Safe Passage Success!!
Everything worked out fine!
Thank goodness for small favors.
And don't pay any attention to that dead body they found off the Safe Passage route. He was killed sometime the night before, so no worries
And don't pay any attention to that dead body they found off the Safe Passage route. He was killed sometime the night before, so no worries
Labels: events
posted by SCC at 12:06 AM
91 Comments:
Whose gonna wash the cars in 007's lot now?
The simple fact of these "Safe Passages" is a monumental embarrassment to Chicago!
Royko would have field day with this.
Can we get 1 single fucking reporter to stick a damn microphone in a politicians face, and ask how they allowed this city to get so bad, how they allowed this to be okay?
I guess we really do live in Shitcago.
Really people, gang banging kids are dictating to adult political decisions?
How low-class can it get?
Get ready for the Friday morning Trib. "Rahm declare's safe passage sucess, crime is still down compared to 1910!"
OT: Westmont puts stop to red light camera program
"Because officers are needed to review the data collected by the cameras before tickets are issued, Trustee Lee Fleming said scrapping the program will free up more time for officers to be on the streets rather than reviewing camera footage."
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2013/02/01/westmont-puts-stop-to-red-light-camera-program/aywlil8/
Omg I totally need this laugh!!
So who is figuring out the cost per day on this fiasco?
Besides the 600+ city workers they put on this, they also hired a lot of people.
So how much is it costing - all this wasted city manpower along with all these new-hires who basically only have to stand around?
HEY - I got an idea. Why not put all the families who get LINK Card and other benefits on the job - since they don't have a job, and then we can get some use out of them for all the money we send them a month. You get LINK Card and other benefits? Report in the morning from 6AM - 9AM EVERY day.
WOW - that is so brilliant why didn't Rahm think of that?
Original Safe Passage route:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWuaSww3JnA
I may have missed it but are there any enhanced penalties for committing a violent crime on a safe passage route or is just a sign on a light pole?
Do we have to walk "our children"-aint my baby Tiny every fuckin day to school. There go my taxpayer money to guard these soon to be welfare chidens. Hey Tiny Dancer quit callin them "our children" you fuck. I did not father any of these idiot hood rats who sling dope and kill each other. If baby momma n auntee have the kid out at 0200 hrs then bad shit will happen. Moprah don't understand but the INTELLIGENT people will. HUH?
To volunteer at my kids school they do a background check and I have to get my Dr to medically clear me (TB and such). This is on my dime, mind you.
Who cleared these City workers? Any problems with children? Anybody think to ask?
"Safe passage" is a complete joke. Why doesnt Ramhster or the media ever state why the route need to be made safe or that the chillins need saving from their own gangbangin' POS older siblings?
worked yesterday and saw a foot post recruit ppo wearing his baseball hat backwards near 35th and King. If you're not going to wear it right, then don't wear it at all. Unbelievable. I guess he's legit now that he's almost done with his cycles. Or he feels like he's the real police having walked in a busy district for a couple months. Hell, he qualifies for the tact team in the district I'm in. Strokes. M-2 shmuk that could pass for Rhams nephew.
I agree with the old timers on here about our uniforms- baseball hats, cargo pants, velcro stars, vest covers that look like you belong in a war somewhere. What a joke. I only have 12 on but I still wear old school.
Really people, gang banging kids are dictating to adult political decisions?
How low-class can it get?
8/27/2013 12:25:00 AM
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Excellent point. Unfortunately, there are no reporters with any balls anymore in Chicago.
No Mike Royko's -- the reporters today are more like little star-struck groupies and cheerleaders wanting to rub elbows with the political elite.
Not a LEO, JAFO
For me, safe passage occurs every morning at 0630.
It is a welcome relief.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Rahm calls 90 grand a day a success??
O.T. If a Safe Passage worker is arrested for something, do we still notify the IG's office? Are the ones getting paid city employees?
So let me get this straight; I'm the racist pig when I arrest Pooky for crimes I witness as a Police Officer but the city is exempt from similar behavior? Racism is being shoved down our throats and our only response is "thanks Rahm?"
