Daley to Chicago
Mayor Daley is apparently determined to go out on a political high, even if it sets his successor up for a fall.
Daley’s final budget will use one-time revenues to erase a $654.7 million deficit and still hold the line on taxes, fines and fees—with the exception of an already-planned, 20 percent increase in parking meter rates.
But it gets worse:
- He also plans to count on $80 million in “more favorable revenues” and $32 million in savings generated by a full year of union concessions not yet negotiated. An agreement that calls for unpaid furlough days and comp time instead of cash overtime expires June 30.
The next guy up is screwed, along with all Chicagoans:
Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd), who’s campaigning for mayor on a promise to hire 1,000 more police officers, called it a “smoke-and-mirrors budget that’s deceptive to the people of Chicago.” He predicted that 2012 would be the “worst year facing the city since the great Chicago Fire.”
Another alderman, who asked to remain anonymous, said, “Daley’s leaving office. He doesn’t want to do anything controversial. The aldermen are running for re-election. They don’t want to do anything controversial. This is what you get: Drop back ten yards and punt.”
Labels: city politics, corruption, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
81 Comments:
The scumbag mafia Daley family robbed the city of Shitcago and now they are leaving the controls to other incoming garbage. Shitcago is broke! Life is going to get worse and worse in the city. The people are going to be squeezed until they are totatly dry, unless the citizens take to the streets. Daley and his boys should be hung from the lightpoles.
We took a lifetime, durable revenue stream and sold it for a one time infusion of cash- and at a bargain basement price, at that.
Three years later, that lump of cash is now gone, as is all that revenue for the duration of our lives and our childrens lives.
We. Are. Fucked.
I have no idea how they could've possibly done this- how one insignificant elected official in one tiny fragment in time can sell off revenue generating city infrastructure- but god help us.
Daley is the biggest pantload in the history of Chicago.
Whoever comes next, I am not afraid of the devil we don't know. We've already seen the worst devil there is.
I think fioretti meant 2011 would be the worse budget snafu since the chicago fire---- from a policeman's standpoint this means no new hires and you will be asked to do more with less--- you can already hear the grumbling at the station, a cut back on furlo extensions and time due--- coppers are not just going to sit back and get screwed, they will devise ways to circumvent the new rules...
We're in a HUGE recession - and if you lost YOUR job, it is a depression.
What city workers (and government workers in general) don't understand is that you have "feel the pain" as well.
You got a 2% raise and you are crying. Get laid off and see what kind of job you can get with the limited skills you have.
You would take your job back (and ALL the benefits) if they paid you 15%-20% less. And be thankful that it was only a 20% cut.
That is hard to swallow but it is the reality out there in the REAL world.
Many skilled people have lost jobs and after a year or two have found a job paying 40-50% less with less benefits.
Something to think about next time you whine that YOU have it so bad.
Disgusting!
I am so glad I have something going on the side. Fuck this city & department. You ass kissers are going to be jumping off buildings in the next few years.
Dick Daley before Daley dicks you...... May he enjoy hell. What a POS. *uck Rahm too. I hope Rahm spends tons of money and falls short! Rahm = Snake
We're not broke. We have assets galore to sell off. For example we start by auctioning off all the flower beds on Lake Shore drive for homeless people to live on. Then maybe some acreage of sidewalk for tollbooths(Hey, nobody said you had a right to walk around for free. Show me where it says dat in the constitution bud!) Oh, and I'm sure we can sell a few corners to the panhandlers guild, it's getting stronger and eventually we'll all belong anyway. So cheer up. We're actually going to get a new mayor and a new start. Can someone ask Neil Sullivan what the Evacuation Routes are again...I mean, it would be foolish not to have a backup plan.
Shortshanks will deny any misspending, set blame on city worker unions. All those connected construction companies are gonna be idle for a while. How about the "anonymous" alderman making the comment, what a puss, can't even stand up to the Shanks. What a disgrace to their constituency. After that Scumtimes expose on water bills it makes sense why Shanks wanted to sell the Water Dept, which he may still try, he recently opposed letting aldermen vote to limit his schemes, saying it would take too long for anything to pass council, as if a 5 hour sale of the
parking meter deal was a dragged out ordeal. This asswipe ought just drop dead.
Perhaps cops should write a few tickets each to help pay off the debt?
It's so sad to see how Daley pissed money away when times were good (iron fences, road median flower pots, Olympic bids, etc.) Now that times are bad, he's running away, trying desperately to save his legacy. Anyone half-wit politician can govern when money is plentiful.
