Area Strike Team Details
This is stupid.
The Department disbands MSF and TRU, sending a few hundred officers back to the districts. Rahm touts this as "a big deal" putting 1,000 more officers on the streets, even though these officers were already on the streets.
Then the Department holds a round of bidding, opening up 501 spots citywide so people can move places (although something like 400 of the spots were in less than desirable districts). Then they hold a "super-bid" to fill the leftover spots.
Now Downtown Ernie Brown comes out with an order creating Area Strike Teams. Guess who's manning those? Remember all those bodies coming to the districts? Over a hundred of them never made it there. Here's a breakdown:
The Department disbands MSF and TRU, sending a few hundred officers back to the districts. Rahm touts this as "a big deal" putting 1,000 more officers on the streets, even though these officers were already on the streets.
Then the Department holds a round of bidding, opening up 501 spots citywide so people can move places (although something like 400 of the spots were in less than desirable districts). Then they hold a "super-bid" to fill the leftover spots.
Now Downtown Ernie Brown comes out with an order creating Area Strike Teams. Guess who's manning those? Remember all those bodies coming to the districts? Over a hundred of them never made it there. Here's a breakdown:
- Area 1 - 1 Lt, 2 Sgts, 21 PO's
- Area 2 - 1 Lt, 2 Sgts, 19 PO's
- Area 3 - 1 Lt, 2 Sgts, 19 PO's
- Area 4 - 1 Lt, 2 Sgts, 19 PO's
- Area 5 - 2 Sgts, 16 PO's
And the truly laughable part? The Area 3 Strike Team? Not one of the Officers nor the Lieutenant are even from Area 3 Districts. Seriously. In fact, 8 of the Officers are from 007. All together, 24 PO's assigned to 007 went to various Strike Teams across the city.
We don't know how much whack it takes to get detailed from 003, 005, 006 and 007 to the Area 5 Strike Team, but 14 of the 16 PO's managed it.
Look, we understand people got the short end of the stick from the Department, but this was predicted years ago and the City was completely within the contract to do so. Were we happy about it? No.
But now the Department Administration is denying officers who might have had opportunities to work in a "specialized" or small team environment the opportunity to do so by once again playing political football with the clouted few. Rahm, Ernie and McEgo are touting their "back to the beat" philosophy on one hand, while detailing people from one end of the city to the other. We thought they were trying to avoid that BS and maintain the appearance of bringing the Districts up to strength, but it certainly looks like business as usual.
And people are still retiring and we still aren't hiring.
We don't know how much whack it takes to get detailed from 003, 005, 006 and 007 to the Area 5 Strike Team, but 14 of the 16 PO's managed it.
Look, we understand people got the short end of the stick from the Department, but this was predicted years ago and the City was completely within the contract to do so. Were we happy about it? No.
But now the Department Administration is denying officers who might have had opportunities to work in a "specialized" or small team environment the opportunity to do so by once again playing political football with the clouted few. Rahm, Ernie and McEgo are touting their "back to the beat" philosophy on one hand, while detailing people from one end of the city to the other. We thought they were trying to avoid that BS and maintain the appearance of bringing the Districts up to strength, but it certainly looks like business as usual.
And people are still retiring and we still aren't hiring.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:06 AM
176 Comments:
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. It will all become crystal clear once the G8 is over with and the distractions are no longer needed.
The majority of the workers went to districts. All the useless clout hacks stayed on the task force/ strike teams.
Did the officers detailed to the Area "Task Forces" have to revert back to the shitty district of their choosing?
For those in the know, are there still Area "Task Forces"?
Or will these new Strike Teams compliment or replace the Area "Task Forces"?
Vic Mackey called.
He wants his "Strike Team" back.
Why couldn't I put in for a strike team?? So 20% of the msg dumpees could go back to being in uniform, possibly closer to home, and not answering radio calls?? Something is amiss.
Those are the same people that went to those teams when TRU and MSF were detailed back to districts. These same guys are detailed to these teams but had to bid to a district to be assigned to. Don't know what the big deal is now, nothing has changed.
And yet again these 100+ suckasses will roll the dice with their contractual rights to be part of what they believe is some "elite" unit.
They will perform like circus seals for early ducks, long lunches and plenty of ego stroking. They will risk their financial security, physical safety and possibly their freedom by crossing into gray areas to bring in numbers to satisfy supervisors that couldn't care less what happens to them when they step on their dicks.
They will thumb their noses at the guys who didn't have enough whack to make the cut even though they were extra "tight" while teammates at TRU or MSF. The brotherhood and team mentality that these people bought into eventually turned into "every man for himself"...just like always.
Just like a good street copper knows how to manipulate people and situations for any variety of desired results, so do the Brassholes. They are desperate to create something to make themselves look good to justify their existence.
*** ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE PIMPING YOU GUYS & GALS FOR THEIR OWN PRESERVATION AND GAIN, AND YOU IDIOTS TOOK THE BAIT HOOK, LINE AND SINKER ***
Some of the people on this job will NEVER figure it out and need to learn the hard way, I guess. Guaranteed, these folks will be the first ones complaining that the next contract is shit. I can hear it now: "Whatdya fuckin' mean, no raise!?!? I made over 100 PCS arrests in this unit, worked every weekend in the summer and volunteered to work Area 2 even though I live in 016... and THIS is how they reward all our hard work?!?!?!"
Allow me to be the first when I preemptively say "Told Ya So".
In the basement of 011 by the radio room is a glass framed poster with CPD propaganda that says " Earned, not given." I want to smash that fucking thing to pieces every time I see it. Unfortunately I have 9 long years before I can pull the pin. In a beat car.
One massive shell game! Let the phone calls begin.
OT...
Can any of our NY brothers shed any light on this allegation that the NYPD and FDNY are not welcome at the memorial this year?? I can't find anything confirming it and it's hard to believe.
Not exactly, most of those teams were created when the units were disbanded; most of the teams just followed their Sgts (in most cases) to whatever Area team he got. The order just puts it on paper.
So, Emanuel uses new math, too, just like Daley.
He promised a thousand officers on the street; yesterday he trumpeted that he delivered 'over 500' to the districts.
In actuality, he delivered less than 400 to the districts and he is now going to strip the districts and create some made-up unit.
Then he will disband the made-up unit and claim he ADDED ANOTHER HUNDRED or more to the districts!
We'll be up to full strength by the end of the month!
Just burn the non traffic "I" bond books.
Crime stats will be cut 90 %!
Let Dart the fart and Parrywrinkle reassign and hire some good people then all we gotta do is "Retire" Burke's witch and all prosecutwhores and jewedges
: Sheriff Joe can handle all that part time.
Money? Oh yeah money?
Sell the cell door locks, hinges and weld the doors shut.
Then sell all the weights, basketball, baskets, phones etc.
Give them some seeds, a bible and a calendar!
These are the "Sat" teams that were put back in place when everyone originally got dumped from msf and tru. They've been been in place for a few months already...they've just been renamed. They had to bid to districts just like everyone else, and until the 18th came and went, they probably thought they were going to those districts. This is not as if they are taking more people...they were already there.
SCC-
We don't know how much whack it takes to get detailed from 003, 005, 006 and 007 to the Area 5 Strike Team, but 14 of the 16 PO's managed it.
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You couldn't even begin to comprehend how much whack some of us have. Doesn't matter anyway, because the rules of the game, as you know it, have changed.
Like him or not, DTEB formed these teams to clean up the messes left behind by the lazy, incompetent malcontents that are polluting the districts that they once took an oath to serve. Especially the dumping ground of 025. The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours, as emergency backup, since that hell hole can't seem to go a week without some officer getting sent to callback or the unemployment line.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
This department has gone down the shitter. Last one out, turn off the lights.
