Wagons Down Everywhere
From one of our west side people:
- Word from EMMD folks is that the city hasn't paid their vendors in 4 months, therefore no parts are being delivered as retaliation. This has led to a citywide shortage of wagons - 5 districts are operating without wagons at the moment and the number is probably going up. Great idea seeing as how summer is coming and wagons are kind of necessary for downtown "mass arrest" situations and there are usually a couple on standby for the assorted festivals and parades.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
129 Comments:
Time for EMMD to start picking up parts at "Auto-Zone"....
Who gives a fuck anymore.
If you don't make arrests, you don't need wagons. I guess this type of thinking would work for those coppers who want to lay down.
In these times of monetary shortages, the CPD must learn to be flexible, improvise and make do. Be ingeious. Be thankful that pay-cuts have not yet taken place It is a time of sacrafice for the whole city.
EMMD doesn't know shit about maintaining the diesel wagons in the first place. Every fucking light is illuminated on mine. We down it and when we get it back, before end of tour, same shit. At least the air is nice and cold.
ONE job at a time.
My favorite is the 005 th district brand new wagon. It's on its fourth motor already and is down again. Ford refuses to give the city a new one even though its under warranty and a lemon.instead it just replaces the motor each time.
Chicago is the City of Big Shoulders. If mass arrestes become necessary there are always alternatives to wagons. Commandered mass transit for one.
Stop making mass arrests of Obama's children.
" . . the city hasn't paid their vendors in 4 months, therefore no parts are being delivered as retaliation."
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That's NOT retaliation, that's CALLED BUSINESS in a non-communist society.
We dunts needs naw stinking wagonses.
OT
Copper in 016 did a wonderful job today performing CPR on a 4 month old baby!
Baby was transported to the hospital, alive, but in critical condition.
Next 24 hours will be difficult.
Great job officer, you made us all proud.
Rahm needs to transfer that basketball money for DePaul....some 70 million bucks worth...and pay for the Wagons and whatever else is needed that is truly important....by the by...my niece, her hubby and family are moving from Cgo to Indiana, leaving before school starts...hubby will commute to Cgo 4 days a week... these folks have big bucks but refuse to continue to pay for lots of property taxes plus the constant fees and excesses that working stiffs must pay....while those who don't work take welfare and shoot and kill and steal and loot....time to stop the crime...time to fly the coop. Sad but they won't take the bad. Trump rules.
Pimp walking CPD to a standstill out of political spite...
Taking away all the tools we need and still demanding we maintain their fucked up ideal of "production."
"Stop complaining! You coppers knew it would be like this when you signed up! Cowboy up or quit if you don't think you can handle it. A lot of people want your jobs so stop thinking so much of yourselves!"
...Or something like that.
Heh... History in the making.
Witnessing the intentional destruction of a city and police department.
I want whats owed to me when it's owed to me... WTF Rahm pay us our VRI money already! This guy loves to bend the rules when they favor him, how much more money is he making off the interest?!?
I thought I heard they were trying to make better use of the bike lanes the city has built. They're installing pegs on existing department bikes, and investing in tandem bikes as well to help transport prisoners into districts.
It's not just wagons.
Pdt ' s, cameras and lockups.
I feel like I work for the east german police.
Soon when you go to qualify they will tell you to dry fire and say bang. 30 rnds a year or 0....not much of a difference.
Anyway. event number for the impact zone please!!!
Keep doing the dirty work for Rahm gmac or whatever boss tells you to run out and get activity
OT... Speaking of WILDING
Carol Marin:
"CPD has an almost impossible job.
They need everybody’s eyes and ears.
Downtown and in the neighborhoods.
Don’t hesitate.
Call 911."
http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/28203550-452/wilders-take-to-lake-shore-drive.html
What's this I hear that one of our new sergeants in 011 on 3/W signed off on an accident report completed on a formset that was from 1991???? Word on the street says a fabricated accident full of intentional mistakes was scribbled onto a 23 year old accident report and dropped in the review bin for approval. Sgt. Amy Winehouse gave it the green lite and sent it off to review. Is it safe to assume that she has obviously never done an accident report in her whopping 12 years on the job? Yet she's 'leading' the troops in 011. How fucking pathetic is that? And some of you goofs still think the whole promotional process is legit.
But aren't "mass-arrests" and "wilding" urban myths? I mean, we aren't seeing smartphone videos, why should you require things that haven't been adequately justified by social media? I believe everything McCloggedpipes says, and it makes me feel very safe in the city. Please stop trying to pad your budgets with unnecessary junk and get back to, well, whatever it was that caused the recent lull in crime.
Ironically enough, George Custer lost 5 wagons before "Little Big Horn". We all know how that ended.
Well, maybe by the time the year 2024 rolls around, the city will buy more wagons. Let's just hope that if they do, they don't buy any more diesel trucks, or any of those god damn vans. The diesels probably looked like a good idea on paper when the theory was that they would last longer. Of course, that didn't turn out to be the case.
Whomever thought it was a good idea to get those vans is a retarded asshole that never worked the street. Just go back to the old wagons.
"The City That Works"
>Pffft!<
Just finished watching the last 20 mins of "Dr. Strange love."
Couldn't help laughing out loud when the bomb bay doors opened up and bombs away with Slim Pickens on board whooping and hollering to beat ol' Devil hisself...
"YEEEEE-HAAWWW!"
>FLASH! BOOM! Big Fucking Mushroom Cloud<
Sorta sums up what's happening to Chicago and CPD.
It's Rahm's Bomb.
Isn't it?
...And there are people still delusional enough to be singing his praises.
Gawd... What a shit-show this is turning out to be.
NAPA = no auto parts available
The city that works???
