Brilliant Idea!
Let's form a new Special Police Unit!
Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) on Wednesday proposed the city create a special police unit in the North Halsted Street entertainment district to address concerns about recent violence there.
Tunney’s proposal follows a videotaped attack on a man Sunday night in the 3300 block of North Halsted in the Lake View neighborhood’s Boystown section — the center of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
The video shows about 10 young men kicking and punching a 25-year-old man who was stabbed in the melee. No one is in custody in the attack. Police don’t believe the incident was a hate crime.
Is this guy paying attention? J-Fled stripped the districts to the bone populating an endless parade of redundant units. G-Mac just spent the first 60 days disbanding any unit he could find to put cops back in the Patrol Division in a last ditch effort to maintain control during the hot summer months. We're still expecting the Detectives to be ordered back into uniform at some point should July and August prove to be exceptionally bloody.
And now Tunney wants a "special unit" formed? This guy hasn't been paying attention at all.
And now Tunney wants a "special unit" formed? This guy hasn't been paying attention at all.
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posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
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"Let's form a new Special Police Unit!"
Ooooh! Special! Like Special Olympics?
How about each of us be put into our own "special" unit, like an Army of One or a One Man Wolf Pack?
Notice Tunney spoke about the number of police on Michigan Avenue, etc., but he didn't dare tread on the south & west side districts that recently received a large influx of officers courtesy of MSF & TRU.
"Let's form a new Special Police Unit!"
Yeah! We could call it something cool like Mobile Strike Unit, Targeted Response Force or Special Operations...uh, wait. Forget that last one...
CPD: Reinventing the wheel, every day.
The 023rd district has been decimated. The manpower has been crushed for a long time now. We have no one working and there are very few young coppers in 023. The only bodies we get are old timers. About 6 years ago there were 250 patrolmen in 023, now there may be 180 tops! 35th street could care less about 023.
Oh, sure. Any other time, Tunney looks down his nose at and treats coppers like shit.
Just another arrogant elected official, as far as I'm concerned.
And now Tunney wants a "special unit" formed? This guy hasn't been paying attention at all.
kinda tough to pay attention with his head shoved way up his ass.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
Sorry, SCC but you are wrong on this one....
"G-Mac just spent the first 60 days disbanding any unit he could find to put cops back in the Patrol Division in a last ditch effort to maintain control during the hot summer months."
That move was done as part of the lies errr, I mean smokescreen of RHAM putting the 650 officers he promised in his campaign on the streets. At his little press conference...the first 30 days in office....he had an easel behind him with 2 checklists on poster board. One of the items he had checked of was "Putting an additional 500 officers on the street.". That move had nothing to do with maintaining control of the streets.
So an alderman finally backs up beat cops and talks honestly to the media and goes on the record about the CPD being down 3000-4000 officers and you go after him?
He wants enough police officers sent back from the ghetto to his ward to keep people who actually pay taxes safe from the marauding youths from the hood and you mock him?
He wants the same kind of police coverage that the fat cats on Rush and Division streets have and you ridicule him?
There are barely enough officers in 023 on mids to man all of the beat cars, much less pay any special attention to hot spots. He's saying I don't care where you find the bodies, find them.
Perhaps you should take the time to read his whole statement. In case you can't find it, heres's the part of his statement that talks about police resources.
I, for one, am happy an alderman is calling out the police brass about how undermanned we are.
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I firmly believe that because we are an entertainment destination, it is important that the police districts serving the 44th Ward have the number of officers assigned to them appropriate to the influx of people we see daily and nightly and not just be geared to the number of residents.
It is unrealistic to expect beat officers to cover areas where there are high concentrations of entertainment and hospitality venues. That is why I have proposed an "entertainment detail" be formed to assist the beat officers.
Unfortunately, at the same time that we’ve seen the number of people drawn to our neighborhoods increase dramatically, because of budgetary constraints and hundreds of retirements in each of the last few years, the number of Chicago police officers on the street citywide is estimated to have perhaps fallen by 3-4,000 officers. That’s not acceptable, but it’s the budgetary reality for all Chicagoans at this time.
I have requested that the 19th and 23rd Districts provide me up-to-date information on exactly how many officers are on the street from 10 pm to 6 am every day of the week.
If the number of officers appears to be insufficient, I want you to know that I will ask the command staff of the Chicago Police Department to do anything possible to get more officers on the street during the later hours.
Taxpayers demand fiscal responsibility. Get that aldermanic axe swinging. And while you're at it any city employee or ex-city employee who want bodyguards with a car the going rate is .55 cents a mile and $75.00 per hour for each officer.
Taxpayers will settle for nothing less. I know you all can here me!!!!!!!
I'm so fed up with this cesspool of corruption I know that if I do end up in hell it can't be any worse than it is here. On the bright side you'll always know the weather forecast.
this guy may just get his "special unit" because of his "special status."
Nice we now are back to makinging specail units. With special patrols. I would like to know more about all this and whats so special about it!!!!!!
