Ramn Dances
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday danced around the politically volatile subject of closing district police stations, maintaining that his singular focus is to get more police officers on the street.
“Everything I’m thinking about is how to strengthen the beat officer to fight crime — not the bureaucracy. ... It’s not a budgetary question. It’s a crime-fighting strategy,” the mayor said.
“Over the years, the beat officer and community policing have been hollowed out. The bureaucracy got fat. The whole strategy here is to ... strengthen the beat officer and make sure the bureaucracy doesn’t become the focus of fighting crime.”
Does that mean Chicago has too many district stations and could get along without a few to free dozens of officers for street duty?
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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and the Alderman?
A web page and a dozen interns can take all the requests for city services... no need for alderman with the Internet-- stream the City Council meetings on-line.
Hell, the mayor as a budget webpage.... talk about getting input directly from the citizens-- cutting out the alderman
The additional manpower added to the streets that would come from closing a couple of stations would be negligible at best--even when you factor in the bureaucratic positions that would be eliminated. Since the areas that those absorbing Districts serve would be extended, they'll need to use the manpower from the closed stations to cover more real estate. Dozens of officers? We need hundreds more.
What a prick..
Speaking of bureaucracy, how about all those aldercreatures and their redundancy?
Not that cutting inside slots and ancient buildings isn't a bad thing, but it isn't neccesarily a good thing either. The clods we have for bosses and politicians could fuck up "free BJ day" at a sorority.
I toldja so. Yabba dabba doo. I was just guessing too.
well of course!
no stations means you have to be somewhere like in a car or on foot
have no station means you have to out there then of course no heating the building
maintence things like that
look at the "$" rahmbo and mcnutty save not have to pay a person to mop and sweep floors
and course it helps not the homeless using your lobby as as shelter
when you make a arrest just take them straight to county
no putting up with holding cells any more let perriwinkle and dart deal with them:)
( wont have to deal them)
see? saving even more $
your car trunk is your new locker and office!
To borrow a phrase from an insignificant blog.......
"GLORIOUS BULLSHIT" from the beloved leader..............
Keep yourselves safe.........
“Everything I’m thinking about is how to strengthen the beat officer to fight crime — not the bureaucracy. ... It’s not a budgetary question. It’s a crime-fighting strategy,” the mayor said.""
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Oh yeah? Well I seem to remember this....
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Rahm Asks McCarthy for $190 Million Cut to Police Budget
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told the Sun-Times Tuesday that Mayor Emanuel asked him to trim the police department’s budget by $190 million, a cut of nearly 15 percent.
http://chicagoist.com/2011/09/01/city_proposes_190_million_cut_to_po.php
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Isn't the obvious solution to the budget problem to install more blue light pod cams?
I mean you get $4 dollars of societal benefits for every dollar spent... the so-called experts say.
So let's see.... we install about $47.5 million dollars more worth of pod cams and there's your $190 million dollars..
Now how many cams is that exactly and where are we gonna put them.
/sarcasm
"Stations, Stations, We Ain't Got No Stations, We Don't Need No Stinking Stations"
Nailing Rahm down about this proposal is like catching a greased pig (sorry) running down State St. This guy is as crafty as they come telling lies and half truths to get his way. Communities like having their own police stations. They feel having the station near them gives them a chance to get faster and better service. With all the taxes we pay just leave the stations be and HIRE MORE COPS!
Emmanuel keeps talking about saving money by "streamlining" the police dept. and then he comes up with two news ways to piss away millions on nonsense projects. Doesn't matter where the money comes from, TIF or just handouts to the Park District, it is still our TAX DOLLARS!
I bet it won't mean less bosses.
Mayor suggests getting rid of half the aldermen. Then the mayor says it wouldn't save that much money, even though other major cities say it does and as a result they have fewer aldermen to serve as many or more constituents.
Then today one by one each aldermen stated on the news, yeah yeah close stations. Wonder why all agree so readily?? Hmmmmm Not one took a different stance, interesting.
If you always wanted to be just a beat cop this is the department for you! However, if you might like a chance to ever get promoted, go to another department. Unless of course you are wired in, then climb on board and enoy the gravy! Now go get me some numbers chumps!
Current 001 rumors that foot and tac are getting haircuts could be an early indicator with those officers available for new beats.
9/19/2011 01:48:00 PM
Does 001 really need 7 do-nothing tact teams???
He's pissing on the public's head and telling them that it's raining !!!!!
