The Best He Can Do
Hiring 200 more police officers next year may not be enough to keep pace with attrition, but it’s the best City Hall can do and still keep its hands out of taxpayers’ pockets, Mayor Daley said Tuesday.
“I need a thousand. Make it 10,000. I mean — everything is not enough. The Park District, the schools — even your family. . . . You don’t have enough. But do taxpayers have enough money to pay more taxes? Do they? That’s the question,” Daley said.
“Do they have more money to pay taxes — local, state and federal taxes? Do they have more money to pay fees? I doubt it. I think America’s families and individuals are suffering from the economy. . . . You have to do more with less. And you have to have fiscal restraint, which is hard to do.”
And it isn't even going to make a dent:
Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the two new classes will not be enough to keep pace with the “natural rate of attrition” that prompted 358 officers to retire during the first six months of this year. At least 116 more officers have signed up to retire next year, taking advantage of Daley’s offer to retire at 55 with premium health benefits.
- "You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening."
Labels: city politics, department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
31 Comments:
"...everything is not enough..."
the daley, madigan, burke, et al crime family motto, in a nutshell.
a fucking huge, monstrosity of a nutshell.
If the City promises to dedicate all monies raised then I will promise to start writing movers and parking citations as I did 20 years ago, when I first came on.
No funds to Reverands though!
Here's what doesn't make sense:
I've been paying the "same" taxes for a few years now. Of course by "same" I mean "increasingly more disguised by increases in fees". A few years ago, there were more cops on the street, and no calls for a RIF (corporate-speak for Reduction In Force - sorry, I'm a civilian). And now all of a sudden there is no money for less cops. I'm not paying any less, and neither is anyone else that works for a living, therefore someone's lying.
How is this even close to logical? Where is all the money going? Why does the media not ask these questions? Why aren't voters asking these questions?
How many retire every year? And if the police dept. is already budgetted for 13,500 where is the extra money going if they are short over 2,000?
Looks like they have sacramento all lined up and ready for flower planters too now from north avenue to division. Where's the money for that?
cops or juice babies
If the City promises to dedicate all monies raised then I will promise to start writing movers and parking citations as I did 20 years ago, when I first came on.
No funds to Reverands though!
10/13/2010 04:38:00 AM
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And when was it that we started believing what the City 'promises'???
the media has been in a deep sleep for 20+ years and the sheeple dont care as long as the handouts keep comin! chicago= another failed democrat socialist experiment. oh yeah, it s all bush s fault. pass the koolaid folks.
The best he can do is drop dead at the podium as he anounces his 2011 budget proposal.
This is a must see.
http://chapters.thezeitgeistmovement.com/il/
OT ~ One study shows Chicago's pensions failing in 2019! Even Detroit is more solvent!
http://www.businessinsider.com/city-pensions-run-out-of-money-2010-10
With the amount of spots that the Department is short...that's at LEAST 112 Million dollars that the city isn't spending that is budgeted.
Civil.Servant.ORD
PS: The IG's office (at the very least) should probably start a Forensic Audit. Just Saying.
Whats the charge for misappropriation of resources?
Anonymous said...
How many retire every year? And if the police dept. is already budgetted for 13,500 where is the extra money going if they are short over 2,000?
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DALEY'S POCKETS
Chicago and the county need to stop supporting the pond scum that live here and abuses the system their entire lives. My taxes keep going to feed, house, babysit, and fill the pond scum pockets with our money. Enough is enough.
Make drug testing mandatory.
Commit crimes while collecting SSI, public aid, food stamps, public assistance, assisted living then you get penalized, do it a second time then your free ride and lifetime assistance is cut off and you can go mooch off of another city or county.
Then our taxes can start going where they need to go, lots more police and a better city services department.
"Looks like they have Sacramento all lined up and ready for flower planters too now from North Avenue to Division. Where's the money for that?"
--10/13/2010 08:36:00 AM
Beats me -- but it just keeps coming. Same way they redid N. Milwaukee from Lawrence south, and Belmont/Central area (again) -- "THESE BUSINESSES ARE OPEN DURING STREET RECONSTRUCTION" city signs in front of "FOR LEASE" empty storefronts...
Landscaped street dividers along North Avenue from Harlem east to Oak Park, so the failing businesses in Oak Park won't be offended by the sight of the failing businesses in Chicago...
Only thing that really seems to be rolling aside from tax-funded useless projects is bank construction. 025, Hoyne Bank tore down their bank and built a bank next to where the bank was on Grand.
Grand/Harlem, NE corner slated for a drive-thru bank. Those are good; all that asphalt and landscaping takes up the embarrassing space that was once occupied by a dozen or more businesses.
Intersection of Diversey/Narragansett is perfect -- bank, bank, bank, and a McDonalds.
