Sunday, August 25, 2013

Safe Passage - Spare no Expense (UPDATE)

This is getting ridiculous.

First up, the Safe Passage orders are ridiculously long and involved. Seems the entire day watches in select Districts are getting shifted around. If they move your start time by more than 2 hours, you're entitled to a bit of cash per the Contract. Your Unit Rep of the FOP can help you on that front. Word is all the PPO's and maybe even the recruits are involved, too.

Second, they're sending a few hundred non-essential personnel from HQ to 007 and 011 to make sure that the Safe Passage has an incident-free week at least, two weeks on the outside. Where do they keep digging up these "non-essential" persons? We thought they emptied out HQ during the last two purges. Guess they missed a few, because we still can't find parking when we go down for our regularly scheduled IAD dates.

Third, we saw the order for something like 40 or more pieces of fire apparatus to be deployed on Safe Passage routes. We assume they'll be free to leave should the next Great Chicago Fire break out, and you know everyone loves a firefighter. But this is getting ridiculous.

And finally, the City is telling non union employees from all departments that they will be assigned to a Safe Passage for 2 weeks (from 0600 to 0900) before reporting to their regular job for the day. Streets, Water, Park District, Sewers, etc. The City mean EVERYONE will have a spot to park and watch the children on their way to school. That means all sorts of regular city services will be delayed at least the first 3 hours of the day and the delays will most likely stack up all week. If they have to complete certain projects or pickups like garbage, is that going to mean another pile of overtime money burned through in short order?

Everything about this screams, "Overkill!"

UPDATE: True or false?
  • Everyone in OCD was given a 2 day notice that their hours would be changed to school open & close hours & some RDO's will be cancelled (switched without pay). I guess the "leaders" don't think police officers planned to walk their own children to school. Now we have to cancel our VRI days. Thanks leaders, I can't wait to go buy more crack!!!  
On one hand, that's life in a Unit kid - "voluntary" change of hours and if you bitch about it, back to the District you go.

On the other, getting shafted out of pre-planned VRI dates, short notice cancelled RDO's and/or start times when you might be taking your own kids to school (you know, like a responsible parent, instead of watching someone else's kids) is wrong on a number of levels.

Anyone recall how many kids have been shot, maimed or beaten on the first day of school in the past? Yeah, we can't think of any either. That usually happens after school has been in session a few weeks and the gangs have reestablished their old feuds and started their heavy recruitment.

Overkill.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of the "non-essentials" WERE booted out of HQ for a brief period of time, then snuck back in when no one was looking. I wish they'd sneak me back in. I'm still out there looking old and silly.

8/25/2013 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What's strange about "Safe-Passage" is that by its own existence it should be a call to the media that something is terribly wrong in Chicago.

The simple fact that black kids can't walk to school without a fear of being shot or beaten by other kids, and that there has to be a safety plan put into place because of it!

That in itself should be an alarming call to the media and the effected neighborhood politicians that Chicago is now first place in a failing war against gangs and crime.
Kids are now influencing adult decisions and policy making!
Wow. That's some fucked up shit Chicago!
This is embarrassing.

8/25/2013 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lol, this is like a joke. An SNL skit

8/25/2013 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmm--instead of pulling people with work to do off their jobs, why not require that the people who are NOT working get out there and keep watch? The ones on TANF, SSDI, SSI, unemployment compensation, food stamps, housing vouchers, Section 8, free phones, LI-HEAP, etc, etc, etc.

Or can't we trust them to get up before noon?

8/25/2013 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about giving the parent/s of these children alarm clocks so they can wake up on time to walk their own children to school. Oh I forgot we already feed, house, educate and insure their kids might as well walk them to school also. Next year we will be tucking them in bed after we read them a bed time story since the parents can't read and are probably out partying.

8/25/2013 12:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm has MONEY to Pay for Everything But the Pensions! Why are they putting up "flower pots" up and down Lawrence Ave in the 019 District? So there narrowing the side walks because now there's not enough room for two lanes of traffic any longer! Not to mention when you try to respond to a 1A call you have to drive down the opposite lane of traffic to get thru because of these dumbass "flower Pots! I know the age old excuse "That contract was Bided on and monies were appropriated for it in advance" Advance My Ass! When its VRI money or some other OT project they seem to be able to end that on a whim without very little notice all in an effort to save money! Save Money My Ass! Hey Rahm, why don't you take the money you "allegedly" saved from merging all these Districts and put that in our pension? "You didn't save money in the moves"? "No Shit" "Didn't take a genius to figure that out Dip Shit"! "Rahm, you know this will be your last election as mayor, right? And you were already "Ran" out of the Whitehouse" How Fucked Up do you have to be to get kicked out of the W.H. when the one running it is Idiot himself? Now Kiss my Ass"! Just once I would love to hear on the radio "1926A & B, can you send a relief over to "dip shits" house for a personal"?

8/25/2013 12:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


They call it the Safe Passage others are calling it The New Silk Roads.

The original Silk Road consisted of trade routes established some 5,000 years ago.

Chicago's Silk Road will provide a place for the black markets to flourish. A place where caravans of school children create a target for the thieves and a source of gang recruitment.

Along the Sanctuary City Silk roads we have the abandoned crack houses were drugs can be bought and sold, we have empty lots where guns can be found and then there's the prostitution.

Good for the economy and as far as the political apparatus is concerned it's the money that matters.

DON'T MESS WITH THE FREE TRADE, right?

Like the original Silk Roads it's not just physical goods that can be traded. The New Silk Roads will have a societal impact. If you managed to keep your kids from being exposed to the gang culture look out as the game has changed. Your kids get to travel the foreign lands and expand their culture. Ain't it great?!

Yeah,

We may have a new Genghis Kahn arise who knows! We may just find that the nomad mongrels of the various tribal communities will unite once they are forced back together like the good ol' days of Cabrini.

Prepare for societal meltdown. That's what it looks like from where I sit.

Rahm hasn't got a clue. This lil' Kabuki circus dog and pony show will last about what...two weeks? Then what? Two weeks long enough to shrug off the blame?

Congrats Rahm!!

You've added to the Sanctuary City food deserts.

The Sanctuary City of Chicago now has education deserts and community health center deserts.

You must be so proud.

"MAKE-UP, I'm ready for my closeup now Mr. Demill". am I right?

/sarcasm

8/25/2013 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...it's for the children."

8/25/2013 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this my gang is bigger than your gang stuff?

8/25/2013 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FYI, have the readers ever seen the "public" use the sidewalks ? It feels like its middle of winter and its 3 feet of snow so "taxpayers" are like cows in India???

8/25/2013 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With all these marches we should get people in them chanting and carrying signs saying,

"HIRE MORE POLICE!"

Let that get on the 6 o'clock news.

8/25/2013 12:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Raccoon Eyes has put all his chips on the Safe Passage bullshit. How much is this fraud costing the city? A lot more than keeping those schools open. But who cares. It's not his money.

