Cheating Scandal Grows
- The city of Chicago's inspector general is investigating allegations that three recently promoted police lieutenants, including the fiancee of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's hand-picked superintendent, were coached by a high-ranking police official who helped develop the qualifying test, sources said.
The official is Eugene Williams, who oversees the department's administrative activities and was one of the three finalists for police superintendent passed over by Emanuel, according to the sources.
Williams helped develop the lieutenants' exam and, before it was administered in August 2015, led a study group with several clouted sergeants who ended up being promoted after posting high exam scores, according to complaints filed with Inspector General Joseph Ferguson and the department's Internal Affairs Division. The Tribune obtained copies of both complaints.
The Tribune is naming names, too, and pointing out the relationships between Subject Matter Experts and promotees - at least the well known ones. There are others that will eventually come to light, even from past exams. Anyone in the media wondering what a few well placed FOIA requests might reveal? A few good kicks and a whole shitload of careers start collapsing.
Labels: promotions, scandals
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
128 Comments:
They should just make the list public so we can all see all the merit sgts who have all of a sudden mastered all the knowledge.Theres quite a few more besides these 3 goofs.
Wait wait wait.....how the hell can Williams hold a study group after being the one that designed the test????? This is crazy. Even a dumb person knows this is shady. This is theft if people were promoted to a much higher pay grade being given info. from the guy that put the test together. Didn't Williams take the yearly ethics test? This is so WRONG!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Did he mention anything about his fiancé, Nakia, cheating and making Lt.?
I know Eddie is supposedly a nice guy but for him to ignore the 800 lb elephant in the room and completely minimize the story makes me not trust, or respect, him.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
4/16/2016 03:55:00 PM
EXACTLY!
This is Illinois, better yet Chicago, the corruption Capital of the world - Where the last several governors, dozens of aldermen, politicians and high ranking city officials have gone to prison and the connected ones who have been caught, rarely "flip" (aka rat) on anyone.
Unless there is concrete proof - emails, texts, copies of actual exam, video, grand jury testimony, polygraph, etc... Absolutely nothing will come of this because of the demographics of the ones involved.
Only in Chicago, does the Mayor circumvent a 500K nationwide search for a superintendent and appoints (anoints), someone who is actively involved (parliamentarian) in the same group (NOBLE) as his fiancé (secretary), who in turn is involved with a Chief (President of same group) who "proofed" and was the subject matter expert of promotional exams (Sgt's./Lt.'s) and who is presently the subject of an Inspector General's investigation into a cheating scandal regarding the leaking of information to other members of the same group who are also coincidentally ALL on the executive board (recording secretary, treasurer and director of special projects).
Even the corresponding secretary was promoted in one of the top classes of the most recent Sgt.'s exam as well. Must all be a coincidence? So blatantly disgusting! Can you imagine if this would have been the Emerald Society or any other group?
I can't believe no one has connected the fucking dots!
Let us help you and try LOOKING HERE: http://www.noblechicago.org/chapter-board.html
Yes yes my prayers have been answered!
Pull down that whole rotten list. Face it the test was flawed and IAD new about it and still let the department administer a flawed Lt exam!
They should imeadiately put up the old Lt list and promote from that list or expect the unfair labor lawsuits to begin!!!
A shit storm is on the way. Rahm will be mortified.
In reality, Ferguson and local MSM are just tools for the most politically corrupt major city in the nation.
COVER-UP IN PROGRESS! It's the Chicago Way.
Nothing will change until somethings change:
1. Give a test where your paper is graded and the results revealed before the applicant walks out the door.
2. Give a test that does have its questions and answers weighted.
3. Give a test that is truly a test of knowledge and not select the best answer.
4. Forget about the oral portion of the test.
5 Forget about an essay.
6 Know the orders, laws and ordinances and know when to apply them, really very simple.
7 As far as merit is concerned, reveal what actually the cop or sergeant did to warrant being promoted under merit; no secret squirrel shit.
Until then, the fix is in cuz it's "The Chicago Way".
Shhhhhh....if you listen real close you can hear someone grabbing a broom and lifting a rug up....
Yeah ok so nothing will happen to the cheaters or the IAD rats who also got promoted. I learned the first time I got fucked by the city and the CPD that all of it is bullshit. Only thing good ever came out of 31 years working was a 75% pension that the Democrats and the good citizens I protected think we don't deserve. CPD always was corrupt and always will be. Just spend one day down at headquarters and see for yourselves.
It was also confirmed by the sergeant's union that only 2 people failed the first part of the lieutenant's exam. What was the point of even having part 1? How many millions of taxpayer dollars were spent to develop and administer a test that only eliminated 2 people? I would really like to know who the next lowest score belonged to. I would bet that person is a future merit pick if he/she was not already made lieutenant in the first class.
Let's also not forget that the original deadline to sign up for the lieutenant's test was extended by several weeks for unexplained reasons. This new deadline allowed an entire class of sergeants to meet the time in grade standard necessary to qualify to take the test. How many of the first class of lieutenants were in this group? How many will eventually get promoted due to this mysterious extension? Something stinks about this whole promotional process.
EASY SOLUTION!! Check promoted with the same last name as former high ranking supervisors ;)
Why can't the department have the Feds write a 1000 question multiple choice test based on our general orders and job description? The Feds could then proctor the test and you would walk out of the building with your scantron answer sheet and a rank order for everyone who took the exam. No multiple parts, SME's, short answers, or oral exams needed.
