Hold on for Those Reinforcements
Not even 24 hours after promising Chicago he'd hire 100 more officers to stem the shortage of 2,230 officers and the 100-plus retiring every month, Shortshanks is admitting he doesn't have the money:
The city needs to hire 100 more police officers, Mayor Richard Daley said today, but should not fund their salaries from a tax program reserved for promoting economic development.
"You have to hire a hundred new police officers," Daley said at a news conference to open a new Target store in the Uptown neighborhood.
But hiring more officers will only partially address the problem of crime in Chicago, Daley said.
We guess it will be a little while longer until we can bid for that 13B furlough if there's no one coming up behind us.
And this quote is just freaking priceless:
And this quote is just freaking priceless:
- If the officers were hired as some aldermen have suggested by tapping money from the city's tax increment financing program, it would throw the budget out of whack because those funds run out after a fixed number of years, the mayor said.
"To balance your budget, if you start taking TIF money only once, then what do you do?" Daley said.
Hmmm. We don't know Dick. What happens if you take all the money from a 99-year-lease on parking meters and blow through the entire amount in less than three years in some bizarre attempt to win a global sporting event that hasn't made a profit (and won't be making a profit) in 32 years?
Oh wait. That did happen. And we're seeing the results each and every day here in Chi-troit II.
Oh wait. That did happen. And we're seeing the results each and every day here in Chi-troit II.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
56 Comments:
And don't forget that Skyway money that's almost all gone from that
99 year lease.
And trying to privatize almost every city department so you can hire your buddies' private companies that drop huge dollars into your election coffers.
As an administrator Mr. Mayor, you plain suck. You could not run a lemonade stand!
Mr. Mayor, by those statements you are going to be heading on your wait out of office. We Will campaign against you 2011 YOU ARE OUT!!!!!!!!
Holy Fuckin shit, ... and this guy runs the city
We're budgeted for 13,500 police officers... how about using some of that money instead of using it for you're other programs/ buddy's trucking firms? The money is there if he'd utilize it for what it's destined for... John Kass, Where is the approximate $250,000,000.00 at this year that was budgeted for the 2500 officers we're down??? No one wants to ask those questions, especially Patrick Fitzgerald, who's too busy being Barak's personal lap dog
What happens to the salaries of the officers, who have left the department and not replaced?
This is the same cocksucker who told us that the City of Chicago had BILLION DOLLARS to finance his Olympic Legacy???
Try 20 BILLION DOLLARS!!!
Where the FUCK is the MSM???
Didn't think so!
Frank Main and crew has their lips stuck to RMD's asshole, as usual. This goof could NOT figure a crime out, unless the "MACHINE" laid it out for him. HINT
YOU'RE right Frank, we all know who and what you are now!
Keep playing though!
MORE LIKE CHIRAQ OR CHIGHANISTAN OR BETTER YET CHEIRUT OR CHIMALIA!!
Sell the fuckin bean!
Are any policemen around to teach the new recruits instead of social workers. To all of you whiners with a couple of years on, stop crying, learn the job, be a POLICEMAN. Social work does not cut it. You could hide when surrounded by real policemen but now most real policemen are gone.
Here's a thought. Plant hostas in all the median flower pots. They grow like weeds. We could then free up all the money paid to illegals to maintain them. That might hire a few police officers. Whatcha think alderpeople?
Todays scum-times headline the city is 700 million in the red! But don't use the tif money dick daley! The reader did a long story on all the stolen tif monies that daley and the cronies took! daley has his girl rosie andolino former secretary gofer for victor reyes at city hall,wasting billions at o'hare! she is giving money out to many of daleys crooked friends in bundles for not need airport runways! There is billions of dollars wasted there nice to throw "our money" at the criminal daley enterprise!
Let's change his name to Shitshanks!!! David Hoffman for mayor!!
Daley lies, he wants law enforcement to collapse, so a National Police force can be established by his leader, comrade obama. Then the entire U.S. law enforcement system can be controlled by the democommiecrat Socialist party..
Each Chicago Alderman gets around $1 million dollars in their "discretionary" fund to do what they want with.
50 Alderman equals $50 million dollars.
$50 million dollars will hire and keep employed 500 police officers.
There are your reinforcements. 500 police officers, from funds already in the city treasury. There's the funds, just a little reallocation and the Department of personnel can start sending out appointment letters.
500 officers.
