Still No NATO Order
Walking into a Metra station during NATO weekend might be a bit like walking into Soldier Field. No beverages, no backpacks and no weapons.
That means no morning coffee during your Monday commute on May 21, patdowns and other security measures the U.S. Secret Service doesn’t want to disclose.
Metra announced its plans Friday to step up security for the NATO Summit — including closing 26 stations on the Electric Line May 21 to focus security on stations with higher ridership.
If Metra makes it uncomfortable enough, people will just stop riding in. The protestors will count that as a "win." Same thing with the CTA. The restaurant closures and downtown workers being told to "dress down?" More wins. Anything that alters the day-to-day routines is a victory for these folks.
Even what's being done to our schedules.
Even what's being done to our schedules.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
42 Comments:
how can it be much of a victory for these social outcasts when increasingly we see them as aimless, annoying and hugely ignorant putzes bent on disrupting/hurting innocent hard-working people who happen to be suffering the same dilemma as everyone else? they have no point, unless they focus their protests toward the ear of the president of the United States for the CHANGE he promised which he did not deliver.
Gee, I hope students who need to ride CTA, Metra and other transportation to school are able to bring their books.... since they can't be carrying a backpack, perhaps a shopping bag? And who is to say that some questionable items can't be transported in a purse or briefcase? Just sayin'
Can this order come out soon, cause my wife is getting mad and thinks im goin to be out drinking with my friends and cheating on her!! This is bullshit, I always go straight home after work, and if I dont im going to be in deep shit with her
NO NATO ORDER... but new "narcotics court order"... effecitive 11may12... all officers going to "narcotics court" are to already have printed out with them a copy of isp lab report, prior to arrival attached to their time due slip, court sgt will not allow them to sign in without it... if an officer gets a slip past without an isp report, the XO will spar/suspend them for one day.... FIRST OFF DIDN'T THEY GET RID OF "NARCOTICS COURT" LIKE 10 YRS AGO... so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
Al-Queda considered it a win when they caused economic disruptions in the economy of the United States and Europe.
Therefore it makes sense for the anarchists to claim victory if they disrupt the economy of the City of Chicago.
My question is "will Rahm declare that the NATO event was such a great event that it must be recognizd". I would imagine him then decide to add a fifth star to the flag of the City of Chicago.
These little knuckle heads are looking for their own meta-reality. Nearly all of them are poseurs, malcontents and spineless sissies. There is nothing in their lives that constitutes genuine accomplishment. Their music is sampled, (rock is dormant not dead), reality programs (the mundane smothered in a heaping load of histrionics) is their norm, RPGs simulate some kind of alternate reality they find appealing and other examples that can be observed when given the opportunity. Many are basement dwellers and/or suburban bottle fed brats who are just looking for something to waste their day. Don't ask them to open their eyes to reality, they find it irrelevant. This little moment of faux-anarchy is all they will have to look to as an accomplishment. It's kind of sad. To be so helpless, hopeless and clueless is going to make for a rough rest of their lives.
so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
While I agree this order is stupid, you know the reason for it is because some stupid cops tried to go to court on a negative lab. So you screwed it up for yourselves.
Just wotk from home if you can! You would be stupid to go downtown in that mess if you don't have too!
NO NATO ORDER... but new "narcotics court order"... effecitive 11may12... all officers going to "narcotics court" are to already have printed out with them a copy of isp lab report, prior to arrival attached to their time due slip, court sgt will not allow them to sign in without it... if an officer gets a slip past without an isp report, the XO will spar/suspend them for one day.... FIRST OFF DIDN'T THEY GET RID OF "NARCOTICS COURT" LIKE 10 YRS AGO... so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
5/13/2012 02:22:00 AM
I don't do drugs!
So FUCK the order!
SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
Wow. Are you really this stupid??
If you have a felony or misdemeanor narcotics arrest (and narcotics is the only charge) you must bring a positive lab report to court with you....what is so hard to understand, dummy??
No positive lab? No OT. Try reading the (informal) order, numbnuts.