The district 22 CAPS meeting is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6jNFrhxB4
Takes a while for the camera person to settle down and the audio is not the greatest.
The crowd was huge and emotional.
I was waiting for the tar and feathers to be brought out and that was only halfway thru part one of six.
Between the Wrigleyville bars and the boystown bars I think half of the on duty patrol officers in TWO districts are deployed on weekend nights there.
Lack of manpower is only an issue for the rest of the districts during those Mardi Gras like hours.
The nightlife owners in Boystown need to up their security and coordinate better with the PD. More cops need to be on bikes and out of cars because it's too crowded to travel quickly in cars there and all the negative activity is happening within a relatively small area anyway.
Greg Hinz who lives there wrote about the problems for Crains yesterday.
Here's the link
Here's a good paragraph:
"The real problem is cultural, mixed with high crime rates and a lack of respect for others among a rising number young people from inner cities. As in what's been happening on North Michigan Avenue. Or last year's Taste of Chicago problems."
I do disagree with Hinz on one thing. Most of the trouble causing youth are gay. He had their race correct, but their sexual identity wrong. Unless your typical urban banger is now wearing makeup and capri pants I'm fairly sure I'm right on that point.
Piss bums and vagrants beware -- "Entertainment Detail Norte" has arrived.
PO Navy Seal in 024 but not on SWAT.
7/05/2011 11:20:00 PM
Did he try out for SWAT? If so how did he score/rank? I think the swat test for PO's was probably the fairest test I've ever taken on this job. If he did try out and didn't make it I would question if he was in fact a navy seal. Most guys in SF don't go around telling everybody what they did in the military. They usually allow their actions to speak for themselves.
Channel 2 reported that Ald Tunney requested a listing of how many district officers are working each shift. I'd like to hear what hdqs is going to tell him.
They also showed clips of the community meeting. I liked hearing the community demand to know why cpd is reporting this as an isolated incident when the whole neighborhood is aware of numerous violent incidents.
Sadly I would hate to be the supervisor at that meeting who hadto answer that question. Hope the community knows it isn't us, its only exempt, superintendent and the mayor who lies about crime in Chicago.
Rainbow vest covers or pink shirts. They already have more rights than John Q.
How about we just charge the offenders with Agg. Bat. for the knifing and the rest with mob action? Why a special unit?
It's like more gun control laws. If you do not penalize people for the ones on the book now what good are new ones.
TRP
I like to think of the Chicago Police Department as I did my intramural basketball team - we play a "zone" defense.
I don't think we have enough guys to play a "man-to-man" defense there Ald. Sweetlips
The good Alderman carries a gun, so let him do it.
Just another interest of a special interest group saying they deserve special treatment.
Funny, shootings and stabbings happen daily in some districts, but 3 stabbings in 3 weeks means they're more deserving than other residents for special treatment.
Here’s the problem, there were officers trying to clean up Halsted, but the community groups in the area started to cry, complain, and beef to IPRA that the big bad police were picking on the homeless teens in the community. Maybe you should back the police and not take the side of transgender junkie prostitutes, drug dealers, and petty criminals.
Now the heat placed on Halsted and the police will be the bad guys again. I say fuck you and deal with the problem that YOU created yourselves.
So what, the rest of the city has crime too. So why special stuff for "Boyztown"?
Eliminate the aldercreatures by half Save $$$ = there you have extra po po
I have requested that the 19th and 23rd Districts provide me up-to-date information on exactly how many officers are on the street from 10 pm to 6 am every day of the week.
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That's part of Tunney's statement. How can an alderscum make a district commander provide manpower statistics????
Tunney is a tool. He got caught talking on his cell and driving. So what would any other pompous "lawmaker" do? He changed the ordinance. Just like Mell.
Looks like we're about to have the alderman tell us who gets to work what car, with whom,who gets time due.....nano management has arrived!
I don't see where this guys is wrong. All he is calling for is manpower in 019 and 023 be brought up to where it used to be, especially on midnights. Several years ago 023 had 2 foot men and sometimes an additional 2 PAPVs to patrol the entertainment zones. Now they barely field all 9 beat cars and the wagon. I don't think he's calling for a seperate unit as much as having enough resources in those districts to assign a "detail" to cover the bar and restaurant areas so the beat cars are free to do their jobs. If his bitching gets some cops hired, I'll back his comments.
As a non-police officer, there are a lot of calls for special this and task force that. If what you guys say is true, then adequately staffing the force would alleviate soem of the need for all these one-off special forces.
The video shows a bunch of idiots fighting, and then someone got hurt, correct? They should have listened to their mothers.
You can't police stupid. Stupid is just stupid and we have to have a little Darwinism or they just keep polluting the gene pool.
When i came on the job, and man oh man, that was a few years ago. The Prairie ave and Wabash districts still had blocks and blocks of bars and clubs. Each district had what they called " umbrella cars" whose only job was to patrol and check on those bars and clubs. It kept things down a lot. However, back then people had respect for the police. It does not seem so today.
