Penny's Pod Room
It's like a flop house with computers!
We want to thank our fans in 011. We've ended up with a pretty good week worth of material what with this, the video and the J-Fled visit. The comment sections are on fire with something like 500-plus comments in assorted posts. It's been fun to say the least.
Now word is coming in the FOP is looking into a Safety Grievance being filed seeing as how the computers are all in an unsecured room and the officers have to sit with their backs to the door because Henny Penny has stated she has to see what the officers are doing on the computers at all times. You can see what wanders into unsecured rooms from the above pictures. An e-mailer says this is the same room that a homeless mental ended up throwing computers around after he was denied access to the lobby.
The circus continues.
We want to thank our fans in 011. We've ended up with a pretty good week worth of material what with this, the video and the J-Fled visit. The comment sections are on fire with something like 500-plus comments in assorted posts. It's been fun to say the least.
Now word is coming in the FOP is looking into a Safety Grievance being filed seeing as how the computers are all in an unsecured room and the officers have to sit with their backs to the door because Henny Penny has stated she has to see what the officers are doing on the computers at all times. You can see what wanders into unsecured rooms from the above pictures. An e-mailer says this is the same room that a homeless mental ended up throwing computers around after he was denied access to the lobby.
The circus continues.
Labels: silly people
posted by SCC at 7:31 AM
272 Comments:
sleeping like a pea in a POD room
Word is the 011 desk must now ask their visitors which type of crack pipe they prefer during their viewing, metal or glass.
Hmmmm, seems to be a common theme in these pictures? I wonder what it is?
Honest to Christ, can ANYONE, anyone at all try to fill me in (I am just a simple fellow) on how this was EVER considered a good idea?
What was the Cmdr Penny trying to accomplish? I mean, really? Was this community relations? Crime prevention? Public embarrassment (never mind)?
Can somebody shed some light on this? Honestly, not just cop humor and bad talk, but can anyone rationalize why she did this?
I am sorry, I cannot — any takers?
I have not laughed about this job like that in years! Thank you to whomever passed this along. Maybe there is hope that you can still have fun on this job
She has no business being the police let alone a commander of a once proud district. I find it to be very disturbing since terrorists are looking for any angle to attack. Are these creatures searched before entering the room. What's the over/under how long this useless piece of shit lasts as a commander under a new superintendent?
Welcome to the 'Sunshine Day/Night-Care Center for Criminals'. Love the pretty flowers. That woman is a menace. Can't believe nobody has the balls to call her out---what could happen? Get dumped to 011? Oh wait...
yuck!
ARE THOSE COMPUTERS EVEN HOOKED UP!
I WONDER IF J-FLED WOULD LET HOMELESS PEOPLE SLEEP IN THE FBI BUILDING NEAR SECURE COMPUTER WITH ACCESS TO LEADS.
THE DEPARTMENT FORGETS THAT THEY SIGN AN AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE SECURING THEIR NETWORK FROM OUTSIDE ACCESS.
NOT TO MENTION WHAT KINDA OF DISEASES THESE DIRTY ASS HOPELESS PEOPLE ARE CARRYING ALL OVER THE DESK CHAIRS AND FLOORS FROM THEIR SLEEP DROOL.
KUDOS TO 011 RANGER FOR LASHING OUT AND TAKING NOTES.
Future exempt members of this Department.
WTF!!!
When did a police station become a flop house?
I could imagine if my company would let homeless in and I would have to skirt around them as I did my job.
This city if F-ed up and first thing you better start doing is clean up all this deadwood before you go asking for more money for anything.
If you can't file a grievance with FOP on unsafe working conditions, (will the guy pull a knife? a gun? or just cough on you with some disease like TB?)
then FOP is worthless.
The police station is supposed to be a secure building - not some Pacific Garden Homeless Haven.
AND - this does not say much for your leadership because if I was a commander Asst Supt or whatever, I would insist on buildings being secure and at the least - clean.
McDonalds wouldn't let these guys loiter in their restaurants, why should the city??????
This is a reflection on leadership - the lack thereof!
Gee, how can we get a bum nest like that in 025? The midnite crew in 025 is very jealous about the nimber of homeless dwelling there.
OT question: Can any recent hires or striker fire guys/gals answer me this.
Are we allowed to carry the Springfield Xd in two tone? I like the stainless slide and know we were allowed to with the Sigs.
Also, what are our options with handgun sights? I know night sights are allowed. What about anything else other than stock? Thanks in advance.
Tsk Tsk !!!! They aren't lost homeless souls, They are the soon to be "new exempt" personnel after Mellon head and Ms. masters x 3 are gone. These three fine gents have more street smarts in their little fingers than
Jfled, mastersX3, and the rest of the fbi leftovers have amongst them.
off topic, i want to encourage everyone to vote for braun, as bad as she is, she will most likely be a 1 term mayor. if any of the others get elected they will be in for a long time.
The FOP can file all the safety grievances they want...I would think they would raise more of a stink over the 10-99 cars on the mids....Don't see the FOP winning that one. And based on the pics popping up here from 011, I honestly can't blame Cmdr Penny from wanting to have a bird's eye view of what people are doing on the computers in the POD Room. Shame on the desk personnel for allowing this situations displayed here on the blog for occurring. WTF is wrong with them making occasional checks of the room and running the sleepers out of there? One would think THAT is a bigger safety issue than worrying about what position the officers who use that room are seated.
Sorry, SCC, I don't see much support on the grievance. In fact, if I were a cmdr, I'd be all over either the WC or the desk sgt. over the conditions displayed here. Someone clearly isn't making enough inspections of the facility during their tour of duty.
I laughed so hard that my side hurt. Henny Penny is a nut case.
