48 Hours Piece?
More bad news for McCompstat?
- Watch for more national coverage about how bad it is here. The television show 48 hours has been driving around the city doing a similar piece about the violence. On Thursday they interviewed McCompstat as part of the show. Apparently he lost it when the reporter asked him if this city was still a safe place to visit. He ended the interview and was heard mumbling several choice words towards the reporter as he stormed out. It will be interesting to see if they put the blow up on TV. The show is supposed to air in about a month.
Wilding on the Mag Mile. Shootings in Wrigleyville. Visitors being Apple-picked on the El. Add in the non-stop bleeding from the Convention business and Gov. Rick Perry trolling for Illinois corporations to move to Texas.
We're one tourist mugging/death away from economic disaster. Meanwhile, the slow meltdown continues.
We're one tourist mugging/death away from economic disaster. Meanwhile, the slow meltdown continues.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Mcjersey shore should just spin this. " Chicago is so violent the terrorists are afraid to come here". It's all part of the plan.
Moving to Texas was a big thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Most people, only a few moved, and came back in a few months when they found out the rumor was a lie.
Yep, three people get killed and 100's injured at a marathon and it's a big deal because it makes a good hollywood script for politicians to leverage for donations and personal gains.
Chicago has the carnage of a marathon bombing every week and NOTHING
...unless you're the one lucky winner that won a trip to Washington martyrdom becuase your family has clout and is on the campaign contribution list which also makes for a good hollywood script.
Everyone else can go to hell.
With democratic super majorities from downtown Chicago to downtown Springfield how can one blame the GOP for Chicago ranking 90th out of 90 federal districts when it comes to gun crime prosecutions?
Yeah, we are the only state without a conceal carry permit and that makes us unable to enforce the exisisting laws on the books. Yeah right. Rahm's actions do not match his words. The "it's all about the kids" and " asking to withdrawal money from the gun manufactures" is a distraction that Chicago ranks dead last on Federal gun prosecutions.
Go figure?
About 81,000 jobs lost over the last and somewhere around 40,000 people have left the Chicago labor force in the last five months.
Meanwhile. food stamp caseloads are rising at a 11.5% clip over the last year with just over 2 million people in the state on the program.
The solution?? Here...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials say the Illinois Department of Human Services staff is so lean that caseworkers can devote only 45 minutes a year to some families in need of social services.
Human Services Secretary Michelle Saddler told lawmakers Thursday that the agency needs more money to hire employees. Some have caseloads of 2,600.
Saddler told a House appropriations committee that Human Services officials need a larger staff just to keep their "noses above water."
Saddler's testimony shocked lawmakers.
DHS caseworkers help needy families get food, shelter, financial and medical assistance.
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/official-illinois-human-services-staff-too-lean/article_46144432-a2e4-11e2-a8c2-001a4bcf887a.html
Heh-heh-heh. That ought to slow down that pesky food stamp caseload growth. See the numbers? Illinois is growing....things are getting better..he--he--he.
How the hell can one caseworker handle 2,600 cases?
Everything we are being told is a lie. EVERYTHING!
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
― Howard Zinn
Gonna be a hot summer in Chicago. You know a few tourist are going to get in between some of the Gangsters shooting downtown and the lake front.
This city is not safe. No it is not safe to visit. Yes, the mayor and the supt are lying about the city being safe. National guard now!
I was there ..HE clearly said "I was told there'd be no math"..
It seems as though McCaughtOffGuard gets more easily spun and bamboozled with every subsequent interview.
Carol Marin, while not to be trusted by virtue of her very profession, gets our nod of approval for putting Garry on the ropes in her Chicago Tonight interview.
All this reinforces what we knew from jump: that McCarthy is incapable of completely controlling his emotions...amongst other "things" a purported leader of men needs to keep in check.
A transplanted New York equivalent of Chicago-style, promoted-beyond-capability clout hack. A petulant child trapped in an adults body unable to think on his feet when it's go-time, instead resorting to bullying tactics and elevated tone.
Without a freshly rehearshed script, he's reduced to reciting vague, semi-relevant half-answers and rehashed statistics. And when that goes south, cue the belittling and vulgarities. One need look no further than the weekly CompStat berating session to substantiate this assertion.
A & E needs to air this footage and expose the latest fraud at the helm of what was once the proudest police department in the nation.
New York is advertising for business on the tube also. New York? What, are they still mad they got Hillary?
They need to mention every shooting costs the taxpayers $50k in expenses.
They need to mention Rahm and Garry stealing police resources and protection away from taxpayers to protect the non tax paying ghetto trash.
They need to mention the ghettos on south and west sides are already destroyed so rid raff thugs are roaming into once quiet neighborhood's
They need to mention Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country yet never prosecute gun violators.
