Rental Cars
Anyone have legit info on this rumor?
- RENTALS
YES. I am surprised SSC has not covered this yet!
The city is so short of cars that they are handling out "rentals" to detectives and to sergeants working VRI! Chevy Impalas with NO emergency equipment.
Typical democrat waste of money!!!
Why doesn’t the city just pay Ford for the new damn squad cars on time?
The license plates are from Indiana on these cars.
I know a dick who took out a car and went through some red light camera over 40 times just for shits and giggles. (he did not sign it out)
Hertz will be real happy when RAHM sends them the bill for the tickets!!
This city is a fucking joke.
Okay, that last part is a bit childish. The city will just void out the tickets. But are they actually renting cars? And wouldn't this be a biddable contract? Who's getting the payoffs?
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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I heard the same thing about the rental cars for sergeants working VR. Talk about pissing money away.......
Wtf??? They can spend thousands on pretty flowers up and down Michigan avenue, the effing Daley park, rescues of idiots in the lake and you have to drive rental cars?? Seriously?
Avis or Enterprise dropped off 50 Dodges at 51st and Wentworth.
Yes it is true, in the D unit anyway. We have a car with some BS lights but no siren. It would make a lot more sense to give the bosses the "non police" rental cars and trickle down their unmarkeds to us. That will never happen though because they've "earned" their take home police cars!!
Was at meeting with McCarthy. He met with a group of sergeants and explained that he wants to get back to making the department a para-military organization. That is his big picture plan.
After a little though i realized what the big plan really is about. Mayor Emanuel has a plan. Get old timers ,who cost the city more per officer, to retire. Start mass hire of new healthier lower payed officers like they did in the early 1990's. The mayor and McCarthy know that traditionally in an organization that the members who are most resistant to change are older employes who will just retire instead of change.
I work full time at 61st street and there is an area in the lot to park the rental cars....Indiana isn't the only state plates on these cars.
They are some of the rental vans leftover from NATO why we still have them who the fuck knows!!!
Why doesn’t the city just pay Ford for the new damn squad cars on time?
Wasn't Rahm blabbing about how the Fords are built in Chicago and he's bringing jobs here?
Those jobs won't last long if the city doesn't pay.
I know there is a rental car with a Vermont plate out there too
A friend in a small unit says he was told today he's getting rentals in exchange for the couple of unmarkeds he had to turn over to this overtime initiative. They were told the same thing about the lights/siren.
Can't wait til a couple get wrapped around trees. And if there's a mileage limit, the City's gonna get hit for all the over-miles charges. Wouldn't real police cars be cheaper?
Who's getting the payoffs?
Does Vanecko have a Hertz franchise?
Makes sense that he'd license them in Indiana-wouldn't want to have to pay all those Cook/Chicago/IL fees & taxes.
Wasn't Streets & San renting vehicles from Indiana? Wasn't that story broke here on SCC?
This is 100% true.
Chevy Malibus. Real talk.
Back in the mid-80's there was a similar situation. We were so short of MARKED squad cars that the next batch of unmarked Chevys were given double gumball machine Mars Light bars and given to District Sergeants.
Frankly, dark solid color unmarked cars with those old fashioned light bars looked rather dashing.
Let them take the time to void them out. It needs to be done.
Resistance on all fronts. We are fighting entrenched socialist degenerates. Drastic measures need to be taken.
Vanecko Fleet Services.
They Are enterprise rentals and yes they are being given to supervisors working VRI. Detectives also are using rentals due to a shortage of vehicles but not when working VRI but actually their normal assignment. The vehicles have dash mounted light bars that are portable, but no sirens. Some cars do have out of state plates which shouldn't be used unless as a last resort. I hope the detective was joking about the red light if not I'm sure he just created a CR for all in the unit of assignment to be investigated which is totally childish and I hope he or she is identified so they can be held accountable. Unless responding to an emergency that's the only reason I could see doing something so foolish.
What about the 100s of vans they rented for NATO? Same vendor?
