The Beatings Will Continue...
How can we get more work out of uninspired officers? Here's a bright idea from the southwest side:
- The commander of 10 had a meeting the other day with all the supervisors of that building. From what we were told by sgts at roll call and how we interpreted it, the fixed posts aka "the box" that the district mans are basically punishment and/or extortion. We were told that more boxes may be on the way, but the way to avoid that is to produce more numbers. WTF? Way to motivate your troops commander. Mostly everybody hates sitting on these things because they're boring, you can't leave without proper relief and you're a sitting target. The more boxes we have to man will also mean more work for the rest of the watch since those cars will be down and unavailable for assignment. Oh, and that will probably mean less people will be able to take time due.
Have none of these asshats ever laid eyes on a motivational book? Or taken a speech writing course? Taken a course in Logic? Or studied the basics of debate where you try to convince the audience of the correctness of your side of the argument? Here's a bright idea - read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. The big words will probably frighten most of the command staff in general and Pena in particular, but....
Ah crap, who are we kidding? The command staff pick up a book? We might as well braid the whips they beat us with already. We have got to stop drinking grandpa's homemade liquor.
Labels: dumb ideas, sarcasm AND silliness
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
134 Comments:
I'm at that stage of my career I welcome the box. I'll sit there all days eyes forward. I'll even get them a couple event numbers. Shit, I throw in a contact card. Just kidding about the contact card. F*ck em'
Denying my p day motivates me
That Dist is being run by the TWO most incompetent idiots that this Dept has to offer.
Just what are the Commanders qualifications to be Commander?
We know the XO’s is snitching.
Pena is such a terrible boss-leadership is non-existent!A few people were afraid of her because of her "wack" and lifestyle choice, but she has NEVER been respected by those that she supervised. Add xo white into the mix and, well, you get the picture..
this is the trickle-down CompStat effect.
I was taught early in my career: "Shit rolls downhill."
This is a direct result of the "shit" McCarthy gives during ComPost
Problem is,commander will glady eat the shit, 'cause they are hoping for a higher promotion.
The patrol officer smells it for what it's worth
Cmdr 010 has to be by far the worst exempt this dept has ever seen: ruthless, back stabber, takes credit for other peoples work. An over-merit promoted racist piece of shit.
No activity.
No activity.
This is very simple, boys and girls.
No activity.
Let them put the whole fucking watch in a "box", I don't give a shit.
And for those who have to answer the calls because others are being penalized, answer the call and do a thorough investigation, or tour the area, or play with yourself, BUT DON'T CLEAR YOURSELVES UNTIL THE JOB IS THOROUGHLY DONE.
And for Christ's sake, no fucking activity!
13 people shot in a two hour span on the south side... For a Thursday night that's pretty good. SMH.
Seems to be working. Only 3 shot in 010 on the 3rd watch today
The answer to this problem is hire more cops.
As it stands, even with hiring more cops, think of how inexperienced they will be anyway because there are no veterans around to mentor them.
18 years ago, there were cops who were training me who had 30 and 40+ years on the job. Not all of the old timers were "do nothings" and even if they by that point in their careers, they still shared plenty of good information.
Between Daley and Emmanuel destroying this department with the "strategy of the day" and the refusal to hire cops, they have created an environment that will breed crime and that will be very difficult to put in check.
Crime will spread and increase - unless of course they can continue burying it with their false numbers.
Thank God I see the light of retirement drawing closer.
That's right, inspire the blue shirts by threatening them. Oh, that ought to work out real well.
Wow, I am all geared up to work for you now!!!
They give no incentive to the sergeants to do a good job and the supervisors think they can bully us into working.
F U C K Y O U!
The Lt in Mass Transit lives the strategy of "The Box" he brings a happy meal BOX with him to work everyday. Nothing like seeing a grown man eating chicken nuggets and playing with a cheap plastic toy made in Korea.
Who cares about that. Steve called me and said there are some pickpockets inside Jake Mellnick's.
What do you expect? You are talking about a triple merit hack.
Start over from scratch! Revamp the old Maxwell Street station,used in the Hill Street Blues television series, and label it district 666. Clear out the academy of the majority of losers that are working there.....then bring back the old timers! Make the academy ten weeks of training with only firearms and law being taught. All that other crap is a joke like cuffing techniques and ethics which only work in fantasy land. Have the old timers teach special classes on how to take money on traffic stops, plant evidence, and how to spot the good stuff to take on a D.O.A. Reorganize the Marine Unit so that only officers that have served in the military or might actually know how to swim can work that unit. The Mounted Unit will be reassigned to the various C.A.P.S offices for racing and gambling to make their lame out-door events more entertaining for the Alder-Creatures and ghetto kids.
Give the Commanders and Deputies 20 percent raises with the condition that they must all be drunk 24/7 (don't worry, a suckass lackey will volunteer to chauffeur them around) and that they must only work 4 hours and stay in their own personal office during that time. We long for the days when exempts were mostly unknown if you kept a low profile, and weren't running around on the streets like Roger Ramjet pretending to know what the f%$k they were doing.
sounds like the commander of 010 should be giving his sgts and lts mover and parker books--- together we can....
There are plenty of books... The one minute manager. P+... Positive reinforcement in the work place. But when you come from an over ego'd department who is still stuck in a 1950's management style there is nothing you can do. Most of these bosses are suck asses who are in way over their heads.
Simple solution. Just smile and agree and then go get coffee and dont do a damn thing but answer your calls.