As an aside, I saw something cool in D.C. where they use buses as well. When they have a mass demonstration they come down in buses. Their riot gear, etc., is stored in the belly (and generally not used unless anticipated) and if there is a need for mass arrests they can be loaded on the bus and hauled away. These are Greyhound type buses, not school type.
Anonymous said...
Time for EMMD to start picking up parts at "Auto-Zone"....
6/22/2014 12:08:00 AM
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Shirley you jest!!
Don't you know that the current vender of choice IS Napa Auto Parts. No different than Auto Zone.
And, this same thing happened years ago under Daley. Anyone remember the "great paper shortages"
When this happened under Daley, that Admin Mgr (you all know the one that Still can get to work on a regular basis) well, she went to the Ace Hardware on Archer/Austin and set up a little account on her own to get some supplies for the Academy. I do not know how it was all paid for BUT perhaps IAD or some reliable government invesitgative unit might look into that. Heck, they may even actually find those flat sceen tv's missing from the Acadmey!!!
We no longer use WAGONS for transport ...
We use VANS !!!
Not very intimidation to a large crowd.
What is the capacity and set-up time to use them? Drop the stairs/raise the stairs ( lower the draw bridge / raise the draw bridge) WTF.
Too much work just to load arrestees.
The real WAGON was so popular it had standing room only ... LOL
Maybe this is part of the push toward ANOVs. You don't need wagons - a big money saver - if all the police do is issue ANOVs. ANOVs, ANOVs...when are you people going to understand that this is way to reduce crime and violence. More ANOVs. Can't you see how well it's working?
diesels and vans big mistake. fleet f'd up
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What's this I hear that one of our new sergeants in 011 on 3/W signed off on an accident report completed on a formset that was from 1991???? Word on the street says a fabricated accident full of intentional mistakes was scribbled onto a 23 year old accident report and dropped in the review bin for approval. Sgt. Amy Winehouse gave it the green lite and sent it off to review. Is it safe to assume that she has obviously never done an accident report in her whopping 12 years on the job? Yet she's 'leading' the troops in 011. How fucking pathetic is that? And some of you goofs still think the whole promotional process is legit.
6/22/2014 02:02:00 AM
Why does it matter to you how she made Sgt.? The fact of the matter is that she is now your Sgt. So shut up, do your job, follow her orders and then go home and rinse/repeat the next day.
they took away wagon from mass transit long time ago. place where wagon is needed the most with all the drunks, mentals and homeless on trains and buses.
The solution is simple. If the FOP gives Rahm a campaign donation and endorses him for reelection the CPD will get TIF funds to repair the wagons then they could drive to Vienna Beef and Buena Beef and do lunch.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2014/06/hhs-considers-olympia-fields-facility-for-unaccompanied-immigrant-children-.html
Illegals being sent to Olympia Fields?
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/06/20/white-detroit-police-lieutenant-makes-discrimination-allegation/
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A lieutenant in charge of the Detroit Police Department’s drug unit says he was the victim of racial discrimination and subjected to a hostile work environment for reporting wrongdoing.
Lt. Charles Flanagan, who is white, filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on May 28, four days after Internal Affairs conducted an audit of the Narcotics Section, according to a report in the Detroit News.
Flanagan’s attorney, Mike Rataj, said the 29-year police veteran uncovered numerous issues after assuming command of the unit in November — including a sergeant who failed to turn over several pieces of drug evidence and another who made up false evidence tags for items seized during drug raids, mainly electronics, and then kept the items for personal use. The alleged incidents took place before Flanagan commanded the drug unit.
Flanagan said he and two other white officers who are his friends were going to be transferred because he reported suspected wrongdoing.
Rahm despises us and considers us a nuisance.
He couldn't care less about our sub par working conditions and pitiful equipment.
He feels he's got better things to do with the city's money than pay our vendors.
OT: In Sunday's Sun-Times there is an article about a wilding incident last Tuesday by Carol Marin.
What a joke. Carol, you just don't get it.
Your comparisons were apples v oranges.
Individual acts vs organized acts by large groups.
Fighting and mob action are still crimes, even if there is no report generated. Dispersal of the mob is the goal. Once the mob is gone the beach goers are happy and have no need to file reports.
However, those same peaceful beach goers are going to think twice about returning in the future.
Running through traffic and endangering motorists is at least a traffic violation, but I'd push for a reckless conduct charge.
Finally, Aldrrman Smith has a stake in there being no
"criminal incidents" in her ward. She doesn't want to alienate voters. If you hadn't witnessed this, it wouldn't have made the main stream media which is what rahm wants.
Chicago is criss-crossed by bike lanes. Just use cyclos like they do in the orient. Fit two criminal types in the front seat and a copper can peddle them to the nearest lockup. Put more coppers on bikes, many of them need the exercise. It works in England.
I'm broke down too!
No activity for this city!
I'm NOT sticking my neck for this city at all!
ROD as in Retired On Duty, says who cares!
KMA
Speaking of needing a wagon, anyone else see the Carol Marin article in the Sunday Sun Times which actually admits to wildings happening?
Please don't use "EMMD" those jerk offs are not "EMMD" they are Fleet Management. All this trouble with the rolling stock started when the real EMMD which was controlled completely by the police was taken over by all civilians from Fleet Management.
White Canaryville Rap Star? Really?
Anonymous said...
In these times of monetary shortages, the CPD must learn to be flexible, improvise and make do. Be ingeious. Be thankful that pay-cuts have not yet taken place It is a time of sacrafice for the whole city.
6/22/2014 12:19:00 AM
Or Rham can divert tiff money. We're not broke, not when the city is moving forward with new basketball stadiums, new parks, and building hotels for wealthy corporations.