Check out the idiotic ideas relating to saaving money for the City at Rahm's website.
www.chicagobudget.org
This guy is so full of shit his eyes are brown.
I guess he thinks we're all a bunch of chumbelones.
The whole strategy here is to ... strengthen the beat officer and make sure the bureaucracy doesn’t become the focus of fighting crime.”
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So this fuckhead's idea of "strengthening" the "beat officer" is to tear down a couple police stations that've been serving their hoods for how many decades now?
Yeah.... 021 & 013.... pure "bureaucracy". None of those coppers ever took a radio job, never locked anyone up, never did a case report.
No, they're just "fat bureaucratic politicians" with all kinds of clout who never had to come to work, according to chief Fuckhead.
The neighborhoods who are losing those stations would have rallyed against taking their station away.
Today, these petty fucks scream and cry and will never lift so much as a phone to call someone and tell them to leave the stations where they are.
Still nothing about cutting the fat from the top. Only a shuffling of bodies and titles. And the media is too stupid to pick up on it. Name one boss who went back to a district from 35th St.
So where are they? Hmmm.
Too many 'chiefs' and not enough Indians. That will never change. Screw the p.o.'s by shuffling them around, that's all.
How much will it cost me to retire if I'm only 52 1/2 with 26 on?
Would love to see the people keep pressuring him and watch him crack and go on one of his f bomb rants live on the 10 o clock news....
Wotta weasel!
Some rumors about McNutty seem to be picking up steam. Anyone have anymore info?
how about car assignments. no steady car, no one bothers going to the area garages ,even call the r man for service . got over 29 years on the job, no accountability of vehicle /equipment repair.how can you drive around no computer, emergency equipment not functioning,spot lights out. bet got jell all over their face. done 16 Jun 2012 ,30 years 4 months. can't wait to have some 30 year old stop me, i'll identify my self as retired, and hear SO.
Close some units like Intel that has 30 POs and a Gold Star Commander. They do nothing to keep us safe going after Biker gands and Labor. Just look at the Flash Mobs.They have weekends and Holidays off that says it all.
First is the closing of two to three police district buildings.
Second, the city is actually looking at the feasibility of purchasing electric cars for the police.
And they are even selling off cars to Chicago Carriage Cab Co. the ex-mayors sons pal.
W T F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It hasn't been made public yet but the new favored clout spot for police will be the new Kayak Unit, meant to keep crime down on our rivers and waterways, and to give jobs to alder scum's relatives.
What Rahm left out is that there will be 4 satellite police stations in these new Kayak houses to fulfill his pledge to put 400 new police in Kayaks on the River.
It is all about the security of the Kayaker, the whole focus is now Kayak Crime.
The new unit will be called the Kayak River and Patrol Unit or K.R.A.P.
This is big news and I heard it from a source at 35th St. Really big, coming down any day now.
Remember, K.R.A.P. You read it here first.
Birdy told me he plans to close 021by summer of 2012. Those officers would get absorbed into 002 and they would remap 002 creating another sector. This would cut down the costs of running an entire station and put dozens of inside people back on the streets. 021 is a small and old station and you can hear a pin drop in the station most days and nights.
"It’s not a budgetary question. It’s a crime-fighting strategy,” the mayor said.
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TD 9.5 is a deceitful, snaky, bully. When questioned, he immediately goes to lies, other diversionary language, verbal attacks or walks away, instead of skillfully telling the truth. The question was a softball lob and the answer was simple for someone who knows how to handle himself, but without a second thought, he immediately reverted to his core nature of trying to be as slick or slicker than his old boss, which means he is incapable of telling the truth. Pray God he NEVER becomes our POTUS.
Eff you, I'll burn your house down? really? It's not funny.
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While lobbying this spring for lawmakers to support a change in pensions for city workers, Emanuel called Democratic state Rep. Greg Harris, a longtime acquaintance who represents Emanuel's North Side neighborhood. Harris opposed the legislation, which never got traction in Springfield.
Emanuel pressed Harris to change his mind, and, according to several lawmakers who heard the story, began swearing at him and threatening to burn down his house if he didn't.
Harris didn't dispute the story but declined to provide details of the conversation.
"It was a really heated exchange, but that's fine, that's politics," Harris said. "People are passionate about their positions, and sometimes things get intense. … I also have a temper, and I know bad words too."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-emanuel-state-lawmakers-20110918,0,6904410.story
Yeah cutting the uniform allowance and pensions are not a budget thing they're crime fighting strategies.
Moldy buildings is a crime fighting strategy too -- hey what doesn't kill you will make you stronger... right?