Which is more important, money to pay for an alderman's cousin to a do nothing job or the safety and security of the City?
500 officers.
Immediately. No scratching of heads wondering where to get the money. the money is there, right now, being spent on who knows what. No touching of the holy grail of daley slush funds, the TIF money.
500 officers.
OK, we found the money, now get on with it.
Anonymous said...
What happens to the salaries of the officers, who have left the department and not replaced?
7/21/2010 01:34:00 AM
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The money goes to fund rich & maggie's private projects and into the pockets of "Friends of the daley family" via lucrative contracts. Vanecko, how much did you get from uncle tricky dick ??????
Daley it's time to man up and reduce the amount of alderman you have by half.
Why don't they just cut the number of aldermen down to 25 from 50. Will have more then enough money to pay for the new officer's.
From not a p.o., just a city worker:
Hello friends, what do you want? more pay, more officers hired, new tires to replaced the balled ones you risk your lives with?
All city contracts are given out to enrich Daley's friends, felons and family! I have found tens of millions of dollars a year in worthless wasteful contracts the BOE gives out that can just as easily be spent on first responders, public safety, education or property tax relief.
I talked until I'm blue in the face!No one cares, not the press, the States Attorney, the FBI nor the alderscum! If anyone knows or WANTS to take on Mayor Mumbles, I'll give you all the info and copies of contracts I have. Let me know at michaelesullivan1@gmail.com
We lost 100 officers this month alone! We are 4,000 police officers short and will be down another 1000 at the end of the year. What is hiring 100 police officers going to do? How come FOP doesn't come out yelling and put it all out there on the news?
So how many bodies can we put back on the streets if we pull the Mayoral and Aldermanic bodyguard details?
City workers are paid from the general fund. The revenue in those accounts have fallen short of projected amounts for about three years now. What is "budgeted" is just a guess made by Dept of Revenue in what they had anticipated the city would have in the coffers next year. Every city agency submits a budget based on those numbers. There has been a shortfall every year. If the city was at full staff in every agency, the payroll checks would bounce. Unlike the feds we can't print money. Many people ask where the money is for the officers not hired- it was never there. Hence why so many state and local governments are laying off or reducing expenses in some other way.
We thought we were going to get a big raise, and budgeted to to a remodel of the kitchen, guess what money isn't there. Don't want to max out credit, so we tell the significant other, we have to wait. She asks where's the dough?
Honey, we listened to flop's projection (30% raise), there isn't any dough.
Do not forget that due to days off, furloughs, ctu, etc. that on any given day you onlu have one third of your man power available to work. That means that if 100 new officers get hired, on any given day only 33 of them are available to work.
And in the media today, the money from the Skyway and Parking Meters is almost depleted:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/2518066,CST-NWS-raid21.article
I'm so confused by Daley's practices.
I've said this before. Imagine if we actually had 13,500 officer. That's 2,000+ less than we have out there. Now imagine 100 of those 2,000 officers (100 each) moved into areas such as Scottsdale, Garfield Ridge, Hegewisch, Mt Greenwood and parts of 016. Maybe some of those areas wouldn't be going to shit?
Now add that with all the other city workers laid off who would be living in those areas also.
Daley's logic is so flawed. You don't want to privatize everything! If you have thousands of city workers living and spending money, paying taxes in the city. That gives you the money you need! Laying off people and forcing them to take furloughs is the exact opposite of what you want.
There are currently 130 officers that are 62 years old, so in the next year, at least 130 will be forced off with the others that are smart enough to leave on their own.
Good times ahead!
First off I do not have a lot of time otj so I am not fully versed in how contracts are negotiated. With that said,is manpower an issue that can be negotiated during contract talk? If not what would it take to allow for manpower to be negotiated? I can understand how the city can layoff other departments however when it comes to police and fire/paramedics you would think that we and the tax paying citizens of Chicago would be guaranteed minimum staffing.
We need a brave, educated, fair and not already politically claimed by these blood sucking politicians in place already-member of cpd to run for mayor. This person would then be able to save the city at least 1.25 million dollars by eliminating at least 10 aldermen (if not more...), in turn he or she would then be able to hire more police officers so we can all have our city back. The aldermen shouldn't have a problem with losing their part time jobs that pay over $125,000 each since they took an oath to always put the cities best intentions first and foremost right? So..... Any volunteers?