My neighborhood got no special treatment. There is no signage informing us of a "Safe Passage Zone" anywhere to be found: by the way, that would also imply that there is a crime problem and these signs help junior navigate thru the jungle, safely. I tried to get my 'gift card' when picking up my kids' report cards and the teachers looked at me like I was crazy. I was told no such program exists but the news told me differently: $50 Target cards were being handed out to help get parents involved in their kids' lives. Sidewalks being redone, assets being wasted/abused, handouts after handouts, free this, free that and I'm the racists? Man, are we I for a beating.
The very fact that we even have all of these signs throughout our city is an embarrassment. I mean just what does it mean? Does the mayor and city think that these gang bangers and thugs will respect that sign? We have laws against no dope dealing and no guns by felons within 1000 feet of a school. Yet that is a dismal failure too.
sad day for the children in Chicago when their Mother and Father won't take them to school.
the people who receive entitlements already vote Democratic, now the underemployed this new group of people will help with Get Out The Vote come Election Time!
This entire thing is both so hillarious and so sad on so many levels.
1. If you have to plaster the city with so many Safe Passage signs, if that isn't a defacto admission that we need to hire more police officers, I don't know what is.
2. We give the catered-to-constituency Section 8, link cards, food stamps, free cell phones, free health care and on and on. Now they want us to walk their kids to school too? FUCK THAT. Tell them to quit partying all day and nite, get their lazy fucking asses out of bed, and take care of their own damn children.
3. We're going to pay civilians $10 an hour to be on the Safe Passage routes. FUCK THAT. Hey, you want a welfare check, why don't you show up and do that shit FOR FREE. After all, y'all supports yo community, don't ya? Sheeeeit.
4. We're going to pull firemen out of the firehouse to do a job they were neither trained nor equipped to do? FUCK THAT. Yet another defacto admission we need to hire more police. Hey Rahm, I hope your fucking house burns, asshole.
The good news is that the shitheads can always be counted on to fuck shit up, or in this case, come to the rescue. You see, it is only a matter of time...inevitable...before some shitbird fucks some shit up, right on a Safe Passage route, and the media will have a field day with it. (Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, are you listening?) And then it will happen again. And Again.
The entire thing will become the millstone around the neck of Rham's political career, and that little socialist prick will be toast.
Not a LEO, just a lawyer.
Department of Revenue ticketing in Garfield Ridge Schools
While our police spouses are in the hood guarding other peoples kids, the department of revenue is ticketing all cars for any and all violations in Garfield Ridge school drop off zones. Yes, I get it-if you don't want the ticket then don't violate the rules but the WHOLE block in some school zones is a permit only parking area. The revenue guy while parked "illegally" ticketed a parent in a no parking zone. We work hard to have what little we have only to be punished for taking our own kids to school. Maybe we should have a safe passage too with staffing so that we don't have to drive either. Before I get slammed that the parent was parked illegally-read above-I get it. A beat car should maybe come ticket the revenue car parked on an angle blocking the traffic in the drop off lane. I wonder how many tickets are issued in Englewood during drop off times? Or at churches on Sundays?
Thank you for all that you do especially for those who do nothing for you.
Stay safe!
What's going to happen when the media attention dies down and kids figure out how to get around this nonsense? If you know CPS and the types of people they hired for this Safe Passage crap, you'll know the aloofness will start to trickle in sooner rather than later.
The cameras should have been inside buildings where there lines of kids and their parents were waiting to take care of school related buiness by skeleton crews of clerks because of budget cuts. Hallways were jammed up from overcrowded schools. Angry displaced teachers and substitutes were covering vacant teaching positions. Air conditioning wasn't working properly and classrooms were saunas. And, a new automated subsitutute teacher calling system which was given to school clerks to master in 1/2 weeks time, this in addition to all the increased workload they have to do because of the budget cuts.
It looks like City Hall leadership finally got something right. They deserve congregations on this.
Off topic but definitely interesting!!!!!
The FOP filed an Unfair Labor Practice over the City's insistence that they did not terminate the contract in the time allowed.
The Executive Director dismissed the Unfair Labor Practice for failure to file the ULP on time.
Way to go MIKEY!!!!! More egg on the F.O.P. face.
IN THE KNOW said...
So who is figuring out the cost per day on this fiasco?
Besides the 600+ city workers they put on this, they also hired a lot of people.