Pay attention to the next lieutenant's class to be announced in May. More IAD sergeants are in the next 30 or so by test score. Amazing coincidence that so many from one unit tested in the top 50. That's why this investigation will never amount to anything.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
Copy the DOJ on any anonymous information sent to the reporters?
Ms. Lightfoot was Director of O.P.S. during some of these alleged racial allegations against the CPD as well as others. What did she do to answer questions regarding as a subject matter expert during her tenure at O.P.S.? She is obviously a very articulate woman.
However, for Ms. Lightfoot to come back almost ten years later to ridicule the CPD, when she was the head supervisory member at O.P.S., and said nothing during her tenure, I find disturbing. Further, Investigators under her review sustained allegations against CPD members much as they as are reviewed today.
What happened Ms. Lightfoot for you to come out approximately ten years later to inform the public the system is broken ands appears to be problematic, which you helped to foster.
Transparency needs to exist on all levels. Further, criminal, administrative and procedural due process needs to exist for all parties, which includes both police officers and the public.
Lori she is soooooooooooooooo done with Rahm she wanted Gene Gene the subject matter expert machine to be the Super, and is thoroughly pissed off that Rahm did not pick one of her 3 recommendations that she is going to submarine Eddie Johnson tenure a the head of CPD to to get revenge on Rahm....
Come on the three picks she made heavily favored the reverend backed Williams, Gene had no real competition a nut job CNN Commentator from Hotlanta, no real police experience, and some goody two shoes woman that ran a Department barely the size of on of 22 Chicago police districts that had a reportedly disastrous tenure. Lightfoot stacked the deck in Gene's favor but Rahm the swishy slippery F^&%k that he is called an audible.
Lightfoot is the one keeping this in the news along with whats left of the Councils Black Cacus backed Exempts. This is one of those things that be making me go hum.
Lori Baby you go girl,a whole lot of blacks are being okey doked by Rahm. See you in the funny papers.
I sure hope something finally gets done about this.
Judging by Eddie and Rahm's comments whenever asked about this it seems unlikely though.
Rahm and Eddie have their heads firmly planted in the sand regarding this whole scandal.
I am somewhat encouraged by the fact that at least up to this point the scandal seems to be growing legs and not quietly going away as Rahm and Eddie would like.
Remember it's all about trust and accountability.... right Rahm? Eddie?
Superintendent's squeeze cheated? In The City? -I just don't know what to say.
You really believe it was only this list? This is common practice around this place. Look at past expert subject matter Capt. Jan Dillon. Her sidekick Sgt. Patty Casey having her test administered at home after brain surgery and being coached by said subject matter aka her friend. And how do certain families kids take up all the good spots ya never see them in 007 or 011.
Why can't the department have the Feds write a 1000 question multiple choice test based on our general orders and job description? The Feds could then proctor the test and you would walk out of the building with your scantron answer sheet and a rank order for everyone who took the exam. No multiple parts, SME's, short answers, or oral exams needed.
I agree with this poster. Also when I took the FTO test we all had our results within an hour after the exam. You could wait around for the overall rank or be notified if you made it. I waited and after I finished my exam we all walked downstairs to the ScanTron machine, you handfed your ScanTron form and out came your results. That quick. Then they posted all the scores with your employee number and that was that. I knew I scored like 25/80 and was promoted shortly afterwards. Why can't other tests be the same?
Off topic: SCC can you address the fact that there have been a sudden large number of people stripped and that maybe it coincides to the report that requested IPRA be replaced. I would hate to think that IPRA is merely trying to justify their existence through an overuse of their power and using working police as their pawns.
I remember Judge Prentiss Marshall's response to testing when he screwed me over the first time "I don't care if they arm wrestle for the position"
So what did goof Gene Williams have to say to the crack Internal Affairs investigative team when confronted with the allegations ? Tribune article makes no reference to his statement. Eddie, put him in call back now !
Big changes coming 29 April to be effective 01 May. Look for at least nine exempts to retire and several interesting promotions to take place. The new regime has been working on these this past week.
Why would you let out you are holding a "study group" to begin with? I mean why not just tell your close ones about the group and that be the end of it? Stupid is as stupid does. Just stupid. With that said the testing really should be done by an outside agency and if there are CPD reviewers involved then it must be a closed review session with no taking materials home nor no cellphones allowed during the study/review session of a test. Such a conflict of interest how testing is done on this job. Bad enough we have merit selections. This is just limiting the true results to more like 50% after cheating then merit selections. God bless the men and women who actually make it legit. We know those are the ones who get sent to the shit holes on 1st W. I'm so glad I started a business and am retiring soon.
Let's remember to investigate other scams from promotional exams......like the 011th District Tact teams having a "study" group with the superintendents kid (MC). They all scored and we're ranked under 325 on the sgts test.
I have forwarded docs to the appropriate sources regarding 025 SME Lt KS and how his spouse EC made the first class.
do your ETHICS TRAINING OFFICERS 2016or face spar and fines from 200 t0 700 dollars a day? can u say FOP CONTRACT! I'm gonna challenge this one!
don't forget barz from iad
if Rahm was smart, which we all know the answer too, he should quit acting like there is nothing to see here.
this whole testing thing can easily turn into a bigger scandal than LAQUAN.
i sure hope Rahm goes down the wrong / right road, just because he is such a swell guy.
The funny part of all this is that we are expected to take orders from these cheating scoundrels. Every time you walk past one of these cheaters or when one of the cheaters tries to give you an order, let out some air and shake your head. It may not change anything because they are completely shameless, but at least it will make you feel better.
