Quotas?
A City Hall memo obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times warns police officials that the city will "witness a dramatic decrease in annual revenues and not meet 2010 targets" if a slump in writing parking and vehicle-compliance tickets continues until the end of the year.
The Aug. 10 memo, which doesn't explicitly ask police to boost tickets, tells district commanders and other supervisors that police ticket-writing dropped nearly 25 percent in July compared to the same month in 2009. It lists the five districts with the least and most tickets.
Or could it be THERE ARE NO FUCKING POLICE ON THE STREET YOU IDIOTS? All we do all day and all night is run from job to job to job. We generate event numbers from dawn until dusk and past dark for pointless missions so the bosses can stroke each other over how well their people are "producing." When is there an opportunity to write tickets?
Every single sign we've pointed to for the past two and three years hints at a dangerous manpower shortage. Here's another one, bright as day, right in front of your noses. How many times do we have to spell it out? Hire police!
Every single sign we've pointed to for the past two and three years hints at a dangerous manpower shortage. Here's another one, bright as day, right in front of your noses. How many times do we have to spell it out? Hire police!
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 8:20 AM
132 Comments:
Please go to your jobs wait for back up listen to the reason the caller called the police and give everyone a police report for something. Take the 10-15 mins to write the report. Then go to the next job and do the same thing turn in 15 reports a day it will show that crime is really up and force the city to hire more police. To hell with tickets their is no time when the district is in a backlog all night.
A dramatic decrease in revenues? Does that mean they really need us? Give us 10% of ticket revenues as a bonus. It will eliminate the need to work 2 fucking jobs, and I am certain revenue will increase. Even get an event number
Hmmm I wonder if the Mumford running this department are aware that they took all the officers out of patrol and put them in elite units that are to good to write tickets. Maybe just maybe of their was some manpower in the districts their would be time for traffic and parking enforcement.
keep up the good work no parking tickets till the MAYOR is gone
Has the mayor considered that maybe Jfraud excellent crime reduction strategies have reduced the amount of traffic and parking violators. Jfraud should hold a news conference stating traffic violators were down dramatically in July and take credit for reducing crime.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2606214,CST-NWS-badcops17.article
I really feel for you guys on the street. Honest to God I do. Not only do you have to put up with all of the crap that you do for a paycheck, including morons trying to shoot you, you also have to deal with idiot bosses. Let them hire more cops if they want more tickets written, heaven knows that more officers are needed. Thanks again for being out there and trying to hold the wolves at bay. It is appreciated.
Just a citizen.
ALEX, I'LL TAKE EVENT NUMBERS FOR $100.
i can't believe that they actually posted this:
"The districts with the most tickets were among those with the least crime in the city. And the districts with the fewest tickets were among those with the most crime."
must be that they think that their few remaining readers can't read.
Do more with less! No opportunity for promotion! Now go enjoy your 1-2% raise.
no movers no parking tickets fuck the city can we get back the 68 million we gave the mayors nephew i dont think so and what is fop doing about the 68 milliom NOTHING
Hire police. Or-and I am not a cop, so maybe this is distasteful in a way I don't realize-hire ticket writers. It doesn't take a sworn officer of the law to write a parking ticket. Or a ticket for no city sticker. In fact, it seems like a real waste of PO time. I think this has started with the meter tickets being written by LAZ personnel. Expand it to all "vehicle compliance" tickets.
The other problem with having police write tickets is that police in "slow" districts probably have more time to do it, and "slow" districts are likely to be where taxpayers live. In essence, punishing taxpayers for living like taxpayers and not thugs.
Again great SCC your 110% correct! We run all night long,raps,backlogs,stacked jobs,no lunch at times! Tickets are you kidding? Fuck it we NEED 4,000+ MORE COPPERS HOW ABOUT THE TRUTH?! YOU JUST HIRED ANOTHER WONDER KID 4 YEARS ON THE JOB,GOLDSTEIN FOR 170k FOR ANOTHER MADE UP EXEMPT POSITION! MASTERS DID THIS MAYBE??
With every mover you write tell the motorist he or she is being ticketed due to revenue generating quotas required by the city.
And To be sure to contact your elected official to let them know how you feel about having money extorted from you by your elected officials.
"Or could it be THERE ARE NO FUCKING POLICE ON THE STREET YOU IDIOTS?"
As Det. Sgt. Ron Harris (Barney Miller) once said... Very Well Put.
start with all the media trucks!
Keep Working!
We can save money by getting rid of 25 aldermen.
OT: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/08/lincoln-park-man-accused-of-hit-police-officers-with-squad-car.html
parkers are down because the citizens can't afford to park at the credit card boxes .
They use metra and cta more.
Crime is down so low that illegal parking is almost a thing of the past...ask jfled
I gotta run
Could it also be that they have these Traffic Management jagoffs running around day and night writing tickets for every little fucking thing they can find wrong on a vehicle???? Sooner or later people either comply and fix the problem or their car gets booted and towed away. Either way there's alot less tickets to write since the city sent these overzealous assholes out to write anything they see 24/7. On top of that you have thousands less police doing way more work, leaving less time to do shit like look for parking tickets. Then you have the low fucking morale issue which makes us not really give a fuck about writing parking tickets. I care about the city's fucking parking ticket revenue about as much as they cared about giving me a decent contract and raise. Go fuck yourself Daley.