So how much is it costing - all this wasted city manpower along with all these new-hires who basically only have to stand around?
HEY - I got an idea. Why not put all the families who get LINK Card and other benefits on the job - since they don't have a job, and then we can get some use out of them for all the money we send them a month. You get LINK Card and other benefits? Report in the morning from 6AM - 9AM EVERY day.
WOW - that is so brilliant why didn't Rahm think of that?
8/27/2013 03:55:00 AM
Shows what you know...I used to do LINK applications and plenty of our clients had jobs which almost made it worse because they had jobs but their income was so low they qualified for food stamps. I'd guess that over 50% of them were on unemployment, SSI, or had really low paying jobs..based on personal experience.
No can do because between 6
AM and 9 AM they are shuffling on down to the corner to buy weed from the
gangbangers. They would not
be dependable.
This should be a volunteer program for every unemployed adult who lives in each of these areas.
You'd think that they would want to do it for their own children!?
So for three days or so, 600 plus folks watch over the "kids", what happens the next 9 months? just asking.
Love this picture. BRILLIANT
The link card holders are Rahm's voting base. We dontz wanna piss dem off!
Anonymous said...
Omg I totally need this laugh!!
8/27/2013 01:27:00 AM
So, did I!! Great Job, SCC!!!! Funniest one ever!
That picture is worth a million but I don't think it would be enough protection based on the policies that city hall and the little dancer have in mind for their propaganda program.
MMaybe we can get some city employees to actually go to their homes and clean their houses for them after walking their kids to school. Then maybe we can run to the liquor store and get them some 40 ouncers. Continue cleaning until its time to go back to school to pick up their children. How long are we going to let this welfare state continue??? We would not have the pension crisis or any other financial problems in the states if we demanded that people work if they want a roof over their heads and food in their belly. This class warfare is being designed by the one per centers and it time to revolt. Why is their problems, caused by their lazy dogass self, my problem????? Fuck them, the more you give them the more dependent they become. Why are we enabling a class of people to do nothing and party all day????? It's like we are creating a real life video game for killing, fuckery, rape and any other assorted crime you can think of while getting high. I'm done with this experiment and everyone else should also be done. Problem is that most people's lives are so consumed with work, school and family that they don't have the time to really see how bad their getting fu**ed. Time to see what's really happening or you will be cleaning their house before you know it. They are 13.50 % of the population of the United States and receive 58 % of the welfare distributed in this country, are responsible for 69% of the crime. The current way of dealing with able-bodied lazy fucks has not worked and made the problem only worse. Time to end all forms of welfare, send away anyone who is not a citizen or here on a legal visa and give these people who were elected to represent the people their walking papers and give this country back to it's citizens. Can I get an Amen!!!!!!!
Streets & Sanitation? Did they find him or did they stuff him there?
Hey I have an idea, Take your kid to school, or better yet take some pride in your neighborhood and make a stand.
Garry Meier of WGN was talking about the Safe Passage crap of Rahm. He was saying it signals defeat, the shitheads win, we have to carve out safe paths to get kids to what passes for school in this town because they will get shot otherwise.
We need to get some Vietnamese to help us get these kids to school. They got people and supplies down the Ho Chi Minh trail during 20 years of war while being bombed from the air and bombarded by cannon fire and attacked almost daily by the US military. Still, mostly they got their shit through.
They ought to be able to get the kids to school where Rahm cannot.
pick up your kids report card and get a free $25 gift card
shoot , they will sell that card for $5 or $10
SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC:
Did anyone catch the arrest which put McCarthy choking someone who swallowed dope? Resisted arrest, no charge for resist? Interesting...
Two separate shootings in Portage Park on Sunday. When will city hall wake up and realize that when violence starts making its way into taxpaying areas, people will not put up with it and leave. This will result in increasing budget deficits as Chicago marches closer and closer to becoming another Detroit. While the mayor continues pouring police resources and money into the ghetto, the priest begins his eulogy for the once great City of Chicago.
