Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Why Didn't We Think of This?

  • ATLANTA (WXIA) – A bold new ad campaign is being launched next week by the board formed as a watchdog group of the Atlanta Police Department.

    It's called 'Don't Run' – and it is a direct response to the number of incidents of police-involved shootings around the country and here in metro Atlanta.

    Starting Monday, at least 20 billboards will be going up in neighborhoods across the city of Atlanta – including in Vine City, just west of the Georgia Dome. The message is a simple one

    "Don't run – that's it," said Steven Reid, executive director of the Atlanta Citizen Review Board.

    As in, don't run – from the police.
Wow.  Maybe these signs can go up around Chicago, too. Next to the "CeaseFire" stickers and the "snitch boxes" and in VRI/VRE enforcement areas and "Impact Zones" and  "Hot Spots" and "Gang Conflict" areas. And as a topper, maybe Rahm can run a parallel ad campaign directed at Officers - call it "Don't Chase." Everyone will be happy then.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The two officers in 014 who got blood all over themselves today saving a 15 year old who had been shot should be promoted meritorious before any kiss asses in the department.

5/06/2015 12:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Running isn't the problem. The trouble starts when they STOP, turn around, and whip a gun out of their waistband.

D'oh.

5/06/2015 01:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now all you have to do is get them to look up and see the billboard.

The complex, rectilinear urban environment is chock-full of signs already. "STOP," "ONE WAY," "LOOK OUT FOR TRAINS," "WRONG WAY," "WALK/DON"T WALK" with flashing orange hands, lights that go green, yellow, red...

...for all the good it does...

5/06/2015 01:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our FOP Prez come up w/that?
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
That ma'fuckah is less proactive then the waste that pushes its way out of the common human asshole.....
That's right, shit is actually more active on its way out of the human sphincter then this guy is on anything....

5/06/2015 01:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can put the "Don't Run" signs up, but I doubt they will be heeded.

5/06/2015 01:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm already on board for the "Don't Chase" aspect.

5/06/2015 01:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Don't run" is a racist remark! Al Sharpton just told me.

5/06/2015 02:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They should put it on the squad cars.

5/06/2015 02:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't Run...

We ALWAYS had that on the Westside...

It was called the 11th Commandment...

Thou Shalt Not Run From the Police...

For verily if thou attempts to flee the angels of the law shall runniest thee to the ground and bring all manner of righteous vengeful hurt upon thee and there will much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Can I get an Amen somebody..

5/06/2015 02:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Somewhat OT, but interesting. http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/relationship-between-welfare-state-crime

5/06/2015 06:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Frank Rizzo said...

How about "Dont shoot eachother", "Dont throw bricks through windows", "Dont deal drugs", or "Get a job"?
But I guess crime is down in Chicago, so its not like we have the same problems here. Way to go Rahm!

5/06/2015 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Already don't chase. Haven't since Jodi W days. Anyone that does is a dumbass. Screw this place

5/06/2015 07:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't run?! Hell, that's been my policy for years. I'm lucky if I walk at a medium pace. The fastest you'll ever see me move is exiting VRI and entering the bar.

5/06/2015 07:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sometimes I am just overwhelmed by the number and type of programs that are in place or starting just to keep the lid on behavior in the black community. When does it ever end?

5/06/2015 08:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...




"Don't run" ?


Already too complicated.

5/06/2015 08:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Waist of money these mutts know not to run! "Office when I'm wrong I'm gone!"

5/06/2015 08:42:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

I like to skip. There should be a campaign for the youngsters to skip away from the police. Call it---"Skip. Don't Shoot"!

I surprise myself sometimes.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

5/06/2015 08:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The City of Chicago would rather strong arm the taxpayers and private sectors for millions in "programs" for the disenchanted and misdirected (by gov'mint programs) urban youth.
Do the "kids" ever follow the rules? Do they ever do what they're told? And really, do these "kids" even know how read?
I'm sure there will be a Daley-Rahm Joint Venture that has an exploratory committee formed to examine the profitability of promoting such a campaign, sponsorships could include Nike,RedBull and BreatheRite.
Won't cost the taxpayers a dime.
Trust me.

