Hey Look! Face Shields
Chicago Police officers facing off against protesters during the NATO and G-8 Summits will be equipped with new face shields that fit comfortably over gas masks and include a seal to prevent officers from being blinded by liquids thrown at them.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has awarded a $193,461 emergency contract to Colorado-based Super Seer Corp. for the purchase of 3,057 new and improved shields to be used by officers on the front lines during the May 19-21 summits at McCormick Place.
The contract marks the first use of the sweeping power granted to Emanuel to purchase goods and services for the summits — without City Council approval or competitive bidding — provided those items cannot be purchased under existing contracts.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
82 Comments:
How about a fucking helmet rated to stop a couple of bricks. One that is not rated as a motorcycle helmet. If you drop the helmet on the ground it's already useless.
Now dig into your pockets for more of that free government money and purchase the riot gear that goes with that face shield. The head and face are not all that are going to need protection.
Which Alderman or Reverend got the contract? Fuggit, I'll just make my own helmet and faceshield out of an old fishbowl or maybe a mixing bowl.
Gas masks???? What gas masks?????
So that comes out to 63 bucks for a piece of plastic?? How much would a real riot helmet cost?? What kind of deal is this??
Only 3,057? What about the other 8,943 officers?
Glad you asked, everybody else will be issued blue beanies with little propellers on top.
Would that be the "new math"SCC? And to think the 2nd watch old crew will be there the geriatric generation hope they do ok! If coppers get hurt or KILLED the blood will be all over rahms and garys hands! Hey rahm be smart tell QUINN NOW to have NATIONAL GUARD on front line no more BULLSHIT OK! They have the proper equipment and will not be restricted like CPD is thanks to people who have ruined this city such as the 50 cowards!
OMFG... How was this ever an issue??? If this 2nd rate, cheap-ass, shithole city cared one bit about its police, this would have never been a story.
I'd say if you don't get a new shield, simply don't go or don't do SHIT!!!
Just look at our roads.. why they can't be fixed?? you'll see the corruption there.
Hundreads of Millions spent and gaping potholes everywhere
Here in illinois.
Don't blame that on the weather either.. I was just in wisconsin and minnesota and
they have better roads than we do.
Illinois basically a communist state.
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
the face shields will be rotated to your relief officer. they snap in and out.
How many millions$ is the city getting to host this event? And they are bragging about spending a few hundred thousand on helemts. What fucking cheap jagoffs. Of course it won't be the politicians staring down the Anarchist on the street.
Can I wear my raincoat?
You only need 3000 helmets. Tact will pass their's on to 3rd watch. 3rd watch will pass them on to 1st watch. And, 1st watch will pass them back to tact. There...problem solved! But how to get all the hair gel off the sweat band?
All sworn personnel will receive new shields at a cost of nearly one million dollars.
Maybe not everyone is invited to the riots?
The anarchists are reading this and loving it. They've been planning for a year.
I came on the job in 1990 and still have the old helmet from the
1960's.
The shield will not even work on my helmet.
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
2/15/2012 02:10:00 AM
Before you start up......the January check was for the LAST QUARTER OF 2011. You will see the raise on the April check.
READ YOUR CONTRACT!!!!!!
Interesting that the face shields have a list price of $35. Yet cost the City $63. Must be a City Tax. Oh, wait, $63 is after the 10% discount.
http://estores.infront.com/superseer/item_info.asp?pid=182
I hear the shields are being made by a new company right here in chicago. I think the name is Vanecko Bros. Police Shields.
1,800 tier 1's and the rest to da bosses!
are they safety shields up to osha standards?
Fuck the new bug guards retrofitted to an outdated motorcycle helmet from the 50's making them even heavier than they are...How about helmets made of kevlar?
Saw FLOP prez Shields on the news and he looked like a deer in headlights!
SEER makes a good product, I do hope the city pays them. They will be working overtime to make these for May. The city has really waited much too long on this.
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
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Duty availability is paid for the previous quarter. Your check for being available for oct nov and dec was paid in jan. The march check will reflect the 805 that started in jan.
to 2/15/2012 02:10:00 AM:
Now that you are awake, we will go over this again...you were not shorted anything-that money was earned for the last quarter of 2011. Your next check will reflect the new rate. Now go back to sleep. Moron.
"Wait a second. Only 3,057? What about the other 8,943 officers? Or does City Hall know something they aren't telling the rest of us?"
