this downsizing of units.
SCC,
Who is the 017th District Sgt. that was found copulating with a known transvestite prostitute by some blue shirts?
A pass was given and now the blueshirts are being threatened via text messages and phone calls by this Sgt.
IAD better step up and in on this one. The Sgt is a heavily juiced M/4 with issues.
Is this the 7th or 8th MAJOR issue in 017 under Mike Mealer's tenure?
Has 017 become the "new" 025?
Do we have a "new" Sir Donkey?
Honestly, most gun teams are useless.Coming in with one baggers and doing search warrants because they havnt a clue how to make an arrest.Meanwhile guys from the watch who deserve to be on a gun team cant make it. So they need to get rid of the gun and sat teams.Sat teams our basically old edge mission teams,everybody goes.But the real dealers and felons run free and wild.I blame management on these gun teams.They allowed these sgts to put all their buddies on the team who got taken care of and carried,you know who u r.U did what u said ,you rode it out til it came to an end.Ya screwed the guys that actually worked.Good supervising would have prevented gun teams from getting put back on the watch,Bottom line u cant let guys who came from slow districts ,or who were never the police run a great gig like a gun team
oh yeah baby, time for all the desk bunnies to strap on the sam brown and start taking assignments.... we currently reward officers who pass the power test on their own time a bonus every year--- how about a bonus for officers who do not hit the medical in a one year period (iod not included)-- this would definitely cut down on the medical roll---
"That probably means Gun Teams, Sat Teams, hidden teams, all headed back to Districts for a bit until something else is formed up. Super Secret Squirrel Nut Teams or something."--SCC
It's da Squirrel Nut Zippers!
http://w-ww.snzippers.com/
Contract must be close to fucking us... I mean settling.
SCC - I know the study was a long time ago, but could you post the Booz, Allen & Hamilton study?
CAN I HAVE AN EVENT NUMBER?????
They should take the PO's from IAD who do the residency checks and put them back on the street.
If you look at how the mayor has packed the police department with non essential persons (b. ford, v. henry both of caps) and other city hall persons, you can see how our budget becomes bloatted.
PSSST..... IF YOU HAVE BOO KOO HOURS ON THE BOOKS,,,,, START USING THEM NOW!
THINK I'LL RETIRE NOW.
What? Are you trying to say that sending 2 officers to a call that the 14 year old doesn't want to go to school might stop? That would mean that the parent would have to raise their own child. . . That's Crazy Talk.
start with daley and burkes police detail
Get rid of the Asst Supt of Admin and save $175,000.00 a year; go back to the 1st deputy. Also a few of those Chiefs jobs are useless.
Sorry to disrupt this post but its got to be said. FU dc roti. You are nothing but a useless lying piece of toilet paper who will not stand up to the insanity of brown. FU petersen who continues to allow this fup to be in such a ranking position. You have been inundated with par forms and you keep shoving them in a drawer. Now the box will open and the dirty little secrets will come out. Sorry scc but there are 192 complaints that have been ignored and the screaming and shouting to noone has got to be addressed. This is the only thing these aholes read and sadly ignore.
All details more than 90 days should be against General Orders!
If an Officer has to be detailed out for more than 90 days to a secret unit!
Then it would be a lot smarter to just assign that Officer to that unit and get off the District manpower where they are being double counted on the roster!
That would give a truer sense of how many Officers are actually and actively working the streets in a given District!
As it stands now, it is nothing more than a shell game with this Police Department.
It is as if you have the "un-clouted" working their asses off in the streets on the beats. Then you have the "anointed/clouted" Officers hiding in spots having 2 hours lunches and skipping out early and coming to work late and waiting to get promoted!
What the fuck is that?! Buehler anyone?!
"Gun Teams". You mean Hair Gel that bags that "aging male riding home from his night job". The "Gun Teams" should be the first to go. A huge waste of money, dump them back to the watch. Now. The blue shirts on the street need help now. Which is more of a waste of money, Gun Teams or MSF ?
Or he could suggest farming out the PD with private security and end up with the mess that they have in Seattle.
http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Seattle-Officers-Refuse-Escort-Down-Subway-Tunnel--Girl-Beaten-as-Security-Guards-Watch/1$50646
and ending a policy that allows officers to take to take up to 365 furlough and sick days off every two years.
....and theres the HOOK
how about stop us from riding on every fire job...have you noticed we are sent to all fire jobs now...what a waste of cars.
Bye Bye Gun and Sat teams. I hope you put a bid in at your districts or 1st watch for you. That includes you too sergeants!
What about that super secret auto theft squad out of detatched services that made a total of 2 attests last year, they all drive high end vehicles and worked every Sat at time and a half last year. Ask Dugan rumor is he blew a gasket over it when he found out. Rightly so, Who is on this detail? who is their supervisor?
Why dont we shitcan the MSF and TRU and bring the 800 officers that are assigned to these units back to the districts.
I'm not a hater, it's just common sense.
Summer is coming and they see the writing on the wall. No manpower in the districts and they need people to answer 911 calls for service. It was only a matter of time people. No hiring means units getting disbanded and that personnel sent back to the district. Its all a numbers game. If the mayor is involved, it's past the point of police brass on the manpower shortage. Weis warned that he was worried about all the retirements and shortage of personnel about 4 months ago. Now the 55 and out, reality is setting in on the 5th floor. Those units are GONE with more to follow soon. Oh well nothing lasts for ever. Oh and heaven forbid a policeman gets killed with this manpower issue, then you may even see narcotics disbanded or cut tremendously.
Sincerely,
One who is in the inner circle!
43 Boy, no i mean 1920 1st watch can i get an event # i just shat myself!
This is straight bullshit. In reality, even if someone was hidden somewhere and at this point, I don't care how much everyone vents, we do not have hundreds of P.O.'s hidden anywhere, how many would it be, maybe 3 citywide. I am sure those 3 have cancer, a bad hip or something as that. You cannot downsize CAPS people, front office people, HQ people, Units or Districts any further! Just tell the truth and hire some more fucking police. We are down thousands and everyday more police retire. We have lost almost 300 police officers since 1 Jan 10. We have lost 29 mamangement people since 1 JAN 10. How about having Tracey provide you with the actual numbers we are down and publishing that! Look into that hidden Olympics money and hire some more police. It is as simple as that.
The city stopped hiring and started cutting back on the hiring of police three years ago. That means even if it were 2 classes a year, that is 300 police a year at a minium, times 3 is 900. Take out how many have retired during that timeframe and since Weis has been here, it is well over that number, you begin to have more and more negative numbers for the number of acutal police.
We don't have anymore police to put on the street Mayor Daley. YOU put some police on the street by hiring some fucking police!
Wow SCC, it seems like you really have it out for Gun and Sat. Teams. Granted it would be nice to have those bodies in patrol, but keep in mind most are doing good police work. Not sure if the same can be said for the majority of the units J-Fed formed.
I know where you can save your money, cut out these nonsense clout exempt positions where people are min charge of nothing. Most can be handled by a Lt or Sgt - Wedster, Tobias, Commander of Narcotics, Commander of IAD - do we really need commanders in these spots when there is a deputy or ADS directly above them? Fuck, Wedster is the Commander of no one, and Tobias is in charge of her! Time to cut some of the dead weight. In addition, look for a class or Lt's to go in by summer. The purge of Sgt's in the Sup's office is beginning so the merit promotions look legit. Agent zero Rayray of the policy group will be made SWAT soon and the sup's admin Sgt is being replaced by a Lt. Its all legit folks. Remember the PAX 501 where the Sup told us that task force spots will be filled by the best qualified in an open process? I guess he didn't mean asset forfeiture where he just transferred the husband of his policy group dolly. I guess open and competitive means for spots which he is not going to fill by clout. Once again, the lying backstabbing j-fed saying one thing and then going with business as usual. By the way rumor is the women's tactical group is still holding meetings and training on city time. I hear the IG's office is currently looking into this.
I agree they could merge 021, 002 and 003 nothing happeneing in 021 002 anymore while 008 is crazy get us some help out on the west end.
By the way the 4-2 schedule is awesome thanks FOP
I think this is the absolute perfect time to try to get residency lifted. Guys, lets be honest, a normal raise doesn't look like it'll happen this year, so why not pressure the mayor into having the law changed down in springfield so we can live like normal citizens anywhere we'd like. This could be somewhat of a compromise.
SCC again the voice of truth and reason! Correct we answer way to many bullshit calls like "my 8 year old won't go to school"! Why is it the bullshit calls are 90-95% in areas where the people are either illegal or non-taxpayers who just take all "our money" and do nothing but bitch about it?
We need a contract but when we get our well deserved retro the mayor will make all officers look like devils for accepting a raise,while the mayor and the alderclowns just keep on stealing!
Lastly in this rant why not go "old school" get rid of tru,msf,gun teams and all the other bullshit invented shit? Put everyone back in districts where manpower is most needed!!
Hey mr Mayor, you want to save cash then dump 25 of your aldercreatures. yes thats right aldermen and alderwomen who are making $125,000 a year for a part time job and that doesnt include their large cache of money for office spending.
I figure for every 10 alder idiots you get rid of (that you really dont need) you can save nearly $2,000,000. Yes thats two million dollars.
Too many non-emergency calls is being too nice SCC. How in god's name does an argument between a mother and her 14 year old honor student who won't get his lazy, good for nothing ass, out of bed in the morning, come out as a domestic?
Nothing will change. The 911 Center is the best PR machine that Daley has! He encourages the people to call 911 for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING! Kid won't go to school......call 911 and they will dispatch a car to chauffeur they little tyke to school.
Mama having her weekly meeting of the Oprah Book Club but live in boyfriend is drunk off his ass? Call 911! They will dispatch a car to not only escort him out of the house but take him to detox!
Your neighbor is snow blowing his sidewalk and the snow is landing on your property? Call 911! They will dispatch a car to not only stop him from doing so, but our officers will also listen to your reasonable request that the offending neighbor REMOVE the snow that is piled up on what in the warmer months is your front lawn!
Need to get to the hospital but don't want to be whacked with the transportation bill from CFD or a private service? Call 911! They will dispatch a car to pick you up and not only take you to the hospital of your choice but will also provide transportation service back to your residence!