8/25/2013 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Talked to a PPO tonite. Said the recruits that are near the end of their 3rd training cycle will be in Sat-Sun DOG, and will be working safe passage 0500-1700 M-F.

8/25/2013 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Meanwhile they remove our crossing guard at Elston/Lawrence. Absolutely ridiculous! Fuck these fucking fucks!

8/25/2013 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No, SCC...

That shit ain't overkill...

It's Rahm's SHEER TERROR and absolute desperation that you see all manner of municipal employees and civilians being pressed into serving a law enforcement/public safety function...

When something happens to one of these people pressed into a law enforcement/public safety function, we hope they or their survivors retain out of town counsel who will prove sharp enough to snatch Rahm from behind the municipal corporation shield and expose him to culpability and liability for this study in madness and fuckery.

*Frantic shouting of orders to dead generals of decimated armies to stem the enemy advance while hacks, flacks, flunkies, bootlickers, ass kissers, yes men, maids and man-servants scurry around trying to look busy*

A legacy wholly devoted to fuckery...

We will laugh our collective asses off when this shit unravels like a busted league ball in flight.

Rahm, by his own hand and design has destroyed the ability of CPD to safeguard anything beside the Officers individual ability to safeguard themselves and each other.

Motherfuck a "Safe Passage."

Funny...

Who is Rahm going to be pissed at when Dude lights shit on fire on one of these Un-Safe Passage routes?

It sure the fuck ain't gonna be at Dude...

He WILL burn all manner of political capitol to cast the Police as the ones responsible for the current state of affairs.

Some dead-end, nothing to lose, "ain't afraid to die" m/fer IS GOING TO DO THE MOTHERFUCKING FOOL on or near one of these safe passage routes.

8/25/2013 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Watching this "plan" and this city is like watching a drunk juggler balancing on a high wire.

8/25/2013 01:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So what you're saying is, I can't go to work until after being diverted to my new, secondary, involuntary, Rahm-ordered job.

Then I can start my "real" job.

Makes sense. Thanks, Rahm.

8/25/2013 01:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your Tax dollars at work
How nice
Thanks Rham Democrates
Keep Voting the One PArty

8/25/2013 01:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The entire city is on red alert for this shit?
Shouldn't we just do 1990's style sweeps every morning and then call it a day after units get their head.

8/25/2013 02:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm will spare no expense to manipulate the media.
How much tax payer money is being shoveled into these largely non tax paying areas?
The sheeple and lap dog media will go right along with Rahm's dog and pony show. How many times do you think we'll hear "it's for the children" as Rahm is mugging for the canera's?

8/25/2013 02:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just ridiculous! The neighborhood and its people should be stepping up to the plate. Crickets......

8/25/2013 03:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

4. Everyone in OCD was given a 2 day notice that their hours would be changed to school open & close hours & some RDO's will be cancelled (switched without pay). I guess the "leaders" don't think police officers planned to walk their own children to school. Now we have to cancel our VRI days. Thanks leaders, I can't wait to go buy more crack!!!

8/25/2013 03:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All PPO's on foot and 10hr days on the routes. The front offices are cleared out, never knew so many people fit in there.

8/25/2013 03:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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How about you fund our pensions as required by law 1st?

8/25/2013 03:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Total and complete crock of SHIT! Stop acting like savages.

8/25/2013 04:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that Rahm is a complete failure who has lost control of the city. This plan is an admition that the ghetto dwellers have run amuck and a lack of police manpower exists due to idiotic attempts to save money at the expense of public safety.

8/25/2013 04:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Funny part about Safe Passage and the over "kill" of personnel is that this will last 2 weeks. Then what strategy will take place?
Cause we all know that the city cannot sustain this kind of protection for any extended period of time.

8/25/2013 06:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm is going to make damn sure that the first week or 2 turns out to be un-eventful. And unless a kid is shot and killed on one of these routes be assured that the media has it's orders to print nothing but glowing reviews.

Oh, one more thing.....the order came out the other day stating that ALL PPO's will be working 12 hour days for the forseeable future.

8/25/2013 06:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about clearing out the academy of non essential personnel? Was there for legitimacy training last week. Sort of ridiculous how many people are detailed there. Remember they have straight days and weekends off as well. Must be nice.

8/25/2013 06:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are they assuming the weather will cool off by mid-Sept? Please---that's a lot of assuming.

8/25/2013 07:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Overkill?
Lets be honest here folks, most self respecting gangbangers are not up and about at 8am. Any potential for problems are going to be at afternoon dismissal.
Also, if we need "safe passage" to get the kiddies to school maybe we ought to go after the root of the problem? How about letting the police be the police and start with some extreme pressure on these banger mutts to clean up these neighborhoods

8/25/2013 07:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So what happens after the first three weeks? Also what the hell is a non police city worker going to do when the bullets start to fly? This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.

8/25/2013 07:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It would be cheaper to pay the gang bangers $10 per hour to watch the route, or just to stand down in the morning hours. . . . .

Why not? we pay their parents for doing nothing (food stamps, welfare, LINK, SSI, etc.)

8/25/2013 07:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So after a week or two, then what?

8/25/2013 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago's Underground Railroad! In the 21st Century

8/25/2013 07:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This mayor is more of a nut job than the last one.

8/25/2013 07:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

8/25/2013 12:36:00 AM

Wow. Maybe next time you pass the flower boxes you should stop and smell them for some aromatherapy.

I totally agree with you though.

Breathe deeply. Hang in there until retirement.

8/25/2013 07:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Funny thing about kids with dumb parents...

They don't follow directions!

To think these kids will all go down a street instead of side street and alleys is comical.

Rahm knows odds and he figures if he can do 14 days of news cycle he is a genius.

All it will take is one child to be affected by crime a Fox new is going to chew his heads off!

8/25/2013 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let that get on the 6 o'clock news.

It will never get on the stations. The 9 1/2 support people will not allow it. I don't want the nation to know how f--ked up we really are. How many safe zones are in the NW side or in the Beverley neighborhood? Tax payers just pay and pay for the non tax payers,

8/25/2013 07:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That fucked up shit hole that you guys live in is NEVER gonna change. There's only one thing that is gonna make working for Shitcago a little better...... CHANGE THE RESIDENCY RULE.

8/25/2013 08:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Bureau Chiefs

The Department is in the process of finalizing a deployment plan for the upcoming start of the school year, in particular for the CPS safe passage routes. Personnel will be deployed to the safe passage routes for the start of the school year. Therefore there is a need to supplement District Law Enforcement operations to achieve this mission. Bureau Chiefs are asked to send a list of fully duty Sergeants and Police Officers assigned to administrative positions that will be available for deployment. Lists should be separated by unit. Numbers will take into account all available full duty personnel assigned to administrative positions. Previous exemption requests are not approved for this detail.