As long as this doesn't jeopardize Maggie's memorial park, the new basketball stadium or bike lanes and other "for the children", projects, I'm not concerned. KEEP SPENDING Rahm!
Oh, by the by, Democratic tax-aholics, moving out of Shitcago next June, I'd just like to say a early AMF's. I'm not relocating or moving, I'm FLEEING.
PS: I'm taking my money with me.
Off Topic
Carol Morin of the Chicago Sun Times on 20 Jun 14 wrote a story about the wildings running on L.S.D. Finally and a description of the offenders. A must read, and I don't even read the Sun Times.
Wagons, heil in 007 we are down 24 cars (no pool). Lots of hours wasted waiting for a car. Soon everyone will be on foot patrol. NOBODY CARES!!!!
Our cars look like shit....doesn't make a favorable impression to people who live here or visit.....
Dogs running loose EVERYWHERE.
In yet another sign the Sanctuary city's economy has taken a turn for the worse, the next step towards Detroit bankruptcy level. Dogs are running loose everywhere.
Their owners can no longer afford to feed them and they don't have the heart to take them to the pound to be gassed.
CPD zone six radio. The Sunday morning roundup is in progress. Console time is 09:15 June 22, 2014 station is clear.
Goodnight Rover.
We know the media reads this blog ...... Hey Pam do a story on how the chits does not pay any of there bills on time or even within 5 years.
What's this I hear that one of our new sergeants in 011 on 3/W signed off on an accident report completed on a formset that was from 1991???? Word on the street says a fabricated accident full of intentional mistakes was scribbled onto a 23 year old accident report and dropped in the review bin for approval. Sgt. Amy Winehouse gave it the green lite and sent it off to review. Is it safe to assume that she has obviously never done an accident report in her whopping 12 years on the job? Yet she's 'leading' the troops in 011. How fucking pathetic is that? And some of you goofs still think the whole promotional process is legit.
6/22/2014 02:02:00 AM
Sounds to me that you children in 011 have too much time on your hands. If the supervisors are smart, they will stick together and start to check your reports at check off time and not release anyone until they were completed, right up to the our. No overtime, no early release, no I gotta.......
Do YOUR job, son, and stop worrying about what everyone else has or how someone else does their job. That's not your job. Everyone will be happier, including you.
Bullshit, NAPA has the contract for parts and has a sweet deal. they get to us the Docks at North and Throop to unload and load parts for all of their Chicagoland stores, they wait for the money for parts from the city.
the city has Angel Lopez at North and Throop to handle all warranty issues, other Bullshit story is that Ford will not do business with the city because they didn't get paid for thier new cars. 2 weeks after new cars are delivered, the dealer who has the contract gets paid. Many people think that we buy the cars directly from Ford, but all cars are purchased thru a minority Ford dealer.
"Gawd... What a shit-show this is turning out to be."
6/22/2014 03:37:00 AM
"Mandrake, they are polluting our precious bodily fluids with their godless Communism."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
2% cost of living raises compounded over five year contract. What a deal!!!!
Inflation? Only If You Look At Food, Water, Gas, Electricity And Everything Else
"...the way that the inflation rate is calculated has been changed more than 20 times since the 1970s, and at this point it bears so little relation to reality that it is essentially meaningless. Anyone that has to regularly pay for food, water, gas, electricity or anything else knows that inflation is too high. In fact, if inflation was calculated the same way that it was back in 1980, the inflation rate would be close to 10 percent right now."
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Just the other day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the price index for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs has just soared to a new all-time high.
And it isn't just meat prices that are going up. One of the largest coffee producers in the entire world just announced that it is going to be raising coffee prices by 9 percent...
The MSM will read you reports from the Fed that claim inflation is tame but what's going on in the Fed's own cafeteria for example? THIS..
It took the Fed long enough but finally even it succumbed to the reality of surging food prices when, as we reported previously, it hiked cafeteria prices at ground zero: the cafeteria of the Chicago Fed, stating that “prices continue to rise between 3% and 33%.” So with input costs rising across the board not just for the Fed, but certainly for food manufacturers everywhere...
According to CNBC, one recent report warned that "your water bill will likely increase" in the coming months
According to Bloomberg, the price of gasoline hasn't been this high at this time of the year for six years
And our electricity rates are going up too. The electricity price index just set a brand new record high and there are no signs of relief on the horizon
median household income in the U.S. is now about 7 percent lower than it was in the year 2000 after adjusting for inflation
read the details and examples here if you wish http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-20/inflation-only-if-you-look-food-water-gas-electricity-and-everything-else
For Chicago it's worse. TAX, TAX, TAX, FINE, and FEE.
Rahm is grinning form ear to ear. holding paychecks back and them handing the money out like y'all won something in the negotiation process. Here, here's the money we stole from you now it's your turn to deal in good faith and give something back.. Are you kidding me?
"Just go back to the old wagons."
6/22/2014 02:38:00 AM
At least one of them is still traveling the streets. The top of the body was sawed off level with the top of the cab, and the thing was full of scrap metal.
Still had the blue/white paint...which came in around 1962...
Just make your own license plate out of cardboard, and you're good to go.
I don't blame the vendors either, you can't stay in business if you don't get paid. I bet the vendors that supply projects near and dear to Rahmmy get paid forthwith.
We have had a missing door at my unit since before the winter, few cars have working computers, fewer have working cameras, many are falling apart. The interlocks in the newer buildings fail right after the warranty expires.
The city has money for bike trails, parks for the police hating wife of the former mayor, basketball arenas for teams that haven't even made the NIT, much less the NCAA , in years.
Here's a novel idea Rahm,,,spend money on the things that matter, not your libshit bike lanes, more roadscaping and Presidential libraries
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Time for EMMD to start picking up parts at "Auto-Zone"....