They need to mention the tens of thousands of people moving OUT of Chicago.
You can guarantee that Rahm and his brothers are going to put the strong arm on them to not show anything that puts Chicago in a bad light. Those pussy brothers tried to stop an interview they gave after Zeke's book came out because Ari's panties got tied in a bunch.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/video-brothers-emanuel-ari-rahm-zeke-nbc-rock-center-with-brian-williams/
I laugh when I see Rahm getting upset with Perry attempting to pluck Chicago businesses from the Windy City. Texas has its pensions funded at 80%. There is no State Income tax. No tax on food. Gas is currently $3.17. Political corruption is virtually non existent. Crime rates are much lower, possibly because of carry-concealed. Weather is better and so are the schools. Infrastructure is in great shape. Housing is less expensive. Lots of building going on. One thousand people move to Texas on a daily basis from throughout the country. I should know---I moved here several years ago and am happy as a clam.
Never mind all that, that new Mugging Daily park will look beautiful when that sign goes up.
The mayor had nothig more than a childish comment when asked about Gov. Perry stealing business away from Illinois. He said something referencing the three things (which Perry goofed up on at a presidential debate a long time ago).
One of the reporters should have responded-"Like the fact that Texas is low crime, low unemployment and NOT going broke?" but of course the sheep stay quiet and laugh only on cue.
Wait till a famous European tourist like a scientist or doctor or whomever gets mugged on Mug Mile.
Temper. Temper.
Chicagoan's don't like outsiders,and we will run you out of town.
No taxpayers were harmed in the making (of most) A&E's 'The First 48'.........
they came about a month to early but they should get plenty of action now--- just wait until the VRI money runs out which will be soon....
social security is hurting while the food stamp funds and people on food stamps/link, whatever it is, is climbing. they continue to receive their free money while the working class will receive less money for their hard service throughout their lifetime. what a wonderful country it is when they reward the lazy and incompetent and tell the hard-working and successful they should have budgeted their money better or to go get another job then.
Too good!! Thanks so much for the heads up. 48 Hours is my favorite show. It shows wonderful, professional, human beings doing a hell of a job dealing with the most horrible circumstances---yeah, like Chicago. And, SCC, I love you, too!!
Anonymous said...
About 81,000 jobs lost over the last and somewhere around 40,000 people have left the Chicago labor force in the last five months.
Meanwhile. food stamp caseloads are rising at a 11.5% clip over the last year with just over 2 million people in the state on the program.
The solution?? Here...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials say the Illinois Department of Human Services staff is so lean that caseworkers can devote only 45 minutes a year to some families in need of social services.
Human Services Secretary Michelle Saddler told lawmakers Thursday that the agency needs more money to hire employees. Some have caseloads of 2,600.
Saddler told a House appropriations committee that Human Services officials need a larger staff just to keep their "noses above water."
Saddler's testimony shocked lawmakers.
DHS caseworkers help needy families get food, shelter, financial and medical assistance.
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/official-illinois-human-services-staff-too-lean/article_46144432-a2e4-11e2-a8c2-001a4bcf887a.html
Heh-heh-heh. That ought to slow down that pesky food stamp caseload growth. See the numbers? Illinois is growing....things are getting better..he--he--he.
How the hell can one caseworker handle 2,600 cases?
Everything we are being told is a lie. EVERYTHING!
4/23/2013 12:35:00 AM
I was working with them 4 years ago via a nonprofit. They had caseloads near 2,000 back then. We heard/witnessed so many horror stories then so it's no telling what it is now. Sometimes staff were buying their own toilet tissue and soap for the bathrooms or even copier paper. Many offices regularly lost peoples' applications and paperwork because they were so overloaded with cases and were literally stacking piles of cases/files on desks. We all know about the frauds who shouldn't get it but I saw many hard working families that fell on hard times that got screwed, got humiliated, and waited for months just for their paperwork to get processed properly. It was a nightmare.
McCompost has to go soon! A couple of bad weeks and Rammy will launch him....
hahahahhahha, how things get turned around. yeah, there is a story but its pro gmac and pro rahm. its about the intense downturn in crime for the first quarter of 2013 and all the different "strategies" that are being used and how compstat is turning chicago around after next year. they are doing the story now because you know they cant do it once the warm weather hits. whoever told you this was about how terrible it is here is way off. this is damage control from gmac and rahm to get them here to tout the low numbers. and the blow up that you claim never happened. this is a gmac stroke job..
"We're one tourist mugging/death away from economic disaster."
For how many decades can this "disaster" be dangled over our heads as being a prospective event? What is the point?
1964 came and went 50 years ago. Look around you. Half of the city is unusable.