5/06/2015 09:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Hot Pursuit said...

Hey at least is about most positive lately.

Hey this guy Walsh on 5th am after 1700hrs.....totally pro police.
Check him out...another positive.

5/06/2015 09:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Paul Kersey said...

Better yet-
Don't Loot - I'll shoot.

5/06/2015 09:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Ygolonac said...

Oooh, awesome idea! Can I get a grant for an all-inclusive billboard campaign?

DON'T CRIME!

5/06/2015 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good idea . Now for the citizens living in mount greenwood . Speeding camera on 111th st by the ag school generated $190,000 in fines in less than three months . Wow add that to our high property taxes , do you think we deserve 2 extra beat cars to patrol our neighborhood ? I do and think most other citizens do . Where is the money going , time for a forensic audit .
By.2211 is often used on calls east of Sacramento , that means no car on patrol . During roll call , check off , no car on patrol in mount greenwood .

5/06/2015 10:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT:
Anybody know how many Whitehouse representatives Pres. Obama is sending to the N.Y. and Idaho police officer funerals?

Anybody...?

5/06/2015 11:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Get a job is a good one. Pay taxes is a good one. Stop eating chips and drinking pop so you won't get diabetes is a good one. It's endless.

5/06/2015 11:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

9:26AM...


Former goof ball Cong. Joe Walsh.

He's all pro-police until it comes to your pension.

No Pension? Then me no give a fuck, Joe.

Now is the time to pressure assholes on the Right to leave our fuckin' pensions alone.

5/06/2015 11:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Flash -- Herring found guilty of murders of CPD Ofc. Michael Flisk and other former PO (sorry I didn't get name, running around doing things.)

This means back to prison to do mandatory life.

Enjoy braiding hair, trading packs of noodles, and shouting out your crimes to the deaf cement walls that heard it all a long time ago.

Buh-bye.

Soft spring day shaping up out there. I have the keys to my own door and can come and go as I please...

Nothing beats it.

5/06/2015 11:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Now all you have to do is get them to look up and see the billboard.

The complex, rectilinear urban environment is chock-full of signs already. "STOP," "ONE WAY," "LOOK OUT FOR TRAINS," "WRONG WAY," "WALK/DON"T WALK" with flashing orange hands, lights that go green, yellow, red...

...for all the good it does...

5/06/2015 01:09:00 AM

Sadly, good sermon like this is only seen/heard by the choir...

Leisurely conversatin' on the corner then the sudden urgent urge to "cross da m/fin' skreet" right now just when your light has been green long enough for you to have been on the gas for a couple of beats...

Then m/fer got nerve to give YOU the shit-eye?

Oh, but he did a quick calculation already...
M/Fers don't do that shit to Yung Bukk & Co.
rollin' through in that ghetto flyer.

Yung Bukk don't give no fuck about rubbing paint across a dawdling m/fer's ass.

>THUMP! SCRAAPE!<
"OWW! 'Destrians got da rights mufukkah!"

"You sayin' sump'in foo?"

>Snerk!<
"Complex Rectilinear Urban Environment?"

We're appropriating that one for later use.

Since we're just about done, we play it for our own amusement only as of late.


5/06/2015 12:13:00 PM  
Anonymous presumptuous said...

What grade level of reading is "don't run"

5/06/2015 12:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think these signs are a good idea.

5/06/2015 12:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guilty verdict in Flisk murder.