I only wish that Mike Madigan in Springfield would follow Short-Shanks out the door. He has presided over Illinois for 30 years and now the state is bankrupt too. But, he can blame Ryan and Blago for those failures. How convenient.
Who is the guy on days at midway who is writing multiple parkers for the same thing? Just got back from vacation had 4 tickets expired plate 1 everyday same copper,OK yes my plate was expired Sept 2010 but all the tickets
I have a question? How does Obama justify using taxpayer money to fly into Chicago, using helicopters to get around, when he is campaigning for a democratic candidate. Didn't he say he would run a bipartisan government.
Time for him to campaign for Republicans.
I am angry that he is using our money to campaign for his buddies.
Ways to cut budget
cut # of alderman in half
cut exempts by 60 %
25 Captains assigned to replace district commanders , eliminate 50 captains from budget
civilianize all clerical duties in CPD , includes crystal ball unit ,
quit hiring back retired civilians in streets & san as private contract workers , privatize garbage collection , close some police stations and fire houses
OT-apps for inspectors-UNREAL! So apparently there is an abundance of Lt's with nothing to do that they woould bother to fill these spots instead of getting rid of this position. While the rest of us in districts and units are struggling to get by with barely any manpower and being denied TD. Keep beating us down!
Did several police vehicles get stolen yesterday?
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did anyone see j-fled and his driver last night in 003 both driving papv's in plain clothes? Since when can you operate a papv's in cd. Although he was wearing his oversized helmet. He looked like Kazoo
ONCE A THIEF, ALWAYS A THIEF...
We're in a HUGE recession - and if you lost YOUR job, it is a depression.
What city workers (and government workers in general) don't understand is that you have "feel the pain" as well.
You got a 2% raise and you are crying. Get laid off and see what kind of job you can get with the limited skills you have.
You would take your job back (and ALL the benefits) if they paid you 15%-20% less. And be thankful that it was only a 20% cut.
That is hard to swallow but it is the reality out there in the REAL world.
Many skilled people have lost jobs and after a year or two have found a job paying 40-50% less with less benefits.
Something to think about next time you whine that YOU have it so bad.
Spoken like a true bottom feeding private sector welfare "citizen"...
KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT, Comrades. Why did it take so long for everyone to realize the Democrat Party is the Communist party? I've known it since I was a kid. The Socialist mainstream new-media has been covering for them for decades. Now they are covering for the fact that we are in a Depression, not a Recession,
Economic Growth= 0.5% Virtually none.
A few things are up though, compliments of the Democommiecrats,
Unemployment [15% and more] in many parts of the U.S.
Taxes
Fees= [hidden taxes] like your Il. License Plate Stickers, up 25%
Abortions
Crime
Taxpayer Misery Index
Racial tension
How Can There Be So Much Criminal Activity. Self Serving Activity. Incompetent Activity, Continually Done By One Individual. He Will Have Public Structures Named In His Honor.
He Is As Least As Terrible, as any Ancient Emperor.
All This, and yet he will walk away, laughing at us all.
PS: Have A Nice Day ????
THE CAPS MICE ARE SCRAMBLING!!!!!
Forensic Audit
Perhaps cops should write a few tickets each to help pay off the debt?
10/09/2010 08:28:00 AM
Ticket only LINK card holders and recover some of our tax dollars.
Who is the guy on days at midway who is writing multiple parkers for the same thing? Just got back from vacation had 4 tickets expired plate 1 everyday same copper,OK yes my plate was expired Sept 2010 but all the tickets
10/09/2010 08:44:00 AM
who's da idiot dat parked at an airport, forgot to renew da plates, den, upon returning, is pissed dat der's tickets growing on dat same vehicle?
could dat idiot be you?
Who is the guy on days at midway who is writing multiple parkers for the same thing? Just got back from vacation had 4 tickets expired plate 1 everyday same copper,OK yes my plate was expired Sept 2010 but all the tickets
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Renew the plate asshole. Don't blame the copper-look in the mirror.
I'm sure that they will erect a statue or build a park for millions in his honor so that we may cherish his memory. The mayor who destroyed a city but got rich in the process.
STRAP IN BOYS AND GIRLS, ITS GONNA BE A ROUGH RIDE FOR AWHILE.