You can blame the third watch captain for the lack of manpower. His micro-micro-managing drove a number of younger working officers out of the district. How are those seven missions a night working out?
Why not? The wimpy 014th district has had its Wicker Park bar detail for almost ten years now. Given to the district when little Maria was the Commander and they had a rapist running around. The detail is a joke. They pluck two officers from 025, 015, and 017 to help staff it. Might not sound like a lot of manpower being wasted, but it's the point that 014 should be able to clean up their own back yard without this stupid detail being in existence.
first we have special units
then we don't
well perhaps with a snap of Rahmbo's magic fingers they could
a. take out the volunteers at the school detail( that should free quite a bit)
b. perhaps get help from the "The
Pink Angels i really don't think
we actually need real police
just eyes and ears but see how it goes
c. simple hire more police
How can this post go up without a visit from the Ultimate Tactical Warrior? He's been undercover investigating Gaylords in the Near Northwest Side, but Boystown merits a special assignment to Tunney's Special Police Unit.
if you put me back in msf i will be happy to go up there and stop the sh*t going on. You put a platoon from msf in 023 for a week and the problems will be gone. Supt mccarthy, let us back!! Let us be the real police again instead of riding around in a beat car doing crap like writing burglar anovs and writing paper... Let the guys who know how to do police work do it! Let us back, we will turn 023 upside down I PROMISE YOU THAT!
Anonymous said...
PO Navy Seal in 024 but not on SWAT.
7/05/2011 11:20:00 PM
Did he try out for SWAT? If so how did he score/rank? I think the swat test for PO's was probably the fairest test I've ever taken on this job. If he did try out and didn't make it I would question if he was in fact a navy seal. Most guys in SF don't go around telling everybody what they did in the military. They usually allow their actions to speak for themselves.
7/07/2011 03:44:00 AM
Nothing is legit in the City.You need a heavy phone call to get on SWAT.
That Tunney guy is a real asshole.
For lack of seating, that guy in the balcony calls out Tunney's "safety issue" bullshit when the citizen points out school kids sit up there and Tunney just ignores him.
People packed in to the first level isn't a safery issue?
What is Tunney worried about a sniper being up there?
These Chicago aldermen think they are fucking Kings.
Not a cop; not a Rainboy.
How about Martial Law with a curfew in the entertainment zone?
Anyone on the street after 10 pm risks getting shot...oh wait..we already have that risk don't we and it's not working?
off topic: Can any officers out there tell me if the Folk and Roots Festival taking place this coming weekend has been taken over by the gang element? It used to be the nicest event with normal festival-goers unlike what's happened to our lakefront, Navy Pier and Mag Mile. Thanks!
This person said it perfectly: "He wants enough police officers sent back from the ghetto to his ward to keep people who actually pay taxes safe from the marauding youths from the hood and you mock him?"
Reshuffle. Some parts of the city will always be violent. Those of us who pay the most taxes because we earned the right to live in a nicer area demand more protection. Or we could just always move our tax dollars to the suburbs.
Whats in a Name?
Anyways...
You know they been using these Border Collies on the beaches to chase off the gulls that are allegedly creating the high bacteria counts that endanger the citizens.
So I'm thinking that's the way to go in twenty-three.
Border Collies.
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/dogs-101-border-collie.html
Now there's an image for you -- who doesn't like dogs eh?
Look at the way they give the sheep the eye and their ability to herd the mobs of sheep.
If we label the roaming crime mobs as high bacteria counts and use Border Collie patrols it conjures up images of back to nature doesn't it and that's so nice.
When the high bacteria count invades your neighborhood you can't hold anyone accountable for an act of nature right -- the politicians gotta love that -- so see how well that name works.
Wolf packs sounds so mean and hateful I'm a bit surprised that no-one has been charged for using that term.
On the other hand border collies sound playful and fun...and we all like fun..how can you be against fun...and nature.
So the next time you get a call for high bacteria counts at the Walgreens turn loose the border collies and watch them work the herd keeping the high bacteria counts in check. Heh..try and outrun them go ahead try.
That's all. That's how you do it.
Put more dogs on the street Daug.
So an alderman finally backs up beat cops and talks honestly to the media and goes on the record about the CPD being down 3000-4000 officers and you go after him?
He wants enough police officers sent back from the ghetto to his ward to keep people who actually pay taxes safe from the marauding youths from the hood and you mock him?
He wants the same kind of police coverage that the fat cats on Rush and Division streets have and you ridicule him?
There are barely enough officers in 023 on mids to man all of the beat cars, much less pay any special attention to hot spots. He's saying I don't care where you find the bodies, find them.
Perhaps you should take the time to read his whole statement. In case you can't find it, heres's the part of his statement that talks about police resources.
I, for one, am happy an alderman is calling out the police brass about how undermanned we are.