No inconvenience? No coffee at 6 am. You can't bring your briefcase, portfolio, or backpack, so you carry everything in your arms, which you can drop when you start running downtown to avoid trouble. Weird "nothing over 15" x 15"" rule.
There is 0 leadership and motivation to do a good job. I am at the breaking point already and have never been treated like this in 25 years. Right now I hold Rahm,The Bosses, and the Protesters equally in contempt.
Anonymous said...
NO NATO ORDER... but new "narcotics court order"... effecitive 11may12... all officers going to "narcotics court" are to already have printed out with them a copy of isp lab report, prior to arrival attached to their time due slip, court sgt will not allow them to sign in without it... if an officer gets a slip past without an isp report, the XO will spar/suspend them for one day.... FIRST OFF DIDN'T THEY GET RID OF "NARCOTICS COURT" LIKE 10 YRS AGO... so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
5/13/2012 02:22:00 AM
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the order is poorly written and clearly done so under the direct oversight of the Supe - who doesnt know this shit of give a fuck about this shit. Regardless, it's pretty clear that if you are going to branch court of drugs (misd weed or felony) you need to have a positive lab report with you. What I think is the bigger issue is that they putting this on the shoulders of the copper, who has to call the lab and get the report themselves. WTF - why dont i just go test the shit myself. How much more shit must I be responsible for? How about the lab email me the results or email the arresting officer's unit with the results, and I can get them in roll call from the WC or sgt? No problem, supe. after roll call i'll be sure to sit in the station and make phone calls instead of taking jobs. And if I'm on 1st watch I'll make sure to stay after checkoff to call the lab, then drop a slip.
I'm thinking this is not because of protesters, but terrorist prevention.
new "narcotics court order"...
Glad I'm out of that place. It was once a great unit to work in. No more! These days, I hear guys bitching and talking about getting out of there.... returning to patrol. My, my, how the mighty have fallen.
To All my brothers and sisters in blue. Please stay safe during this cluster fuck NATO week. May St. Michael and the Lord watch over you all and everyone come home safe and the end of your tour. As I am retired I will be wacthing over your neighborhood and familes while you take care of business on the front lines. That's the least I can do for you. You are all the Best of the Best and I know you will all do an outstatnding job.
Stay Safe Everyone
Retired Guy
"Metra announced its plans Friday to step up security for the NATO Summit — including closing 26 stations on the Electric Line May 21 to focus security on stations with higher ridership..."
Then...
The [CTA] will not have additional security screening throughout the weekend
Perfect. Stop working people from getting downtown with a sandwich -- from getting downtown at all -- but let Occupy pile on the Blue Line at River Road, and the Orange Line, carrying spears, s__t bottles, whatever they want.
"Anything that alters the day-to-day routines..."
...of the 99% of ordinary working people...
"...is a victory for these folks."
You got that right.
Uh -- is Loevy and Loevy open for business but "dressing down," or working from home, or boarded up completely, or what?
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Occupy isn't going to get anywhere near Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP Morgan Chase -- radio reports actually say that he's "in hiding."
He sounds all annoyed, too.
"I told everyone three or four weeks ago about the missing billions.
"So? The excitement? This I don't understand, this."
"Can this order come out soon, cause my wife is getting mad and thinks im goin to be out drinking with my friends and cheating on her!! This is bullshit, I always go straight home after work, and if I dont im going to be in deep shit with her."
--5/13/2012 01:51:00 AM
She will see a riot on TV, and still say "I don't want to hear your excuses!"
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NO NATO ORDER... but new "narcotics court order"... effecitive 11may12... all officers going to "narcotics court" are to already have printed out with them a copy of isp lab report, prior to arrival attached to their time due slip, court sgt will not allow them to sign in without it... if an officer gets a slip past without an isp report, the XO will spar/suspend them for one day.... FIRST OFF DIDN'T THEY GET RID OF "NARCOTICS COURT" LIKE 10 YRS AGO... so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
They are busy doing your shopping for you because your way to stupid to do anything yourself. Did you call them? If you did my guess is that you would get the same answer as I did. The reason that this order is delayed is because of the secret service. Did you get the "Secret" part? Get back in your momma's basement and come out on the 22nd. Do you really think that the Union has any control over when this order comes out? Please enlighten me of the contract violation. I have 1 more year left and I can't imagine what you would have done when your weekends where canceled almost everytime they came up. I came on when the Union first came in and the benefits that we have gotten over the years are great. Grow up and be the POLICE!
