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- McNicholas was driving his Chicago Fire Department SUV west on La Salle Drive just off Lake Shore when another vehicle cut him off, police said. The SUV swerved to avoid a collision, went over a curb and struck a utility pole. No one was hurt, but the vehicle was heavily damaged.
With all the cameras at LaSalle and Lake Shore Drive, it should be immensely simple to verify the presence of this mysterious black vehicle.
Here's another tidbit that ought to worry a lot of people:
Here's another tidbit that ought to worry a lot of people:
- Instead of calling 911 and having the conversation recorded, sources said McNicholas called a “black phone” at the 911 center that is not recorded.
Wow.
Actual verifiable proof of a mechanism in place to grant connected people a way to circumvent and bypass the protocols that are supposed to in place to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening. The media should be having a field day.
This scandal has the potential to expose a shitload of the blatant corruption that has been part-and-parcel of this city since its founding.
Is the DOJ taking notes? You want patterns and practices? Here it is, gift wrapped.
Actual verifiable proof of a mechanism in place to grant connected people a way to circumvent and bypass the protocols that are supposed to in place to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening. The media should be having a field day.
This scandal has the potential to expose a shitload of the blatant corruption that has been part-and-parcel of this city since its founding.
Is the DOJ taking notes? You want patterns and practices? Here it is, gift wrapped.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
39 Comments:
A 'black phone'? Or just some honcho's cell phone?
Oh my a BLACK PHONE!
here is a secret that black phones number is in your FOP book.
IT is the desk call back number and if you call it you can request a SGT who will have a police officer call you at home or on your cell and take a case report.
I recommend you send a pizza the next day too just to be polite.
... Or maybe he just refused any (criminal) breathalyzer and coppers did not make any observations of impairment
The "black phone" is for clouted bosses
and alderfools who step on their pee-pee
really hard.
Let a peed-on peon try to "subvert" the
processes in place and see what happens.
Anybody who ran interference for the clouted
fire-goof deserves what's coming.
The days of "doing a solid" are so twenty-five
years ago.
Don't do dumb shit...
Dayyyummmm!! Why da phone gotta be black?
Oh, it must be that whole "Racist CPD" thing.
Sarcasm/OFF
Is the dispatcher and his supervisor also on the grill?
Why not?
But the only thing that will come out of this will be heavy discipline for the lowly grunts who handled the accident.
Something is rotten in Denmark.
The DOJ is on a tight leash and has been given an extremely focused mission with acceptable and unacceptable targets don't expect much .
I have a black phone at the SpankDaddy Academy. It's purpose is my secret.
I wonder what a fire Department IAD does?
They gonna pull video from PODS?
Interview the police officers on scene?
track the GPS on the vehicle?
Pull the data box in the vehicle?
Awwww no he is retiring it is all good! The vehicle is paid with are taxes screw everybody and let this scab have his gold braid pension.
No favors for CFD. They won't do anything for a copper that they won't do for the most disgusting piss soaked shit-bum. The most they can do for you is give you an ambulance ride to St. Roger.
DOJ will never look to hard at chicago or any democratic controlled city as long as the current white house occupant is a democrat.
LUCY you got some splainin to do.... How F#%ked up is this shit. P.O.'s are going to get screwed because some fire boss stepped on his peepee and bosses didnt take the appropriate steps at the scene. I doubt a copper was making the decisions at this accident scene. The days of taking care of our own has passed, the days of taking care of CFD has passed as well. Please be careful if your out drinking. If you step on it the chance that we can help you are minimal. I dont think being fetal would help in this situation. Hope our guys come out ok.
"The DOJ is on a tight leash and has been given an extremely focused mission with acceptable and unacceptable targets don't expect much ."
Ah, ignorance is indeed blissful.
911 is only for real emergencies.
The DOJ just wants to hang a few nobodys, grab a few headlines, and GTFOH. DC suburbs are nicer places, sheet, you might get capped here.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
But the only thing that will come out of this will be heavy discipline for the lowly grunts who handled the accident.
Something is rotten in Denmark.