"...Everything is not enough..."
the Daley, Madigan, Burke, et al crime family motto, in a nutshell.
--10/13/2010 12:38:00 AM
Tony Montana: Me, I want what's coming to me.
Manny: Oh, well...what's coming to you?
Tony Montana: The world, Chico, and everything in it.
--Al Pacino, Scarface, 1983
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Illinois Policy Institute Releases Special Report: Judicial Pay and Perks in the Prairie State
llinois ranks 29th in cost of living, yet has one of the highest paid judiciaries in the country
Among the report's findings:
An Illinois circuit judge makes $39,855 more than a circuit judge in Iowa, $43,908 more than a circuit judge in Indiana and $49,701 more than a judge in Missouri.
Judges serving on the state's circuit courts are the second highest paid in the country.
Judges on the state Appellate Court also have the second-highest salaries in the nation, behind only California.
In addition to their salaries, Illinois Supreme Court justices receive free room and board when the court is in session. The third floor of the Supreme Court Building in Springfield contains apartments for the justices -- maintained at taxpayer expense. The rooms come with 24-hour security, maid service and a cook who prepares the justices' meals.
An Illinois judge receives 85-percent of their last year's salary after retiring -- one of the most lucrative judicial pensions in the country, and the highest pension for any state employee in Illinois.
more >>
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/illinois-policy-institute-releases-special-report-judicial-pay-and-perks-in-the-prairie-state-104860899.html
SCC Your columns crack me up. I am a Chicago will need. If a guy/gal can manage a field division of the FBI, USSS, DEA, or ICE he/she has the skills to lead the CPD! As far as wearing the uniform, who cares! If I earned $310,000 per year and had a choice between a nice Hugo Boss Suit and the Superintendants Uniform, I would pick the Hugo Boss Suit with some Ferragamo Lace ups and a snappy fedora.... My point SCC is relax and stop ranting. I am willing to bet you guys are going to end up talking about how great Weis is compared to his successor. Stay safe out ther. By the way your blog is great. I wish ther was an equivalent fed blog. Stay safe out there.
Much Love to my boys on the 9th District Tact Team
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Look here you Asshat, you left for more money and probably better benefits. You left! We are still here! We know what we see and what we have to endure on a daily basis. Stop !believing all of those new TV shows that shows federal agents actually breaking leather (I'm sure you forgot what that meant so I will explain. It means taking your gun out of your holster for an important reason, like arresting someone! Not to show your girlfriend in the hopes of getting her wet) Most feds are in more of a political position than you would like to admit to. Remember the guy JFLED tried to fire for blowing the whistle on his B.S. Yeah I didn't thin so.. Many Fed Agencies are not even investigative in nature so GO F%CK YOURSELF. As far as You being a member of CPD, you are a former member NOT a retired with honor member…. You feds like that phrase FORMER Agent….well stay that way.
As for the suit, we want a leader in a suit or a uniform, it would be nice that one who leads actually did…….Those who can, Do. Those who can no longer do, Teach those who possibly can……And those who wish, dream, want, pretend, pose and fantasize, are Feds.
If you were a good copper, which I don't know if you were or not, then enjoy the memories you may have had at being the REAL POLICE when you were here and just accept that you’re a fed hack now!
As far as not "Diss"ing the head of organization, maybe your blind, deaf, and certainly dumb if you can't distinguish between right and wrong and can't tell if someone is lying to your face when he tells you it's raining and he is really pissing all over you. T say that anyone with a memory of JFLED would praise him over his successor is is as asinine as you are, to compare would be correct: Jody sucked and this guy doesn't/ Jody lied and this guy doesn't, Jody wears a uniform he didn't earn and this person doesn't. Then you right we will compare them
And finally to think that comparisons and noting the obvious makes us look very small then you should compare that "bic" on your desk with the very, very small dick in your pants. Your pen may have sent Scarface to the joint, but you couldn't fuck a flea.
So stop associating yourself with those of 9 Tact because that’s your only connection you have left with this Proud Department, I'm sure if you came a knocking on their doors they would be worried how your trying to stab them in the back to better your own career.
P.S. Get spell check you lazy POS.
Do you like apples?
How about thos Apples!
Dyla Hata
Talk now on TV of making non-profit organizations pay for their water service.
Making them pay for their own garbage pickup might be a good idea, too. The last time I was behind the Islamic Community Center by Belmont/Narragansett, I counted something like 15 city garbage totes in the alley. Start multiplying this...
"Everything Is Not Enough."
"The Daley, Madigan, Burke, et al crime family motto, in a nutshell."
--10/13/2010 12:38:00 AM
This is it.
This IS "the best he can do." Everything else will be anticlimax.
This is Daley's legacy, his gift to the ages, the climax of twenty years of graft -- yabber-blabbered out in front of the cameras without a moment's thought, in classic Daley style.