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I firmly believe that because we are an entertainment destination, it is important that the police districts serving the 44th Ward have the number of officers assigned to them appropriate to the influx of people we see daily and nightly and not just be geared to the number of residents.
It is unrealistic to expect beat officers to cover areas where there are high concentrations of entertainment and hospitality venues. That is why I have proposed an "entertainment detail" be formed to assist the beat officers.
Unfortunately, at the same time that we’ve seen the number of people drawn to our neighborhoods increase dramatically, because of budgetary constraints and hundreds of retirements in each of the last few years, the number of Chicago police officers on the street citywide is estimated to have perhaps fallen by 3-4,000 officers. That’s not acceptable, but it’s the budgetary reality for all Chicagoans at this time.
I have requested that the 19th and 23rd Districts provide me up-to-date information on exactly how many officers are on the street from 10 pm to 6 am every day of the week.
If the number of officers appears to be insufficient, I want you to know that I will ask the command staff of the Chicago Police Department to do anything possible to get more officers on the street during the later hours.
7/07/2011 01:18:00 AM
Trust me, this alderman does not have the back of the police. He's the first one to arrogantly say, "Don't you know who I am?"
(Had to laugh when one of my guys said, "No, and I don't care".
Please note, Tunney did NOT advocate for more police and simply noted we are short.
He said he wants more in the
'entertainment district' at specific times. In other words, he thinks only 'his' people are deserving of police protection and he doesn't care who else gets deprived of protection as long as he gets what he's demanding.
It's easy. I am assigned in the ghetto. I like to lock up people that need to be locked up. Pay me time and a half on my days off, and I will gladly work in places like that. It'd be nice to occasionally interact with people that work and pay taxes.
Hey tunney call burke,daley,and neely there is a whole platoon of coppers you could use! Naw the millionaires know you have no balls and are scared to speak out! Hey Tom how is your restaurant Ann Sather's doing? Maybe use the millions you take off the top there and hire security,off-duty coppers come on Tom man-up err sorry whatever you call it there!
I suggest that the new unit will be called Brokeback Wolfpack.
So an alderman finally backs up beat cops and talks honestly to the media and goes on the record about the CPD being down 3000-4000 officers and you go after him?
IN RESPONSE: he never backed us up before this.....was he marching with us when daley was around? was he speaking up about patrol numbers back then?
if this video didn't exist....then the attention wouldn't exist either.....and now he is on the hot seat.....and now he wants more police!!!!!!!
when the city begins burning, until then, will people realize that they need the police!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tunney is a company man. He's afraid his businesses of over priced cinnabons will suffer. Now! He cares whats going on, as alderman he has allowed for the police department to be decimated. Halsted has been at the throws of thuggery for over 4years. It use to be multiple bands of youths, for decades, that hung around, hustled, panhandled, were involved in occasional thefts and at times fought each other. But that has changed. Tunney, with his nose so far up in the air, allowed Daley to downsize the lowly police force, not once had we heard tunney call for more hires, never! Now he wants this new detail. He finally let the kitty cat out of the bag, by stating the cpd is short about 3000 p/os. He did not say that he is going to propose the city hire more police. His statement implied the redistribution of police resources, again. Tunneys ward makes a shit load of money, for the business owners and the city. The powers that be could hold rahmmys feet to the fire, but they wont. They look at police officers not as valued members of their community, but as serfs and commoners. Many an officer loved to patrol the district, its a great community. Its to bad the politics and the politicians are so full of it and have to wait for hell to break loose, before they start to listen. Hopefully its not to late. that community took almost 30 years to become what it is, it would be a shame if it got bad again under tunneys watch.
Rainbow Force!
Yeah, well, I work for CPD and the SEALs haven't called me yet...what gives?! One dosen't guarantee the other, although I'm still waiting for the SEAL Team 6 to call me-no try outs necessary. I told you, I'm CPD!
Anonymous said...
So an alderman finally backs up beat cops and talks honestly to the media and goes on the record about the CPD being down 3000-4000 officers and you go after him?
He wants enough police officers sent back from the ghetto to his ward to keep people who actually pay taxes safe from the marauding youths from the hood and you mock him?
He wants the same kind of police coverage that the fat cats on Rush and Division streets have and you ridicule him?
7/07/2011 01:18:00 AM
The politics of policing is an odd thing, Mr. Anonymous. Coppers get tired of being pawns in the eyes of politicians. Jody Weis stripped North side districts of manpower in an effort to provide extra service to the ghetto dwellers in the form of special 'response units' and 'mobile forces'. When there was insufficient outcry from the taxpaying citizens, EVEN MORE officers were diverted away.
Enter Rahm Emanual and his campaign lie... I mean pledge, to put 1000 more officers on the street. Four hundred fifty some officers working in the ghetto had their unit of assignment changed, but CONTINUED PATROLLING WHERE THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN PATROLLING, namely NOT on the North side.
We police officers saw this coming. There was no other way for this to play out:
More cops = less crime.