No clouted people these were some of the hardest working po's from MSF and TRU. Let's wish them well.
The best part is there denying time to the watch in fast districts due to manpower.
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
Don't these people ever get dizzy from all the shuffling? Also, let's look at some of the names of those on the 'strike forces'. Wow.
McLiar, liar, pants on fire. Transparent my ass. About as transparent as a sturdy couple of sheets of Charmin!
They have to take care of the clout babies...Yeah, it's all legit.
I wouldnt work in a specialize unit ever again in this department.
Two coppers paying shithead out of their own pockets for shooting an attack dog on a positive warrant! Ruling came down yesterday.
008 got the bad "PENNY". Hopefully this dream of J-Fled and the nightmare of 011 and now 008 is just passing through on her next gig as "inspector" She has personally red lined a car on her own from the cofines of her office while setting up pedicures and manicures over the department phone. Yes this over promoted, over inflated egotistical captain? is still around! Like they say, a bad "penny" always turns up somewhere! Can I get a Halleluya!!!
Off topic: Retired A2 Detective Ray McNally has passed away. Great police officer; even a greater gentleman. RIP.
Funeral is Friday @ St Christina. Wake is Thursday @ 110th & SW Hwy in Palos Hills.
Area strike teams? What, more guys to have out there goofing off. They'll probably have them all down on bogus missions, thus no help to the rest of the district.
Nothing is ever going to change. The beat cops are too smart to do any pro-active policing. Thus the bosses need surgical teams, strike teams, msf, tru, anti-violence teams, etc... to get out there and be proactive. Oh yeah, and once you get hit with a lawsuit or get your ass indicted and fired, don't come crying to me for a donation.
Like from "The shield" will they also be looking for the "money train?" With dteb in charge what kind of shit will happen now? Boys and girls who were dumped don't believe the bullshit and hype "strike team" nice ring to it,but the strikes may be on you and 3 strikes lose job/pension/freedom your out!!
Guess what? Sooner or later, all of those former msf and tru cops will come back to these specialized teams. The city needs us to bring in the number for them. Plus the msf and tru cops were ultra-aggressive.
Wasnt the "Strike Team" created back in 2004 by a security company working the Lathrop Homes?
Copy cats!
Not sure what your beef is here.they got dumped from tru and Msf and ended up on an area team. Why not?
Ernie , strike teams are a good idea . Now disband the useless district tactical units .
clout rules!!! Best way to deal with these clout babies is do NOT let them feel at home! Give them attitude, do NOT offer to help, if they call for backup, of course go, but do the minimum to make sure theses clouts dont get their asses handed to them! They are whats wrong with this place! Heavy hairgel motherfuckers!
thanks for taking spots up..
I'm not sucking up but Area 5 Deputy dumped a prince of a Lieut and replaced him with a lieut that that has zero personality, never worked on a team and has No clue how to be the police. But he's great with the stats, pie charts, bar graphs and even received an award from the Westside Ministers Coalition which he proudly displays on his desk.
Former 153
lets face it they were not the hardest working people in the units they were pick cause there sgt were the l.t.s boys but they managed to get a cupple of good guys over there and a bunch of hacks too..really 4ft tall girl from the radio room?
like the rest of this dept isnt fill with hacks...
A few weeks ago at the second COMSTAT meeting the new sup asked why Tactical teams are getting details. He stated to that the purpose of the Area teams was to get all the details and let the tactical teams handle the districts.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
Someone needs to get a life.
NOT A COP!!!!
Anonymous said...
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
8/24/2011 03:33:00 AM
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get a life loser
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
And since you're a "diamond", come out from behind the ANONYMOUS curtain and give your real name oh clouted one, surely that clout can protect you from any backlash.
Can any of our NY brothers shed any light on this allegation that the NYPD and FDNY are not welcome at the memorial this year?? I can't find anything confirming it and it's hard to believe.
8/24/2011 01:10:00 AM
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I heard this too, and didn't believe it. It was reported by the NY Daily News and other NY media. Bloomberg says it's only for the victims families and some politicians. He says there just is not enough room for everybody who wants to be there.
Plan and simple. If they are going to have Sat Teams/Strike Teams, any officers on those teams need to come from Districts within that area.
It's bullshit that teams are mostly comprised of po's outside of the area. No mention in any CO book that the area was looking for po's for theses teams. I am sure there are plenty of po's that work those area that would have put in for these teams.
Earned, not given? More like swallowed and will do again for a spot
Typical City of Chicago BS. The officers that used their clout to get to these clout units are sell outs. No contract rules again. The city wins again.
Its complete bullshit because they didn't even offer it to anyone but the "special" hand-picked people. At least in MSF or TRU if you were a good worker you would have a chance to get into a unit without a phonecall
Those are the same people that went to those teams when TRU and MSF were detailed back to districts. These same guys are detailed to these teams but had to bid to a district to be assigned to. Don't know what the big deal is now, nothing has changed.
Thank you for clearing this up for the other ignorant haters out there.
A/4 Task Force Officer
You couldn't even begin to comprehend how much whack some of us have. Doesn't matter anyway, because the rules of the game, as you know it, have changed.
Like him or not, DTEB formed these teams to clean up the messes left behind by the lazy, incompetent malcontents that are polluting the districts that they once took an oath to serve. Especially the dumping ground of 025. The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours, as emergency backup, since that hell hole can't seem to go a week without some officer getting sent to callback or the unemployment line.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
I sure hope the above post was meant to be a joke.
Regarding Penny, who does she have dirt on? After the stunts she has pulled, she should be working mids in some shithole district after facing 30 days for a Rule 2 violation.
Same with HackyMac; he MFs two ON DUTY POs from a different department over a parking ticket, gets found guilty of Disorderly Conduct, pays a fine and then doesn't face ONE IOTA of discipline from NYPD. If he was here, even he as a command member would have faced something.
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
Then go back to a district and work very hard and be productive as possible. You will have contractual rights and you will prevent the city from using you to get around the contract.
Not ever copper on these teams have clout. Some are just hard working coppers who were choosed by their sgt to work the detail. Stop being a cry baby, if you were pick to be on one of these team you would be working it too.
Sorry 3: 33am. Been on 16.5 years. Never had the privilage of knowing non clouted personnel in specialized units. Its always been "phone calls" and friends of "phone calls". Granted, you have to make the most of your given opportunity. So please excuse my cynicism and the cynicism of those that have worked just as hard, bringing in the bs paper, money generating citations, multiple narcotic and gun arrests, going to worthless beat meetings, having supervisors that refuse to sign off on well written, non cookie cutter, arrest reports,and still be working a beat car. Its always jr., juniorette, the"god sons or daughters, the so called good looking girl, the boys want to sleep with. Never met a working police officer, get an opportunity to work these units after their 5th year.Seems like the "working police" almost always become members of these "elite" units after only 18 months on the street. Hey, G-d bless you, you got in and stayed on with your own merits, but like SCC kinda points out the more this department changes, the more it stays the same.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
You keep writing stuff like this and even your clout won't be able to help you. The ultimate special unit is Call Back. Learn to love answering the phone. Real woooooooooo!
Feed Your Head.
In the basement of 011 by the radio room is a glass framed poster with CPD propaganda that says " Earned, not given." I want to smash that fucking thing to pieces every time I see it. Unfortunately I have 9 long years before I can pull the pin. In a beat car.
8/24/2011 12:58:00 AM
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Me too because remember how 3M worked so hard to "earn" his. Sxcuse me while I vomit.
...we still aren't hiring...
Anyone have anything on this? There are some of us out here, just waiting on our Conditional Offers to become "real" offers, in writing with dates...