Easy way to solve this. Give the test company a copy of general orders and say go make a test. No need for subject matter experts. There are subject matter experts Like Mauer and Williams so that the chosen few can cheat. Merit wasn't enough for the clouted now they cheat also.
If enough people keep complaining about this maybe something will be done. Has anyone contacted a labor lawyer about this? If so please leave some contact info there are numerous sgts that wold be I terested in speaking with them.
Do you honestly believe that these Lt will their rails(bars)? please get real this is going nowhere.Smoke and mirrors is all this is and a promise never ever to do it again until the next set of dollies whisper in some supervisors ears with promises of paradise. Its all legit Stay Fetal
Oh please nothing will happen. Let's get the list started on the nepotism I will start with this one
Phil Cline = Lt Matt Cline
The list goes on hell there are hundreds of them too many to count
Aunt Rosie might have some explaining to do.
Last Sergeant's exam should have been probed as well! Needless to say, there were numerous self-centered, moronic cheaters from that exam. It's preposterous and completely unfair that these individuals selfishly took the position away from those who truly deserved it. Now, we're going have sergeants (e.g., like the unhinged F/2 with a heavy accent from 019) "leading" the troops. God help us all...
DOJ needs to look at the last two sergeants test results. Clout heavy people from 011 promoted along with the sups kid and his tac team friends. All from test score. Yeah right.
Is Ferguson the right person to be conducting this investigation? After seeing him on Chicago Tonight, I got the impression he felt guilty about being White! And therein lies the Real Issue. Anybody who in the past believed that the testing procedures conducted by the Chicago Police Department were Ever legit, needs to voluntarily submit for urine testing. Yes. most people made it on their own, (If the list had not stayed up for almost a decade, I would have never made Sergeant.) but there is always a group, usually on the front end that make it with help. In this posting I do not have the space to tell those stories of incompetent bosses and boot licks that I saw in 32 years of CPD. But this is different, because even the Charlie Roberts Invitation Only Clouted Select Study Group, ALWAYS had space for CLOUTED/CHOSEN "students" who were not White, and here lies the IRONY: This Williams Study Group was RACIST, IF IT WAS BLACKS ONLY!!! Racist against Whites and Latinos. Add to that conducting it on Public Property and denying access to the Public, that Public being other Sgts.; and right there, lies the Real Problem. Can Ferguson accept that Blacks are also capable of being Racist? Most Liberal Whites have difficulty accepting or even acknowledging Black Reverse Racism, but unfortunately it too exists. If you have any doubt ask a White recruit how he/she feels the first time he/she rides in Da Hood in a marked car. The stares of hate cut through to your vary soul. But you still do your best to help, because that is who you are, when you're a "Real" cop.This test went beyond the Usual Rigged CPD testing: This Was Racist! But with this DOJ the only recourse will be litigation. In the mean time, Stay Fetal, F#@k Rahm! Baby"G"
Ferguson could easily show that the "merit" picks are just political appointees by checking the one with multiple bites of the merit apple. There was a black sergeant in are one tied in with the revruns and NOBLE who was meritoriously promoted Det, Sgt.LT and of course he ended up a commander.
Everyone points to a "Thin Blue Line" of silence that is one of the main problems with the Chicago Police Department. I can tell you that the real problems of the Chicago Police Department stem from the ranks of the supervisors. When you promote Chicago Police Supervisors based on who they know versus what they know and a proven skill set, you get the incompetent department we have today. There are supervisors on the Chicago Police Department that don't have the work ethic or ability to push a broom. So these supervisors are promoted far above their ability because of nepotism, clout or cheating that it totally destroys the morale of all those working below them. It may seem like a blue line of silence but it is really a blue line of incompetence created by the promotions influenced from the revruns, alderman and the mayor. Corruption is rampant in the Chicago Police Department due to the stranglehold of political influence in this crooked city.
To the FBI and their parents at the DOJ. This exam cheating amounts to theft from the taxpayers and a conspiracy where 3 or more people conspired to commit a crime. The RICO statute would be perfect to prosecute these individuals. Please also explore how many years you can go back to past exams under RICO because this same shit has been going on for over 30 years. Test cheating has been going on for many police officers since day 1 in the police academy but only for those who had heavy clout and could not pass a test on their own. I remember people laughed at a group of us who met weekly while in the academy to study for the test at the academy and boasted while we were studying they were out drinking. I know how you guys look at convicting one bad cop, a highlight of your career. This investigation alone could net you a minimum of 20 cops. Not even considering the number of coppers that would lie to you during the investigation. This is a FBI agents wet dream. But that means that a few politicians would also be dragged into this investigation and we couldn't have that in the crooked city.
And Richie begat BO, who begat Rahm. Without Richie's OK BO couldn't have run for anything. Anyone else note the lack of DOJ zeal after Blago got it? Rahm is golden with the feds and so is "Hazy" Richie. As it is, it was and shall be.
Proof positive the Libune and other liberal media read SCC for their info.
Nice, but a tad late. SCC has been touting this info for years.
Only reason to go to IAD. Dance the way they tell you to dance on the cases and hope you get a seat at the table. IAD has always been a corrupt bunch of fucking goof balls in a corrupt goofball department. The LT. test has always been the worst cheating test of any, since forever, cause making LT. is the spring board to all possibilities. Most of all for the spawn of the Boss's and their multi-generational power. This shit hole has always been about nepotism and cheating to maintain it has always been the rule of the day.
God what an outfit.
How about Sgt MB in confidential(IAD) who actually had the original CR(LOG#) how long did he have it before he went and closed it? One last thing who else was promoted from confidential(IAD)? what you say MB? FOLLOW THE MERIT PICKS!!!!!!!!
