McCarthy Apologizes
The only question is, "Why?"
We get that he's the head of the organization, but he wasn't even on our radar for an apology. He wasn't here. He had nothing to do with this report. No disrespect, but he probably wouldn't know Officer Bailey's name in any event and quite frankly, we wouldn't expect him to. He has no ties to our fallen except in passing as a part of the thin blue line in cities across America. We wouldn't presume to know the names and circumstances of every NYPD copper who was killed in the line of duty.
We would, however, expect our own exempt staff to remember Officer Bailey's name. Especially with the surrounding publicity after his murder. Part of Daley's bodyguard detail; killed a month prior to retirement; one of three officers murdered in a particularly short period of time; eulogized by the mayor himself. We have no reason to believe McCarthy would have known any of this.
But a whole bunch of other people should have. And they are the ones who should be apologizing.
UPDATE: The video of McCarthy addressing this debacle was in the Tribune "beta video" section, which we now can't seem to find. Anyone have the link or did the Tribune pull it like the rest of the media has been pulling the gang banger photo?
We get that he's the head of the organization, but he wasn't even on our radar for an apology. He wasn't here. He had nothing to do with this report. No disrespect, but he probably wouldn't know Officer Bailey's name in any event and quite frankly, we wouldn't expect him to. He has no ties to our fallen except in passing as a part of the thin blue line in cities across America. We wouldn't presume to know the names and circumstances of every NYPD copper who was killed in the line of duty.
We would, however, expect our own exempt staff to remember Officer Bailey's name. Especially with the surrounding publicity after his murder. Part of Daley's bodyguard detail; killed a month prior to retirement; one of three officers murdered in a particularly short period of time; eulogized by the mayor himself. We have no reason to believe McCarthy would have known any of this.
But a whole bunch of other people should have. And they are the ones who should be apologizing.
UPDATE: The video of McCarthy addressing this debacle was in the Tribune "beta video" section, which we now can't seem to find. Anyone have the link or did the Tribune pull it like the rest of the media has been pulling the gang banger photo?
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posted by SCC at 12:35 AM
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Where is the link to his apology?
Or a link to where and when this subject was brought to his attention?
gmac is finding out what morons we have as gold stars,hopefully these fools will be back in the districts soon.
I've been losing respect for McCarthy with every stupid move he has made...
...on this occasion, if he did apologize, he probably does it because he is ashamed of those exempts.
It's like being at a bar with your obnoxious drunk buddy after he makes a fool of himself in front of the a group of hot chicks...
...just tell the ladies, "I apologize for my friend, he's half retarded, NOW, who wants to come back to my condo"
And the tribune has hidden or removed the video
Did I miss something?
McSupe apologized for Officer Bailey's name being on the activity log??
Who sent that order? I guess you can lipstick on a pig.
More clout heavy, GED idiots.
While driving in to work tue, it was a top story on wbbm 780. SCC was mentioned for calling out the dept namely skahill, on this f-up .
Have to admit that the new Supt. looks and sounds a thousand times better than the Caveman Weiss ever did. McGruff looks like a real cop. Weiss looked like some kind of genetic experiment gone wrong.
Well, SCC, the reason he is the one who apologizes is for the very reasons you mention. Since he was not one of the inattentive idiots who signed off on the order, his apology prevents one of those others from having to apologize and take the blame, thus not creating any heat for those poor, so-overworked-that-they-can't-read-an-order exempts.
If Rahm told McPuppet to fall on the sword on this one, then who is pulling RAHM's strings???
It's really a shame that there are no police bosses or elected officials anymore that are willing to stand up and say what SHOULD BE said everytime the media or baby momma or daddy or even our own inept exempts screw up. No one ever has a problem acusing the blue shirts of screwing up, even when they didn't...
Slain cop mistakenly listed on report of low-performing officers
Sun-Times Staff reports
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Michael Bailey was one of the names on a list of low-performing Chicago Police officers sent to supervisors earlier this month.
Their work activity was “lower than other officers performing the same assignment” from Jan. 1 through June 6, the memo said.
The problem: Bailey was shot to death outside his house in July 2010 during an apparent robbery attempt after completing work on a security detail for then-Mayor Richard M. Daley.
The list — with other officers’ names besides Bailey’s blacked out — was recently posted on the Second City Cop blog, which comments on the Chicago Police Department. The anonymous blog demanded an apology from the department.
On Tuesday, police Supt. Garry McCarthy was asked about the mistake during an unrelated news conference.
“It’s embarrassing, don’t get me wrong,” he said. “But by the same token, it’s a mistake, not a mistake of the heart.”