HOLY SHIT BATMAN!!! THIS DEPARTMENT IS A FUCKING JOKE!!! THESE PICTURES NEED TO BE EVERYWHERE IN THE INTERNET AND NEWS SITES SO THAT THIS SORRY ASS COMMANDER CAN FINALLY GET DUMPED AND GO BACK TO WAITING TABLES. IT'S CONFIRMED NOW THAT THE RADICAL LEFT HAS INFILTRATED THE CPD AND THEREFORE DESTROYING IT FROM WITHIN. IT'S PART OF THEIR RADICAL AGENDA, TO DEMORILIZE AND WEAKRN THE DEPARTMENT AND THEY'RE SUCCEEDING!
I can't think of a better example of a person being promoted waaay beyond their abilities than Penny Trahanas. She has become a lightning rod for everything that is WRONG with the Chicago Police Department.
I personally am not crazy about merit promotions, but if they were done above board with an established criteria, it would be more palatable. But to promote, meritoriously, frickin' clowns like this woman, just makes a mockery of the entire Department administration, all of our officers and is an embarrassment to EVERY Captain, Lieutenant AND female officer on the job.
Hello, J-Fled? This is your idea of leadership? When you get fired in the next month or so, you will have guaranteed yourself never to be able to work in law enforcement again, which is exactly as it should be.
Maybe you can open a cat shelter somewhere?
What?
You didn't know bears hibernated in the winter?
OMG, is this real or is this something from Second City comedy troup?
ps
luv the guy snoozing on the floor
O.... My .... Fucking..... God!!!!
does anybody else want to leave roll call and drive around with a paper bag over their head other then me?
If an officer is assigned to monitor the pods and he contracts a predictable and irreversible case of narcolepsy, can (s)he file for duty disability?
Those brothers better wake up! Were they on OT?
We serve and protect. not.
Unfortunately, these pics will only get the WC, the desk Sgt. and the desk crew jammed up.
Penny will surely throw them under the bus before accepting ANY responsibility herself.
An e-mailer says this is the same room that a homeless mental ended up throwing computers around after he was denied access to the lobby.
Gee, didn't hear or see anything about that in the news.
yawn, they got tired of listening to her preachin.
No piss bums on premises in 011. Send them a half mile north to 10 S. Kedzie.
What an utter disgrace for this Police Dept and this Commander.If this wasn't soooo said it would be funny.only 6 more pay checks for me and I'm outta here!!!!!!!!!!
There's an armed robbery going on in pic #1 while the guy who's using his wrist as a pillow sleeps in lala land. Hilarious.
Did these guys jump to attention when Penny walked into the room?
just axin
My vote goes to the guy snoozin on the floor. I can't stop laughing.
Lots of crime being observed there. Love the guy sleeping on the floor, gun belt and all.
Are u fucking shitting me? She allows these people in areas of a police facility with access to our computers? WOW WOW WOW
This is a FUCKING OUTRAGE AND AN EMBARRASSMENT!!!! Way to make a mockery of the 011th district and the CPD. J-Fled should be embarrassed. Why in the world are drunken bumbs allowed anywhere near police equipment? RIP CPD
Picture #3 is heading for a neck injury/fell off the chair schtick IOD. Picture #1 will have a carpel tunnel complaint, but my vote still goes for the guy sleeping on the floor. If it wasn't a police station, I would have thought that Chalkie was doin his rounds in Fillmore. I'm still laughing.
When does her antics get noticed downtown (35th St). I know clout rules in this town and the store front reverends are behind her, but enough already. I guess Jody is hoping for "the power a prayer" saving from the same reverends.
Lmao!!! Omg way to funny!
Go into the South Holland police station and see if you can do anything like this. The place is built like Fort Knox. It has never had a problem with the public either. All the public's issues are addressed from behind 2" bulletproof glass. Thank you very much.
The guy on the floor is the best.
Are you sure these guys are not family of the commander waiting for her ??
"And then God Shit out the 011 District Pod room".
The Woman is clueless as well as crazy.
We used to have a nutball LT in 020, the same guy who hit the news for perjury for a speeding ticket in Iowa. We used to wonder about not how he got promoted, but how he even passed the psych battery to get hired.
As a taxpayer I sit here and wonder what the hell these clowns are doing watching the cameras that are supposed to be "keeping us safe?" We all know it's a big lie and an excuse for contracts to install cameras, but to let scumbags watch them..watch US?! Where's the accountability?!
This should be on the 10 o'clock news and people should be screaming for widespread resignations, if not prosecutions!
-Edison Park Resident
How can you prove that this occurred in 011?
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!
what, no mattresses or coffee?
W T F!!
it looks like just about any chicago public library you walk into....
priceless!
I like all the flowers, really brightens the place up.
Dad is that you? We have been looking for him.
Who the fuck put these people in that room? The W/C and Desk Sgt. are responsible for the station during their tour. They should refuse to allow this. If ordered to by their jackass commander I hope they document it.
If the computers are LEADS-capable, the public is not supposed to have viewing access to the screen, i.e. the public should only be able to see the back or perhaps side of the screen.
I believe that's a LEADS rule.
Not that anyone elses (or even our own) rules ever had anything to do with running CPD (unless YOU violated one).
No other word for it but outrageous. Serious officer safety issues and electronic privacy violations. The news should have a field day with this one. The public should be outraged.
These are....awesome!!! I'm gonna have to say #2 is my favorite. I know the media trolls this blog. Fingers crossed this gets out, and who ever thought this public access POD room was a good idea is publically embarrassed as they should be. Your tax dollars at work, good citizens of Chicago.
OT...An Elmhurst Police Officer died in a crash off duty on New
Year's day. He had been on the department for about a year. He was scheduled to work the night of the crash. God rest your soul brother. Condolences to the Elmhurst PD.
Aw man, can't you let sleeping dogs lie???
