McCarthy - Patsy?
An interesting theory and an always entertaining read from Jack Dunphy, the "nom de cyber" of an LAPD copper with a biting insight:
- Poor Garry McCarthy. Only a few years ago he was on top of the law-enforcement world. He had risen through the ranks of the New York Police Department to become a deputy commissioner, from which position he was induced to cross the Hudson River and take command of the police department in Newark. During his tenure there, crime fell by 21 percent, with homicides down by 28 percent and shootings down by 46 percent. So impressed by this record was Rahm Emanuel that upon his 2011 election as mayor of Chicago, he invited McCarthy to become superintendent of that city’s police department.
It’s hard to imagine someone in Chicago longing for the good old days in Newark, but I suspect that’s just what McCarthy must be doing, for he is now out of a job, cast off as an expendable in the cause of keeping Emanuel’s name on the door at City Hall. McCarthy may have come to Chicago thinking he was going to show the rubes on the prairie how police work is done in the Big City Back East, but in the end it was the rubes who showed him how politics is done in Chicago.
If he didn’t see it coming, he had no business in the job in the first place. I can’t claim any great expertise in the ways of Chicago politics, but I am very much of a Chicagophile. Ever since my first of many visits to the city some 30 years ago, I’ve wondered how Chicago simultaneously produced some of the greatest people I’ve known and some of the most loathsome politicians the country has ever seen. Stuff for another column someday, perhaps.
He's picked out McCarthy's entire New York style attitude - we pointed out many times as did readers that McCarthy brought with him an unpleasant air that the NYPD and he invented policing and we were lucky to have him here to teach us all about it.
Dunphy touches much that the media is hashing out and a bunch that they aren't. It's a good read and, for an outsider to the Chicago scene (but an avowed "Chicago-phile") very insightful. Give it a read.
Dunphy touches much that the media is hashing out and a bunch that they aren't. It's a good read and, for an outsider to the Chicago scene (but an avowed "Chicago-phile") very insightful. Give it a read.
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posted by SCC at 12:41 AM
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O.T. Skokie pays out $875,000 in police excessive force case from 2013
Here's the interesting part...
"The settlement says the three officers will pay in total $625,000. The village said it has accepted financial responsibility for the employees."
I didn't think that this was legal or is that what corp counsel wants us to believe?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/skokie/news/ct-skr-hart-settlement-tl-1224-20151218-story.html
McCarthy was a good little soldier for Rahm and jumped on a grenade when ordered.
Not a WORD out of Rahm's little soldier since.
He'll land on his feet somewhere making great money, and somehow, you'll be able to connect that job back to Rahm, all for keeping his pie-hole shut.
They can put him in charge of the Professional Shooting League since he has so much prior training with streetlights and all.
>It’s important to remember that in Chicago, every last politician is a Democrat.<
I might add, that should read "politician and newspaper reporter" . It's called loyalty, that's how us rubes roll.
So Garry thought there was someone he could tell his side to? John Kass? Ha ha.
He was brought here as a hatchet man, period.
Rahm wanted costs cut and McDrinkiePoo's role was to lie about manpower/crime and dismantle the CPD.
And like every other Supe, he had to know that he would be launched one day.
Poor Gary! A piece of shit (Rahm) found another piece of shit (Gary) and they made a huge pile of SHIT to put on top of the big pile of SHIT DALEY left, This city has its share of turds!
It is obvious and well-known around the world about Chicago politics and corruption; the systemic issues and gang shootings --- TIC for TAC: code of silence on the streets for both the COPS and GANGBANGERS.
Yes, McCarthy was Rahm’s patsy/red herring. But Rahm is a very smart man; did he think that knocking McCarthy off that all the protecting would go away? Creating a new group or task force? Previous ones did not work.
Whether the department wants to believe it or not, McCarthy had your back – City Hall does not/did not/ and will never. Now finally the department has bought down and bringing down that old way of thinking; an administration; and ending City Hall’s running of the department. And Rahm, McCarthy had your back as well; but your actions as now back fired:
Per an DNA Chicago article:
""In our town, everybody knows all roads lead to the mayor's office, no matter who’s in power.
The mayor historically sits atop an elaborate pyramid of power designed by the Democratic Machine that cynics will tell you was constructed to preserve a publicly accepted level of crookedness locals refer to, sometimes lovingly, as "The Chicago Way.”
At first glance, it might look like Chicago’s top cop runs the police department, but it’s Chicago’s mayor who is always in charge. Not only does the mayor hire the police superintendent, he sets the police budget and has constant oversight.
DNAinfo Chicago reported that starting in 2013, McCarthy made a failed attempt to push Mayor Emanuel to change rules in the contract — along with making changes to other city laws and policies that the then-top cop believed stood in the way of reforming police discipline.
Ultimately, Emanuel signed off on a contract billed as a win for taxpayers that allowed details about officer misconduct complaints to remain secret.
A years long rift between ousted police Supt. Garry McCarthy and city attorney Stephen Patton effectively derailed the former top cop’s efforts to make substantial reforms to the city’s police disciplinary system in 2013, top city sources told DNAinfo Chicago.