6/22/2014 12:08:00 AM
NAPA took over the parts department at EMMD when the City of Chicago garbage truck division gumbas took it over.
We used to have three wagons up and running all three shifts. Viva la "Wagon Wars"!!! Anyone who worked then knows what that means.
who cares....could give a fuck about this job anymore, making our scared stupidvisors happy,or our goofy "citizens" I do my job , no rush, help my partners. Everything thing/everyone else can blow me...
Used to be "falling off of the wagon" meant you stopped drinking booze. What does it mean now with no wagons up? Just a thought.
Anonymous HEY Demo-CROOKS said...
" . . the city hasn't paid their vendors in 4 months, therefore no parts are being delivered as retaliation."
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That's NOT retaliation, that's CALLED BUSINESS in a non-communist society.
6/22/2014 12:34:00 AM
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Agreed. That's "in response" to not being paid. Retaliation would be something entirely different.
Yea, but Auto Zone, Advance, Pep Boys, and O'Reilly, they want to
get paid too, and they want cash
at the time of sale. No credit,
especially for deadbeat City of
Chicago.
The lawman came with the sun, there
was job to done, and so they sent
for a badge and a gun, for the lawman. And as he silently rode,
where evil violence arose, they knew
he lived or he died by the Colt of the lawman. A man who rides all alone, and all that he'll ever own,
is just a badge and a gun and he's
known as the lawman.
( from the tv program "Lawman" starring John Russell )
(OT) coming to a quiet neighborhood soon hear you! They are letting these illegal kids across the boarder in droves, finding billions for their free housing,clothing,food,medical etc bug yet cannot fund the pensions for hard working citizen police officers in Chicago no wonder rahm Obama are such a total disgrace.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2014/06/hhs-considers-olympia-fields-facility-for-unaccompanied-immigrant-children-.html
Then we have this guess the Obama/Clinton disaster is worse than expected!
http://nypost.com/2014/06/21/inside-the-jealous-feud-between-the-obamas-and-hildebeest-clintons/
We need a change from the top down,Obama still blaming bush has totally wrecked this country, gas alone is almost 3 dollars more than when president Bush left office, the world has no respect for our once great country, Putin in Russia just laughs at obamas stupid worthless requests, let's hope we het a conservative in that will slam the borders shut, help our military rebuild, get the economy rolling, a community organizer as president who would of thought how dumb the voting public is!
If you have 1 or maybe 2 guys that are real techs to repair vehicles you would be lucky. They are mostly clueless political hacks "parts changers" err "hey Jethro lets change this maybe it will work,go behind the dash unplug all those silly dash lights" taken cars into shop for repair only to come out worse, with added grease on the steering wheel and all over the inside and outside, is anyone in charge that is actually automotive qualified?
I know the front line vehicles parked behind 51st and wentworth the what 40 vehicles with little to no miles always ready to go when the bosses and mayors vehicles need service all pristine vehicles.
Ahh another thought Ed Burkes name has been on the blog lately, he does not have CPD drivers has off duty coppers getting paid 1/3 of the d-3 sergeants drivers, so why does Stephanie Neely the treasurer that no one knows, the one who sued our union,why does she still have d-3 paid CPD bodyguards with unlimited overtime and a car? Bueller you there?
OT
Copper in 016 did a wonderful job today performing CPR on a 4 month old baby!
Baby was transported to the hospital, alive, but in critical condition.
Next 24 hours will be difficult.
Great job officer, you made us all proud.
More info on this please... We need good stories like this rather than all the doom & gloom!
What's this I hear that one of our new sergeants in 011 on 3/W signed off on an accident report completed on a formset that was from 1991???? Word on the street says a fabricated accident full of intentional mistakes was scribbled onto a 23 year old accident report and dropped in the review bin for approval. Sgt. Amy Winehouse gave it the green lite and sent it off to review. Is it safe to assume that she has obviously never done an accident report in her whopping 12 years on the job? Yet she's 'leading' the troops in 011. How fucking pathetic is that? And some of you goofs still think the whole promotional process is legit.
6/22/2014 02:02:00 AM
I was kind of starting to feel sorry for the POs in 011 until I read this. Somebody needs to grow up in 011 and I think its you.
Mikey working VRI now?! Doesn't this guy have a few bad beefs right now? I was stripped for lesser allegations and po's i worked in call back with were fired for the same sh-t! Is IAD affraid to touch this guy with the Supt on the medical? And I wasnt even on video.
Oh stop crying, just start loading them in garbage trucks. people, we must learn to use our resources more efficiently.
I do not know " Sgt. Winehouse", but in defense of sergeants ( I spent 18 years as one), they are overwhelmed by reports each shift in a busy district. It is hard to thoroughly read each one. The patrol officers should submit competent and accurate reports for one and who ever slipped in this trick report is a dickhead. Maybe the sergeants instead of returning poorly written and inaccurate reports for a rewrite should spar the officer ? N one wants that for sure.
Mccloggedpipes. now that funny
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I thought I heard they were trying to make better use of the bike lanes the city has built. They're installing pegs on existing department bikes, and investing in tandem bikes as well to help transport prisoners into districts.
6/22/2014 01:24:00 AM
Heard the same thing. Only tandem bikes are too expensive. Transport will be on the front handle bars of the current bikes.
It’s a citywide phenomenon with regards to a very real shortage of working/available P.D.Ts, functioning vehicles, functioning working computers at the various police facilities in all bureaus except 35th Street and actual manpower. Lots of budgeted money and lots of federal grants with nothing to show should there be a private sector type forensic audit. God forbid if a large scale man made disaster or metrological catastrophic event should occur. The department spends lots of money on information networks, but neglects the end users of all this enormous volumes of information.