Well, there's a silver Rolls Royce that parks ALL DAY in a loading zone in front of Flair Communications Agency.
Anyone dare write Mr Flaherty a parking ticket??!!
The Daley Administration is just trying to use the Police Department for funds to build up their Political War Chest, which they will use to try to get more of their fellow Democommiecrats back into office in the upcoming Elections.. They are lieing to you again, Vote them ALL Out, starting NOW.. It's ALL a Scam here in Crookago, you'll NEVER get the Truth from City Hall, NEVER, EVER..
Get rid of the bullshit units and put people back in a beat car!
And yet another indication that the actual percentage of personnel we're down is around 25%. Capt's, Sgt.'s and Lt.'s are down about the same number. So take a theoretical manpower of 8000 in patrol less 25% gives us 6000, or there abouts. Or, to view it more practically,. each period only 8 or 9% of manpower should be on Furlo. The PO's on Furlo plus the missing 25% have the effect of 4 Furlo segments being off at the same time! And this doesn't take into account the roughly 700 per day on the medical roll and other not present for duty PO's. Tickets indeed...
What do you expect for 2%. You just get a warm body answering the bell nothing more.
How about this:
There are meter maids from both the city and a private company writing tickets along with streets and san workers and who knows what else is out there. The citizens aren't (that) dumb. They take their business elsewhere. Avoid high taxes and tickets go to the suburbs, people.
Hold on a moment here. They can't dump this all in our laps.
The econonmy may have something to do with this; high gas prices, an increase in people without jobs. Where are they going to drive to? Maybe they're just staying home. That, combined with ever-increasing parking rates (Thanks, LAZ!) might just be keeping would-be violators out of trouble.
Perhaps due to the "wilding" incidents, fewer people are driving into the city from the suburbs and more city dwellers are staying home, hence less unlawful parking.
Fewer cops = fewer tickets.
Daley wanted to redesign CPD with his people. Well he has. He just didn't realize the collateral damage that would occur. This is one of the signs.
And besides, I thought tickets were to correct driving errors, not to generate revenue/serve as an additional tax. Am I wrong about this?
Would write more tickets if I was not busy taking care of GETTO SHIT
You guys don't understand economics very well.
If Daley hires more police, then you can expect lower raises in the future. With more police, there will be less OT opportunities, more petty discipline, and more lists with underperformers.
If you have the sense to keep yourself safe, you should enjoy these times with a grossly understaffed police department. You'll never have a better chance to make more money, so make the most of it.
Sorry, Mr. Mayor, WEISel and 3M, no love no tickets!
I welcome it. "Squad, hold me down on a Quota Mission. No, Squad, I can't take calls."
Hire police. Or-and I am not a cop, so maybe this is distasteful in a way I don't realize-hire ticket writers. It doesn't take a sworn officer of the law to write a parking ticket. Or a ticket for no city sticker. In fact, it seems like a real waste of PO time. I think this has started with the meter tickets being written by LAZ personnel. Expand it to all "vehicle compliance" tickets.
8/17/2010 09:19:00 AM
They already do. Come to the west side of 008th district and other tax paying areas. Civilians walking up and down the streets looking for any possible parking violation imaginable. I know, I was given tickets on both of my cars last week for "street cleaning" and before you say follow the law and move your cars and read the signs, there were no signs near my house posted to read. As I stated to the ticket writer as we stood there pointing out that there were no signs posted in front of my house (corner house) the jagoff replied "I know but thats not my problem I don't hang the signs I just write the tickets and laughed" There was one sign posted on my block at the other corner so most of my neighbors who didn't go by the other end also got tickets. So being a city worker yes I had to send them the $100.00 for both tickets. Watch out citizens who pay taxes because these civilian ticket writers are afraid of the ghetto and are targeting your neighborhoods. Thanks again Ritchie, glad we need quotas and more revenue. Don't worry citizens this cop will not be writing any of you a ticket (Haven't written any in over 12 years)
With every mover you write tell the motorist he or she is being ticketed due to revenue generating quotas required by the city.
And To be sure to contact your elected official to let them know how you feel about having money extorted from you by your elected officials.
8/17/2010 09:26:00 AM
Or how about not writing any tickets to begin with. Why help gererate revenue for quatos??
parking enforcement, traffic management authority, and dept of revenue have their own high school drop-out, former gang banger crews out there poaching on everyone's posts wriring tickets. we don't stand a chance.
Dump Daley an all his cronies
Stop the merit system and you'll get your tickets.
mr mayor , reduce number of police to 6,000 and hire civilians to write tickets , write reports , process crime scenes and perform office duties in the chicago police dept.
police officers should only respond to crimes in progress , violent crimes that occurred and on view criminal activity.
Start impounding everyone who drives w/out a license. Ask for $500.00 to get it back AND Must show proof that you have a driver's license and insurance.
This will get rid of a ton of hit and runs, driving w/out lic and driving w/out insurance tht reeks havoc on the law abiding citizen AND it will make money for the city.
If they don't claim the car in 40 days, get rid of all VIN identification on the car and sell it for scrap. Another money maker for the city.
City Hall - give a test already!
"The districts with the most tickets were among those with the least crime in the city. And the districts with the fewest tickets were among those with the most crime."