The revelation of a behind-the-scenes battle between the city's top police officer and its top lawyer shines new light on the city's Police Department
The source familiar with McCarthy’s pitch said the superintendent aimed to give the mayor justification to push for major changes to city laws and the police union contract, which was being renegotiated at that time, to make misconduct investigations more transparent. The changes also would have given McCarthy authority to discipline — and terminate — officers with sustained misconduct investigations.
Six months ago, recently ousted Police Supt. Garry McCarthy headed into Chicago's neighborhoods as part of a so-called "listening tour" aimed at coming up with ways to improve communication between the Chicago Police Department and community leaders.
Chicagoans never heard back from McCarthy, but that's not because their advice fell on deaf ears.
Indeed, the top cop produced a 20-page report complete with a PowerPoint presentation that quietly got shelved by City Hall last month on the day McCarthy planned to take the proposal back to the neighborhood leaders he met with over the summer.
According to McCarthy's previously unreleased report, the Police Department has failed to communicate with the public and media quickly enough, resulting in inaccurate narratives when providing information about highly charged incidents.""
Yes, the DOJ needs to question City Hall more than it needs to at Police HQ.
A bankruptcy will expose them even more.
Now, McCarthy should sing like a canary bird; yeah, you no longer have to have the mayor’s back. You show 'em the Dirty Jerz Way!
True True.
There's just no way we can keep you on.
I really don't even work here.
That what makes this so difficult.
Speaking of an unpleasant NY air and attitude when will Tracy and McGoofy's other comrades be shown the door??
More Information on: SUSPICIOUS PACKAGES
One of the people I know who received these found an envelope inside asking for a donation to "The Muslim Community of Bollingbrook and The Book of Signs Foundation in Lombard".
More information as it becomes available. Don't do anything stupid.
But this is Chicago, the land of gun crazed citizens. Instead of Chiraq, it should be called the land of the zombies.
Rubes on the prairie?! Ah, you're all wet I tell ya! You're all balled up bub. Here in the Windy City we're the real cat's meow, the bee's knees! Now beat it, hit the bricks before we give you the bum's rush! Why I ought ah.
Better ditch the Contact Card bullshit and any idea it does anything but cause problems .
OT --
"SOCIAL WORKERS" TAKE OVER CONTROL OF OUR MILITARY BASES
No 'daycare center': Lawmakers tell Obama not to use Ft. Hood to house illegal immigrant kids
December 18, 2015
"Two Texas lawmakers wrote President Obama this week to oppose a possible plan to use Fort Hood military base to house unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed into the U.S. from Mexico.
"Republican congressmen John Carter and Roger Williams, whose districts both include parts of the sprawling military base, say...“We strongly urge your Administration not to house illegal immigrants on any military base.”
"Fort Hood, a 215,000-acre base that lies halfway between Austin and Waco, is home to around 50,000 military and civilian personnel.
“It is outrageous that this administration would even consider using our military installations to shelter illegal immigrants who have crossed our southern border,” Carter said. “President Obama needs to enforce our immigration laws and secure our border, not undermine our military at a time when our country is facing increased threats from radical Islamic terrorists.
"Last year, amid a surge of unaccompanied children streaming in from Central America, the Pentagon began housing thousands of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in Texas, Naval Base Ventura County, in California, and at Fort Sill, in Oklahoma.
"The Department of Health and Human Services...is once again being stretched to the limit by a surge that has reached an estimated 10,000 since October...it isn’t even up to the Pentagon whether or not the base is used.
“Representatives from HHS [will] determine if our installation is suitable...“HHS WILL MAKE THE FINAL DETERMINATION IF THEY WILL USE FORT HOOD FOR UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN OPERATIONS.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/18/no-daycare-center-lawmakers-tell-obama-not-to-use-ft-hood-to-house-illegal-immigrant-kids.html?intcmp=hpbt3&intcmp=latestnews
...and some of these "kids" are kinda, well, big...
Well, of course he was a patsy. I was a supporter of McCarthy when he first got here, but it was time for a change. The current acting sup is not the answer and without question, the push for Ernie Brown to run the department is just plain scary. Unfortunately, I will say that it must be an outsider, again, someone with a clean reputation. Bratton said many times that he would never come to Chicago because of the dirty politics. Maybe someone from the LAPD since they just went through 10 years of Justice oversight ? Bad time to be a cop in Chicago, or anywhere for that matter. The racial spoils system in this town is alive and well and the calls for more minority cops and a black superintendent gets louder every day, as if that is the answer to anything. It seems blacks think that only they can police black areas and be successful. For the answer to that I point to Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Atlanta, Harvey, Robbins etc etc etc.
I would like to be the first person to nominate to the MERIT PROCESS, the African American Boss from Milwaukee. One of the few, Don't give a damn about what color, race, gender you are, if your bad, your bad, type of guys. He would do wonders down here !!
Is it true that they are looking to put another class of et's through the academy?
Very touching about McCarthy and all, but he is not a virtuous and moral man, or else he wouldn't have made a deal with the Devil for his job in the first place. Lay down with dogs and you get fleas. Now he's unemployed and forever branded a patsy.
OT:
New Super 012 is getting bodycams.
They will never catch me on camera, though... As you know, ghosts are ethereal and cannot be photographed. Yet I still hear and see all.
We said it from day one that McCarthy was in way over his head from the start. McCarthy was on his way out here until NATO went somewhat smooth. That Monday he was on the front page of the SunTimes acting like he was a 5 star general. He was lucky he lasted as long as he did here. He was just to arrogant to see that!