Sorta reminds me of that Simpson's episode where Homer gets elected to the position as the head of Springfield's garbage removal service. He runs on the platform of "Why not have somebody else do it for you!"
HMM Police budget! Well Mr Mayor why do you have not 1 but 2 COMMANDERS for your detail? Making over $165,000 per year each,+ free personal crown vics? Why does you detail all make sgts pay? Lets say you have 30 guys on the detail at $100,000 each + the commnaders which is ridiculous and all the city cars parked in the garage hidden on normal! Do as i say not as i do right mayor?
Anonymous said...
start with daley and burkes police detail
2/12/2010 06:46:00 AM
Don't forget the city tresurers stephanie neelys huge D-3 detail and 2 cars also! Time to cut!
Cut the BURKE detail to one or no one. The mayors detail for him, his family and whatever other BS detail there are. TAKE HOME CARS big money saver.
Sooo many people at 35th...start there! Less Gold stars....NO district managers [what DO they do?]...taking the watch secretary position away was a mistake. Now there is 2 on the desk? BULLSH*T! On person still has to do all that crap work that the WS used too and downtown has added double the work. So now the "WS" does it AND the radios and you have one person doing all the reports and dealing with the idiots who come into the station! I hear 016 is the only district who follows this bull to the tee. Suprised the desk crews there haven't gone postal yet! This used to be a great job.
I am praying that the housing market gets better...I want out!
Daley wants the "Fashion Police" back on the street! Does that mean "Secret Agent Body Guards" for "himself" and the other phony, "Leprechaun Burke?" We shall see because this is just what we have been waiting for! Drivers for all these other phonies on the CPD, CFD, and City Hall! Let's see who has the most clout!
The stations managers, caps office, take home cars must go. Too many exempts. we are top HEAVY with morons and ass kissers.
Just cross check the 11th ward with city jobs! Must be 100 million dollars in that ward alone in salaries! The news media is so lazy they would rather chase people parking around sports arenas rather than get a juicy story! Daley has them all scared! Don't ever question him about Scott again! "He's was like family, don't ya know!"
All details more than 90 days should be against General Orders!
WHAT! And run the risk of getting dumped to some scary place like 002 or 015?
However, it does happen. In fact it just happened in 024 recently. The former commanders secretary, the 6 year wonder who, if you added up all her street time it wouldn't even amount to 2 periods, suddenly found herself being unceremoniously dumped back to the watch. Now, the powers that be weren't totally assholes........they put her on 2nd watch. But she has to work a rapid car ALL BY HERSELF! How long this will last will be anyone's guess. The last time this happened they partnered her up with another officer in the 10 sector. That lasted about 2 weeks.
A retired guy told me that they did a study a few years ago, and at that time the CPD was about 20% over in managment. Now they hired more bosses and they have less workers to supervise.
He also said some other retired guy can up with a way to save at least 5 to 10 million a year and Masters is just sitting on it.
I hope the FLOP and ArbiTRAITOR, take into account that we are operating over 2000 police short. Where is all that money going to?? Just venting....doubt it will make a difference.
SCC,
Who is the 017th District Sgt. that was found copulating with a known transvestite prostitute by some blue shirts?
A pass was given and now the blueshirts are being threatened via text messages and phone calls by this Sgt.
IAD better step up and in on this one. The Sgt is a heavily juiced M/4 with issues.
Is this the 7th or 8th MAJOR issue in 017 under Mike Mealer's tenure?
Has 017 become the "new" 025?
Do we have a "new" Sir Donkey?
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Well if this is recent then this is time #2 ....
and there's a bit more to the 1st one too ....
Im tired of calling about these gangbangers and drug dealers.
I know they are not 1A calls.
Yeah, we get routed to 911 and the last thing you hear is "we'll send the police". But, half the time it just gets coded out. In my dream I'm a vigilante going from corner to corner, clearing them.
OVER 100 exempts makings over $140,000.00 a year with a government pension citizens pay for ! ! !
Cut them in half now ! ! !
Also, close 2 stations: 013 and 021
Anonymous said...
I think this is the absolute perfect time to try to get residency lifted. Guys, lets be honest, a normal raise doesn't look like it'll happen this year, so why not pressure the mayor into having the law changed down in springfield so we can live like normal citizens anywhere we'd like. This could be somewhat of a compromise.
2/12/2010 08:38:00 AM
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Keep smoking that good Turkish Hashhish, that will never, ever happen.
Never, ever, under any circumstances.
dont forget this part!
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"How can we better control personnel spending, including the growing cost of pensions? Remember, the growing cost of personnel drives our structural budget deficit. Every year we spend more than 80 percent -- I want to underline that, 80 percent -- of the operation budget on personnel costs," Daley said.
"Pensions have to be -- everybody knows this. We have been sitting with the unions and telling them the problem will not go away. You wish it could go away. It will not go away," he said. "The Civic Committee has issued reports on this. This will not go away. You're better off to deal with it as immediately as possible, because every day, every month, every year, it's going to get worse. And you can see what the state is going through, unfortunately. And all pension funds in the country are in the same position. Local, county, state pension funds are in the same position."
The mayor would not discuss specifics, but said pension payments have to be retooled.
"There's a number of items they have talked about -- I can't go into them -- dealing, sitting down with all the contractual employees, and telling them that otherwise these pension funds are going to be in jeopardy. They cannot earn their earnings off their pension investments. People are living longer, so it's undo costs for pension funds, so that's what you have to look at," he said.
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Wasnt HIS nephew making bad investments with OUR pension??
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hey SCC when we civilians call 311 on gangbangers trespassing drinking in public and such we get re-routed to 911...
2/12/2010 01:07:00 AM
Because you need to see the police and that is what 911 does. 311 does reports. There is no reports for drinking in public.
So, how much Obama $$$ is Chicago really getting and will Little Richie share?
Why dont we shitcan the MSF and TRU and bring the 800 officers that are assigned to these units back to the districts.
I'm not a hater, it's just common sense.
2/12/2010 08:29:00 AM
It is like the boss in LA said paraphrased, make the districts completely full and then make your units with the overages. But our stupid bosses will never do that.
Meanwhile guys from the watch who deserve to be on a gun team cant make it.
The only people that DESERVE to be on a team have the clout to get there.
Lets say your name is JODY.and you live down town in a highrise,and the 001st dist tact team gets a cos call of a strong oder of cannabis in his highrise.and then the tact team checks it out.Then they arrest a person who has 350grams of cannabis.what kind of shit hole do you live in and what kind of FED has no ideal it going on in his BLD.That rights boys and girls Crooked eyes.
Dump King Daley's bodyguard detail and the aldercreatures bodyguards.
Also end the VIP details from Detached Services.
This would staff the 3rd watch in any district. If they need drivers/security let them hire from their budgets.
This is straight bullshit. In reality, even if someone was hidden somewhere and at this point, I don't care how much everyone vents, we do not have hundreds of P.O.'s hidden anywhere
Jesus! Is going back to the streets that scary for you? I hate to burst your bubble but there are hundreds of officers hidden. They are hidden in TRU, MSF, GUN TEAMS, as well as headquarters. The only reason a P.O. should sit behind a desk is he/she is limited duty.
The city oredered a similar study for the fire department over 10 years ago. The "TriData" report was released in June of 1999. All recomendations to streamline operations and reduce upper managment positions were ignored. Here is just 1 recomdation from page 22 of that report. "Recomendation 2.2: Eliminate the four Assitant Deputy Commisioner positions. In addition to eliminating an unnecessary level of bureaucracy, it will save about $500,000 in salary,benefits, and cars, and it will strengthen the other managers below that level by restoring and raising expectations of them." What did the CFD do with that recomendation? Create ANOTHER Assistant Depity Commisioner position!
Anonymous said...
Contract must be close to fucking us... I mean settling.
2/12/2010 03:03:00 AM
I disagree. The contract might be ok for us. Not great but ok. Too bad ok is too good for us in the King's eyes.
My prediction: We get our 4%, Daley goes nuts and lays off 1,000 coppers.
Here we go again.
Old & retired is always amazed at the "bosses" thinking that they can take working units ie a gun team ,for example, who might be trying to make actual street stops during a tour and split them up.
Remember, one or two stops a night are not bad in this non-contract
climate.
The past thinking was take two "working partners" split them up and toss them into two "dog" units aka non workers.
The thought was that now the split working partner will rub off onto the dog partner and VIOLA !!! Two working units where there once were only one.
Sorry.
History shows that without a good partnership there will only be zero working units in this scenario.
Old, yes, retired, yes, but some things never change...workers like workers.
Dogs will be dogs.
Too many "bosses" have lost good units buying into this faulty line of leadership, right masters?
I wonder why , at least in my history on the dept, no one EVER asked the worker doing the job sucessfully, what he / she are doing to manage that well.
bohica, and be careful always.
I wonder if the 30 or so servants assigned to Daley/Burke might lose their spot? Naaaaaaaaaaaa
Info for the police calls should be takken read out and filed away.
Parking voilations
Narcotic sales
ray ray won't go to school
school crossings
Stupid missions
getting cta checks (its solves nothing)
reduce caps personal by 90%
Why would they take the POs out of the residency unit they may stumble across the Sgt from financial crimes who has been living in Orland Park for the past 2 yrs.
Guns teams
Tru & MSF = same thing
sat teams
about 50% of tac teams (lets be real here)
There was more than one study and they all found that certain positions should be civilianized and there should be cuts in the exempt ranks.
In every other business, in the history of businesses, in the entire world, employees get paid commensurate with their duties.
You don't pay a fry cook what the manager of the restaurant is getting paid..... unless you're in Chicago, a relative of a boss or some political golden child.
They are interviewing potential ppos.
The 20 year-old Booz Allen study was requested by city hall during contract negotiations with police officers. The city hoped the report would say that patrol officers were overpaid for the work they did compared to the private sector.
The study was tossed out when it said that police officers were in fact UNDERPAID for the amount of work they did. The study noted the massive amounts of 911 calls in addition to the on-view police action that officers took on any given day. The study also said that many of those 911 calls were a waste of the officer's time and police officers should only respond to emergency calls.
The study suggested that the real money could be saved by getting rid of unneccessary, redundant levels of supervision. In particular, the study said the position of "Field Lieutenant" should be eliminated because his duties were no different than a street Sergeant.