OFF TOPIC: Apparently the NYPD really has their shit together unlike this hell hole of a dept. It's kind of a long read but quite interesting. Must be nice to be able to run a dept. where the city council stays out of it and the rev-runs don't mean shit.
http://news.yahoo.com/cia-help-nypd-moves-covertly-muslim-areas-090019915.html
Allow me to be the first when I preemptively say "Told Ya So".
8/24/2011 12:55:00 AM
AMEN!!!!!!!!
...Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
Please do not respond to this post. It's intended to get a rise out of everyone and the author loves the flaming. There is a name for this illness. He's a sick fuck.
What is most interesting about this is the acknowledgement by the Brass, that CPD cannot control crime without a Mobile Unit that is not tied to one district. This strategy goes back to the 70's Spl. Operations Group. And whatever you want to call it, this type of unit is vital, especially with thugs having the hi-tech comm. that they currently have. The difference is that anything that happens now will be controlled by Rhambo and Bill Daley, D.C. Style. Remember, McNutty and Rhambo are claiming 750 of the 1,000 officers have been delivered; yet not one of them is a new hire! Perception becomes it's own reality and the street cop becomes a pawn in the game.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
In the basement of 011 by the radio room is a glass framed poster with CPD propaganda that says " Earned, not given." I want to smash that fucking thing to pieces every time I see it. Unfortunately I have 9 long years before I can pull the pin. In a beat car.
8/24/2011 12:58:00 AM
Don't forget respect is earned not granted but not with the gold stars on CPD what a joke!
This is not surprising. I am one of the officers who was sent back to the undermanned districts. Since I have been back I have seen at least 5 cars of two to three offucers a piece that are made up cars that are not on any discernsble schedule if they even work in the district, bicycle officers working in yet another district, and daily people going to down cuz their detailed to some other district or to the area. WTF? My conclusion is the districts are not undermanned but a great percentage of district officers are voluntarily working assignments that has zero to do with the district law enforcement. If districts can afford to put two to three officers on multiple cars that work a secret schedule (cuz I won't bust you guys out) then I cannot see why there should be a shortage. Seems like there are too many people then. Maybe all district officers should just work in the freakin district?
These are the "Sat" teams that were put back in place when everyone originally got dumped from msf and tru. They've been been in place for a few months already...they've just been renamed. They had to bid to districts just like everyone else, and until the 18th came and went, they probably thought they were going to those districts. This is not as if they are taking more people...they were already there.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
The point is they were are not working in the district where they were allegedly so sorely needed. Bullshit on the part of command. Good for those guys that got it.
Just burn the non traffic "I" bond books.
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OK.
All is well just talked to Vince Mackey he is going to run the "strike team," and all will be well! More stupid shit boys and girls wait until your in federal court and dteb and the rest of the exempts are called in and say "I did not tell him/her to do that"! As the judge asks you "state your assets and liabilities," as your family watches in horror, wife/husband cry's, with the children crying,you know if your not off to prison you will lose job/pension/home/savings etc..
I am in the KMA club 2 years to go, in a BLUE shirt writing paper (dam my hand is going to be sore) advising warrants, getting coffee we get 2 personals and lunch, getting fuel to keep the young chargers going, washing the car,getting car serviced the only time I am aggressive is when a copper of their families call for help everything else follow the general orders!
1 thing worked with some younger coppers asked them "maybe we should get some fuel" typical reply "naw we are to busy!" As they race taking a quick lunch eating shit food, racing around to keep the animal in check looking for the 1 bagger! You want to be a KMA vet? Blood pressure normal? You will never tame the animal it has been going on since the beginning of time let the biggest dog win jungle rules!
Deputy Chiefs have already been interviewing people to replace the PO's from MSF and Tru. Once they find replacements these fools will be back in districts. Strike Force Samurai you must be one of those strokes on the Area Five team have fun in 005 when I take your spot. I interviewed.
SCC, I don't understand.
For example, Unit 214 (Area 4 Task Force or Strike Team) has 44 bodies "detailed" to it as of today.
So will this number be reduced to the number listed on your post?
Or will these add to the persons already detailed to the area teams?
It is true that NYPD and NYFD are "not accommodated" at the 9/11 memorial gathering. They were told there was not enough room for them! Too many politicians and celebraties are going to be seated. It seams that with elections next year, every pol in the country wants to be seen there. The pols have no shame!
No clouted people these were some of the hardest working po's from MSF and TRU. Let's wish them well.
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Seriously!!!!! Can you say that with a straight face. How about you be the real police when you are a North sider and have to travel an hour and 1/2 to 5 where the motto is "I" and "myself," and bosses just hate you to hate you. You all have clout. I can name a dozen teams that did better than you and was shafted because of you clout babies. Get over yourself.
No clouted people these were some of the hardest working po's from MSF and TRU. Let's wish them well.
8/24/2011 03:06:00 AM
Yeah, NO. Far from it. Maybe a few, but not really.
Signed,
-A TRU Displacement who was able to bid OUT of Area 2
Mass Transit just got detailed in a Sgt and eight POs. Secret squad that no one has seen or heard of. So called bait team reports only to a Lt. and not the W/C, so no one has seen them yet. Another smoke and mirrors operation. Detailing people in yet talking about disbanding special employment. You got to love the logic.
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
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Dear Clout baby, your msf and tru brothers really hate you. All you area teams were just buddy buddy with the LTs. Get over yourself. Everyone worked their asses off in those units. How about just say what you are. Your msf and tru buddy's who live on the north siders get treated like shit on the south side from bosses and you have the balls to say u have no clout what so ever when you just jumped on paper day in and day out. WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!
Only fools would take this job after what they did to MSF and TRU.
People retiring and no new hiring....has a ring to it!
What did everyone think would happen? Do away with DOC and have com stat. Do away with tru/msf and have strike force. Daley leaves and Rahm comes in. Game is the same -only the names change.
Anyone who works on a team or unit that is non-bid is soft as puppy shit. Except for the Ultimate Tactical Warrior. He is the lone exception. Where has he been, anyway? Used to make me laugh...
See link to remember this....
http://biggovernment.com/rebelpundit/2011/06/25/chicago-police-superintendent-goes-on-racial-rant-slams-nra-and-palin-at-radical-church/
OT...
Can any of our NY brothers shed any light on this allegation that the NYPD and FDNY are not welcome at the memorial this year?? I can't find anything confirming it and it's hard to believe.
8/24/2011 01:10:00 AM
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Yes, this is true, but it's not as bad as everyone thinks.
For the past 9 years there has been a memorial service for family members lost on 9-11 and first responders as a group have not been invited. Until this year, the 10th anniversary, there has not been anything said nor was an issue made of it.
This year there will again be a memorial service for family members but there will also be an additional service where first responders will be invited.
The service is and has always been for the Families of those lost.
Anonymous said...
Two coppers paying shithead out of their own pockets for shooting an attack dog on a positive warrant! Ruling came down yesterday.
8/24/2011 05:48:00 AM
one of the many reasons why coppers just aren't putting their asses on the line anymore for this joke of a city, county and state. SAD
Anonymous said...
In the basement of 011 by the radio room is a glass framed poster with CPD propaganda that says " Earned, not given." I want to smash that fucking thing to pieces every time I see it. Unfortunately I have 9 long years before I can pull the pin. In a beat car.
8/24/2011 12:58:00 AM
That CPD motto is all placed over and it has no meaning. J-fled and his crew ended that. CPD should take those signs down. They are embarrassing to see.