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20130827/portage-park/portage-park-shootings-put-residents-on-edge
You know the only thing the goverment doesn't give them is vehicles. They even get Internet and a discount on cable. The section 8 directly across from the new 12 and a fire department has an indoor swimming pool, brand new skateboarding park, playgrounds and sprinklers on every block, some of the top schools in the state including a university and they still have one of the most ruthless gangs in the city and kill each other on a weekly basis. Can't help a group of people who do not want to help themselves. Just the obvious truth. Lets help the working middle class.
8/27/2013 10:00:00 AM
Tool of the Century!! Now! By Ronco!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Streets & Sanitation? Did they find him or did they stuff him there?
8/27/2013 02:49:00 PM
I laughed so hard a little snot came out.
What an embarrassment to our city and our (once proud) Department.
What does it tell the world when our (so called) leaders say we need this to protect "the children"
The streets are out of control because of the pandering to the takers by the elected (DEMOCRATIC) leaders of this city, county and state.
The only good thing out of this will be that VRI will morph into Safe Passage.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I may have missed it but are there any enhanced penalties for committing a violent crime on a safe passage route or is just a sign on a light pole?
8/27/2013 04:36:00 AM
Just what about that sign makes it even worse to hurt a kid?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/22190391-418/students-sweat-it-out-in-classrooms-without-air-conditioning.html
So the Safe Passage schools get brand new air conditioners while schools in other parts of the city go without? FUCKING PLEASE ALREADY!
--No Cop Here
day 2 of safe passage no safe passage workers or cops in edison park, nothing by immaculate conception grade school , harlem n talcott , what a shame.
New order out.
Begining next Tuesday, every city worker will be assigned 10 childruns from da hood. They will be living with each employee until next June.
rahm.
To 9:22am I agree and when I am on a beat car I always write illegal cars by churches and schools if people are breaking the law I write them just like revenue does in my neighborhood in 016 and when the reverend or principals tell me they are gonna call the alderman or commander I offer the use of my cellphone it usually stops rgt there. I also have enough time to get days in any district so I understand that helps not much they can do to me but change my start time and I really don't care about that
8/27/2013 09:04:00 AM
Anonymous said...
This entire thing is both so hillarious and so sad on so many levels.
1. If you have to plaster the city with so many Safe Passage signs, if that isn't a defacto admission that we need to hire more police officers, I don't know what is.
2. We give the catered-to-constituency Section 8, link cards, food stamps, free cell phones, free health care and on and on. Now they want us to walk their kids to school too? FUCK THAT. Tell them to quit partying all day and nite, get their lazy fucking asses out of bed, and take care of their own damn children.
3. We're going to pay civilians $10 an hour to be on the Safe Passage routes. FUCK THAT. Hey, you want a welfare check, why don't you show up and do that shit FOR FREE. After all, y'all supports yo community, don't ya? Sheeeeit.
4. We're going to pull firemen out of the firehouse to do a job they were neither trained nor equipped to do? FUCK THAT. Yet another defacto admission we need to hire more police. Hey Rahm, I hope your fucking house burns, asshole.
The good news is that the shitheads can always be counted on to fuck shit up, or in this case, come to the rescue. You see, it is only a matter of time...inevitable...before some shitbird fucks some shit up, right on a Safe Passage route, and the media will have a field day with it. (Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, are you listening?) And then it will happen again. And Again.
The entire thing will become the millstone around the neck of Rham's political career, and that little socialist prick will be toast.
Not a LEO, just a lawyer.
8/27/2013 09:11:00 AM
Truer words were never spoken!
Anonymous said...
MMaybe we can get some city employees to actually go to their homes and clean their houses for them after walking their kids to school. Then maybe we can run to the liquor store and get them some 40 ouncers. Continue cleaning until its time to go back to school to pick up their children. How long are we going to let this welfare state continue??? We would not have the pension crisis or any other financial problems in the states if we demanded that people work if they want a roof over their heads and food in their belly. This class warfare is being designed by the one per centers and it time to revolt. Why is their problems, caused by their lazy dogass self, my problem????? Fuck them, the more you give them the more dependent they become. Why are we enabling a class of people to do nothing and party all day????? It's like we are creating a real life video game for killing, fuckery, rape and any other assorted crime you can think of while getting high. I'm done with this experiment and everyone else should also be done. Problem is that most people's lives are so consumed with work, school and family that they don't have the time to really see how bad their getting fu**ed. Time to see what's really happening or you will be cleaning their house before you know it. They are 13.50 % of the population of the United States and receive 58 % of the welfare distributed in this country, are responsible for 69% of the crime. The current way of dealing with able-bodied lazy fucks has not worked and made the problem only worse. Time to end all forms of welfare, send away anyone who is not a citizen or here on a legal visa and give these people who were elected to represent the people their walking papers and give this country back to it's citizens. Can I get an Amen!!!!!!!