Want more proof that this city is going to shit? Here is a question… Where is the 16th district on this list? The district that has been called the "Last Bastion for the city worker" is NOT on the list! Should I be selling? Am I no longer living in the "good" neighborhood?
Whenever I see a vehicle that bears a Obama/Biden sticker parked illegally I immediately write a citation. I will also do the same for anyone foolish enough to brag they want Quinn for governor or Daley for mayor.
This is the only way I can ensure that a Democrat is aware of my dissatisfaction!
Another reason that I write those that they backed Obama/Biden is they are tax eaters not tax payers.
Don't write any movers or parkers. Fuck em. We are Police Officers, not revenue agents.
SCC and all the brave warriors who keep us safe: YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
Man, you know how to say it!! Screw the tickets!
God bless and keep all of you safe!
There are no more parkers on my beat because the revenue bike patrol writes every violation imaginable before the citizens wake up. Its hard to write movers when Im chasing the radio all day from domestic to B.S. disturbance.
I can barely, and i mean barely get a lunch in let alone have the time to go search for parking tickets. Give me a break.
Hey Mayor Daley ~ had you taken care of us with our contract, we would have gladly written the tickets for you but you f*%ked us over with a 10% raise for a five year contract (only 1% for 2010!) so screw you!
Why not leave the ticket writing to the professionals ie: the Dept. Of Revenue PEAS and focus on going after the bad guys.
This is so damn pathetic! Like writing more tickets will really help the budget shortfall!!
Three police officers have been lost this year, crime IS up, more officers are needed, and the ones that we have are busy serving and protecting-- and this is what City Hall comes up with???!!!
God Help us!!!
"The districts with the most tickets were among those with the least crime in the city. And the districts with the fewest tickets were among those with the most crime."
maybe ability to pay has something to do with it? fuck over the working taxpayers is the daley edict. fuck over daley is the duty of all honest citizens.
We should never write another ticket until Daley and Weis are gone!!!
Hey I believe we have met another turning point where a medical mystery is found/solved....
You can now prove beyond any study that Insanity is contagious.....
Now give me my Nobel Peace Prize and drinks for everyone......
Unfuckingbelievable
2%! That's also about the amount of effort I put into ticket writing on a daily basis. Havnt ckecked out a new parkers book in over a year. Used to write them when people pissed me off, don't even do that anymore. Maybe the Alderman's staff can use their 5% raise as motivation to get out on those streets and make the City some $$$! Also, while our tickets are down, I have to wonder how far up the Dept of Rev ticket writers are in their quota? Those fuckers have no souls! Can't wait till they're due for a raise and the City then fucks them over too!
If you have the sense to keep yourself safe, you should enjoy these times with a grossly understaffed police department. You'll never have a better chance to make more money, so make the most of it.
--$ is not as important as having back-up out there when shit hits the fan. Got to stay alive to enjoy the $
2% of the time i will write a ticket.
If you don't think that your boss has any balls, you can always send them some. go to http://blog.sendaball.com/ and send them some in the mail.
This article gave me a good laugh when I read it. It kind of reminds me of Sherriff Wallace from the movie Porky's generating revenue for the county.
http://movieclips.com/watch/porkys-1982/the-happy-ending/
CHICAGO = OUT OF CONTROL
THANKS DALEY, NOW GO ROB SOME PEOPLE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
"They already do. Come to the west side of 008th district and other tax paying areas. Civilians walking up and down the streets looking for any possible parking violation imaginable. I know, I was given tickets on both of my cars last week for "street cleaning" and before you say follow the law and move your cars and read the signs, there were no signs near my house posted to read. As I stated to the ticket writer as we stood there pointing out that there were no signs posted in front of my house (corner house) the jagoff replied"
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sorry but i find it hard to believe that you didn't notice any of those bright colored signs up and down your block. i have a corner house with no trees and they put the sings up on my fence.
if you aren't observant enough to notice 50 signs on your block, maybe you aren't observant enough to be the police?
If we had gotten a four percent or five percent raise, it's almost guaranteed that a boatload of tickets would have been written in appreciation of the city council and shortshanks recognizing the police contribution to safety and well being in this city. Two percent raise? two percent effort in return. . . .
O.T. From a good source, end of Oct jfled out. Head of OEMC to be new supt.
Can't write tickets if you're in backlogs. We don't have the manpower to put up a parking ticket car.
Tickets writing should be increase by 2% (this number familar?)
I really feel for you guys on the street. Honest to God I do. Not only do you have to put up with all of the crap that you do for a paycheck, including morons trying to shoot you, you also have to deal with idiot bosses. Let them hire more cops if they want more tickets written, heaven knows that more officers are needed. Thanks again for being out there and trying to hold the wolves at bay. It is appreciated.
Just a citizen.
8/17/2010 08:58:00 AM
It is good citizens as yourself that we try to help...screw everyone else. Thank you
Please, it's not about a manpower shortage, it's the fact that coppers are writing less tickets. And without establishing a quota, an index, a threshold, there's nothing that's going to change under this administration. Less tickets? Yes. And less arrests, too. Ask the sheriff how that overcrowding thing is working itself out these days.
Again, it's not less cops, it's cops doing less.
@ 8/17/2010 11:13:00 AM
I love children like you...really I do.
Street cleaning sign's are either perm posted, or put up at least 1 day in advance. If the only sign was half a block from your car that tells me some jagoff punks pulled the rest of the signs down to Fuck the residents on that street.