Someone must be reading SCC because I suggested that the city could rent cars in order to put some cops on the street quickly on an earlier thread.
So whoever rented the cars probably got the idea off of SCC's blog. Even if they didn't, it was no "original idea".
As far as biddable contract, well, you know how the city works.
So what happens when the City fails to pay the rental company for the cars? Or will the rental car copanies be paid right away to take care of the connected companies? Probably just another way to get the connected City money.
I know a dick who took out a car and went through some red light camera over 40 times just for shits and giggles. (he did not sign it out)
I don't know this guy, but I like him already.
Very true. Saw them last night at the old 007. Covered in snow. No one has used them in a while, if at all.
Worked vri thursday. There was about 20 rental cars in the lot. some with plates from vermont. Its a joke.
Yes, it's true. But they are leases, not rentals. And the only equipment they will have are flashing lights, no sirens, and they aren't going to VRI, they're going to the detective division. We have been warned that we are not to use these vehicles in chases, per an email we received citing a general order about such things.
Hello Andy Shaw Hello why are sworn Officers in rental cars Hello ask the questions you sawed off , bought off POS. Hey heres an idea ask FORD...........
Was watching First 48 Missing Persons and two Chicago detectives featured were driving a Ford Fusion. I thought it odd but I wonder if it was a rental? On the red light camera, heard on the radio investigation underway on the red light camera contract deal. You can only wonder if 1) the Feds have something going which is what I hope. 2) if the Feds are not far behind. 3)You gotta love Chicago. Now where is mine?
100% true I drove one to 6120 S Racine the majority if the cars are rentals from Indiana or Ohio because the city wanted the cheaper taxes on the rentals. This is not a rumor drive by the old 007 they are parked there.
Ought to rent a fleet of clown cars for HQ...
They are doing the same thing with S&S vehicles.
They are leasing bunch of gas guzzlers VANS from enterprise through out the city.
Supposedly, we were about saving money with the GRID garbage,instead they are leasing more vehicles and wasting more GAS on the daily basis compared before GRID garbage.
I wish someone would ask SHITY-HALL...what is the monthly gas bill for S&S department and compare it prior to the GRID GARBAGE.
I bet if MIDGET Byrne was around,he would be fired along with the other clowns that pushed for the GRID.
Will there be Avis shuttle buses waiting at the doors of the area to take dics to their corresponding airport rental lot?
Area North- O'Hare
Area Central- Midway
Area South- Gary?
hey scc.... remember the promised 500 cars.... there are 60 more ford explorer's coming soon... and then that's it for this budget year... they are trickling in... but not with the pace needed... the rest of the order will come later this year and then some next year.
Those guys working VRI are useless. They're not out there to help us, just drive around and goof off. They only caal you to dump their nonsense on you. I'll never go to help them. They step in it, its theirs.
A lot of government entities are leasing vehicles these days. Even things like fire trucks. It is just a way of financing them that allows them to be moved out of capital equipment and into the operating budget.
Can anybody tell me why the media doesn't run this story to let the public know how tax dollars are being spent. Oh wait I forgot Rahmbo controls the media too.
Anonymous said...
I work full time at 61st street and there is an area in the lot to park the rental cars....Indiana isn't the only state plates on these cars.
3/02/2013 12:17:00 AM
In a couple of weeks Chuck Goudy will do an eyewitness exclusive report on this. Way to go on the report you will do on what your crack staff "discovered" at some time in the future.
We cannot afford squad cars for our police Department but we are spending 55 million dollar for a park to honor Maggie Daley?
55 million to honor a wife that was as corrupt as her husband. Look at Patty and Rod, the criminal couple. Maggie and Rich were worse, much worse.
Build her a park where there already was one and our police Department drives rental cars. Disgusting.
To the guy who said they will just void the tickets. They is pretty stupid. They will pay.
Check the plates on all the O'Hare Operations Pickups. Same story. Out of State rentals.