8/27/2013 01:59:00 PM
Amen to every word.
to: 01:59 PM.....you hit it right on the head, really nailed it....the liberal socialistic nanny state created this mess....deport more people, cut link and socialistic giveaways, make, or tell folks to work, two or three jobs, build more prisons, tell the judges to give longer sentences.....it's a start
Wonder how much the safe passage routes cost in Reykavik, Iceland or Tokyo, Japan? Wait, you mean there aren't any?? Why the heck would that be...
Success would be an 80% Graduation Rate, not the fact a kid wasn't shot to death by one of his classmates or their Sperm Donor. PATHETHIC SAVAGERY, not success.
To the guy posting about the ppo wearing his hat backwards:
Why don't you tell him how to wear it properly instead of bitching about it on here?
& on that note it was funny to see the house mice out there with their leather looking brand spankin new like they were PPOs
ALERT! Safe Passage Cameras coming to a block near you!
worked yesterday and saw a foot post recruit ppo wearing his baseball hat backwards near 35th and King. If you're not going to wear it right, then don't wear it at all. Unbelievable. I guess he's legit now that he's almost done with his cycles. Or he feels like he's the real police having walked in a busy district for a couple months. Hell, he qualifies for the tact team in the district I'm in. Strokes. M-2 shmuk that could pass for Rhams nephew.
I agree with the old timers on here about our uniforms- baseball hats, cargo pants, velcro stars, vest covers that look like you belong in a war somewhere. What a joke. I only have 12 on but I still wear old school.
Well said. We look like shit. Our uniforms make us look like keystone cops. . Shame on us. No matter the public ignores us. Cops wearing shorts. Velcro patches with a goofy star. Baseball caps and cargo pants. WTF!! We are a joke. I can't wait to retire from this Mickey Mouse police Dept.
Love the photo!!
I agree with the old timers on here about our uniforms- baseball hats, cargo pants, velcro stars, vest covers that look like you belong in a war somewhere. What a joke. I only have 12 on but I still wear old school.
8/27/2013 06:20:00 AM
Thanks. I'm glad not only some of the old timers (like me I guess) think like that.
Do all those tanks have their Chicago city vehicle stickers?
Shows what you know...I used to do LINK applications and plenty of our clients had jobs which almost made it worse because they had jobs but their income was so low they qualified for food stamps. I'd guess that over 50% of them were on unemployment, SSI, or had really low paying jobs..based on personal experience.
8/27/2013 10:24:00 AM
OMG...Will the bleeding heart libtards stay off the blog? "clients". Ugh. Yah, I saw 2 of your Link clients at a food store a while ago, both on their I-phones and they got into their Land Rover out in the lot. I left thinking, "What am I doing wrong?"
I remember a m/1 officer who grew up in the 'jets told me that 'the man' came by EVERY MONTH to see if his mother would still qualify for the housing. TV? you're out. Any sign of a adult male living there? you're out. Better be some food in the fridge, too. Where did this model of actually making sure money wasn't being pissed away go ???? As taxpayers, we should all be disgusted at the current state of affairs.
Get Ready for the War Protests!
After we bomb Syria
Each sign costs the tax payers $300.00 to put up.
Anonymous said...
The simple fact of these "Safe Passages" is a monumental embarrassment to Chicago!
Really people, gang banging kids are dictating to adult political decisions?
How low-class can it get?
8/27/2013 12:25:00 AM
How true. How sad. The Black community shows how far it has fallen from the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's. Then troops were needed to protect kids from white mobs. Now police are needed to protect little black kids from big black kids. And the community and its "leaders" aren't the least bit publicly outraged.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC:
Did anyone catch the arrest which put McCarthy choking someone who swallowed dope? Resisted arrest, no charge for resist? Interesting...