Deployment assignments will be similar to the former Operation Protect Youth deployment of one (1) week. Please send the list of available administrative personnel, by unit, to Acting Chief Steve Georgas of the Special Functions Division by close of business 14 August 2013. Every effort will be made to not strip units of all administrative personnel at the same time; however, Unit Commanders should be prepared to operate with limited staffing during this deployment mission.

Thank You

Alfonza Wysinger
First Deputy Superintendent"

8/25/2013 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm not usually in 011, but the other night was there and saw people with little kids, maybe from 3 YOA on up to teens at 0300 waiting in line at the take-out place at Harrison and Sacramento. No wonder these kids can't accomplish shit in school! No sense of normalcy. Up at 0300? WTF are the "parents" even doing up at that hour?

8/25/2013 08:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like I've told the mayor before, this safe passage idea is a joke. The gang bangers care less about safe passage. They will still go after whomever they wish to target and there is no way to stop them.

Safe passage is just another program that wastes taxpayer money. It will be another black eye on the mayor when he runs for higher office.

- Garry M

8/25/2013 08:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

NOT 40 CFD fire rigs; ALL Fire trucks are to be "on the air" according to our 'FishLips' commandant Mr. McNicholas. I sure didn't know that I was trained as a babysitter for the welfare state.

8/25/2013 08:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow. Ch. 5 reporter STRESSING that the 11 year-old shot was WITH her family ON HER PORCH....but they couldn't get around the fact that the incident happened at 0400....WTF is an 11 year-old kid doing sitting on a porch at 0400 WITH OR WITHOUT family members? Don't think I stayed up till 0400 until I was in college. WTF? SOP in the ghetto.

8/25/2013 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you think they'd be pulling out all the stops if this were in the taxpayer base areas??
Hell no. There the parents would accept the responsibility of ensuring their kids get to school safely... instead of sucking up millions in city services and expecting them to do it.

8/25/2013 08:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When Rahm worked for BO and Clinton one of his main jobs was to manipulate the Media! This Safe-Passage nonsense is all photo-op hype. Six people have all ready been shot on Safe Passage routes, two of them fatal. (1 at Wilson and Sheridan & the other on South State.) SO AFTER THE TWO WEEKS, WHO IS GOING TO COVER SAFE PASSAGES THEN? As when he was in D.C. he knows that by then the t.v. cameras will be on another issue.

8/25/2013 08:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lebanon did a similar thing in 1970's.
Syria is considering the same.
My,my how the world progressed.
As for Chicago, (home of the sitting President) has to call for a state of emergency just to prepare for the first day of school. Not since BudBilikin & NATO has there been such preparedness. Why?
Even in the wee hour of 4am, an 11yr old front porch stooper shot, the weekend before school starts. Assumption being a CPS student.
Obama, Rahm and McCarthy should be run out of town instead of being praised for their efforts. All of which failed.

8/25/2013 08:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What's strange about "Safe-Passage" is that by its own existence it should be a call to the media that something is terribly wrong in Chicago.

The simple fact that black kids can't walk to school without a fear of being shot or beaten by other kids, and that there has to be a safety plan put into place because of it!

That in itself should be an alarming call to the media and the effected neighborhood politicians that Chicago is now first place in a failing war against gangs and crime.
Kids are now influencing adult decisions and policy making!
Wow. That's some fucked up shit Chicago!
This is embarrassing.

8/25/2013 12:19:00 AM

You're too insightful and logical. The city believes a band-aid can stop arterial bleeding.

8/25/2013 08:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Hmmm--instead of pulling people with work to do off their jobs, why not require that the people who are NOT working get out there and keep watch? The ones on TANF, SSDI, SSI, unemployment compensation, food stamps, housing vouchers, Section 8, free phones, LI-HEAP, etc, etc, etc.

Or can't we trust them to get up before noon?

8/25/2013 12:27:00 AM

Don't compare people receiving unemployment checks to the others you mentioned. Those receiving unemployment had money deducted from their paychecks for just that purpose.

8/25/2013 09:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's no parking at HQ because fire is there now.

8/25/2013 09:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you know how many Safe Passages workers have been or are currently in the criminal justice system due to active drug use?

8/25/2013 09:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I cannot believe I have lived to see the day where useless, irresponsible people are catered to with my tax dollars. This is ridiculous and disgraceful. Let them reap what they sow. They don't want to change. This is how they live. Leave them alone to work it out themselves. Maybe then they will figure out how every generation before them was able to work their way out of poverty and succeed. The government programs only reinforces their dependency and makes them feel justified for the little that they do as it is.

8/25/2013 09:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I work in a department that has been tapped (strong armed) into manning these routes. We were told that there will be two shifts:
0600 - 0900 and 1400 - 1830 for the next three weeks. We have to check in (sit rep)with someone every hour. Vehicles are being provided from various departments. Talk about a rag tag operation.
And yes, we are still responsible for our normal work.
This will be VERY interesting.

8/25/2013 09:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm bringing the smoke machine. Who's bringing the mirrors?

8/25/2013 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

.....you might be taking your own kids to school (you know, like a responsible parent, instead of watching someone else's kids.....

[while the someones are still up in the bed because they was partying and getting high or making more kids they cannot support and didn't go sleep until dawn]

.....is wrong on a number of levels.

8/25/2013 09:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course, the press will spin this into the entire city workforce working hard to protect "the children"

This is such bullshit, they need to grow a set and stand up to the pipsqueak.

8/25/2013 09:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just left my morning safe passage in the lavatory!

8/25/2013 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this convoluted and overly complicated order (complete with waste of resources and short shaft to non-related work which still must be done)---is a shining example of the folly of Steve Georgas...the man is a menace, hope the powers that be realize that his own glory is his only goal

8/25/2013 09:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All PPO's on foot and 10hr days on the routes. The front offices are cleared out, never knew so many people fit in there

Some of those front offices hold more people that what you see at the circus when all the midgets pile out of the small car

8/25/2013 09:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Next program will be my kids pants keep saging and he don't know how to dress properly; Mr. Mayor; We will get a program going on how we need to dress your ghetto kids. The police will have to go to there homes and iron, adjust, tamper and make fit the proper clothing. Hey, its for the children!

8/25/2013 09:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Spent over $125 on basic school supplies for my kid at Oriole park school. No freebies for the civilized world.

8/25/2013 09:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone should start taken money instead of comp time. You can't use time due anyways. Its a joke that the bosses are denying everything 7 days prior just to make it legit. Hey assholes, if your going to deny me anyways let me know way in advance, just how we let you know months ahead of time that I will like to use my time that I have earned, LISTEN ITS MY TIME, MY PERSONAL DAYS, and BFD, that we have earned!!!

8/25/2013 09:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My God,This is just getting CRAZIER by the day.....So Glad I'm retired after 30yrs of nonsense......