OT: Even a half a** reporter can get it right once in a while, see following:
Walter’s Perspective: Emanuel’s First 100 Days
Hit the nail on the head by saying "business as usual". I hate this department and all its bullshit.
sanctuary city responsible for another fatal hit and run traffic crash , let's hope victims family remembers this at election time
come to chicago , sell your drugs , drive drunk , shoot our citizens , cpd cannot enforce illegal immigration laws
Squad, event number for a bus check please, 10-4 thank you, how about a personal... LOL it's all legit!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting, yet still no leadership, accountability and trust in management. This used to be such a fantastic gig....
You can only play this numbers game for so long Rahm. Fact is about 500 cops or more are retiring each year. We have to be at least 2,500 to 3,000 below strength now. At what point do they start hiring? Who knows. They will play with crime statistics and let the bought off media tout their achievements. I see the city bringing the manpower down to about 9,000. Same as LA.
I can't believe you whiny cops. I for one worked my butt off on the desk in TRU. You have no idea how hard it is to keep a lard ass, jag off Lt like JL sufficiently fed during a ten hour tour. I went on at least three lunch runs a shift. Also look at my stats, I have made 9 PCS arrests in 3 years and wrote at least 40 contact cards. Me and the rest of the desk crew of Tru are deserving of this stroke team. So go back to the 008th and continue to whine about how many calls you have to answer, while me and my ass kissing Sgts continue to pleasure our reincarnation of Pizza the Hut, Lt JL.
Jimmy H.
Here in the 003rd District we got over 70 new officers assigned - more then half were already here for 90 days.
It was posted in c.o.book that 1st watch was suppose to get 23 new officers. When the smoke cleared, 1st watch got 3 while 20 were detailed to the different areas teams.
WTF. Lot of the officers wanted to come to 003 to work for the good bosses they have here. These detailed guys took bid spots in 003 in case they got dumped later, now a lot of guys are traveling from the north side out to 004 and 005 - traveling at least 1 1/2 hrs or more each afternoon to be treated like shit by shit bosses!!,, 3 is still a shit district, but the bosses on 3rd and 1st watch treat you with respect and they love working officers.
WHAT!!!!! not enough clouted to LT.s for area 5 to get one?
absolute bulls@*!. The 19th district just inherited the Rham detail which sucked 6 officers. 019 is way undermanned with nearly 700 licensed liquor establishments, wrigley and all the concert venues.
Midnights never have a full lineup and these PO's "assigned to 019" working the Rham detail get their own furlo picks and when they want a day off the watch PO's get their slip kicked back. Now we have a f%&#*ng team of clout heavy pricks to deal with who will no doubt be "Grabbing Offenders" holding them for the patrol officers to process. FU@% YOU McCarthy and FU@% YOU Rham!!!!
I got something even better, Why don't all the LT's who picked these 'cream of the cop' officers post their activity numbers from when they were in MSF and TRU?
80% of those officer's on the 'Area Strike Teams' are
Safety Concerns.....please be careful other 20%
SSDD
SCC-
We don't know how much whack it takes to get detailed from 003, 005, 006 and 007 to the Area 5 Strike Team, but 14 of the 16 PO's managed it.
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You couldn't even begin to comprehend how much whack some of us have. Doesn't matter anyway, because the rules of the game, as you know it, have changed.
Like him or not, DTEB formed these teams to clean up the messes left behind by the lazy, incompetent malcontents that are polluting the districts that they once took an oath to serve. Especially the dumping ground of 025. The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours, as emergency backup, since that hell hole can't seem to go a week without some officer getting sent to callback or the unemployment line.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
Hopefully you're not serious. If you are, you're a real blowjob.
Fact:
Area Strike team members will get royally screwed by the department.
Fact:
When it happens, they will complain.
Fact:
No one will care.
In 2015, the first Area Strike Team member will have his first paycheck deduction in payment of the 50 grand punitive judgement he owes one of his arrestees.
Who will it be?
I can't wait to find out.
Are they working out of the barn?
No clouted people these were some of the hardest working po's from MSF and TRU. Let's wish them well.
8/24/2011 03:06:00 AM
sarcasm...
It's all legit and based off of merit. Ask Sgt. W and his team in area 3 how they got their "spot"
"...clean up the messes left behind by the lazy, incompetent malcontents that are polluting the districts that they once took an oath to serve. Especially the dumping ground of 025. The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours, as emergency backup, since that hell hole can't seem to go a week without some officer getting sent to callback or the unemployment line.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
Kid I LOVE IT! Now repeat after me while you look at yourself in the mirror "I am the man", no really say it with conviction "I am the man, I am the special black ops man" WOW! You know you've reached jag..er jerkoff heaven. Thanks for the laugh junior, black ops....wahahahaha. Honestly kid, hate to break up your little party but your a garbage man of the human dregs of society.
P.S. Keep paying my pension bitch!
In the basement of 011 by the radio room is a glass framed poster with CPD propaganda that says " Earned, not given." I want to smash that fucking thing to pieces every time I see it. Unfortunately I have 9 long years before I can pull the pin. In a beat car.
umm i put that up there in reference to hand jobs im giving out behind the radio door on days..just knock softly..5 more years to go and I get to be a SGT LIFM
We don't know how much whack it takes to get detailed from 003, 005, 006 and 007 to the Area 5 Strike Team, but 14 of the 16 PO's managed it.
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You couldn't even begin to comprehend how much whack some of us have. Doesn't matter anyway, because the rules of the game, as you know it, have changed.
Like him or not, DTEB formed these teams to clean up the messes left behind by the lazy, incompetent malcontents that are polluting the districts that they once took an oath to serve. Especially the dumping ground of 025. The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours, as emergency backup, since that hell hole can't seem to go a week without some officer getting sent to callback or the unemployment line.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
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That was wonderful! When I read it, it felt like reading a poem.
Beautiful.
Im confused though....you need to run to your nearest alderman or favorite deputy chief and cry like a bitch yourself to get detailed to a team because you cant stomach being the real police! How is that a positive thing, im confused?
They put these teams together because every party, every wedding, every adult get together has got to have a kids table. Welcome to the children's table, clout baby. Aint no special ops in doing contact cards and ANOVs. You keep hiding, good for you!
TO: 8/24/2011 01:10:00 AM
9/11 First Responders Not Invited To 10th Anniversary Ceremony At Ground Zero
That’s the word from city officials who say there isn’t enough room for the tens of thousands of firefighters, police and other rescue workers.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/13/report-911-first-responders-not-invited-to-10th-anniversary-ceremony-at-ground-zero/
thanks for taking spots up in districts making p.o's go south while ur workking in area 3.. this is fucked up.. mcstupid...
so the days of 6 po's on a bag of weed arrest,while 4 of them are checking facebook and email are back?oh boy
And yet again these 100+ suckasses will roll the dice with their contractual rights to be part of what they believe is some "elite" unit.
They will perform like circus seals for early ducks, long lunches and plenty of ego stroking. They will risk their financial security, physical safety and possibly their freedom by crossing into gray areas to bring in numbers to satisfy supervisors that couldn't care less what happens to them when they step on their dicks.
They will thumb their noses at the guys who didn't have enough whack to make the cut even though they were extra "tight" while teammates at TRU or MSF. The brotherhood and team mentality that these people bought into eventually turned into "every man for himself"...just like always.
Just like a good street copper knows how to manipulate people and situations for any variety of desired results, so do the Brassholes. They are desperate to create something to make themselves look good to justify their existence.
*** ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE PIMPING YOU GUYS & GALS FOR THEIR OWN PRESERVATION AND GAIN, AND YOU IDIOTS TOOK THE BAIT HOOK, LINE AND SINKER ***
Some of the people on this job will NEVER figure it out and need to learn the hard way, I guess. Guaranteed, these folks will be the first ones complaining that the next contract is shit. I can hear it now: "Whatdya fuckin' mean, no raise!?!? I made over 100 PCS arrests in this unit, worked every weekend in the summer and volunteered to work Area 2 even though I live in 016... and THIS is how they reward all our hard work?!?!?!"