RIP Officer Flisk

5/06/2015 01:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We had the signs "don't shoot I want to grow up" that worked out well. Don't run? I chase maybe just maybe 4-6 sidewalk squares in my 29 years (retiring in September), to many coppers got seriously hurt chasing thugs why bother, unless it's assisting a copper not going to risk my future. If you catch the animals what happens in court? Nothing they are released as you have a injury that affects your livelihood, the department does not want you getting into anything why bother! At 1 time called other coppers dog ass for being lazy they retire collect pensions live comfortably,while "hard chargers" are still nursing old wounds, broke body parts!

5/06/2015 01:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The two officers in 014 who got blood all over themselves today saving a 15 year old who had been shot should be promoted meritorious before any kiss asses in the department.

5/06/2015 12:55:00 AM

All they did was insure that this kid will continue to be a leech on society

5/06/2015 01:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a great idea. Too bad none of them know how to read!

5/06/2015 01:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Commissioner Anthony Batts on Wednesday said his department deserves some of the blame for the riots that erupted in the city last week.

“We are part of the problem,” Batts told CNN’s Evan Perez in an interview.

“The community needs to hear from us that we haven’t been part of the solution, and now we have to evolve,” Batts said. “Now we have to change.”

Read more at http://patdollard.com/2015/05/black-baltimore-police-chief-we-are-the-problem/#Q7z1OU1xMGlP31Of.99

5/06/2015 02:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Waist of money these mutts know not to run! "Office when I'm wrong I'm gone!"
5/06/2015 08:42:00 AM

----

Whoever paid for your education "waisted" their money, too.

5/06/2015 02:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can they throw up a few "DON'T RUIN" along side of them, too?

5/06/2015 03:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How long before these efforts are labeled racist?

5/06/2015 03:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) no money for pensions but we can give thug spike lee a 3 million dollar tax break for filming another 1 of his crappy garbage no attendance films here!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-spike-lee-chiraq-3-million-state-grant-alderman-protest-20150506-story.html

5/06/2015 03:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Don't run"? They're assuming the runners can read.

5/06/2015 04:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If they went to a CPS school, they wouldn't be able to read it.

5/06/2015 04:47:00 PM  
Anonymous 5/06/2015 12:55:00 AM--Your an idiot. said...

RE The two officers in 014 who got blood all over themselves today saving a 15 year old who had been shot should be promoted meritorious before any kiss asses in the department-------

You have to be joking! Promoted? Seriously? Is that what you believe it takes to be a GOOD Detective, ET, Sergeant or above? Saving a life is a tremendous accomplishment. It is our core duty. A duty that we ALL would do in the beat of a heart when the crisis hits. But worthy of a promotion, raise and added responsibility? No! Worthy of recognition and respect YES!

5/06/2015 04:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There was one alleged "black leader" who said it is natural for blacks to run when they see a police car, because of the history of oppression by the government etc. etc. etc. So, the Don't Run signs are just another way to keep da bros down, yo.

5/06/2015 05:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Joe Walsh on am 560 at 1700 hrs mon thru fri. Pro police and 2nd amendment. Check out his show.

5/06/2015 05:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can they read?

5/06/2015 05:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I encourage them to run,as long as the animals don't attack the police,and they stay in their areas that don't want police services,and don't support officers let em run. here your report, sorry don't want to risk losing everything we worked for you know,our family,house,freedom,pensions and of course freedom!

Was at doctor yesterday he has many police officers as patients I have minor high blood pressure he told me many officers he sees lately of any age have high blood pressure he finds it peculiar, but them says "I watch what you people (meaning coppers) go through in the media and understand why high blood pressure is so common with us!

5/06/2015 06:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmm that's like don't run red lights, or stop signs. Everyday citizens sometimes do that, kinda hard to reason with criminals sorry but I kinda expect criminals to run, otherwise we would have a long line at the desk to turn them selves in.

5/06/2015 07:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dont bother chasing em,Let them Kill each other.

5/06/2015 07:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...sponsorships could include BreatheRite."