Twenty years later, not only do we still have Field Lieutenants, but we also have hundreds of additional supervisor and exempt positions creating even more redundant levels of overpaid supervisors.
So, now its time for another study?
First of all he basically ignored the entire report...he re-opened 39th and california, he brought back captains, he disbanned gangs and brought it back as SOS. He just needed an excuse to filter a cool million to another consulting firm. Hopefully someday we will get a real newspaper in this town and light a fire under these lying, thieving, politicians asses.
Honestly, most gun teams are useless.Coming in with one baggers and doing search warrants because they havnt a clue how to make an arrest.Meanwhile guys from the watch who deserve to be on a gun team cant make it. So they need to get rid of the gun and sat teams.Sat teams our basically old edge mission teams,everybody goes.But the real dealers and felons run free and wild.I blame management on these gun teams.They allowed these sgts to put all their buddies on the team who got taken care of and carried,you know who u r.U did what u said ,you rode it out til it came to an end.Ya screwed the guys that actually worked.Good supervising would have prevented gun teams from getting put back on the watch,Bottom line u cant let guys who came from slow districts ,or who were never the police run a great gig like a gun team
2/12/2010 02:30:00 AM
Not well typed, but what is said here is true.
I can agree that some of the Area Teams are doing "good work" but
Can you imagine if Gun, Sat, midnight tact, and the gang enforcement unit was disbanded?
That's at least 100 from Gun and Tact Teams, about 90 from SAT and at least 300 from GEU! That's around 20 people going back to each district! 6 extra bodies a watch? That'd be nice...
Anonymous said...
Dear Mr. Daley: You ranted about saving dollars and nickels today in your press conference about wanting the Department to do a comprehensive study on its budget and deployment policies.
You can save a quick HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS by paying Jody Weis only for the job he is doing, since you snatched the OEMC job away from him immediately after he arrived here.
WHY are the taxpayers paying him twice what any superintendent ever got paid and he's doing only ONE of the two jobs he was contracted to do?
2/12/2010 12:43:00 AM
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Are you fucking stupid? This has been asked and answered on SCC at least 25 times over the last 1 1/2 years.
J-WEASEL Weis was NOT hired as the Superintendent of Police and the Executive Director of OEMC.
J-FOOL Weis was hired as the Superintendent of Police and as the Chief Public Safety Officer for the City of Chicago, the phony baloney job duh mare originally created for Cortez Trotter in order to keep Trotter on the city payroll and simultaneously allow Trotter to collect his city pension, which added up to a cool 1/3 million dollars a year for our "leader", J-GOOF Weis.
Essentially, this meant J-FED Weis reported to himself because Police, Fire, OEMC and Health all report to the Chief Public Safety Officer, however, when duh mare moved Orozco over to OEMC, he realized that it was very foolish to have Orozco, an urban public safety expert, report to J-TOOL Weis, a professional goof with no training in urban public safety.
The end result? J-TURD Weis kept the money because he had a contract and Orozco got the problems of being the Chief Public Safety Officer without the money or the title.
Your beef that J-POS Weis was hired for two titles and is NOT performing in the two titles, is founded in fact, except, the Executive Director of OEMC was NOT one of the titles.
Anyone that thinks we are understaffed is crazy. People are buried in inside spots that should be done by civilians or at least someone with 20 years on. How many people with less than ten years on have inside spots? Caps offices and Commanders offices are overflowing with P.O.'s. Desk crews are still at least 5 deep. And the biggest drain is MSF or TRU. They totally do the same thing. It would be nice to hire more P.O.'s but it aint gonna happen. Hey Dugan do a head count on the amount of P.O.'s that never work the street im sure its over a thousand.
Time to rearrange the Detective Division while they're at it. The south and west sides need help, while the north side is overloaded with do-nothings. And who needs lieutenants and sergeants in SVU? An SVU lieutenant with a take-home car is the biggest joke on the CPD. And we don't need any more sergeants who split their tours of duty. A five hour day is overtime to a lot of these useless supervisors.
Does anyone who "knows" have a clue as to how many guys are retiring on 01 Apr 10?
The reality must be setting in at city hall.
Anonymous said...
How about emptying out those bloated front office staffs,
bloated command staffs at 35th,
and bloated training staff at the Academy!
That will clear up several hundred officers and white shirts.
p.s. and no drivers for anybody, your old enough to drive yourself and required to have a valid license!
2/12/2010 12:37:00 AM
I second the last comment! Why would a grown professional police officer need a fuckn driver. could it be their ego and to act like a big shot? What a waste to have a P.O. paid everyday to drive a boss around.
Anonymous said...
What about that super secret auto theft squad out of detatched services that made a total of 2 attests last year, they all drive high end vehicles and worked every Sat at time and a half last year. Ask Dugan rumor is he blew a gasket over it when he found out. Rightly so, Who is on this detail? who is their supervisor?
2/12/2010 08:24:00 AM
These guys like to brag and think it's funny how they do nothing and get huge perks.
Anonymous said...
What about that super secret auto theft squad out of detatched services that made a total of 2 attests last year, they all drive high end vehicles and worked every Sat at time and a half last year. Ask Dugan rumor is he blew a gasket over it when he found out. Rightly so, Who is on this detail? who is their supervisor?
2/12/2010 08:24:00 AM
Thats a lie, they fucking work for Dugan. I met the sergeant in Dugan's office January of last year. I work in the building and was on 5 when I saw him come in with 2 guys. After I was introduced, he told me what he did and who he worked for! They may be assigned to Detached Services now, but he worked for Dugan then. He was coming down to see Dugan because he said he had not had the opportunity to personally congratulate him!
Dugan is full of fucking crap and you know it!
Just get rid of the Gang Enforcement Section. Mike Masters and Jfed, it has not worked, they do not work and they need to be back in patrol!
OH jody jody jody,new spy cameras in the city,maybe you should put one in ur house with all the weed coming out of it.
In regards to the auto theft squad, ther guys in 016&017 just cleared up a major theft ring ( 500 + cars ) and the auto squad was nowhere to be found.
Good work to the po's , now can downtown take the heat a get the heavyweights who were protecting the bad guys??
Candidate Xavier NOGUERAS, have your overzealous sign-hangers go back and take down the signs they tacked to the building at 2802 N. Milwaukee.
I don't know how they got twenty feet up in the air, but they need to go back and pull them off the PRIVATE PROPERTY they tacked them up on.
Maybe Daley can charge the candidates to remove all these signs???? There's a moneymaker for you. Charge ten bucks a sign 48hrs after the election ends. You'll make a fortune.
Total Sworn 16 Aug 01
14,271
Total Sworn 12 Feb 10
12,933
However you do the math, based on what you think the "budget" for sworn should be, we are down and headed south fast.
Help!!!
OT: Of interest to trollers.
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
PS: No answer at CPD registration desk either. Ain't this a bitch!
How could they let the saturation teams go? I work the Area 5 saturation team and we come up with good quality arrests night in and night out. While the lazy dogs come up with hardly anything.
If they disband our saturation team, then this department will find out the hard way. We are the working police. Leave us alone.
MSF needs to go. They are a bunch of tools with no experience running around like they are the elite of the police department. They are a joke. Dealt with them a bunch of times in 7 and 8. They are almost embarrassing because they act like complete strokes. Send em back to the district.
Looks like Gerry is coming back to the job, nice to have CLOUT!
A Chicago police officer who had avoided being fired in earlier alcohol-related incidents has been found guilty in a 2008 attack on a couple at a Niles bar and given two years probation, court records show.
Officer Gerald Callahan was found guilty of battery Thursday for punching a 61-year-old Morton Grove man and a 50-year-old Niles woman May 17, 2008 while he was off duty. He was sentenced to two years probation, fined $1,325 and ordered to perform 60 days of Sheriff's Work Alternative Program service, according to Cook County court records.
Skokie Branch Court Judge Garritt Howard also ordered Callahan to take anger management classes, undergo alcohol counseling and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, according to court records.
How many PO's get 30-pending three times and beat it? I can count at least 4. If you're juiced up you can do anything while some poor working stiff NO-CLOUT copper gets terminated.
We are our own worst enemy. Instead of bitching and moaning, why can't we all get together. All of the above posts make a whole lot of sense. And finally nobody saying "answer the radio and nothing more". How about we all stop trying to clear the backlogs and race thriugh paper. Instead handle each job as you get it without shortcuts.
You stop someone with no license, arrest him. Domestic, write the paper and make an arrest. Burglary, actually tour the area. Unlicensed street vendors, write anov's. As you are patroling your area and you observe a violation then stop and do something.
If everyone went in with half of the arrestable offenses they observed in their tour the system would be so overwhelmed that the city, cpd, and 911 would be forced to address the manpower issue. We are making a broken system work by rushing through jobs, putting on blinders, giving passes because "you only go in with part 1's". Make the system work the way it should. If we get flooded with 6 page backlogs instead of 2 page backlogs then somebody will get called on the carpet. If the media gets wind of 12 hour old shootings, robberies, batteries then maybe someone will start hiring P.O.'s and bring us to full strength.
Hey SCC, Whats with your death wish for the the teams you mention. These guys pick up the slack everyday and are needed.
Someone who does not understand de facto political pressure said...Come on guys and girls.. Weis will stay and you all know it. Crime is down under his leadership according to all the papers and stats. (We all know how you can kill crime)... blah blah
Sure police are resigned to the fact that J-Roid is probably staying, but EVERY day more and more police are figuring out that they make the same dough by not putting their necks out as opposed to their former hairgel/wild goose chasing/give every beast a wedgie/ searching for the CB ways. This virtual stand-down of services will result in the CPD (becoming like those security guards in the tubes the other day), just watching the animals attack each other and not intervening. Ever see what a former Tac/Unit guy does when he comes plummeting down to the watch again. NOT A FUCKING THING!!! Hell, this dept even fires you when you try to defend yourself!! Soooooo, a hearty fuck you to J-Fed because he can't order you to be proactive. That has to come from your own twisted mind these days.Yeah I said it.
I hear Cozzi s appeal is the 18th. Any one have any time and loc info. Or is someone organizing a group. I would like to go and if anyone needs help organizing something I would be interested. My email is sab1079@aol.com.