I posted this last week! And at that time I asked; does that mean that the Dept. will no longer discipline officers who rent cars and park them in Department lots? Because some of the rental cars have foreign plates. Last week when I posted this "fact" the cars were parked just West of the building at 6120 S. Racine against the guardrail."G"
Wow- and rahm calls this a first-class city??? The city can't even afford to pay Ford for the new squad cars that we really need. I'll bet even the town of Tiajuana can pay it's bills on time!
Per the MCC the exceptions to the 2 plate rule are:
semi tractors,
motorcycles, and
trailers.
Rental cars with one plate are a violation.
These vehicles also need City Stickers.
Are these Ordinances being adhered to?
My favorite was patrol using the old canine station wagons.
AV(anecko)IS Rentals
you think just because the city has a contractual obligation they will pay their bills? then you don't know chicago. chicago politicians do what they want when they want until the federal fairy drops in to pay a visit.
This in not the first time this has been done, the city got was leasing cars from another company years ago, cost taxpayers big bucks when it turns out they could have just purchased the cars for a lot less money, but then, the mayor could not get the kickbacks he wanted. It was a big scandle at the time.
Aviation is another big user of lease vehicles.
At one time, the fire dept also wanted to lease some ambulances, but found out it would be twice as much in the long run.
Half of the large dump trucks at CDOT are rentals plus ALL of the light duty vehicles are rentals. Anything with an "R" or "L" at the end of their unit number denotes wasted money.
I know a dick who took out a car and went through some red light camera over 40 times just for shits and giggles. (he did not sign it out)
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It's all fun and games until someone gets thirty pending then its "woe is me" and buy my 10-1 benefit ticket.
Go to 61st and Racine and you will notice parked along the fence line several malibus, impalas and even a Jetta or two. About 15 in total being used by vri for their tour of duty. Kinda of funny. The best part is they get a blue light to stick in the window but no siren. Hey you can always just stick out your head out the window and make siren noises. Can't make this shit up. This department is something else.
Hey, pull over, pull over.
I swear to god, I am I police officer. I'm not a out of state lost vacationer. I'm flashing my headlights, you need to pull over.
I know I don't know a whole lot but wouldn't these cars with out of state plates be good on surveillances and u/c operations?
Anonymous said...
I know there is a rental car with a Vermont plate out there too
3/02/2013 12:42:00 AM
I.A.D.
Copper in my area was given a Toyota Prius hybrid, but has radios and flashing headlights, wonder if she ever has an emergency who would even pull over and believe this is a squad car! With all the police impersonators perfect time for playing rahms "Guess if they are the police,' game! Another mess created by rahm and the rest of his merry clown posse!
Yes it is true, in the D unit anyway. We have a car with some BS lights but no siren. It would make a lot more sense to give the bosses the "non police" rental cars and trickle down their unmarkeds to us. That will never happen though because they've "earned" their take home police cars!!
3/02/2013 12:13:00 AM
Whether he 'earned' it or not, one lieutenant took his newly assigned (city owned) unmarked straight to his back-alley friend and installed a remote start on the car so he wouldn't have to get his toes cold in the morning. Did he get that car reassigned to the new Area when he was moved?
To: I hope the detective was joking about the red light if not I'm sure he just created a CR for all in the unit of assignment to be investigated which is totally childish and I hope he or she is identified so they can be held accountable. Unless responding to an emergency that's the only reason I could see doing something so foolish.
You mean beside the fact that it is an overall fuck you to prove mcdumass and rahms incompetence! It is one of the best forms of silent/passive prostest that could have been done. The bosses didn't think of lights, sirens, emergency response, only-go make us look good with less! Now take the time and find the car with indiana plates and tickets. Make more work for the boss. To the detetective that did this if true-do not come forward to anyone-let them find you. We can only solve 25% of crime in this city anyway- you got a 75% chance. And... That is one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time. Fu_k em if they can't take a joke. Everyone loved supertroopers, why not this?