To remind the short timer...1 sign for Street Cleaning is required for enforcement.
008 district cops are the worst anyways. Writing Street Cleaning tickets before 9am....Rush Hour tickets 1 per hour every hour. Time Restriction violations on HCP plate vehicles on meters.
And yet....ya'all call us mouth breathers.
Love,
A. Petersen
Dept. Of Revenue
for 8/17/2010 11:28:00 AM
Parking Enforcement IS Department of Revenue.
Or did you miss the memo?
To 8/17/2010 11:59:00 AM
Get out of your squad car and check RPP ya lazy bum.
"It's just stupid. Some bureaucrat sent that memo," Daley told reporters today at an event on the Northwest Side. "This is a stupid e-mail. Someone sent it. We are trying to find out who sent it. There will be discipline."
From the mouth of King Bureaucrat.
Someone will be thrown under the bus by the King.
Real sheep dogs write tickets. Thats why I became a cop to punish my own for the sake of a crooked government.
How about writing some tickets and giving the driver a copy of the Sun Times article along with the ticket.
Mr. Mayor you dont spend money you dont have. So quit spending money that we dont have. I cant go into the bank and say hey, Im gonna work another 10 years and make about 50,000 a year. So since I have direct deposit and its all going to end up in your bank, I'll take the 500,000 up front. Ok
Oh and my children are gonna earn another 2,000,000 in their life I'll sign them up w/ your bank so i'll take their money to
We can save money by getting rid of 25 aldermen...AMEN BROTHER I AGREE!!!
Anonymous said...
i can't believe that they actually posted this:
"The districts with the most tickets were among those with the least crime in the city. And the districts with the fewest tickets were among those with the most crime."
must be that they think that their few remaining readers can't read.
8/17/2010 09:07:00 AM
Maybe they want the readers to come to the conclusion that writing tickets reduces crime, instead of the truth!
ECS
Blago guilty on only ONE count.
Max penalty 5yrs in jail $250,000 fine.
Govt vows to retry.
All 23 other counts were hung.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hire police. Or-and I am not a cop, so maybe this is distasteful in a way I don't realize-hire ticket writers. It doesn't take a sworn officer of the law to write a parking ticket. Or a ticket for no city sticker. In fact, it seems like a real waste of PO time. I think this has started with the meter tickets being written by LAZ personnel. Expand it to all "vehicle compliance" tickets.
8/17/2010 09:19:00 AM
They already do. Come to the west side of 008th district and other tax paying areas. Civilians walking up and down the streets looking for any possible parking violation imaginable. I know, I was given tickets on both of my cars last week for "street cleaning" and before you say follow the law and move your cars and read the signs, there were no signs near my house posted to read. As I stated to the ticket writer as we stood there pointing out that there were no signs posted in front of my house (corner house) the jagoff replied "I know but thats not my problem I don't hang the signs I just write the tickets and laughed" There was one sign posted on my block at the other corner so most of my neighbors who didn't go by the other end also got tickets. So being a city worker yes I had to send them the $100.00 for both tickets. Watch out citizens who pay taxes because these civilian ticket writers are afraid of the ghetto and are targeting your neighborhoods. Thanks again Ritchie, glad we need quotas and more revenue. Don't worry citizens this cop will not be writing any of you a ticket (Haven't written any in over 12 years)
8/17/2010 11:13:00 AM
Not just revenue the alderman zalewski from the 23rd ward sends out his own "enforcers' from the 23rd ward sanitation office located at 5556 S.Central The guy drives a full size white Ford van with windows with streets and san on the side! If you see him say hi, watch for any violations just hope he obeys all the laws that alderman zalewski wants enforced! Makes you wonder why an alderman would let his own people attack the area that votes! Another reason to vote out all incumbents!
"The Eagle Does NOT Hunt Flies"
Like discrete drinkers (DOPW), pissers and possessors of small quantities of weed, writing PARKERS is for PUSSIES--NOT the REAL PO-leece.
Lock up bad guys or become a meter maid.
it's the pressure game played by city hall and passed on to the brass who pass it on to the troops. nearly everyday the WC's tell us "we need more parkers, movers etc. Lets pick it up guys. If you want time off bring up the numbers." everyone knows it.
I am gratified to learn that at least some of my and co-worker's efforts these last few years have been noticed by City Hall.
I stopped writinf the volume of tickets I had been writing about one year into our waiting for a contract. Arrests slowed down soon after.
The result: 25% fewer tickets!
25% FANTASTIC! It worked!
And ask Tom Dart about those closed divisions over at 26th and California.
We lowly patrolmen do have power to be noticed and perhaps one day ever taken seriously.
I pray that tickets and arrests never get back to previous levels, not until this department again becomes a worthwhile place to work.
Lots of vry babies on the department, always has been. People who do nothing and always complain and cry when they are asked to do a little work. That said, palrking tickets and moving violations tickets were never meant to be and should not be about the revenue. They should be about safety and moving the traffic flow. I am retired, but when I came on we had weekly ticket book inspection at roll call and caught hell if we did not write something each week. The watch commander had plenty of things he could do to influence your behavior. Now with the union and senority, there is nothing they can do to you. Consequently, there are far too many cops who do nothing or as little as possible. It is a shame. It is a good job with good security. Too bad city hall and the political class and thre reverends have ruined it for many years to come. I do not blame anyone for laying down now. The government does not respect you or value you or protect you.Glad I am out of it.