Thanx
Question: Would you trade residency for lessor medical time? Would you agree to less sick days for the right to live outside the city? It was 180 days when I came on the job and I thought it was huge. Would you go back to this for the right to send your kids to surburban schools?Just asking.
You do not need a change in state law to allow you to live outside the city, just the Ok of the mayor. The state law prohibits the FOP in Chicago from making it mandatory topic of barginning as it is everywhere else in the state.
I do admit though, those saturation guys do work in our area and are always around the areas they're supposed to be and it sure is nice having the backup seconds away when you need it. So thanks to you guys for the many times assisted me in the past.
That's good now they can be there to back you all the time if they break up those units and put those guys back in beat and rapid cars
I know first hand that the 311 system isn't working the way it's supposed to. There's plenty that they should be handling that they aren't. I work the desk and I can't tell you how often they transfer people to the desk instead of simply doing their job. If the 311 system ran the way it was designed it could eliminate some of the nonsense that bogs down 911 and overstretches our ever shrinking resources.
I know there are some conscientous people at 311 but there seems to be plenty of lazy dog asses that are simply looking to pass the buck and blow things off.
You cannot downsize CAPS people, front office people, HQ people, Units or Districts any further!
What!!! maybe where you are from but here in fillmore we still have in excess of 22 (TWENTY TWO ) office personell between the area deputy and district offices and thats just the ones with reserved parking spaces
SCC: Can you resurrect the Gerald Callahan case, please? Calllahan was found guilty yesterday, February 12th at Skokie Court. (See Chicago Breaking News under "Troubled Chicago cop gets probation in 2008 attack") Thank you! Lots to say now that his wife Colleen Callahan finally refused to assist him with his "Motions to Fix" through the prestigious and influential law firm for whom she works. She was his clout. Now he can and will be fired. Please resurrect this story!!
We need a contract but when we get our well deserved retro the mayor will make all officers look like devils for accepting a raise,while the mayor and the alderclowns just keep on stealing!
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I don't give a sh!t about what Richie makes me look like. The citizens and press already see us as the enemy, so SHOW ME THE MONEY.
Yours Truly,
Lucifer
Not a cop.
IMNSHO, having uniformed offciers in marked cars out on the streets is far more important than having some specialized gun, or drug, or gang team.
Get everyone out on the streets in a marked car. If you run out of patrol cars, take some of the unmarked cars and get them makred and put warm bodies in them.
If you still don't have enough cars, put two cops in the same car. Or on a bicycle. Or walking a beat. Or on a horse. Or a mule for that matter.
The key is to get as many uniformed cops on the street as possible.
None of these special teams has had all that much success in reducing crime anywhere they have been tried. About the best they can claim is they moved the crime from one area to another temporarily.
You really want to see results, it is going to take cooperation from the SA. The SA is going to have to agree to prosecute the more serious offenders for anything and everything and get the maximum time.
That may well mean they have to pass on bums pissing in alleys, or minor drug busts, or whatever other minor crimes they have to as a way of putting the really nasty guys away.
No more plea bargains for known gang members. Make them go to trial, and ask for the maximum in every case.
If you have to, hire more public defenders and magistrates to take care of the paper shuffling so judges can hear real cases.
More police on the street? We all got this job announcement (written no doubt, for one favored candidate) Tuesday.
Does this mean that an officer will not be needed to make copies or allowed to "express your creativity and design acumen"?
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The Reproduction and Graphic Arts Section is seeking resumés from members below the rank of Sergeant. Applicants must have a minimum of 3 years of field experience. The ideal candidate will have strong visual communication skills; sharp attention to detail; expert knowledge of current web, print and design trends; and knowledge of various design applications such as InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, QuarkXPress; and Acrobat.
If you are interested in an opportunity to express your creativity and design acumen, please submit a resumé and letter of interest to HR@chicagopolice.org (or hand deliver to the Human Resources Division at 3510 S. Michigan Avenue) no later than 1500 hours on 17 February 2010. Individuals selected for interviews should be prepared to present a portfolio showing five (5) samples of their work. The portfolio may include posters, pamphlets, brochures or other graphics that showcase your talents.
Tracey R. Ladner
Director
Human Resources Division
Chicago Police Department
how about the helicopter unit theres p/os and sergeants that are not even pilots
Daley's security unit or is it taxi drivers Burkes security and so on, and why does Maggie need watching. Mr Mayor do you get the picture. District Managers?
Congrats Gun teams: You got a retired fire fighter, gun collector, four years in the Pen. Nice work boys. I'm sure the streets are a lot safer now. Eat shit.
How bout this. 20 and out at 50% city pays half medical as a voluntary option. After 20 years I doubt the production of the average cop is very high. This allows officers to persue other career options while still young enough. If you want to stay and max out you still can. Just a wish.
Wow SCC, it seems like you really have it out for Gun and Sat. Teams.
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Hey SCC, Whats with your death wish for the the teams you mention. These guys pick up the slack everyday and are needed.
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How is pointing out that Shortshanks and the Department administration are looking to get bodies in patrol cars a "death wish" for Gun and Sat teams? We're just pointing out the axe is going to fall shortly and it's likely to fall exactly on those teams.
I was listening to the Roe CONN WLS-AM 890 radio show at a friend's home this afternoon.
Mr. CONN announced that after 3:30, his guest would be CPD Supt. Jody WEIS.
In an earlier program during a WEIS interview and despite the fact that I was the first caller, I was disconnected.
I just spoke to Mr. Jock ATBLADE, the executive producer for Mr. CONN as well as "Adam". I advised them that contrary to the cordial tone of prior CONN-WEIS interviews that WEIS is despised by the rank and file of the CPD and is widely regarded as a sadistic, psychopathic, shameless careerist and a pathological liar with neither integrity nor leadership qualities.
"Adam" asked me to be more specific. I informed him of this SCC Web site with an estimated 10,000 visitors daily. I told him that rigged CPD promotions and assignments are NOT transparent but rather clandestinely based on CLOUT, cronyism and nepotism with no criteria for genuine excellence.
I cited the WEISel's politically-motivated role in the imprisonment of scapegoat William COZZI as well as the UNANIMOUS "no confidence" vote by FOP reps. WEISel also reneged on his "promise" to leave the CPD if he adversely affected morale.
WLS was also advised that due to the inevitability and justified fear of First Amendment retaliation, no sane ACTIVE police officer will truthfully and publicly comment that under WEIS, CPD morale is nonexistent.
I identified myself and provided contact information to both Mr. ATBLADE and "Adam".
Mr. WEIS did not appear for the interview. However, WLS personnel are now well aware that the WEISel is regarded as a contemptible piece of feces by the CPD and that I would post a synopsis of our off-air conversation on SCC.
I herein invite Messrs. CONN, ATBLADE, WEIS and "Adam" to contact me should they dispute the credibility of this post.
An unbiased and informed local media would have rode this rat muthafucka out of town on a rail long ago.
P.S.: FRIENDS: I will be without home Internet access until next month. Unless URGENT, please hold all eMail. Thank you.
Get rid of Tracy Ladner too.........her and Lynette Helm are the biggest waste of money...why do they need a captain in personnnel?
Heard that the range is going to be about 1.2 million rounds short on ammo this year.
Seems that the city decided that we could do with less.
The academy range put 1.5 million rounds of ammo in the annual budget(same as they have for the past several years).
City Hall decided to cut that down to 300,000 rounds of ammo!
Good luck qualifying in 2010!
Get rid of a third of the exempts!
Why are there exempt commanders of admin units with only a few employees? What skills do these exempts have that require that pay level? What do they do that they can't do as a Lt?
These spots are all political favors? They are historical from day one. The mayor has perpetuated this in all city departments, and now he points fingers at all department heads as if they created this patronage mess.
The really sad thing is the media buys the BS that da mare is trying to save the city. He's just trying to save his system!
Why the fuck we respond to 50% of the shit we do I will never undersatnd. Then the Fire Dept doesnt have to respond to shit, we go and if we find an injured person or a fire they tell us to let them know and fire will roll. Great gig they have WTF?????????????
2/12/2010 01:51:00 PM
I agree with you 100%. It is because too many of us are fucking idiots. They continue to do this job no matter what even though in the long term they may even be laid off (don't think it can not happen). My friend who had 9 years in the cta got laid off. And according to their contract, part time employees were to go first but they didn't do that.
We respond to way too many non-emergency calls as it is and generate too much worthless paper that could be done via 311.
--I don't have a problem going to a job and telling the caller they have to call 3-1-1 to make the report.
19P on my end.
I don't have a problem sending driveable accidents into the station either.
CALL TAKERS are lazy and will classify a theft as a burglary so that YOU have to respond an they won't have to take the report. BURGLARY to a vacant building??? Wrong... It's a THEFT ... CALL BACK!!!
Start giving them back the work they try to give you !!!
Kids that don't want to go to school ... 19D. Babysitting EMS? 19D dupe to the ambulance.
Stop running your ass off for this nonsense. 1/2 the crap we respond to is not a police matter.
Hey SCC when we civilians call 311 on gangbangers trespassing drinking in public and such we get re-routed to 911...
--And that's fine because these fools are "on scene" and the police should respond.
OT: Of interest to trollers.
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
HARD CARDS ARE ONLINE !!! really
By the way the 4-2 schedule is awesome thanks FOP
2/12/2010 08:35:00 AM
4-2 SUCKS on Midnights and I am by no means a rookie..
We should get our shift shaved a half an hour that would eliminate the car problem and make this shift livable. Why not throw us a bone.
We got lucky, this could have been us.
The city initially put the public cost of hosting the Olympics at $660 million. It has exceeded that by $5 billion in unanticipated public spending, when the government bailed out the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC), which went bankrupt during the global financial turmoil.
There are way too many specialized units who use up way too much manpower on the few arrests they make.
Policing is about more than "good" arrests.
Policing is also about having the manpower to create presence and assurance that any problem can be combated at any time.
Getting large amounts of narcotics from one bad guy is a good thing. But too many times there are too many police involved in this "good arrest" and they stay down it for far too long. There are also too many officers who are only peripherally involved in these good arrests who work full time in these specialized units.