8/25/2013 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank goodness!
Now baby's moma and current sperm donor can stay at home smoking and bumping that 40 oz. waiting for ' dem checks and free gub'mint shit in the mail.
Wouldn't want to inconvenience them.

8/25/2013 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing on Dick Mell's new career as a City Hall lobbyist?

I guess Aldermen don't count as city employees when it comes to lobbying after leaving the city--like I was after I retired

8/25/2013 10:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Will Safe Passage hire back become the new VRI?? I can see that evolving.

8/25/2013 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, the planner of all planners is in charge.
Georges (spl) need I say more!

8/25/2013 10:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Turn these ghetto schools in to boarding schools.
We already give the kids two meals a day. Add a third meal, some beds, and were good to go.

Paying a staff would be cheaper, the kids would be safer than at home with the drunk, high, parents, happier too. Bangers wouldn't be able to recruit as easily, and crime might really go down. Win-win.

8/25/2013 10:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can't make this shit up. I work midnights in a busy district. A young officer (he has like four years on the job) got his baby furlogh denied and his other days off denied. So what does he do? He finishes the night with five parkers, five contact cards and an arrest. I asked him why he did that and he said "well as long as I come in with activity they won't fuck with me". I had a huge laugh. Officer they are already fucking with you! Plus it can't get any worse; you are on midnights in a shit district. But keep it up cowboy. I am sure the bosses appreciate you.

8/25/2013 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You know what this City needs is Republican Mayor.

8/25/2013 11:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
With all these marches we should get people in them chanting and carrying signs saying,

"HIRE MORE POLICE!"

Let that get on the 6 o'clock news.

8/25/2013 12:48:00 AM

HR and Tracy Ladner cannot process new recruits fast enough to be hired. What a screwed up hiring system. HR cannot find enough recruits to send to the academy. Something is wrong with HR.

8/25/2013 11:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Non essential goldmine! Back up the busses at the next exmept meeting and you will have dozens upon dozens of non essential, useless, do nothing mutts available.

8/25/2013 11:19:00 AM  
Anonymous MAGICAL THINKING said...

As mayor and with propaganda certain from my mainstream media colleagues, we've got to give the SHEEPle the PERCEPTION that all is good in this irreversible clusterfuck of a city.

First, I'll put up signs that read "SAFE PASSAGE". Certainly, the gangbangers will honor the SIGNS. Will senseless murders continue? Of course. But the signs will force them to take their violence elsewhere. Gangbangers respect signage. Don't they? It won't be reverse psychology extending an invitation to the bastards to shoot, maim and kill along the "safe passage" routes. Right?

MAGICAL THINKING, you Machiavellian schmuck.

Prepare for incessant multiple bite wounds to the sorry stubborn ass of this arrogant mayoral prick.

8/25/2013 11:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tuesday and Wednesday Skilling is predicting record heat with high humidity. There is a reason why the public schools started after Labor Day. The heat and no air conditioning. When the schools become unbearable around noontime, then ambulances will be called to help the children with heat exhaustion. The large high schools cannot open their windows and will be trapped in over whelming heat. This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

8/25/2013 11:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Knowing the nature of the BEAST, methinks "OPEN SEASON" signs would be much more effective.

8/25/2013 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its True for OCD & I had CHA. Now I'll need a babysitter & retro check. O wait, Sheilds & R-ham bent us over!

8/25/2013 11:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All 2nd watch detectives will be assigned to a safe passage routes.

8/25/2013 12:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They have to practically kiss their asses to get them to go to school.

8/25/2013 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is something CRITICALLY WRONG if the entire city has to go on RED ALERT because schoolkids are starting back to classes.

We need signs to tell the media the kids will be safe.
We need ten thousand City workers diverted from their REAL jobs, to ensure children are safe walking to school.
We need to hire a couple thousand extra people to really, really make sure the kids are safe walking to school.
We need to remove fire trucks from fire houses and park them on the streets near the firemen, who are now deployed as crossing guards, to make sure the children are safe on their walk to school.

Never in the history of the Chicago Public School system has this type of effort been deployed, including during the 1968 riots. The city residents and, indeed, the entire country, should be paying close attention and be EXTREMELY concerned about what is happening here.

8/25/2013 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe we could use some of this money to get some computers and printers that actually work. Thanks.

8/25/2013 12:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i live in edison park are there safe passge routes too with police protection n i pay 3 grand in taxes for a small condo this is like obama care a train wreck that has already happened.

8/25/2013 12:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's 12 hour days for the PPO's. 0500-1700

8/25/2013 12:30:00 PM  
Anonymous KMA1999 said...

Trillions of dollars have been spent on inner city poverty programs throughout the years and still a certain segment of our society is so violent that society must saturate their communities with armed security escorts so children can walk to school.

8/25/2013 12:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is it they are getting everything handed to them? How about they get off of their lazy asses, get up and walk their own children to school. If you don't, the consequences will be deductions from your link and or SSI checks. Certain people our taking advantage of the system. Free phones , food and housing. Of course they are not going to choose to do anything, they are getting everything for free. The state keeps handing them shit without any reprucussions, even if they do illegal shit, next thing you know the state will be giving out
Money for cash bonds. ( I'm just being sarcastic) How about drug testing people who receive assistance, if you test positive, no benefits. If your kids are acting up, getting arrested, make deductions/ fines from your benefits/ assistance. Im sure momma will learn real quick how to control her kids once they start making some deductions. If your child is in the juvenile detention center and you receive benefits for that child, no benefits, until he is released. I can think of many changes that need to be enforced. Also free or really cheap housing come on!!! Make them take care of it, do home inspections and if they are not following the rules and taking care of their free or extremely reduced housing take that away and give it to someone
Who does . You say you have asthma, yet your smoking New Ports and Blunts. Your disabled, yet your out on the street for hours selling drugs or gang banging. You got a link card and your buying chips and soda(junk food should not be consider a food bought with a link card) . I work hard I am a middle class, paying lots
Of taxes . When i hear stuff like this it enrages me.
People are doing jack Shit receiving benefits taking advantage of the system and nothing is being done. Sorry I had to rant. Be safe all!

8/25/2013 12:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't wait to see shootings rise after Rahm/McCompost put huge amounts of manpower into this bullshit.

People will be waking up early just for the challenge.

8/25/2013 12:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They are protecting a precious resource - the black youth of Chicago. They should spare no expense.

8/25/2013 12:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

8/25/2013 12:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what a piece of turd this city has turned into. How much more do we take from the taxpayers to give to the parasites in the ghetto. I pay over $3500 in taxes and never see a squad car in my north side neighborhood im in.Can t wait to leave this shit state.

8/25/2013 01:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck that, I work for water, what am I supposed to do. Hit a gun wielding thug with my shovel??? These mutants think nothing of fucking with you guys and you are armed with authority to use it if necessary. Everything except the goddamn truth, which is why is there an extreme and disporportinate amount of violence in the southside black neighborhoods.