I have an idea!!! Maybe you can ticket gunshot victims with vandalism for spilling blood on city property and then ticket shooters for littering their shell casings. Also when a suspect flees and hits parked cars and abandons the vehicle. You should ticket the cars he struck, for parking up in the grass, blocking a hydrant and or on sidewalks! The city will be out of debt in no timeand shortshanks might let you get 2 or 3 new rookies by 2011!!!!
I like how the sun-times also pointed out the 5 districts with the least tickets issued:
1. Wentworth
2. Austin
3. Gresham
4. Calumet
5. Englewood
It's not like any of you are really all that busy over in those areas, right?
I read these posts and comments everyday and can see why your morale is low. But God Bless You All! From the heart of an everyday citizen. In such a thankless job, I Thank You!
There are several reasons that parking ticket writing is down;
1) Less Police.
2) Crime up. Police guarding crime scenes.
3) Citizens more careful where they park. Can't afford parking tickets.
4) Nobody at parking meters. So their time can't expire. Where as they get a ticket.
5) More people on pedal cycles as the Mayor requested.
That is just the top five reasons why ticket writing is down.
IM FEELING SAD NOW THAT I RIGHT BURNED OUT VEHICLE NOW IN THE ALLEYS OF THE GHETTO!
MY WATCH COMMANDER ALWAYS PAT ME ON MY REAR AND TELLS ME THANK FOR RIGHTING ALL THOSE TICKETS.
I DRIVE THROUGH 008 AND 012 OFTEN AND U BOYS R ALWAYS WRITING PARKERS.
HOW SOON WE FORGOT ABOUT THAT LOVELY CONTRACT.
WE FORGOT ABOUT A CERTAIN OFFICER FEDERALLY INDICTED(COZZI) AFTER HE PAID HIS DUES!
WE FORGOT ABOUT THE MERIT PICKS THAT JUST CAME OUT AND HOW J-FLED NEWBIE CHAUFFEUR WILL NOW TELL U TO RIGHT TICKETS!
WE FORGOT ABOUT THOSE WEDDING, B-DAY PARTIES, BBQ'S, AND VACATION THAT WERE DENIED BECAUSE YOUR WATCH COMMANDER COULDNT GIVE U TIME DUE.
WE FORGOT ABOUT THE CITY RAISING ARE CITY STICKERS, PHONE TAX, COUNTY TAX, REAL ESTATE TAX, AND ANY OTHER THING U CANT THINK OF TAX (WATER!).
SO IF THE BOSS WANTS A TICKET GO FIND URSELF AN ABANDONED AUTO AND WRITE IT.
BECAUSE NOBODY IS GOING TO PAY ON IT AND THE CITY KEEPS THOSE STATS TOO.
Anonymous said...
How about this:
There are meter maids from both the city and a private company writing tickets along with streets and san workers and who knows what else is out there. The citizens aren't (that) dumb. They take their business elsewhere. Avoid high taxes and tickets go to the suburbs, people.
8/17/2010 10:54:00 AM
In our district, they were teaching the Crossing Guards how to write parking tickets. ANOVS next?
I'll tell ya what Dick, I'll keep wasting gas, milking my calls, and sucking up OT and bleed this shithole dry. What I won't do is write tickets. EVER!
Starting tonight all TRU, MSF and area gang teams must write on book of parkers per day or be dumped back to district. Districts can use non producers they were told. They will also be given areas moat likely to find illegally parked cars by the newest exempt Goldsmith.
Daley critical of ticket-writing e-mail
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/08/
daley-critical-of-ticket-writing-e-mail.html
lunch cancelled in a certain northside district by W/C , because they were short and had a backlog..................................................................................................
this in a northside/lakefront district!!! HOW THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TIME TO WRITE A PARKER, WHEN WE CAN'T EVEN TAKE A LEGIT LUNCH???
How about the increase in Ticket revenue generated by the Dept. of revenue???
Those unmerciless bastards will nail anyone! Just try to get a rush hour parker, these people hammer the citizens at 1 second over!
Get rid of Police Ticket writing!
These @#$%&*% pirates at City Hall are mad because we regular citizens are being more and more careful to comply with the law so we don't get tickets because we can't afford them. They were especially disdainful of the subscription e-mail services that warn you when street cleaning is coming, so you know about it in spite of the way they hide the signs. I subscribe to both--much cheaper than even one Gotcha ticket! So we know what it's really all about--they'd rather we violate the law, not obey it--and we're not cooperating.
Next, I expect that in order to meet revenue goals, there will be flat-out armed robbery on the streets by Dept of Revenue minions in day-glo vests. Tell us, please, what identifying marks to look for so we can give a helpful description to the responding officer when we call 911.
I like how the sun-times also pointed out the 5 districts with the least tickets issued:
1. Wentworth
2. Austin
3. Gresham
4. Calumet
5. Englewood
In case you havent been to the Deuece lately, it aint what it was, not even close.
I like how the sun-times also pointed out the 5 districts with the least tickets issued:
1. Wentworth
2. Austin
3. Gresham
4. Calumet
5. Englewood
With all due respect (and I don't begrudge any coppers who refuse to contribute to Shortshanks's pockets), the first two districts listed aren't that busy. Wentworth (002) is probably the least busiest of the 5 districts listed. And you can always find the 002nd District officers...eating and doing little in 021! I'm surprised that 004 and 003 aren't on the list, with all the shit they are hit with every damn night. Maybe THOSE OFFICERS should slow down too.