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A replay of times gone by. Just line up behind an officer with a face shield. When they go down, grab their face shield, when you go down the guy in back of you gets it from you.
Like going into battle without a rifle. When soldiers start dying you pick one up off the ground.
What exactly is the Department's Official Response to getting shit and piss and such thrown at officers? Keep your mouth shut, of course, but what else? Will we be equipped with our own shit bags? Bring your own toilet paper.
Anonymous said...
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
2/15/2012 02:10:00 AM
That $755 was paid in Jan but was for the previous quarter. The higher amount is being earned right now. You get the first check at the higher amount in April. Got it? Earn it then you get the check, it isn't in advance.
we dont need these stupid fucking face shields for our MOTORCYCLE helmets. we nee RIOT helmets....that already have the proper shields. If you get hit in the head during g8 remeber to sue the shit out of this city for not providing you with proper equipment. 90% of departments procide all the equipment an officer need from the academy but not corrupt chicago. fuck this city.
I have a fucking motorcycle helmet from 18+ years ago not rated for any type of riot.... State Police have riot helmets...hell even Norridge PD have riot helmets... Not the third largest police department though... I hate this city... 9 more years and thank GOD I can leave...
Does this mean The Mayor acknowledges big trouble, an invitation to put YOU IN HARMS WAY? Athens comes to Chicago. When the goons climb the statuary in Grant Park & topple the lions at the Art Institute, will Rahm Emanuel say its OUR fault because he gave us face shields...?
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"..... Anonymous said...
the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? ...."
••• It's paid for the previous quarter. Jan-Mar '12 (Apr 1) will reflect increase.
Whats that come out to per shield ? Good buy Rahm
Anonymous said...
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
2/15/2012 02:10:00 AM
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Ummmm, no they didn't. The last duty availability check was from 2011, the next one will be for $805. The step increase didn't take effect until 01JAN12.
I was told yesterday we have approximately 8,500 9161's, and 500 have put in paper to retire by May 15. Not to worry, we have 48 in the academy.
Thats real nice- 3,000 face shields, and AT LEAST 50,000 protesters expected! The next big question is what equipment are they providing to counter malotov cocktails? Anybody see the policemen in Greece that got hit with that stuff? The liquid spreads all over and sets fire to the entire surface- what measures are they taking to protect us from that? Nobody mentioned it when we were at the 1 day g8 training class. And now I'm hearing that they want officers UNARMED on the front line of this thing! Who is running this circus?!?! They have NO CLUE!
With all this piss and shit flying around I suggest a nose plug along with the rain coat.
was just told today 3rd watch will be at the g8 do to the fact that they have more manpower then 2nd watch....i just wish someone knew the right info because tomorrow it will be every watch goes and the citizens in the neighborhoods will be patrolling the streets and making citizen arrests while all the watches are at the g8
power of the blog
Good, keep it. When they send me with my old shield and I get injured my lawsuit will state that they knowing placed me in harms way with an old face shield. This arrogant prick needs some better legal advisors because the ones he has now have no clue.
9.5 bought 3,057 face shields for $193,461.
This comes out to $63.28 per shield.
On the companies website a regular shield costs $30.00. Let's see, with the quantity and police discount that means that they just doubled the cost for Chicago. Even with a special design this is too much! Good thing 9.5 didn't have to get a bid on these.
Anarchy symbol found on east end of 25
Maybe they're saving the rest of the 55 million for the up coming law suits, or the lunches for the mayor and his cronies
Look on the back of the helmets. They say "DOT" on them. These are motocycle helmets, not riot helmets. We need new helmets! Yet some of you work for this evil city like there is no tomorrow.
how about real helmets, not DOT (department of transportation) that is stamped on the back of ALL of our current helmets.
Just look at our roads.. why they can't be fixed?? you'll see the corruption there.
see da guy wit' da asphalt
He also ordered panty shields for all the bosses
Anonymous said...
Has anyone else noticed that the city shorted us $50.00 on our Duty Availability Checks? We are supposed to get $805.00 as of Jan 1,2012 per contract. The city paid us $755.00!
2/15/2012 02:10:00 AM
You are paid for the prior three months hence the $755. It was still 2011 Then next duty availability will be $805.
So the shield is ballistic but the baby blue motorcycle helmet is not? Brilliant.
Pass it forward!