5/06/2015 09:05:00 AM

Oh ho. They wouldn't run the commercials I'd make. Guy runs like a rabbit for blocks, vaulting over all kinds of s__t, and then when he gets cornered it's "I can't breathe."

*

A. Make these nasal strips a political statement, everyone should wear them even with their good suit

B. No-bidder, ofc. must carry them along with Narcan squirters

I can't breathe, but I can smell money.

Don't mind me. I tell myself I'm just poking fun, but then I go out the door where truth becomes stranger than fiction...

Stay free 'n easy 'n loose, all. Don't want to go nuts...

5/06/2015 08:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

2:34AM

So Mote It Be.

5/06/2015 08:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You flop I won't pop

5/06/2015 08:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.bettergov.org/bga_sues_chicago_police_department_again/

5/06/2015 09:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As if the intended recipients of the message can read; and even if they could, WHY should they do what they are told now, after all these years of not following police instructions- or anyone elses, for that matter? Another wet dream.

5/06/2015 09:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about this idea. Don't commit crimes. Be productive members of society. Take responsibility for your lives and those that you create. Simple.

5/06/2015 10:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...



The two officers in 014 who got blood all over themselves today saving a 15 year old who had been shot should be promoted meritorious before any kiss asses in the department.

5/06/2015 12:55:00 AM

Promoted for saving a gangbanging OA who was over there shooting at YLO Cobras when he got shot? Why on earth should they get a promotion? EVEN if it were an innocent citizen (which it wasn't) we have Lifesaving Awards for that. How does that make them supervisor material. Oh wait...I get it, you were being sarcastic.

5/06/2015 10:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) rahms buddy Bruce will not bail out Chicago,

http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/7/71/582444/rauner-tells-council-state-cant-bail-chicago

Will rahms call his buddy Obama to bail out his city? Bush helped out his town Texas they were and are flush with cash! We can use taxpayers dollars for Obama library but Obama won't bail out his city! But they found millions to give the thugs who accused burge no proof just accusations!

5/06/2015 10:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about "Don't arrest"?

5/06/2015 10:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

'Destrians got da rights mufukkah!"

5/06/2015 12:13:00 PM

Shouting this after some earnest driver has a cerebral hemmorhage nosediving it (doesn't have time to even think of the horn) just because you were 1. wandering diagonally across a frighteningly busy arterial street, 2. while engaged in a he-say-she-say argument with companions 3. while stripping out a bag of McD's 4. while never missing a beat on the cellphone 5. while walking backwards and 6. never looking up 7. after dark.

Did I miss anything?

5/06/2015 10:52:00 PM  
Anonymous The Neanderthal said...

"Complex Rectilinear Urban Environment?"

"We're appropriating that one for later use."

5/06/2015 12:13:00 PM

I just hauled a case a Dortmunder into the C.R.U.E. for immediate use.

Having a wonderful time, wish you were here.

Really.

5/06/2015 10:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They should put the DON'T RUN signs on traffic control signals right under the DON'T WALK signs.

That would be very confusing.

5/06/2015 11:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Billboards that say "Don't Run" ? In other words, billboards that say what any responsible father should have said REPEATEDLY to his son.

5/06/2015 11:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"(OT) no money for pensions but we can give thug spike lee a 3 million dollar tax break for filming another 1 of his crappy garbage no attendance films here!"

5/06/2015 03:53:00 PM

Remember the crowds piling onto the buses to go and see "New Jack City?" Screaming, throwing s__t out the windows, determined to see only what they expected to see.

"Gee, if Spike mark me out a thug, I gon ditch my strap and pull my pants up and start studyin rockets and physics and s__t."

Don't hold your breath.

It's a Spike Lee joint.

5/06/2015 11:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Can they read?"

5/06/2015 05:57:00 PM

"Ca..the..."

Huh?

5/06/2015 11:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Stop eating chips and drinking pop so you won't get diabetes..."