PDTs are a front line of communication for the blue shirts are unavailable or don’t work. P.O.s responding to hot calls can review offender descriptions or have knowledge prior to arrival when responding to a life threatening citywide incident. You just can’t keep tying up the air asking to repeat information which other should be accessible to responding officers. This is a real officer safety issue and a major public safety concern which merits sounding alarm bells across the city. Solve the PDT problems or replace those gold stars top to bottom one by one who can’t get the job done. Maybe we should begin with safety grievances for cars working without PDTs? Would a pilot fly without functioning backup communication equipment? Remember, squeaky wheels get the oil. You would think the entrenched big money F.O.P. elected representatives would be in the field with their membership addressing concerns instead of yuking it up with dirty politicians in Springfield and D.C and brown nosing with the national and state lodge.
If I’m not mistaken, the old traffic reports do not even closely resemble the newest traffic reports. A couple weeks back, didn’t one of those 4153 units on foot call out shots fired in the 3300 block of Maypole. The commendable actions of the recruits led to a call for assist after shots were fired at the police and then by the police. A responding 3rd watch sergeant then gets on the air and calls out on the top of his lungs, “GET THE CRIME LAB OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!”. The excited sgt then gets on the air even more agitated exclaiming that he doesn’t have yellow crime scene tape and a crowd is gathering. Obviously, the crime scene was more important than making sure the inexperienced and learning way too fast recruit was O.K. The safety of those who you command is more important than some hoodlum with a couple slugs in the coconut.
Obviously the sgt has not worked in a fast district. Fast districts are no place for wet behind the ears supervisors to get their "credentials" while riding around alone with their training wheels balancing out their “greenness”. This is not a game and your life can be lost in an instant. Good job with Kudos to the foot platoon, the VRI responders the leadership and direction by the experienced officers in 011.
OT
I will support changing the Redskins name when they change the name of Cracker Barrel.
Has anyone seen then parking lot in the 004th District? "need pictures posted" We have had officer's cars towed from pothole damage and Officers IOD from falling in the holes. Streets and Sanitation says standing orders from city hall not to pave any police lots. Rahm is a piece of shit and he hates the police. Some of the holes are over 2ft deep.
this will equal more broken out car windows,coppers injured,and more crowds fighting the police!
>>>...Or something like that.
Heh... History in the making.
Witnessing the intentional destruction of a city and police department.
6/22/2014 01:01:00 AM<<<
We are seeing the intentional destruction of this entire country and our way of life and we are letting it happen.
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.”
- John Adams
I can remember a time when we had four sectors per districts and a wagon in each sector. Older police stations had "Ambulance" carved in over one of their garage doors. There were two folding stretchers in each squadrol. The green one was for deceased and the stories of moving bodies became the folklore of this department and the unofficial hard earned title of "Wagonman" meant toughness and reliability.
There were fewer CFD Ambulances then and our squadrols often made hospital transports of the sick and injured.
Maybe it is part of Rahm's plan, like towing and body removal to have prisoner transport privatized. That would put a few more buck in his campaign coffers.
Wagons? What do you need a wagon for?
You've got a TRUNK, don't you?
Probably Rhams folks will now issue an "emergency" contract for repais and bilk the taxpayers for double what they should have paid. Its been done lots of times before.
Anonymous said...
I want whats owed to me when it's owed to me... WTF Rahm pay us our VRI money already! This guy loves to bend the rules when they favor him, how much more money is he making off the interest?!?
6/22/2014 01:20:00 AM
I don't know, how much do you make on interest on your deposits? What is your bank paying? Maybe one half of one percent, if that.
So, if Rahm deposits $100,000,000, that is one hundred million bucks, leaves it in there for a year and collects gobs of interest, at one half of one percent, he gets the tidy sum of a half million bucks but it has to sit there for a year.
Do you think Rahm has a hundred million sitting around so he can make a half million in interest? I seriously doubt it.
I've been reading this "Jeez, he is making interest on our money" bullshit for years. They don't have the money to pay the bills, let alone make peanuts in interest on it.
More importantly Custer left the Gatling guns behind so as to be more mobile - deadly mistake!!!
It's only a matter of time before someone calls Carol Marin a racist.
Just A Citizen Says: A bit off topic but…. my 28 year old niece who works in Oakbrook was walking to her car in the parking garage on Thursday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. and 2 little punk kids (14 years old) with 3 guns jumped out at her. She ran to her car and called the police and got the hell out of there. It was a private parking structure for the Joint Commission. The police show up, the kids are surrounded STILL HOLDING THE GUNS and the police draw their guns. Arrest the punks and find they had 2 air guns and a bb gun with the ammo and were using them to break into cars. The parents of the punks WERE UPSET that the police drew their weapons. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? These kids will probably get a hand slap and sent on their way to a life of crime, my niece is terrified to go in the parking structure and I wonder what will happen to the officers? As far as I'm concerned they should have blown those little punks to smithereens but then again, it is not a crime to day dream…. I am so disgusted with the way things are going but where is there to go where you are safe anymore? No where is safe with these liberals and this current regime and then add parents who don't have a moral compass or a brain in their head. How you all survive your job with the stress you are all under is beyond me. God bless all of you out there and I realize this is a Chicago blog but brothers are brothers. Stay safe all of you this summer.
1 Wagon per Sector back in the day.
Back in the day the Squadrol functioned as an HBT or SWAT Team, because nothing says "This Shit is Over" like two pissed off wagon men tired of waiting any longer. But, I think this has been covered by SCC before.
Wagons, heil in 007 we are down 24 cars (no pool). Lots of hours wasted waiting for a car. Soon everyone will be on foot patrol. NOBODY CARES!!!!