Daley can fire all his consultant firm trolls, and recapture significant revenue. Marilyn Katz (public relations), McDonough (infrastructure), US Equities (real estate), etc.
100 officers
25 districts
3 watches
Plus days off, vacation, and details.
Hang in there guys you might get one officer per watch.
Plus they just promoted 30 police officers to the rank of sgt.
So thats 70. (If you include the class of 30 new sgts they just promoted.
Keep Working!
Anonymous said...
First off I do not have a lot of time otj so I am not fully versed in how contracts are negotiated. With that said,is manpower an issue that can be negotiated during contract talk? If not what would it take to allow for manpower to be negotiated? I can understand how the city can layoff other departments however when it comes to police and fire/paramedics you would think that we and the tax paying citizens of Chicago would be guaranteed minimum staffing.
7/21/2010 12:48:00 PM
FOP sought to have manpower issues, minimum staffing etc., included in the present contract. The contract went to arbitration so that was not subject to consideration by the arbitrator.
The City will likely never agree to bargain over minimum staffing. They don't have to now so their attitude is certainly that they will never do so.
Remember, the City of Chicago does not bargain in good faith. Never. they present their list and say, essentially, take it or leave it.
This past contract we got incredibly lucky, I feel, with the new work schedules of 4-2 and the 55 and out with health insurance.
The 4-2 is huge. 18 extra paid days off a year! I could not believe we got that for no give backs. That is an enormous gain. I know, low raise, remember, 18 extra paid days off a year!
Fantastic!
TIF Money? What's TIF Money? I dunno about any TIF money. Shanks can't and won't disclose the actual TIF funds on hand. It's either hidden, spent, Vaneckoized or piggybacked on some construction that hasn't sold yet, that's what he's afraid of. Get those books open. There's not too much talk about the citys dire straits, or alderman raises, 7 months till Primary. Odds are city funds are paying off all Olympic obligations. Will Contruction Unions get their 10% raise over 3years? You bet.
Shortshanks is gonna have to tap into his TIF fund piggy banks...
The 4-2 is huge. 18 extra paid days off a year! I could not believe we got that for no give backs. That is an enormous gain. I know, low raise, remember, 18 extra paid days off a year!
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i agree the 4-2 is great but we didnt just get an extra 18 days off a year with pay with no givebacks. We work a longer day now and everyone's sked is different than it was before. A great change, but its not like we were just handed this. And it works better for the city than our old sked.
We are at the Alamo and the Cavalry is not coming....
The 4-2 is huge. 18 extra paid days off a year! I could not believe we got that for no give backs. That is an enormous gain. I know, low raise, remember, 18 extra paid days off a year!
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yes it is huge, however some of our present suffering stems from it, it was a rush job by the department, and NONE of the issues that it affects were taken into consideration before they plowed right into this work schedule.
Yes, on its face it is great, we get more days off - although there are longer hours... but it also affects your furlough, the relief factor (you are working less, with no one to replace you, lowered manpower even with the same number of people working) NO CARS, (or not enough, NO RADIOS, NO PDT's) and fleet doesn't realize that we need more cars, since we don't have more employees! Overlap? what's that? There are a ton of things that are impacted, but the department gave NO THOUGHT to any of them... it will only get worse as time goes on...it is FUBAR to the max....
Anonymous said...
..Plant hostas in all the median flower pots. They grow like weeds. We could then free up all the money paid to illegals to maintain them...Whatcha think alderpeople?
7/21/2010 06:40:00 AM
And put their relatives out of work???
The panic button's been pushed again!
The fax came out this afternoon, cancelling all elective time off, for the 2d and 3d watches, on Saturday 14 August, even if it was previously approved, for ALL Bureaus.
I'm sure your readers will remember, this is the day those "in control" scheduled the Air & Water Show AND the Bud Billiken Parade!
They must be in full panic mode. They must have seen that the manpower is so low, they're going to have a hard time pulling this shit off.
Another case of management by crisis.
So what's our recourse? I've had a personal day in for this day for months.
"What happens if you take all the money from a 99-year-lease on parking meters and blow through the entire amount in less than three years in some bizarre attempt to win a global sporting event that hasn't made a profit (and won't be making a profit) in 32 years?"
Every day, I say a prayer of thanks to God that the Olympics will not be inflicted upon Chicago. I just saw a TV segment about how Rio is in deep s__t already, trying to accomplish the huge, ruinous construction projects demanded -- one, an elaborate rail line that will probably be "The Road To Nowhere" the minute the Games end.