This has been going on forever. Bernstein hired CPD supervisors as subject matter experts. He charged $500.00 for his class. I knew someone that was in an invite only study group by one of the subject matter experts and I believe it was skahill. Their study group got the same test Bernstien was giving each week to those who paid $500 but the week before we actually got the test. This went on for the entire 8 weeks of classes. Sickening. I sent an anonymous complaint to IAD and it went nowhere and that was almost 15 years ago. The percentage of most qualified according to test score, who are actually promoted on this department is probably 25-35%, therein lies your problem.
Lori she is soooooooooooooooo done with Rahm she wanted Gene Gene the subject matter expert machine to be the Super, and is thoroughly pissed off that Rahm did not pick one of her 3 recommendations that she is going to submarine Eddie Johnson tenure a the head of CPD to to get revenge on Rahm....
Come on the three picks she made heavily favored the reverend backed Williams, Gene had no real competition a nut job CNN Commentator from Hotlanta, no real police experience, and some goody two shoes woman that ran a Department barely the size of on of 22 Chicago police districts that had a reportedly disastrous tenure. Lightfoot stacked the deck in Gene's favor but Rahm the swishy slippery F^&%k that he is called an audible.
Lightfoot is the one keeping this in the news along with whats left of the Councils Black Cacus backed Exempts. This is one of those things that be making me go hum.
Lori Baby you go girl,a whole lot of blacks are being okey doked by Rahm. See you in the funny papers.
4/17/2016 03:04:00 AM
Lori Lightfoot publicly endorsed the candidate from Atlanta so your theory just fell apart.
The IAD Sgt that investigated this scandal and quickly closed it out was also promoted in the first class.
Guess that was his pay off.
How do you like working in 002 Lt Green?
However, for Ms. Lightfoot to come back almost ten years later to ridicule the CPD, when she was the head supervisory member at O.P.S., and said nothing during her tenure, I find disturbing. Further, Investigators under her review sustained allegations against CPD members much as they as are reviewed today.
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She armed herself with statistics to draw the general conclusion --> "police have no regard for black lives"
the statistics being blacks commit 75% of crime and represent 75% of those shot by police.
We can all see that A doesn't necessarily lead to B, but that's the liberal "all of a sudden I'm not so bright" logic
On every other topic the liberal will boast of how smart they are, then all of a sudden, when it suits them, they become really dumb, and no one calls them on it. It's a win-win.
It's the same thing Obama did with the Justice Dept. report out of Ferguson, Mo. He said the black jaywalking tickets were not justified by the crime rate of blacks, when, in fact, they were exactly justified by the black crime rate in Ferguson. No one dared look any further into the statistics, which was strange. Suddenly, the liberals become statistically illiterate. If Asians had been 75% of those shot by Chicago Police, that would be a statistical anomaly... blacks ... not so much.
How long until these cheaters join the other exempt cheaters?
This is Chicago. Nothing will change. Catching a group a minorities in a CPD cheating scandal doesn't fit the narrative of the alderscums, city press and Rahm that minorities are always victims. This will get swept under the rug and the DOJ will ignore this scandal like the el's third rail.
Now if this same thing occurred with a white study group, the story would lead all newscasts, be headlines in the Trib and S-T and the DOJ would be convening a grand jury.
This is the new normal.
This is all unfair.
I paid money to be in study group and did my best.
Don't forget about commander Loughran he was a gift because Loughran because his father in law spilled the beans so they promoted his ass to keep quiet.
Please don't forget Yolanda Banks who was Genes secretary and scored high on the first Sgt exam and was in the first class.
Yeah right
No different than the last sargents test where people got the same exact score. The difference between a micro point separating them . How the fuck is that? Was it a comma, period? How is a micro point scored?
Even the Libune noticed?
Must really be bad.
How did Jimmy Maur's hand picked Sgt's get #1 and #2 on a past Lt's Test?
List all the subject matter experts, these few can't be the only ones benefitting
Be real. Nothing will happen to the 'study group'. Williams, who will retire soon, will issue an apology and say he made a mistake. The Inspector General will release a report a year or two from now. It will simply say that it was inappropriate for Williams to host the classes. The study group did nothing wrong but meet in order to prep for the test. They did not know Williams was releasing 'exact' test info. They will never be promoted higher, but they will not face any disciplinary action.
Just curious but do people actually believe this will be the straw that breaks the FIXED promotional system????
They've already showed you that the powers to be don't give a F*&! And began promoting the CHEATERS.
Maybe this will change the SME from this test towards the future but I doubt it will change the curent cheating scandal.
FACT. Very few bosses, regardless of how they made rank, are not jerk-offs.
The get stroked by FNG's who bother to talk to them for a couple years then listen to the other hammer heads in white then actually believe so much in themselves that they think they are sharper than the boys in blue with ten more years on the job than them.. No humility by anyone in a white shirt after a year. Those bars are soul crushers. I like some of you white shirts... but you ARE jerkoffs...Deal with it.
Until then, the fix is in cuz it's "The Chicago Way".
4/17/2016 01:09:00 AM
You don't need subject matter experts when the entire test comes out of CPD publications, and criminal code. No part of the test should ever be in the hands of anyone in city government. Let the test developers keep it all secret until the time of the test. These tests have been passed around since at least, the 1987 lieutenant's test. A " draft copy" was seen in the commander's office in 003. No integrity in this department among the clouted.
One hundred or thereabouts being screened for Sargent class.
