1,635 Cops to be Hired
- The New York Police Department has hired its largest recruit class in five years, welcoming 1,635 cadets to the police academy, the department announced.
The new recruits were welcomed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly during a Wednesday ceremony. Commissioner Kelly administered the oath of office at a swearing-in ceremony inside the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.
"Whether this is your second career or your first job out of college, your skills and life experience are invaluable to our mission of reducing crime, defending against terrorism, and forging cooperative relationships with the people we serve," said Commissioner Kelly. "I look forward to joining Mayor Bloomberg this winter to celebrate your graduation."
Anyone know if the NYPD is suffering the same shortages we are and what their rate of retirements is compared to ours?
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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it was so f'n crazy out there tonight!! I've been on a long time and tonight rivals any of the worst of them.
We desperately need more police officers. This is getting so dangerous.
A new class of 1635 recruits!!!!!
Oh sorry, thats in New York.
Why do they have money? Perhaps they have people who know how to ask for grant money from the Feds.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/meet-the-future-officers-1635-strong
7/09/2011 11:36:00 AM
They have a CITY income tax. That's why they have money. So, be careful what you wish for.
BADGES?
BADGES?
We don't need no stinkin 1635 BADGES!
we pour all our ca$h into our top rated school system. remember...its all about the children
Anonymous The Rahmfather said...
BADGES?
BADGES?
We don't need no stinkin 1635 BADGES!
7/10/2011 02:31:00 AM
Now that's funny! But seriously, we could use some of them.
How dare this city risk the lives of the chicago police officer due to being undermanned and underarmed!!!! The city (taxpayers) need to wake up & smell the coffee before another officer goes down due to this lack and start showing outrage over all needed protection not only to police officers but to the public itself. I for one am fed up with these criminals taking over this city and using us as needed. WAKE UP and demand that all politicians step down from their high horses and come back to reality to stop all of the senseless killing of Chicago's finest and do something about it - like New York city just did. Enough is enough and don't tell me there is no MONEY left in the cookie jar because all it would take is a few crumbs to fix this undermanned department compared to all the robbery these politicians have taken!!!
Check out this story from Namibia - anything sound familiar???
http://www.namibian.com.na/columns/full-story/archive/2011/july/article/the-police-need-jesus-and-chuck-norris/
The mayor of New York is in a class all by himself. I think he really believes in giving the taxpayers what they are paying for. Rham could care less. He is trying to put band aids on Richies's numerous mistakes. He is looking for a bigger job than mayor. This place is just a stepping stone to higher office.
Does anyone know how short the city was in '86 and what prompted the 1,500 hires that year?
We need an influx like that again.
Just a word of advice to all of you.
Coming to the end of my career with 2 years left, take the time to enjoy your days.
These days, they truly are, the 'good old days.'
I made det. relatively quickly (no clout) and I look upon my days in patrol as the very best. The days are what you make them.
Enjoy the clowns, enjoy the circus. The days, they go by so fast. Make every day memorable.
As a blue shirt, you couldn't go any lower, and all the shit rolled onto you--but that's what inspired the commeraderie (sp?)and the sense of belonging.
Det. is a great position, but it's different. Patrol is the backbone of this department, so be proud while you're part of it.
I've never had as many laughs as I did back then.
You'll miss the idiots, trust me.
Be safe all.
Give me two weeks and I could show you how to put 1000 new cops on the street.No cuts,no taxes no BS!
CPD could use a few thousand as well.
I am a resident in the area of 87th & Michigan and I would like to know why there is such a police presence all weekend at 87th State along the CTA. Why aren't they here all the time, why just because of a concert for the middle class and rich. Why aren't there many police along 87th St allalong and patroling our neighborhoods like this past weekend.
The city is broke unless the Federal government comes up with money like Clinton did in the early 90's to hire more police its not gonna happen. Look how much the city is saving by not filling in all the vacancies.
My question to anyone on the blog is can Ra-hm deny our raise like Quinn did to the state workers
Slightly O.T.:
Is there a headhunter or law enforcement job placement company that could assist an individual looking for law enforcement employment in another state? Something other than looking at PERF's website and doing one's own internet searches?