I am soooo glad I retired June 15th of this year.
I just love you Second City Cop - I teach college writing in Wisconsin and you have no idea how important this particular post is to the job I do - I just try to get people to make logical and persuasive arguments in their writing and speech.
You are kind of an awesome blog IMHO. Keep it up. You have no idea how many lurkers - like me - you have - way beyond your city limits.
I'm a Logan Square native but I left the chaos in 1979 when my husband and I realized the sanctuary city status was in full force - in 1979!
that's just the start, it was told in roll call if you really wanted a day off and if you would go to the commander and told her that you really needed the day off, the first thing she is going to look at is the activity, according to one sgt. But just one thing about the people that are being put in the box these people asked for the box and half the time they are sleeping anyway and to top it off some are fto's. so go figure.
The Box. First thing that came to my mind when I read this was "Cool Hand Luke'. For you youngsters, it was one of the best movies ever made.
This is difficult to accomplish in 010, each watch is so undermanned. There are three "boxes" that require face to face relief and two cars for station security.
2nd watch has 12 beat cars 99, and 2 rapids up that are 10-4.
1st watch has the same beats up and a wagon and two Or 3 "06" cars.
How does she expect people to produce numbers when 4 cars out of 12 are down right away, add that in with a hospital detail or arrest and that leaves 2 or 3 cars to handle everything in the district. It is impossible to take a piss there now with all the shootings, domestics and typical nonsense that having 2 hospitals in your district brings. When should the Amos and curfews and school a senses take place? Between guarding a crime scene or on the way to the hospital to gather information from a Agg. Batt, sorry shooting, no your strategy doesn't work and not asking for more bodies is a failure on your part.
McDumDum isn't going anywhere, even though there were 8 shootings within hours last night.
That is because Rahm knows that ANYONE he puts in that spot will not have any effect.
Rahmbolina realizes that the only solution is more police. Expect him to pull a wad of cash out of his ass to do so.
Remember when McHuh? got here and said we didn't need more police?
Now all of a sudden they want to hire 500 this year?
Problem is, no planning was done and the lack of candidates is hampering their efforts. Now watch, they'll take dog-asses because they have no real qualified candidates, and that'l be a whole 'nother set of problems down the road.
Good going Shortpants, for running this city into the ground and then running away.
I hope 9.5 gets booed at the DNC. Having him as a featured speaker could be the end of Obamarama. We can only hope!
Did I really hear the teachers want a 25% raise over 2 years?
Well, kids are 9.5's 'first priority', he just said so on the news. So he'll end up giving the teachers a big fat contract. Then he'll be forced to admit he has to hire more police....and we will not get any raises, we'll get things we fought hard to get taken away.
And with 19 people shot not ONE is dead? WTF is up with that? Good shot hitting 8 people in one shooting, but come on you thugs! Practice! Practice! Practice!
Although now we'll have a bunch of retaliatory shootings, so maybe we'll get lucky.
Rahm and McMiniRahm have got to be having chest pains.
Too bad Harold Washington died. He might have been the best mayor we'd ever had!
Produce? Sounds like that guy who posted (boasted with a short time to go) who writes his 2 movers and 5 parker's a day and they leave him alone syndrome.
They, the chooches that run this Dept, want more of the submissives.
Bitch, piss & moan, this is nothing new. Joe Curtin wrote the book on isolated foot posts in the ghetto.
Hang in there, produce diddly squat. It'll pass.
19 shot last night...'the box' doesn't work.
OT--
Someone posted the other day there is a way to put the police calendar on your Iphone? True or urban myth? I'm a technotard, so don't yell at me. But that would be a very helpful thing if true!
McCarpetbagger claims that his old man was a Marine, well if he was, the apple definitely fell miles from the tree.
As a veteran NCO of the USMC, I was taught that a leaders job is two-fold:
(1)Accomplishment of the mission,
(2)Welfare of the troops.
Neither was more important than the other. If you didn't accomplish the mission you couldn't take care of the troops because the mission has to be completed and until it is you have to work the troops harder, but if you took care of the troops properly in the first place, the mission got completed in a timely efficient manner and everything was hunky-dorry.
The troops, not the command, is who accomplishes the mission. If they are unhappy, the mission never gets completed. If the mission doesn't get completed the "leader" gets replaced and you start over.
The issue is that there is no leadership in this department at all. No one that gets it. There is no one that has lived it. Thusly, there is no leadership. And it starts at the very tippy-top of the pyramid (McCarpetbagger).
So, McCarpetbagger, a piece of advice, once you stop being a positional leader and start doing your job and getting rid of the inept bosses in charge, maybe you will inspire and influence (inspirational leadership - look it up)us to do a better job and the mission will be successful. Until that time people will only follow you because we have too, not because we want too.
And people will continue to die.
By the way, the anger expressed here on SCC is only a tiny indicator of the actual anger that resides throughout the blue shirts and frontline supervisors of this department. The people who are writing on here are the ones who are fed up enough to actually voice their complaints. Check around.
A box. Sounds familiar. What we have here is failure to communicate. I'm sure you youngsters don't have a clue what I'm referring to.
This reminds me of a great movie:
Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Pena, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in the box.
For reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwqK2gn3S0
I don't feel sorry for you guys. If you all don't come to an agreement together, to do nothing but answer calls and only make arrests with signed complaints, then deal with the commander. I realize we all need time off, but screw it. You can deal without a few days off for a while. Lay down and do nothing. No movers, parkers, contact cards or event numbers. Stop going in begging for time off. After a short time of zero activity across the board and no one caring about days off, things will change. If you guys don't have the balls to beat them at their own game, stop whining.