This is way beyond funny; this is dangerous. Gang members could easily coordinate activity via cell phones with these cameras. The cameras are a form of intel, so why would the Dept. allow it to be compromised? This is very, very dangerous and the Feds should be notified since they paid for these cameras.
You have got to be fucking kidding me!!
Get those shit bags out of the fucking police station.
If this is the shit that crazy commander is pulling, I totally agree with a poster on a previous thread. Start filing grievances on this asshole.
Mother fucker. How the fuck can u guys stand this shit?
011, good luck to all u guys & gals!
I think that's funny as hell. I work in 011. I'm sure it's staged, but still funny as hell.
What a disgrace. 011 gets far too much activity at the desk for the p/os working there to be able to babysit the daily stream of piss bums that call the lobby home. There are stations that are less busy and way more secure. Penny should be ashamed...but she's not
I’m not a policy expert, but I would say that directly violates our General Order regarding Unauthorized Persons In the Workplace. Her defense will be that she can use her building as a warming facility for the shitbirds, but not in an area with access to law enforcement sensitive information.
I think she should be fired and then she can dedicate all of her free time hootin and hollerin in front of her congregation.
Although I'm not a cop, I want to thank you all for doing what you do everyday and working to keep us all safe. While everyone thinks that the troops are heroes, you rarely hear anyone speaking of our police officers in the same light.
You guys are heroes fighting homegrown insurgents and I appreciate it. That being said, I'm sorry you have such pathetic leadership or lack thereof. Homeless in police stations is fucking ridiculous.
Stay Safe.
Hopefully those computers don't have access to leads. That would violate State Police rules regarding Total Leads Access. No computer with public access should run the LEADS program.
Hahahaha this is great. 011 is a complete joke, but it is still one of the best places to work. If you are a DOG like me all this Henny Penny nonsense just makes the district even funnier to work in. If you are the working police, wake up! This is the type of commander that will leave you out to dry and not feel bad doing it. So answer you jobs and code them out because thats all this commander/city deserve. Now let me get back to my Internet radio and nap.
CAN I STILL GET AN EVENT NUMBER?
Just when you think that this department cannot get anymore more fucked up than it already is you guys show us just how low it is to be a copper in Chicago. Thanks for exposing this for the world to see. Maybe someone ,I don't know who will do something about this. Oh wait, maybe we can all pray on a street corner with the cluckers, hoes and dope boys for some competent leadership in this fucked up department.You gotta a friend in Jesus.
So these fucking homeless jag-offs are sleeping in a secured police building. Nice. The district commander is a fucking joke. An absolute joke.
Damn fool. How much longer do we have to put up with this dumb ass?
OMG, what has happened to our Dept. I guess the only thing left to do is pray and ask God to remove the people in authority who allow this to continue! This is a very dangerous situation indeed !!!
PS Post a copy of the order to charge all Battery to PO. As felony only 1/1/11.
It would look beautiful on to blog.
PPS. If you can. 8-)
Read before you bleed.
WTF??? Unbelievable!
Every police station will look like this if Moseley Braun is elected mayor.
Yet she is still a commander? She she be forced to resign and sued class action in federal court for allowing officer's safety to be jeopardized like this! That fat assclown penny hope she is GONE SOON! Another example of non-police at the top!
LMFAO
Is that 1107B?
I think bums should file a complaint for lack of cushions in the pod room !!!! How are these people supposed to get a good nite sleep ????
FOP late as always.
The comanding officer of the disrict is responsible for the district and everything within.
These computers have access to sensative information and the investigation should be handled by the Dept of Justice, as this violates federal guidelines and mandates.
And it's pretty obvious that the whole "POD Mission" thing is a sham. Only ONE of those computers is tuned-in to a pod while the others are screen savers.
Was this room constructed under the guise of a POD room and always actually intended to be a crash pad for the bums instead of having them lay in the lobby and interfere with normal day-to-day business?
As a taxpayer who lives in the 60612 zip code, I DEMAND ANSWERS.
Commander Penelope Trahanas better have a great explanation for this, or she needs to be dumped to somewhere where A) officers safety isn't compromised by vagrants on a daily basis because of her antics and B) where the reverends and non-contributors are put on pedestals while the hard working officers and contributing taxpayers in the area get the short end of the stick.
I gave her the benefit of the doubt when she first got to your district after listening to her at various beat meetings, but her real self has reared it's ugly head again and again.
*** I even went to be trained as a civilian POD watcher, but I refuse to participate further with the city's and CPD's obvious shenanigans regarding this faux crime reduction initiative. Sorry to say it, but I have lost all faith in the CPD with this latest gaffe.
SHE HAS GOT GO TO!!!!
What ? Looks like the desk crew in 022 3rd watch after a very busy day of shopping online.
How much money does this penny make?
And the bosses wonder why no one wants to do anything anymore!
Thanks 011!
You guys are awesome.
Those pictures does not look good for the Watch Commander. The Watch Commander is responsible for the security of the station. Where was the Desk Sergeant,and the Officers, that they would allow people off the street to have access to the computer room.Someone is so busy trying to make the Commander look bad that they make Police personnel look stupid.
Lice, TB, AIDS, and a host of other diseases. She has created an unsafe workplace. All it will take is a complaint to OSHA.
Remodeled room: $12,000.00
Multiple computers hooked to extensive surveillance system: $25,000.00
Letting it all become a high-tech flophouse for the homeless??
PRICELESS!!
BTW... It looks like Chalkie needs to pay a visit to picture number two.
LOL!!!
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OT
i heard a FOP commercial on 101.9 fm this morning.
i thought it was some sort of joke. it was a commercial actually bashing the mayor to hire more police officers.
it seemed like a skit because the commercial was a phone ringing and ringing and ringing.
THIS IS YOUR 911 CENTER, sorry we cant respond to your emergency :)
the FOP has hired some comedians to do work.
great stuff!!