Less cops = more crime, (though, interestingly, if there are less officers to take criminal reports then there will be fewer REPORTED crimes).
So now, after YEARS of Daley letting the police manpower dwindle to DANGEROUSLY LOW levels with nary a peep out of the City Council, NOW we are having a rude awakening and everybody wants 'special police units'.
So, Mr. Anonymous, are we "going after him [Alderman Tunney]"?
Are we "mocking him"?
Are we "ridiculing him"? You bet we are, because he is one of the 50Aldermen who allowed this situation to develop to begin with!
Well if 018 continues to have their creepy crew on the Entertainment detail one is definetly needed in 023. Every night 023 mids cannot man multiple beat cars or a wagon. There is probably 10-12 officers on the street ,tops. Yet , this bozo commander continues to stash people inside on ghost assignments and foot posts. Also, the rapid response cars on afternoons get out so early because the 3rd watch Captain doesn't like the Midnight bosses. Commander KB has no management skills or decision making ability. Her incompentance has finally been exploited. Get us some help before one of us on mids gets seriously hurt.
The media still reports a police force of 13,000+ strong. They continue to quote a budgeted strength to the public when the actual number of police employed is several thousand less. Faulty reporting at best, and indicitive of a lack of talent of those employed to report issues these days. The news would have a great story if they reported on budgeted strength compared to actual officers, and the huge amount of money that is in between those two numbers. As far as Funny-Tunney, he is demonstrating a detachment to his ward. This subject is serious and he is telling everyone he does not know anything about very important issues affecting his voting block or the city in general. Sleep sheep, good luck Chicago
lets have a special unit on haslstead... iam sure after a week or two of numerous street stops, dope and lude conduct arrests there will be a bunch of beefs, cr#'s and the unit will be disbanded
Did he try out for SWAT? If so how did he score/rank? I think the swat test for PO's was probably the fairest test I've ever taken on this job. If he did try out and didn't make it I would question if he was in fact a navy seal. Most guys in SF don't go around telling everybody what they did in the military. They usually allow their actions to speak for themselves.
If your friend didn't make it it is because he obviously didn't pass some part of it. Whether or not he wishes to discuss it is his decision. Many, many people fail the SWAT testing. Maybe he isn' really a SEAL, or maybe he didn't even really try out, but that doesn't really matter.
I wandered right through that mess minutes before the stabbing and about a half a block away, and the sidewalks were packed with almost all black and primarily gay males with their female friends, the majority of whom looked underage and who were loitering and cat-calling, I felt my spidey senses and got the hell out of there. I'm not gonna comment on deployment of cops in this district vs. S&W sides, but since Pride, its getting really bad and really hard to give yourself physical space away from a potentially dangerous "gang" when there are so many of them concentrated in such a small area....curfew enforcement?
The Center on Halsted must address their role in this.
SAD reality, this District has gone from 250 officers in a few years to about 180. The real SAD reality is that every District has gone through the same transformation. Really SAD REALITY......WE ARE NOT HIRING ENOUGH COPS TO KEEP UP WITH DEMAND!
FYI: This area rakes in the LARGEST amount from "liquor sale" taxes in the ENTIRE city,YES, more than Rush street, and way more than North avenue).
I suggest that the new unit will be called Brokeback Wolfpack.
7/07/2011 11:49:00 AM
HA!!! Thanks, I just just spit my Ketel and tonic all over my laptop. That was some funny shit.
Pandering to his constituency.
How is City Hall ever going to manage the G-8 conference? Will downtown and UICC areas go under full lockdown?
What about the poor students at UICC and Ignatius?
Anonymous said...
PO Navy Seal in 024 but not on SWAT.
7/05/2011 11:20:00 PM
Did he try out for SWAT? If so how did he score/rank? I think the swat test for PO's was probably the fairest test I've ever taken on this job. If he did try out and didn't make it I would question if he was in fact a navy seal. Most guys in SF don't go around telling everybody what they did in the military. They usually allow their actions to speak for themselves.
7/07/2011 03:44:00 AM
Nothing is legit in the City.You need a heavy phone call to get on SWAT.
7/07/2011 10:00:00 AM
The days of using a phone call to get to SWAT are over. The last two tryouts (POs & Sgts) were legit processes. Phone calls were attempted and failed. Candidates sank or swam on their scores alone.
There's no pay bump for SWAT. You have to come out of pocket for a lot of equipment. You have to be flexible in terms of your schedule as it changes frequently.
On the bright side, there are standards and it is legit.
Tunney has less of a clue than his damn sticky buns.
The only city department that isn't afraid of Tunny is Revenue.
Hey jerkoff HIRE MORE OFFICERS AND BACK US UP!!!!!!!!!!
SUPPORT OUR ACTIONS AND GET THE BULLSHIT COOK CO STATES ATTY OFFICE ON THE SAME TEAM AS US
I think I know why trouble of a certian element is hitting neighborhoods like 18 & 23.