A "better" police act is dealing with a large mob drunk on the street that challenges the first police car that arrives. Effectively dealing with that crowd may result in lots of mediocre even meaningless arrests, but over time it would shift the balance of power back to the police and away from these shitheads looking to hit the ghetto lottery.
That kind of response will do a lot more to make this city safe than taking down gangbanging dope dealers one at a time.
Your beef that J-POS Weis was hired for two titles and is NOT performing in the two titles, is founded in fact, except, the Executive Director of OEMC was NOT one of the titles.
2/12/2010 12:20:00 PM
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You're absolutely right. I was jet-lagged and neglected to google the job title and verify before I posted. Thanks for clarifying - AND for being decent about the way you did it.
And I'm sure you meant 'are you fucking stupid' in only the nicest way.
I wasn't asking for an actual answer from the mayor; I was trying to get the attention of the brain-dead or bought-off media, which has NEVER done more than softly sigh at this particular outrage.
Lets say your name is JODY.and you live down town in a highrise,and the 001st dist tact team gets a cos call of a strong oder of cannabis in his highrise.and then the tact team checks it out.Then they arrest a person who has 350grams of cannabis.what kind of shit hole do you live in and what kind of FED has no ideal it going on in his BLD.That rights boys and girls Crooked eyes.
2/12/2010 10:37:00 AM
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Hmmm... let's say YOU live in a HIGH-RISE downtown and your neighbor is arrested for dealing in stolen artwork. I think we should hold YOU liable for not knowing that this was going on.
I'm no fan of Weis, but you're really reaching here.
I don't give a sh!t about what Richie makes me look like. The citizens and press already see us as the enemy, so SHOW ME THE MONEY.
Yours Truly,
Lucifer
2/12/2010 03:45:00 PM
Amen Satan. Who cares what anyone thinks of us? We are only good when they need us. Otherwise they look we are fodder for the politicians and media. Screw em all. Pay me.
Why would they take the POs out of the residency unit they may stumble across the Sgt from financial crimes who has been living in Orland Park for the past 2 yrs.
2/12/2010 10:55:00 AM
He must be a real LUCKY guy!
How many PO's get 30-pending three times and beat it? I can count at least 4. If you're juiced up you can do anything while some poor working stiff NO-CLOUT copper gets terminated.
2/12/2010 01:47:00 PM
Good questions for the Police Board, don't ya think? Hello Mr. Fitzgerald? Are you listening?
interesting article I found. Here is the first part of it the rest can be found at the below link... With a story like this its getting harder and harder to belive in global warming..
Forget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the U.S., including the skyscrapers of Dallas, the peach trees of Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle, where hurricanes are more common than snowflakes.
full story continued at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100212/ap_on_re_us/us_united_states_of_snow
Word from a reliable source at the Hall is that the Police Department's Command Structure will be "restructured" once again. The Hall will undue/eliminate/shift some of those big exempt spots that they created to appease certain political organizations and/or ethnicities. They are also not intending to not fill McCotter's and a couple other soon to be vacant exempt spots. Some district Commanders will be asked to retire or face demotion (Bobby Lopez and a couple of others).
McCotter was a great policeman and a great boss but stepped on himself by snapping the picture at the G20 Summit. Just plain Stupid but I hear his suing the dept.
To bad for Bobby, he's a great guy too but stepped on his Johnson by organizing some new bullshit Hispanic organization along with all the Hispanic Clergy and Politicians to protest on his behalf against the Mayor.
I don't know why he just doesn't retire, why go through all the BS?
He's maxed out and every day he stays he's loosing money in his pension because he was an ADS before he got demoted by JFED at the Mayors request. Can't you read between the lines? Your done here. Screw this administration, screw the Mayor and screw the "cause" Bobby! Retire and enjoy some of that money you earned over your 32+ year career.
If nearly 20 years ago, Daley invested more than $1 million to be used by the police department.................
Your FOP Is Really On Top Of This.
You All Have Nothing To Worry About.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha ..............
"With All Our Rage, We Are Still Just Rats In His Cage"
PS: Have A Nice Day ........
Thats a lie, they fucking work for Dugan. I met the sergeant in Dugan's office January of last year. I work in the building and was on 5 when I saw him come in with 2 guys. After I was introduced, he told me what he did and who he worked for! They may be assigned to Detached Services now, but he worked for Dugan then. He was coming down to see Dugan because he said he had not had the opportunity to personally congratulate him!
Dugan is full of fucking crap and you know it!
2/12/2010 01:02:00 PM
Not the Bait car team. This is a special team that works on a state wide task force.
Chicago Breaking News:
Fourteen weapons, including a rocket launcher, were seized when Chicago police executed multiple search warrants in the West Side's Austin neighborhood, police said today.
I think it's amazing, that up until yesterday, the police dept was staffed to 14,000. All of a sudden, the city publicly recognises a shortage. All those speeches by Jody, the mayor et al, saying that the police dept was fully staffed. I wish the public would wake up to reality and see the media and the politicians as the lieing scum they are.
Where is all the citizen's (not Daley's) tax money going? I certainly would love to know.
Dear SCC---
In an effort to get people fired up for Bill Cozzi's hearing on the 18th, I've decided it would be a good idea to share his letters. I warn you, this is long, but if this doesn't fire people up nothing will. Thank you for your consideration-------------
I’ve never met Bill—I wrote to him and here is the first and all the subsequent letters I’ve received from him. If this doesn’t break your heart and make you want to show up at his hearing, I don’t know what will:
17Oct09
Dear _______:
Thank you for the very kind letter and I enjoyed the picture (I sent a drawing). Life here is very hard. I was supposed to be sent to a camp in WI but was sent to this dump which is over 1000 miles from home. The food is nasty, and the living conditions are bad. It is very crowded and very noisy. There is no privacy either. The inmates are all animals and gangbangers. Most were at other prisons, but because of good behavior are sent here. All are from the South—I am the only person from Chicago and the only cop here. Most of the inmates know I am a cop and most do not talk to me which is fine because I do not want to associate with them.
No one so far has bothered me. The staff is not much better, as they are all hillbilly rednecks who do not like people from Chicago. My appeal was filed on 13 Oct 09 and I pray this conviction gets overturned and I go back to work. I was in 025 and had over 15 years on. I want 5 more so I can retire.
P.S. Please write back. Take care, your friend, WJ Cozzi
04Nov09
Dear___________:
Thank you very much for the kind and uplifting letter of support. I also want to thank you for the newspaper articles that you sent. I do not get any Chicago news down here, just hillbilly news of the South. Despite the fact that Chicago has its share of problems I still believe it is the greatest city in the world. It is still pretty safe and it has the best restaurants and the best-tasting water in the world.
I read the New Orleans paper and that is one f-d up city. Please stay with the CPD (I was thinking of early retirement). It’s still a great department to work for….it’s people like you and countless others that only reinforces that. You are a __________and that is a great position.
There are a lot of persons unemployed, also the prison I am in, these animals have nothing, no education, no home, no friends, and will probably end up in prison again. My lawyer filed my appeal on 13 Oct 09 and we are hoping for a favorable ruling. Also, my brother talked to the FOP and_____________. Tell everybody that the FOP has been really great and 100 percent supportive of me. As far as sending things, no food, all you can send me are books, magazines or newspaper, but the newspapers have to come from the publisher and so do the magazines and hardcover books. I love author John Stanford or Nelson Demille, and Lee Childs. I would love to get the Chicago Tribune, even if it’s only the Sunday edition. But _______, it might be expensive so if it is do not send it, save your money. If there are any costs, you can contact my brother______and he will reimburse you.
Please take care of yourself and stay strong. This place I am at is the front gate to hell. I hate most of the inmates. They are rude, ignorant and stupid and I hate the State of Louisiana too…all redneck hillbillies who hate Catholics and people from the North.
God Bless you and Stay Safe, Your Friend,
Bill Cozzi
More of Bill's letters:
10Nov09
Dear________:
I received your card on 09Nov 09. I still hate this place. It is awful and very noisy. I was assigned a job in construction maintenance but because there are so many inmates there is nothing for me to do so I just sit there in the shop like about a couple hundred other inmates do and then I read a book from 0730 to 1500 every day. On 30Nov09 I am starting a horticulture class. It’s just something to do to let the time go by. I already have a bachelor’s degree. Most of the inmates never even finished high school. I was supposed to enter the MBA program at St. Xavier University but then I was suspended.
How are you doing? Please write and also let me know what’s going on in the department.
God Bless you and stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
14Nov09
Dear______:
Thank you for your kind letter. I am glad you are doing well. Please keep looking into St. Xavier for your master’s degree. I hear it’s an excellent program. I had planned to complete my master’s when I returned. Please remain on the job and don’t retire. The economy is very bad all over, not just Chicago. Things will get better.
I still hate this place and the State of Louisiana. I read the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport newspapers and those are all f-d up cities. I’m glad your nephew is doing well in the Marine Corps. Tell him to do good and that I will pray for him and am proud of him. I was in the Air Force Reserve and I was on active duty after 911 guarding airports with the Air Force security forces for 14 months. I retired in 2004 when the unit moved to NC, but still miss it. If you want to visit me I would love that, but this hole is in the middle of nowhere. It is a 4 hour drive from New Orleans airport. I will send you out a visitor form that you have to fill out and send back. Visitation is only on the weekend.
As far as books, I do not need anymore, but I would love magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Running, Bicycling or gun magazines or the USA Today newspaper (he’s currently being sent these by myself or others).
Magazines must be a subscription and have to come directly from the publisher. Also, if you can send copies of SCC if possible. Thank you very much __________ and God Bless you.
Stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
21Nov09
Dear____:
Thank you for the very nice letter and the books. I still hate this place and MISS HOME GREATLY. I hope you and your family have a WONDERFUL AND JOYOUS THANKSGIVING. I hope everything else is going well.
God Bless you and stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving.
10Dec09
Dear______:
Thank you for the wonderful letters and the numerous cards. Where do I begin? I hope you are doing well. I entered your cell phone into my calling list and will be able to call you pretty soon.
(He addressed some things going on in my life, offering encouragement, then continues)
Remember, the economy is very bad. We are in a depression and there are no jobs out there. I was a very good, aggressive P.O. out there who made a lot of arrests and impounded a lot of cars and did not do anything illegal out there. And if I get back I would still do the job and am not afraid to do it, I am very sorry to hear about the four police officers that were killed in Lakewood, WA, and if I was there I would have done everything possible to save their lives and I would have went after the mutt.