"You gotta control your smiles and cries, cause thats all you have, and nobody can take that away from you"- P.O Hoyt LAPD
"...how can it be much of a victory for these social outcasts..."
--5/13/2012 12:12:00 AM
Look under "attention-seeking personality disorders."
They want what is called "narcissistic supply." They are "energy vampires," giant suck-holes.
Any attention is better than no attention at all -- thus, Frantic Andy Thayer.
Carbon-copy Spencer there, too, as someone here noted.
Can't shut up, for some reason.
>snif<
guess who will be enforcing the idiotic security rules? guess who the public will blame for the unnecessary inconveniences?
The [CTA] will not have additional security screening throughout the weekend
Although this is slightly off topic I'm hearing varying rumors about CTA special employment. I'm hearing 1st, 2nd and 3rd watch will be eliminated leaving only 4th and 5th watch.
That's the constant but what seems to vary is the date it will happen. I've heard the end of this month, I've heard the end of next month and I've heard the end of the year.
Anyone hear anything else?
All you have to do to get a lab is log in to e-track, type in the rd and press print. This is not a stroke worhty event, relax
"These little knuckle heads are looking for their own meta-reality. Nearly all of them are poseurs, malcontents and spineless sissies. There is nothing in their lives that constitutes genuine accomplishment. Their music is sampled, (rock is dormant not dead), reality programs (the mundane smothered in a heaping load of histrionics) is their norm, RPGs simulate some kind of alternate reality they find appealing and other examples that can be observed when given the opportunity. Many are basement dwellers and/or suburban bottle fed brats who are just looking for something to waste their day. Don't ask them to open their eyes to reality, they find it irrelevant. This little moment of faux-anarchy is all they will have to look to as an accomplishment. It's kind of sad. To be so helpless, hopeless and clueless is going to make for a rough rest of their lives."
--5/13/2012 07:51:00 AM
COMMENT OF THE MONTH!!!
I salute you, sir or madam.
I wish I had said that.
"This little moment of faux-anarchy is all they will have to look to as an accomplishment."
So true. I'l never forget all the black-clad "anarchists" I saw outside that Dumb Kids Supply store at Harlem/Irving when Johnny Rotten was coming to town.
All dressed the same, lined up single file, waiting to buy tickets!
Anarchy! >snicker<
If you want to see brimming nostalgia and emotional overflow for That Which Never Really Was, watch Geoffrey Baer's Channel 11 segment on "Chicago in the 60s." All the balding, sagging hippies with original Grateful Dead posters custom-framed on the wall of their comfortable condominium.
Smoking a joint by Piper's Alley or telling themselves they ran from the police (a good safe three blocks away, probably) was the summit of their whole lives. Everything else since then has been anticlimax. They will never shut up about it until they die.
They're pathetic.
...and here comes the second generation of them, idiots purchasing a phony, retreaded Woodstock II and Chicago '68 II -- like you say, RPGs.
Just buy the DVD and stay home, why don't ya.
SOMEBODY BETTER WAKE UP QUICK HERE.
From the sidebar of the story SCC linked to --
[CTA] WILL NOT HAVE ADDITIONAL SECURITY SCREENING THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND
CTA had BETTER put screening at the Orange Line and Blue Line west terminals!
After you sift out the BS, everything here points to a southwest/west suburban presence around these terminals of people who are looking for trouble and plan to commute in to find it.
Also, lest we forget -- all this sound and motion is going to attract the Red Line flashmobs, who are going to come downtown to beat up Occupy. There is really little to screen for -- they have their fists and their feet.