McCarthy added that he understands “how things can slip through.”
http://www.suntimes.com/mobile/6721663-463/slain-cop-mistakenly-listed-on-report-of-low-performing-officers.html
Accountability. The Witches of Eastwick can do as they please with the end result being only praise. No repercusions for faulty, shotty, inaccurate, insufficient, incorrect or ignorant work. Only praise.
Resignations tendered would be the least they could do as a show of remorse and regret for their actions. Problem is, they have none, as well as no accountability.
Great examples we have to follow. Another problem we face is if we follow that very example we are shown we get slaughtered!
He should apologize for the ignorance of his command staff every day. He should apologize for lying for the mayor every day. He should apologize for kissing Phather Phlager's wanna be black ass and anti-American comments at St. Sabina.
why would anyone think our exempts would know Baileys name, they have their heads so far up their asses thats the only world they know.
gmac is finding out what morons we have as gold stars,hopefully these fools will be back in the districts soon.
7/27/2011 12:50:00 AM
hopefully, these fools will take the hint and retire/resign.
O.T....... LT. from confidential (I.A.D.)has been stripped, take that to the bank..........
Okay so Chief SKAHILL signs off on the reports what about Chief RIVERA signing off on it and two others they all should be dumped.
LT. from I.A.D. has been stripped
At the press conference, DTEB was standing right behind G-Mac falling asleep....surprisingly he didn't bob his head....dude gots a problem
First, McPuppet apologizes. Unacceptable. Can some of these exempt dummies.
Second, Tribune, WGN-TV and others filtering the news and cropping pictures. Unacceptable.
If people think they are getting the story from these sources they are sadly mistaken.
Time to point out the inaccuracies.
This "Chief" Skahill needs to be demoted back to a blue shirt tomorrow. Never to again get a white shirt. She should be on mignights in 007 so she can learn how to be a police officer again.
OT: Can anyone tell me is it just 012 getting sent down to 35th to get drug tested because of a few bad apples. It seems like an unusual amount people being sent down.
Jersey is out of touch. Lets Chicago gold Satrs run allover him. Is he in charge?
If he is going to apologize he should apologize for the ineptitude of the command staff and his inability so far to take the bull by the horns and make some changes. This incident is outrageous and an insult to the name of not only Mike Bailey but every CPD officer killed in the line of duty. "You will never be forgotten" - bullshit!
Anonymous said...
gmac is finding out what morons we have as gold stars,hopefully these fools will be back in the districts soon.
7/27/2011 12:50:00 AM
And what... bring in more New Yorkers!?!?
Some of the exempts are decent people and maybe we can get one of them to replace the McGeneralissimo in the not too distant future.
Can't you idiots take an apology with good grace? He apologized because he's in charge. Remember "the buck stops here?" That's what this means. You ought to be happy to have a leader willing to man up.
gmac is finding out what morons we have as gold stars,hopefully these fools will be back in the districts soon
I think I speak the entire 011 District when I say "No thanks. We're good!"
Here's the only apology that would unfuck the situation:
"I'm sorry I didn't fire these loathesome fucks when I 1st took this job. But I fully intend to correct my error"
Nothing will come of this, Skahill and the two knuckleheads will skate. The fall guys will be the Sgt or PO that compiled the list and wrote the to/from for Skahill.
But, if PO Bailey is still listed on the books, that means he is still counted as manpower. The other posters are correct--how many retired, dead or otherwise terminated POs are still being counted as manpower? I know an officer who left CPD months ago for greener pastures and he is still listed as working when an alpha check is done.
I call on John Kass or Mark Brown to follow up on this, those two live for this stuff.
Anonymous said...
Your fearless leader was just on TV saying it shouldn't have happened but that it was "just a mistake" - some mistake. CYA Jag-off.
7/26/2011 05:43:00 PM
As usual when an exempt fucks up (Cuello, Skahill, Brown, etc etc etc)it's just a mistake, and the bosses laugh it off and nothing happens in any sort of punishment.
But we(lowly p.o.s) make a mistake after a quick err in judgement and we are disciplined monetarily (suspensions), fired, or put in prison(Cozzi). Fuck this. 20 years of pushing these broken down beat cars, I'm done. I could pull the pin anytime now. The less percentage I will receive on my pension by leaving now may be worth my happiness and sanity. Thanks to those meritorious retards and the asshole mayor for fucking up this city and this department.
He can keep his applogy how about sending Ts back to career service rank.
OFFICER BAILEY,IF HE HADN'T BEEN SHOT,WOULD HAVE BEEN RETIRED BY NOW,AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ON ANY LIST !