This topic and the following one regarding the "wrong fifth floor" should be all encompassing. Anyone, including blind liberal insane followers, should be able to admit to themselves that Da Mayor, and he alone, controls whatever happens in this department. Sure, McCarthy made some minor changes, but everything that has led to the "culture of corruption" or the new hashtag campaign of #cpdincrisis comes from city hall and not the "Public Safety Headquarters" building.
This 'dramatic drop in crime' is nothing more than COPMSTAT nonsense and Pixie Dust. Rahm brought in a snake oil salesman that kept lying about a huge drop in crime when there was none. Do you feel safer?
The beatings that the wizards of COMPSTAT touted made the Commanders fall in line. Crime was down, we are amazing! McCarthy had the added benefit of loving the camera. This ego maniac loved being in the spotlight so much that, like the trained monkey he was, he regurgitated any anti-gun nonsense he was given by the Democratic machine. This was a National circus act. Chicago elected two Presidents don't you know.
As a Chicagoan, it was embarrassing.
let's call a bus for McCarthy ... forthwith
not a GMac fan by any means, but...the Chicago machine, its political culture of corruption, and race based politics, chewed him up like ground beef.....maybe he should have appreciated that, coming from NY and NJ, but, when Rham said, I have your back, maybe GMac should have looked for the knife.....
The term of superintendent in Chicago is usually 3 to 4 years, so he outlasted most.
I'm SS/Hyde Park Chicagoan born and bred, returned. But, I lived in New York City 5 incredible years late 80s, early 90s when New York City descended in to crime, homeless, Leftist, Sharpton anarchy, hell.
I was always impressed even in the worst of times with the esprit de corps of the NYPD. Once given a free hand by Mayor Guliani the NYPD led by very impressive Police Chiefs Bratton and Kelly TOOK BACK THE STREETS of NYC.
I like the way the NYPD never backed down to the worst demagogues, Lugenpresse -(Lying press) and the very impressive reductions in crime, especially reductions in murder (of Blacks and Hispanics) were testimonies to the culture of no nonsense policing by the NYPD.
Chicago of course has had good police (I was 7 years old during the '68 my family was solidly on the side of Senior mayor Daly and the Chicago police against the likes of Bill Ayers). But, hasn't had the same "take back the streets" approach of the NYPD.
I had some good hopes for McCarthy. But, his pandering with the likes of Father Faker and the Lib/Black Obama/Rahm types was always going to make him suspect.
One shooting of a deranged PCP brain addled criminal has forced him out.
Yeah, I want NYPD style policing in our Chicago. Also, the NYPD has better uniforms. There are too many overweight lesbians on the Chicago police force - not inspiring.
Not to worry Von rahm has your back.
The best thing that McCarthy could have brought here was the NYPD anti-terrorism unit and to construct a unit similar to NYPD Emergency Services Unit. Since this city is too cheap to spend money on a cross trained unit such as ESU and too stupid to realize that the third largest city that is home to the POTUS, a Jewish Mayor and a very badly beaten down police force is an extremely likely target for jihad.
14 shot and no fatalities, come on Chicago, only 19 til 500, BLM.
Good...Now as an act of reason, take every boss promoted by McCarthy meritoriously, and ask for their resignation, or demote them. Get rid of the meritorious promotion system in all but the most of deserving circumstances. (put the merit back in Meritorious )Ask for the resignation of every hack promoted back to Supt. Hilliard's office, if they are still on the job.
Then begin to reboot this Department, as it is on life support anyways it wont be a real shock. Listen to the rank and file members, and you will gain their respect back. Promote people as they are qualified to LEAD. Test scores alone don't cut it either. I have known plenty who can pass a test, but fail in Leadership skills.
It will literally take a Generation to fix this, and it has to have the political will from city hall behind it.(unlikely) Stop the Patronage, Politicians need not apply.
Chicago, do this and you will live. Fail to do so, and live on in misery. Change is hard, and sometimes difficult. The status Quo is NOT working.
For We have seen the Future, and it does not suffice...
Speaks volumes when he stated:
"McCarthy may have come to Chicago thinking he was going to show the rubes on the prairie how police work is done in the Big City Back East, but in the end it was the rubes who showed him how politics is done in Chicago."
I don't understand how some reporter can get CR files from the 60's but we can't FOIA promotional test rank order results. They give the merit slug list, why not the real list of people that made it off the test.
The only way to fix this is by turning the Chicago Pooice Department Superintendant into an elected official instead of an appointed position.
The supe would no longer be beholden to the whim of the mayor.
11:24am
Chicago Police have been far more aggressive in the effort in taking back the street than NYPD could ever hope to be.
The average number of arrests per officer in NYPD is 12 per year. Even the biggest dogs on our department surpass that. The advantage that NYPD has had is triple the amount of police and more importantly a judicial system that actually incarcerates people. NYPD actually collects revenue and jails people who don't pay, our collection rates for ANOV (summons) is probably ten percent. NYPD does not have the gang problems that Chicago and LA have despite being two to three times bigger in size.
Chicago Police consistently take more guns off the street every year than any other department. Chicago Police have been very aggressive for a long time, but thanks to the environment we have to work in those days are over. Your appreciation for CPD on this blog is nice, but what we really need is vocal support to our politicians and the media.