If ya had a name they didn't like back in the 80's and you really did good on the test to get promoted, that red pen came out on 11th and State and that damn red pen line found its was across your name. Not gonna get that job kid, my guy is next. Good people got screwed. Royal..... And it's still goes on and on and on....
Cheating is not new to CPD. Not one honest test in the last 38 years! ET, K9, Dick, Sargent, Lt, all bullshit. If you think it's going to change you are wrongdoing!
At minimum the department should get out of the testing process. Have it done by an independent agency.
We, as police officers are under the assumption that the IAD are the police of the police. This last exam only proves that IAD can't be trusted. As a Sergeant, I will not adhere to any opinions or other wise orders that any of the new lieutenants have to offer because I will not know if any of them scored "legit". Not only do I feel this way but many other Sergeant's also feel the same way.
Off topic: We hear that a new "legit" lieutenant assigned to 09 told all of her people on her watch that they had to produce so many ISR's per car daily. If that is true, a outside agency should be contacted. Well, we can't trust our own IAD.
Should be 30 pending for all involved, including Williams.
Will this go back as far as Mauer when he was a subject mater expert? And Georgas, Kennedy and bigane all working in his office got promoted 1,2 and 3?
This is an issue that transcends race, go for all of them, from the brillant 11 district tcat to team, to maurers brilliant staff, to the current one. Take them all down. Talk about a patterns and practice issue. This is about clout and not about race. Lets keep the eye on the ball.
Marine Unit test. Biggest joke than all of this combined. A dude had to sue to get on that swam the English Channel who scored poorly.
Anonymous said...
Yes yes my prayers have been answered!
Pull down that whole rotten list. Face it the test was flawed and IAD new about it and still let the department administer a flawed Lt exam!
They should imeadiately put up the old Lt list and promote from that list or expect the unfair labor lawsuits to begin!!!
4/17/2016 12:59:00 AM
All a smoke screen. Nothing going to happen to anybody.
17apr16 2:01pm
The "legit" Lt in 009 hahaha i love the sarcasm!
Williams must retire by about the middle of May. 63 years old and all that...untouchable!
Give another test that is unseen by anyone connected to Chicago.
I'm going to guess you get way different results.
The ones on the top tier on the list are mostly connected, not full of knowledge.
The payout on the ensuing law suit will make them all rich, but it will expose just how crooked and rigged promotional tests are in Chicago.
When is someone going to look at the anonymous complaint that started this all?
If it came from a supervisor in HQ he should not have the job.
A letter sent to union is worthless. Unless that was the way of getting out of initiating a CR. So the sgts union gives it to one of their own in IAD. Where is the control of this and supervisor of this allegation?
Was anyone interviewed?
accused or witnesses.
It is a joke, now they are re investigating what?
I was never in a study group
I never held any study group
I am now a lieutenant my honor is great.
It's been going on for years started with the great potato famine and still continues....
If you ever noticed over the past 20 years since the department hired private companies to give promotional exams, the subject matter experts were always hand selected via clout and were always stupid and corrupt. So if you were asked to be a subject matter expert, it was a given that you were going to cheat for the exempt who just dubbed you a subject matter expert. Be it hold a private study group for the exempt's guy, or give a copy of the test to the exempt who can give it to his guy, or maybe you give the test directly to the exempt's guy.
Ask Kline at the next CPD memorial foundation event you go to.
How was this started back in 2014.
And still going today?
Did Williams prepare the tests?
Did Williams hold study groups?
Did these study groups take place in HQ?
Did members in these study groups get special treatment?
Did these study group participants get high scores?
Are these participants of the study group now being promoted?
Transparent right.......
IAD and IG are a joke.
2 is lossing Lt b he bid to 11, guess he couldn't stand cheat Lou green or captain duh!
What this 'thread' has proven is that many, a grand majority operate strictly on conjecture and skewed thought processes! I have read every opinion, and so many are so far off it is ridiculous. I read so many opinions that only relate to the last 20 - 30 years... and you didn't know the system then! There has always been cheating and there has always been meritorious... for 150 years! This goes back before the times of Townsend, Rukrich, Mauer, Cline or Roberts. Georgas, Kennedy and Bigane are not even an issue. There was an attempt to 'fix' the system following the 1987 exam... the 'powers that be' would not have it! There was a testing 'agency' that had a fabulous history... actually each test reflected the population of the municipality each test was given in. That was deemed totally unacceptable! This investigation is going no-where FAST! There is a good and solid reason that has absolutely nothing to do with teaching a class... and too many of you don't realize how simple it is.
Don't give the Tribune credit. Credit belongs to Mark Konkol of DNAinfo. He's been on this for a long time. He also the guy that broke the story in those cheating scumbags at Jackie Robinson West.
The original Cr # was closed and nothing was found to be done illegal or against department policy?
So the Cr # should be fully available because it was done professionally and double checked by an IAD supervisor. No reason a FOIA could not show the whole report because it will clear everyone name.
So Eddie since we are all racist maybe you can release the report without the media having to file a lawsuit to protect your "GIRL".
And May be it is time for it to be forbidden to have ant supervisor have study groups if they helped make the test. (I know williams would get a NOBLE flunky the info and they would give the info out).
But wearing a camera will change perception. You really are showing that taking care of yourself and whoever you are bumping uglies with is the law of the land!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And Richie begat BO, who begat Rahm. Without Richie's OK BO couldn't have run for anything. Anyone else note the lack of DOJ zeal after Blago got it? Rahm is golden with the feds and so is "Hazy" Richie. As it is, it was and shall be.
4/17/2016 09:42:00 AM
The Stuttering Prick really didn't beget shit...