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
it really doesn't matter how many cops this city hires. I've learned that even when cops are put back into patrol from inside spots or units these same cops are usually given some kind of cushy hiding spot within a couple of weeks of their return to patrol. Hate to say this but I have found it to be true. Many cops say don't trust bosses. I agree with this and have little love for them. At the same time my experience on this job has taught me not to trust other cops either. Many if not most coppers would compromise the safety of other cops to get some kind of cushy inside gig. We like to talk a big game when officers like P.O. Francis or P.O. Soderberg(may God bless both their souls in the eternal heaven) get killed but in the end the compromise of safety and unity on this job comes at a very cheap price one so many sellouts have long accepted. I used to get enraged at the bosses over this and to some degree still do, but my experiences, especially in the past 5 years, have taught me that the unity that was once found in patrol can no longer be taken for granted. The "thin blue line" that once may have existed now has so many deleted empty spaces such that it is not really a line anymore. We can sit here and blame the department all we want for the paucity of cops on the street but sadly I think much fault for the crisis on the street rests with cops themselves. How many times have you called for backup and few have arrived or those that did were so timid, poorly trained, or lawsuit paranoid that their presence really mattered very little and may have been detrimental to the situation. I hate to say this but the obituary for this department should have been written around 2005, long before Jodie Weis came to town. This obituary would have described a once great and dynamic entity, in recent years hospitalized many times with a cancer from within caused by horrible merit promotions, laziness, toxic ethnic politics and favoritism, obesity, the one rock drop case favored by south and west side tact officers with under 4 years on, a weak FOP more concerned with protecting drunks and promoting fishing and golf trips than with protecting hard working officers, a managerial obsession with numbers whether these numbers represented good police work or not, and an alarming indifference to officer safety. Many of these illnesses have little to do with the number of officers we have but with the quality of them. As much as it pains me to say it I think we are a brain dead organization. Like the nursing home patient on a feeding tube and clad in adult diapers, our existence is all smoke and mirrors now. The department and the city are more or less decaying corpses. This must have been what being a Detroit cop was like around 1985-90. You do your job cause you still want to be the police but the broader cultural, economic, and demographic forces at play are far more powerful than the power of the arrest and prosecution. This city is done. If I were coming on this job today, which I advise any young man or woman with any kind of intelligence and work ethic not to do, there is no way in hell I would buy property in this city. Renting is a great hedge in a city destined for decline. Long term investment in Chicago makes about as much sense as investment in Zimbabwe or North Korea. Interestingly our politics are increasingly similar too.
I am a resident in the area of 87th & Michigan and I would like to know why there is such a police presence all weekend at 87th State along the CTA. Why aren't they here all the time, why just because of a concert for the middle class and rich. Why aren't there many police along 87th St allalong and patroling our neighborhoods like this past weekend.
If you don't know the answer to your own question..........then I feel sorry for you.
Seniority just got a whole lot better in NY, NY.
Chicago plans on hiring 50.....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAA, HA...
I'm a citizen and couldn't disagree more. I'm in fact a liberal democrat but guess what, I think the officers of this city have been chiseled down to armed security guards at best and think its bullshit. I'm all for cracking heads and doing things the way they were done in the good ol' days. Thug lips off, BAM! crack him so hard he'll never lip off again without hesitation. The system is broken, the public are liberal sheep that have lost sight of the big picture and police powers seem to have been stripped away. I'd give anything to see Police having jolly beat downs on the thugs, addicts, degenerates, and social service recipients out there making living in Chicago a living hell.
7/07/2011 11:41:00 PM
no, what you are is either a socialist/communist agitator, a scumbag litigator, a bitch trouble maker, or all the above.
7/08/2011 10:38:00 PM
Sorry for dragging this from another post, but whoever you are, you hit the nail on the head! Thanks!
I am a resident in the area of 87th & Michigan and I would like to know why there is such a police presence all weekend at 87th State along the CTA. Why aren't they here all the time, why just because of a concert for the middle class and rich. Why aren't there many police along 87th St allalong and patroling our neighborhoods like this past weekend.
7/10/2011 10:17:00 AM
because, in the infinite wisdom of our illustrious city leaders, you are expendable.
thank you for voting that straight democratic ticket, every time.
7/10/2011 12:11:00 PM asked about law enforcement "headhunter" sites. There are several sites out there (other than the one you mentioned) that have some listings. You can find them by googling law enforcement jobs. I hesitate to advise establishing an account with them from experience; they just sell your info all over the place, but you can browse job listings on them and then go directly to the applicable site. The best thing to do is start compiling a listing of agencies and departments and just check them weekly for any listings. Gov agencies rarely use traditional headhunters because, they don;t need to , they get enough applicants and they can't pay the fee which can be as much as half a years salary in some cases even more. Good luck and thanks scc for allowing me to post this info and be safe all.
I am a resident in the area of 87th & Michigan and I would like to know why there is such a police presence all weekend at 87th State along the CTA. Why aren't they here all the time, why just because of a concert for the middle class and rich. Why aren't there many police along 87th St allalong and patroling our neighborhoods like this past weekend.
7/10/2011 10:17:00 AM
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Maybe because they're trying to keep these concert-going folks who brought major dough to this city, from being robbery victims at the hands of your neighbors!
To the poster who praised Mayor Bloomberg,,,,he hates the cops in NY more than Daley and Rahm hate us.
He just knows how to read numbers better and know what he had to do.