September trial date set in beating of Irish student
3:45 p.m. CDT, April 22, 2013
"The trial of two people accused in the brutal beating of Natasha McShane three years ago will begin Sept. 9.
"The date was settled at a court hearing Monday, just a day short of the three-year anniversary of the morning when McShane and her friend Stacy Jurich were attacked by a mugger with a baseball bat, leaving McShane with injuries so severe that she can no longer speak or walk..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-irish-student-beating-chicago-natasha-mcshane,0,6203066.story
A transplanted New York equivalent of Chicago-style, promoted-beyond-capability clout hack. A petulant child trapped in an adults body unable to think on his feet when it's go-time, instead resorting to bullying tactics and elevated tone.
Without a freshly rehearshed script, he's reduced to reciting vague, semi-relevant half-answers and rehashed statistics. And when that goes south, cue the belittling and vulgarities. One need look no further than the weekly CompStat berating session to substantiate this assertion.
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Best 2 paragraphs I think I've ever read here. I'm a reluctant attendant at a lot of Compstat meetings and you sir, have hit this one dead nuts. Your observations put to paper leave nothing out. You paint the perfect picture of our illustrious leader. Well done.
Hey I retired to Texas..No income tax I have a 4 bedroom 2&1/2 baths 1840 sq ft. on a 1/4 acre my taxes are 1700 a year. Its is 77 here today and I don not own a snow shovel. Only 10 members on the city council and they can only serve 2 2 year terms. Police pensions are funded at over 100%. The only animals i watch out for are deer
Anonymous said...
Moving to Texas was a big thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Most people, only a few moved, and came back in a few months when they found out the rumor was a lie.
4/23/2013 12:16:00 AM
Am I the only one who has no idea what this post means?
....pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...the Great Oz has spoken!
WTF, it's like that fargin movie Groundhogs Day
“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
― Howard Zinn
4/23/2013 12:35:00 AM
Howard sounds like.................
a pessimist.
Maybe 48 hours can ride the CTA for awhile and see that healthy, able bodied young men are constantly begging, like in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hixx3wDECAk
Hey Sun Times and Tribune!!
The Chicago Police Sergeants are so pissed of at their union because they got in bed with Rahm, they are going to de-certify and go FOP!!!
Anonymous said...
Moving to Texas was a big thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Most people, only a few moved, and came back in a few months when they found out the rumor was a lie.
4/23/2013 12:16:00 AM
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All states have booms and busts. Texas is prone to them, in the early 80'sa, there was a shortage of labor there, the economy was booming then the oil bust happened and the states economy tanked for a few years. But you can't argue the trends. Texas will pass California as the most populous state in the US, provided the Mexicans don't all move to California. People are moving to Texas and people are moving out of NY, Ma, Il and Ca. because of the states policies. Texas is a free state, unlike these liberal states which are slave states for working people. They bust their asses to pass laws to over regulate law abiding citizens, tax the hell out of working people so they can toss ever more dollars to their pet minorities and promiscuous women with multiple babies from multiple sperm donor daddies. Fuck Illinois and fuck the politicians here. And you dumb fucks that helped ruin this state, either don't vote when you get to a red state or adjust your voting tendencies so you don't make it happen yet again somewhere new.
Anonymous said...
A transplanted New York equivalent of Chicago-style, promoted-beyond-capability clout hack. A petulant child trapped in an adults body unable to think on his feet when it's go-time, instead resorting to bullying tactics and elevated tone.
Without a freshly rehearshed script, he's reduced to reciting vague, semi-relevant half-answers and rehashed statistics. And when that goes south, cue the belittling and vulgarities. One need look no further than the weekly CompStat berating session to substantiate this assertion.
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Nice---I swear I heard Rod Serling's voice when I read this
Anonymous said...
social security is hurting while the food stamp funds and people on food stamps/link, whatever it is, is climbing. they continue to receive their free money while the working class will receive less money for their hard service throughout their lifetime. what a wonderful country it is when they reward the lazy and incompetent and tell the hard-working and successful they should have budgeted their money better or to go get another job then.
4/23/2013 10:02:00 AM
Oh ye of little understanding. Food stamps is an indirect subsidy to the food/farming industry. Go ahead and think the food industry would be cool with fewer food stamp dollars. Sike. You really think it's about helping poor people? Haven't learned anything about smoke and mirrors yet? By the way, you'd be shocked by the amount of legit people people with jobs on the program. I've heard more "I used to make xxx amount of dollars a year" from food stamp applicants stories than I ever want to hear again. My favorite was a young married black couple, both grad students at U of Chicago and she was sneaking and applying because her husband was completely against it but they were living off of internships/assistantships income until they graduated.
Read the truth:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2011-09-05/More-restaurants-are-targeting-customers-who-use-food-stamps/50267864/1
My old partner retired to Texas. A friend retired from the navy and settled in Texas.