It's so bad that the Brazilian Army has been called out as forced labor on the projects. One officer boasted, "This is the Army. We get the job done, no matter what the cost."
"No matter what the cost..."
"Hmmm. We don't know Dick. What happens if you take all the money from a 99-year-lease on parking meters and blow through the entire amount in less than three years in some bizarre attempt to win a global sporting event that hasn't made a profit (and won't be making a profit) in 32 years?"
SCC, you have got to be a genius!
That is one hell of an insightful observation.
As the mayor of Chicago, with the best minds at my disposal, I have never been advised of that!
I'm starting to wonder if more revenue is not the answer to our fascil problems but rather endemic waste and political corruption.
Trouble is, for the rest of you, I don't give a shit.
-Richard
@7/21/2010 01:05:00 AM,
Snifter clink to you buddy!
Sadly, so true...so trure.
Thank You SCC for providing this conduit for the true blue CPD to commnicate with each other and where law-abiding and America loving citizens can stop by and listen-in like kids hearing some reality as the elders convey around the cocktail table.
Again, Thank You.....you are just so frickng insignificant! (Sarcasm/off)
Buck
You just s
Anonymous Anonymous said...
So how many bodies can we put back on the streets if we pull the Mayoral and Aldermanic bodyguard details?
7/21/2010 09:49:00 AM
100+
OT - Has anyone else noticed the FOP website doesn't seem to be able to update their "Current" Death Notices?
They are still showing the 15th of July with Thor Soderberg but NO MENTION is even made about Michael Bailey's death or his wake tomorrow.
How hard can it be for Mark or one of the boys to update it every day? It seems damn disrespectful to me!
This is the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard, here officers are being singled out, attacked and killed yet he doesnt even wanna shell out the much needed money to hire more.. UGH over 800 down lets not even start on those on the medical.. and all he can muster up is 100! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT??
Daley it's time to man up and reduce the amount of alderman you have by half.
7/21/2010 08:35:00 AM
Why half? Just get rid of them all. Really what does an alderman do? My alderman or his office doesn't do shit but direct you to 311 for neighborhood problems. So really do we need any aldercreatures???
"And in the media today, the money from the Skyway and Parking Meters is almost depleted"
That's the official word from city hall, but is it true?
Open the books, you Demented Dwarf!
The citizens deserve to see where their money is going!
C'mon people! Demand better in 2011!
"Why half? Just get rid of them all. Really what does an alderman do? My alderman or his office doesn't do shit but direct you to 311 for neighborhood problems. So really do we need any aldercreatures???
7/21/2010 11:26:00 PM"
the city council is, in theory, the Legislative branch of our city government.
you know, the branch of government that creates that government's laws, aka ordinances, codes, licensing requirements, etc.
notwithstanding the absurd reality of our city council's penchant for surrendering it's responsibilities to our city government's Executive branch, (thus resulting in the default dictatorship under which we citizens currently endure), a government lacking a Legislative branch is a de facto Dictatorship.
a Representative Democracy isn't as efficient a form of government as a Dictatorship, so, if efficiency is your God, then, by all means, eliminate our city council.
you can also throw your baby out with the bath water while you're at it.
"Why half? Just get rid of them all. Really what does an alderman do? My alderman or his office doesn't do shit but direct you to 311 for neighborhood problems. So really do we need any aldercreatures???
7/21/2010 11:26:00 PM"
the city council is, in theory, the Legislative branch of our city government.
you know, the branch of government that creates that government's laws, aka ordinances, codes, licensing requirements, etc.
notwithstanding the absurd reality of our city council's penchant for surrendering it's responsibilities to our city government's Executive branch, (thus resulting in the default dictatorship under which we citizens currently endure), a government lacking a Legislative branch is a de facto Dictatorship.
a Representative Democracy isn't as efficient a form of government as a Dictatorship, so, if efficiency is your God, then, by all means, eliminate our city council.
you can also throw your baby out with the bath water while you're at it.
7/22/2010 03:51:00 AM
You are an ASSHAT. Everyone on this blog complains about the waste of money on useless aldermen who get overpaid for a part-time job and a million dollar expense account, plus wasted police as bodyguards and you defend their existence of doing nothing. Keep voting for Daley and these aldermen you fool.