Allow me to be the first when I preemptively say "Told Ya So".
8/24/2011 12:55:00 AM
First, we made the choice to go and then to stay on the area teams. We know full well the consequences, we knew them in MSF and TRU. To speak as if some one tricked us or promised us something in return is bullshit. We made our choice because we had the opportunity to work with friends from our former units, people we liked and trust plain and simple. We work; we make petty pinches and we make good pinches, we do so being completely aware of that we may get cr#s, we may get sued we may get hurt. We don't knock the reason why some don't work or why they do the minimum or why some are hard chargers. Every one does what they do for a reason and if negative comes from working let the consequences be our own. And as for the premature "I told you so" save it shine box " we already knew"
Any time in any unit, anyone can and eventually will be dumped. Quit your bitching you cry babies from MSF and TRU!!! You were the working police in those units and worked the shit areas of the city, now go back to doing what you claim you did best. All we ever heard was MSF is the best of the best TRU is the best of the best. THEN GO BE THE POLICE WHERE IT IS NEEDED! let the Officers who dont want to hustle as much protect the homefronts and the tax payers. Those officers will be happy to do so!
So Saturation teams are back simply put.
did someone really call these teams "black ops" I know some of the clouts on the strike teams and some of theme shouldnt even be carrying a gun they are that dangerous. They just know someone and ride on some poor workers back to pad their stats. Who you know is alive and well in this department, and it shows everyday. I was in MSF and those sgts that went to units made calls to get there and dragged there po's with them even if they were hacks. Some clouted po's who should be behind a desk in a closet counting coat hangers made call and forced their way onto teams because they were scared of police work and not having a teammates paper to jump on. Most of the workers were sent back because they had no clout just a work ethic. You do not need to be in a unit to be elite.
12:55 a.m. was 100% on target with only one thing being slightly off...the hard chargers will make over 100 petty-ass 3 bag weed pinches with the whole team jumping on the paper. they will then all hi-five each other as they do baseball-type ass slaps. then their sgt. will put them all it for some bullshit unit award to make them feel special. all this will happen some time between multiple ANOVS and vehicle impounds. yeah, you chumps sure are the cream of the CPD crop, no doubt....NOT. Now tell us lowly beat guys how your gonna get all kinds of special training for the G8 Summit and that the department chose you specifically because of your talents. Allow me to tell me that they took you cause YOU'RE SHEEP!!! I just hope not too many of you get jammed up at the same time, benefit tickets are pretty expensive these days.
What is pissing people off is officers from 003, 004 and whatever shithole district got moved to an area that they are not even from. What, you couldnt find officers from that area for your area strike force? You could have moved them to the correct area before the list came out to make it look a little legit.
Dont confuse me either of wanting to be on this team or being sour grapes from getting dumped from MSF or TRU because I want no part or was never part of this bullshit.
More brilliant morale moves from downtown.
Just a question, how did the chicago public school board get 700 million behind in the first place with no one being held accountable?
No one has to answer this but they want to go ahead and tax us? Come on Rahm, your a tough guy, ask the real questions!!!!!!!!
Anonymous said...
OT...
Can any of our NY brothers shed any light on this allegation that the NYPD and FDNY are not welcome at the memorial this year?? I can't find anything confirming it and it's hard to believe.
8/24/2011 01:10:00 AM
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Yes it is very very true. I talked to a few FDNY guys last week and they said that they are not invited. It is a big to do there. But there will be a big surprise for Dickhead Bloomberg on 9/11.
The news media even asked Denis Leary what he thoughtm about it and he said "They weren't invited on that day in 2001 either. They just showed up."
And something tells me that they will just be showing up this year too.
1 Lt per 2 sgts.With days off and furloughs that's about 1 Lt per sgt. Then why are districts short paying time and a half to Lts to cover districts? Waste of money. There is already area Lts covering area teams. I thought we were trying to save $$
These officers are assigned to areas 1 and 2 leaving these dists short again. Someone lied to the.major when they said the officers were going to dists. Many least senior officers and still in a unit
Most guys on the watch do work, it's grAteful, and some of those comments are kinda funny. Additionally, this department is totally legit, so once you and all your perfection climb down off your soapbox, one day you too can put on a white shirt with some little silver pins and start dumping ppl at will because you are clearly so superior to the us lowly P.O's, who, with 5-9 years have to sweat going to the midnights.
The problem is you have way to many guys with 5 to 10 years on the job molding the younger coppers into dog asses. Cause that's the generation we are in. If you do police work you are looked down apon. Which is bs
Area teams should be filled with area personnel , how much longer are we going to keep detailing and hiding officers who don't want to go to the dists they were allowed to bid for
Chicago's favorite game. The shell game!
Scam, scam, scam!
All this adds up to is nothing changes. Rahm Daley hes sounds like hime acts like him and appoints idiots to be in control. G8 whats that going to do your all shitcanned afterwards.
WOW.........!
Imagine That, The City Fathers Deceiving The Public.
WOW............. !
Imagine That.
Regarding Penny, who does she have dirt on? After the stunts she has pulled, she should be working mids in some shithole district after facing 30 days for a Rule 2 violation.
8/24/2011 09:22:00 AM
Midnights in a shithole dist????
If you or me as a blueshirt pulled these "stunts" as you say (crimes as I call it) we would be fired and possibly in jail next to Bill Cozzi.
Same with HackyMac; he MFs two ON DUTY POs from a different department over a parking ticket, gets found guilty of Disorderly Conduct, pays a fine and then doesn't face ONE IOTA of discipline from NYPD. If he was here, even he as a command member would have faced something.
8/24/2011 09:22:00 AM
If he was here as a command member he would be facing nothing. Who the fuck are you kidding. Remember two sets of rules my friend.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
8/24/2011 01:47:00 AM
that's one helluva stinky finger you're sniffing there, buddy.
Regarding Penny, who does she have dirt on? After the stunts she has pulled, she should be working mids in some shithole district after facing 30 days for a Rule 2 violation.
8/24/2011 09:22:00 AM
maybe she's got a stained, blue dress......
SSDD
8/24/2011 01:51:00 PM
Not to be confused with
DSDD or SSSD, grasshopper.
And as for the premature "I told you so" save it shine box " we already knew"
8/24/2011 03:19:00 PM
well, at least your eyes will be wide open, when the shit hits the fan.
i do suggest, however, that you practice keeping your mouth shut.
1 Lt per 2 sgts.With days off and furloughs that's about 1 Lt per sgt. Then why are districts short paying time and a half to Lts to cover districts? Waste of money. There is already area Lts covering area teams. I thought we were trying to save $$
There is still a Captain at OEMC counting radios while Lt's are paid out of grade WC. It's not about trying to save $
P
Anyone who works on a team or unit that is non-bid is soft as puppy shit. Except for the Ultimate Tactical Warrior. He is the lone exception. Where has he been, anyway? Used to make me laugh...
8/24/2011 11:47:00 AM
he and missy skipped to fire island.
I thought we were supposed to be getting help in the districts in the form of personnel? No wonder they came up with a new policy for time off. Why send these guys back in the first place if they're just going to detail them back out of the district in a couple months. Stupid.
DTEB is clearly gasping his last CPD breaths. The sooner that McNutty deep sixes this goof, the better.
Anonymous said...
"I'm not sucking up but Area 5 Deputy dumped a prince of a Lieut and replaced him with a lieut that that has zero personality, never worked on a team and has No clue how to be the police. But he's great with the stats, pie charts, bar graphs and even received an award from the Westside Ministers Coalition which he proudly displays on his desk."