"Penny's Pod Room
It's like a flop house with computers!"
The homeless need to check their e-mail and update their FaceSpace page, too!
Wow it never ends in 011. I go on my RDO's and always come back to something good happening under the command of our fearless leader.
Its like the Quiet Room in the new stations.
Wow! Those gentlemen are out of uniform.
Omg. I just don't get it. Why is this crazy bi... Still a cmd? I mean I don't think there is one single p.o. That would follow her into any kind of battle. Doesn't that say something? Aren't leaders supposed to be people we at least respect? If she gave me any kind of order I think I would just walk the other way. I'll take the spar.
What the hell is this woman doing over there ? J-Fled visited but did not get an answer to this question. Pennys pod room= Shitheads gone wild.
These are pictures of the new hires that will review the red light camera violations right?
..and how much money was spent on these pod cams again? Wasted!
How seriously should taxpayers take the checkered, flashing "police cameras" they're paying for when there is nothing but unconscious street bums in the monitoring room?
What an intolerable insult.
What a slap in the face to us all.
At this rate, the next time someone calls the police, this is what'll come tumbling out of the squad car. "Aw yaw f___in' wit' me [urp]."
The end result of Mayor Daley's clinical insanity.
What a legacy he and his minions have left us.
as an 011th district copper, i would like to thank you scc for exposing the rest of the city to the maddness we have to deal with.
That's bullshit. These TB infested rats have no business inside those rooms. I would refuse to do anything. What a fuckin disgrace.
I'm confused. Are these vagrants or employees watching the pods who fell asleep on the job? I'm sorry but it's hard to believe that people would be allowed to wander in off the street to sleep in what is obvious to anyone are (or should be) restricted areas.
---not a cop
unreal. these guys have access to department computers and telephones?
i would love to see their criminal histories to see how many felonies they have or if they're registered sex offenders.
no this isn't a security risk whatsoever!
I hope someone sparred these lazy citizens.
looks like chalkie paid a visit to the 011 district pod room. "what a bloodbath!!!"
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.
I cannot believe this shit.
Oh my Lord. Can't even think how to respond. "Shocking!" nowhere near covers it. Nor does "WTF?". What the fxxxxxx F???
ROLFLMAO!!!!!
My PD recently sent out a long nasty-gram regarding unsecured computers. The gist was that the feebs are VERY concerned about unauthorized access by non-departmental personnel into police information systems. Perhaps these pics should be forwarded to them for an invest into possible violations of NCIC security allowed by incompetent "management"?
I would never let this happen if I was a commander.. These people have NO business to be "informed" on our operations... Our police facilities are "public buildings" in the lobby area otherwise they are to be "SECURE" meaning off limits to the public for safety purposes. Try to walk into ANY suburban facility and you are met with a locked door and bulletproof glass.. That is the extent of your tour unless your a client. You want to see the inner workings of the police department... Get arrested, get a job as a police officer or build the damn thing otherwise you have no business being in a secure area...period. Sgt. Gogo
this is bullshit. To every P.O. we need to start taking pictures, documenting, and filing grievences over the shit thats wrong, and we are bitching about. We need to stop bitching and taking some action. We need our department back!!! I have a lot of years to go before I retire and i'm sick of this shit. We need to start taking action and becoming involved! We need to start going to our union meeting too! We need to change how our dept. is ran and who's running it. That includes the F.O.P. too!
MSF er
You mean to tell me... 'Only' the District Commander has the responsibility and the where with all to remove these bums?" She works during the day...and we all know that "they" are kicked out when the Sun comes up... they head to the various shelter's that provide meals and give-a-ways. ANY Officer, Desk Sergeant, or Watch Commander could address this immediately! IF IT WAS REAL!!! This is obviously STAGED! If you don't like the Woman, that's fine... but don't be guilty of being the Police, and telling lies on the Police!!!
I don't want to leave a human life outside freezing, but allowing homeless people with diseases and mental issues sleeping in the police station is a serious issue. They can harm officers at the desk, officers coming in with arrestees and citizens coming into the district.
Overheard that in 003 the officers have to step over them.
Remember.. we lost one due to a disturbance by a piss bum in front of a police station.
Circus? That's an understatement. That would NEVER be allowed AT ANY OTHER place of business other than a shelter or religious agency! How could that Commander expect officers under her to obey rules and regulations while she has bums laying around their workplace jeopardizing their safety and morale? It's an insane conflict of interest anyway you look at it. She should be relieved of her command.
I can't believe my eyes. I really can't. It's shocking. Bless the person who took the pictures!
civilian reader
Nice. Anybody who is familiar with the situation could dress like a bum, get access to the building and do whatever they wanted to those computers. All it takes is a flash drive and a programming background.
If I were a police officer or CPD employee, open access to those computers would make me very, very nervous.
The next step after the pictures should be to identify the three bums to see what kind of criminal history they have.
WOW. JUST FUCKING WOW.
I have not laughed about this job like that in years! Thank you to whomever passed this along. Maybe there is hope that you can still have fun on this job
1/03/2011 07:45:00 AM
I'm sorry, but there's nothing funny about having to watch your own back in your workplace. Nothing funny at all. At any time one of those sleeping beauties could wake up and attack the nearest person.
BTW..the arrest of the 81 year old, retired copper currently fighting cancer and diabetes has been confirmed. Excellent police work by GR and SD of the 023. Seriously, you two knit wits couldn't exercise common sense or extend some professional courtesy. And to those who agree that this was the only course of action...GFY.
Dude...someone better call the Fire for that guy in the center pic. It looks like he's left this World.
You poor Bastards, like your life/job isn't hard enough. Now you understand what it's like in the Private Sector.
And I just noticed the flowers!
Hil-fucking-arious!
How festive...I'm sending these pics to everyone I know.