"You are an ASSHAT. Everyone on this blog complains about the waste of money on useless aldermen who get overpaid for a part-time job and a million dollar expense account, plus wasted police as bodyguards and you defend their existence of doing nothing. Keep voting for Daley and these aldermen you fool.
7/22/2010 12:48:00 PM"
so, then, you do throw your babies out with the bath water.
when can we start the next petition to reduce the number of alderman?
"You are an ASSHAT. Everyone on this blog complains about the waste of money on useless aldermen who get overpaid for a part-time job and a million dollar expense account, plus wasted police as bodyguards and you defend their existence of doing nothing. Keep voting for Daley and these aldermen you fool.
7/22/2010 12:48:00 PM"
so, then, you do throw your babies out with the bath water.
7/22/2010 05:18:00 PM
Ok Ed Burke stay off the blog. You made your point that you are needed and the city cannot do without you or the other 49 alderthiefs. I still stay with my opinion that you and the other aldercreatures are useless do-nothing thieves who take after the criminal mayor and douchebag J-Fed. Keep stealing taxpayers money for a part-time do-nothing so called job. Now once again go FUCK YOURSELF.
so, then, you do throw your babies out with the bath water.
7/22/2010 05:18:00 PM
No I just let the shit(as yourself) pour down the drain into the sewer. I will only assume you are an alderman or one of Daley's cocksuckers.
No I just let the shit(as yourself) pour down the drain into the sewer. I will only assume you are an alderman or one of Daley's cocksuckers.
7/23/2010 02:03:00 AM
You really are an asshat. And not very bright. If I started the post about getting rid of all the alderman and hating daley, why would I be an alderman or a daley cocksucker. I'm still assuming you are an alderman since you keep defending them stating how they are needed. Or maybe just another northside liberal who lives in fantasy land. Good luck and stay safe up north, the animal is coming to your neighborhood. Maybe daley and his(your) precious alderman will save you. HA HA HA
THEY JUST CONFISCATED OVER 6 MILLION DOLLARS IN THOSE DOPE SEIZURES ,WHERES THAT AT
to all the knuckleheads calling for the elimination of our city council, aka our city's Legislative branch:
1. i had hoped not to have to spell out, letter by letter, the point i was making by my 'baby with the bathwater' comment.
alas, it's meaning seems to have not made it through the thick skulls of a few agitated readers.
so, since you few simpletons insist, i'll speak to you as if you are the morons your comments make you appear to be.
2. eliminating, or even drastically reducing, the number of Legislative Representatives of our city government's Legislative branch, just because the individuals currently holding said elected positions are:
a) grossly overpaid, b) mostly incompetent, dishonest, devious and gutless cretins, devoid of any substantial motivation beyond self-interest, c) egotistical control freaks dedicated to the proposition that their shit is like chocolate milk, to be devoured, gratefully, by those of their constituents eager to suck at the tax funded tit, d) petty, small minded mini dictators, lording it over their particular group(s) of sheeple, and e) functional criminals, using their authorities to make laws to extort, intimidate, bamboozle, bullshit and otherwise fuck over said constituencies, doesn't mean that the institution of our city government's Legislative branch is not vital to the potentially honest governing of our city's citizens.
3. as i previously posted, via the kindness of SCC, a government devoid of a Legislative branch is a default Dictatorship.
is that what you few knuckleheads want?
because that is what you, and the rest of our city's citizens, will get, if we reduce or eliminate our city council.
vote out the assholes, replace said voted out assholes with authentic, honest human beings, committed to restoring our city government's Legislative branch to what it was designed to be, a check and balance on the city's Executive branch, and then see how difficult it will be for any sitting mayor to act as a dictator.
don't make me speak to you like idiots again.
It will still work out, winter will be here soon, and next year only officers with 20 yrs or more will be allowed to take a June, July, or August furlo. Be ready people, it's coming, and Daley can and will do it.
We're budgeted for 13,500 police officers... how about using some of that money instead of using it for you're other programs/ buddy's trucking firms? The money is there if he'd utilize it for what it's destined for... John Kass, Where is the approximate $250,000,000.00 at this year that was budgeted for the 2500 officers we're down??? No one wants to ask those questions, especially Patrick Fitzgerald, who's too busy being Barak's personal lap dog
YES, where is the Federal Investigation ? And where is the IRS with an Audit???
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