It's true in the D Unit, no cars available for the detectives to go out and conduct followup investigations even worse, go out and get lunch. Starting Sunday supervisors are to get rentals without emergency equpminent and their cars are to go to the detectives. Even with the cars being reassigned there are not enough vehicles for detectives to do their jobs. One cannot make this stuff up!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yes it is true, in the D unit anyway. We have a car with some BS lights but no siren. It would make a lot more sense to give the bosses the "non police" rental cars and trickle down their unmarkeds to us. That will never happen though because they've "earned" their take home police cars!!
3/02/2013 12:13:00 AM
So ticket their take home cars.
Go after them and "oh, I didn't know it was a take home cop car...it was just parked improperly."
Childish yes, uncalled for, maybe? Funny, absolutley!
For those who have never used a C-car. Be careful even as a white po dude wont know you're the police.
This is true for the D unit.
What if you are going to a job and there is no legal parking space in front? And illegally parked rental gets a parking ticket? what if you see a crime occur and you try to pull over a car with that starsky & hutch flashing light on the dashboard? what if gangsta sees your rental with out-of-state plates and wants to carjack an officer or detective? Will the City be held liable for damages if said detective shoots and kills the would-be carjacker, because their client didn't know he was the police in a rental car?
it is so clear that that this decision to rent cars for on-duty working police officers and detectives was not thought out completely at all. whoever made that decision clearly was never The Police.
It's getting so bad that it is sad that taxpayers money is wasted with so little thought by those controlling the money.
Where is the media or B.G.A. on this? When did it become acceptable for hardworking people to pay high taxes and still have the most violent city in America, understaffed by 4-5000 bodies and more pathetic, DRIVING AROUND 3 TO A CAR! Where did the money go?
Heard that they are dropping off 200 ford Pintos for police use.Are they still around?
In a way,, they are renting cops to work Vri so why not cars. Pretzel logic for a city that works.
You couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
...Anonymous said...
I know there is a rental car with a Vermont plate out there too.....
That car belongs to "Ben & Jerry's"!
You ever think that the department does not want you pulling people over or making arrest?
Lights but no siren!
VRI is the new golden child the cash came from not buying vehicles.
Rental cars for rental cops, how appropriate! Buy more cars & hire more cops. All you are doing is pimping for Rahm & showing them they can get it done without new hires. This too will bite us in our greedy asses.
Para military? Corporals? Sgts are not always available. Tests for corporal? Time in grade?
well not much a rental company will do if Tiny bounces on payments. if they wish to do "business" in the city then it's it's "business" as usual instead of saying he bounced the angency will say they were "loaned" and it was a good will gesture.
as for ford tiny screwed them plain and simple. they spent $ to do that and then got burned but again they will write it off as the caost of doing business in chicago
Anonymous said...
Was at meeting with McCarthy. He met with a group of sergeants and explained that he wants to get back to making the department a para-military organization. That is his big picture plan.
After a little though i realized what the big plan really is about. Mayor Emanuel has a plan. Get old timers ,who cost the city more per officer, to retire. Start mass hire of new healthier lower payed officers like they did in the early 1990's. The mayor and McCarthy know that traditionally in an organization that the members who are most resistant to change are older employes who will just retire instead of change.
3/02/2013 12:13:00 AM
Make it worth my while and I'm gone.
BTW, if you are on a leave are you entitled to the same health care if you pay for it?
Mt Greenwood Hillbilly said...
I know a dick who took out a car and went through some red light camera over 40 times just for shits and giggles. (he did not sign it out)
I don't know this guy, but I like him already.
3/02/2013 06:12:00 AM
I'm going to try to go through 50!!!!
Wait until the rental companies get these cars back after they take a beating from our Chicago streets, the weight and the damage from our gear, etc.
No to mention them chitlin' scraps, chicken bones and fast food bags stuffed under the seats! And the fart holes burned into the upholstery!
They won't even be able to sell them in a third world country!
I remember reading maybe 20 years ago that Washington D.C. Police Detectives were taking the bus to crime scenes because their department was so broke.