What about hearing some promises from Candidates for Mayor about ending Entitlements, cutting Taxes, lowering Taxes and Fees, and hiring more Cops to protect us, as well as going after Corrupt politicians and Judges, etc?
With all the bullshit Daley is pulling, i.e., selling everything off, it sounds a lot like a reverse mortgate. They don't work either!
Without the Daley Crime Family in charge poor nephew Vanecko will probably have to go on welfare with the rest of the democRAT parasites.
Huge city payrolls to give political allies jobs have all but bankrupt this city. The waste and corruption are unbelievable. the only way to curethis problem is to layoff the layers of $100,000 year jobs that have grown like weeds in the last ten years.
And He Leaves the Country!!! Watch folks he will be in Paris within the year
T I F!!!! billions that will be released and wasted.....its the only way......
OT:... What's up with that super shakey A/3 gang enforcement Lt??? seems scared of his own shadow... all he ever talks about it liability issues So.... in other words... he will ram it up your ass.... but then again it is A/3.. LMFAO
If they name anything after this prick it should be a sewage treatment plant!
Remember those liberal assholes in San Francisco who thought it was cute, when they tried to name one after President Bush!
Most major American cities are in the same financial boat as Chicago, due to 60-80 years of thieving democrat policies and control.
Thanks for nothing Daley!
Hey Midway violator - every day is a seperate violation. I have to have a current plate (on 2 cars), so do you.
The Dallas PD was just told that they'd have to take a 5% pay cut across the board. The city's trying to lessen it by making a deal for less of a paycut, but no paid overtime (time only) and other compromises.
I'd be willing to negotiate something similar here, except for the fact THAT THE JAGOFF DALEY AND HIS CITY COUNCIL HENCHMEN HAVE STOLEN EVERYTHING! So, no. No concessions. And fuck you to the civilians who keep telling us how bad it is out there. You're the same ones who call us dumb cops for taking this lowly civil service job. Well, fuck you, because now you need us and you can't blame yourselves for putting thieves in office.
To Mr. 5:04am. We didn't make boatloads of cash during the economic surge preceeding this recession, we made our 4% a year and gave insurance concessions. I don't recall anyone in the private sector saying maybe since we are doing so well the cops should get a bit more. I do notice alot of people that instead over speculated on property due to greed are now in deep shit and pointing to government employees as the source of all their woes. The only people they should point at besides themselves is the democratic congress that forced mortgage companies to loan $100,000 to mimimum wage earners to buy what is now a $15,000 englewood home. Am I thankful I have a job, yes. Am I grateful for the 2% or the possibility of wage cuts no, but I don't whine about it either. This job has experienced downsizing, not by layoffs, but by a hiring slowdown. This coupled with the recession means more work for less people. This means more fatalities and injuries for cops. Am I sympathetic to people who have lost their jobs yes. Am I sympathetic to those who are losing because of their greed, no. As far as your jagoff mentality that we should feel the pain too, we do physically and emotionally every time one of us is killed. A "pain" at your workplace is when your boss asks you to retype a memo. You want us to feel your economic pain then make sure we feel your economic joy when times are good. We are just as much skilled workers as any tradesman out there. Now take your remote control skilled self to the basement and enjoy your day of daytime television of Maury Povich and stay off this site.
This bastard. Cook the books one last time so that he can leave with a straight face, like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
...and it's not like he'll be gone. As long as he can form words and get to a phone, he'll be influence-peddling from a lounge chair in Michigan.
I've known others like him. I think they are classed as "mesomorphs." The roaring bulldozer, the fine sight of concrete being poured to the accompaniment of much shouting and arm-waving, is all they know.
The concrete is poured over me. Over you.
He is possessed of a mad animus. How he hates "the little people" -- the ones who wait for buses and save pennies in jars. He will lay plans and set traps to torment us long after he himself is gone.
I won't say anything this time about how all the dead people from St. Johannes Cemetery -- holy ground which he is destroying for his airport runways -- are going to follow him around for all eternity.
I promise.
It's so sad to see how Daley pissed money away when times were good (iron fences, road median flower pots, Olympic bids, etc.)
--10/09/2010 08:30:00 AM
Oh, those hundreds of miles of useless fencing. It's already rusting. The hundreds of miles of deep, useless grooves laboriously diamond-sawed down the middle of alleys by the Me And My Brother From Poland Diamond Sawing Company. The phony, outsized "cast iron" light poles, and the stupid "Everything Is Great" banners on them.