Yes because they didn't do their job. Make the DUI arrest. They are COPS whose job is to arrest people when they see a DUI driver at a crash. I keep hearing excuses of why they didn't arrest him. Oh they don't know how, they didn't have PC. It's a one car crash. Into a pole. At night. Talk with the driver. Smell his breath. Look at his eyes. Watch him walk. We all know when someone has been drinking. If you don't know how to do a DUI arrest, then call for a supervisor or someone who does know how. WTF. Who gives a shit if it's a fireman or anyone else. Is it worth it now covering up or giving some lame excuse?
yeah well it looks like the media is already looking to hang the blue shirts on scene...maybe a Sgt or Lt but DEFINITELY the blue shirts...ABC referenced Eddie Johnson and the new policy of intolerance for officers misbehaving and basically that blue shirts must be disciplined if Eddie wants to convince the community blah blah blah rebuild trust blah blah blah...So even though this was a matter well beyond the discretion of the responding officers (and once a Sgt or Lt is on scene the decision becomes theirs, not yours) the only way to "gain community trust" is to hang the blue shirts? This city is so fucked.
Retired CFD chief-- No sympathy for this guy but unless things have changed in the last year the "black Phone" is a simple outside line that takes you straight to dispatch desk instead of being shuffled through 911. I used it a dozen times a day.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
But the only thing that will come out of this will be heavy discipline for the lowly grunts who handled the accident.
Something is rotten in Denmark.
4/23/2016 03:19:00 AM
As always 9161 whipping boys who was boss on scene? Did he/she tell coppers as in verbal order what to do? No coppers are that insane in this camera controlled city to jeopardize their careers on some drunken idiot without being ordered to or are they? Hope not!
Someone needs to give the media a lesson on the effects of adrenaline, fight or flight responses when you cannot flight, and tunnel vision. Yet again the CPD blue shirts are the sacrificial lambs in Eddie Johnson's social experiment in the 2011 arrest of an armed robber. The offender and her accomplice commit an armed robbery at 5600 W Irving Park. Get that? ARMED robbery. A chase ensues and it culminates at a gas station at Madison/Kilbourn. The offender, after throwing proceeded from the vehicle, does something (that the media conveniently is leaving out of their reports) that triggers shots fired by the police. She then attempts to further resist and flee the scene before realizing her efforts are futile and pulls over. She exits the vehicle with hands up but refuses verbal commands to get on the ground (again, which the media conveniently forgets to mention). She is then taken down in accord with the CPD use of force model, hand cuffed, and taken into custody. Sorry, but the police are not required to first give the offender a hug before placing her in cuffs. Not one officer punched, slapped, kicked, tazed, or otherwise applied any other force. The media makes sure you know she was shot during all of this although they do not expound on why. She is arrested, tried by a jury of her peers, and convicted beyond a reasonable doubt for the crimes she was charged. She was sentenced to prison where she still sits today. YET the media interviews her sweet old momma who exclaims, against the manifest weight of all the evidence, that her daughter is not a criminal, merely got caught up with a man, and that the charges against her daughter were trumped up to justify the "brutality". And the media just plays right along with this, not pressing momma on any of the facts.
So these hero police officers, you know, the ones who ran TOWARD the ARMED robber, likely overcome with adrenaline, the inability to flee from the danger, and seeing nothing but a potential armed offender at the end of the tunnel, do their jobs with the greatest degree of valor and what are the thanks they are given? They are stripped by Eddie Johnson. The officer's conduct called "concerning" and a witch hunt, er, investigation ensues. This is the new reality people...up is down, left is right, and evil is good. Even where the officers did everything right and the ARMED robber did everything wrong it is still the actions of the officers being scrutinized. At least two, likely more to come, officers are without a job and perhaps looking at a grand jury...all to "rebuild the trust between the community". If this is the community we are trying to connect with, a community where evil triumphs over good, then you can keep it and I will not play along. Until the community steps up and makes an effort to rebuild the bridge of trust they have long lost with us...they can expect zero effort from me and my peers and can reap the benefits of such apathy by way of thousands upon thousands of shootings. It doesn't matter to me...I get to go home at the end of the night, collect my check, and eventually a pension. The community? Not so much. Be careful what you ask for...because you are getting it. Stay fetal my friends.
Anonymous said...