Ask Brian Corcoran about "punishment posts". Not sure if his Federal suit has been settled yet, but there is a precedent. All about hostile workplace and such.
I remember when "Big Joe" put the Union(cement) guy on a fixed/boxed
post at Kamerling/Pulaski to try and "off" him.
You only get production from people who WANT to produce. You get zero numbers from people who DO NOT want to produce. People produce because they take ownership in what they do and are rewarded for their efforts. In other words, you will get nothing from punishing people for not producing. As a troll, I think you cops are fucked and always will be. You could have the best led and motivated police department in the world with the best numbers. Then you have a corrupt Cook County Court System.
I've had and seen more leadership abilities exercised by 20 year old Corporals (E-4) than these so called Commander's, Chiefs, Deputies etc.
As the old saying goes, you can call a pig's ears anything you want, but it's still a pig's ear.
Hey, just do the job. No more, No less.
I am still waiting for the line on the check-off sheet for, Crime Deterred. Because while I've been sitting in the box, there has not been a single shooting or murder.
And I didn't have a single supervisor with me.
If your answering jobs and bitching about it then ask for the box or take your time.
Cmdr 010 has to be by far the worst exempt this dept has ever seen: ruthless, back stabber, takes credit for other peoples work. An over-merit promoted racist piece of shit.
8/24/2012 12:26:00 AM
Henny Penny is sad that you've forgotten about her
Anonymous said...
commander of 10 can't find illegal food vendors
8/23/2012 04:57:00 PM
Oh yeah, that's our priority. Post Illegal Food Vending Mission. Sorry you have to see them on your way into work. Must be really annoying...
in 10, MP is telling p.o.'s to arrest anyone for anything and when you go to w.c's for approval, CW questions everything.
You want to be motivated? Try looking at your neighbor who is inemployed or under employed with poor or no health insurance and no pension with little in savings for retirement. Look at the salaries that are being paid in private industry as compared to yours. That should motivate you. I hope the department puts into place some type of system to weed out the dogs on this job. Who cares if you sit in a box all day.
I am not a advocate of not producing as long as they are paying me I will do my job, but it seems like Maria needs to be taught a lesson. The best way to do nothing is do your job exactly according to general orders do paper on every job, canvas the area, do a actual foot patrol you can always come clear if a officer is calling for a assist. I worked on tact in 013 when maria was a tact officer there and it sounds like nothing has a changed. Took credit for everyone's else work back then too.
I have learned to say what bosses want to hear to their face. Then I go do what I want. Never, ever, show your cards. Smile, act nice, then if they fuck with you don't show any emotion. Wait awhile and when they least expect where it came from, zing them in any way you can. Revenge. A dish best eaten cold.
Can det's go in the box? I'd volunteer in a heartbeat. Maybe I'll suggest that--as long as you don't get handouts while you're assigned to them. I could use a breather!
Come on people. We know how to play hardball too. Now lets get with it and play their game, zeros across the board on one day a week. Lets pick a good day and show them it is up to us, to give you numbers or not. Figure out a day and lets give them a bit of their own medicine.
Can I get an event number for a dispersal at 3315 W Ogden? Classic.
The one and only reason crime is skyrocketing is the BOXES the birds know where the police are and they go where they are not. Boxes equal less police moving around this method of policing is a proven failure, Ernie downtown gang banging Brown started this crap and it still sticks around. IT DOESNT DO ANYTHING but keep the few blocks your sleeping, or watching a movie in safe the rest of the district is up for grabs. F'in morons all of them.
STAY THE COURSE! Let them try to fuck w/ you. The 1st and 16th will come no matter what they do. Best part is if you continue and they "punish you" the only thing that will happen is the response times increase, the backlog increases, and the murders increase. Then they can go eat some shit at a compstst meeting. THEY WILL BE GONE LONG BEFORE YOU!!! And, if they should pull some shit when you try to take time and look at your activity, make sure they write denied on your slip and keep it. If anyone below you in seniority gets the CU file a grievance.
I will do what McCarthy wants under one condition.
He must come to me personally, get on his knees, and beg me to get his stats. If he does that, I will get all the stats I can that day. If he wants me to do it again, he must kneel before me again.
Sgt Creepy said...
Who cares about that. Steve called me and said there are some pickpockets inside Jake Mellnick's.
8/24/2012 01:13:00 AM
now CB up
19 shot overnite . . . NINETEEN!!!!
Time to ask the Gov for some military assistance. God help us.
I'm sure they can find a few people who wouldn't mind getting paid to sit all day. This job has became one big joke!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
I can sit in a box and do nothing better than anyone around. Bring on the boxes. Let's see how your numbers jump then. Idiots.
Careful who you call "the worst boss" because there are a few hidden ones that should be demoted to bulk storage as stock boys.
Take the penis measuring fight between ER(603) and JS (606). No leadership, no training, no manpower. What a freakin joke. Should have a camera follow some of these bosses to their free VIP spots at certain sports venues. Just for laughs if not discipline.
Let me tell you the "Box" is sweet.
Bring your DVD player/board game/book/model airplane kit and you're in for a very relaxing tour.
But it looks looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing my model airplane kit glue!
Remember...there is no smoking' in the prone position! Anybody caught smoking' in the prone position gets a night in the box!
I worked for Pena in the D unit and she took of workers .