Hey idiot, the A/5 Deputy didn't dump the lieutenant you are speaking of. He was forced to retire, as he reached 63 years of age. Next time know what the hell you are talking about before you go spouting off!
Strike Team, Woooo-Wooooo-Wooooo, sounds like the name of a bowling team of Union Workers. Man, I'm sooooo impressed. You guys are real Commandos, just like Navy Seal Team 6. [In your own heads].
I should have stayed.....
8/24/2011 03:19:00 PM said (regarding going to an Area Strike Team)...
"And as for the premature "I told you so" save it shine box " we already knew".
They really don't make them much dumber than you, do they son?
So you're perfectly OK with being a fucking TOOL? Are you not a man? You're cool with being a pawn to be discarded by a job that doesn't give a rat's ass about you? I understand the whole concept of "loyalty" and all, but YOU ARE A COMPLETE IDIOT TO ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE TREATED LIKE A MADISON & KENTON WHORE. Please post at least your initials so I know whose benefit NOT to buy a ticket for, because you are a fucking jackass.
Keeping kissing the right asses and sucking the right c**ks and maybe you'll make sergeant some day. Until then, enjoy being a stupid fucking hairgel willing to do anything to have a jagoff boss say "good pinch guys, but how about another head or two tomorrow" over beers at some douchebag cop bar.
I'd love for you to be around a while to pay more towards my pension, but in all likelihood you'll be fired sometime in the next 4-7 years. You win "Handjob Of The Decade", pal.
Omg I'm tired of all these cry babies! I would love to hear from an Officer in Areas 1,2, or 4 that can complain about being short on officers. There are so many officers in these areas there are times when there are no cars. Now if your in area 3 or 5 the districts are very low on manpower. This is where the attention should be given not on 20 officers on a sat team. The nicer districts have been short for a very long time. I live in 016 and personally know they are down over 100 officers from 5 years ago. Now that's a problem, tax payers who dont get the proper protection unlike the 007th district
PREDICTION: This latest group of assholes willingly giving up their contractual protections to be able to hang from some pseudo-supervisor's nutsack will all be crying shortly after the G8 Summit ends when they, too, get shafted via being sent all over the city to shitty districts on midnights.
All you bitches make me sick. Assholes like you people is why this job continues the rapid decent into the abyss. Rahm, the aldercreatures and every cocksucker that hates the police and is paying attention right now is absolutely LOVING how easy the once mighty CPD is folding to the whim and fancy of the machine trying to break us. You jerkoffs are enabling the decimation of everything generations of coppers before us fought for. At this rate, you schmucks will be OK with giving up cash for overtime and the city clearing your hours from the books each year like other city jobs. Use them or lose them, coming soon at this rate. YOU PEOPLE SUCK!!!!!
clout rules!!! Best way to deal with these clout babies is do NOT let them feel at home! Give them attitude, do NOT offer to help, if they call for backup, of course go, but do the minimum to make sure theses clouts dont get their asses handed to them! They are whats wrong with this place! Heavy hairgel motherfuckers!
★**********************
I'm heavier then elephant shit.
Clout Rules,
Hairgel
Anonymous said...
It's all legit and based off of merit. Ask Sgt. W and his team in area 3 how they got their "spot"
8/24/2011 02:36:00 PM
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He called Steve Georges and sucked hard. He wasn't even known or requested by the area 3 lieutenant.
Ask him and ask Georges. Neither of them can deny it. If they do they are both bold face liars.
The time is soon coming ladies and gentlemen. Either work for us or stay the hell out of our way. And to those crybaby dawg-ass coppers that bitch and moan about this job, PLEASE QUIT! Because if you had any self respect for yourselves you would realize that this is a profession that cannot stand the weak or timid.
Learn to love it, learn to live with it, diamonds are forever, and so are clouted specialized teams!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooo!!!
Peace out.
Fucking ASSHAT!!!!! Better lay off the steroids. They are warping your mind. You wear a blue and red suit with a cape and big red "S" on the front.
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
8/24/2011 03:33:00 AM
I'll write to you in prison or will visit you at the drive-through at Wendy's.
Sad.
Anonymous said...
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
8/24/2011 03:33:00 AM
I quess the real question is, do you follow the rules, or make up your own as you go along? Always remember, Jerry Finnigan was the cream of the crop, not no more(double negative). Anyone can take peoples freedom away if their motto is that the end jusifies the means.
Two coppers paying shithead out of their own pockets for shooting an attack dog on a positive warrant! Ruling came down yesterday.
8/24/2011 05:48:00 AM
WTF? More details? Not a troll!
Not ever copper on these teams have clout. Some are just hard working coppers who were choosed by their sgt to work the detail. Stop being a cry baby, if you were pick to be on one of these team you would be working it too.
8/24/2011 09:25:00 AM
Good grief.
Anonymous said...
...we still aren't hiring...
Anyone have anything on this? There are some of us out here, just waiting on our Conditional Offers to become "real" offers, in writing with dates...
8/24/2011 10:12:00 AM
Seriously--you read this blog and you want to come on this job?
...you're a nut-case. You'll fit right in.
OH Christ!
The Supe in his infinite wisdom probably realized he needed a special black ops team like ours.."
Thanks for that! I think I just pissed my pants a little! That's COMEDY GOLD! The facebook checking team! LOL!
This department has gone down the shitter. Last one out, turn off the lights.
8/24/2011 02:46:00 AM
nobody said Elvis has left the building dog
Nice, so much for everyone in the District........
I know that wouldn't last long.
How can a department get shuffled around more than a deck of cards in Vegas and still stay the same? The bottom line is its not what really happens it only matters how its perceived by the public and media. Oh yeah......and the dealer always wins!
Every Day I'm Shuffling!
Bravo!! Westside Inside Do Nothing. While I usually find your posts abrasive (well written and obviously constructed by a very well-educated individual - BUT ABRASIVE :-) ), this one pretty much says everything that everyone with an ounce of brains and a few years on this circus should know.
Unfortunately, there'll always be impressionable kids on this job who will succumb to the fantasy of "being the real police" after hearing how things were done in generations past.
The ironic part of all this is that a lot of these people are college educated (go figure!) and are too smart for their own good. These are the same Generation Y-er's who can't be told shit, and absolutely REFUSE to listen to guys with time on the job who've lived through this shit before.
All I can say is that I've offered my heartfelt opinion on this matter to more than a few of my people, and they still chose to allow themselves to be walked on by the Department anyway. Now it's time (again for a couple of them) to let them learn the hard way.
- A3 Sergeant
Anonymous said...
"I'm not sucking up but Area 5 Deputy dumped a prince of a Lieut and replaced him with a lieut that that has zero personality, never worked on a team and has No clue how to be the police. But he's great with the stats, pie charts, bar graphs and even received an award from the Westside Ministers Coalition which he proudly displays on his desk."
Hey idiot, the A/5 Deputy didn't dump the lieutenant you are speaking of. He was forced to retire, as he reached 63 years of age. Next time know what the hell you are talking about before you go spouting off!
8/24/2011 06:22:00 PM
Allow me to correct you ASSHOLE know it all. Lieut DR was the Gang Enforcement Unit (GEU) Lieutenant assigned to Area 5. He worked directly for Commander Leo and was assigned to OCD. Although his area of responsibility was Area 5 (014, 015, 016, 017, 025) he did not work for the Area 5 Deputy Chief of Patrol (get it know it all...PATROL!!!!).
Lieut Dennis turned 63 on Aug 6 and was forced out. The Area Lieut he was referring to came from TRU and was given 2 MSF teams along with a gun team, narc te and some office staff. He is the one that was dumped that 153 is referring to. Good guy. Landed on his feet so don't shed any tears for him. The replacement (SM) is the goof that never worked a team. So there know it all. Consider yourself schooled.