THE SUPT. was seen in the news at the memorial service held in the first district,kissing the hand of Officer Bailey's widow,mere days before this. I would hope,that he would remember the name of Officer Michael Bailey.
NOT REALLY OFF TOPIC,
More than an Apology needed if the is anywhere near true.
Can someone who was there confirm this story from the 10th District.
McCarthy was at the station yesterday afternoon meeting with Westside Aldermen.
Meanwhile out on the street, a six foot 200 pound gang banger interferes in a street stop with 10th District Officers. He is told to go away, but gets loud and abusive and disrupts the police process. They go to arrest him and he elbows a much shorter officer in the face possible breaking his orbital socket. Three cops take him down and take him away.
The officer is taken to the hospital and will be off with a lot of pain for a long while.
Amazingly, Aggravated Battery to a P.O. is approved by the A.S.A. and thank-you to whoever that was.
A flashmob of the offender's homies descend upon the 10th District Station lobby and cause a disturbance while McCarthy is there with the Aldermen. The gangbangers are thrown out of the station by the desk crew.
The story is that McCarthy then goes out and talks to the gangbangers for about 20 minutes.
McG never addresses a roll call, visits the injured officer or says anything to the troops. But the gangbangers...
Someone who was there please confirm or deny or fill in the blanks of this story.
And of course, a speedy recovery to Officer W. M.
Check out this story in the Sun-Times on-line News:
"Charges filed after cop suffers broken eye socket"
Speedy recover to Bill, but don't come back too soon.
Well, he is the head of the department. I think someone should apologize for this. It clearly isn't his fault but as the leader he is stepping up and doing the right thing.
Supt. McCarthy... Time to do the right thing.. put real police in command.
McCarthy at least sounded like a boss and backed his guys instead of calling for special investigation by the feds that Weiss would have done.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who boldly declared last month that the war on drugs has failed, said she’s talked with Chicago’s new police Supt. Garry McCarthy about halting arrests for low-level drug possession offenses
Asked about McCarthy’s response to her suggestion, Preckwinkle said: “I think that remains to be seen.”
http://www.suntimes.com/6735013-417/preckwinkle-wants-police-to-stop-making-low-level-marijuana-arrests.html
It takes Clowns of all sorts to make up the CPD Management Circus.
Well its a start.
While there is no excuse for this happening, it would seem that there is an error in programming somewhere. All anyone signing off on the report would have had to do was look at the 1ST name and say hey, this isn't right!
If you pull up officer activity in any district, you will see some officers on the list that have been retired 5+ years on it. No joke. My relatively new W/C asked me about some of the names. If you look on the CLEAR employee number search, you will see that only exempts/news affairs can search for inactive members.
My guess is there is a flag in the database for inactive (instead of keeping inactive in a different database) members that the programmer who created the Crystal Report for activity doesn't/didn't know about and therefore didn't check for.
Amazing that the likes of Goldstein and Lewin didn't catch it though....
Hey fuckstick, save it for the churches. Go back to Jersey or New York or where ever the hell you came from.
Where is the apology? I didn't see one!
I will have a modicum of respect for McStupe when he dumps Carothers and puts Henny Penny in her place.
Until then, I won't even look at him if I see him.
I saw McStupe in uniform for the first time. I want to say, it turned my stomach.
He may be the superintendent, but he is NOT a Chicago Police Officer. End of story.
What's he doing, collecting them?
I am sure many of us cried out loud when reading scc's original post. Its because it broke our heart. Even though we all know the exempt don't care about us, this confirmed it in a HUGE way.
That hurt turns to anger because this was not a mistake, Supt. This was another example of your exempt staff's continued display of incompetence. This proves one of two things:
1. Your exempt staff do not read nor review any reports that come across their desk before affixing their signature to it. Isn't that part of all of our jobs? Isn't that just common sense and self-respect for one's job?
2. Your exempt staff did read the report but have no common decency nor self-respect for their position to recall the names of officers killed in the line of duty - especialy of those who were killed during their tenure.
Whomever signed that report and forwarded it on should be immediately demoted publicly by the superintendent. When an exempt is being paid over 150grand a year on this department to make decisions that affect our lives on this job - we expect NO mistakes.
But since you called it a mistake, Supt, pull a CR on those exempt involved because they did violate a rule and regulation of this department.
wtf dump her now from the real police
I agree with SCC but hey he gets to apologize because his name is on the door. I bet there was some serious ass chewing.
This "Chief" Skahill needs to be demoted back to a blue shirt tomorrow. Never to again get a white shirt. She should be on mignights in 007 so she can learn how to be a police officer again.