CPD lost its LEADS certification today. Anybody know where the last microfiche issue is and a reader? I need to run a tag.
Is that "Karate Man" sleeping on the floor?
The FOP can file all the safety grievances they want...I would think they would raise more of a stink over the 10-99 cars on the mids....Don't see the FOP winning that one. And based on the pics popping up here from 011, I honestly can't blame Cmdr Penny from wanting to have a bird's eye view of what people are doing on the computers in the POD Room. Shame on the desk personnel for allowing this situations displayed here on the blog for occurring. WTF is wrong with them making occasional checks of the room and running the sleepers out of there? One would think THAT is a bigger safety issue than worrying about what position the officers who use that room are seated.
Sorry, SCC, I don't see much support on the grievance. In fact, if I were a cmdr, I'd be all over either the WC or the desk sgt. over the conditions displayed here. Someone clearly isn't making enough inspections of the facility during their tour of duty.
1/03/2011 08:06:00 AM
Nice "pass the buck practice speech to the news media" Penny.
That room just looks like it smells. Isnt it a hazard to force po's to share that room with tb ridden bums (and whatever other disease they might be carrying) not to mention the officer safety issues it creates. But its not like any P.O's have been killed or attacked by any homeless mentals right?? (how soon we forget...). This should send a message loud and clear to those in 11, do nothing for that commander, because she obviously cares little for your health and safety. One problem with having a religious, narcissistic crackpot in charge is that she probably believes that god is watching over the station thanks to the power of prayer and nothing will happen. Well having faith is all well and good but how about you take action to assure that your officers are safe and save the prayers for yourself.
Why don't any Chicago Investigative Repoters do a story on this????
What happened to secure stations? I thought J-Fed was going to get the Secret Servce involved to tightten up security in our stations. Rememeber the 16 year old who had no problem pretending to be the police for the day?? A 16 year old being issued a radio and a car? HENNY PENNY MUST BE VIOLATING SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!
You guys afraid of a little TB, lice, scabies and all manner of infestation?
Bring it home to your families. It will toughen 'em up.
Damn. So, dress like a homeless person and get access to the Chicago Police Department computer system.
And Trahanas becomes responsible for a major terrorist infiltration and attack in Chicago. She'll be infamous.
Oh. And a whole lot of people will die.
Would someone tell our antiterrorist commander to look into this breach of our OWN security, please?
Civilian post, I had to look up what a POD room was,,,this is fucking nuts ! SO anyone can go in a district and watch cameras. no background check required, no sign-in, someone tell me that I have this wrong. Its unbelievable @!
Be safe as you can out there Officers,,,and apparently be as safe as you can inside your districts also,,,,I can't get over this...
ONe more question, can anyone just go in and use the phone too ! I think I figured out a way to call my cousins in Ireland cheap. :)
I'm not a police officer, but this is a god damn disgrace.
There's a time and place for laughing at the hopelessly absurd, but how about maintaining a degree of dignity in our police departments, for christs sake.
Consider this one, random John Q Public COMPLETELY appalled by this sort of thing.
I hope whoever the next police superintendent is is a person who restores dignity, order and completely does away with PISSBUMS AND VAGRANTS SLEEPING IN THE POLICE STATIONS!!!!!!! This has the potential to endanger the safety of police officers or the public who happen to be in the station at that time.
Awful. Shame on whatever authority figure in that station who allows this to go on. I miss the old Chicago police. They would've collared those assholes and launched them into the dumpster out back where they belong.
Those pictures are hilarious!
The public is just gonna LOVE seeing this shit.
Anonymous said...
Unfortunately, these pics will only get the WC, the desk Sgt. and the desk crew jammed up.
Penny will surely throw them under the bus before accepting ANY responsibility herself.
1/03/2011 08:27:00 AM
JAMMED UP HOW?? It is a PUBLIC SPACE in a PUBLIC BUILDING... where folks are allowed in without screening!! And you all assume it was an officer that took the pics...
The problem I have most with the pictures of the homeless using the computer room as a crash pad
is the fact that sworn officers who work inside of the 011th Dist ON BID (including desk sgt & watch commanders) have allowed this situation to occur.
Don't you people make periodic checks of the station for security? Isn't that posted on the watch commander's log? WTF are the assigned people who work inside doing to all this stuff to occur, and even have the gall to snap photos and post it on a blog?
Don't you officers have any pride at all anymore?
I'm sure if your cmdr was there on the mids and walked in on this sort of thing some people assigned inside (including the watch commanders) would be facing some serious time off for allowing this. No excuse for allowing this to occur. Not a wise choice the cmdr made to allow citizens to view the pods, but an extremely poor one by sworn personnel not to correct this bullshit when they see it. Clearly the cmdr has a lot of problems over there in 011 all the way up to the watch commanders. Maybe if they make another class of sgts. and lts., she can clean up her house, because the people under her command are truly an embarrassment to the CPD.
Penny came up with this fantastic idea while she was on her time out at oemc.
All the shelters in Chicago and they let this go on? Let Henney penney fork ove some of her $150,000 salary to homeless.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Those brothers better wake up! Were they on OT?
We serve and protect. not.
1/03/2011 08:25:00 AM
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Are you soft?
It is in my humble opinion that Henny Penny ,(AKA Revern lowdown non good) would be suitable to be an exempt rank with Lamb's Farm. Not the Chicago Police.
I mentioned something about how, if this keeps up, someone like this will arrive at your house in a squad car if you call 911 -- then I remembered that it's already happened. You get a 14-year-old in a vest cover stuffed with cardboard.
How many of these laptops have been stolen, by the way? One of the hottest items on the street. Steal-on-sight priority. C'mon.
MAYOR DALEY IS CLINICALLY INSANE.
This is his legacy.
Uh - news media?