8/27/2013 04:47:00 PM
It might be interesting, if we could just UNDERSTAND what the hell you're trying to say.
This is a HUGE pr disaster. Rahm just kissed national office goodbye.
Wish there was a "like" button as so many of you are posting just what the lemmings need to hear.
>>>Anonymous said...
To the guy posting about the ppo wearing his hat backwards:
Why don't you tell him how to wear it properly instead of bitching about it on here?
& on that note it was funny to see the house mice out there with their leather looking brand spankin new like they were PPOs
8/27/2013 08:53:00 PM<<<
The guy with his hat on backwards had it that way so he could look through the periscope of one of those Safe Passage Tanks like the U-Boat Commanders.
What also really looks goofy is all those guys, and some gals with white undershirts hanging out of the sleeves of their blue uniform shirts.
Anonymous said...
Rahm calls 90 grand a day a success??
8/27/2013 07:40:00 AM
We pay for it with our retro pay, think of it that way.
Anonymous said...
So for three days or so, 600 plus folks watch over the "kids", what happens the next 9 months? just asking.
8/27/2013 11:19:00 AM
I'd bet over 150 choir boys get their wings
$10 an hour times 1200 safe passage parents. four hours a day times 5 days a week. Do the math and you will be amazed at the cost to the tax payer. Over 8 million a year. All for the kids. what a joke..
While our police spouses are in the hood guarding other peoples kids, the department of revenue is ticketing all cars for any and all violations in Garfield Ridge school drop off zones. Yes, I get it-if you don't want the ticket then don't violate the rules but the WHOLE block in some school zones is a permit only parking area.
****No Salt in the wound But
Keep Voting One Party Rule!! Rham and Co can do whatever they want and there is no opposition
DONT WORRY ABOUT THE COST OF SAFE PASSAGE. someone IS MISSING A BIKE IN LOGAN SQUARE. What a joke the media is hiding the cost. It is over 8 million a year to get the KIDS to school.
the people who receive entitlements already vote Democratic, now the underemployed this new group of people will help with Get Out The Vote come Election Time!
Yes But FLOP Shields will Endorse Quinn use our dues for what
We are our own worst enemy
Right keep voting Democratic
When I vote I vote against the machine everytime
It takes somebody else's village to raise this village.
Anonymous said...
To 9:22am I agree and when I am on a beat car I always write illegal cars by churches and schools if people are breaking the law I write them just like revenue does in my neighborhood in 016
**************
Good, I am glad some still have the guts/time to write these violations. Revenue was out there again today and it was a mess with all the parents scrambling to get out of the spaces but then blocked the traffic lane. There is no official drop off zone so it's basically now made it so we have to let our kids out to walk alone so we don't get a ticket-ridiculous. I could see if we were going to stay there after 8 but a ticket for basically "standing" in a spot is too much.
Thank you for all that you do to keep the city safe.
Mark J said...
Wonder how much the safe passage routes cost in Reykavik, Iceland or Tokyo, Japan? Wait, you mean there aren't any?? Why the heck would that be...
8/27/2013 08:27:00 PM
You need a safe spelling passage. I've heard of Tokyo,but where in the hell is Reykavik? Oh! You mean Reykjavik. If you're going to demean someone or some program make sure in your attempt you don't demean yourself.
For all the "old timers" who think that a parade dress code is useful for street policing, get over yourselves. I like my cargo pants - because I can keep a back-up gun accessible in the inside zipper pocket. And the other pockets are practical for all the other crap we have to carry. Also, I like my Velcro star - because there's no needle or sharp metal for a scumbag to grab when I wrestle with him. I have never worn a baseball hat because I don't see the practicality, and I agree they look stupid. But instead of being so salty/crusty and bitching about something as petty as dress, try doing something. Like running after someone in you patent black shoes. And be sure to wear your 5 point hat too. Those were always so practical.
Our department morale is falling to hell and all the "veterans" can do is break balls about how a young cop dresses. You should have told him to straighten his hat and left it at that. For what it's worth I look more professional AND work more effectively in my cargos. And I keep myself in a kind of shape that commands respect. All the fat old timers in their patents and dress pants and walking shoes, with their huge guts and vests that look like baby bibs, are an embarrassment. Couldn't pass the joke POWER test standards for their age group if they had to. So get over yourselves and help the young guys out. It's a new era of policework. Get used to it. And save all the big-talk, you're not some badass with magical powers just because you've been on for 20. I hope no young buck in the hood teaches you that, if you're not one of the fortunate who can hide out at the airports.