8/25/2013 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting that the so-called black leaders, black
preachers, and the alderpersons are strangely
silent on this Safe Passage
fiasco. I guess they don't want the dodo to fly back at them when the project fails or one of the children
gets killed or maimed by
gangbangers exchanging lead.

8/25/2013 01:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous summed it all up
when he posted " Rahm is a
complete failure and has
lost complete control of
the city. " Amen.

8/25/2013 01:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone besides police and fire families voted for Rahm. So the citizens who were so supportive of him, can shut up and keep thinking he was the best candidate. I will once again vote for CHICO in the next election.

8/25/2013 01:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

4. Everyone in OCD was given a 2 day notice that their hours would be changed to school open & close hours & some RDO's will be cancelled (switched without pay). I guess the "leaders" don't think police officers planned to walk their own children to school. Now we have to cancel our VRI days. Thanks leaders, I can't wait to go buy more crack!!!

8/25/2013 03:27:00 AM

The "clouted " ones get a taste of what it's like for a change for the rest of us.. Poor babies..

8/25/2013 01:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are any of these "Safe Passage" routes for Catholic schools or are they just for the public schools?! Why?

8/25/2013 02:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

safe passage is like obama care a train wreck everybody be safe.

8/25/2013 02:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

MLK must be real proud, 50 years this week after his speech in Washington. His people continue to live like animals and demand what now/ that we walk their kids to school.

8/25/2013 02:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The city must prioritize. First, we must...

...complete Maggie Daley Park for a mere FIFTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($55,000,000.00)

...provide DePaul basketball their own lakefront arena for another FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($50,000,000.00)

...plant and maintain trees and flower troughs in the medians of every arterial street in the city.

8/25/2013 02:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Some of the "non-essentials" WERE booted out of HQ for a brief period of time, then snuck back in when no one was looking. I wish they'd sneak me back in. I'm still out there looking old and silly.
Sorry
But... Make the PO Do Nothing Crossing Guard Supervisors walk the safe passage routes

8/25/2013 03:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

city does pay gang bangers , cease fire is a pay off to quiet down the activists

8/25/2013 03:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe the fireguys can spray em down with hoses, you know to cool them off.

8/25/2013 03:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Talk about legitimizing the gangs, whelp I guess that's the unintended consequences of your actions Rahmmy boy.

Anyone else noticing that the tribal nomads of the Sanctuary City are taking the Silk Road safe passageways up to the Mag Mile and Wriggleyville.

There are caravans of travels up there with smart phones, wallets, and keys and stuff.

These gun-free Silk Roads make for easy pickings too don't they?

Worried about our safety MY ASS!

019 is in backlog again - crime is down..OH wait..the heyjackass.com site numbers...what's that they're showing? Is that the 2013 homicide totals now passing the 2011 homicide totals...why yes I think it is!

8/25/2013 03:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said... I'm not usually in 011, but the other night was there and saw people with little kids, maybe from 3 YOA on up to teens at 0300 waiting in line at the take-out place at Harrison and Sacramento. No wonder these kids can't accomplish shit in school! No sense of normalcy. Up at 0300? WTF are the "parents" even doing up at that hour?

8/25/2013 08:07:00 AM

What were they doing up at 3 a.m.? I believe you already answered your own question. They were getting take out at Harrison and Sacramento. Doesn't everybody? Next question.

8/25/2013 03:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


The mayors recent speech sounded weak and the tone lacked confidence did it not?

Yeah, I think so.

The majority of people no longer get their news from the politically friendly controlled main stream media propaganda machines mayor.

WE DON"T BELIEVE YOU AND WE NO LONGER BELIEVE MR. HOPE AND CHANGES BULLSHIT EITHER.

8/25/2013 03:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Does this mean that Ald. Burke and the ex-mayor Daley will have to give up their drivers and security details.

Pfffft...what a silly question eh?

25 years ago something said something mean to then -- so the taxpayers will have to provide that security into perpetuity...and since the precedence has been set I guess Rahm can demand it too.

If it comes down to it the city will just steal some more pension fund money and raise taxes again to pay for it.

8/25/2013 03:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

all the crack mamas can't get their lazy asses out of bed to walk their crack babies to school..i bet if walgreens handed out $50 gift cards they would try and walk each one of their 10 kids separately to double dip on that handout!!!

8/25/2013 04:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

Welcome to the CPD Working these kids 12 hours a day, too fing bad, yea and she might have to work nights and weekends and go to court if she ever makes an arrest. This is what you signed up for. Sorry, but no sympathy here, ppo's are new and have no union protection. Do you want the po's with time on to work the 12 hour days?

8/25/2013 04:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said... I'm not usually in 011, but the other night was there and saw people with little kids, maybe from 3 YOA on up to teens at 0300 waiting in line at the take-out place at Harrison and Sacramento. No wonder these kids can't accomplish shit in school! No sense of normalcy. Up at 0300? WTF are the "parents" even doing up at that hour?

8/25/2013 08:07:00 AM

What were they doing up at 3 a.m.? I believe you already answered your own question. They were getting take out at Harrison and Sacramento. Doesn't everybody? Next question.

8/25/2013 03:53:00 PM

No sense of normalcy and terrible eating habits.

8/25/2013 04:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's 12 hour days for the PPO's. 0500-1700

What did you expect, the city doesnt have to pay cash,only OT and probably at straight time. Next thing you are going to say is they have to work details and parades

8/25/2013 04:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
MLK must be real proud, 50 years this week after his speech in Washington. His people continue to live like animals and demand what now/ that we walk their kids to school.

8/25/2013 02:20:00 PM

See,you could have made a valid point,but you threw every black American into one giant pile. My friends and family do not demand that YOU walk their children to school. They do not demand that YOU do anything for their children,but treat them with respect as they have been taught to treat police officers with respect. YOU need to lose your "ghetto" mentality when dealing with black folks.

8/25/2013 04:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Department is in the process of finalizing a deployment plan for the upcoming start of the school year, in particular for the CPS safe passage routes. Personnel will be deployed to the safe passage routes for the start of the school year. Therefore there is a need to supplement District Law Enforcement operations to achieve this mission. Bureau Chiefs are asked to send a list of fully duty Sergeants and Police Officers assigned to administrative positions that will be available for deployment. Lists should be separated by unit. Numbers will take into account all available full duty personnel assigned to administrative positions. Previous exemption requests are not approved for this detail.

You mean previous clouted requests will not be approved. Exemptions are a joke, just the bosses favorites. What happens when the exempted employees are on furlo, medical, whatever, does the department close down? Used to hear that the boss and the CPD cannot function without this po. Then you ask where the po is and it furlo or medical. Suddenly the department can still operate without missing a beat Everyone is expendable and be replaced. I really hope none of the exempted employees passes away, the whole CPD will have to close down

8/25/2013 04:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Street and San
Its from 600 to 900
and from 1400 to 1700 everyday till further notice.
These MOFO FOS are crazy.