Send this to Janet Napolitano over at Homeland Security. Show her how Daley's spending the grants.
You know what's sad? That it took this long for the street scum to get LEADS access!!! See how good they're sleeping after "runnin' they selfs".
damn...thats 2 easy contact cards for the night. rip cpd!!
"I find it to be very disturbing since terrorists are looking for any angle to attack."
The mayor of this city couldn't give a sh*t about terrorists, if he did he wouldn't have allowed the architect who designed the new stations to have complete glass fronts exposing everyone inside and that's just for starters. F-him and the rest of the incompetents who are currently running this department. They are pathetic.
As I have mentioned before, it is about time the lobbies of the stations are retro fitted to prevent outsiders from walking around or shooting at the desk crew. Wess, take a cue from other departments and make the station lobbies secure~!!!
The 2nd photo is me... in an undercover capacity.
Explain to Lowy and Lowy why a citizen was killed on the corner while nothing but homeless people were in the camera room.
"Liability?" Never enter Daley's mind. Taxpayers' pockets are bottomless, after all.
One of these characters trips over a computer wire, he'll sue.
This is all the work of the runnin' dog rev'runs to whom Henny-Penny has pledged undying love and allegiance for pushing her into the Commander's chair in 011.
There is no common-sense and justifiable reason for "members of the community" to have access to this room other than to impede effective law enforcement.
Daley is scared shitless of the rev'runs as their congregants are LOYAL democratic voters to the point insanity. These are the "catered to constituents" if you will.
The rev'runs and the West Side alderfools are content to let their arteas of the city go to hell as long as they can sit under the Daley Inc. dinner table like dogs and beg for the few scraps Crime King Shorty allows to fall to the floor and they will bite the shit out of anyone who they think is trying to "sneak" an undeserved crumb by their watchful gaze.
We direct your attention to the likes of Carruthers, "Snuffy Smif" and others who titillated themselves shit-talking The Police especially during contract negotiations. At least they get nice raises and no one is intentionally trying to torpedo THEIR pensions for politics and spite. Funny how they mismanaged this city into a hole and a lot of them are suddenly seeking "retirement."
...But we digress.
We heard in passing from many sources about rev'runs, alderfools and those who head up "neighborhood youth clubs" being snagged on intercepts in regard to the movement of sizeable amounts of narcotics and USC.
Thus...
It's in the interest of the rev'runs and alderfools to impede and stymie local law enforcement as much as possible.
Therefore...
You will have idiots who owe their very existence to the rev'runs and alderfools, like Henny-Penny, in command positions at the district level.
The shit is deeper, darker and funkier than the naive and unaware sheeple of this city could ever imagine.
Yes... The malignant midget on Five knows this shit is going on. The alderfools wouldn't be so compliant and obedient in following his orders.
All bullshit in Chicago springs from the 5th floor at 111 N. LaSalle and by proxy, 3510 S. Michigan.
The murder and lawlessness on the west and South sides will continue unabated because it is entirely possible that some well known people are making a lot of money and the cost in other peoples blood is the price they're willing to see get paid to further THEIR gains.
The Police know this shit.
The Police are the enemy because they know this shit.
Daley Inc. is hell bent on ensuring that The Police are maligned and marginalized so that their voices are not heard.
Thank God for his inspiring the Founding Fathers to enshrine free speech into the Pantheon of Law.
Though j-fled, 3m and their ilk have demonstrated disturbingly contrary views in regards to the rights of Policemen as citizens, to free speech. But that's another topic in which we'll gladly tear the hide off of them.
This shit will not be fully exposed until a new administration is installed at 1600 Pennsylvania Av.
An administration with a deep and abiding hatred for "The Chicago Way" that this rampant fuckery personifies.
Someone with a "hangin' judge" mentality as those at the local and state level have shown themselves to be thoroughly compromised and corrupted by Daley Inc.
When real justice comes, the whole of Northern Illinois would become a desert due to the number of trees rendered into planks for building a scaffold large enough to accomodate the largest group hanging in history.
...Leave 'em for the crows for what they've done.
The nonsense with Penny's Pod Playroom & Shit-bum Recreational Center is just one symptom of the cancer of corrupt outside influence/interference with CPD.
Anonymous rosco said...
Gee, how can we get a bum nest like that in 025? The midnite crew in 025 is very jealous about the nimber of homeless dwelling there.
1/03/2011 07:56:00 AM
LEAVE 025 1ST WATCH ALONE. We work hard enough as it is. We usually have two to four cars down. Plus all the usual bullshit like a car down on a prisoner who is complaining of chest pains, couple of cars down on arrests or paper and then only two to three cars patrolling the entire district. This is the same on 1st watch in many other fast districts and this shit has to change.
tell you what people that never wore blue on the job dont care bc they were never the police. unfortunately henney did wear blue, but she never had pride in wearing it. clout does that to you, clout makes sure you dont have to earn it.
The dealers pay these bums more to look away from the sales.
"The sleep of the guilty."
SCC, can you ask whomever sent you those pictures to send any more that they may have? Myself and some other fellow midnight rangers are compiling our own CPD annual report and would love to make a collage of these pics
Just wait for the first police shooting that takes place in 011 when dude tries to disarm a p.o. In the room. Sounds like a free-bee to this detective. I don't think ipra will find any witnesses willing to give a story that is anything than exactly what the victim officer says!
Let's see how long the citizens room stays open after shitty get a dome shot!
Even a damn PO from another department in full uniform and on duty cannot get in most suburban police stations without an escort!
And this is the 11th district on the secure side! Holy smoke, it sure has been a long time since 4001 W Fillmore!
FOX news is reporting Bill Daley may be Obama's next Chief of Staff. Does it ever end?
man just got word that some goof's from 023 DUI'd some old timer in his 80's that is a retired CPD. What the hell is this job coming to? No accident either. WTF?