Anonymous said...
How about a fucking helmet rated to stop a couple of bricks.
One that is not rated as a motorcycle helmet. If you drop the helmet on th
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Hey retard if it is designed to save your skull when u wipe out on a bike and hit the concrete pavement I think your fucking head will be ok when a bottle or brick is thrown.....
You obviously have NO CLUE whatsoever on how much the kevlar helmets weigh....
"Hey Rahm be smart tell QUINN NOW to have NATIONAL GUARD on front line no more BULLSHIT OK! They have the proper equipment and will not be restricted like CPD is..."
--2/15/2012 12:25:00 AM
Sorry. Mayor Emanuel is busy doing more important things -- chasing after little TV news stories, making city ordinances about income tax preparers after a place called "Mo Money" ripped off their own community, left people standing without refund checks.
You gotta talk to this Lori Healey. She knows public relations and stuff, she'll fix you right up.
"NATO, G8 Organizers Seek To Downplay Protest Concerns"
“This is important in the face that we put on to the world and all the focus on negativity is … unproductive and just, you know, not a good way to focus our energies at this point.”
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/business-group-president-prepare-for-the-worst-at-natog8/
OK, everybody, like, you know, focus your energies.
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
One correspondent on SCC recently described Healey as a "gum-snapping idiot who needs to run a comb through her hair." I can really hear it there.
You know?
The Department has just tipped their hand to the anarchists. Hint: there will only be 3000 cops total down at the summits. Hint2: hello thugs- the districts will be 3000 short during the summits, and deduct the cops on the medical, inside dollies, the drivers of the elite and the spoiled ones doing "hotel security" for the supposed dignitaries - the home front will be prime pickins. Boys and girls- give your spouse the snub and set up a code word for entry.
Where's all that federal $$$ being spent?
FIREEXTINGUISHERS For Each Officer?
Heard the the thing the media isn't reporting on is who the middle man company is which is actually purchasing the shields from Seer, and the mark up for the contract. The city could of bought them direct, but why miss out on an opportunity to make a buck.
Too bad there aren't any real investigative reporters any more.
The face shields do NOT provide ballistic protection. They are just like the ones currently on your helmet, only new.
The current helmet, once it receives a hard hit, is compromised and provides less and less protection each time it is hit.
A kevlar helmet, such as the current US military issue ACH helmet, which is NIJ level IIIA, can be outfitted with a 4mm thick ballistic shield. It weighs little more than our current helmet. The drawback: they cost about $500.
Why do we have 'motorcycle helmets' and not 'riot helmets'? I swear my helmet is from the '60's. I never got a gas mask either, after spending several useless days watching National Geographic films about 9/11.
Which Alderman or Reverend got the contract? Fuggit, I'll just make my own helmet and faceshield out of an old fishbowl or maybe a mixing bowl.
2/15/2012 12:08:00 AM
Now THAT was some funny shit! Thanks--I had a totally shit day and that made me laugh out loud.
He also ordered panty shields for all the bosses
2/15/2012 12:44:00 PM
Um, I think they're going to need a great big shipment of DEPENDS, not panty shields!
And they should order Rahm his own with some tutu netting on them. They will be soothing for him.
...the home front will be prime pickins. Boys and girls- give your spouse the snub and set up a code word for entry.
2/15/2012 03:01:00 PM
you, sir, are a mindreader.
Chalkie
I know this wont be a popular opinion. But those complaining that the city should buy me this or buy me that you get a uniform check. If you are worried that your helmet is not sufficient buy a new one. Are you that cheap that you would rather have unsafe equipment then buy it yourself? Many of you probably are still wearing your expired vests from the academy.
Second City FYI: somebody received a contract. These helmets are paid for with Federal dollars. A new bill was passed a few years back were the Feds are no longer approving Sole-Source Contracts. Which means purchases has to be a RFP.
The city says it's an emergency situation, but the city received the approval of Federal funds way back having enough ample time to put together a RFP, so many companies may have a fair shake in the bidding process.
Check to see which elected officials this company made campaign contributions to. This direct purchase is against federal guidelines and all funds can be called back and be paid in full.
Finally, all the equipment will have to be inventoried and inspected every 2 years. If lost, stolen or damaged a report must be generated to the OIG and the department of Finance to document any piece of equipment.
I would like to say.....We're fucked!
Anonymous said...