Now that G Mac is gone and the Feds are in (Thanks) keep in mind any contact cards that are completed better be legit with PC, Don't get caught in the net!
I wish Chicago had police officers like this man: http://www1.cbn.com/video/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-skid-row-beat-cop
(btw:I deleted your quotation of the entire DNA article)
Now, McCarthy should sing like a canary bird; yeah, you no longer have to have the mayor’s back. You show 'em the Dirty Jerz Way!
12/19/2015 06:38:00 AM
And who were these assertions in the DNA article verified by? Mrs. McCarthy?
What a crock of hooey.
He never 'listened' on his so-called listening tour.
He lectured.
There was NO report 'about to be published' and taken back to the community.
People, how gullible ARE you?!
Some DNA reporter is a big fan of the McCarthys (or maybe related to the Missus?) DNA's constant championing of this incompetent man should make all kinds of bells and whistles go off for us.
Herr rahm runs the department ! As every past mayor has. It's all a dog and pony show. If the money is spent to modernize ,staff and equip the department as it it should be , there would be less for the mayor and his buddies to steal.
OT: The body camera footage of Baltimore PD is starting to come back and the Officers are doing something brilliant. They are writing everybody for everything saying that because of the camera they have to go line by line with the law... No more breaks for anything... I love it...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Good...Now as an act of reason, take every boss promoted by McCarthy meritoriously, and ask for their resignation, or demote them. Get rid of the meritorious promotion system in all but the most of deserving circumstances. (put the merit back in Meritorious )Ask for the resignation of every hack promoted back to Supt. Hilliard's office, if they are still on the job.
Then begin to reboot this Department, as it is on life support anyways it wont be a real shock. Listen to the rank and file members, and you will gain their respect back. Promote people as they are qualified to LEAD. Test scores alone don't cut it either. I have known plenty who can pass a test, but fail in Leadership skills.
It will literally take a Generation to fix this, and it has to have the political will from city hall behind it.(unlikely) Stop the Patronage, Politicians need not apply.
Chicago, do this and you will live. Fail to do so, and live on in misery. Change is hard, and sometimes difficult. The status Quo is NOT working.
For We have seen the Future, and it does not suffice...
12/19/2015 12:13:00 PM
While this can't work (in a practical sense), I fully support every word and every sentiment that drove you write it.
The biggest hurdle is, it would require someone who loves the department, but isn't associated with the department, with great strength of will and some serious intellect, to be able to implement it.
If you look at the current top leadership of the department, most of the brass are merit or double merit promotes. What happened to all of those officers who actually studied for the test and made the list? You mean, that no one in top leadership actually passed a promotional exam?
Should have known, liberal assholes like Rahm would eat their own mother to save there ass, remember the POS used his own kid to shield himself.....Rahm style.
Just put a body camera on Rahm and Obama. When they meet with the enemies of America is will be great cinema.
Will Rahm visit the prison in Cuba during his Christmas break away from the unclean gentile masses?
Will he stay there indefinitely?
Will Rahm's son be on his cell phone speaking to a college counselor late at night this year?
Will the phone info be wiped clean again?
Yeah, the problem is the unclouted blue shirt in a district....rrrriiiiiggggghhhhhhtttt
Anonymous said...
It is obvious and well-known around the world about Chicago politics and corruption; the systemic issues and gang shootings --- TIC for TAC: code of silence on the streets for both the COPS and GANGBANGERS.
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WTF is "TIC for TAC"?
maybe he can land some monterrey contracts for united.
Whatever happened to the survey JFled said he was going to release? You think the Feds might come across it and ask "Why was this hidden?" Nah.
He is not out of a job he is working for the connected Rick Simon at United Service Companies.
Now, McCarthy should sing like a canary bird; yeah, you no longer have to have the mayor’s back. You show 'em the Dirty Jerz Way!
12/19/2015 06:38:00 AM
You lost me at "McCarthy had your backs". McCarthy was the most one way guy you'll ever meet. He was an egomaniacal, self involved narcissist of the highest order. He had his own back and no one else's. I am amazed he didn't punch the ballerina out in those 5 years, really amazed. Of course, he did just re-directed it at others.
reduce the health care benefits to 50 years of age and at least 20 years of service!
OT --
Getting wilder all the time...
Brazilian police seize submarine used to smuggle cocaine to U.S. or Europe
December 19, 2015
"São Paulo – Police in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pará seized a small submarine that was being prepared to carry cocaine to the U.S. or Europe, authorities said Friday.
"The sub was "practically ready" and would have set out within 10 days with a shipment of cocaine from neighboring Colombia, a state police officer told EFE.
"Police found the submarine in the Guajará-Mirim River, near a fishing settlement in the Atlantic Coast municipality of Vigia de Nazaré.
"Investigators say the construction of the vessel was financed by Colombian drug traffickers.
"At nearly 17 meters (56 feet) long, 4 meters (13 feet) high and 3 meters (9.8 feet) wide, the sub is big enough to accommodate up to 30 tons of cargo and 30 people."