Hmmmm...
A detail on top of a "not so super" bid on top of a disbandment on top of volunteering to have contractual rights trampled by signing on to be the black pajama Police?
Perhaps... Just perhaps if everyone played it straight and stayed in Patrol, (no dishonor in chasing the radio for 15 to 20 years until you can play your "good seniority" card. it used to be called putting your time in but some are SO impatient) the powers that be WOULD BE FORCED to deal fair and square with CPD instead of being able to animate, kill-off and resurrect all manner of black pajama, ninja Police units at the drop of a hat to avoid having to hire like they should.
No solidarity at all...
Just like the dirty cocksuckers at city hall cross checked the CPD roster against registered voter rolls and cross checked the rolls against who voted for whom. (before you boo-birds start, remember what city you live in)
Hence the decision to take it to The Police... Hard...
All the shit-talk we've endured, all the media orchestrated bullshit by orders of city hall.
The intentional refusal to hire. The chronic underfunding and the promotion of numerous useless gold stars to intentionally crash our pension fund on the rocks then trying to enact legislation giving them legal cover to throw their hands up, say "it sucks to be you" and run away from making us whole on our pension among other things.
Nobody wants to stand fast and outlast these criminal-political chimps at city hall, in the media & HQ.
The benefit of experience is being around long enough to see the the upper echelon of the Department and City Hall pull the same stupid shit with astounding regularity.
What's maddening is seeing Policemen (who should know better by now) continuing to play themselves (and their fellow officers) cheap.
What the fuck is happening that The Policeman seemingly is consistently coming up short in this town?
Lack of solidarity.
We simply have to do better or the whole idea & ideal of Chicago Police(-ing) will be turned into something horrible for the sole comfort and convenience of the criminal-political class of Chicago.
Police and real citizens be damned, they say...
To KMA 10:50...Well said Brother!!!!!!! Just another KMA'er out here who knows that if it looks and smells like it..BELIEVE it is IT!!!! God Speed and Happy retirement when the day comes!!
I have no idea what u guys r talking about. We have no perks, we are assign to a shit district and detailed to area working midnight hrs......
Earned. Not given.
More like:
Swallowed. Not Spittin'.
Anonymous said...
absolute bulls@*!. The 19th district just inherited the Rham detail which sucked 6 officers. 019 is way undermanned with nearly 700 licensed liquor establishments, wrigley and all the concert venues.
Midnights never have a full lineup and these PO's "assigned to 019" working the Rham detail get their own furlo picks and when they want a day off the watch PO's get their slip kicked back. Now we have a f%&#*ng team of clout heavy pricks to deal with who will no doubt be "Grabbing Offenders" holding them for the patrol officers to process. FU@% YOU McCarthy and FU@% YOU Rham!!!!
8/24/2011 01:12:00 PM
Wow things have really gone to crap in 019. That pains me. A lot..
hang tough Brother. You'll survive.
Do your 8 and hit the gate.I remember the shortfalls of the first watch.I had to stop locking up people in the jets at 10pm because of short staffing. Now if these guys are added to first watch there should be enough to go around for everyone. And them handing off a pinch to the beat car? Screw that.You caught em YOU do the paper.That was the old rule remember? Im truly saddened to hear about this recent revelation at 019. Anything I can do let me know...
Lathrop One.
Most of the P.O.'s don't have clout, it's the Sgt's that went to the Area Teams from TRU & MSF who just brought their old teams with them who have the clout! Like those two clown Sgt's who went to Area 3. Especially the know-it-all that eats like he never saw food before, who somehow got assigned to 20, but detailed to Area 3 saturation. Complete stroke!
Anonymous said...
Wasnt the "Strike Team" created back in 2004 by a security company working the Lathrop Homes?
Copy cats!
8/24/2011 07:38:00 AM
"Chubko's Rangers!"
They were unorthadox to say the least but they got things done.They kept the gang and tact units well fed with arrests.Guns,dope,warrants,ect.
Im wondering how this new "Strike Team" will fare? I have a feeling it will be the same old song and dance under a different name. Personally, I think each district should have a group from each watch that can address problem areas,be them rapid response cars,or clandestine units. The Area Team Idea blows in that they dont stay in any given district to quell the problems.Here today gone tomorrow is not effective use of police resources. While the idea sounds good,there isnt physically enough men and women to do this. And god forbid if Command were to act on any suggestions from us lowly grunts in the streets.
As far as "Chubbie" goes,the guy made a stellar effort in an environment that resisted that effort. Last I heard he is home battling Cancer. Hang tough Chubs.
Some of us remember how hard you worked.
If you are 100 officers short and you move 100 officers from one unit to another you are STILL 100 officers short.
This plan is destined to fail.
The area teams didn't take any whack or clout, it was simply Lts picked sgt and whole teams went with their sgts , nothing more . And soon these officers will be in the districts they bid into.
The political apparatus doesn't want the violence to end. If they stopped it all they would lose a major tool that is used to manipulate the taxpayers.
What would people focus their attention on if all the shootings stopped?
Yeah...you know where the focus would shift and so that's why the perp's have to be waved across the border and turned back out on the street from the jails ASAP.
It's job security for the politicians that control the cities security apparatus.
Thinks it's all tin foil hat conspiracy talk?
Take a look as San Jose's "Operation Community Shield," for example..
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After two-month gang crackdown, San Jose cops sever ties with feds
Driven by a dramatic drop in gang killings coupled with community fears that law-abiding undocumented residents would be deported, San Jose police on Wednesday ended their brief alliance with federal immigration agents.
Police Chief Chris Moore seemed to declare victory in the department's 2-month-old "war on gangs" in saying the department -- still reeling from severe budget cuts and layoffs -- could now afford to sever ties with two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The ICE agents had joined the force June 24 to stem a steep rise of gang violence that had helped put the city on track for its highest homicide rate since the 1980s. In the first 5½ months of the year, the city recorded 14 gang homicides, but none in the two months since the department's elite 38-member METRO unit began focusing on "all gangs, all the time," Moore said. With the help of the ICE agents, he said, police arrested some 215 gang members.
[...]
During the two-month crackdown, called "Operation Community Shield," the gang unit made 314 arrests, seized 23 weapons, and conducted more than 500 gang-related searches, police said. Of the people arrested, 69 percent were involved in gangs and 35 percent were repeat offenders.
"If it's been working, why stop?" said Don Barich, a spokesman for the pro-ICE coalition. "With the budget cutbacks and the manpower challenges the force is facing, it would seem like a good use of resources as far as we're concerned."
read more >> http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18749405
Ah yes, why stop indeed. You should read the entire piece with the usual community leaders calling for it to end because of fear of deportation.
So the political apparatus gives in to the illegal immigrants demands because they prefer to have the homicides that empower the politicians. Why else?
Seriously. It also states that the illegals driving without licenses are not driving since this operation went active so it needs to stop.
Why is that a bad thing?
Oh but the community is scared of the police now so they rather have the killings and shootouts back. That's the illegal immigrant culture I guess. They're afraid to talk to the police but not afraid of the shootouts and killings.
Give me an effing break!
To the officer who said you are lucky to be on the area team how many of your few years do you have in a unit vs patrol. And many experienced officers in those areas should work that team. The units are done you are assigned to a dist
All clout and ass kissers got to strike teams. Everyone else had to go to shit districts. Real bullshit.
If the north side is short as you say, open up the bids to senior officers, not fill spots with less senior officers assigned to areas 1 and 2 who should be working south, it only encourages privileged attitudes
>community fears that law-abiding undocumented residents would be deported<
Umm, undocumented residents -a.k.a. illegals - are by definition law BREAKERS
Where the f#ck did Mike Rosenberg
and these other nitwit "journalists" get their writing credential?