With the projects gone, many of those model citizens who once lived in the projects have been spread-out and put in to rentals and condos throughout Chicagoland.
Lately in my condo building in 18, one of the few relatively modestly priced buildings left in 18, about $170-180K for a 750 sq. ft. 1 bd. rm.,, $500/mth assesment and $3,000/yr. in taxes, I have noticed some people wearin gangbanger shiek in the elevators and pool area.
The rentals on a 1 BRs in the bldg go for about $1,200/mth.
Here's the thing. I just learned, there was a CHA person here checking on some of the subsidized housing residents in the building. I was shocked. They are putting some of these people in the Gold Coast?? Did I mention these Sec. 8 tennants don't have JOBS?
Look, for the Liberals out there, I'm not opposed to giving someone a hand up. But in the real world, when these people, and by these people, I mean tattooed on the neck; pants down to the half of their ass; moving-in and pimping the white chick in to the studio next to you, well those people in the real world eventually take OVER your building and you pay them to do it cause you're paying your way and theirs in the taxes you pay.
Move 'em next to you and you'll know the drill.
I suspect the homies still in the hood come in 18, 23 and other neighbrhoods and hang out with the subsidized section 8's dotted throughout the city living in the subsidized relatively high rent housing.
Like that lady said during the election, "I want some Obama money".
Well, Obama is showing them the taxpayers money and I just outlined one of the ways.
Oh and these absentee landlord owners? A lot of them will rent to anybody because they are behind on mortgage paymens to the bank for the multiple of units they bought for that big Real Estate ride in to the sky ( which the taxpayer is also making up the slack) plus a whole shitload of these owners are claiming Senior and Homestead exemptions without even living in the fucking units.
Working Chicago taxpayers are getting HOSED.
Ya heard it here first.
not a cop
M Heart of a SEAL said...
Yeah, well, I work for CPD and the SEALs haven't called me yet...what gives?! One dosen't guarantee the other, although I'm still waiting for the SEAL Team 6 to call me-no try outs necessary. I told you, I'm CPD! 7/07/2011 12:46:00 PM
Well I work for CPD and the SEALS and Delta Force both call me for really hairy missions. Hell, they want me permanently. But I just tell them no. I owe it to this great city to be here fighting crime and the evil that lurks in it. SWAT doesn't want me because they think I'm too aggressive, a "loose cannon" the Commander called me. I even called my clout. He said I was too much of a liability. But hey, I'm not crying about. It is what it is. The point I'm making is that sometimes you're too good at what you do. So keep your chin up kid. Maybe its not your time yet.
That Tunney guy is a real asshole.
For lack of seating, that guy in the balcony calls out Tunney's "safety issue" bullshit when the citizen points out school kids sit up there and Tunney just ignores him.
People packed in to the first level isn't a safery issue?
What is Tunney worried about a sniper being up there?
These Chicago aldermen think they are fucking Kings.
Not a cop; not a Rainboy.
7/07/2011 10:13:00 AM
I was at the meeting and the guy who yelled at Tunney came up and apologized after. I heard Tunney tell him that the kids aren't even allowed up there for some reason. BTW, one of us went up and kicked the people out, not Tunney. He didn't care Big Mama Boehmer did.
God I hope this fiasco gets her bounced or she puts in her papers.
To 7/7/2011 @ 956am.... You sound like such a fucking pussy.... Like you would even know what the "real police" look like.... Why would you be so ashamed of writing anov's or burglar alarm citations?? Does it make you a lesser of a police officer? Maybe you think your better??? It's officers like yourself who ruin this department with your "I'm better than you attitude". Dig in and DO YOUR JOB OFFICER.
Please, please put our detectives back in uniform! Do you know how much a silk tie with matching socks costs these days?!
It's the same old story, cross dressing he-shes who want to control the area for dope sales. The will attack with knives anyone who poses a threat all the way up to murder. Anyone who has worked in Area 3 known of this as well as Ald. Tunney and his lackeys.
"I, for one, am happy an alderman is calling out the police brass about how undermanned we are."
Don't see why the police brass should be the ones eating shit on the manpower issue. The non-hiring was not their decision, but the Mayor Office and the City Council's. Tunney is playing a classic "blame him-not me" move.
Don't fall for it.
Sorry to the commenter on a SEAL not being able to pass swat! I worked in personal investigations before last month when terry hilliards friends took it over,and there are no current Navy SEALS on CPD! Call him out? What was his rank should be E-7,what is his MOS? Where did he train?
if you put me back in msf i will be happy to go up there and stop the sh*t going on. You put a platoon from msf in 023 for a week and the problems will be gone. Supt mccarthy, let us back!! Let us be the real police again instead of riding around in a beat car doing crap like writing burglar anovs and writing paper... Let the guys who know how to do police work do it! Let us back, we will turn 023 upside down I PROMISE YOU THAT!
7/07/2011 09:56:00 AM
Nice try troll. MSF wasn't organized by platoons. Idiot.