Just prepare yourselves for the real changes. Don't go out signing any loan agreements and save your money. The changes will be kept under wraps until after the summits so as to not hurt moral imo.
16 million dollars for boathouses but the mayor cries poor mouth.
All rumors for now about 1st district. They are very clout heavy there. No changes to either 001 or 018.
The clods we have for bosses and politicians could fuck up "free BJ day" at a sorority.
9/20/2011 12:50:00 AM
Geez, I really miss the good old days!
Signed,
The House Mother Of Thi Beta
got over 29 years on the job, no accountability of vehicle /equipment repair.how can you drive around no computer, emergency equipment not functioning,spot lights out. bet got jell all over their face. done 16 Jun 2012 ,30 years 4 months. can't wait to have some 30 year old stop me, i'll identify my self as retired, and hear SO.
9/20/2011 08:28:00 AM
If you could leave any day, yet you're sticking around until June 2012, you are an ASSHAT.
Can anyone, anywhere, provide a job description for 'alderman'?
Can anyone, anywhere, provide a job description for 'alderman'?
9/20/2011 05:57:00 PM
with or without lubrication?
Remember, K.R.A.P. You read it here first.
9/20/2011 09:44:00 AM
yeah, but can I.C.E. be called in, to handle the deportations of the illegal alien asian carp invasion?
How much will it cost me to retire if I'm only 52 1/2 with 26 on?
9/20/2011 06:35:00 AM
how much is freedom worth to you?
Anonymous said...
Can anyone, anywhere, provide a job description for 'alderman'?
9/20/2011 05:57:00 PM
Scum sucking worthless corrupt bastard.
Dear Rahm,
You've failed to sell your message to the media. ABCNEWS is reporting:
"Chicago may close some police stations to save money"
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/video?id=8360402&rss=rss-wls-video-8360402&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
and not
"Chicago may close some police stations as a new crime fighting strategy"
The same inference could be made about the Chicago City Council. Entirely too many alderman and too little work out of them.
Anonymous said...
Some rumors about McNutty seem to be picking up steam. Anyone have anymore info?
9/20/2011 08:06:00 AM
20% FOR 1 in the state of Illinois, don't know how much it cost on the East Coast... lol
Anonymous Anonymous said...
got over 29 years on the job, no accountability of vehicle /equipment repair.how can you drive around no computer, emergency equipment not functioning,spot lights out. bet got jell all over their face. done 16 Jun 2012 ,30 years 4 months. can't wait to have some 30 year old stop me, i'll identify my self as retired, and hear SO.
9/20/2011 08:28:00 AM
If you could leave any day, yet you're sticking around until June 2012, you are an ASSHAT.
9/20/2011 05:55:00 PM
He may be waiting to turn 55 for the insurance, ASSHAT.
Hey mayor how bout you start at the top by cutting the number of budget sucking do nothing aldermen in half!!
Anonymous said...
Mayor suggests getting rid of half the aldermen. Then the mayor says it wouldn't save that much money, even though other major cities say it does and as a result they have fewer aldermen to serve as many or more constituents.
Then today one by one each aldermen stated on the news, yeah yeah close stations. Wonder why all agree so readily?? Hmmmmm Not one took a different stance, interesting.
9/20/2011 03:56:00 AM
He told them to go along with the station closings or he would push cutting down the alderman to 25. They are just a rubber stamp for the ballerino which further shows that we don't need 50 of them.
Why not cut aldermen in half also. We do not need that many aldermen in the city.
We should vote on the next election to elimate half the amount of aldermen we currently have. They are useless anyway.
Hey media!!! If Rahm is so concerned about giving the "Beat Officer" the tools he needs to keep the City safe, why has he or the Superintendent not discussed any of these cost cutting ideas, redistricting and manpower reorganizations with the FOP? They represent the rank and file and have a pretty good idea of what the "Beat Cop" needs. Is Rahm gonna be like the last dictator the city had or is he going to actually sit down and try and work on some of these issues with the union? If he sat down with them I'm sure they would be receptive and agreeable to help eliminating some of this department's bureacracy and waste (start with the top, obviously) . Most of us want to help, we are all taxpayers last I checked but lets do it together.
OT. McJOKE announced at a HQ's gathering that he is not leaving and is here for the long haul. Why did he make the announcement? McJOKE must be a reader of SCC. So, if McJOKE is a visitor to the SCC blog, J-FlED must not have told him about the insignificance of SCC during their breakfast meeting. That J-FLED is one slick FEEB!
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