The city signs reading "BUSINESSES ARE OPEN DURING STREET RECONSTRUCTION" in front of all the empty stores...
I am convinced that Shortshanks is leaving cause there's not a whole lot left to steal. That coupled with the fact that his teflon coating seems to be wearing off and it's getting harder and harder to cover his tracks and avoid much deserved criticism.
He is handing the next mayor a steaming,heaping pile of shit. I hope and pray that someday the Feds come calling for him. He's very good at claiming ignorance but he's the type of micro manager that knew just about everything that went on under his watch.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT, Comrades. Why did it take so long for everyone to realize the Democrat Party is the Communist party? I've known it since I was a kid. The Socialist mainstream new-media has been covering for them for decades. Now they are covering for the fact that we are in a Depression, not a Recession,
Economic Growth= 0.5% Virtually none.
A few things are up though, compliments of the Democommiecrats,
Unemployment [15% and more] in many parts of the U.S.
Taxes
Fees= [hidden taxes] like your Il. License Plate Stickers, up 25%
Abortions
Crime
Taxpayer Misery Index
Racial tension
10/09/2010 11:08:00 AM
It is not our parents democratic party anymore. They have left the middle class and have veered too far left.
The republican party is no better. Whatever changes the left makes while they hold power, the right does nothing to roll back those changes whenever they hold a majority. So what we have is a constant ratcheting of this country to the left over the years.
Since the republicans seem to not have the spine to move the country back towards the center, the tea party movement, consisting of disillusioned citizens, has sprouted. The republican politicians better get with the program or be left out in the cold.
05:04:00 AM...
Get bent!
This city WAS A THRIVING ECONOMIC ENGINE...
The fools YOU VOTED FOR ran it into the fucking ground with their criminal mismanagement, multigenerational thievery and "all for us, none for you" attitude and YOU have the nerve to shit-talk US?
Shit-talk your elected officialdom. They're the parents of this ugly fucking baby
We've been sounding the alarm FOR YEARS ABOUT THIS SHIT but nobody in a position to give a fuck, gave a fuck!
Now all of a sudden EVERYBODY can see the nightmare become reality and you feeble minds who would have been more than happy voting for shortshanks again just because "he's sticking it in those greedy coppers asses" yet again are shit-talking in abundance.
Nevermind YOUR ass and the back of YOUR head are hurting from being fucked & donkey-punched repeatedly and simultaneously having your pockets turned inside-out by Daley Inc. while the tape plays a loop of "the budget shortfall and the recession are all the fault of greedy municipal employees, cut their pay and steal their pensions, they won't mind at all."
Same as always when times get tough... People gnash their teeth, talk shit and make titty-eyes at the Police.
Get over it already. Entrance exam coming in the next couple of years... Shortshanks says so. You can correct your earlier failure in life for not "standing in the right line."
If you're keen to talk shit, talk it to your fellow citizens as to how the hell you've managed to elect and repeatedly re-elect a thief and mental defective as mayor of Chicago. Oh no, you might have to call for the Police because they'll have you bent over with your shirt pulled over your head while merrily kicking pockets deep in your ass...
...We tried to warn you.
We do concede the point on a masterful propaganda coup by the Daley Inc. media control & spin apparatus.
The voters of Chicago have for the most part, shown themselves to be gullible and gluttons for punishment.
The "Catered To Constituency" are noisily revolving their dentures with the fullest confidence that they "Run It" and everybody with an active W-2 only works to support them.
...Just ask 'em. They'll tell ya.
If the captive and hunted non Police tax-payers had any good damn sense, they would be scared out of their minds at what's coming.
10/09/2010 05:04:00 AM;
Says the person who probably looked down on us before as a lower form of life. Keep voting that liberal democratic ticket and reap the whirlwind of what was sown. Between being a veteran and doing this job, I've sacrificed quite a bit during my ENTIRE adult life so that you wouldn't have to, and when I raise concerns about the welfare of my family and my colleagues you have the audacity to say that I'm whining? You sir can blow me. You gambled on the economy and lost, just like the rest of us.
Perhaps cops should write a few tickets each to help pay off the debt?
10/09/2010 08:28:00 AM
No problem, asshat. Where is your car? I'll slap a couple of tickets on it so you can do your part to help settle the Shortshanks debt issue.
Useless fuck.
Many skilled people have lost jobs and after a year or two have found a job paying 40-50% less with less benefits.
Something to think about next time you whine that YOU have it so bad.