"Please note, Tunney did NOT advocate for more police and simply noted we are short.
He said he wants more in the
'entertainment district' at specific times."
Correct. He also didn't dare try to re-allocate police from the districts that just received a windfall of manpower when MSF & TRU were "detailed."
"I suggest that the new unit will be called Brokeback Wolfpack."
ROTFLMAO!! Bravo!
"On the bright side, there are standards and it is legit.
7/07/2011 08:07:00 PM"
Thanks for chiming in Lt. Hambone, equating legit w/ The CPD is like calling a prostitute a Physical Therapist
The days of using a phone call to get to SWAT are over. The last two tryouts (POs & Sgts) were legit processes. Phone calls were attempted and failed. Candidates sank or swam on their scores alone.
There's no pay bump for SWAT. You have to come out of pocket for a lot of equipment. You have to be flexible in terms of your schedule as it changes frequently.
On the bright side, there are standards and it is legit.
Dude if you have to defend something by saying its legit or for real it usually isnt. Having been there and seeing first hand the bullshit that goes on there I think you are drinking too much of the kool aid. Just saying.
if you put me back in msf i will be happy to go up there and stop the sh*t going on. You put a platoon from msf in 023 for a week and the problems will be gone. Supt mccarthy, let us back!! Let us be the real police again instead of riding around in a beat car doing crap like writing burglar anovs and writing paper... Let the guys who know how to do police work do it! Let us back, we will turn 023 upside down I PROMISE YOU THAT!
Mr MSF Stop your crying, all you guys from TRU and MSF did it to yourself! You guys worked 10 hr shifts, an hour was wasted with roll call and playing grab ass, then your two hour lunches, then you go make a one bag arrest and 6 officers go in with it! You might of spent 4-5 hours on patrol so don't tell me your the real police kid! You need to spend some time in the beat car and learn this job. I think it was great both Units were detailed to Districts, the new Supt should allow 50 officer, top producing Officers from both MSF and TRU become one unit that can be sent out and saturate areas but there was way too much dead weight in both those units
Lately in my condo building in 18, one of the few relatively modestly priced buildings left in 18, about $170-180K for a 750 sq. ft. 1 bd. rm.,, $500/mth assesment and $3,000/yr. in taxes, I have noticed some people wearin gangbanger shiek in the elevators and pool area.
The rentals on a 1 BRs in the bldg go for about $1,200/mth
This is why I made sure the condo building I moved into was 100% OWNER OCCUPIED. Owners are strictlt prohibited from renting their unit out Every resident has something invested in the welfare of the building. As opposed to some section 8'er, who doesn't give a shit. Our building is virtually free of crime. Everybody knows everybody else, and their regular visitors. It's a very secure building with a roving security patrol. Non residence can't get in unless buzzed in by a resident, after being seen on tv screen. Couple of years ago, a woman bought a unit here. She brought an "unsavory" element with...loud, music, walking the halls all times of night, and a violent domestic episode with her ghetto boyfriend. Long story short, she was asked to leave and the the association purchased her unit. Ghetto shit is strictly prohibited here! Should you do another condo move, I strongly suggest a 100% owner occupied building.
Nice try troll. MSF wasn't organized by platoons. Idiot.
7/08/2011 12:10:00 AM
TRU dat. It WAS organized into pontoons. Of idiots.
7/07/2011 01:18:00 AM
"an entertainment destination" , Really, is that what you fellows call that now?
"if you put me back in msf i will be happy to go up there and stop the sh*t going on. You put a platoon from msf in 023 for a week and the problems will be gone. Supt mccarthy, let us back!! Let us be the real police again instead of riding around in a beat car doing crap like writing burglar anovs and writing paper... Let the guys who know how to do police work do it! Let us back, we will turn 023 upside down I PROMISE YOU THAT!"
Oh, you'll turn it upside down allright. You'll flip it over and pound it into submission. MSF don't give a shit - Someone so much as looks suspicious you'll be throwing them up against the wall and nailing them to the bricks. MSF aint' afraid to break a sweat or get their hands dirty. In fact you'll be doing both all up an down the rainbow strip. You guys will be legendary, almost mystical. Men will fear you and at the the same time secretly desire to encounter you, kind of like the chupacabra. Men in bars will huddle in small groups and whisper of the unspeakable things you, the MSF'ers, the Purple Cobras have done to any men up and down Halsted street, in the alleys, the bars, the back seats of cars. I can see the headlines now: Purple Cobras turn Boystown Upside Down! When your thru raining justice down they won't be able to walk straight. Evil doers beware for the MSF'ers will make you poop donuts for a month. They'll be afraid to call you by name. Like the Jews of the old testament referred to God only as Yahweh the Purple Cobras name shall not pass their lips. Instead they shall call you the Honey Badgers!
to 7/711 0956hrs
If MSF was sent to 023 you can be sure there would be no nickel bags on the street. Nor MSF either as it takes them 4 po's and 4 hrs to process the one nickel bag arrest
That would clear up the problems in 023
Msf clown.....if you and the rest of your hair gel using buddies on that oh so special unit knew how useless you were in the districts you would watch your tongue. What is sooooo real police about a two bag weed pinch that takes eight special officers , three hours, and two processing rooms to finish. Mobile stroke force was never a factor in the ghetto....what makes you think you could be a factor in 023? Go back to putting on your spray tan before work and leave the policing up to those who can.