LEADERSHIP=Performance Bad CPD LEADERSHIP-Violence out of control
Fuk your CU
HA Do Nothing
Rahmbooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
This is what happens when you have a Socialist-Run PD and City.. Do as I say, Not as I do. WE control YOU, DO NOT forget it. WE, are ALWAYS right. ALWAYS. Even if we are Wrong. YOU, will be made an example of, if you do not Cooperate. WE, hold the POWER, and WILL use it against YOU.
http://ical.me.com/seanrcarroll/CPD%204-2.ics
Use this link to put the fop calendar on ur I phone
Text it to urself and open it
Have the names Spinner and Paddlefoot been used yet to describe these two?
You want to be motivated? Try looking at your neighbor who is inemployed or under employed with poor or no health insurance and no pension with little in savings for retirement. Look at the salaries that are being paid in private industry as compared to yours. That should motivate you. I hope the department puts into place some type of system to weed out the dogs on this job. Who cares if you sit in a box all day.
8/24/2012 08:39:00 AM
Yeah I looked at my neighbor buying that 60k dollar boat being pulled by that hemi ram. He sure lived the high life while I was driving a 15 year old Toyota and shopping at save alot. Now he is broke and I still do what I do. Answer my calls for service. So don't be jealous. Life is a marathon not a sprint.
Pena did not take care of workers -she took care of a few of her pets-especially in the D-unit. They gave her mundane bs to handle. She is so far remotely removed from being a leader. Speechless..
So after reading all of these posts I think anyone in 10 is in the BOX. Right?
So the 10th District is now called the Cool Hand District!
Eat them damm eggs boy.....
History always repeats..
All supervisors should read the book "The men, the mission and me"
Willie from TX,
I have never in my life seen a "Cop in A Box" please provide pics.
Ya'll are welcome anytime here in Tx, just quit and come on down. May get a little boring though, we have found that when we all carry guns, it makes it easier for the Cops and harder for the scumbags.
Today in 20 we were told per the acting commander XO TRAHANAS if we dont write contact card we will be kept the full 9 hrs. I do plenty of activity but now ill give her what she wants ONE CONTACT CARD.
For calander on your iPhone
Go to fop website on your phone and open the operations calander in IBooks, then save it and there you go.
That is not what the Commander said. It appears as it did in 011 when this boxed shit started that the NY savior feels boxes will deter crime and if there is a round-up or saturation in the area a box will be established so the crime does not return. We all know they are a joke, a waste of time and are very welcomed by those that don't want to do anything all day. The P/O's and Sgt.'s in 10 work their a$$e$ off every day running from call to call sometimes not even getting a chance to use the bathroom. For the most part everyone in 10 does what they have to do and were always willing to help out the boss when activity was needed, even for Commander Pena. But then the powers that be decided that we don't need more police, we will just work the ones we have to death and then maybe hire some more. CW takes this to heart and loves to make people miserable, she is the one ruining 10 far more than Pena can ever do. As for the boxes ask the ones who demand to be the box car, what type of punishment it is. It actually makes me sick to hear these P/O's yes some FTO"s demand a box cause they don't want to work a Bt car, your fellow officers appreciate your help.
Anonymous said...
I worked for Pena in the D unit and she took of workers .
8/24/2012 01:40:00 PM
Another fine merit detective....
I will do what McCarthy wants under one condition.
He must come to me personally, get on his knees, and beg me to get his stats. If he does that, I will get all the stats I can that day. If he wants me to do it again, he must kneel before me again.
8/24/2012 10:11:00 AM
McMuffins has already cut that deal with Rahmbollino.
Come on people. We know how to play hardball too. Now lets get with it and play their game, zeros across the board on one day a week. Lets pick a good day and show them it is up to us, to give you numbers or not. Figure out a day and lets give them a bit of their own medicine.
8/24/2012 09:23:00 AM
i will gladly pay you tuesday, for a hamburger today?
A dish best eaten cold.
8/24/2012 09:00:00 AM
a dish best served cold.
"...Someone posted the other day there is a way to put the police calendar on your Iphone? True or urban myth?..."
Ok...one more time:
On yor iPhone 4s browser, Open Chicago FOP on Safari or Google Chicago FOP Calendar. Drop down tab for Police Calendars, open Operational Cal. for any year (it's 2012) (jab), then press the little box w/the arrow (Forward symbol) on it- that will prompt you to 'Add to Home Screen'. This creates an Icon and you can type in a name for the icon. (or shortcut) to the Calendar page. If you never added a shortcut, read the bookmarked IPhone User Guide. You can create many icon shortcuts to any site including Second City and Shaved. It's a bit tricky, but you can create the logo too by positioning the screen page over a picture, then press to save. Play around with it. If you have an iPhone 3G or Gs, tap the "+" to Add to Home screen.
Better yet, book mark this post and forward it off to anyone how asks you, "How U do Dat ?".
Glad to help. I thinks I'll Cut n' Paste this post too, for future inquiries. I don't like to retype it every time...unless SCC wants to inform the masses.
You want to be motivated? Try looking at your neighbor who is inemployed or under employed with poor or no health insurance and no pension with little in savings for retirement. Look at the salaries that are being paid in private industry as compared to yours. That should motivate you. I hope the department puts into place some type of system to weed out the dogs on this job. Who cares if you sit in a box all day.
8/24/2012 08:39:00 AM
constipation can be fatal.
A box. Sounds familiar. What we have here is failure to communicate. I'm sure you youngsters don't have a clue what I'm referring to.