I sure hope the court money is worth it you jagoffs.
My question is this: Why didn't the Supervising step in and "talk" the the arresting officer or even the Watch Commander? It is not just the beat guy that made the arrest that is at fault here....must me more to it then a simple DUI arrest.
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Because we have a serious problem on this job with supervisors. They are not going to mess with anyone and give up the numbers. They are also afraid p.o's beefing in a beef for telling them not to do there jobs.
sleeping like a pea in a POD room
1/03/2011 07:35:00 AM
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Nice job, lol.
That is not a gun belt on the old bum laying on the floor. It is a regular belt. In any case, the entire district should be evacuated of P.O.s and then napalmed.
that is too fucked up for words
WTF!!!
When did a police station become a flop house?
I could imagine if my company would let homeless in and I would have to skirt around them as I did my job.
This city if F-ed up and first thing you better start doing is clean up all this deadwood before you go asking for more money for anything.
If you can't file a grievance with FOP on unsafe working conditions, (will the guy pull a knife? a gun? or just cough on you with some disease like TB?)
then FOP is worthless.
The police station is supposed to be a secure building - not some Pacific Garden Homeless Haven.
AND - this does not say much for your leadership because if I was a commander Asst Supt or whatever, I would insist on buildings being secure and at the least - clean.
McDonalds wouldn't let these guys loiter in their restaurants, why should the city??????
This is a reflection on leadership - the lack thereof!
1/03/2011 07:55:00 AM
Public building. McDonalds private. You may not like it but it is a fact.
The picture looks like a theft in progress with the City of Chicago as the victim and street police officers. Commander Penny has no skills as a Commander and no people skills. Since her days as a Beat Officer, Detective in Area 5, and Sgt in the School Patrol she has always let others do her job and wiggled her way with the boss to get out of work. Now when she is supposed to do the work she lacks the past experience and ledership skills. Go be a Rev ,Commander Penny and preach the word to others.
Correction... William Daley is being considered for chief of staff. Too bad Mumbles woulda made for good comedy.
Ya sure that guy in the middle isn't dead?
Is the guy asleep on the floor, Karate Man, Dan???
I thought he was dead??!!
Was the room "fumigated" after they left??
Anonymous said...
The FOP can file all the safety grievances they want...I would think they would raise more of a stink over the 10-99 cars on the mids....Don't see the FOP winning that one. And based on the pics popping up here from 011, I honestly can't blame Cmdr Penny from wanting to have a bird's eye view of what people are doing on the computers in the POD Room. Shame on the desk personnel for allowing this situations displayed here on the blog for occurring. WTF is wrong with them making occasional checks of the room and running the sleepers out of there? One would think THAT is a bigger safety issue than worrying about what position the officers who use that room are seated.
Sorry, SCC, I don't see much support on the grievance. In fact, if I were a cmdr, I'd be all over either the WC or the desk sgt. over the conditions displayed here. Someone clearly isn't making enough inspections of the facility during their tour of duty.
1/03/2011 08:06:00 AM
That is the main point. Where is the commander? Where is the discipline and leadership? Why does Commander Penny have officers sitting in a pod room when there is a severe shortage of personnel on the street? Who is in charge of 011? Or is Penny too busy giving lectures at church? You blame the desk sgt and I blame the commander who is in charge.
The flowers add a nice background to the stanky foreground.
WOW...tac guys in 011 got it made
HERE S A SECURITY LINK J-FLED DIDNT KNOW ABOUT!
CERTAIN AREA INVESTIGATORS SET CAMERAS TO MONITOR CERTAIN HOUSES WITH CERTAIN OFFENDERS. THEY LOCK THE CAMERA ON THE ADDRESS.
NOW PICTURE HOMELESS THE CLOWN OR SOME OTHER MEMBER OF THE SUB-CULTURES WALKING IN AND PULLING UP A CAMERA THAT CANT BE MOVED.
THEY GO BACK TO THE SPOT AND LET THE PERSON KNOW AND RECEIVE A LITTLE REWARD FOR THE INFO.
SOOOOOOOOOO
DOES THE MAYOR LET GOOF LAY IN CITY HALL?
HOW ABOUT THE STATE BUILDING ANY DEADBEATS LAYING ON THE FLOOR?
SO PENNY GET THE SHIT OUT OF UR HEAD AND START ACTING LIKE UR IN CHARGE OF A POLICE STATION THAT LEADS THE CITY IN HOMICIDES!
To 1/03/2011 10:14:00 AM
Thank you for your comment
Let her give them keys to her fricking house & car!!!!! This is just un-real!!!!!!!!!
Say what you want about the 20th District, we don't let the bustouts camp out there, if someone comes in for shelter, the request for DHS goes right in.
Nobody stays in there for more than a couple of hours, tops.
The posters are correct, 10 S Kedzie isn't that far from 011, get those assholes out of there.
This is what happens when someone with limited policing skills, and fewer people skills get a command position she does not deserve. Further proof Jodi hasn't a clue about the capabilities of his command staff, and why an insider is a better choice for superintendent. This is still Chicago, and politics will still be a factor, but Penny as commander? Poor choice, Mr. Weis.
Sorry, SCC, I don't see much support on the grievance. In fact, if I were a cmdr, I'd be all over either the WC or the desk sgt. over the conditions displayed here. Someone clearly isn't making enough inspections of the facility during their tour of duty.
1/03/2011 08:06:00 AM
I hope you are kidding or you really just don't get it. This behavior of letting these bums sleep and wander around the police stations is accepted by the commanders and bosses. They allow this bullshit and we are not allowed to put a hand on these fucks to remove them!!!
I wonder if they could run a few plate numbers for me
There are a host of general orders she is violating, allowing civillians to use CPD equipment, failure to secure dept equipment, the special order that governs facility security. Grow some balls 011 ranger and initiate a #!!!!!!