8/25/2013 04:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm is screwed either way with safe passage. Taxpayers are pissed this is happening and so much time and money are being spent on this. And if a child or safe passage worker is hurt, he's screwed too. This is overkill. He deserves what he gets either way. Let these parents walk their kids to school or make arrangements for others to. This catering and coddling must stop.

8/25/2013 04:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All the bankers that got bailed out in 2008-2009 should be out there. The ones that made risky bets on mortgage backed bonds. They got all that money for free. Get them out there watching the routes. Tell lazy Goldman
Sachs, AIG execs that got bailed out to get out there and work.

8/25/2013 05:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Don't compare people receiving unemployment checks to the others you mentioned. Those receiving unemployment had money deducted from their paychecks for just that purpose."
8/25/2013 09:00:00 AM
-----------------------------
Not true. Unemployment taxes (State and Federal) are paid by employers...NOT employees.

NC

8/25/2013 05:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So...they're going to send secretaries who work in various city departments to go stand on street corners in 95 degree heat without any weapons or body armor? What a clusterfuck this will be. Get your cameras ready. Film tomorrow and Tuesday, then film the same streets a few weeks from now.

Great idea. Just great.

I'd call in sick all week.

Somebody please do the math.

8/25/2013 05:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
It's 12 hour days for the PPO's. 0500-1700

8/25/2013 12:30:00 PM

Wow. In 95 degree heat that's supposed to feel like 103. They'll be falling down like dominos.

8/25/2013 05:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
All 2nd watch detectives will be assigned to a safe passage routes.

8/25/2013 12:03:00 PM

Thank God for court.

8/25/2013 05:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Be safe all!

8/25/2013 12:33:00 PM

Because if they aren't fully catered to they may stop voting straight socialist...err, democrat.

8/25/2013 05:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Department is in the process of finalizing a deployment plan for the upcoming start of the school year, in particular for the CPS safe passage routes. Personnel will be deployed to the safe passage routes for the start of the school year. Therefore there is a need to supplement District Law Enforcement operations to achieve this mission. Bureau Chiefs are asked to send a list of fully duty Sergeants and Police Officers assigned to administrative positions that will be available for deployment. Lists should be separated by unit. Numbers will take into account all available full duty personnel assigned to administrative positions. Previous exemption requests are not approved for this detail.


--------

So I can assume that a "previous exemption" means the super-clouted who are routinely protected from actually doing any police work? Like working the streets? Even during NATO?

Interesting.

Previous exemption requests.

Sure would like to take a look at one of those lists!

8/25/2013 05:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

The city must prioritize. First, we must...

...complete Maggie Daley Park for a mere FIFTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($55,000,000.00)

...provide DePaul basketball their own lakefront arena for another FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($50,000,000.00)

...plant and maintain trees and flower troughs in the medians of every arterial street in the city.

8/25/2013 02:25:00 PM

J.N.,
Not to mention $800,000,000.00 to improve O'Hare car rentals and tram upgrade.
Yup, NOT a typo, that's 800 MILLION!!!

Rahm, got a nickle for the Police/Fire pensions?
No? Cue the crickets.

8/25/2013 05:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So I guess the this means that the department is now considering Street Cleaning and Rush Hour to be non-essential and all officers that write parkers are going to be moved TAD for these Safe Passage Areas?

8/25/2013 05:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Scatman Crothers said...

Everyone besides police and fire families voted for Rahm. So the citizens who were so supportive of him, can shut up and keep thinking he was the best candidate. I will once again vote for CHICO in the next election.

8/25/2013 01:25:00 PM

I'm voting for THE MAN.

8/25/2013 06:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

8/25/2013 12:49:00 PM

Training has the lowest priority in this department. Even in the academy, training is the last consideration. I am surprise that McCarthy does not pull out recruit classes early as cheap labor. Who needs FTO training? They are cheap labor without union protection. I would not be surprised if they suspend the FTO program while safe passage is ongoing.

8/25/2013 06:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many safe passage routes are in the white community? NONE! We get up and either walk or drive our kids to school. We don't have everyone raising them for us. Folk doesn't know how to behave and it's everyone else's problem. I'm sick an tired of pandering for these animals. Darwinism is the way to go. Survival for the fittest.

8/25/2013 06:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The biggest scam of all is coming...C-Swipe. Wait until you get a load of this dysfunctional useless system the city and department are pushing out. Millions of dollars on a system that doesn't work being pushed by a former comptroller who will soon be in jail in Ohio and the Departments finance unit even though it doesn't .

8/25/2013 06:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow. I remember when that used to be the city that works. Now, well now it is merely a joke of its former self. I can hardly imagine living in a city where the kinds of things you report in the original post are required just so kids can go to school. I mean really, what kind of a place has Chicago become? Is there anywhere in the country where these kinds of actions are being taken so children can get to school? Good grief.

8/25/2013 06:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All OCD personnel minus any federal groups will be deployed to the safe passage routes. The city is fucked!!! We have no pension! No man power to get a day off! No moral to keep what little we have left going! I'm mean WTF. I pay $900 a month to send my kids to school. I pay high taxes too boot. The only cops I see guarding kids on their way to school are the parents. The neighbor hoods where we are funneling millions and millions of $$$$. Contribute NOTHING to our society, but drugs, gang violence and a black hole that sucks up money. No pun intended. We have to change, this cuz I'm sick of it.

8/25/2013 07:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

just have a few wagons be there school bus

8/25/2013 07:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just like the convoys crossing the Atlantic during WW2. I dont care if a couple Yummies get it. I just don't care anymore, their own dont, so why the fuck should I carry their water and let it tear me up. Sorry, just the way it is.

8/25/2013 07:38:00 PM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

I can't wait until someone goes down in a hail of gunfire near one of those signs.

8/25/2013 08:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Social Media Has Rahm Nailed To The Safe Passage Cross.

- - - - - - C L I P - - - - - - - -

Boy, 14, Killed Block from Elementary School

CHICAGO — A 14-year-old boy was shot to death in West Garfield Park Sunday morning, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed. He was killed just a block from an elementary school that is preparing to welcome students back to school Monday.

* * *

Hearnes was shot and killed near the Safe Passage route for Melody Elementary School, 3832 W. Wilcox St., a block away from where he fell.

Melody was renamed this summer after previously being known as Delano Elementary. Students from the now-shuttered Melody will attend class at the newly renamed school starting Monday.

Police initially said the boy was 16.

The boy was among at least five others wounded by gunfire overnight, including an 11-year-old girl, shot while she sat on the front porch of her home

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130825/west-garfield-park/boy-14-killed-west-garfield-park


You own it Rahm.

Good luck trying to divorce yourself from being associated with "Safe Passage"

Doesn't matter day or night. Doesn't matter what you say on MSM propaganda outlets. THEY DON'T BELIEVE YOU.