8/24/2012 07:14:00 AM
stop feedin' off me!
By the way, the anger expressed here on SCC is only a tiny indicator of the actual anger that resides throughout the blue shirts and frontline supervisors of this department. The people who are writing on here are the ones who are fed up enough to actually voice their complaints. Check around.
8/24/2012 07:14:00 AM
tip of the fucking ice berg.
And with 19 people shot not ONE is dead? WTF is up with that?
8/24/2012 06:14:00 AM
a failure to appreciate the fine qualities of a double aught pump.
Looks like a page has been ripped out of the John Doty best seller, "police management for dummies!"
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't box me in
The box isn't punishment, it's a nice little break from all of the shit. Anyone who doesn't want to be put in the box ought to have their head examined.
I don't know about the blueshirts, but we got bosses all over the place. Last week, on 3rd watch, there were not one, but two 1600's on the street, both giving conflicting orders!
No one to man the cars, but brass all over the place.
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/378700_343230335764676_1451285510_n.jpg
Check out the photo from the last Compstat meeting!
Better yet, book mark this post and forward it off to anyone how asks you, "How U do Dat ?".
Glad to help. I thinks I'll Cut n' Paste this post too, for future inquiries. I don't like to retype it every time...unless SCC wants to inform the masses.
8/24/2012 04:54:00 PM
Thank you very much. Got it on my screen with my other calendars--haven't figured out the logo thing, but it's ok. It's just grey. Thanks! I'm going to try to figure out how to do more shortcuts. Hey, I'm over 40--and no little kids to help me, so I appreciate you taking the time to type the instructions.
Sgt are the police correct,they can arrest people, write tickets, make stop. Or are the affraid of getting there white shirt dirty..
A day sgt in 20 was told by the commander to stop giving time on the end...
Anonymous said...
Today in 20 we were told per the acting commander XO TRAHANAS if we dont write contact card we will be kept the full 9 hrs. I do plenty of activity but now ill give her what she wants ONE CONTACT CARD.
8/24/2012 04:39:00 PM
Sounds like the XO-PT is advocating people's civil rights--and instituting a quota system. As far as the 9 hours, so what. Read a book. And do you really think she's going to show up at the end of every watch/checkoff to monitor it? You've GOT to be more creative!
Years and years ago my partner decided we would have 'library hour' or whatever we could squeeze in, even 5 minutes, to power down toward the end of the day. He also instituted the 'Mememememe', ala the 3 Stooges--meme time....for those of you who know.
You know who you are TA! Hope you're enjoying retirement!
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Rahmbolina realizes that the only solution is more police. Expect him to pull a wad of cash out of his ass to do so.
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Why hire police when he can just pay a bunch of criminals a fraction of the price? Watch for CeaseFire to get another bailout.
Anonymous said...
Today in 20 we were told per the acting commander XO TRAHANAS if we dont write contact card we will be kept the full 9 hrs. I do plenty of activity but now ill give her what she wants ONE CONTACT CARD.
8/24/2012 04:39:00 PM
I see that this silly bitch hasn't changed. Stay away from her. Far away. She's toxic.
So true, so true. Narcotics should be cut by at least 150 coppers. We need coppers on the street and not sitting around acting like real U/C police. Smoke and mirrors since narcotics left Normal Street.
Chuck Ramsey was the boss and if he still was you would not last a week. Same with Walter Green. They made the unit great.
Now go grease you hair children.
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There is an answer folks. When the new breed of police do their jobs the crime rate will fall. What in heaven do the tac teams do now. One bag and sit and eat in office ! 8 copper's on the paper.
Was on tac over 25 years ago. We ran the area and not the bangers. Homicide victims got justice. Now all we hear is beefing on the brass and the mayor. The rev's were always good to the police. Why, cause we related to them.
So hair gels in narco, all the hundreds there, your one bag s/w' do nothing to curb crime. You guys are sero's from the old narco guys.
All these allegd U,C guys should go back in the bag for 2 weeks out of every period.
The dick's are the only ones burning out getting job after job. These guys are falling off their chairs from working 14 hours a day. The body can only take so much shit then your health fails.
Tac and narcotics do not have that problem. 4 hour days and eating well, and the usual 4 day work week.
All this is sad but so true.
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Don't be a hater just because u are not one of the tact guys who work every day of thier furlo at time & half for doing nothin or one of the k9 who gave the cta / pub trans commander a gun....understand the system.......
I hope 9.5 gets booed at the DNC. Having him as a featured speaker could be the end of Obamarama. We can only hope!
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It's going to be a convention full of democrats. Who do you think is going to boo him?
running around on the streets like Roger Ramjet pretending to know what the f%$k they were doing.
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That was a funny rant, but the Roger Ramjet referenced cracked me the fuck up.
I'm a Logan Square native but I left the chaos in 1979 when my husband and I realized the sanctuary city status was in full force - in 1979!
You got a spare bedroom for rent?
Mmmmmmmmmmm, Box.
Anonymous said...