The prisoners here were making fun of the police killed when it happened. That is one of the many reasons why I hate it here and the people too.
Take care of yourself and God Bless you.
Merry Christmas, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
P.S. The FOP has supported me 100%
More of Cozzi's letters:
10Nov09
Dear________:
I received your card on 09Nov 09. I still hate this place. It is awful and very noisy. I was assigned a job in construction maintenance but because there are so many inmates there is nothing for me to do so I just sit there in the shop like about a couple hundred other inmates do and then I read a book from 0730 to 1500 every day. On 30Nov09 I am starting a horticulture class. It’s just something to do to let the time go by. I already have a bachelor’s degree. Most of the inmates never even finished high school. I was supposed to enter the MBA program at St. Xavier University but then I was suspended.
How are you doing? Please write and also let me know what’s going on in the department.
God Bless you and stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
14Nov09
Dear______:
Thank you for your kind letter. I am glad you are doing well. Please keep looking into St. Xavier for your master’s degree. I hear it’s an excellent program. I had planned to complete my master’s when I returned. Please remain on the job and don’t retire. The economy is very bad all over, not just Chicago. Things will get better.
I still hate this place and the State of Louisiana. I read the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport newspapers and those are all f-d up cities. I’m glad your nephew is doing well in the Marine Corps. Tell him to do good and that I will pray for him and am proud of him. I was in the Air Force Reserve and I was on active duty after 911 guarding airports with the Air Force security forces for 14 months. I retired in 2004 when the unit moved to NC, but still miss it. If you want to visit me I would love that, but this hole is in the middle of nowhere. It is a 4 hour drive from New Orleans airport. I will send you out a visitor form that you have to fill out and send back. Visitation is only on the weekend.
As far as books, I do not need anymore, but I would love magazines such as Popular Mechanics, Running, Bicycling or gun magazines or the USA Today newspaper (he’s currently being sent these by myself or others).
Magazines must be a subscription and have to come directly from the publisher. Also, if you can send copies of SCC if possible. Thank you very much __________ and God Bless you.
Stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
21Nov09
Dear____:
Thank you for the very nice letter and the books. I still hate this place and MISS HOME GREATLY. I hope you and your family have a WONDERFUL AND JOYOUS THANKSGIVING. I hope everything else is going well.
God Bless you and stay safe, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving.
10Dec09
Dear______:
Thank you for the wonderful letters and the numerous cards. Where do I begin? I hope you are doing well. I entered your cell phone into my calling list and will be able to call you pretty soon.
(He addressed some things going on in my life, offering encouragement, then continues)
Remember, the economy is very bad. We are in a depression and there are no jobs out there. I was a very good, aggressive P.O. out there who made a lot of arrests and impounded a lot of cars and did not do anything illegal out there. And if I get back I would still do the job and am not afraid to do it, I am very sorry to hear about the four police officers that were killed in Lakewood, WA, and if I was there I would have done everything possible to save their lives and I would have went after the mutt.
The prisoners here were making fun of the police killed when it happened. That is one of the many reasons why I hate it here and the people too.
Take care of yourself and God Bless you.
Merry Christmas, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
P.S. The FOP has supported me 100%
Last of Bill's letters:
19Dec09
Dear_________:
Sorry, no typewriter (he couldn’t use the library so handwrote a note). I hope you are doing well. No word on my appeal yet. I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Let’s hope 2010 is a great year for both of us. Please pray for the four police killed in Lakewood, WA. God Bless you______.
Your friend,
WJ Cozzi
08Jan10
----------This is the last letter I’ve received from Bill.-------------
Dear_____:
I hope you are doing well and had a very nice Christmas. Mine was not very nice and there was no Christmas mass even though they extended every religious courtesy to the Muslims and the Baptists. I still hate this place and hate most of the animal inmates too. I also have developed a deep hatred for the State of Louisiana and its red neck hillbilly people too. No word on my appeal but I am hoping things work out.
Please be safe and back each other up. My body may be here but my heart and soul are with the CPD. God Bless you, your friend,
WJ Cozzi
talk about throwing midnights a bone....how about eliminating "duty availability" for everyone, and then giving a shift differential to midnights and afternoons....maybe 5% of base for afternoons, 10% for midnights?
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
How about emptying out those bloated front office staffs,
bloated command staffs at 35th,
and bloated training staff at the Academy!
That will clear up several hundred officers and white shirts.
p.s. and no drivers for anybody, your old enough to drive yourself and required to have a valid license!
2/12/2010 12:37:00 AM
I second the last comment! Why would a grown professional police officer need a fuckn driver. could it be their ego and to act like a big shot? What a waste to have a P.O. paid everyday to drive a boss around.
2/12/2010 12:46:00 PM
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Was on the Dan Ryan the other day and a CARAVAN of Blue Lights (SUV's surrounding a Black tinted window VAN) came charging/sirening up the JAMMED expressway FORCING us to part and almost hit while the AIR HORNS blared amongst the deafening sirens in the wintery week day!
I along with many drivers tried to accomodate the emergency "thing" thinking there was a SWAT emergency or BOMB SCARE somewhere I almost cut into the lane next to me as the "crazed blue light emergency THING" approached my location on the JAMMED expwy! Well as it drew closer and muscled its way "IN" fromt the entrance RAMP on the left going Southbound only to to continue to MUSCLE its way to the next ramp ( I believe Roosevelt or Taylor exit while reaking havoc on the JAMMED e-way I realized this was some sort of "ESCORT".....WTF?
The first SUV said LEAD on the beat tag the next said LEAD1 then the VAN then the tail car was the LEAD2....AGAIN ....WTF?
As I observed this closer I merged back at the LEAD car by "accident" of course...only to get the GUY..M/2/50's, Gold Leaf in the front passenger seat (wearing glasses) flipping out and waving his arms at me while I pretended not to see him...THE STRESS look was priceless!
Then they made this DIAGONAL move on the JAMMED expressway instead of taking SIDE or main streets for everyones safety and stress level to remain reasonably sane!
AGAIN WTF?
Any IDEA what the HELL that was anyone out there?
Just curious....
As I headed down to 35th st. in the JAMMED traffic I noticed all three vehicle get off at 35th st. ahead of me....
WAS THIS JODY or MASTERS being transported about? Just asking..
My best SCC!
Hmmmm...
A question...
Didn't CPD use to be a self sustaining entity?
Was there a time when revenues generated as part & parcel of a law enforcement function (as opposed to cynical revenue generation) went toward purchasing equipment, paying salaries and so forth?
Didn't shortshanks & co. look at the revenue CPD was generating and say, "WOW, lookit all da free money dese coppers is makin'!"
Didn't they get greedy and do an accounting presto change-o to have CPD generated revenue go directly into the municipal general fund? Thus setting the table for shorty to starve the department of badly needed resources so he could destroy it?
Didn't shorty blow a gasket when coppers started sitting on their hands regarding "revenue generation"?
Isn't this why we have everybody and their brother now running around with parker books?
Isn't this why shorty has sicced Dept. of Revenue, Parking Enforcement, Meter Maids, Streets & San on areas where mostly Police and Fire live to exact revenge for refusing to aide him in our own destruction?
Isn't this why there has absolutely been no positive press about the Police for the last several years unless it's regarding a line of duty death which enables shorty, j-fart & his feeb butt buddies and the exempts to wipe false tears & mumbles lies of false sympathy and concern for TV lights when those of us in the trenches know they and most of the public don't give a fuck and never have?
Isn't this why they used the media to inflame the current state of malignant hatred and disrespect toward the Police by the public at large?
The very same people yelling "fuck you, your pension and your pay raise" are the same people who had fat 401K's, nice benefits and six figure salaries when times were good for THEM? The same people who laughed and said in essence that a Police Officer was essentially a trained chimp? Now these same people are climbing all over each other making noise about how they would do what we do, see what we see and try to keep body, mind and soul together?
"We want your jobs, we'll do it for half the pay!"
Are they so mad and insane that they don't realize what they're being coached to say by 42 extra-short?
Can you imagine CPD with even fewer hiring standards and reduced to $12.00-$15.00 per hr security with no benefits?
Once these big talkers run up against the REAL savages, they won't be able to run fast or far enough to get away. Pay that hospital bill in full out of your own pockets why don't ya?
Get sent to prison on a whim with no representation/counsel. Find out how expendable you'll really be since you want our jobs that badly!
This city would turn into a flaming mass grave... Unburied dead rotting right where they fell. Those who could get out are running for their lives and the public announcements by j-fart and the exempts pleading for calm are playing but there's no one left to watch them.
OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE!
WE ARE NOT THE SOURCE OF YOUR PAIN AS DALEY WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE!
Our apologies to SCC for the rant.
It's getting old that we have to bite our tongues and swallow bloody tears of outrage just because we wear this blue suit of clothes...
At least we'll be able to say we remember when the Police were able to be THE POLICE!
We remember there was so much passion and pride in the job. The joy of putting bad guys in jail/prison, seeing evil, rotten muthafuckahs go to their doom and helping the little guy get his piece of justice in a cold cruel world.
Oh well... We used to say retirement is it's own reward but that's not even safe now.
...@ 1000 days to go.
Anonymous said...
I know first hand that the 311 system isn't working the way it's supposed to. There's plenty that they should be handling that they aren't. I work the desk and I can't tell you how often they transfer people to the desk instead of simply doing their job. If the 311 system ran the way it was designed it could eliminate some of the nonsense that bogs down 911 and overstretches our ever shrinking resources.
I know there are some conscientous people at 311 but there seems to be plenty of lazy dog asses that are simply looking to pass the buck and blow things off.
2/12/2010 03:02:00 PM
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From 376..
We here at Callback or the Alternate Response Section..TAKE PRIDE in sending all CALLS to this guy at the 012th District! Its our own personal inside joke...!
And its working
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAH...LMAO!
Go F....yousrself JAG!
SOME REAL SIMPLETONS THINK WE CANT CUT FAT FROM UNITS!
START AT THE DESK! 1 OFFICER 1 SGT
EVERYONE WAITS JUST LIKE WHEN U DO ANYTHING WITH THE COUNTY.