Follow the corporate campaign donations. Millions of corporate dollars to political campaigns which then go to MSM media. The Public is NEVER going to get the truth from MSM and lose their multi-million dollar political campaign accounts. EVERYONE KNOWS IT.

THE PEOPLE ARE NOT BUYING WHAT YOU'RE SELLING!

Kids, not sure where the Safe Passage route is? Just follow the trails of blood I guess.

8/25/2013 08:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


How long before the million dollar lawsuits start flying?

8/25/2013 08:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


I don't care if you divert 10,000 city workers from their jobs. The political apparatus is still out numbered with over 100,000 gang members. Therefore fighting a losing battle that the city let go on for too long.

Tell me politicians are not making money off this somehow -- to allow it to go on for so long?

It's all hands on deck when NATO comes to town. Meanwhile, thousands of people shot since NATO and we got zip..nada Safe Passage propaganda signs with the associated media blitz.

They took the money from the pensions and put it in the TIF funds. Closed neighborhood schools and health clinics and put that in the TIF funds.

They glorified their corporate friends labeling them as worthy job creators that deserve the money and tax breaks -- but I ask you what have we got in return? Call the auditors. I see no jobs.

A $55 million dollar maggie daley park as tho she was a god.

A $55 mil dollar basketball stadium and counting that we are now taking people to court over because the city doesn't even own all the land that is needed for it.

River walks for the real estate moguls to enrich the billionaires property values and rents, while sticking ugly bike rental unsightly nuisanse racks in the front of middle class condos of the churls to devalue their properties..Who cares about the little churls anyways? What are they going to do?

Nothing!!

The almighty rulers have spoken and they are bought and paid for by the corporations, supported by their lobbyist. The corporate lobbyist bought them all and now they are given whats due. After all they funded the campaigns. You didn't build that! They did. Yeah.

8/25/2013 08:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

going to bed early so that I can be ready for tomorrow's bullshit event # safe passage!

8/25/2013 08:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Overkill?
Lets be honest here folks, most self respecting gangbangers are not up and about at 8am. Any potential for problems are going to be at afternoon dismissal.
Also, if we need "safe passage" to get the kiddies to school maybe we ought to go after the root of the problem? How about letting the police be the police and start with some extreme pressure on these banger mutts to clean up these neighborhoods

8/25/2013 07:22:00 AM
Actually, a LOT of bangers are up early. Lots of rush hour money to be made slinging the wake up dope... They just arent shooting each other because they are busy slinging dope.

8/25/2013 09:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Some of the "non-essentials" WERE booted out of HQ for a brief period of time, then snuck back in when no one was looking...
8/25/2013 12:18:00 AM

Only for long enough to wave that flag in front of the press. Then, back to business as usual.

8/25/2013 09:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT:

Channel 2 at 5:30 had a spot on Pfather Pfelcher conducting some sort of "civil rights" commemoration at St. Sabina's A character in a skit was clearly deressed up in "white face".

Cardinal George, why do you allow this anti-white racism in your church?

8/25/2013 09:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's not wrong SCC, it's called 'working in a specialized unit' without union contract protections. The officers indeed have a choice...it's called 'welcome back to the watch!' Don't look for sympathy when you reside in the castle, and shame on SCC for playing up a sympathy card where none is needed.

8/25/2013 09:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Check this out.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/25/1233668/-Rahm-Running-Scared-Orders-Entire-City-on-Alert#

8/25/2013 09:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

District beat cars are having their start time changed because of this.

8/25/2013 09:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

It would be cheaper to pay the gang bangers $10 per hour to watch the route, or just to stand down in the morning hours. . . . .

Why not? we pay their parents for doing nothing (food stamps, welfare, LINK, SSI, etc.)

8/25/2013 07:41:00 AM





Didn't we already give them a Mil$ ?

8/25/2013 09:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What about clearing out the academy of non essential personnel? Was there for legitimacy training last week. Sort of ridiculous how many people are detailed there. Remember they have straight days and weekends off as well. Must be nice.

****Right Just like the Po Crossing Guard Supervisors Weekends off No paper No arrests

8/25/2013 10:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Spent over $125 on basic school supplies for my kid at Oriole park school. No freebies for the civilized world.

8/25/2013 09:47:00 AM

Shit - you got off easy. In addition to basics, we had to supply cleaning supplies; extra paper, index cards, and white board markers for the class to use; paper towels and disinfecting wipes; reams of paper; and a per-student fee of $120 for "consumables."

8/25/2013 10:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With all the pressure about recent shootings he had to do something, right??

8/25/2013 10:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This hoopla of all these extra city workers, police and fire being detailed to Safe Passage is only for two weeks. Does that mean bad guys won't fk with the kids walking to and from school after these two weeks are over?

8/25/2013 10:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I will be making sure that someone else's children get to school safe because their parents are incapable, in jail, in bed, etc (pick one)

I have a relative taking my sons to school in 016 - no police, no firemen, no streets and San. This is what civilized society looks like.

8/25/2013 11:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The safe passage signs/times actually means the shitheads can safely move their dope at these times without any resistance while CPD walks dudes kids to work!

8/25/2013 11:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so confused. So some how in the past (last year) all kids were able to walk to school. It was magic that they never crossed gang lines. Now 50 schools are closed and all chaos is going to break out?

In prior years how many CPS kids changed schools? I am guessing a percentage greater than 10. Yet, no safe passage needed then.

8/26/2013 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

At least with pride I, as a cop, can say that we backed Chico in the election. So for the other city entities, you got what you voted for. Next time vote republican.

8/26/2013 12:58:00 AM  
Blogger Michael Spaargaren said...

When is VRI going to be put down and Safe Passage going to be OT?

8/26/2013 01:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe Gail from the inspection division will be out for safe passage. Lots of bosses to kiss ass to.

8/26/2013 06:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...

Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

8/25/2013 12:49:00 PM

Training has the lowest priority in this department. Even in the academy, training is the last consideration. I am surprise that McCarthy does not pull out recruit classes early as cheap labor. Who needs FTO training? They are cheap labor without union protection. I would not be surprised if they suspend the FTO program while safe passage is ongoing.

8/25/2013 06:27:00 PM


Come on! The Dept has been doing this to recruits/PPS's forever.
I worked for the Dept for 35 yrs. and this was done to us back then.

Free labor.

8/26/2013 06:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm just calculating how much overtime I am going to make for each day I work since they are sending me instead of a less senior person. Per union contract that means I will get overtime for each hour that I work in 15 minute intervals. Who needs VRI when you have higher ups on CPD that violate your contractural rights? SHOW ME THE MONEY

8/26/2013 06:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Rogyates said...

In 1956 my Mother walked me 1/2-mile from our apartment at 7533 S. Essex to kindergarden at Myra Bradwell school. Once I learned the route (one-day) I insisted on walking myself. Thank god my father had the forsight to move us out of the coming "ghetto" when the first person was murdered on the corner of 75th and Kingston in 1959.

