Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Safe Passage Success! (UPDATE)

Of course, you know you're in trouble when the Huffington Post questions the veracity of your claims:
  • A week into the new school year, the Chicago Public Schools' expanded "Safe Passage" program is cautiously being marked a success even amid new reports of Safe Passage workers walking off the job.
    “Last week, we got through the mornings and the afternoons without any incidents. The fact is that’s going to continue," Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told CBS Chicago Tuesday morning.

    Hours later, CBS learned of massive turnover in pockets of the city as well as allegedly unmanned corners along routes. In the Roseland neighborhood, the station reports half the safe passage workers quit last week alone and that a designated spot at 119th and State went unmanned Tuesday morning.

    A supervisor for American Enterprise, the vendor responsible for that route in Roseland, told CBS the report was untrue and that "floaters" cover the area, but was later unable to explain why no worker was at the corner during the designated passing time Tuesday morning.
Whoops - another lie uncovered. The CBS report is here. This is a massive amount of overkill costing who knows how much in terms of money and manpower.

And then, you have this return on taxpayers' investment in the youth:


We're speechless.

UPDATE: Some are claiming that this is an intentional misspelling, a riff on an internet meme making the rounds. This being Chicago though, we wonder.

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21 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's actually a take on a popular Internet meme. That's the way it's supposed to be spelled. There may be other issues with CPS, but this one is intentional.

9/04/2013 12:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/y-u-no-guy

9/04/2013 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who are these "vendors" ? Let me guess...Vanecko owned ?

9/04/2013 01:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The why you no listen to us is an internet meme.

Google "me gusta"

9/04/2013 01:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lol! That picture is priceless! Give him credit for being able to write.

9/04/2013 02:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dat picture be priceless

9/04/2013 02:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The whole "Why you no" or "Y u no" is an internet meme. He isn't doing the cause any favors by applying it here, though.

9/04/2013 02:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where the hell is Andy Shaw and his BGA??? They should be all over this "safe passage" scam.

Safe passage is a massive waste of taxpayer money. We will see more and more stories of people getting paid and not doing their job.

9/04/2013 07:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They thought they were to be ghost pay rollers. No show, but get a check - see if it isn't so!

9/04/2013 07:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sure Rahm will blame the vendors....it's not a CPS problem it's all the vendors fault....I'm sure the routes will be fully staffed in January when it's 5 below 0 out there....

9/04/2013 07:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The news crew said 'what will happen when it rains, when it snows, when it gets cold outside?'

We know exactly what will happen. Those who are there just to suck up a few bucks will stay home, and sleep through the violence, then say "fuck it" when their supervisor calls to see where they are.

The very mindset that leads to brutal young men shooting up their own neighborhood and the children in it, will also ensure that every dollar spent on this atrocity will be a complete waste.

Bob Jackson knows this is all a bullshit money grab, the aldermen know it, CPS knows it, and Rahm knows it, which is exactly why he told McCarthy that it's coming out of the CPD budget, in the form of a 10 percent budget reduction for this year. What a joke. This means that WE will be paying directly, and exclusively, for safe passage, in the form of reduced police service where we live.

This city has been hijacked.

9/04/2013 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did this one day of work just kick start all these goofs unemployment benefits for another 2 years.

9/04/2013 08:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe WGN reported last night about another shooting on a safe passage route yesterday.

9/04/2013 08:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, you put Dumocrats in charge and they fuck shit up.

That's just way they roll.

9/04/2013 08:20:00 AM  
Blogger SpankDaddy said...

This whole program is pure insanity.

9/04/2013 09:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sign says it all..for the children /shitcago values, lets put more money down the CPS toilet

9/04/2013 10:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a success minus the rampant shootings occuring in 007 & 010 ten feet from passage, and the body pulled from a garbage can in the alley directly behind a house on the safe passage.

9/04/2013 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard a lot of safe passage employees couldn't take the heat and it was too stressful standing around for so long....guess it's not as hard to stand on the corner if you're with your homies smokin' and drinkin'.

9/04/2013 05:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It must be a deliberate misspelling, otherwise it would read: "CPS- why you ain't not listnin to us, yall?"

9/04/2013 09:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Make a school unit.....10 hour day!

9/04/2013 11:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to be fair, they didnt spell "y u no" right either...

at one point in time these sorts of people would be called cancer, but it is so many years later, they must have died already and become carcinogenic zombies by now...

9/05/2013 10:40:00 PM  

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