Anonymous said...
I am in an area team and I have zero juice or whack(whatever you want to call it). I do not agree with the way the department is shuffling people around but I also can not agree that we are the "clouted few". Please don't take your department frustration on us. I work very hard and try to be as productive as possible.
8/24/2011 03:33:00 AM
Oh Puleeze! Wake up! Smell the coffee! You think your one of the tope 100 coppers in the city? There are hundreds of coppers in every district who "work very hard and try to be as productive as possible". Just like you! But you knew someone who got you into TRU or MSF. Then you knew someone who suggested you stay on an Area team. That is called Clout!!!!!!!!
Anonymous said...
Most of the P.O.'s don't have clout, it's the Sgt's that went to the Area Teams from TRU & MSF who just brought their old teams with them who have the clout! Like those two clown Sgt's who went to Area 3. Especially the know-it-all that eats like he never saw food before, who somehow got assigned to 20, but detailed to Area 3 saturation. Complete stroke!
8/24/2011 11:27:00 PM
Didn't make the cut, did ya, ya goof???
diamonds are forever---- hey james bond, when you step on your pee pee and get sent to call back we won't have to worry about buying tickets to your 30 pending benefit because you got all that bling bling....
Honestly kid, hate to break up your little party but your a garbage man of the human dregs of society.
P.S. Keep paying my pension bitch!
8/24/2011 02:38:00 PM
Truer a word has never been spoken!
He will see it one day. I pray that it isnt too late when he does.
clout rules!!! Best way to deal with these clout babies is do NOT let them feel at home! Give them attitude, do NOT offer to help, if they call for backup, of course go, but do the minimum to make sure theses clouts dont get their asses handed to them! They are whats wrong with this place! Heavy hairgel motherfuckers
look in the mirror!!!!
Anonymous said...
Two coppers paying shithead out of their own pockets for shooting an attack dog on a positive warrant! Ruling came down yesterday.
8/24/2011 05:48:00 AM
WTF? More details? Not a troll!
8/24/2011 07:38:00 PM
It was in the trib & Times, give a look, $300k plus judgement for a ghetto dog.
"Now we have a f%&#*ng team of clout heavy pricks to deal with who will no doubt be 'Grabbing Offenders' holding them for the patrol officers to process."
Sounds like the "new" fossilized hard chargers on the turd watch Michigan Avenue Detail who spent many prosperous years away from patrol and landed softly.
Words of whizzdumb to the unclouted: we protect our own.
Peace in.
To: Black Ops Douche Hole
I just want to say thank you, from all of us, the little people, beat cops, lockup keepers and desk crew. From the bottom of our hearts, Thank You!!! Without you superhuman genetically enhanced crime fighting wizards our streets would not be safe and this city would be a far cry from the paradise on earth that it is today. You should feel a great deal of pride, its people like you that make this city great.
Thanks,
Love Mom
clout rules!!! Best way to deal with these clout babies is do NOT let them feel at home! Give them attitude, do NOT offer to help, if they call for backup, of course go, but do the minimum to make sure theses clouts dont get their asses handed to them! They are whats wrong with this place! Heavy hairgel motherfuckers!
dont be angry because all of your clout has moved on, retired or just flat out abandoned you. guess what, you need to have clout on this job to get anywhere.. always has been that way and always will be. If youve got a phone call then use it, all the other schmucks are. sorry, but im not above using a call to get anywhere. Ive been on the job for 17 years and ive seen morons go to places because of phone calls... if they can do it why cant I.
The BEST officers from MSF all landed in 004. These are the ones that deserve to be on Area 2 Strike Teams. Guys like that deserve the specialized unit. Someone needs to fix this error immediately!!
To 0628: you are right, I did work very hard and tried to be productive going against the "fuck this job I want to do nothing and bitch " mentality. I am as proactive as the law allows so enough with the comments about the lawsuits and getting fired. I have almost two bars on my dress blues fyi. I love the city. I could not image working somewhere for 20-30 years just for a paycheck. That is sad. My family roots in Chicago go back to the late 1800's. And I am proud of our city. So, I choose to go out and act within the law and slow the rapid growth of garbage in our city. Does it help? Probably not by at least at the end I can say I tried. Back on my original topic. So! Due to my work ethic I was picked up by a supervisor to go to Msf/tru and further to an area team to which I accepted. This was wrong of me how? How else should I have done it? By making a phone call and knocking on doors for my alderman? My team in Msf/tru ended up all over the place due to personal preference.
We said our goodbyes, told a few jokes and moved on. What contract our we circumventing? Our hours are adjusted the same as if we were in a district. Which for the record are
never adjusted. I will not be a jagoff as an earlier post suggested that officers treat area teams like shit to get their point across. I am.nice to everyone and he only time.I.sticneck.neck out is to help a brother in blue. I go out way my way to help any.member of the cpd. On or off duty, no matter the assignment
To 0628: you are right, I did work very hard and tried to be productive going against the "fuck this job I want to do nothing and bitch " mentality. I am as proactive as the law allows so enough with the comments about the lawsuits and getting fired. I have almost two bars on my dress blues fyi. I love the city. I could not image working somewhere for 20-30 years just for a paycheck. That is sad. My family roots in Chicago go back to the late 1800's. And I am proud of our city. So, I choose to go out and act within the law and slow the rapid growth of garbage in our city. Does it help? Probably not by at least at the end I can say I tried. Back on my original topic. So! Due to my work ethic I was picked up by a supervisor to go to Msf/tru and further to an area team to which I accepted. This was wrong of me how? How else should I have done it? By making a phone call and knocking on doors for my alderman? My team in Msf/tru ended up all over the place due to personal preference.
We said our goodbyes, told a few jokes and moved on. What contract our we circumventing? Our hours are adjusted the same as if we were in a district. Which for the record are
never adjusted. I will not be a jagoff as an earlier post suggested that officers treat area teams like shit to get their point across. I am.nice to everyone and he only time.I.sticneck.neck out is to help a brother in blue. I go out way my way to help any.member of the cpd. On or off duty, no matter the assignment
8/26/2011 02:43:00 AM
"I have almost two bars on my dress blues fyi."
Lol almost 2 bars so that means less than 10 years junior. I guess you paid your dues superstar. Lol douchebag
"I have almost two bars on my dress blues fyi."
Lol almost 2 bars so that means less than 10 years junior. I guess you paid your dues superstar. Lol douchebag
8/26/2011 01:58:00 PM
Wow 2 whole bars(almost)
Come see me when its a star and a bar.(25 in case you dont know)
Now finish your milk and cookie and run along and play hero goof ball.
Tell me, what do you use to make the stretch marks around your mouth FROM KISSING TOO MUCH ASS go away?
Douchebag!
As far as "Chubbie" goes,the guy made a stellar effort in an environment that resisted that effort. Last I heard he is home battling Cancer. Hang tough Chubs.
Some of us remember how hard you worked.
8/24/2011 11:34:00 PM
Ah yes Chubko! The man DID keep the gang and tact well fed.A portion of those arrests made someone a Cmdr in 024 now. Was always there when a PO got in the shit in the jets. He left there under a riot condition and I swear by the look in his eyes,he was gonna take them all out. I hear he is in remission with that cancer too. For as much crap as some talked about that guy,he always had our backs knew his shit and didnt lose too many cases.The guy put together a team that was formidable and yes he did bust his ass there. No slouch at all. I ran across him at the Rich Francis trial. Asked him why HE was there. Told me Rich was always there for him taking the shit heads away it was the least he could do for Rich. THATS respect and the guy isnt even a P.O. Hang in there Chubko. Your work hasnt been forgotten ya crazy bastard!
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