8/26/2013 07:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unreal. The first day of school and there's more planning and deployment of city personnel and police teams than Eisenhower had for the invasion of Normandy. And if nothing happens (like nothing has happened on the first day of school the past few years) Rahm will tout success. But what about a month from now? Will Safe Passage become the new VRI? Because we all know what will eventually happen one day after school on one of these routes.

8/26/2013 07:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

MLK must be real proud, 50 years this week after his speech in Washington. His people continue to live like animals and demand what now/ that we walk their kids to school.8/25/2013 02:20:00 PM
Spoken like a true idiot racist placing all black people in the same pile. I hope your not the police if you are I hope I never work a tour with you! Your a classic example of ASSHOLES & RACIST coming in all colors

8/26/2013 08:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The mayors bodyguard detail try's so hard to look like the secret service. If you know somebody on the detail give them a call and say thankyou. They are the best of the best.

8/26/2013 08:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This hoopla of all these extra city workers, police and fire being detailed to Safe Passage is only for two weeks. Does that mean bad guys won't fk with the kids walking to and from school after these two weeks are over?

They are probably on vacation these two weeks

8/26/2013 08:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

8/25/2013 12:49:00 PM

Training has the lowest priority in this department. Even in the academy, training is the last consideration. I am surprise that McCarthy does not pull out recruit classes early as cheap labor. Who needs FTO training? They are cheap labor without union protection. I would not be surprised if they suspend the FTO program while safe passage is ongoing.

She had 2 cycles and part of her third cycle was cut. So she missed a week or two of FTO training. Is that going to make a big difference? doubt it Guess you havent seen some of the FTO's. They may have done her a favor

8/26/2013 08:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

At least with pride I, as a cop, can say that we backed Chico in the election. So for the other city entities, you got what you voted for. Next time vote republican.



No one has the balls to run republican near Chicago! I wish they would.

8/26/2013 11:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Neighbor is a ppo on the south side. Told me that her 3rd training cycle was cut short and that they will now be working these kids 12 hours a day. No union protection so no comp time or over time.

8/25/2013 12:49:00 PM

No comp time or over time?!?!? Another reason why when one of my buddies in 003 keeps telling me to come on over to CPD I keep telling her...no thanks. I'm in the burbs...PPO or not, you get your OT or time due. Period.

8/26/2013 01:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Interesting that the so-called black leaders, black
preachers, and the alderpersons are strangely
silent on this Safe Passage
fiasco. I guess they don't want the dodo to fly back at them when the project fails or one of the children
gets killed or maimed by
gangbangers exchanging lead.

8/25/2013 01:18:00 PM

Not so quick... Rev. Hatch just called it a public relations stunt.

8/26/2013 01:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OT:

Channel 2 at 5:30 had a spot on Pfather Pfelcher conducting some sort of "civil rights" commemoration at St. Sabina's A character in a skit was clearly deressed up in "white face".

Cardinal George, why do you allow this anti-white racism in your church?

8/25/2013 09:13:00 PM

Everybody knows the Archdiocese has no say so over St. Sabina. Their Cardinal is MP.

8/26/2013 01:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Recruits on corners. They need to learn how to be safe and effective police officers. The FTO program barely exists as it is but shit like this just adds to the infection in the long run. Hey new police officers. Go to work and take care of the good hard working tax paying citizens. Fuck these politicians and their bullshit laws they come up with to steal our money! Best politician I've seen in awhile is the new alderman on the north side named Sposato. He was a firefighter. goes against what is wrong when little dancer is bullying the other coward aldercreatures. Need more like him!!!!!

8/26/2013 01:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Driving past a CPS elementary school, I noticed that landscaping services were being provided by the firm owned by "Christy Webber."

This clouted company is owned by the lesbian activist who employed Deb Mell (she of the Moe Howard hairstyle) before she gravitated towards a career in elected office with her daddy pulling the wires.

Do the Safe Passage guides have to allow sufficient time for their charges to apply spray paint to every surface possible while en route to school? I have never seen so much tagging in my life.

8/26/2013 02:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
At least with pride I, as a cop, can say that we backed Chico in the election. So for the other city entities, you got what you voted for. Next time vote republican.



No one has the balls to run republican near Chicago! I wish they would.

8/26/2013 11:47:00 AM

Google Jack O'Malley and then come back on the blog.

8/26/2013 04:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rogyates said...
In 1956 my Mother walked me 1/2-mile from our apartment at 7533 S. Essex to kindergarden at Myra Bradwell school. Once I learned the route (one-day) I insisted on walking myself. Thank god my father had the forsight to move us out of the coming "ghetto" when the first person was murdered on the corner of 75th and Kingston in 1959.

8/26/2013 07:31:00 AM

Wow!! The first murder ever in that neighborhood occurred in 1959. Wow!!!

8/26/2013 04:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So... does the Safe Passage "watch fest" end as soon as school starts each morning?

Because, you know, kids always get to school on time... especially in rough neighborhoods...

8/26/2013 04:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a Joke.

Did the City Pass an Ord to increase the already heightened Charges for Illegal Behavior in a School Zone? Did the City Pass an Ord to increase the School Zone bubble that allows for harsher 'penalties' for the illegal behavior?

More importantly...

Has the 5th Floor grown a pair and told the CCSAO to actually do their F$@#ing Job and Prosecute the Amish that get arrested for being predators upon society?


No?

Business as usual and so long as they pretend to pay me, I will pretend to work.

8/26/2013 08:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

See,you could have made a valid point,but you threw every black American into one giant pile. My friends and family do not demand that YOU walk their children to school. They do not demand that YOU do anything for their children,but treat them with respect as they have been taught to treat police officers with respect. YOU need to lose your "ghetto" mentality when dealing with black folks.


Sorry but I dont see where the original poster said anything about black people or race. Maybe you have read too much into his post.

8/27/2013 09:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Recruits on corners. They need to learn how to be safe and effective police officers. The FTO program barely exists as it is but shit like this just adds to the infection in the long run. Hey new police officers. Go to work and take care of the good hard working tax paying citizens. Fuck these politicians and their bullshit laws they come up with to steal our money! Best politician I've seen in awhile is the new alderman on the north side named Sposato. He was a firefighter. goes against what is wrong when little dancer is bullying the other coward aldercreatures. Need more like him!!!!!

25 more like hiom or Rahm still wins the city council vote

8/27/2013 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
See,you could have made a valid point,but you threw every black American into one giant pile. My friends and family do not demand that YOU walk their children to school. They do not demand that YOU do anything for their children,but treat them with respect as they have been taught to treat police officers with respect. YOU need to lose your "ghetto" mentality when dealing with black folks.


Sorry but I dont see where the original poster said anything about black people or race. Maybe you have read too much into his post.

8/27/2013 09:21:00 AM

Re-read the part about,"his people living like animals."

8/28/2013 08:41:00 AM  

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