Daley Inc. got wind that that some on the south side campus
of the Chicago Democratic slave plantation were making noises
about pushing some smart-assed, Harvard educated,
"colored guy" lawyer/"communerty activist" for mayor.
"Hey! Do we know who dis fuckin' Obama guy is?"
Daley Inc. couldn't dirty him up or get him locked up/
discredited/disgraced as their usual for derailing
anyone who poses a threat to their stealing from
the taxpayer treasury with both hands...
So they had to make moves to promote the "smart
colored guy"/walking cipher up and out of Chicago.
Which is partially the reason how/why Obama was
pushed/pointed toward the Illinois State Senate and beyond.
Daley Inc. is the very personification of piggishness and greed.
They were afraid That had Obama become mayor, he would
have called the Feds in, opened the REAL municipal ledger
books and sent the entirety of Daley Inc. to prison or to
the gallows for their financial crimes against the taxpayers.
That was not lost on the Gold Coast/North Shore political
fund-raiser/cocktail party/phony charity set.
Any of THEM being pimp-walked with a wrist-crank into the
MCC or to the gallows, would have been just too awful to
comprehend.
Enter Rahm Emanuel
aka: "The Cleaner."
To upwardly fuck every damned thing
in order to run out the clock on the
statute of limitations to keep some
dirty Gold Coast/North Shore necks
out of nooses.
"We need a big diversion..."
"Lookit what all da greedy COPS are gettin'!"
"The COPS are out of control!"
"The COPS are racist!"
Etc., &c. and so on...
>Ties With Big Pretty Bow<
Local media & Federal Investigative agencies
can both simultaneously pound sand and eat
dicks by the bagful...
The willful looking away and the inattention/dereliction
to duty is astounding to the point of being eye-watering.
Meanwhile?
"But we really need to reform The "Warrior Cop"
culture and mindset of CPD to foster "trust" and
"accountability" to the community."
It's.
All.
Bullshit & distraction.
what exactly does screened mean, regarding Sgt's class.
Let me ask a question, these 3 female sergeants who made Lt, and their significant others and don't forget Gene Williams. Other than making Lt by cheating, how many merit promotions were given to them? My guess is all of them made sergeant and Lt by merit. So none could pass a single promotional exam legitimately. Also, these three female police scholars, what type of street experience do they have? Any activity related to being the police or is all of it inside? I know Ward has been a house mouse her entire career and couldn't process an arrest to save her life. But this cabal of ineptitude is the representation the black leadership on this department? And merit and cheating is how it is achieved? How about being the police and then earning it? Merit needs to go, and now the subject matter experts too. How many unearned promotions should any racial group get? How about a study of the the average numbers of arrests and the average number of days on the medical broken down by race and gender. I think that would be very eye opening.
Will this go back as far as Maurer when he was a Subject Matter Expert? And Georgas, Kennedy and Biggane all working in his office got promoted 1,2 and 3?
4/17/2016 02:31:00 PM
Maurer was a SENIOR Subject Matter Expert, which means that he reviewed EVERY LINE of the exams he helped develop before they were administered. And Kennedy (Maurer's administrative sergeant and the son of his best friend, Retired Commander Jack Kennedy) scored #1 by a WIDE margin on that exam. And every member of Kennedy's study group scored high enough to be promoted to lieutenant in the first or second class, and this includes Georgas, Caluris, Lodding, Ganz, and others.
Biggane didn't get promoted from that same list, as she bombed that test, but here is where it becomes interesting. By the time the next exam was given, Kennedy and Biggane were dating, and somehow she miraculously scored #1 on that subsequent exam, and Kennedy's best friend Hennigan (the lieutenant in Central Detention) scored in the top ten also. Hennigan told people that he scored in the 40's, and he eventually had to admit that he scored much higher than that but he was advised to lie about his high score to "stay under the radar." The moral of Hennigan's story is that you don't hide something unless you have something to hide.
So Williams did what others who came before him had done, and that is use his status as a Senior Subject Matter Expert to run his own private "merit" promotion system.
Any competent investigator should be able to easily connect the dots where both Maurer and Williams are concerned.
TRUTH.
Williams has to retire next month because he will be 63. Does this mean that he will officially "resign while under investigation," and because of that status he won't get a retirement star? Surely his buddy HR Director Don O'Neill will take care of his chief anyway, but anyone else in the same situation wouldn't be treated so well. Adios Gene, you were a shining example of the "Peter Principle" anyway.
Peter Principle Definition:
The Peter principle is an observation that in an organizational hierarchy, every employee will rise or get promoted to his or her level of incompetence.
Did you ever think they put Williams in knowing this was coming then he could retire as the fall guy for Rahm, then be taken care of. He's the perfect candidate to take the heat seeing how he was so involved
That's a bingo on the first two, the party hostess had to wait until Maria got her the answers, by then all her clout was gone.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Cheating is not new to CPD. Not one honest test in the last 38 years! ET, K9, Dick, Sargent, Lt, all bullshit. If you think it's going to change you are wrongdoing!
4/17/2016 01:54:00 PM
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Dick Sargent! Darren!!
So if any of these people become my supervisor am I supposed to have any respect for them? I'm in the KMA club and can leave whenever. I might have some fun with this.
Why can't the department have the Feds write a 1000 question multiple choice test based on our general orders and job description? The Feds could then proctor the test and you would walk out of the building with your scantron answer sheet and a rank order for everyone who took the exam
So, you think the Feds are all legit??
You trust them?
Anonymous said...