10/09/2010 05:04:00 AM
First of all, asshole, the REAL world we deal with would cause you to shit yourself like the bitch you are. The men and women who keep your bitch ass safe deserve more.
With the cost of living in this city that we are forced to reside in increasing and our pay barely keeping up, the whole while being asked to do more with less (making the job even more dangerous) there is room to complain.
I haven't heard anyone complaining about anything that the private sector wouldn't be bitching about if the work conditions were the same. Lives have been lost and manpower is at dangerously low levels. If the manpower situation were costing lives in the private sector, you would hear about it.
Now go fuck yourself, you useless piece of shit. And be grateful for those who risk all to protect your sorry bitch ass from the beast.
"It's so sad to see how Daley pissed money away when times were good (iron fences, road median flower pots, Olympic bids, etc.)"
--10/09/2010 08:30:00 AM
Speed bumps.
How could I forget to mention the speed bumps? Those stupid little roundabouts in the middle of intersections, too -- in what used to be nice neighborhoods.
We're so busy heaving over the bumps every day that we forget who did this. This is one of Daley's worst legacies -- every God-damned bump should have his picture printed on it so we'll remember who's destroying our mufflers.
What kind of maniac turns the town into a "sanctuary city" full of people who can't read the "STOP" signs and who never heard of a turn signal, and then fills the streets with obstructions so they won't drive so fast?
MAYOR DALEY IS CLINICALLY INSANE.
"He is possessed of a mad animus. How he hates "the little people" -- the ones who wait for buses and save pennies in jars. He will lay plans and set traps to torment us long after he himself is gone."
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Did Shakespeare write this? Brilliant!
The only way to fix it was to destroy it.
This is a wonderful time.
Now Chicago must pay for allowing criminals to run it. The State is next. High crime, no mo handouts, no services, high taxes, no businesses, no jobs, no pensions.
Tommorrow is payday. I love payday.
What's going on with our radio zones? Both zone 3 and zone 6 are on citywides.
Perhaps cops should write a few tickets each to help pay off the debt?
10/09/2010 08:28:00 AM
Perhaps you should go fuck yourself. The mayor and his mafia buddies and all the alderman and bullshit friends of city hall, Stroger and his whole extended family, all robbing this city blind and lining their pockets - and you want me to scramble and write a bunch of tix to make up for the corruption? You, sir or madam, are a gaping retarded asshole.
I take it back - i will start writing more tix. I'll start with you and your family. How's that.
Dipshit.
SSC:
You might as well take secondcitysarge off the side-bar . .
it looks like he won't be coming back
Why do you think they gave all those "benefits" to those that retired early? They are passing the cost from the city to the pension fund which is underfunded.
Pension fund will be broke
earliest -2018
latest-2022
A couple of years ago the fund lost 100 million or so on the mortgage meltdown--cds, cmo,cdo and cmbs. Now with the banks not being allowed to foreclose-- what effect will that have on the fund?
old retired guy
(OT) More money found for another new high school (ZOO) dam daley had billions hidden now all gone with Patrick Fitzgerald finally catch him and the 50 followers?
http://swnewsherald.com/news_frontpage/2010/10/100810c_highschool.php
"He is possessed of a mad animus. How he hates "the little people" -- the ones who wait for buses and save pennies in jars. He will lay plans and set traps to torment us long after he himself is gone."
"Did Shakespeare write this? Brilliant!"
--10/09/2010 07:31:00 PM
Naw, just an arthritic, snow-shovelin' Chicago native. It's true; we citizens are just brush-dabs of color to fill in his grandiose artists' conceptions of huge public works. As bad as Nelson Rockefeller with his inhuman-scale public plazas (inspired in their turn, I believe, by Mussolini.)
"He will lay plans and set traps to torment us long after he himself is gone." I was thinking of the "Fifty Years of Graft" plan to "redevelop" U.S. Steel South Works.
We will be paying and paying for something like this long after Daley has his low-fat, low-salt, run-on-a-treadmill heart attack, which will be a heart attack just the same...
I received my FOP newsletter today and it contained the political endorsements.
Why isn't there an endorsement for US Senate? Did I miss it? Is my newsletter missing a page? or has Mark Donahue been instructed to keep his mouth shut on that race? I know Kirk is a "Rino" (Republican in Name Only) but he's better than the Greek Obama wannabee.