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/12/19/brazilian-police-seize-submarine-used-smuggle-cocaine-to-us-or-europe/
Somehow reminds me of the Civil War Confederate sub, the H.L. Hunley. The thing was propelled by a dozen guys hand-cranking, with a big bomb on a stick out front to sink ships. Sank once, entire crew lost, sank again with whole crew, not found again until recently. Fascinating historical site here --
http://www.hunley.org/
Told ya so...
Rahm was giddy like an adolescent school-girl over
McLawEnforcementGypsy, his traveling ways and the
poisonous, Police & Crime Stat potions, elixirs, tinctures and salves
he and his Compstat brethren were peddling as a cure for "out of control"
Police Departments in America's Democrat-Run urban centers.
>Snicker!<
Rahm said:
"He's from central casting!"
We said:
>Raised eyebrow of concern
but withholding judgement for the moment<
McCarthy did:
Make tracks to St.Sabina as his first order of business
and did engage in the most shameless and unmanly
display of ass-smoochery/knob-slobbery/pandering ever
witnessed by our 50+ year old eyes.
We thought:
Giving the "communerty" de facto impunity to do the fool
while inferring a check on proper law enforcement response
to the doing of said fool.
Then?
Dynamiting city-wide response units.
Combining districts while lying to the taxpayers about
"No Loss" in Police manpower.
While lujacking every spare Copper to points far south and west
from those city-wide units and district closures.
Then chaining the doors on recognized vacancies for years to keep
those lujacked/shanghai-ed Coppers from being able to bid to a
district reasonably close to home.
We knew:
This man hadn't had two seconds of hard and tough times
as a Patrolman. The reports out of NYC were true. He was
a pampered and looked-after Police Princeling who was groomed
to "go places" the very second he walked through the (held open)
doors at the academy.
The rest of everybody else had to step lively to avoid a hard kick in
the ass on that first day of the rest of our lives.
The Take-Away?
McSecondComingOfSirRobertPeel
lost this department as soon as he opened his ample yap
pontificating in the pulpit at St. Sabina...
As an aside...
It is bad and wretched form for the non-annointed
to speak from the pulpit.
It is also against doctrine in most Christian churches for the
pastor, minister, priest to allow lay persons/any political swing-dick
to ascend into the pulpit.
(It's been a while for us. Any clergy, seminarians/other well or better versed
want to clarify? Mistuh Neanderthal or any of the other stalwart, upright regulars?)
Oh well...
We have the joy of seeing the law enforcement conjure-man
from New Yuck getting his own hubris shoved at an obtuse
angle where Bruh Sun can't shine under most normal circumstances.
Enjoy that bumpy-assed ride as you clip-clop out of town in your
gayly painted/gaudily colored wagon, Garry...
May you hang it on a rail crossing with a high crown
just as a train is coming.
O/T but relevant:
Hysterical laughter ensues...
Caught a glimpse of afternoon news.
Blurb about a Chicago Police Recruitment Event.
We thought everyone was on board with making
CPD "go away" and being replaced with the
"For da communerty, by da communerty" po-leece.
Think of all the money Rahm and the alderfools can
steal when they make state training and standards
finally disappear in the face of nuclear option home rule?
Cocked-Hat Public Safety-Customer Service & Revenue Agents.
Gawd is it gonna get ugly here...
Until then...
Police like you have no friends.
"I'm SS/Hyde Park Chicagoan born and bred...
12/19/2015 11:24:00 AM
Did you get your Ferrara Red Hots and Jaw Breakers at Tanenbaum's, 55/Cornell?
"I like the way the NYPD never backed down to the worst demagogues, Lugenpresse -(Lying press)"
Ja, ja, die Lugenpresse im Gleichschaltung -- multiple media outlets all in lockstep, all endlessly repeating the same things.
"All LaQuan, All The Time!"
I'm SS/Hyde Park Chicagoan born and bred, returned. But, I lived in New York City 5 incredible years late 80s, early 90s when New York City descended in to crime, homeless, Leftist, Sharpton anarchy, hell.
I was always impressed even in the worst of times with the esprit de corps of the NYPD. Once given a free hand by Mayor Guliani the NYPD led by very impressive Police Chiefs Bratton and Kelly TOOK BACK THE STREETS of NYC.
I like the way the NYPD never backed down to the worst demagogues, Lugenpresse -(Lying press) and the very impressive reductions in crime, especially reductions in murder (of Blacks and Hispanics) were testimonies to the culture of no nonsense policing by the NYPD.
Chicago of course has had good police (I was 7 years old during the '68 my family was solidly on the side of Senior mayor Daly and the Chicago police against the likes of Bill Ayers). But, hasn't had the same "take back the streets" approach of the NYPD.
I had some good hopes for McCarthy. But, his pandering with the likes of Father Faker and the Lib/Black Obama/Rahm types was always going to make him suspect.
One shooting of a deranged PCP brain addled criminal has forced him out.
Yeah, I want NYPD style policing in our Chicago. Also, the NYPD has better uniforms. There are too many overweight lesbians on the Chicago police force - not inspiring.
12/19/2015 11:24:00 AM
Too many overweight lesbians? Holy shit!!!! Aren't you liberal Hyde Parkers supposed to be against that type of hatred?
OT --
Indiana State police web page on their "active shooter" program --
http://www.in.gov/isp/3191.htm
There is a presentation that you can download, all kinds of good stuff.
Produced across the line from here in the United States, you know? >grin< Thanks, friends. Very professional job.