“Stupidity. It was stupid. Just stupid. Some bureaucrat sent that out,” Daley said at an unrelated news conference. “The revenue department has nothing to do with the police department, period. They [officers] will determine whether you violated a law. No one else can. Especially revenue can’t.”
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Especially Revenue cant, huh? Then why are they allowed to write tickets at all?
This is quoted from the online Suntimes website 17 Aug 10 at 2000 hrs
'There are far too many cops who do nothing or as little as possible. It is a shame. It is a good job with good security. Too bad city hall and the political class and thre reverends have ruined it for many years to come. I do not blame anyone for laying down now. The government does not respect you or value you or protect you.Glad I am out of it.'
Truer words were never spoken. This WAS A good job, years ago. It was a CAREER. Now, it is just something to be endured, 10 hrs a day, 4 times a week. The Mayor and clout have ruined this job for many years to come....Glad to be gone!
'O.T. From a good source, end of Oct jfled out. Head of OEMC to be new supt.'
I'm calling bullshit right now on this crap. Even though 42 Extra Short will never admit it, his hiring of the imbecile of the mammoth forehead has been a HUGE MISTAKE. All sorts of revenues down. Car seizures down. The only thing that's risen is the # of officers on medical/IOD and police-related shootings. Daley would be even MORE of a doofus to hire another outsider to run the Dept. I have no idea who he will go with (a year ago if someone had mentioned EB I probably would have choked on my coffee!), but I'd say Brown probably has a better chance than most these days. Not that he will be able to make any long strides in that job either....
'Would write more tickets if I was not busy taking care of GETTO SHIT'
Well, please take care of your SPELLING and PUNCTUATION first,
Mr. "60 hrs. of college or more!'
I expect people in depleted areas to write like this...what's YOUR excuse?
And yet....ya'all call us mouth breathers.
Love,
A. Petersen
Dept. Of Revenue
8/17/2010 03:52:00 PM........................yeah you blow too
2%!!! Thats what you gave us and remember, you get what you paid for. If they woild have given us what we wanted, I would have written a book a night!!
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/08/daley-critical-of-ticket-writing-e-mail.html
"We're trying to find out who sent it"????
Is he serious? To, From, Subject. What the fuck.
---not a cop
Shy doesn't the police dept send a memo back to the city saying we are always in a back log?
daley UPSET ABOUT TICKET MEMO,WAIT UNTIL THE MEDIA PICKS UP ON THE ACTIVITY THINGY BY e.brown WHICH IS AGAINST THE CONTRACT AND ALSO A QUOTA THINGY mr daley! NOT TO MENTION THE 4 YEAR WONDER WITH NO EXPERIENCE GETTING A COMMANDER SPOT!REMEMBER THE 19 YR OLD GETTIN THE INSPECTOR GIG!!NOTHIN CHANGES!!
You guys don't understand economics very well.
If Daley hires more police, then you can expect lower raises in the future. With more police, there will be less OT opportunities, more petty discipline, and more lists with underperformers.
If you have the sense to keep yourself safe, you should enjoy these times with a grossly understaffed police department. You'll never have a better chance to make more money, so make the most of it.
8/17/2010 11:03:00 AM
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Economics don't mean a damn thing when your closest back up is 10 blocks away insted of around the corner. There are areas that need to be oversaturated in order to keep the animals at bay.
The only thing bankrupt in this city is the morals of it's administration including all it's agencies. Justice needs to happen. That's all we can pray for.
Breaking News, RMD has suspended the head of the Revenue Dept for the memo and the shark politicians are circling in the waters to add their two bits.
Cmon now haven't they heard? Crime is down from this time compared to some other time that means there are less parking violators. Can't they read the stats?
I saw a Revenuer on my block (Harlem/Foster) going up people's driveways to look at plates and stickers.
I confronted him and told him to do his job legally or don't do it at all.
Of course, you don't see this in 011, 007, 003, etc. Only is areas where people pay their bills.
To 8/17/2010 09:29:00 AM
From the episode "Experience"--
Det. Sgt. Nick Yemana: "Very well put."
08/17/2010 09:10pm
"Det. Sgt. Nick Yemana: "Very well put."
My apologies to Jack Soo- At least I had the right program...
Thanks-
Breaking News, RMD has suspended the head of the Revenue Dept for the memo and the shark politicians are circling in the waters to add their two bits.
8/17/2010 09:03:00 PM
His outrage is proof that's he's running for Mayor again. Buckle up boys and girls,
“Stupidity. It was stupid. Just stupid. Some bureaucrat sent that out,” Daley said at an unrelated news conference. “The revenue department has nothing to do with the police department, period. They [officers] will determine whether you violated a law. No one else can. Especially revenue can’t.”
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Especially Revenue cant, huh? Then why are they allowed to write tickets at all?
This is quoted from the online Suntimes website 17 Aug 10 at 2000 hrs
First dufus mayor, you authorized police powers to Revenue agents. They even wear badges, not cpds, but they can make arrests and give anovs and write citations for law breakers.
Ask tact teams how often they go out with Revenue every week acting as their bodyguards when they conduct license investigations?