With high unemployment still looming, Tunney and other restaurant/bar owners can pool their profits into securing Lakeview, by hiring their own community security people.
"Well I work for CPD and the SEALS and Delta Force both call me for really hairy missions. Hell, they want me permanently. But I just tell them no. I owe it to this great city to be here fighting crime and the evil that lurks in it. SWAT doesn't want me because they think I'm too aggressive, a "loose cannon" the Commander called me. I even called my clout. He said I was too much of a liability. But hey, I'm not crying about. It is what it is. The point I'm making is that sometimes you're too good at what you do. So keep your chin up kid. Maybe its not your time yet."
Ultimate Tactical Warrior, is that you???
I'd be happy just to see a police car on my block!
1:00 AM Anonymous said...
"Well I work for CPD and the SEALS and Delta Force both call me for really hairy missions. Hell, they want me permanently. But I just tell them no. I owe it to this great city to be here fighting crime and the evil that lurks in it. SWAT doesn't want me because they think I'm too aggressive, a "loose cannon" the Commander called me. I even called my clout. He said I was too much of a liability. But hey, I'm not crying about. It is what it is. The point I'm making is that sometimes you're too good at what you do. So keep your chin up kid. Maybe its not your time yet."
Ultimate Tactical Warrior, is that you???
7/09/2011 12:55:00 AM
No, its not the Ultimate Tactical Douchebag. He isn't qualified to even shine my boots. I'm The Real Deal. You'll be hearing more from me in between assignments. Anyway, my beeper is going off. It's probably JSOC again. Until next time, be safe.
The Real Deal
Before an "entertainment team" is formed one must look at the current use or rather misuse of department resources in the 23rd Dsitrict. The problem on halsted St. usually results from a "brewing" of thuggery, in other words, it builds up during the early evening and climaxes( no pun intended) in the late/early morning hours. Back now to look at the current utilization of the current resources that are on hand. First off, the 30 Sector in 023 is where Boystown lies, with a small stretch into the 20 Sector. Every single tour on 3rd Watch the 30 Sector cars are sent to Uptown in the 10 Sector to participate in "Missions" created by Capt. TJL. Between 5-7 Mission a Day are run on 3rd Watch with the cars held down on these mission. Every day a 30 sector car is on these Mission which means that for most of the tour 1/3 and sometimes 2/3 of the 30 Sector are unmanned by beat cars allowing this manifestation of lawlessness and street thuggery to manifest itself untill full culmination of criminal acts. Also there is an officer assigned to a foot post in the area between Halsted/Clark/Addison every day on 3rd Watch, but this officer really works the Desk. These lineup sheets are sent downtown listing the officer as a foot post when in reality he/she works the desk (Is this a Rule 14? False Official Report). I wonder what Capt TJL would tell Ald. Tunney about this foot post? HHHMMMMM????.......... Secondly there are TOOOO many officers assigned to the front office and CAPS office. Do we really need a "quality of life car" on 3rd Watch that starts at 1200 hrs and ends whenever the officer feels like it. So we have the 30 Sector not only down beat cars while working Missions in Uptown, there are no Sergeants working that Sector either. The 30 Sector in 023 gets the LEAST AMOUNT OF POLICE SERVICE IN THE DISTRICT!!!!! Go ahead Ald. Tunney look at the lineup sheets for 3rd Watch, its all right there. Furthermore the Capt. on 3rd Watch has driven out all the old timers with his micro-management of everything that occurs on 3rd Watch. One just has to ask why no Lieutenant has submitted a Bid for the 3rd Watch Lt.s opening. This speaks volumes as to the ineptness of leadership by Capt. TJL on the 3rd watch in 023. So to sum it up, too many Missions with 30 sector cars in Uptown leaving 30 Sector virtually with no police coverage, no sergeants assigned to 30 sector, quality of life car that goes home by 1900 hrs everyday, a false foot post made by the WC all the while this officer works the desk, the Lt's who will NOT bid for the 3rd Watch, and loos of veteran officers. It all starts with leadership, well, WE DONT HAVE IT HERE.
023 has a bike unit also that can change hours and do a mission or two on Halsted. Instead of the sgt and that team leaving after capt TL leaves, they should stay the tour and do some real work. Some of us just had our hours changed, how about them? Mismanagement at its finest.
To the last poster, maybe the reason your hours were changed is because you're a little pimp who would give up his fellow watch officers like you just did on an open public blog. Get a life you rat bastard!
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