Will this go back as far as Maurer when he was a Subject Matter Expert? And Georgas, Kennedy and Biggane all working in his office got promoted 1,2 and 3?
4/17/2016 02:31:00 PM
Maurer was a SENIOR Subject Matter Expert, which means that he reviewed EVERY LINE of the exams he helped develop before they were administered. And Kennedy (Maurer's administrative sergeant and the son of his best friend, Retired Commander Jack Kennedy) scored #1 by a WIDE margin on that exam. And every member of Kennedy's study group scored high enough to be promoted to lieutenant in the first or second class, and this includes Georgas, Caluris, Lodding, Ganz, and others.
Biggane didn't get promoted from that same list, as she bombed that test, but here is where it becomes interesting. By the time the next exam was given, Kennedy and Biggane were dating, and somehow she miraculously scored #1 on that subsequent exam, and Kennedy's best friend Hennigan (the lieutenant in Central Detention) scored in the top ten also. Hennigan told people that he scored in the 40's, and he eventually had to admit that he scored much higher than that but he was advised to lie about his high score to "stay under the radar." The moral of Hennigan's story is that you don't hide something unless you have something to hide.
So Williams did what others who came before him had done, and that is use his status as a Senior Subject Matter Expert to run his own private "merit" promotion system.
Any competent investigator should be able to easily connect the dots where both Maurer and Williams are concerned.
TRUTH.
4/17/2016 07:50:00 PM
All pretty much on target except Caluris made Lt. by merit. Google Chicago Police Lieutenant's Merit list. Not certain about the others.
Old merit list But many of these great officer are in important places that can make cases disappear. But would the FEDS ever want to touch merit and the favor that must be paid.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/233269831/FOI-Merit-List
https://www.scribd.com/doc/233090134/Chicago-Police-Lt-Merit-list
You will also notice that many get multiple bites of the merit apple. And many merits end up at IAD and HQ. Is it a coincident?
FOP needs to have merit dropped totally because it is looking like all test are rigged and the top 100 end up being clouted regardless.
Off topic: SCC can you address the fact that there have been a sudden large number of people stripped and that maybe it coincides to the report that requested IPRA be replaced. I would hate to think that IPRA is merely trying to justify their existence through an overuse of their power and using working police as their pawns.
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37 people stripped in the past week and a half. All told they are being taken off the street until the pending investigation is closed. Smoke and mirrors at thr cost of guys thinking they are gonna get jammed up but in reality they are being used as "numbers". 99 percent of these people will be back on the street in 6 months but they still have to sit at call back which is not cool just to prove a point to the media and reverinds
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Don't give the Tribune credit. Credit belongs to Mark Konkol of DNAinfo. He's been on this for a long time. He also the guy that broke the story in those cheating scumbags at Jackie Robinson West.
4/17/2016 06:21:00 PM
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The only credit Mark Konkol gets is how many times he can mention Laquan McDonald's name or dirty cops in a single article.
Do we really need the DOJ and I G to investigate what is obvious? Smoke and mirrors.
Williams is the guy who among other a couple of other exempts feeding the city council black caucus anti Rahm/Gary intel. The caucus has been black mailing Rahm since last October for the McDonald shooting and even had a failed attempt to install Wysinger as Sup over McCarthy during the council's CPD budget hearing and months prior to the Emmanuel Administration's hard fought legal battle loss to stop the release of the McDonald video.
I made Lieutenant with Georgas, Kennedy Hennigan, Biggane, we all got the test answers from Siser- He runs it
exempts feeding the city council black caucus anti Rahm/Gary intel........whew--glad thats over- cuz now Eddie Johnson, Fred Waller and Escalante will feed everything to Rahm ---and the city black caucus can just pretend its all better now and continue being useless (but quieter- like the rest of the useless council)
except Caluris made Lt. by merit.....which is even worse because he is a do nothing---like Lewin he talks a good game but an audit of either shop would prove that they are fools who have no management skills----their workforce is abused and bullied...and their work product is inadequate, disorganized and costing the city millions.
Computers that work and intel that matters----wouldnt that be nice??
Lt Ward worked midnights in the ghetto of the 7th district for years. Then went on to be an FTO in the 6th district. She has worked the streets. Then went to HQ. Not taking up for her just stating the facts.
The IAD Sgt that investigated this scandal and quickly closed it out was also promoted in the first class.
Guess that was his pay off.
How do you like working in 002 Lt Green?
4/17/2016 10:02:00 AM
I dont. He sucks
FACT. Very few bosses, regardless of how they made rank, are not jerk-offs.
The get stroked by FNG's who bother to talk to them for a couple years then listen to the other hammer heads in white then actually believe so much in themselves that they think they are sharper than the boys in blue with ten more years on the job than them.. No humility by anyone in a white shirt after a year. Those bars are soul crushers. I like some of you white shirts... but you ARE jerkoffs...Deal with it.
The very same can be said about blue shirts, especially the "ghetto warriors," who after a year of doing one baggers and domestics are god's gift to the department and know everything... Just consider yourself fortunate if they acknowledge you in the hallway.
Look how many sergeants that came from headquarters and were put into area one for 5 minutes then made lieutenant including Biggane. They were put there so when the promotion came it looked like they were street sergeants. One guy was so scared they put him from HQ into the cold case unit instead of area one. Another heavy weight was so stupid he couldn't pass the qualifying exam.
Pay attention to the next lieutenant's class to be announced in May. More IAD sergeants are in the next 30 or so by test score. Amazing coincidence that so many from one unit tested in the top 50. That's why this investigation will never amount to anything.
4/17/2016 02:02:00 AM
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Un-Fuckin' believable if true..