OT. No mention in the news about the shooting in 011 Tuesday. What gives? On a Safe Passage route? Hmmm?
So now street gangs have been given sovereignty over large swaths of the city. Since when are gangbangers sovereign entities? Were treaties signed with these tribes, have reservations been ceded, and self rule been granted to whole regions of Chicago? Is this city so weak that it allows a bunch of lawless criminals to dictate who may cross their frontiers? Who owns the city, the gangs or the citizens? This city is doomed and that doom is racing at you at supersonic speed.I weep for you.
8/27/2013 08:53:00 PM<<<
The guy with his hat on backwards had it that way so he could look through the periscope of one of those Safe Passage Tanks like the U-Boat Commanders.
What also really looks goofy is all those guys, and some gals with white undershirts hanging out of the sleeves of their blue uniform shirts.
You said it. We look like shit. Look at the Sgt's and Lt's. they also look like shit. The other day I saw an officer wearing an Old Style baseball cap with his uniform. His Sgt was right next to him and didn't say shit. He was on duty and in the public view. Just plain sloppy.
Here's how you fix the problem. No more outer vest cover. No more cargo pants and baseball cap, stupid winter beanie hat or that stupid turtle neck. Wear your tie with a long sleeve shirt. We don't need two different sweaters. And don't wear your ribbons unless your in your dress uniform. You look like a tool with your stupid crime reduction ribbons and Obama ribbon. Ribbons for everyone. What a fucking joke!!! No gym shoes or shorts unless your on the bike team or marine unit.
ETs, SWAT, TARA, K9, Bomb and Arson should wear the same uniform as the rest of the police dept. Theres like 10 different uniforms. SWAT guys look like Blackhawk catalogs. Now this might be a shocker. Actually shine your shoes, wear a name tag with your star attached to your uniform or jacket and not clipped to your belt or around your neck while in uniform you sloppy, out of shape, losers.
Actually spend a clothing allowance check on buying a new shirt or pants, you cheap mo fos. Wear that CPD Leather jacket with pride. Look like the Real Police instead of security guards. Wear your belt keepers. What do you expect the Sgt's don't enforce shit and they are the biggest offenders.
Retired old time here. I agree about the uniform. You guys look like shit. How the hell you going to chase anyone with that vest loaded down with all those magazines? Baseball caps and cargo pants make you look unprofessional. You don't even wear your leather jackets anymore. Every time I see you on the news I cringe. I can't believe your bosses and Inspectors let you go out on the streets like that. I came on in 1967. We wore one uniform with pride. By the way your new stars look like something out of a Cracker Jack box. People always thought I was an X Marine when they saw me in uniform. I took that as a compliment. But your hair looks real good with that Vaseline in it. Many good cops died wearing that uniform. You guys look like SHIT!
34 years on the job.
Actually we do have Safe Passage on the North side. At my kids school we have hundreds of parents walking their children to school. Families with two parents. The parents that work, drive their kids to school. Other parents, that work later, man the curbs and usher the kids out of the cars and see them safely onto school grounds.
Maybe if those other schools saw how well this works, they might try it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It takes somebody else's village to raise this village.
8/28/2013 06:35:00 AM
This village needs a Napalm Strike or an FAE drop.
The guy with his hat on backwards had it that way so he could look through the periscope of one of those Safe Passage Tanks like the U-Boat Commanders.
What also really looks goofy is all those guys, and some gals with white undershirts hanging out of the sleeves of their blue uniform shirts.
I agree we look like shit. Thanks to Jody Weis, Karen Bartuch and Ray Hamilton. They fucked up this dept and uniform. What do you expect from non police personnel.
08:11:00 AM:
Reykjavik has heated sidewalks... I don't see the comparison between a 350,000 person Country and Chicago. Unless, the previous writer meant there were little to no Black people in either Iceland or Japan. They do both whale...