5/06/2015 11:12:00 AM

Mo-Salt Blastin Hot Soy Protein Substitute Chips make you chug High Fructose Corn Sweetener Tea. Both are good for you. The more, the better. The manufacturer, ADM, says so. Why would they be filling miles of tank cars with something unhealthy?

You a communist or something?

*

5/07/2015 12:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Years ago I had a young buck bolt on me as I was getting out of the car to drop my lunch debris in the trash can. I laughed.

Laughed much harder when, 5-7 minutes later I get the "Traffic accident. Pedestrian hit by car."

Guess who???

Broke his leg real good. Was never right after. Don't think he ever ran from the police again. Or anyone else.

5/07/2015 12:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

5 officers were served with 30 pending yesterday from callback... Sad day.. And NO they were not bad guys.. Also another PO won his appeal against the city for the SECOND time!! They appealed his return and tried firing him again...second time and the judge said NO. Congrats to this well known officer...you deserve it!!

5/07/2015 04:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

First they need to be taught to READ!!
Waist of money

5/07/2015 05:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Joe Walsh is a right-wing nut job who wants to take away our pension. Think about that. Pro-police? Anti-police officer.

5/07/2015 06:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Sorry I gotta run"
-Jodi Weiss

5/07/2015 07:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rhammy just was just quoted that Nike is sponsoring the "Chiraq Don't Run 5K Marathon " it will conducted over the pot hole covered streets that are not under construction this summer. I want my shirt.

5/07/2015 07:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about this sign, SCC? Follow it and you won't get stopped by the police, searched, arrested, chased, beaten, shot, killed. As a matter of fact you'll have no contact with the police what-so-ever: OBEY THE LAW!

5/07/2015 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yea that will work, but have a picture of grape pop and flaming hot Cheetos next to sign to draw attention to it!

5/07/2015 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...



Anonymous said...
First they need to be taught to READ!!
Waist of money

5/07/2015 05:51:00 AM

Yeah, you could teach them along with correct spelling/usage (Waist/Waste)

5/07/2015 10:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

As if the intended recipients of the message can read; and even if they could, WHY should they do what they are told now, after all these years of not following police instructions- or anyone elses, for that matter? Another wet dream


"Readin's for rich people." To quote Chris Rock from the remake of The Longest Yard.

5/07/2015 10:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Mission Scum said...

I had a brotha tell me it was his God given right to run from the Poleese...I told him it was our God given right to chase, and catch and, and and, well, you get the idea.

5/07/2015 01:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Guess who???"

5/07/2015 12:24:00 AM

SCREE! and then that awful THUD...

Could have rubbed it in, brought him a bag of fries with pump cheese and a pickle-in-a-bag while he was laid up. "Lunch scare you that bad, numbnuts?"

That's a classic.

Actually those are pretty good pickles.

5/07/2015 01:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

don't run! yep that will work, that wouldn't be considered racist though would it? the race card is played for everything and looking at how the city council gave away 5 1/2 million of tax money and were clapping as they gave our money away, makes you wonder!

Hmm when rahm was running for mayor eddie burke (finance committee chairman) sent a letter to voters urging a vote for rahm as he knew how bad city finances were, but yet ed did you not have to approve of this huge payout? ed you wear a CPD star and are you talking about writing that 550 million dollar check due and promised in Dec 2015 to help shore up police pension fund? crickets what say you sir??

5/07/2015 03:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For these ads to make sense, the community they target would have to be essentially criminal.

5/07/2015 09:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh gosh. Two officers got blood on themselves, they should be promoted. How long have you been on this job? Stifle yourself !!!

5/07/2015 10:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Sgt.Saunders (ret) said...

You like Joe Walsh? You will like Mike Gallagher even better. He not only promotes respect and civility for the Police, he also raises funds for injured or murdered Police Officers nationwide.

AM560 the Answer 0900-1100 Mon-Fri

5/08/2015 07:21:00 AM  

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