I haven't heard anyone complaining about anything that the private sector wouldn't be bitching about if the work conditions were the same. Lives have been lost and manpower is at dangerously low levels. If the manpower situation were costing lives in the private sector, you would hear about it.
Now go fuck yourself, you useless piece of shit. And be grateful for those who risk all to protect your sorry bitch ass from the beast.
10/09/2010 06:35:00
With that vocabulary you make the CPD very proud! I'm pretty sure you are one of the 5 year desk BITCH and a troll wonder!!
A couple of years ago the fund lost 100 million or so on the mortgage meltdown--cds, cmo,cdo and cmbs. Now with the banks not being allowed to foreclose-- what effect will that have on the fund?
Do you think a bank profits on foreclose??? think again they would be better if they could try and help out with the mess THEY GOT US INTO.
Don't kid yourself the corporate world did this you can't have millions of millionaires and not the middle class. when you have foreclose in Edison park its the Greedy Corporate world.
Daley will still run it from the shadows
What kind of maniac turns the town into a "sanctuary city" full of people who can't read the "STOP" signs
Your wrong on this one, Daley was told to do this as we all know he is a friend to big business, who are outsourcing jobs with cheep labor. They don't even pay them the $6.80 an hour. My wife worked for a roofing company that let all its employees go then hired the illegals for $5.00 dollars an hour. The owner made a lot of profit.
This is the land of screw over our own.
Anonymous said...
I think fioretti meant 2011 would be the worse budget snafu since the chicago fire---- from a policeman's standpoint this means no new hires and you will be asked to do more with less--- you can already hear the grumbling at the station, a cut back on furlo extensions and time due--- coppers are not just going to sit back and get screwed, they will devise ways to circumvent the new rules...
10/09/2010 02:35:00 AM
Fioretti is a useless piece of shit and a poverty pimp
Renew the plate asshole. Don't blame the copper-look in the mirror.
10/09/2010 11:39:00 AM
take it easy francise
"He is possessed of a mad animus. How he hates "the little people" -- the ones who wait for buses and save pennies in jars. He will lay plans and set traps to torment us long after he himself is gone."
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Did Shakespeare write this? Brilliant!
10/09/2010 07:31:00 PM
Hopefully, Daley is "hoisted by his own petard."
Hey Midway violator - every day is a seperate violation. I have to have a current plate (on 2 cars), so do you.
10/09/2010 02:42:00 PM
Nothing in the code about each day. Technically you could just stand there and write 'em one after another as fast as you can. Each separate time is a violation. Though why anyone writes in this day and age is beyond me. And as well, hanging 4 just to check off with cheap paper and alienating citizens...and you wonder why the comments on cop stories are anti police.
Anonymous CN said...
What's going on with our radio zones? Both zone 3 and zone 6 are on citywides.
10/09/2010 09:20:00 PM
Another luberman idea gone to shit, outdated and fucked up equipment as usual1
mr fioretti you do not have to hire 1,000 police officers
you have to put police officers that are assigned to clerical duties back on the street
end of story
remove district commanders and let
district managers run districts
close a few districts and cpd will be just fine
Something to think about next time you whine that YOU have it so bad.
10/09/2010 05:04:00 AM
Okay, A. If you don't like to read about people whining about their jobs, stay off the blog.
B. When times were good, we were doing okay, but a lot of our friends, family, and neighbors who work in the private sector had things a LOT easier financially than we did.
Times are not good now, and yes, it's great that we have jobs, but that's part of the reason why this job appealed to a lot of us. We work crap hours, holidays, and until recently 6 days in a row in a high stress environment. When the economy picks back up hopefully people will stop criticizing us because we still have a job. Because our "job" is not a luxury. Our position cannot be cut. The public needs US because we do what YOU and everyone else complaining that we are overpaid doesn't want to do.
Unless you want to have us all fired and do what we do. But clearly you don't or you would be.
People like you make me sick because when you need us, when you really need us, you will think we are priceless.
and you wonder why the comments on cop stories are anti police.
10/10/2010 08:44:00 AM
After 15 years on this job, and the way the MAJORITY of the public treats us and thinks of us, and ALWAYS will. I care and am concerned about me, my family, my fellow cops, and NO ONE else!!!! Fuck the stupid american and chicagoan citizens that gave us this liberal/socialist city and country we now live in. Fuck you welfare/criminal leeches. The few decent citizens that are in there, sorry guys, your collateral damage. Im too tired of the the bullshit. Wish I still could care/help/go out on a limb for them. The fire inside of me was snuffed out several years ago (that is what the public wants, and now has, nationwide). Its a cliche, but you reap what you sow. Every one for themselves as far as im concerned at ths point. oh, btw, thanks ALL of you piece of shit politicians, your all the same garbage, you should all be hanging from trees for what youve done to this once great nation and city. In bed with the criminals and lazy link card holders, add illegal aliens to that list now also. This country is well into its downfall from the top, thanks to the aforementioned scum.Goodbye.