Second wasnt there some other issue a while back where his press secretary Heard said that every piece of paper in this city goes across the mayor's desk? Oh he missed this one and somebody signed his name?
OpenID hipiap1 said...
@ 8/17/2010 11:13:00 AM
I love children like you...really I do.
Street cleaning sign's are either perm posted, or put up at least 1 day in advance. If the only sign was half a block from your car that tells me some jagoff punks pulled the rest of the signs down to Fuck the residents on that street.
To remind the short timer...1 sign for Street Cleaning is required for enforcement.
008 district cops are the worst anyways. Writing Street Cleaning tickets before 9am....Rush Hour tickets 1 per hour every hour. Time Restriction violations on HCP plate vehicles on meters.
And yet....ya'all call us mouth breathers.
Love,
A. Petersen
Dept. Of Revenue
8/17/2010 03:52:00 PM
Thanks dickhead! Yes I am the original poster who got the 2 tickets. One day notice is really helpful if you are out of town. Also some people don't travel to the other end of their block everyday. If the signs were there and if was not out of town the previous day I would gladly pay the 2 fucking tickets being my fault. Also if the dickhead who was writing the tickets didn't laugh in my face and acted professional maybe I'd be ok with it. Lastly, maybe he could have given me a break on the second car that I was getting into to move since he was still writing the first car. Mind you at 9:02 A.M. with the sweeper not even on the block yet. But Mr./Mrs. Peterson if that is your real name, since I originally stated I haven't written a ticket in 12 years I hope I do run into you so I can find any bullshit, petty ass violation I can find to write you. Now go suck Daley's dick!!!
sorry but i find it hard to believe that you didn't notice any of those bright colored signs up and down your block. i have a corner house with no trees and they put the sings up on my fence.
if you aren't observant enough to notice 50 signs on your block, maybe you aren't observant enough to be the police?
8/17/2010 02:40:00 PM
Sorry I was observant. There weren't 50 bright signs, there was one. I don't have fences on my block but the 2 big trees and the no parking sign pole in front of my house should have had one. I pointed out to the jagoff writing the tickets that there were no signs to be seen and he if you want his name (Gianfrancisco)also looked and agreed that there were no signs to be seen except the one (1)at the other end of the block but he still laughed and wrote them. I guess you are the guy who never goes out of town, and always walk to the other end of the block daily just to check to see if there are street cleaning signs up (Just to be observant and prepared). I will just assume you work for Dept. of Revenue (you know the ones that always want a break for traffic violations when you get pulled over). Maybe try your bullshit in the ghetto, or are you too afraid Willie, Tyrone, or Juan will beat the fuck out of you?
O.T. From a good source, end of Oct jfled getting contract extension. Head of OEMC out; jfled taking over there too.
11:03 am you must be a house mouse to write what you did---The working street police need help out here!! We need more police!! With so many calls and so few police available back up is always scarce!! More of us will get hurt because there are so few of us!! WE NEED MORE POLICE!!!
2%
FUCK YOU !!!
I rember when my jagoff fto told me to check to see if that guy paid his meter. I told hid "I'm a cop not a fuckin meter maid".
I rember when my jagoff fto told me to check to see if that guy paid his meter. I told hid "I'm a cop not a fuckin meter maid".
"I like how the sun-times also pointed out the 5 districts with the least tickets issued:
1. Wentworth
2. Austin
3. Gresham
4. Calumet
5. Englewood
In case you havent been to the Deuece lately, it aint what it was, not even close."
002 is regularly in a backlog. Anywhere from 3-5 cars per watch down a night for the last month. While the jets may be gone, there is still plenty of dope around. Last I saw there were 13 or 14 homicides this year, up from 2 last year. That number is definitely in the top 10 in the city, if not in the top 7.
No, Da Deuce ain't what it used to be, but it isn't a fuckin shang-ra-la either.
I've been in the ghetto my whole career and I've never seen one of these useless, usually fat tubs of shit in the ghetto. EVER! The west end of 008 always has a fat tub of shit M/4, while the area just west of Cicero has a F/1. Earlier in the year my grandmother passed away around 5am. Some family members came before she was taken to the funeral home. They didn't put a daily sticker on cause it just wasn't what was important at that time. Here comes the fatass F/1. I appraoched her and explained the situation and she could have cared less and wrote some family members cars. I asked her if she goes into her own "peoples" community/ghetto and write them. She relied, I'm always in the ghetto. She wasn't amused when I told her that living in the ghetto doesn't count. Fuckin piece of shit.
"Less tickets? Yes. And less arrests, too."
Perhaps in addition to a ticket quota (index or whatever politically correct term you use), there should be an ARREST quota, too.
There's no difference, is there?
Well which one is it???
O.T. From a good source, end of Oct jfled out. Head of OEMC to be new supt.
8/17/2010 02:45:00 PM
O.T. From a good source, end of Oct jfled getting contract extension. Head of OEMC out; jfled taking over there too.
8/17/2010 11:24:00 PM
Relax man, if your out of town you will get a play on the tickets. You have to have some sort of proof you were away, must I explain that?
Are meter maids still around? If not, have Daley, et. al hire some civilians to write parking tickets.
Tickets down 25% - three years without a contract and then 2%, no we won't blame the FOP, we blame richardmdaley, the evil one.