Sorry for dragging this from another post, but whoever you are, you hit the nail on the head! Thanks!
7/10/2011 07:33:00 PM
just stating the obvious.
you're welcome.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I am a resident in the area of 87th & Michigan and I would like to know why there is such a police presence all weekend at 87th State along the CTA. Why aren't they here all the time, why just because of a concert for the middle class and rich. Why aren't there many police along 87th St allalong and patroling our neighborhoods like this past weekend.
7/10/2011 10:17:00 AM
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Maybe because they're trying to keep these concert-going folks who brought major dough to this city, from being robbery victims at the hands of your neighbors!
7/10/2011 09:30:00 PM
Maybe because they bring in much needed revenue to keep the ghetto dwellers and link card holders to get all their free shit we pay for!
Hey Guess what?
We're catching up to the violence in Mexico.
40 killed in the last 24 hours. Ten found beheaded -- 21 gunned down inside a bar -- outside the bar -- anywhere around the bar.
They even took out the damn hot dog vendor!!!
I wonder how many weapons used here came from the USA ATF's misguided operation Fast and Furious that let guns walk?
That program is starting to look like a government sponsored program to win the hearts and minds of the people to be used as a tool for tighter gun laws..
You know...operation Fast and Furious the tool to "bring gun laws back to the center of the table"..
Heh...but it's all blowing up under a congressional investigation. Time will only tell what kind of show this is gonna be.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/07/10/2011-07-10_at_least_40_killed_in_drug_violence_in_mexico_in_24_hours_zetas_cartel_behind_we.html?r=news
Yeah we are creating the exact same culture here.
TELL MAC TO STICK THAT UP HIS "BROKEN WINDOWS!!!"
Sweat the little stuff we're told?
This sanctuary city political apparatus will not even go far as to make the foreign people learn our language for fear of being labeled a racists and accused of "profiling"
What about that little stuff.
Our language IS our culture. You lose that battle and it's over and we're failing badly.
Our borders provide our sovereignty and our culture and they are wide open with the politicians waving them all in -- don't worry about the laws we give you sanctuary.
You wonder why we have this drug culture where laws don't matter.
Well the politicians imported it to empower their jobs. You say you don't like the violence with your kids getting shot -- well stay in your damn house then is the politicians answer. Go cower in the corner as we let them in by the truckloads. NO you can't have guns to protect yourself. Theirs another political self empowering move.
THESE illegal immigrants don't accept OUR culture, our borders, our language...you know...all those so-called little things we're told to sweat so of course they are not going to obey any laws.
They are here illegally and SO WHAT. They don't have to learn our language, accept our culture. They will bring their culture of violence and crimes and political corruption here and force it upon all of us.
Step one of Broken Windows
I say round up the estimated over half million illegals in the state and ship them to the back of the LEGAL immigration line. We catch you here a second time illegally and you're permanently barred.
Yeah...we're catching up to Mexico kids. The mass graves and the be-headings are not far behind. We already have the shoot-outs.
WRT "we pour all our ca$h into our top rated school system. remember...its all about the children
7/10/2011 04:50:00 AM"
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No! They tell you it's about the children and the schools but the money goes to the corporations for bailouts under the guise of saving jobs.
The little doe eyed children and teary eyed teachers are just political tools that we can whip out -- threaten with pay cuts and career be-headings to win the so-called hearts and minds of the people -- to accept higher taxes with a life resembling indentured servitude.
WRT "A new class of 1635 recruits!!!!!
Oh sorry, thats in New York.
Why do they have money? Perhaps they have people who know how to ask for grant money from the Feds.'
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Go check how many aldermen NYC has per capita compared to Chicago.
There's a lot of money right there.
Secondly, what's the deal with Chicago gas prices consistently being the highest in the nation!?
And we're not talking a few pennies by the way.
We are talking forty...fifty...sixty cents more per gallon!
Avg USA gas price is $3.60. Chicago it's $4.25 for reg and $4.50 for premium!
Is this where Chicago is going to get the money to throw the aldermen a party for the cities 175th anniversary before it all comes crashing down with the 2012 summits?
For this...for all this tax money we are told stay inside. Fifty of the best and brightest aldermen...their solution to crime don't go out. That's our tax dollars at work.
Why do they have money? Perhaps they have people who know how to ask for grant money from the Feds.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/meet-the-future-officers-1635-strong
7/09/2011 11:36:00 AM
They have a CITY income tax. That's why they have money. So, be careful what you wish for.
7/10/2011 12:14:00 AM
Get ahold of yourself man.
You know exactly why the police are there. You would like them there all the time to protect you from your own children.
Anonymous said...
Give me two weeks and I could show you how to put 1000 new cops on the street.No cuts,no taxes no BS!
7/10/2011 09:08:00 AM
"you got that right"
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