You're not alone, it's everywhere.
There is a used car lot on the east side of Cicero Ave. between 6500-6700 south. A few months ago they had two CPD wagons for sale. Seemed weird, you could still make out the outside numbers. They recently had what looked like a Park District truck and a unmarked Crown Vic. Maybe he could rent them to the department?
Anonymous said...
I want whats owed to me when it's owed to me... WTF Rahm pay us our VRI money already! This guy loves to bend the rules when they favor him, how much more money is he making off the interest?!?
6/22/2014 01:20:00 AM
He makes shit off the interest on VRI or CTA money, Holding that amountfor a few extras days wouldnt pay the postage to mail the check, especially at current interest rates. You guys are reaching. He loses more by paying us on Friday when the paychecks are due on Sunday, so let this one lie and whine and cry about something else.
I do not know " Sgt. Winehouse", but in defense of sergeants ( I spent 18 years as one), they are overwhelmed by reports each shift in a busy district. It is hard to thoroughly read each one. The patrol officers should submit competent and accurate reports for one and who ever slipped in this trick report is a dickhead. Maybe the sergeants instead of returning poorly written and inaccurate reports for a rewrite should spar the officer ? N one wants that for sure.
How can a sgt be overwhelmed reading reports during his shift? In 8 hours he should be able to find to to read reports. News flash Sgt. When you tour of duty is over and you are not overwhelmed you are compensated everyday for a half hour OT to read the reports. For sure we wouldn't want the city to know that that isnt being done.
Ohhhhhhh yaaaaaaaa
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who took office Jan. 1 promising to reduce economic inequality, said he wants to end a 43-year policy that restricts admission at the city's elite high schools to students who score highest on a standardized test.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Has anyone seen then parking lot in the 004th District? "need pictures posted" We have had officer's cars towed from pothole damage and Officers IOD from falling in the holes. Streets and Sanitation says standing orders from city hall not to pave any police lots. Rahm is a piece of shit and he hates the police. Some of the holes are over 2ft deep.
6/22/2014 12:48:00 PM
File a safety complaint
Sounds to me that you children in 011 have too much time on your hands. If the supervisors are smart, they will stick together and start to check your reports at check off time and not release anyone until they were completed, right up to the our. No overtime, no early release, no I gotta.......
If the supervisirs keep you OT they will pay you the OT Simple as that. We unlike the supervisors do not get the 1/2 a day OT in the form of a quarterly check which was supposed to compensate them for having to stay after the tour to sign report. Gig you just thing the city owes you 1/2 hr a day because you are a sgt. You said you needed the ot because you had to check the reports. Ok you get the ot ,now check the reports and quit crying.
Anonymous said...
Back in the day the Squadrol functioned as an HBT or SWAT Team, because nothing says "This Shit is Over" like two pissed off wagon men tired of waiting any longer. But, I think this has been covered by SCC before.
6/22/2014 07:22:00 PM
You are correct sir. Nothing said welcome to Chicago like 2 fat wagon guys beating you with a baton.
Anonymous said...
It’s a citywide phenomenon with regards to a very real shortage of working/available P.D.Ts, functioning vehicles, functioning working computers at the various police facilities in all bureaus except 35th Street and actual manpower. Lots of budgeted money and lots of federal grants with nothing to show should there be a private sector type forensic audit. God forbid if a large scale man made disaster or metrological catastrophic event should occur. The department spends lots of money on information networks, but neglects the end users of all this enormous volumes of information.
PDTs are a front line of communication for the blue shirts are unavailable or don’t work. P.O.s responding to hot calls can review offender descriptions or have knowledge prior to arrival when responding to a life threatening citywide incident. You just can’t keep tying up the air asking to repeat information which other should be accessible to responding officers. This is a real officer safety issue and a major public safety concern which merits sounding alarm bells across the city. Solve the PDT problems or replace those gold stars top to bottom one by one who can’t get the job done. Maybe we should begin with safety grievances for cars working without PDTs? Would a pilot fly without functioning backup communication equipment? Remember, squeaky wheels get the oil. You would think the entrenched big money F.O.P. elected representatives would be in the field with their membership addressing concerns instead of yuking it up with dirty politicians in Springfield and D.C and brown nosing with the national and state lodge.
police captain marty ryczek was in charge of all PDT'S.
he had 1 guy fixing them for the whole city!!!
things are slowly getting better from the ship he sank while he was in charge.
now the 9th district has to deal with his bad managing skill.
See if they can order up some wagons
full of trunk monkeys
Anonymous said...
I don't blame the vendors either, you can't stay in business if you don't get paid. I bet the vendors that supply projects near and dear to Rahmmy get paid forthwith.
We have had a missing door at my unit since before the winter, few cars have working computers, fewer have working cameras, many are falling apart. The interlocks in the newer buildings fail right after the warranty expires.
The city has money for bike trails, parks for the police hating wife of the former mayor, basketball arenas for teams that haven't even made the NIT, much less the NCAA , in years.
Here's a novel idea Rahm,,,spend money on the things that matter, not your libshit bike lanes, more roadscaping and Presidential libraries
6/22/2014 10:04:00 AM
Those bike lanes,roadscaping,and Presidential libraries DO matter-to HIM.
Anonymous said...
I can remember a time when we had four sectors per districts and a wagon in each sector. Older police stations had "Ambulance" carved in over one of their garage doors. There were two folding stretchers in each squadrol. The green one was for deceased and the stories of moving bodies became the folklore of this department and the unofficial hard earned title of "Wagonman" meant toughness and reliability.
There were fewer CFD Ambulances then and our squadrols often made hospital transports of the sick and injured.