That is not what the Commander said. It appears as it did in 011 when this boxed shit started that the NY savior feels boxes will deter crime and if there is a round-up or saturation in the area a box will be established so the crime does not return. We all know they are a joke, a waste of time and are very welcomed by those that don't want to do anything all day. The P/O's and Sgt.'s in 10 work their a$$e$ off every day running from call to call sometimes not even getting a chance to use the bathroom. For the most part everyone in 10 does what they have to do and were always willing to help out the boss when activity was needed, even for Commander Pena. But then the powers that be decided that we don't need more police, we will just work the ones we have to death and then maybe hire some more. CW takes this to heart and loves to make people miserable, she is the one ruining 10 far more than Pena can ever do. As for the boxes ask the ones who demand to be the box car, what type of punishment it is. It actually makes me sick to hear these P/O's yes some FTO"s demand a box cause they don't want to work a Bt car, your fellow officers appreciate your help.
8/24/2012 04:45:00 PM
Well now, isnt that special?!?!?
The above poster is right on. We do our job. Answer our calls and most back each other up. Commander Pena for the most part, has her hands tied with most of whats dished out. Thats downtowns orders. They make the rules. Sure she was given the job as Commander, a job that I wouldnt want. Forced days off with no pay. I know a 9161 who probably takes more home a month than the Commander does. Making a District run with no manpower and broken equipment. We all have experienced countless District Commanders, but NONE of them have had it as bad as it is now. I too have had to wait to till the end of the tour to piss just about everyday. M.P. is approachable and easy to talk to. I just dont expect any perks anymore because I believe the Mayor and past criminal politicians and their families have put us where we are at with their greed and criminal acts. No one can blame M.P. for anything going on right now. I was at that Supervisor meeting. The Commanders words were twisted and being blown out of proportion. PO's are expected to do a job. M.P. just expects everyone to pull their own weight. The 10th District has been a little more relaxed over the last week or so. C.W. is on her furlo......
"A box. Sounds familiar. What we have here is failure to communicate. I'm sure you youngsters don't have a clue what I'm referring to."
SHAKING IT BOSS, SHAKING IT!!
When I went back to work, I was told Commander MP thought I wrote this.
WRONG!
After reading so many comments referring to 'Cool Hand Luke' it makes me smile. Still in my top 3 favorite movies of all time! I thought I knew most of the lines and some of you guys shocked me!
Anonymous said...
I hope 9.5 gets booed at the DNC. Having him as a featured speaker could be the end of Obamarama. We can only hope!
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It's going to be a convention full of democrats. Who do you think is going to boo him?
8/24/2012 11:17:00 PM
You're right. I was drunk when I wrote that:)
@ 10:44:00. You sir sound like you have some anger issues. This job sucks right now , however 25 years ago you were able to be the police . You did the kind of police work you deemed significant. Now days no one cares if you bring in 1 bag or 100 bags. As long as there is a CB number from inside of a box. As far as the hair gels do this or do that I wonder if 25 years ago when you say you were the real deal if you would have extended yourself for this city. You know risk your job or freedom to be the real poleeezes. In closing ,sir, this city does not want people policing like they did 25 years ago there's too much liability and oh yeah the people who need to be policed are voting Democrat. Hopefully this all makes perfect sense to you ,sensei.
It's not commander Pena's fault. Don't blame commander Pena, her hands are tied. Gimme a fucking break. You must be her secretary or her mother. If she can't back her people, she isn't a leader.
Well if the Sgt. is nice to you, you then take advatage of them. Have seen it before. Might as well treat you like you want to be treated. Dont work then sit and let the ones that want to go out and do the job.
Anonymous said...
I worked for Pena in the D unit and she took of workers .
WHAT??????
"The 10th District has been a little more relaxed over the last week or so. C.W. is on her furlo......"
We used to have great bosses in this district, Bob Zavila, Bea Cuello, Judy Martin, Eli Vulgaris, Fred Konet and too many sergeants to mention.
But once C.W. moved in ...
Damn, we hope she goes on permanent furlough in November.
Anonymous said...
Looks like a page has been ripped out of the John Doty best seller, "police management for dummies!"
8/24/2012 05:08:00 PM
Fuckin' classic!!!! Spot on!!!! Just ask the UCPD.......
At a recent ComPost meeting when someone with at least a few brain cells asked to have an overtime initiative in hot districts to fill in holes in the line-up McDufass responded derisively, "I'm not going o give you people at time and a half just so you can give someone else the day off!"
This guy must really hate us.
I would be calling for relief and taking all my breaks if I was singled out in this case. because we all know we never use our breaks that often unless we really need to sit down and eat.
>>>Anonymous said...
Rahm and McMiniRahm have got to be having chest pains.
Too bad Harold Washington died. He might have been the best mayor we'd ever had!
8/24/2012 06:15:00 AM<<<
Harold Washington all things considered wasn't too bad once you got past the "Here's Harold!" bombast. The worst thing he did was give us racist Leroy Martin as Superintendent.
The best mayor was Jane Byrne, the widow of a Marine pilot she loved her boys in blue. If Frank Muscari hadn't screwed things up and taken the fire fighters on strike we wouldn't have had Richie Daley splitting the vote and we would have had Jane (we miss you)much longer. If it wasn't for the fact she's pushing 78 or so I'd say bring her back.
AAAUUUGGHHH!!!
"Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
I hope 9.5 gets booed at the DNC. Having him as a featured speaker could be the end of Obamarama. We can only hope!
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It's going to be a convention full of democrats. Who do you think is going to boo him?
8/24/2012 11:17:00 PM
You're right. I was drunk when I wrote that:)
8/25/2012 05:45:00 AM"
WHAT IF The MESSIAH drops Joe Bieden as his running mate and picks Rahm as his choice for VP.
Oh man, I must have been stoned on Absithe to think that!