Another PO from 012 and his brother retired to texas AND let me not forget crump-hales in Houston.
social security is hurting while the food stamp funds and people on food stamps/link, whatever it is, is climbing. they continue to receive their free money while the working class will receive less money for their hard service throughout their lifetime. what a wonderful country it is when they reward the lazy and incompetent and tell the hard-working and successful they should have budgeted their money better or to go get another job then.
4/23/2013 10:02:00 AM
it's the retailers.
reduce the dole and you reduce the flow of cash to the retailers.
the retailers don't care where the cash comes from, as long as it keeps coming.
48 Hours smells blood and the governor of Texas does, too. And so does Rachel Shteir of DePaul University.
She wrote a piece for the New York Times about Chicago. It is not flattering.
The sharks are circling and TD 9.5 is pissed!
McStooge tried to pull a Rahm and storm out of an interview feigning indignation. Great thing to be on the offensive when you're caught with your pants down.
ballerina boy teases gov perry about a senior moment during debates
bet he never teased barry about the 57 states in America
Texas is so big where do I start to look for a nice place to retire to there? I mean like this year.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Moving to Texas was a big thing back in the late 70's or early 80's. Most people, only a few moved, and came back in a few months when they found out the rumor was a lie.
4/23/2013 12:16:00 AM
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All states have booms and busts. Texas is prone to them, in the early 80'sa, there was a shortage of labor there, the economy was booming then the oil bust happened and the states economy tanked for a few years. But you can't argue the trends. Texas will pass California as the most populous state in the US, provided the Mexicans don't all move to California. People are moving to Texas and people are moving out of NY, Ma, Il and Ca. because of the states policies. Texas is a free state, unlike these liberal states which are slave states for working people. They bust their asses to pass laws to over regulate law abiding citizens, tax the hell out of working people so they can toss ever more dollars to their pet minorities and promiscuous women with multiple babies from multiple sperm donor daddies. Fuck Illinois and fuck the politicians here. And you dumb fucks that helped ruin this state, either don't vote when you get to a red state or adjust your voting tendencies so you don't make it happen yet again somewhere new.
4/23/2013 04:33:00 PM
Ok, so when can we expect Illinois to boom?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hey Sun Times and Tribune!!
The Chicago Police Sergeants are so pissed of at their union because they got in bed with Rahm, they are going to de-certify and go FOP!!!
4/23/2013 04:24:00 PM
Maybe FOP will be a little more welcoming and a little less condescending to us this time around.
Their attitude is what lost them the sergeants last time around. A lot of us felt, shall we say, 'underappreciated' when we were told we could take FOP or leave it. We left it. Hope the climate's better this time, so the City can't continue its divide and conquer tactics.
Hey Sun Times and Tribune!!
The Chicago Police Sergeants are so pissed of at their union because they got in bed with Rahm, they are going to de-certify and go FOP!!!
As a sgt who voted no - this is a mistake. You do not de-certify. You vote out those in charge. Especially when shields is the alternative. No thanks.
These assholes in charge are cancelling our days off on the weekends to go downtown and be visable. you know, to fool the public and tourists into a false sense of security. we're suppose to deter the black wildings from raising havac and we're suppose to do it wearing blues and the dreaded crown cap. my days off that I should be spending time with my family and kids. this department sucks
--Chicagoan's don't like outsiders,and we will run you out of town.---
Name a person FROM Chicago who has made it famous.
My old partner retired to Texas. A friend retired from the navy and settled in Texas.
Another PO from 012 and his brother retired to texas AND let me not forget crump-hales in Houston.
4/23/2013 07:10:00 PM
WOW, one of my ex's lives in Texas
Well, if they don't use it they're nuts.
Ok, so when can we expect Illinois to boom?
4/23/2013 10:21:00 PM
don't tempt Fate.
Chalkie
Anonymous Only Mama Knows said...
Texas is so big where do I start to look for a nice place to retire to there? I mean like this year.
4/23/2013 10:17:00 PM
Tomball north of Houston is nice. My niece is the mayor there. No one filed to run against her or any of the city council members so they canceled the upcoming election to save the town over $15,000.00.
ECS
To Anonymous that lives in TEXAS, I just said it, "It';s TEXAS"
Been there a lot and NO THANKS !!
You're time will tell
Anonymous said...
--Chicagoan's don't like outsiders,and we will run you out of town.---
Name a person FROM Chicago who has made it famous.
4/24/2013 01:22:00 AM
Obama
Anonymous said...
--Chicagoan's don't like outsiders,and we will run you out of town.---
Name a person FROM Chicago who has made it famous.
4/24/2013 01:22:00 AM
Chalkie
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