Let the cops & citizens in Chicago suffer. I don't want to see Barack miss out on a round of golf, Michelle go second class on one of her vacations, or see an "undocumented worker" have their free food/medical/housing cut one dime.
This Country is so f-ed up that if my Pop's generation knew it was going to be like this in 2013, they would have started the Revolution circa 1960.
BTW, if you are on a leave are you entitled to the same health care if you pay for it?
Not sure but my guess would be your on COBRA, which costs more
Also most po's on leave get health care from their new position
Anonymous said...
Where is the media or B.G.A. on this? When did it become acceptable for hardworking people to pay high taxes and still have the most violent city in America, understaffed by 4-5000 bodies and more pathetic, DRIVING AROUND 3 TO A CAR! Where did the money go?
4 to 5,000 bodies?
So this morning I turn into the 011 District parking structure and am stopped by a guy in a black jacket with a "General Parking" patch on it. He motions for me to roll down the window so I do and he says " good morning, may I valet your car"?
So I look at him and realize it is Steve Gerogas in disguise trying to commondere my newer 4 door car for his VRI car shortage problems.
I said "no thanks but you can check the pressure in my tires".
McBooBoo should go to Car Max and go crazy.
Area One Garage had plates from WI. MN. TX. and the list goes on. My favorites were the Kia Soul (Hamster car) and the Jetta wagon. I started off laughing then just shook my head in disgust. But, I still want that Soul for a tour. LMAO
Anonymous said...
Wait until the rental companies get these cars back after they take a beating from our Chicago streets, the weight and the damage from our gear, etc.
No to mention them chitlin' scraps, chicken bones and fast food bags stuffed under the seats! And the fart holes burned into the upholstery!
They won't even be able to sell them in a third world country!
3/02/2013 05:47:00 PM
Maybe not but Detroit will probably buy or rent them after us.
Anonymous said...
Heard that they are dropping off 200 ford Pintos for police use.Are they still around?
3/02/2013 02:26:00 PM
I am holding out for an Edsel 4 dr police special, 1959 model.
If those rentals do not have city stickers your first order of business at work should be to write a city sticker violation on it to get some activity. One guy writes one at the beginnign of a tour and the partner writes one at the end of the tour.
If its VRI their all green. Havent worked it yet this month though. At least there new.
Make it worth my while and I'm gone.
BTW, if you are on a leave are you entitled to the same health care if you pay for it?
3/02/2013 05:41:00 PM
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They did, and I left. Never looked back.
As for your query - Yes, you're covered for one month. Then, you have to pay for it.
At least, that's how it was two years ago, when someone who worked in my unit needed a short loa.
COBRA is federal law for uninsured. It is automatic for 60 days. No money to pay for it unless needed. You are federally covered under this at no charge unless needed. Enter the phone number in your cell and you can call them to activate on the way to the hospital if needed. CPS teachers were covered under the strike by this if the strike spilled into OCT. If you work just 1 day (1st of the month) you are covered by job insurance for that month. COBRA doesn't kick in till following month (if needed). FYI
NYC is using police cars painted up as taxis.
Maybe we'll be doing the same soon...take fares between jobs.
Do we get to keep tips?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvUT31o7EE
500 Yugoslav have been ordered. Just waiting for mars lights installed. Peel-off "we serve and protect" stickers have been ordered and are in Graphic Design as we speak.
guessing Rahm has a friend in the rental car business....
COBRA is federal law for uninsured. It is automatic for 60 days. No money to pay for it unless needed. You are federally covered under this at no charge unless needed. Enter the phone number in your cell and you can call them to activate on the way to the hospital if needed. CPS teachers were covered under the strike by this if the strike spilled into OCT. If you work just 1 day (1st of the month) you are covered by job insurance for that month. COBRA doesn't kick in till following month (if needed). FYI
You have no idea what you are talking about Go to the government COLA website and there is absolutely nothing about being automatic for 60 days. I just hope none believes your bullshit
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