Why does anyone need to be motivated to do their job??? YOU signed up for this. YOU took an oath. YOU are not working for the 'Bosses', YOU are working for the citizens. I cringe at the thought of some of YOU lazy a** coppers protecting my family and loved ones. Man the F*** up and do your job.
I will continue to keep my shoes off and do nothing in my air conditioned cruiser. I won't let any perps interrupt my coffee and paper time.
Why does anyone need to be motivated to do their job??? YOU signed up for this. YOU took an oath. YOU are not working for the 'Bosses', YOU are working for the citizens. I cringe at the thought of some of YOU lazy a** coppers protecting my family and loved ones. Man the F*** up and do your job.
8/25/2012 06:38:00 PM
your cringing makes me horny.
Chalkie
If it wasn't for the fact she's pushing 78 or so I'd say bring her back.
8/25/2012 05:56:00 PM
at least she doesn't have a prostate the size of a ripe melon.
@ 8/25/2012 06:38:00 PM...
The scared little children are getting a taste of how bad it's going to get so they talk tough from the sidelines about "man the fuck up."
You people are really amusing...
When it all goes to hell, you'll be sitting stubbornly on the charred remains of your house demanding somebody give a fuck because you "pay taxes."
Your shit-talk to The Police about "man the fuck up" is misplaced... You really should direct that toward your elected officials who are the ones solely responsible for current state of affairs.
Whoops! your elected officials don't give a flying fuck about the Policeman and his family so they surely don't give a fuck about you or yours.
You're outnumbered and surrounded in this city, you moron!
Your elected officials are giving everything away to the catered to constituents.
You exist to support THEM.
You: "WAAAHHH! I DEMAND SOMEBODY GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ME!"
What's the matter? You're scared because you realize that The Police are so depleted and diminished that we probably won't be able to save you in your time of need?
Find your elected officials blogs and shit-talk them.
STFU child... The adults in the arena with blood, sweat, tears and the lives of friends and comrades vested in the game are trying to survive.
You people are so quick, smug and self-righteous to point out what somebody else signed up for.
That's the calling card of a fucking coward... Coward.
Every able body except you will be at a firing position on the fort wall...
We hope to be the one poking you from under your bed at bayonet point when it's Alamo time...
Why don't YOU man the fuck up and admit you co-signed a lot of the bullshit we're confronted with?
We cringe at the thought that you actually were able to pass your stinking thinking to a new generation...
Anonymous said...
Why does anyone need to be motivated to do their job??? YOU signed up for this. YOU took an oath. YOU are not working for the 'Bosses', YOU are working for the citizens. I cringe at the thought of some of YOU lazy a** coppers protecting my family and loved ones. Man the F*** up and do your job.
8/25/2012 06:38:00 PM
And yet another idiot graces the blog, spewing nonsensical bullshit. I'd explain it to your stupid ass, but it'd be a lesson in futility.
Anonymous said...
When I went back to work, I was told Commander MP thought I wrote this.
WRONG!
8/25/2012 02:10:00 AM
But did you write this?!
I hope Commander McPena of Ogden rides out on the broom she flew in on before the flying monkeys saturating the Box turn on her.
Anonymous said...
Why does anyone need to be motivated to do their job??? YOU signed up for this. YOU took an oath. YOU are not working for the 'Bosses', YOU are working for the citizens. I cringe at the thought of some of YOU lazy a** coppers protecting my family and loved ones. Man the F*** up and do your job.
8/25/2012 06:38:00 PM
This boss is right. You get paid a pretty penny and "it's a great job". ...and you "signed up for this", another classic. Anything we signed up for has been altered or rescinded by Mayors past & present.
(BTW, we are manning the fuck up. By standing up for ourselves. Nobody gives a shit that you "cringe at the thought" of anything to do with us. You would in fact cringe to actually know what your subordinates think of you when you give these anti-motivational reverse psychology rants.)
Just bear down and hold tight. This is Chicago after all. Soon a big wind will come along and blow all those bosses to Old Boss Land and we'll have a whole new crop of jerkoffs to whine about. Thank God because I'm running out of material.
Why is it that whenever someone brings up lazy, dog asses on this blog, people get all up in arms?
Did someone's feelings get hurt? I , as well as some others, find it embarrassing to see coppers take this 'Im not doing shit' stance.
STFU child... The adults in the arena with blood, sweat, tears and the lives of friends and comrades vested in the game are trying to survive.----
You made part of my point for me. Those of us who go out and bust our ass everyday while you see others BLATANTLY doing nothing. I mean absolutely nothing. How is that ok with anyone? Well I guess if you are the jag bag that decides to come to work and not do anything, YOU would be ok with that.
So for clarity, I guess I should have pointed out im not some Joe citizen sitting on the sideline complaining. SO I should have wrote WE signed up for this in my original post.
I've said it before, things are not ideal. Yes I've had time denied. Yes, I've had nights that seem like they never end because you are getting run around from one end of a district to another. Yes I get stuck doing crap I dont want to do. However, the idea of just sitting back, doing nothing, not giving a fuck, not backing people up, not going to in-progress calls.... That shit is just wrong, it's indefensible.
Call me all the names you want but that point cannot be argued. Because no matter how much you want to blame higher ups for everything, we (patrol,etc) are responsible for each other. If you cant at least do that...don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
I cringe at the thought of others disliking me. TRUE FALSE
No one needs to be motivated by a Boss. TRUE FALSE
YOU signed up for this job as it currently exists. TRUE FALSE
You took an oath to generate "numbers". TRUE FALSE
You will man up because Rham told you to do more with less. TRUE FALSE
@ 8/26/2012 08:22:00 AM
So...