CAPS?
2 OFFICERS THAT IT IF THEY DONT WANT THE SPOT BOOT THEM 2 THE WATCH TRUST ME THEY WONT LEAVE. OFFICER SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE PAPER WORK(THEY ALL SAY THEY HAVE DEGREES NOW).
PUT GANG TEAMS BACK
CUT THE COMMANDER STAFF DOWN TRUST ME THEY DONT HAVE IT HARD AND THEY WONT LEAVE EITHER IF THEY HAD 2 PICK UP THE PACE.
GET RID OF CAPTAINS TITS ON A BULL
SAME SHIT AS AN LT. BUT W/ MORE PAY AND LESS WORK.
DISBAND TRAFFIC UNIT! IF DISTRICT HAS A TRAFFIC PROBLEM THE THE COMMANDER PUT A GOOF UP TO GENERATING REVENUE.
GET RID OF CASE MANAGEMENT OFFICER TO MANY SGT NOT ENOUGH WORK BEING DONE LET THEM FILE REPORTS SINCE THE SIGN THEM AND GET O.T. 2 BOOT.
AND ON AND ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
J-FED DOESNT KNOW WHAT ANYONE JOB IN A STATION IS ANYHOW AND CUELLO AND JACKSON DONT WANT TO TIP THE APPLE CART AND GET BLAMED.
AND PETERSON HE HASNT BEEN A DISTRICT COMMANDER SINCE THE POLICE PHONE BOXES WORKED.
OT: Of interest to trollers.
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
Moral to story: if you're a troller with young children, don't take them to a fast-food restaurant on the NE corner of State/Chicago where unregistered vagrants have been known to pass out from time to time...
HARD CARDS ARE ONLINE !!! really
I thought Sgt. Shitz knew everything...
shortshanks is as incompetent as they come, but it's no secret that the CPD is terribly mismanaged, with overbloated exempt ranks (many of whom are political hacks); rationality in personnel deployment is non-existent.
Thanks for speaking up for us Northside. WLS and the media are in bed with J-Fed and Shortshanks.
F-ck both of them and their suckhole minions.
Study is at the libary, downtown HWLC 5th Floor Adult Reference Cc M47 1991c coll.
Hopefully the tribune, sun times or the reader will post it online for us all to read how much things have changed....
hey scc, this is off topic but found this on the internet. The prayers have been answered and the problem of manpower and crime has been solved!!! Mayor daley and J fed have solved the crime problem in 008 by opening a new satelite police station in the library which will be staffed with officers but will only be open during regular business hours and closed sunday... because crime stops on sunday and after 8 oclock the rest of the week... oh well, here is the bright idea that is going to save us all...
http://www.examiner.com/x-6564-Chicago-Residential-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Chicago-Police-District-008-get-new-satellite-office
Putting house mouses on the street will do nothing because they will do nothing. It may give you a false sense of added security because you may see more cars up but don't let it fool you. They work inside for a reason. Scared useless secretaries with guns. Remember the closed market cars. I think they made a grand total of 2 arrests during the entire program.
OT- Cozzi
Just got off the phone w/Bill. He is nervous about his appeal but wanted me to tell everyone to stay safe.
It is still hell down there.
Pray. And show up on the 18th.
Johnny Northside
Kudos! The name of the WLS boss is Jock Hedblade, not Atblade.
SCRUTINY???
How about we are budgeted for 13,500 and we have like under 10,000!!!
NO RAISE IN 3 YEARS!
NO CONTRACT!
MEDIA WAKE UP!!! EVER HEAR OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING???
OUR CITY GOV IS ROBBING THE CITIZENS BLIND!!!
J-Junk is the asian carp of law enforcement. He was paid all this money and it was the mayor that had to come up with this "Police Review" idea. I thought this guy was the expert with all the fuckin answers. Well guess what, he don't know shit, was never a cop, never cuffed a criminal except another training fed at quantico,and maybe Anita Alvarez during one of their power lunches,never ran up 3 flights to be first at the door at a screamingly violent domestic, never chased men with guns after a fresh shooting, never wrote a ticket, never had a good idea, never helped one citizen.Face it fed, you and Chachi cannot run the police because you cannot lead by coercion. I wonder what Gus Tero (RIP)would say about J-fed? Well,I hope Cozzi gets off and his case sinks j-fool's career. That would make for a real police review.
"Congrats Gun teams: You got a retired fire fighter, gun collector, four years in the Pen."
I find that real hard to believe. He had to have more in his background to get 4 years. No FOID and guns doesn't get you 4 years unless you have some prior felony baggage.
Hell, even with felony baggage one usually does not get 4 years.
"McCotter was a great policeman and a great boss but stepped on himself by snapping the picture at the G20 Summit. Just plain Stupid but I hear his suing the dept."
Suing the dept? So much for being a great guy? A 6 figure retiree that landed a 6figure do nothing State Job suing for 6 figures. Only in Chicago...
Police won't be hired until Daley and his 50 minions are out. This leader is pathetic and has to go.
"How could they let the saturation teams go? I work the Area 5 saturation team and we come up with good quality arrests night in and night out. While the lazy dogs come up with hardly anything."
Geez Hero How on Earth did the Department function w/o you out there before?
I'll put my numbers up against yours anytime in spite of the fact I'm tied down to the radio & have to answer calls for service. Unlike you 2 hour team dinners, one bag weed pinch Superstars
You're absolutely right. I was jet-lagged and neglected to google the job title and verify before I posted. Thanks for clarifying - AND for being decent about the way you did it.
2/12/2010 07:58:00 PM
And I'm sure you meant 'are you fucking stupid' in only the nicest way.
I wasn't asking for an actual answer from the mayor; I was trying to get the attention of the brain-dead or bought-off media, which has NEVER done more than softly sigh at this particular outrage.
2/12/2010 08:03:00 PM
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What outrage? Duh mare has done the bait and switch a hundred times! Why would the media give a flying fat rat's ass about it with J-FOOL and his getting paid for two jobs when he is an incompetent goof that cannot even handle one job? The media does not give a fuck.
Duh mare gets a free pass all the time from the media and, on the rare occassion, when he is asked a tough question, he brow beats the bitch until she writes him an apology and begs for his forgiveness. I would have respected her if she showed some balls and stood her ground.
And your appreciation for my being decent and my being nice is so fucking heartwarming, I am about to cry! Now shut the fuck up!
"McCotter was a great policeman and a great boss but stepped on himself by snapping the picture at the G20 Summit. Just plain Stupid but I hear his suing the dept."
McCotter didn't snap ANYTHING. Gross took the pic. If you saw the vid, you could see it wasn't McCotter. McCotter was just made the fall guy for Phillygate because he was in overall command
of our guys out there.
Cut the fat to the ADS spots. All they do is steal out pension money. They are useless spots. Get rid of them, they are all political spots anyways.
Was on the Dan Ryan the other day and a CARAVAN of Blue Lights (SUV's surrounding a Black tinted window VAN) came charging/sirening up the JAMMED expressway FORCING us to part and almost hit while the AIR HORNS blared amongst the deafening sirens in the wintery week day!
I along with many drivers tried to accomodate the emergency "thing" thinking there was a SWAT emergency or BOMB SCARE somewhere I almost cut into the lane next to me as the "crazed blue light emergency THING" approached my location on the JAMMED expwy! Well as it drew closer and muscled its way "IN" fromt the entrance RAMP on the left going Southbound only to to continue to MUSCLE its way to the next ramp ( I believe Roosevelt or Taylor exit while reaking havoc on the JAMMED e-way I realized this was some sort of "ESCORT".....WTF?
The first SUV said LEAD on the beat tag the next said LEAD1 then the VAN then the tail car was the LEAD2....AGAIN ....WTF?
As I observed this closer I merged back at the LEAD car by "accident" of course...only to get the GUY..M/2/50's, Gold Leaf in the front passenger seat (wearing glasses) flipping out and waving his arms at me while I pretended not to see him...THE STRESS look was priceless!
Then they made this DIAGONAL move on the JAMMED expressway instead of taking SIDE or main streets for everyones safety and stress level to remain reasonably sane!
AGAIN WTF?
Any IDEA what the HELL that was anyone out there?
Just curious....
As I headed down to 35th st. in the JAMMED traffic I noticed all three vehicle get off at 35th st. ahead of me....
WAS THIS JODY or MASTERS being transported about? Just asking..
My best SCC!
2/12/2010 09:59:00 PM
This is one of Obama's Czars coming back home to Chicago and utilizing the pomp and prestige of Daley's President. These fucks demand to be treated like royalty at O'Hare upon arrival. They must be greeted by a Sgt and a couple of blueshirts to show their position and status.
They are then quickly hustled into a convoy of CPD and US govt. vehicles that ram there way through rush hour traffic onto the Kennedy and Dan Ryan causing untold thousands of motorists undue hassles.
Lead 1, Lead 2, Tail 1, Tail 2 and all the assorted BULLSHIT that costs the taxpayers of Chicago tens of thousands of dollars to satiate the ego of some pompous NOBODY from Washington DC. Some fairy tale UNCONSTITUTIONALLY appointed CZAR. What the fuck is a Czar?
Where is this Czar listed in the US Constitution?
Why does some NOBODY need to have tens of thousands of dollars worth of CPD and Federal security?
It is obvious that this schmuck would and could walk up to 100% of the general public and be unrecognized and worthless. Daley must satiate their egomaniacal sense of power and prestige.
Where is the media on this subject?
Can't criticize the Messiah or his Chicago Corruption Machine emissaries, can we?
Please register and vote out all incumbents, vote CONSERVATIVE!!!
Chicago motorists are seeing this too, this is good. The sheep are awakening slowly.
Johnny Northside,
You are one class act! I wish I could be like you.
Thank-You!!!
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
Moral to story: if you're a troller with young children, don't take them to a fast-food restaurant on the NE corner of State/Chicago where unregistered vagrants have been known to pass out from time to time...
HARD CARDS ARE ONLINE !!! really
Hard cards from the penitentiary should be on line but they are not. ASA's in Felony Review usually demand the last hard card or they won't charge. Penitentiary offices are closed on weekends and holidays, So, RWOC is the norm.