The transfer order came out this past Friday and sure enough.. a number of new sergeants moving to IAD this coming Sunday/Change day.
Possibly to cover the asshole cheaters who are going to get made !!!
Im really hoping the same guy keeps posting and misspelling sergeant, if not this is fucking pathetic.
ah the internet ain't it grand? When Mauer and Cline did this it could just be ignored. Now ... it's FOREVER ...
Hey Mister and Misses DOJ you reading this? If your final report does not include the decades of cheating in the Chicago police department turned over to the FBI for an in depth investigation you are just going through the motions and your final report will be given no validity from your flawed and politically influenced dog and pony show. Its amazing that we have a City of Chicago Inspector General with no power of subpoena or arrest. The alderman live above the law and can't be investigated by anyone but the FBI. Truly a city and police department that believes that they are above the law. Hopefully there is someone out there with a set of balls, who doesn't care about upsetting the crooked players in the crooked city. After all new administrations and appointments will be coming after the presidential election so you are working for lame duck bosses who are just concerned about protecting their own skin so this would be the right time for a real reformer to step forward without fear of repercussions.
To the FBI and their parents at the DOJ. This exam cheating amounts to theft from the taxpayers and a conspiracy where 3 or more people conspired to commit a crime. The RICO statute would be perfect to prosecute these individuals. Please also explore how many years you can go back to past exams under RICO because this same shit has been going on for over 30 years. Test cheating has been going on for many police officers since day 1 in the police academy but only for those who had heavy clout and could not pass a test on their own. I remember people laughed at a group of us who met weekly while in the academy to study for the test at the academy and boasted while we were studying they were out drinking. I know how you guys look at convicting one bad cop, a highlight of your career. This investigation alone could net you a minimum of 20 cops. Not even considering the number of coppers that would lie to you during the investigation. This is a FBI agents wet dream. But that means that a few politicians would also be dragged into this investigation and we couldn't have that in the crooked city.
4/17/2016 09:41:00 AM
Are you retarded? The FBI wants nothing to do with this. It's non-criminal. It's NOT a theft. I know what you're getting at but it's not a theft.
This ain't going nowhere unless some dumb ass shits on him/herself. And we should not waste our energy hoping for that. What we need is a policy change. None of these snake bosses should be 'policy experts' or whatever the hell they call it. Ge and outsider to do that, pay him huge $, and don't tell anyone who he is. If there'a an eventual lawsuit his identity will come up, but by then it's too late to cheat. It's not perfect, but it's way better.
Mister DOJ and Mister FBI. All the facts are here. Your investigation is being handed to you. If you need any additional facts just ask the question here and the blanks will be filled in. We are lobbing softballs to you guys. Are there any hitters among you or at least someone who knows how to swing a bat? Your response will determine the future of public safety in the United States. If you pass on Chicago you will be sending a message to the rest of the country that as long as your criminal organization is democratic it will be tolerated.
Anonymous said...
I remember Judge Prentiss Marshall's response to testing when he screwed me over the first time "I don't care if they arm wrestle for the position"
4/17/2016 06:58:00 AM
Yep that POS is right where he belongs.
Maybe Rahm will cry "There are no second class merit promotions in the city of Chicago"
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Do we really need the DOJ and I G to investigate what is obvious? Smoke and mirrors.
4/18/2016 02:27:00 AM
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No, we don't need them to investigate the obvious corruption.
We need them to forcibly CHANGE the obvious corruption.
All pretty much on target except Caluris made Lt. by merit. Google Chicago Police Lieutenant's Merit list. Not certain about the others.
4/17/2016 10:53:00 PM
Caluris is on that list as a NOMINATOR.
How about a "One merit promotion" per career. At least they would have to do well at least once to get to exempt.
All pretty much on target except Caluris made Lt. by merit. Google Chicago Police Lieutenant's Merit list. Not certain about the others.
4/17/2016 10:53:00 PM
Big Steve knew the scenarios. A big enough advantage to score high.
Unless and until the City categorically and unequivocally defines "merit" in writing, how about ZERO "merit" promotions per career.
How about a quick, fair solution? No merit. Period. Promote in rank order.
Anonymous said...
All pretty much on target except Caluris made Lt. by merit. Google Chicago Police Lieutenant's Merit list. Not certain about the others.
4/17/2016 10:53:00 PM
Caluris is on that list as a NOMINATOR.
4/18/2016 12:40:00 PM
He made it by merit before 2001. The list you saw where he nominated Ozzie Valdez only went to 2001.
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i pray to our lord for help to get these evil cheats. Disgraceful!!!
DOJ the city and mayor are cheating. Isn't that a violation of a non cheaters civil rights? Isn't political corruption against the law? Somebody do something!
First, ONE MERIT PROMOTION DURING YOUR CAREER. That's it, I know there are people out there who would be great leaders in higher positions. However, one bite of the apple is ALL you get.
Second, if you get any merit promotion, you DO NOT get to submit a merit pick.
Finally, MERIT (Webster's Dictionary)- a good quality or feature the DESERVES to be praised. (Not one word about who you know)
I realize this has been talked about forever. However, what happens if you have an open post for samples of what is the best way to describe merit in the Chicago Police Department.
Try and and get on the bomb dog list.
Ward worked midnights in the ghetto of the 7th district for years. Then went on to be an FTO in the 6th district. She has worked the streets. Then went to HQ. Not taking up for her just stating the facts
Wrong she slept on midnights and worked in caps then made merit sgt and cheated to make lt.
She sure did
Fucking loser
She is a box of rocks
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