You sound like you need to call out your co-workers at roll call instead of calling out coppers venting their frustration on a blog.
You SEE somebody dogging it?
Call them out!
You see somebody going the other way when a copper is calling for help?
Call them out!
Be sure to take the best care of YOU and make sure YOU sleep at night with a clear conscience.
Yah... We get it. nobody is more pissed-off, frustrated and aggravated than you, Ofc. Tuffy O'Toole...
There will always be dogs.
There will always be b.s.
There will always be people gaming the system.
There will alaways be a silent majority who play it straight.
Get over yourself son. You aren't the only one.
You Police Gods are a scream.
I've said it before, things are not ideal. Yes I've had time denied. Yes, I've had nights that seem like they never end because you are getting run around from one end of a district to another. Yes I get stuck doing crap I dont want to do. However, the idea of just sitting back, doing nothing, not giving a fuck, not backing people up, not going to in-progress calls.... That shit is just wrong, it's indefensible.
Call me all the names you want but that point cannot be argued. Because no matter how much you want to blame higher ups for everything, we (patrol,etc) are responsible for each other. If you cant at least do that...don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
8/26/2012 08:22:00 AM
Junior, we'll always back you up and make sure you don't get hurt out there while doing the stupid shit you do, but that's where it ends. If you want to be the poster child for the sacrificial lamb, go right the fuck ahead. The rest of us will make it to retirement by answering the radio and backing each other up without going the extra mile for those who are screwing us.
When will we collectively like the Mayor, Supt, Bosses, Supervisors, policy changes, contract etc? Never. I don't think there will ever be a time when all of those issues will be to everyone's liking at the same time. So does that mean people are always going have this attitude of I'm not doing anything?
Let's face it, a lot of you guys will always have something to complain about and always find a reason for why you are not going to do any work.
We will never be in a perfect or ideal situation. That's just how it goes. It blows but that's the reality. So do we just sit back and say to hell with it?
Departments evolve ,change, move forward and sometimes backwards.
We cant just pout and take the ball home whenever things don't go as we want them.
Maybe having some pride in your job performance is an archaic ideology for some.
I can see not wanting to write extra movers/parkers. I even think the contact card thing can get out of hand. But we can't just sit by, put the 'blinders' on and do little to nothing.
While we may not like what's going on we are still being paid to do a job, not cover our eyes, or close them.
To: "...Call me all the names you want but that point cannot be argued. Because no matter how much you want to blame higher ups for everything, we (patrol,etc) are responsible for each other. If you cant at least do that...don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
8/26/2012 08:22:00 AM"
I and the people I work with put our lives on the line every night for each other, not for CW, Not for Pena, or McCarthy or Rahm.
But we demand respect from these people and we are not getting it. WE demand what we need to do the job and we are not getting it. We demand what we earned to enjoy stress free time with our families and we are not getting it.
This department was run much better in our memory, why did they have to change something that wasn't broken.
While we may not like what's going on we are still being paid to do a job, not cover our eyes, or close them.
8/26/2012 05:27:00 PM
you are directing this sentiment to the political piss bums currently ruining this city, county, state and country, right?
When any employee is singled out and punished, there is a federal lawsuit for that
Junior, we'll always back you up and make sure you don't get hurt out there while doing the stupid shit you do, but that's where it ends. If you want to be the poster child for the sacrificial lamb, go right the fuck ahead. The rest of us will make it to retirement by answering the radio and backing each other up without going the extra mile for those who are screwing us.
8/26/2012 05:26:00 PM
A condecending attitude by a do nothing to justify his do nothingness. Get a job at Wallmart
I hope the department finds a way, someday, to get rid of these aholes who take this job and then lay down and do nothing hoping the city will burn.
Junior, we'll always back you up and make sure you don't get hurt out there while doing the stupid shit you do, but that's where it ends.
You say Junior as if I'm some fricking PPO. If you call stupid shit doing what I am supposed to do, going to jobs, trying to catch offenders, assisting other units when they ask, hell, even before they ask, then maybe you're the stupid one.
Someone told me quite some time ago there will always be shit talking, lazy MF's on this Dept, so get over it. Maybe I finally need to accept it.
It's not just lack of man power that puts me at risk, it's the manpower that's useless that is putting me at risk as well.
8/27/2012 09:06:00 AM...
Are you that willfully blind and ignorant?
The situation in Chicago has decayed far beyond the ability of Policemen to fix. Policemen are a mere fractional percentage of the population. The media and politicians have taken pains to curtail our influence by driving away our middle-class, blue collar peers and driving a wedge between us and the ones who couldn't flee.
This city has been given over to non-contributing dogs because they reproduce rapidly and their whelps vote straight democratic.
You're a fool for insisting on laying this fiasco at the feet of Policemen.
"I hope the department finds a way, someday, to get rid of these aholes who take this job and then lay down and do nothing hoping the city will burn"
Stop reasoning like a child!
This city IS BURNING of it's own accord and not because of what Policemen are/aren't doing...
It's not just lack of man power that puts me at risk, it's the manpower that's useless that is putting me at risk as well.
8/27/2012 03:51:00 PM
it's also your pronounced lack of humility.
A condecending attitude by a do nothing to justify his do nothingness. Get a job at Wallmart
8/27/2012 08:57:00 AM
what, and get you fired?
then you'll just have another excuse to get your link card back.
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