Maybe it is part of Rahm's plan, like towing and body removal to have prisoner transport privatized. That would put a few more buck in his campaign coffers.
6/22/2014 02:27:00 PM
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I came on on n 1986 and we never had 4 sectors in the districts i worked in. We did have awesome wagon guys who knew their job and took shit from NO ONE!
Nowadays, our wagon guys are a bunch of sissies.
(OT) rahms chances sunk Hillary's medical condition not fit to be president, oh well now maybe this country can elect someone that will move this once mighty ntion forward!
http://drudgereport.com/flashek.htm
Has anyone seen then parking lot in the 004th District? "need pictures posted" We have had officer's cars towed from pothole damage and Officers IOD from falling in the holes.
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WHAT ???
Where's 004 again?? 103rd Street?
I'm on my way !!!
KIA Sorentos for everybody!
Just A Citizen Says: A bit off topic but…. my 28 year old niece who works in Oakbrook was walking to her car in the parking garage on Thursday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. and 2 little punk kids (14 years old) with 3 guns jumped out at her. She ran to her car and called the police and got the hell out of there. It was a private parking structure for the Joint Commission. The police show up, the kids are surrounded STILL HOLDING THE GUNS and the police draw their guns. Arrest the punks and find they had 2 air guns and a bb gun with the ammo and were using them to break into cars. The parents of the punks WERE UPSET that the police drew their weapons. WTF IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE? These kids will probably get a hand slap and sent on their way to a life of crime, my niece is terrified to go in the parking structure and I wonder what will happen to the officers? As far as I'm concerned they should have blown those little punks to smithereens but then again, it is not a crime to day dream…. I am so disgusted with the way things are going but where is there to go where you are safe anymore? No where is safe with these liberals and this current regime and then add parents who don't have a moral compass or a brain in their head. How you all survive your job with the stress you are all under is beyond me. God bless all of you out there and I realize this is a Chicago blog but brothers are brothers. Stay safe all of you this summer.
6/22/2014 04:57:00 PM
Have your niece write a letter to the police chief of that suburb, the Mayor, and the union for that dept if they have one, commending the police response. Also, ask her to write about how she felt when confronted by those savages. Ask her to to use her full name with contact info. It could save the officers a lot of grief, or even their jobs.
I guess this type of thinking would work for those coppers who want to lay down.
6/22/2014 12:17:00 AM
If it's not on the homefront, who cares?
12:40pm...
Protecting the crime scene IS protecting the recruit. If the crowd gathers and you lose the scene you could lose evidence that will keep the recruit from losing his house or his freedom or his job. Yeah, the young guy went through a traumatic experience, better to wait a few minutes to get everything under control and then get counseled rather than it being all fucked up and being stressed for the next few years. But you are probably one of the geniuses that talks shit about the dics all the time.
lockups are down too.....
Why does it matter to you how she made Sgt.? The fact of the matter is that she is now your Sgt. So shut up, do your job, follow her orders and then go home and rinse/repeat the next day.
6/22/2014 07:42:00 AM
That's exactly the point to be made.If you follow her orders you MAY NOT GO HOME, or may not have a home to go to.
It's not just wagons.
Pdt ' s, cameras and lockups.
I feel like I work for the east german police.
Soon when you go to qualify they will tell you to dry fire and say bang. 30 rnds a year or 0....not much of a difference.
If you feel like you were working for the east German police then you would have nothing to complain about. The south and west sides of the city would be walled off with have a strip of land of land on the other side as a "No Man's Land" guarded with automatic machine guns and guard towers.
Actually, that sounds pretty good.
What is the capacity and set-up time to use them? Drop the stairs/raise the stairs ( lower the draw bridge / raise the draw bridge) WTF.
Too much work just to load arrestees.
And don't forget, that jag who just fought you while you tried to cuff him, you have to get inside the van compartment to "seat belt" him in.
Wagons are broken, fax machines are broken, printers/copiers are broken, outdated software, outdated computers, lockup closed for broken doors, PDTS which suffer from PTSD, squad cars are held together with some duct tape and a prayer. Meanwhile we have 1- yes 1, mechanic to service a fleet of cars at the Area, and 1 technician to fix every PDT in the city! I'd make bets that Rahm has the wheels on his leather office chair greased every goddamn day! Even officers themselves are falling apart- I've never seen so many people afflicted with cancer in my life than I have in my 12 years on this job. You would think we work in some plutonium processing plant with the number of cases that we have on this department. They should actually do a study because this does not sound right. It is evident that no one cares, especially the people trusted and paid generously to run this dept. and city who allow this shit to continue- world class city ......NP!
Anonymous said...
OT
I will support changing the Redskins name when they change the name of Cracker Barrel.
6/22/2014 12:44:00 PM
LOLOL that one was funny on an otherwise blahhhh morning.
Don't know if you guys know this, but it is true, if you do business with the City, County, or State and are a minority business you get paid more money for your work then a no minority contractor. This is the honest to God truth, the city for years has had to make purchase for goods and must pay inflated rates. They can also make so called Emergency purchase using a minority owned business, years back when Harold Washington was mayor the garages
were forced to buy tires from some Bullshit tire shop on the southside who was charging some outrageous prices. Life goes on as it did with Daley under Rahm.
Maybe we could call the guy in Sycamore, Veto Enterprises and rent some of the movie cars. They are old squad cars from the burbs, but in much better shape than most of our newer stuff.
Daley really screwed the emergency services whan he placed fleet in charge.
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I came on on n 1986 and we never had 4 sectors in the districts i worked in. We did have awesome wagon guys who knew their job and took shit from NO ONE!
Nowadays, our wagon guys are a bunch of sissies.