"McCotter was a great policeman and a great boss but stepped on himself by snapping the picture at the G20 Summit. Just plain Stupid but I hear his suing the dept."
Suing the dept? So much for being a great guy? A 6 figure retiree that landed a 6figure do nothing State Job suing for 6 figures. Only in Chicago...
And managed to take his secretary with him to IDOC on the CPD payroll.
If they disband our saturation team, then this department will find out the hard way. We are the working police. Leave us alone.
WHAAAAAAAAAA! Mommmy......daddy......they want to send me back to the watch!
I work the Area 5 saturation team and we come up with good quality arrests night in and night out.
Please define "quality arrests".
Listen hair gel.....I've seen your glorified teams in action. If I had 3 or 4 officers guaranteed as back up EVERY time I would have more arrests.
Twenty years later, not only do we still have Field Lieutenants, but we also have hundreds of additional supervisor and exempt positions creating even more redundant levels of overpaid supervisors.
So, now its time for another study?
2/12/2010 11:39:00 AM
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How often do you actually have a field lieutenant working? With the shortages, they're always being shipped here and there to cover for WCs.
Yo 192. Word up. Beward of the man with the list. Northing but another moronic Ernie rat. DF and SF putting lies in his head. Its the mapa connection
McCotter was a great policeman and a great boss but stepped on himself by snapping the picture at the G20 Summit. Just plain Stupid but I hear his suing the dept.
McCotter didn't take the pic in Pittsburgh, he had nothing to do with it and isn't suing the dept.
OT: Of interest to trollers.
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
PS: No answer at CPD registration desk either. Ain't this a bitch!
2/12/2010 01:19:00 PM
They are all online, I can't decide who screwed up more the Watch Commander or the Detective who should have handled it but probably blew you off...
talk about throwing midnights a bone....how about eliminating "duty availability" for everyone, and then giving a shift differential to midnights and afternoons....maybe 5% of base for afternoons, 10% for midnights?
2/12/2010 09:54:00 PM
Look here rook, if you give mids or afternoons a 4-8k raise you won't be working either watch. people would be bidding to the shittiest district just to make that extra 8 k a year.
4-2 SUCKS on Midnights and I am by no means a rookie..
We should get our shift shaved a half an hour that would eliminate the car problem and make this shift livable. Why not throw us a bone.
Well, if you are not a rookie, then bid to 2nd watch.Now, how about a nice, hot cup of STFU!
Mayor daley and J fed have solved the crime problem in 008 by opening a new satelite police station in the library which will be staffed with officers but will only be open during regular business hours and closed sunday... because crime stops on sunday and after 8 oclock the rest of the week... oh well, here is the bright idea that is going to save us all...
______________________________
Can't wait for someone to run into the library as he's being shot at. There's a kid section in every library I guess they'll just have to duck when Pookie is being shot at. Also, creating a few more "inside" spots at the library...tough duty.
What alderman's brother owns the Segway dealership in Chicago? Just WTF are we supposed to do with 2 of these stupid things in the district? And all the other Districts too? Another Dugan wetdream? Stop pissing away money already and fire some police.
Remember the closed market cars. I think they made a grand total of 2 arrests during the entire program.
Ya, but they brought in A TON of CONTACT CARDS!
What alderman's brother owns the Segway dealership in Chicago? Just WTF are we supposed to do with 2 of these stupid things in the district? And all the other Districts too? Another Dugan wetdream? Stop pissing away money already and fire some police.
They are supposed to free up the beat car that usually gets called into the station to do the lunch run for the desk crew. Each district will get at least 1. Every day, each desk crew will ask for volunteers to use the segway to get their lunch. If no one volunteers, then they will use reverse seniority.
Anonymous said.....................
Stop pissing away money already and fire some police.
2/13/2010 06:16:00 AM
Typo?
Yo 192. Word up. Beward of the man with the list. Northing but another moronic Ernie rat. DF and SF putting lies in his head. Its the mapa connection
2/13/2010 06:05:00 AM
Are you refering to the lt with the lisp? But it sure sounds like hes putting together a list of who to dump next. No good rat.
Does this now mean that all the extra desk personal & extra front office bodies will now be "for real real" this time put back on the streets?
Or just like last time? The order by Dugan to put everyone on the street and then just hide them by not putting them in the sheets or putting them in cars that don't go out? & everyone just turns a blind eye to the order. Dome things will never change!
Maybe they will be getting rid of the sports program genius dugan invented. I think it's a mismanagement of tax payees money since a portion of my taxes already go to the park districts & school system already for that! Use the police budget to lockup criminals you MORON!!!
Also stop spending the money on the food and gifts for the ghetto! Use it to buy ammo/training/cars! We are the police! The gangs are out of control! Or are the brass to dumb to figure it out? Get a clue!
Why do we need a Chief for CAPS? How about LEOS making the choice of what spots are to be filled or left open instead of the Reverands. I t's a shame when Luis Farakhan has a say what Officers or civilians are given certain assignments.
McCotter didn't take the pic in Pittsburgh, he had nothing to do with it and isn't suing the dept.
Wasn't that F.G.?
Get rid of Tracy Ladner too.........her and Lynette Helm are the biggest waste of money...why do they need a captain in personnnel?
2/12/2010 05:44:00 PM
Helm is a Hubermann girl, thats why they need a Captain in personnel.
Anonymous said...
If nearly 20 years ago, Daley invested more than $1 million to be used by the police department.................
2/12/2010 09:07:00 PM
Dude, what the hell was that?
Cut the fat to the ADS spots. All they do is steal out pension money. They are useless spots. Get rid of them, they are all political spots anyways.
2/12/2010 11:52:00 PM
All I have to say about you is MORON!!!!!
The ADS (street Deputy) spots were eliminated!
"What alderman's brother owns the Segway dealership in Chicago? Just WTF are we supposed to do with 2 of these stupid things in the district? And all the other Districts too? Another Dugan wetdream? Stop pissing away money already and fire some police.
2/13/2010 06:16:00 AM"
hey, dem segzwayz is goot.
raises da primary target area a good 14-16 inches above the crowd.
think prairie dogs.
"Look here rook, if you give mids or afternoons a 4-8k raise you won't be working either watch. people would be bidding to the shittiest district just to make that extra 8 k a year.
2/13/2010 06:12:00 AM"
exactly.
What about that super secret auto theft squad out of detatched services that made a total of 2 attests last year, they all drive high end vehicles and worked every Sat at time and a half last year. Ask Dugan rumor is he blew a gasket over it when he found out. Rightly so, Who is on this detail? who is their supervisor?
2/12/2010 08:24:00 AM
i didnt make to many attests last year either
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
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One word: override
Is there anybody left on this department who knows what the fucking rules are?
Hey, Mr Daley, I really do not think you require on duty CPD to guard you when in Michigan and when they did take police action last summer you threw a fit. Maybe take a few of those nickels from your pocket and pay for the security yourself. Everyone has to do there fair share. Remember, Chicago is the City that works but only if your a Daley.
"Anonymous said...
Geez Hero How on Earth did the Department function w/o you out there before?
I'll put my numbers up against yours anytime in spite of the fact I'm tied down to the radio & have to answer calls for service. Unlike you 2 hour team dinners, one bag weed pinch Superstars
2/12/2010 11:24:00 PM"
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The one who is trying to sound like a hero in this case is you slick. If I had a dime every time some internet police hero came out with the ol' "put my stats against yours" line, I would be rich.
You have no idea who you are talking to, have no idea what kind of "stats" they have, and you sound like a hater who couldn't make it to the sat team so are bitter about it.
You have to be a hairgel, because I for one don't want the sat team. Neither do most people I know with time on the job.
So take your stats, pretend that they actually matter, and chill out before you give yourself a heart attack before you hit 30.
Take care slick sleeve and be careful answering those calls for service.
"""Anonymous said...
Why the fuck we respond to 50% of the shit we do I will never undersatnd. Then the Fire Dept doesnt have to respond to shit, we go and if we find an injured person or a fire they tell us to let them know and fire will roll. Great gig they have WTF?????????????
2/12/2010 06:13:00 PM"""
Those Paramedics go to a lot of jobs where the baby's mama just wants a taxi to the hospital or it's a drunk taking an ambulance an engine or truck and 7-8 or 9 personnel. The calls may come in vague language and/or there is no available ambulance close so we check it out first. Paramedic is a real heavy duty burnout job an I respect the hell out of them.
Stay safe, the next person in that ambulance may by you.
Police phone box's??? They were "call box's" junior. Take a towel and dry the water behind your ears before you open your pie hole.
doesnt look like hiring civilian gang counselors (aka cease fire) works very well surprise surprise.....
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/02/13/anticrime_effort_jolted_by_arrests/
Sgt. Northside
As a cop in a shithole dist. I agree with 99% of what you say. The fact that they only made you a sgt. speaks loads about how FUBAR this job is. Now with WEISel, it's hopeless. I hear you always worked the streets but we need somebody like you for supt. You are a legend with brass balls.
Thanks for using your name and speaking out for us. I hope to meet you at the Cozzi hearing on Thursday morning.
FREE COZZI
They cannot really reorganize the police department because it would infringe on the patronage system. It is all about keeping control and having " their" guys in position of power. Control the exempts and you control everything.
Why would they take the POs out of the residency unit they may stumble across the Sgt from financial crimes who has been living in Orland Park for the past 2 yrs.
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Some of you guys just "beat all" as Andy of mayberry, my personal hero would say. Why the hell do some of you feel it necessay to throw a fellow copper to the dogs. It must be one of two thing....either you have a personal grudge and please keep that shit to yourself, or you are just flatout a dick with ears. It is like 2nd grade sometimes on this blog. This is an important matter and we are looking to discuss it...not be manipulated by rat assholes.
Child sex offender arrested for not registering. Six previous convictions for not registering since 2001. Offender released from IDOC in Dec '09 for failure to register weekly. ASA won't approve charges without state hard card. Today is a holiday, weekend Sat & Sun, Mon holiday. Can't get anything from the state (many calls made) until Tuesday. Sex offender back on the street RWOC.
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One word: override
Is there anybody left on this department who knows what the fucking rules are?
2/13/2010 10:46:00 AM
Apparently you dont. You still need the hard card regardless to verify whether or not dude registered.
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