Interesting that the face shields have a list price of $35. Yet cost the City $63. Must be a City Tax. Oh, wait, $63 is after the 10% discount.
http://estores.infront.com/superseer/item_info.asp?pid=182
2/15/2012 06:17:00 AM
Must be the Alison C-H. method of math.
1) A face shield for $65 ?
2) A new curved deflector windshield for my
Harley,$99.
3) A 12 hour barrage of piss n' poop bags at G8
4) Road trip along Rt.66.
I'm going with # 2 & 4...it's the right thing to do.
I was told at the training that I attended that the city is buying 6000 face shields. The company can only make so many at a time. Second as explained by others and at the training the helmet is just fine for getting hit by an object. The helmet company also makes riot helmets which are the same only in black and extended down the sides and back. It is all online. Just because a helmet is a "riot" helmet does not make it better. So stop looking for things to complain about already. Stand with your partners on the line and bring back 68
THIS LOOKS BIG! WHAT'S THE REAL STORY?
Fire Commissioner Stepping Down
Three months before Chicago welcomes world leaders for the NATO/G8 summits, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is losing one of his administration's top officials.
Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff will resign from his post on Thursday, a firefighter's union spokesman tells NBC Chicago.
"This is like a death in the family," said Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2's Tim O'Brien.
O'Brien said the transition leaves him concerned as to whether the department will be prepared for when Chicago hosts the NATO and G8 summits in May.
This is a developing story.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/fire-commissioner-robert-hoff-resignation-139406373.html#ixzz1mVawU7Xu
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/fire-commissioner-robert-hoff-resignation-139406373.html#ixzz1mVabfkVA
guess who has the contract on the new shields? it goes on and on and on.
just like the olympics... the connected will make big $$$
"Wait a second. Only 3,057? What about the other 8,943 officers? Or does City Hall know something they aren't telling the rest of us?"
GMac stated on TV that 1/3 of the department a total of 2500 officers would be assigned to G8. That make a total dept strength of 7500.......
I know this wont be a popular opinion. But those complaining that the city should buy me this or buy me that you get a uniform check. If you are worried that your helmet is not sufficient buy a new one. Are you that cheap that you would rather have unsafe equipment then buy it yourself? Many of you probably are still wearing your expired vests from the academy.
2/15/2012 05:50:00 PM
myob, civilian.
you dont need that many because there are not that many tier 1 officers. The officers who are on the front lines(tier one) are going to get the face shields. Other officers who are tier two are going to be on the outskirts of the city blocking streets, doing traffic, guarding cars and filling out the paperwork and processing arrests. the tier two officers are not going to be used anywhere near the front lines unless the city completly goes up for grabs in a full blow riot... if its anything like canada or Pittsburgh there will be trouble but nothing where everyone else will get called up into the protest zone. The tier one guys are the ones getting pelted with urine, chemicals and who knows what other bodily fluids... I sure am glad im gonna be a tier two officer... I dont need that crap. Ill happily watch cars for 12 hours 5 blocks away from the protesting.
guess who has the contract on the new shields? it goes on and on and on.
ummmmmm, the contract with is super speer.. A company based in colorado and is one of the biggest suppliers of police helmets.. soooooooo, whats the big connection?? Oh, I see.. there is no connection, you just wanted to hear yourself complain...again.
$63.28?
How about some OSHA & NIOSH approved GOGGLES?
And a small flame thrower ?
And then cancel G8!
Pre 1985 helmet was told to get a new replacement from equipment and supply. Not I could get a refurbished one somebody else had thrown in their truck or other nasty enviorment YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never thought I would see "YUK" and "OMG" on this website The CPD has come a long way
EWWWW!! That nasty replacement helmet sounds so yukkie
You get a face shield and two rubber bands.
Helmet is extra.
Anonymous said...
I know this wont be a popular opinion. But those complaining that the city should buy me this or buy me that you get a uniform check. If you are worried that your helmet is not sufficient buy a new one. Are you that cheap that you would rather have unsafe equipment then buy it yourself? Many of you probably are still wearing your expired vests from the academy.
I agree...cough up your uniform check to protect yourself. And yes there are cheap po's who are still wearing their 1st issue vest. To cheap to protect themselves. The only one to blame is yourself. The department is really trying to equip us with the proper equipment. One has to ask where the heck did all the federal money is going. How much is really been given to the Police and Fire?
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