7/27/2011 08:24:00 AM
Please no not 007!! We already had her as a D/C a few years back. We don't want her again. Somebody else please take one for the team
I watched a re-run of NCIS last night and Tony called McGee, "McJealous". Tony changes McGee's name to correspond with each given situation. One time, Tony called McGee, "McGeek".
It seems that is what we are doing with McSorry AND I LOVE IT!
Thanks for listening.
18 July 2011
Chicago Tribune Article
"Our duty in the way we can serve Michael's memory is to never forget," added Central District Cmdr. Chris Kennedy. "I know it is true that a day hasn't passed in the last year when Michael hasn't been thought of by those who stand here, as well as so many who couldn't attend."
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What a crock of shit. All publicity talk. Well now we know that many days have passed through many exempts hands and obviously NONE OF THEM REMEMBERED MICHAEL BAILEY!!
These overpaid exempts can't even do the simplest of things like read or remember.
FKING DEMOTE ALL EXEMPT WHO SIGNED THAT MEMO. ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO - SUPERINTENDENT.
Presumably the data for this report came from a department computer.
One would think that an employee who died a year ago would no longer even be on the employee roster.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who boldly declared last month that the war on drugs has failed, said she’s talked with Chicago’s new police Supt. Garry McCarthy about halting arrests for low-level drug possession offenses
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She is certainly right about the absolute and total failure of the war on drugs to serve any useful purpose.
Being as the war has proven to be unwinnable, it is best to just declare a truce of some sort.
Not sure just how to do that, but it would free up some LE resources to deal with more pressing matters than a few joints or pills.
Just like using non police to write parking tickets and direct traffic frees up cops.
what Lt was stripped from iad and for what??? Do tell-maybe he can shuffle papers along with good ole Al W at records section . ANd why is Al W still working an dnot 30 pending already? He was founnd to reside in Park Ridge and stripped. Hit the bricks you wack job and enjoy your time off without pay status!
Is this the same LT from IAD that worked security at Sports Corner across from Wrigley field. You double standard jerk!
Anonymous said...
If he is going to apologize he should apologize for the ineptitude of the command staff and his inability so far to take the bull by the horns and make some changes. This incident is outrageous and an insult to the name of not only Mike Bailey but every CPD officer killed in the line of duty. "You will never be forgotten" - bullshit!
7/27/2011 09:20:00 AM
MAJOR changes coming within the next three weeks! DTE Brown, Cuello, Welch, Carrothers, Moy, Skahill, Peterson and several others all to be given their walking papers. Kupczyk to get area one chief of patrol. Duffin to get the 008th District.
DUE DILIGENCE - None of those merit goofs knows what it means or what it is.
A flashmob of the offender's homies descend upon the 10th District Station lobby and cause a disturbance while McCarthy is there with the Aldermen. The gangbangers are thrown out of the station by the desk crew.
The story is that McCarthy then goes out and talks to the gangbangers for about 20 minutes.
McG never addresses a roll call, visits the injured officer or says anything to the troops. But the gangbangers...
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WTF? Coincidentally had to run up to the Milwaukee airport and saw a TV news report of a robbery and shooting with their chief on the scene actually doing police work. Imagine that.
You really want to show how sorry your are? How you let the stupid have gold badges? Bounce them all especially that dumbass skahill and ernest T brown 2 of the dumbest motherfuckers ever! Come on boss show some "testicular fortitude" Balls for our hair gel readers!!
Regarding Walter Jacobsen being "pro-police":
Don't think that this editorial in any way, shape or form means that Skippy is on the polices' side or likes them.
He is "supporting" the police now because the public is finding out just how violent the street savages are. The public knows that the police have taken a less aggressive posture in the last few years, largely because of media criticism, much of it from bombastic liberal blowhards like Walter.
This is a popular editorial position to appeal to a certain moneyed target market. They are trying to get the working middle class to tune into them again, because their declining ratings are hurting their advertising rates.
He apologizes and it isn't good enough. He is not a fed and it's not good enough. He wears the uniform and it's not good enough because he is not from Chicago, if he was from Chicago it would not be good enough because he would be called a meritorious hack. He backs pos in a shooting and does not spout the usual "we will conduct a thorough investigation of this incident and wrong doing will not be tolerated" and it isn't good enough. If Jesus ran the department it would not be good enough because it wouldn't be God. Un Fu*king real.
At least he's trying... He's the man in charge, he's the one that has to make the apologies. He may not like it, but that's his job. I've seen (on a couple of occasions) him supporting us on our shootings. Give him a chance people. Would we rather have the old Weissel back or would you rather have this guy? The grass may not always be greener boys and girls, but this one's a whole lot better than what we had before (at least for now).
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