"The best thing that McCarthy could have brought here was the NYPD anti-terrorism unit and to construct a unit similar to NYPD Emergency Services Unit."
12/19/2015 11:46:00 AM
You betcha. Chicago is just as big and complex, and we really need an outfit like this here. They kick ass on just about any job you can imagine. Tops in high-risk search warrants and apprehensions, special truck for extrication/rescue in construction/building accidents, everything.
Good reading here --
Anti-terrorism --
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8286/
...and ESU.
http://tinyurl.com/pt52k2z
Another great read on anti-terrorism in NYC --
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/07/25/the-terrorism-beat
The hell with Mc carthy. Send a link of the atiricle to Van Dyke's attorney to use A basis for closing arguments.
Are we CALEA certified yet?
McCarthy is not the only Patsy, we all are.
Something is coming and I can smell it. The almost perfect scam for Jackson, Sharpton, Pfleiger and all the BLM domestic terrorists. The city has the enormous. highline, expensive, publicized everywhere event coming up called CHI-TOWN RISING.
Now according to the Trib and they never lie, "Organizers selling tickets for inaugural New Year's Eve event once billed as free". Who is getting that money?
All these community activists (extortionists) could be going to Rahm and whispering in his ear. They will threaten that if he does not resign they will crash this party with every man, woman and welfare child in such a way as to make their Black Friday demonstration look like Swan Lake. Or they could be demanding a few $million, (that should go to our pensions) under the table to just make a token appearance before midnight and be gone. Otherwise they will bring hell on the streets and invade the hotels and parties and what are we supposed to do about it.
Stay Safe. I would have to get hurt in any way shape or form so Rahm could stay as mayor and continue to rob the citizens of Chicago.
>>>Anonymous said...
McCarthy was a good little soldier for Rahm and jumped on a grenade when ordered.
Not a WORD out of Rahm's little soldier since.
He'll land on his feet somewhere making great money, and somehow, you'll be able to connect that job back to Rahm, all for keeping his pie-hole shut.
12/19/2015 01:16:00 AM<<<
Will that money be a six-figure salary and perks (like Phil Cline) for the Chicago Police Foundation. May be spoiled now for public appearances anyway. Will we be pressured to make donations?
Well stated article.
The NYC attitude problem is nothing new. Back in the 70's two refugees from NYPD command came to the Midwest: Daniel Cawley to suburban Kenosha and James Carvino next door in Racine. Both tried to run those departments like NYPD. That didn't sit well with people.
Cawley moved back east for a gig with the U.S. Park Police and he got Carvino a job as chief of the U.S. Capitol Police. The NYPD 'tude didn't fare well there, either. Carvino got a blanket party from the troops who were more connected than he could ever be.
Yes, the DOJ needs to question City Hall more than it needs to at Police HQ.
LOL! They won't do shit! DOJ is just here as dog and pony show for the public. And for Rahm to show public "see I welcome change"....again! The DOJ is here to save Rahm's job and to take spot light off of him. The fifth floor needs CPD to fuck up once and awhile to create crisis and we all know politicians don't let a crisis go to waste. It takes heat off of politicians. BUT a few more lowly PO's may get jammed up to justify to public why DOJ is here.
It's beautiful when a smart m/fer outsmarts himself.
Speaking of an unpleasant NY air and attitude when will Tracy and McGoofy's other comrades be shown the door.
When the Democratic machines sets up Garry with his next gig. Tracy will follow Garry. It really is scripted like WWE here in Chitown.
Of course McCarthy was the patsy. Every big democratic city police chief/superintendent is nothing but a patsy.
You have little to no say over hiring, promotion or your command staff. Those are either controlled by the city budget or politics.
He had to know that going in. If he didn't he is too stupid to be allowed out alone.
All Escalante is doing is keeping the seat warm until whom Rahm really wants is available.
And it won't be a kick-ass copper type.
Stay fetal. And you can never be too fetal.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm SS/Hyde Park Chicagoan born and bred, returned. But, I lived in New York City 5 incredible years late 80s, early 90s when New York City descended in to crime, homeless, Leftist, Sharpton anarchy, hell...
~SNIP!~
I was always impressed even in the worst of times with the esprit de corps of the NYPD. Once given a free hand by Mayor Guliani the NYPD led by very impressive Police Chiefs Bratton and Kelly TOOK BACK THE STREETS of NYC.
~SNIP!~
I like the way the NYPD never backed down to the worst demagogues, Lugenpresse -(Lying press) and the very impressive reductions in crime, especially reductions in murder (of Blacks and Hispanics) were testimonies to the culture of no nonsense policing.
Yeah, I want NYPD style policing in our Chicago. Also, the NYPD has better uniforms. There are too many overweight lesbians on the Chicago police force - not inspiring.
12/19/2015 11:24:00 AM
Damn, Mistuh/Missus Hyde Parker...
You couldn't hold your mud long enough to make it to
the "Send" button.
What's your beef with overweight lesbians?
Some of them are quicker to put THE very necessary foot
in a deserving ass than most...
(Real Police Work knows no color, creed or orientation.
Nor does it give a fuck)
You Hyde Parkers are a bunch of nasty-assed classists,
bigots and some-kind-of-phobe phonies just like your
North Shore cousins.