... Or maybe he just refused any (criminal) breathalyzer and coppers did not make any observations of impairment
4/23/2016 12:37:00 AM
Before he can refuse the breath test, the officers must give filed sobriety tests and place under arrest. Implied consent warnings then a breath test. Breath test only after a arrest. The responding officers should have at lease conducted a preliminary investigation to cover them-selves. Either way, by general orders, a rank higher than the driver must be part of the investigation. An exempt on duty CPD and CFD to be part of the investigation. We still do not know all of the details but if his administrative blow was high, then there are problems.
The Black phone. Is that the same phone used to summon Batman?
a Peace Officer has a tremendous amount of discretion afforded to him by virtue of his office. If one chooses not to make an arrest on an incident that was not on view; so be it. Most of the exempts and clouted wouldn't know how to do a DUI arrest anyway if their life depended on it. When I effed up I called the red phone, not the black phone. The red phone is also known as the bat phone.
A secret black phone? This has to be the hotline that Rahm called to bury the pre-election LaQuan McDonald justified shooting and Richie Daley's 'my drunk nephew just killed a kid.'
The public still wants to know who the female in the damaged car was. ScumTimes/Chicago Tribune, are you listening???
Black Phones Matter.
Let's reopen the Abade case on strip the first responding cars that showed up to that call.
You want to "help" a guy who was DUI, then call for an assist, from a copper who has never done a DUI.
So you lose the case in court...oh well.
Fuck this Fat Slob, who don't know his right hand from his left! U copper's
wanted and inside guy, this guy is going to b your worst nightmare!
Three sets of Rules.
Politicians. Brass. CloutMerits.
The and the most strict Fourth set is for chumps like us.
809am, unless your a bosses kid in 017
Before he can refuse the breath test, the officers must give filed sobriety tests and place under arrest. Implied consent warnings then a breath test. Breath test only after a arrest. The responding officers should have at lease conducted a preliminary investigation to cover them-selves. Either way, by general orders, a rank higher than the driver must be part of the investigation. An exempt on duty CPD and CFD to be part of the investigation. We still do not know all of the details but if his administrative blow was high, then there are problems.
4/23/2016 11:02:00 AM
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You do know that, by law, you are not REQUIRED to take a field sobriety test and such denial can not be cause for a DUI> You did know that, right?
You do know that, by law, you are not REQUIRED to take a field sobriety test and such denial can not be cause for a DUI> You did know that, right?
4/24/2016 10:35:00 AM
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You do know that even if someone refuses fields, you can still charge them with DUI based on your observations, right? So the slurred speech that even the dispatcher detected on the phone, combined with a crash, and perhaps even watery bloodshot eyes and the odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath, would mean that either a responding officer is either (a) the world's worst cop with even a basic grasp of DUI protocol and don't deserve to call himself the police (b) was ordered not to request fields, in which case that should be documented to prevent the inevitable backlash from "coverup" accusations, which with any city worker let alone some CFD brass you should know are coming or (c) he is such a dog that he really felt that just playing stupid would be acceptable in today's public view.
The fucking fire department knew he was drunk. If you don't have the stones to at least say you requested fields (which you knew he would refuse anyway) then you don't care about your career. No one can railroad you in something with that many witnesses and god knows how many cameras showing his driving and the mysterious black car (90% chance there wasn't any) and how many eye witnesses to his drinking will come forward. Do your job and give the police the credit they deserve - project some honesty. I'm all for giving a break on DUI's (whether they're a cop, fireman, or Joe blow) with someone who has no background, shows some true fear once they realize the $10k in lawyers fees you have the discretion to thrust upon them, and hasn't jammed themselves up, you know, by wrapping a city owned car around a pole. But once they have a prior DUI, any kind of shitty background (weapons offenses, child predator, burglary, robbery, etc) total a car that I will surely be somehow linked to, are an asshole, or whatever other unacceptable behavior, I shove that DUI right up their ass because they not only deserve it but are asking for it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I wonder what a fire Department IAD does?
They gonna pull video from PODS?
Interview the police officers on scene?
track the GPS on the vehicle?
Pull the data box in the vehicle?
Awwww no he is retiring it is all good! The vehicle is paid with are taxes screw everybody and let this scab have his gold braid pension.
4/23/2016 07:45:00 AM
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FYI the CFD doesn't have a gold braid bill. Theirs is known as a "Brass Bill". And he doesn't qualify for it.