It should be carved above the doors of City Hall -- and on the stone marking this man's eventual grave, which should be located at the end of the runways in the old St. Johannes Cemetery where the jet planes now howl day and night, and where he will spend a sleepless eternity.
This is how we will remember him.
"Everything Is Not Enough" -- Richard M. Daley, 2010
I keep seeing Al Pacino, at the end of the movie "Scarface," laying dead in his ugly, ridiculous fountain -- which was crowned by the motto, "THE WORLD IS YOURS."
What a spectacular, cosmic pratfall. What an utter, abysmal, total failure as a human being.
What a disgusting little man.
Chicago and the county need to stop supporting the pond scum that live here and abuses the system
Alderman Banks and company the mob took a lot more then you will ever know. He has always had his folks in the department, Banks has numerous Lt Five Captions, even a view dicks lawyers at city hall and on and on. He has made Billions from real estate deals in the last 25 years, and still doing so.
He's retired all right HA HA HA the crime family is alive and doing well in Chicago. Look at your own unless your a coward.
Make drug testing mandatory.
Commit crimes while collecting SSI, public aid, food stamps, public assistance, assisted living then you get penalized, do it a second time then your free ride and lifetime assistance is cut off and you can go mooch off of another city or county.
Then our taxes can start going where they need to go, lots more police and a better city services department.
10/13/2010 01:03:00 PM
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You forgot two things:
-Strong castle doctrine law
-Concealed carry, shall issue to any FOID holder w/ a background check
Once the shitheads are cut off, they will do what they do best: DESTROY or STEAL from those who work and provide for themselves. Since the only thing these wastes of oxygen understand is force (generally deadly, or severely maiming), us lowly citizens need a means to defend ourselves and not have the ghetto lottery come a knockin.' Remember, when you go home to your families at night, your gun comes home with you. You can carry pretty much anywhere except while drinking. We can't. Even the "new" registration provision for handguns is bullshit and unconstitutional as usual.
I'd even go so far to say that we don't need to hire more police. With those citizens willing to stand up for what is theirs, you guys won't need to rush around and try to save anyone, which you aren't legally obligated to do anyway. Let the shit neighborhoods get worse, and keep the garbage pinned down. They don't pay taxes so they don't need police services. I'm sick of people getting something for nothing. Let them either figure it out, or suffer the consequences. Come get ours and they will be sorry.
Sound terrible? Well fuck it, this is america. You guys need a raise, a change in legal procedure to take the gloves off and keep those of us who still give a shit (and pay out the nose, for what, exactly) separated from the assclowns. The sooner we tell them "NO MORE" the sooner we can free ourselves from the money suck known as Social Services. Those that fail to take the initiative..well..Darwin said it best.
-edison park resident
Lets not forget with the shortage less people are putting into the pensions so they will suffer even more.
Anonymous said...
Looks like they have sacramento all lined up and ready for flower planters too now from north avenue to division. Where's the money for that
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they just did Linclon Ave. from Peterson south to about foster
Chicago. Where Politicians only take care of themselves, each other and their families/friends!
Oh yeah. And also some unions such as the morons that re-pave the SAME streets EVERY YEAR. Must be nice collecting $30/hr to hold a stop and go sign then earn overtime to work late at night and on weekends. But hey, I enjoyed the photo of you guys holding the 'vote for quinn' signs. Jackasses...
"NO MORE" the sooner we can free ourselves from the money suck known as Social Services. Those that fail to take the initiative..well..Darwin said it best.
-edison park resident
Yes YES OH NO NO WAY! My pension is a social program and I work for the Government. Edison park resident stay off the board you fool.
Anonymous said...
"Everything Is Not Enough" -- Richard M. Daley, 2010
I keep seeing Al Pacino, at the end of the movie "Scarface," laying dead in his ugly, ridiculous fountain -- which was crowned by the motto, "THE WORLD IS YOURS."
What a spectacular, cosmic pratfall. What an utter, abysmal, total failure as a human being.
What a disgusting little man.
10/13/2010 05:16:00 PM
Words alone cannot adequately express the loathing and revulsion I feel towards richardmdaley.
There does not exist in this country a proper punishment for what he has done to this city.
Anonymous said...
How many retire every year? And if the police dept. is already budgetted for 13,500 where is the extra money going if they are short over 2,000?
10/13/2010 08:06:00 AM
They're still building flower boxes. Not hiring police officers but those garbage flower boxes keep going up. May as well line them with mattresses and put some plastic tarps over them so homeless bums can at least live there.
-edison park resident
10/13/2010 09:36:00 PM
I didnt want to paste the whole thing but damn nice post. Very true. More folks need to think like this.
Oh yeah. And also some unions such as the morons
NO union that's socialism
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