We say "YUK!" whenever one of you pop-up on the radar.
We're very well acquainted with you and yours and you
all were/are some strange birds.
Hindsight being 20/20, we are DEFINITELY glad we missed
out on a slot at Lab School because our parents didn't want to
split us siblings.
But dammit, do we miss the House of Eng restaurant in
the old Del Prado...
Anyone get a post card from Cuba yet?
"Enjoy that bumpy-assed ride as you clip-clop out of town in your
gayly painted/gaudily colored wagon, Garry..."
==============
Aren't you being harsh on someone bought in and had your back? You will never be satisfied with 'whomever' the top cop is... You know damn well it's City Hall calling the shots and now the department and city hall is being bought down.
True, because of Rahm's connections to the White House things might get sugar-coated and others may become a patsy; but this is something that is needed.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Now, McCarthy should sing like a canary bird; yeah, you no longer have to have the mayor’s back. You show 'em the Dirty Jerz Way!
12/19/2015 06:38:00 AM
You lost me at "McCarthy had your backs". McCarthy was the most one way guy you'll ever meet. He was an egomaniacal, self involved narcissist of the highest order. He had his own back and no one else's. I am amazed he didn't punch the ballerina out in those 5 years, really amazed. Of course, he did just re-directed it at others.
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In a 'Top Cop' role; you have to have a certain demeanor - come on'; think about it. Now your Mayor, that's who you are describing.
Anonymous said...
It is obvious and well-known around the world about Chicago politics and corruption; the systemic issues and gang shootings --- TIC for TAC: code of silence on the streets for both the COPS and GANGBANGERS.
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WTF is "TIC for TAC"?
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You know EXACTLY what that means...
Some DNA reporter is a big fan of the McCarthys (or maybe related to the Missus?) DNA's constant championing of this incompetent man should make all kinds of bells and whistles go off for us.
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You know what? That DNA reporter fought City Hall and got that video release!
HELLO!
"Too many overweight lesbians? Holy shit!!!! Aren't you liberal Hyde Parkers supposed to be against that type of hatred?"
I respond:
I have never voted for a Lib Democrat my entire life. As a 7 year old boy during the 1968 Summer of Lib Leftist riots I made up my mind about politics.
I've always followed the anti crime, anti Communist politics of guys like Phily police chief and later mayor Frank Rizo - what I guy!
Anytime anyone must question from day one whether to put the uniform on,because of where they're from,there's a problem!
BCP says --
"It is bad and wretched form for the non-anointed
to speak from the pulpit. It is also against doctrine in most Christian churches for the pastor, minister, priest to allow lay persons/any political swing-dick
to ascend into the pulpit. Any clergy, seminarians/other well or better versed
want to clarify? Mistuh Neanderthal or any of the other stalwart, upright regulars?"
12/19/2015 05:50:00 PM
Wonderful article on "Abuses Of The Pulpit" here --
http://www.truthmagazine.com/archives/volume21/TM021080.html
Covers every situation except letting just anyone get up there. That is so abnormal that I don't even think it entered the learned author's mind.
I don't understand how some reporter can get CR files from the 60's but we can't FOIA promotional test rank order results. They give the merit slug list, why not the real list of people that made it off the test.
12/19/2015 12:26:00 PM
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Great point! Why can't we have the list I rank order?
"...they will bring hell on the streets and invade the hotels and parties and what are we supposed to do about it."
12/19/2015 11:45:00 PM
Do only what the Mayor allows you to do. Hands off. "Give them room to destroy." Worked fine in Baltimore, right?
The $150/ticket people attending this event will be, like, directly the Mayor's guests, so if some diamond tiara or something gets snatched, let him run after the offender. Chanting mob blocking the street, the doors? Stand off as ordered.
Someone punches you in the head, Alvarez will let him go "for the good of the city." Someone breaks your wrist, that can bother you for years afterwards.
"Stay Safe. I would hate to get hurt in any way shape or form so Rahm could stay as mayor and continue to rob the citizens of Chicago."
"Fetal" was his creation, not ours. That word came out of his mouth. Do the absolute minimum set out for you, while protecting yourself and other officers.
"Help! Police!"
"Sorry. The Mayor won't allow us to touch them."
Any fool knows that a bad situation will only escalate if it is not slapped down in the beginning. Any fool but Emanuel, that is. The bm crowd has only become emboldened by the kid-glove treatment.
The usually-quiet other half of the city, the people who still function, the ones who pay the taxes and keep the lights on, is already turning on Rahm because of the disruptions he alllows to continue, the tire-slashing and car-pounding and physical assaults on motorists, and the 19-P'ing of "man with a gun" calls. This is what the Mayor wants. Let it roll.
Like he said when he was crying all over the podium the other day, "it's happening on his watch."
It makes me very sad to say it, it goes against everything "Serve And Protect" stands for, but -- so be it.
BCP says --
"You Hyde Parkers are a bunch of nasty-assed classists, bigots and some-kind-of-phobe phonies...we are DEFINITELY glad we missed out on a slot at Lab School..."
12/20/2015 03:36:00 AM
Oh, some of us came out OK, although there are indeed a lot of the type you describe. Used to be a lot more ordinary people there, until Daley I and Julian Levi decided that a coal delivery or kids playing on a stoop was "urban blight" and came in and flattened the place, UC took over the great residential hotels for student housing, etc.