6/22/2014 10:45:00 PM
Not every district had 4 sectors. Fast districts did, 018 did, 018 had 5 wagons up at one time, one was strictly for Rush St. I was in 024 in 1986. We had three wagons, 71, 72 and 73. Every day.
"Why does it matter to you how she made Sgt.? The fact of the matter is that she is now your Sgt. So shut up, do your job, follow her orders and then go home and rinse/repeat the next day.
6/22/2014 07:42:00 AM"
Speaks to legitimacy & competence, apparently foreign concepts to a Dildo like you.
IN RESPONSE TO: Have your niece write a letter to the police chief of that suburb, the Mayor, and the union for that dept if they have one, commending the police response. Also, ask her to write about how she felt when confronted by those savages. Ask her to to use her full name with contact info. It could save the officers a lot of grief, or even their jobs.
6/22/2014 11:27:00 PM
Thank you for the info. I, as well as my sister (her mom) and my niece are all going to write letters. Thank you for getting back to me so quickly on this. I love this blog. God bless.
I remember the last time I was concerned about a wagon shortage. We needed another vehicle to transport all the cold beverages to our annual summer mobile party down on the beach. The good old days!
Sounds to me that you children in 011 have too much time on your hands. If the supervisors are smart, they will stick together and start to check your reports at check off time and not release anyone until they were completed, right up to the our. No overtime, no early release, no I gotta.......
If the supervisirs keep you OT they will pay you the OT Simple as that. We unlike the supervisors do not get the 1/2 a day OT in the form of a quarterly check which was supposed to compensate them for having to stay after the tour to sign report. Gig you just thing the city owes you 1/2 hr a day because you are a sgt. You said you needed the ot because you had to check the reports. Ok you get the ot ,now check the reports and quit crying.
6/22/2014 09:15:00 PM
They actually get 3/4 of an hour a day. It's guaranteed. No need for them to stay overtime to earn it. It has nothing to do with supervisors quarterly checks. So everyone can stay the full 9 the Sgts will get overtime(like always) and you will get shit. They will figure out how to fuck with you guys. You strokes should have kept your shit talking on the bathroom wall.
I came on on n 1986 and we never had 4 sectors in the districts i worked in. We did have awesome wagon guys who knew their job and took shit from NO ONE!
Nowadays, our wagon guys are a bunch of sissies.
Caused by bosses that came on in 1986
Cracker Barrell. Good one!
Anonymous said...
Oh stop crying, just start loading them in garbage trucks. people, we must learn to use our resources more efficiently.
6/22/2014 12:01:00 PM
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Anonymous said...
(OT) rahms chances sunk Hillary's medical condition not fit to be president, oh well now maybe this country can elect someone that will move this once mighty ntion forward!
http://drudgereport.com/flashek.htm
6/22/2014 11:08:00 PM
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Now, if we can just get Jeb Bush some health problems, we can be rid of these two families and their desire to be president.
The newspaper, Chicago Defender, back in the day, had a column titled " When the wagon comes, everyone goes." It was on the left side of the front page. Hilarious.
"my 28 year old niece who works in Oakbrook was walking to her car in the parking garage on Thursday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. and 2 little punk kids (14 years old) with 3 guns jumped out at her"
At that point, the problem isn't the parents, or the mayor, or the commissioner, or anyone else BUT your niece. When two punks armed with (as-it-turns-out toy) guns are threatening your life, you pull out your piece and you end the game for them. If you think they're guns, if they look like guns, they're GUNS. I'm sorry for your niece, but in this day and age, enough with the grief counselors and "fear of your garage". Prepare for battle, and when it comes knocking, you know what to do. If it came knocking and you weren't ready and you lucked out, take that as a severe warning. Get a FOID, get a CCW, practice, and be ready.
And it just so happens that, yes, I remember the wagon guys too. I don't know how, never been a cop and was born in 1970. But I remember them well. My grandmother still lived in the old neighborhood in the '80s when it started going downhill. That must be where I remember them from.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Used to be "falling off of the wagon" meant you stopped drinking booze. What does it mean now with no wagons up? Just a thought.
6/22/2014 10:37:00 AM
"Falling off of the wagon," always meant starting to drink again after you went on the Water Wagon.
We need a change from the top down,Obama still blaming bush has totally wrecked this country, gas alone is almost 3 dollars more than when president Bush left office, the world has no respect for our once great country, Putin in Russia just laughs at obamas stupid worthless requests, let's hope we het a conservative in that will slam the borders shut, help our military rebuild, get the economy rolling, a community organizer as president who would of thought how dumb the voting public is!
6/22/2014 11:13:00 AM
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Ummm, Barry is a dope, but I hope you don't think that gas was only a dollar a gallon in 2009.
Anonymous said...
We need a change from the top down,Obama still blaming bush has totally wrecked this country, gas alone is almost 3 dollars more than when president Bush left office, the world has no respect for our once great country, Putin in Russia just laughs at obamas stupid worthless requests, let's hope we het a conservative in that will slam the borders shut, help our military rebuild, get the economy rolling, a community organizer as president who would of thought how dumb the voting public is!
6/22/2014 11:13:00 AM
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Ummm, Barry is a dope, but I hope you don't think that gas was only a dollar a gallon in 2009.
6/24/2014 07:31:00 AM
Gas was under $2.00/gal pre-Obama.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
In these times of monetary shortages, the CPD must learn to be flexible, improvise and make do. Be ingeious. Be thankful that pay-cuts have not yet taken place It is a time of sacrafice for the whole city.
6/22/2014 12:19:00 AM
Or Rham can divert tiff money. We're not broke, not when the city is moving forward with new basketball stadiums, new parks, and building hotels for wealthy corporations.
6/22/2014 08:55:00 AM
The politicians aren't sacrificing ANYTHING.
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