Either screen at all the outlying stations -- you can't do it with 2000 of them bottled up underground at Chicago and State once they come in -- or, better, shut off the Red Line, as they are shutting down the nastier south side Metra Electric stations.
Not my idea -- I'm just processing what I see.
I guess leadership is going to have to come from a web log.
Mayor - male ballerina
Police superintendent - drunk somewhere
Public relations flack lady - disappeared
All is well! All is well!
"RPGs simulate some kind of alternate reality they find appealing..."
--5/13/2012 07:51:00 AM
There are only two historical periods; "Right Now On My Smartphone" and "In The Funny-Looking Past."
ABC did a fictional series on America ca. 1940, "Home Front," and they had to toaster up the video, tint everything with weird green and sepia tones to denote "This Is Old." Really stupid. I've seen it elsewhere - it's a visual cliche by now. All these people follow each other on.
These "Xena"-type movies with everyone turning over twice in midair every time they move are a mishmosh of different time periods and complete thumb-sucking fantasy.
You notice what's left out?
No future.
I wish I had the full text of some kid's $29.95 T-shirt I saw once (016) -- "I DID NOT ASK TO BE BORN INTO THIS SHITTY WORLD I DID NOT ASK FOR ALL THE WARS AND EVERYTHING BAD YOU OLD PEOPLE MADE ITS ALL YOUR FAULT," on and on.
Well, uh, that makes everyone who was ever born...get in your tricked-out car, go home to your parents' A/C split-level, order a pizza, and get over it.
"All we care about is talkin'...talkin' on the phone."
--totally soft-serve, limp, dippy song by Peter, Bjorn, And Something
"Al-Queda considered it a win when they caused economic disruptions in the economy of the United States and Europe."
--5/13/2012 04:43:00 AM
Some win. Just read Bin Laden's survival notes -- how'd you like to live changing cars in the middle of a tunnel, and then not driving out the other end unless it was overcast, so the surveillance satellites wouldn't send drones to kill you...
You can pull the lab reports from etrack, where it says isp lab results. But who knows if they will actually be in etrack in time for court.
Anonymous said...
There is 0 leadership and motivation to do a good job. I am at the breaking point already and have never been treated like this in 25 years. Right now I hold Rahm,The Bosses, and the Protesters equally in contempt.
5/13/2012 09:46:00 AM
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I have 25 and agree with you...to a point. The protesters are ignorant ass-wipes with too much time on their hands. Rahms a jagoff. The "bosses"' and I use that term loosely reeeaaally suck! They want to play that "I was once a blue shirt" song and dance but they have definitely forgot where they came from. I've never seen a bigger bunch of kiss ass sell-outs as I have in the last 4 years. A once proud CPD has turned into a f'in joke, and that's what's really sad. I honestly don't know of many bosses who could turn this department around one McBeatoff is shown the door.
Just look out for your fellow officers!
Anonymous said...
To All my brothers and sisters in blue. Please stay safe during this cluster fuck NATO week. May St. Michael and the Lord watch over you all and everyone come home safe and the end of your tour. As I am retired I will be wacthing over your neighborhood and familes while you take care of business on the front lines. That's the least I can do for you. You are all the Best of the Best and I know you will all do an outstatnding job.
Stay Safe Everyone
Retired Guy
5/13/2012 10:54:00 AM
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From a 25 yr. 2nd watch veteran who will be there "on the front lines", THANK YOU!!!
"Still No NATO Order"
Still no way to un-fuck a fucked up beyond all recognition situation....
It's one UUUGGLY FUCKING SET OF TWINS! Flaming Tutu & McLiquid-Courage are the fathers of either one and or both.
Jerry Springer must weep with joy...
Surely the circus train of fuckery will broadside the hearse of the ass-clown funeral when it stalls on the tracks at the cemetery gate.
Such is Chicago's fate...
Anonymous said...
All you have to do to get a lab is log in to e-track, type in the rd and press print. This is not a stroke worhty event, relax
5/13/2012 05:14:00 PM
Do the printers work in your district ?