10/10/2010 07:51:00 AM;
Although incorrect, in this case, I think that is should be "hoisted by his own retard."
"What kind of maniac turns the town into a "sanctuary city" full of people who can't read the "STOP" signs..."
"Your wrong on this one, Daley was told to do this as we all know he is a friend to big business, who are outsourcing jobs with cheep labor. They don't even pay them the $6.80 an hour. My wife worked for a roofing company that let all its employees go then hired the illegals for $5.00 dollars an hour. The owner made a lot of profit..."
...and Mayor Daley got a lot of Latino votes.
We're both right on this one.
10/10/2010 12:47:00 AM
"Hopefully, Daley is 'hoisted by his own petard.'"
--10/10/2010 07:51:00 AM
(That's Shakesperean English for "blown up by his own bomb.")
Don't kid yourself; the Feds can put on a lot of manpower and hack through a complex, half-million page investigation in jig time if they really want someone. Look at Bernard Madoff -- the bastard's feet hardly hit the ground on his way to prison. What did he get, 130 years or so?
Will the knock on the door come at City Hall, at his luxury condo built on the ruins of Central Station (how the Daleys hated the railroads!), or at his private retreat in Michigan -- just when he thought he'd gotten away with it all.
Sleep tight, Mr. Mayor...
remember...''best mayor in america''! think i shat myself :(
You forget this little prick will also leave the chump citizens of chicago with a nice chunk of change to be spent.Thats right it will cost the city several hundred thousand of city dollars to remove that pricks name from every piece of equipment, buildings, vehicles ,and yes even those florecent vest employee wear ahve that liitle pricks name on it
A new city oridinance should ban the new mayors name on any city peoperty>
And fuck you to the civilians
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Once and for all, can we please stop being stupid and comprehend the simple, not difficult-to-digest fact that cops are civilians too?
Every time I hear a LEO refer to citizens as 'civilians', I puke a bit in my mouth.
"We took a lifetime, durable revenue stream and sold it for a one time infusion of cash- and at a bargain basement price, at that."
--10/09/2010 01:13:00 AM
So many good comments in here; yeah, I think the Biblical term would be "sold his birthright for a mess of pottage."
"Daley is the biggest pantload in the history of Chicago."
--10/09/2010 01:19:00 AM
Oh, yeah. Dontcha know it...
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Perhaps cops should write a few tickets each to help pay off the debt?
10/09/2010 08:28:00 AM
It's a myth...Parking Tickets don't even come close to paying Police Officers salary's here or in the suburbs....Just goes into the politicians pockets.
A good Captain guides his ship through storms,and rough seas to safe harbor, not Daley, he's off loaded all the swag and booty he's collected over the past 2o some years and abandoning ship and leaving the crew to shift for themselves. The man, if you care to call him that will be remembered as a bum.
And fuck you to the civilians
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Once and for all, can we please stop being stupid and comprehend the simple, not difficult-to-digest fact that cops are civilians too?
Every time I hear a LEO refer to citizens as 'civilians', I puke a bit in my mouth.
10/10/2010 03:01:00 PM
ci·vil·ian noun \sə-ˈvil-yən also -ˈvi-yən\
Definition of CIVILIAN
1
: a specialist in Roman or modern civil law
2
a : one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force
source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian
I'am sick of civilians who refer to police officers as LEO's.
mr fioretti you do not have to hire 1,000 police officers
you have to put police officers that are assigned to clerical duties back on the street
end of story
remove district commanders and let
district managers run districts
close a few districts and cpd will be just fine
10/10/2010 11:20:00 AM
Who the fuck are you? Why do you keep insisting that district managers, who do nothing but order toilet paper while making a 120k and manage to fuck it up in the process can run a police district. No districts need to be closed. More cops need to be hired. We need 2,000 more cops and we need to cut the inside people. There aren't a thousand coppers working admin in the entire department let alone necessary people. The district manager should be eliminated and folded into the commanders responsibilities.
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