You needed to be born before 1955 in order to get it. And there are only 2 guys left that will get it. That's
the reason he was still around. Him and a few others asshats we're hoping for it to change.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
You do know that, by law, you are not REQUIRED to take a field sobriety test and such denial can not be cause for a DUI> You did know that, right?
4/24/2016 10:35:00 AM
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You do know that even if someone refuses fields, you can still charge them with DUI based on your observations, right? So the slurred speech that even the dispatcher detected on the phone, combined with a crash, and perhaps even watery bloodshot eyes and the odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath, would mean that either a responding officer is either (a) the world's worst cop with even a basic grasp of DUI protocol and don't deserve to call himself the police (b) was ordered not to request fields, in which case that should be documented to prevent the inevitable backlash from "coverup" accusations, which with any city worker let alone some CFD brass you should know are coming or (c) he is such a dog that he really felt that just playing stupid would be acceptable in today's public view.
The fucking fire department knew he was drunk. If you don't have the stones to at least say you requested fields (which you knew he would refuse anyway) then you don't care about your career. No one can railroad you in something with that many witnesses and god knows how many cameras showing his driving and the mysterious black car (90% chance there wasn't any) and how many eye witnesses to his drinking will come forward. Do your job and give the police the credit they deserve - project some honesty. I'm all for giving a break on DUI's (whether they're a cop, fireman, or Joe blow) with someone who has no background, shows some true fear once they realize the $10k in lawyers fees you have the discretion to thrust upon them, and hasn't jammed themselves up, you know, by wrapping a city owned car around a pole. But once they have a prior DUI, any kind of shitty background (weapons offenses, child predator, burglary, robbery, etc) total a car that I will surely be somehow linked to, are an asshole, or whatever other unacceptable behavior, I shove that DUI right up their ass because they not only deserve it but are asking for it.
4/24/2016 09:35:00 PM
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Yes I am/was aware of all contained in your verbose response to my simple statement of a driver is not compelled by law to refuse a field sobriety test.
You must be a traffic guy. They were always a breed unto themselves.
Don't have a cow , guy.
City of Chicago should file a law suit against him for all damages , cost of police , cfd investigations .
Easy win , he was driving the vehicle , unauthorized to drink and drive , maybe false report .
Ghost corvette jajaja
Yes I am/was aware of all contained in your verbose response to my simple statement of a driver is not compelled by law to refuse a field sobriety test.
You must be a traffic guy. They were always a breed unto themselves.
Don't have a cow , guy.
4/25/2016 05:47:00 PM
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"a driver is not compelled by law to refuse a field sobriety test"? I may be strained from giving birth to a cow, but I'm not even sure what that means. Do you? A driver certainly isn't compelled to refuse it. In fact, they're compelled to submit to one. That's called implied consent. Now, they have a right to refuse everything. But legally compelled to refuse one?
Like so many of our colleagues, you lack a basic understanding of a patrol function, like DUI enforcement. I'm not a traffic guy, but I'm not an idiot either. You don't have to do DUI's. But for Christs sake at least know how. It's not all bullets and blowjobs, guy.
I'm not even going to ask you to do fields, I'm just assuming you were drunk when you wrote that. Cheers!
OK Inspector General ,Pam Zekman , Chuck Goudie , John Kass if CFD / IAD refuse to investigate the camera issue , do your thing . If he falsified reports , just maybe they can fire the clouted hack that screwed blue shirts and grab his pension .
"a driver is not compelled by law to refuse a field sobriety test"? I may be strained from giving birth to a cow, but I'm not even sure what that means. Do you? A driver certainly isn't compelled to refuse it. In fact, they're compelled to submit to one. That's called implied consent. Now, they have a right to refuse everything. But legally compelled to refuse one?
Like so many of our colleagues, you lack a basic understanding of a patrol function, like DUI enforcement. I'm not a traffic guy, but I'm not an idiot either. You don't have to do DUI's. But for Christs sake at least know how. It's not all bullets and blowjobs, guy.
I'm not even going to ask you to do fields, I'm just assuming you were drunk when you wrote that. Cheers!
4/25/2016 11:57:00 PM
Not drunk. Meant to say "take" not refuse. Made a mistake rewriting a sentence. Cheers back at ya.
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