Ours don't
I have a cousin who has the GOOD fortune of NOT living in Chicago and the BAD misfortune of working downtown.. she is always off on Fridays and is getting a free day on Monday as her employer is closing down the office..
As for the booked hotel rooms in Stone Park .. that place was the pits some 30 years ago and it's gone downhill since.. so it seems like the likely place dirt bag type protesters would go.. don't know why the would mark up Brookfield sorta a long way from their site .. must be practicing..
So...Had our helmets 'retrofitted' today. apparently Seer sells their 'kit' #S-5024 for the low, low price of $87.50 for our helmets.
Small problem. Kit includes the S-1286 "ear and neck protector" however, if you check the Seer website, this ear and neck protector comes in 4 different sizes, to match the 4 different size helmets you could have been issued. Looks like this kit only comes with one size ear and neck protector. What size is the "ear and neck protector" we were issued
since there is no size stamped anywhere on the item?
This might explain why some of these protectors broke before we even got them back to our lockers.
And why is the City using Gorilla glue, when the manufacturer's instruction sheet that comes with the retrofit kit specifically specifies super glue??
Two final questions: Where is the new carry bag, that the larger face shield will fit in? And did anyone else notice that this whole thing is now 'front heavy' meaning it now wants to slide off the front of your head? I think we'd all be better off with real full face motorcycle helmets.
Occupy isn't going to get anywhere near Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP Morgan Chase -- radio reports actually say that he's "in hiding."
He sounds all annoyed, too.
"I told everyone three or four weeks ago about the missing billions.
"So? The excitement? This I don't understand, this."
5/13/2012 12:06:00 PM
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You must be referring to Jamie Dimon.
Hiding? More likely devoting twenty hours a day to fixing the disaster and saving his and his company's ass.
Still no NATO order? What's the hurry? I am waiting still for my first day of NATO training and new face shield for my helmet that I must leave behind on the bus. I imagine I might be ordered to disarm too, leave all firearms on the bus doesn't seem too far off. I am not bringing a baton either, I don't want to be the one photographed with a raised nightstick in my hand and a poor frightened anarchist cowering in the face of brutality.
Anonymous said...
NO NATO ORDER... but new "narcotics court order"... effecitive 11may12... all officers going to "narcotics court" are to already have printed out with them a copy of isp lab report, prior to arrival attached to their time due slip, court sgt will not allow them to sign in without it... if an officer gets a slip past without an isp report, the XO will spar/suspend them for one day.... FIRST OFF DIDN'T THEY GET RID OF "NARCOTICS COURT" LIKE 10 YRS AGO... so they then must be talking about felony branch court....?? SO ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ISP LAB REPORT IF YOU ARE THERE ON A ROBBERY OR BURGLARY PINCH??? STUPID PEOPLE MAKING STUPID RULES ***ONCE AGAIN WHERE IS THE UNION??????????
5/13/2012 02:22:00 AM
This may come as a shock but the police union does not get a hand in writing general orders or any orders for that matter. The union gets a copy after it is issued, like everyone else.
"You must be referring to Jamie Dimon.
Hiding? More likely devoting twenty hours a day to fixing the disaster and saving his and his company's ass."
--5/13/2012 11:45:00 PM
CBS radio news said "in hiding."
Three top executives going out the door there right now -- the whole London office may be erased.
Many calls for legislation to stop this; these outfits are so big that their dice games can take down the whole economy.
Again.
There are no shopping bags, briefcases, etc allowed either on the trains. I don't even own a handbag that fits within Metra's security guidelines. And, the best part, they have yet to inform their train staff regarding the policies in effect. They have been hearing about it from all of us riders, imagine that
Fuck them and their bullshit patdowns, no hand bags, no shopping bags, no briefcases, no backpacks, etc.
I refuse to give up my rights just because some NATO pricks can't figure out how to have a meeting on the Internet via Skype.
Leave me and my civil rights out of this NATO bullshit.
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