08:11:00 AM
You need a safe spelling passage. I've heard of Tokyo,but where in the hell is Reykavik? Oh! You mean Reykjavik. If you're going to demean someone or some program make sure in your attempt you don't demean yourself.
Let the safe passage workers pick up trash along the safe passage route instead of talking on Obama phones
Anonymous said...
Retired old time here. I agree about the uniform. You guys look like shit. How the hell you going to chase anyone with that vest loaded down with all those magazines? Baseball caps and cargo pants make you look unprofessional. You don't even wear your leather jackets anymore. Every time I see you on the news I cringe. I can't believe your bosses and Inspectors let you go out on the streets like that. I came on in 1967. We wore one uniform with pride. By the way your new stars look like something out of a Cracker Jack box. People always thought I was an X Marine when they saw me in uniform. I took that as a compliment. But your hair looks real good with that Vaseline in it. Many good cops died wearing that uniform. You guys look like SHIT!
34 years on the job.
8/28/2013 02:00:00
I somewhat agree with you but over the years i can think of atleast 8 coppers that have lost a star during a foot chase never to be found again in my district.Those stars are floating around somewhere.The patches aren't bad and reduce this.FYI i have both uniforms in summer i wear the patches in the winter i wear the leather and star with the 80/20's.I've seen several old timers wearing the new fleece sweaters with patches so its not just a hair gel thing.
Retired old time here. I agree about the uniform. You guys look like shit. How the hell you going to chase anyone with that vest loaded down with all those magazines? Baseball caps and cargo pants make you look unprofessional. You don't even wear your leather jackets anymore. Every time I see you on the news I cringe. I can't believe your bosses and Inspectors let you go out on the streets like that. I came on in 1967. We wore one uniform with pride. By the way your new stars look like something out of a Cracker Jack box. People always thought I was an X Marine when they saw me in uniform. I took that as a compliment. But your hair looks real good with that Vaseline in it. Many good cops died wearing that uniform. You guys look like SHIT!
34 years on the job.
There is a little more to the job than the uniform. Unfortunately there are still many, if not too many po's that wear the uniform proudly and well, but most are at headquarters, the commanders office, district front offices,CAPS and special units not doing a bit of police work.
I'll take the hardworking guys on the street that may lack great uniforms, but wear gym shoes , cargo pants, sweaters,etc because they are functional on the street.
And don't get carried away about the 34 years and think this is the opinion of a hairgel, I too am retired and had a few more years on the job than you
Anonymous Anonymous said...
For all the "old timers" who think that a parade dress code is useful for street policing, get over yourselves. I like my cargo pants - because I can keep a back-up gun accessible in the inside zipper pocket. And the other pockets are practical for all the other crap we have to carry. Also, I like my Velcro star - because there's no needle or sharp metal for a scumbag to grab when I wrestle with him. I have never worn a baseball hat because I don't see the practicality, and I agree they look stupid. But instead of being so salty/crusty and bitching about something as petty as dress, try doing something. Like running after someone in you patent black shoes. And be sure to wear your 5 point hat too. Those were always so practical.
Our department morale is falling to hell and all the "veterans" can do is break balls about how a young cop dresses. You should have told him to straighten his hat and left it at that. For what it's worth I look more professional AND work more effectively in my cargos. And I keep myself in a kind of shape that commands respect. All the fat old timers in their patents and dress pants and walking shoes, with their huge guts and vests that look like baby bibs, are an embarrassment. Couldn't pass the joke POWER test standards for their age group if they had to. So get over yourselves and help the young guys out. It's a new era of policework. Get used to it. And save all the big-talk, you're not some badass with magical powers just because you've been on for 20. I hope no young buck in the hood teaches you that, if you're not one of the fortunate who can hide out at the airports.
8/28/2013 11:28:00 AM
Coulnd't have said it better.
I'm tired of "old timers" getting on here and bitching about hair gels. Take all your infinite knowledge and do something with it. Just because you have 15+ years doesn't mean anything except you have 15, 20, 25, ECT...years on. I'm happy for you, but it's just a number.
I'm hearing that most of the streets and Sans personnel being used are supervisors. Do we need that many Supervisors?
8/28/2013 08:11:00 AM
Hey troll get off the blog. You knew where and what he meant when you read it D.A.
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