An e-mailer says this is the same room that a homeless mental ended up throwing computers around after he was denied access to the lobby.
Gee, didn't hear or see anything about that in the news.
1/03/2011 08:29:00 AM
and you really think the fucked up media would report this?
She obviously wants out of 011; and she'll get it...with stars on her shoulders.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
Not a wise choice the cmdr made to allow citizens to view the pods, but an extremely poor one by sworn personnel not to correct this bullshit when they see it.
--Do you forget the Chain of Command on this Department??? Seriously if a Commander, Capt, Lt, Sgt are allowing it, WTF is a PO supposed to do about it?
Any of those fine civilians patted down for contraband before they bedded down in the 011th dist? Didn't we lose one of our very own when he responded (alone) to a mental/homeless at a bus stop?
This craziness must stop. I'm the police, but as a citizen of Chicago I am disgusted on how our stations have become magnets for the homeless. It is not safe for the other citizens and our own officers. The homeless must "camp out" in the shelters that are provided, not a public police station among equipment they should not be exposed to. Does Mayor Daley allow this in his office lobby? How about in his receptionist's office? This is an absolute disgrace and humiliating once again to the dept.
19-Frank
Public building. McDonalds private. You may not like it but it is a fact.
1/03/2011 06:17:00 PM
Well shitty hall is a public building, can't they camp out in shortshank's office? How about in the reception area where Mrs. Daley does her charity work?? Let them sleep in front of her office/door. I'm guessing that would be a "security risk", but it's a fucking free for all in Fillmore.
So will this stop when someone get's hurt....stabbed or shot, or some knucklehead has an explosive?? I can "feel the lawsuits abound", lordy, lordy, as we speak.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Those brothers better wake up! Were they on OT?
We serve and protect. not.
1/03/2011 08:25:00 AM
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Are you soft?
it's a joke
Arent there espionage laws that we have to be careful of with the pods? Don't they tell us that we can't look directly into peoples windows? And they are letting these bums play with that technology? Unbelievable.
Why would they allow people in the police stations to sleep on the floors, chairs, near police computers, and other sensitive areas if they are not a police officer?
a citizen
I'm sorry I haven't laughed this hard in a long time- if I worked in 11 I'd think I was on candid camera -STILL LMAO as I write this-holy shit 11's gone to the dogs(literally)
what a hoot!
A little note to the photographer who had those fine citizens pose for the pictures:
Move the mouse around so it's not in the same exact spot on the mousepad along with the wires along side the computer.
Same thing for the folded stack of papers in the same position on the desk in two of the pictures.
It was a nice try though.
"FOX news is reporting Bill Daley may be Obama's next Chief of Staff. Does it ever end?
1/03/2011 05:46:00 PM"
I can believe it is true but it does not make any sense. As CEO of Chase Bank, he makes barrels of money and has plenty of power all on his own. Is it to keep an eye on Barack? Is it to further the interests of the financial industry?
Why trade a job where you're probably making more than $50 mil+ for one that pays about $140K...crazy stuff.
SCC, I've been reading this blog for a couple of years, but this is my maiden voyage for posting. I've been on the job for over 15 years, so i've seen a lot and I've seen a lot of bosses come and go. By far, this woman is possibly the BIGGEST headcase trainwreck I've seen, and that assessment comes from only about two weeks of contact with her while the good "commander" graced us with her prescence when she was stripped. I really can't say what my position is because I've got mouths to feed and I'm cloutless, but I saw firsthand what she tried to do to save her butt pertaining to the pod cameras. She talks a heck of a game, but the woman wouldn't know a Latin King from the Burger King. Regardless, you would have thought the very word of G-d came out of her mouth.
She has absolutely NO clue of ANYTHING WHATSOEVER germain to police work, so I gotta ask...
WHO IN THE WORLD IS HER CLOUT? Lastly, I'm a Christian with WILDLY radical end-time beliefs, but to see her pander these alledged same beliefs with some obvious ulterior motive to the west side revs makes me sick. Some people busted you for showing the video, but I ask them AS A BELIEVER IN THE RISEN CHRIST, are you all that blind that you can't see such an obvious opportunist? I mean, WHAT VERSION of the bible has G-d spitting out anything but the church of Laodicea?
Anonymous said...
WTF!!!
When did a police station become a flop house?
McDonalds wouldn't let these guys loiter in their restaurants, why should the city??????
This is a reflection on leadership - the lack thereof!
1/03/2011 07:55:00 AM
Public building. McDonalds private. You may not like it but it is a fact.
1/03/2011 06:17:00 PM
In that case the FBI building on Roosevelt is also a public building. Try to get in there and let me know how it works. Bring a stew bum or two with you, just for effect.
Why not invite the tired old souls down to the roll call room? More wide open spaces and it is closer to the toilets. Maybe they can use the lockers too. Public building, you know. and what the hell, if they need a ride, well, get that report case off the front seat.
What hath jody wrought?
OMG WTF I have no words for this. I think Im going to just???? Fuck I don't know what I'll do.
You mean to tell me... 'Only' the District Commander has the responsibility and the where with all to remove these bums?" She works during the day...and we all know that "they" are kicked out when the Sun comes up... they head to the various shelter's that provide meals and give-a-ways. ANY Officer, Desk Sergeant, or Watch Commander could address this immediately! IF IT WAS REAL!!! This is obviously STAGED! If you don't like the Woman, that's fine... but don't be guilty of being the Police, and telling lies on the Police!!!
1/03/2011 02:28:00 PM
...ultimately yes and what does "they" mean sir?
I wonder if Henny Penny took the LEADS course? Hmmmmmm...
This looks like a picture the Inspector General (Hoffmann) showed me of the Union Steward.
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