Think 25% is something? Good, let's try for 35% this year! I know of plenty of happy people on my beat who ran out to their cars when they see me coming only to watch me drive by NOT writing tickets.
That will continue; hell, if I could take tickets back I would, I won't be writing tickets for that scum fucking anti-christ mayor of ours any time soon.
And shove your activity counseling up your ass weis and daley!
Fuck me, fuck you!
Hmmmmm...
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE REVENUE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT USED TO GENERATE!
That's the elephant in the closet on this "quota" issue that keeps popping up....
CPD used to be a fully self supporting and self sustaining entity that (if memory serves us right) used to render a SIZEABLE SURPLUS to the city coffers.
We remember early in our Police sojourn, the daily admonition/affirmation to "pay your salary" meaning to issue a day's pay in movers and/or parkers. If you did this even the misersable, rotten, drunken ass, afflicted with the whiskey-shits Captain wouldn't have too much cause to fuck with you.
(Of course you responded to calls and there was enough help in the form of Coppers on the streets, for you to actively Police muthafuckahs who needed Policing. You could ACTUALLY clear corners and slap the fuck out of and lock up dogs who challenged The Police.)
Alas though... Early in his tenure, Crime King Shorty and his masterminds at Daley Inc. got greedy and said, "WOW! LOOKIT ALL DA FREE MONEY DESE COPPERS IS MAKING US!" A book keeping presto-change-o was performed and whatever revenue the Police Department generated went straight into the municipal general fund. Then, Daley Inc. would portion out what they wanted the Police Department to have.
This is partially why the Department is being starved to death of manpower, training and equipment.
Shorty is pissed because Coppers are on "revenue furlough" and he's beating the shit out of j-fled about it.
How can you honestly have the nerve to be pissed that the people (with access to firearms to boot) you expect to adopt a subservient posture and submit to being repeatedly shit on (having their pockets picked through bad faith contractual bargaining, etc) refuse to feed you and your criminal enterprise?
As a great and grand old man once said, "I reckon common sense ain't so damn common anymore."
heres a little of topic but typical shortshanks mono-rail from downtown-ohar geeeez is this the f@#####ckin simpsons lokk at blago mayor shortshanks and j-fled, now mono-rail
COMMON SENSE::::
1) Less policemen, less tickets issued.
2) City's Dept. of Revenue driving around, looking for cars with 2 outstanding tickets to put the Denver boot (only with 2 outstanding tickets).
3) Less people driving due to : unemployment, gas prices, zip cars in many lots (especially by lakefront districts).
4) Citizens are more aware of parking signs...as they have "no money" to waste on tickets.
P.S. As far as the top 5 Districts, with the most tickets issued, they are all in the lakefront, where parking after 5:00 p.m. is harder than finding J-FLED at a shooting (no pun intended).
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT, IT'S NOT ONE THONG OR THE OTHER. IT IS A COMBINATION OF EVENTS THAT HAVE LET TO THE DECLINE OF TICKETS ISSUED. BESIDES, TICKETS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A DETERRANT, NOT FUTURE REVENUE!!!!!
DIDN'T DA MAYOR JUST GIVE AWAY OUR TICKET REVENUES FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR?
WHY NOT PUT A BUSINESS TAX ON EVERY LAW FIRM DOING BUSINESS IN THE CITY
I have a new quota....Piss of shortshanks at least 5 times a day!
8/18/2010 04:09:00 PM
Interesting logic. May I pick up your thread?
1. We've had No Parking sign in Greektown sidestreet out of commission due to car crash for at least 5 months. City never replaced. Another reason revenue down. We're all parking in that beautiful spot day/night FOR FREE and LOVING IT! OPaa! Tickets down?
2. Fewer conventions in city- tickets down?
3. Tourists from all over nation afraid of our lovely murder-ridden metropolis- we are national embarassment headline news on regular basis since FEEB took over. Yikes! Could tourism be down for this reason in addition to economy? Are related tourist tickets down?
4. Mayor Daley let Hollywood film crew take over major streets all over downtown for most of summer. Fun, sort of, while it lasted, but nobody could park anywhere in loop- a lot- for months. Holy No Parking Tickets, Batman. Tickets down?
5. GREEN Revolution? More goofy greenies sweating to death walking/biking rather than driving, even in 95+ heat factor, in order to lower CARBON IMPRINT. Eh? Tickets down?
6. Stupid privatized parking meters that did not work/jammed for how many months? Very angry parking people sort of bashed up the parking meters instead of paying. Less revenue "cover up"? Uh Oh.
7. Crime rate actually might be UP, not down. So..those CPD we do have are, um, pre-occupied with body counts, picking up shell casings, not sleeping, and the like. No time to write parking tickets. Thanks to Daley/Weis.
' I asked her if she goes into her own "peoples" community/ghetto and write them. She relied, I'm always in the ghetto.'
Uh, bright boy, I think your civilian meter maid was calling YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD a "ghetto.'
Just thought I'd explain the true meaning of her message to you.
No need to thank me.
' I asked her if she goes into her own "peoples" community/ghetto and write them. She relied, I'm always in the ghetto.'
Uh, bright boy, I think your civilian meter maid was calling YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD a "ghetto.'
Just thought I'd explain the true meaning of her message to you.
No need to thank me.
As near as I can tell.....it was a Cop that made that comment.
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