"But dammit, do we miss the House of Eng restaurant in the old Del Prado..."
I remember the Chicago Beach Hotel when it was Fifth Army Headquarters. Had been used as a military hospital during WWII. Us kids used to slip like ten feet inside the front door and peek around a little before we got yelled at. >grin<
Aren't you being harsh on someone bought in and had your back? You will never be satisfied with 'whomever' the top cop is... You know damn well it's City Hall calling the shots and now the department and city hall is being bought down.
True, because of Rahm's connections to the White House things might get sugar-coated and others may become a patsy; but this is something that is needed.
12/20/2015 06:43:00 AM
You posted 5 times in a row, minutes apart, defending McCarthy and repeating that this asshole "had our backs". Are you completely delusional?
Next time spread the posts out. It's not as obvious.
The list in rank order? Are you kidding that would cause more law suits for the city when you find out you been jumped over by 1000 spots just to get a merit person in.
Please post it. It would be very interesting to see that your boss was 1000 or 500 spot below you.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Enjoy that bumpy-assed ride as you clip-clop out of town in your
gayly painted/gaudily colored wagon, Garry..."
==============
Aren't you being harsh on someone bought in and had your back? You will never be satisfied with 'whomever' the top cop is... You know damn well it's City Hall calling the shots and now the department and city hall is being bought down.
True, because of Rahm's connections to the White House things might get sugar-coated and others may become a patsy; but this is something that is needed.
12/20/2015 06:43:00 AM
Intentionally obtuse, improperly mothered fuck aren't you?
The only back McTriedToStealaHeartAttackPension had
was his own.
Fuck him and all you New Yuck gypsies who tagged along
to steal money and Police resources from law abiding Chicago
Taxpayers who are now wholly vulnerable to the depredations
of Dude Inc. because YOU ASSHOLES thought it would be
funny to implement the fucked-up manpower allocation and
Policing policies you did.
Aye...
All of you cretins should be made to stand on a gallows
for the Law Enforcement treason you committed.
And a bunch of CPD exempts as well for their complicity and duplicity.
Foul and treacherous running dogs, the lot of you...
You tiny car riding, New Yuck ass-clowns
are a sharp stink in the nostrils of Law Enforcement.
A fitting reward for you busters is being reduced to chasing river rats
along the South Branch to pad your pork n' beans with.
Fall backwards into your own asses with your ill-gotten
gain never to torment upright men again.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
It is obvious and well-known around the world about Chicago politics and corruption; the systemic issues and gang shootings --- TIC for TAC: code of silence on the streets for both the COPS and GANGBANGERS.
-------
WTF is "TIC for TAC"?
---------------
You know EXACTLY what that means...
12/20/2015 06:47:00 AM
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A tic-tac is a breath mint.
TIT for TAT is the phrase you want.
Investigate the Academy
Most Instructors there for over 15 yrs
YES while you push you squad on mids in the hood the Select few have a great deal
No CRs Weekends and Holidays off
TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE
The Training SUXs
....and then there's the strange tale of Anthony Batts....
Anonymous The Neanderthal said...
I remember the Chicago Beach Hotel when it was Fifth Army Headquarters. Had been used as a military hospital during WWII. Us kids used to slip like ten feet inside the front door and peek around a little before we got yelled at. >grin<
12/20/2015 12:22:00 PM
Good Gawd...
Memories.
Chicago Beach/5th Army HQ was a nice place.
Condos now and begging for buyers when we last
peeked some years ago.
Dial on the WABAC Machine says:
"SPIIINN!"
>Grin!<
Back atcha man...
Just sittin' up nursing a nice
LBV Port...
(Raised glass)
BCP says --
"You tiny car riding, New Yuck ass-clowns
are a sharp stink in the nostrils of Law Enforcement."
12/20/2015 03:14:00 PM
A lot of good ideas in NYC too, like ESU, Herc teams and dedicated 24/7 anti-terrorism intel and ops centers, with representatives embedded overseas feeding back info all the time.
It's a shame we got CompStat and all the administrative-type BS and "social policies" and not the boots-on-the-ground good ideas.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
It is obvious and well-known around the world about Chicago politics and corruption; the systemic issues and gang shootings --- TIC for TAC: code of silence on the streets for both the COPS and GANGBANGERS.
-------
WTF is "TIC for TAC"?
---------------
You know EXACTLY what that means...
12/20/2015 06:47:00 AM
-----
A tic-tac is a breath mint.
TIT for TAT is the phrase you want.
----
Oh shit, laughing my ass off!!!! I love this blog!!!
Anonymous The Neanderthal said...
BCP says --
"You tiny car riding, New Yuck ass-clowns
are a sharp stink in the nostrils of Law Enforcement."
12/20/2015 03:14:00 PM
A lot of good ideas in NYC too, like ESU, Herc teams and dedicated 24/7 anti-terrorism intel and ops centers, with representatives embedded overseas feeding back info all the time.
It's a shame we got CompStat and all the administrative-type BS and "social policies" and not the boots-on-the-ground good ideas.
12/21/2015 07:54:00 AM
Yeah.
There's that...
You ever get the feeling that the way CPD has been run for the last
quarter century is some grand academic brainfart into how to run
a major P.D. on the cheap?
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