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And the rumor mill begins:

• OT, but from a reliable source at 35th Street. For any potential "clinch" game next week, 2nd watch is working 1200-2359, 1st watch is 0001-1159 and the entire 3rd watch will be deployed to 18, 19 and certain south and west side districts in anticipation of the rioting (celebration). Busing them around like the Bull's riots (celebrations).

These "reliable source[s]" turn out to be wrong far more often than they're correct. But the sheer incompetence demonstrated in this post makes us think it could be true.

• Third watch would be the obvious choice for being on stand-by. We can see that.
• But why would you have start times of noon and midnight? By the time the game ends, the 2nd watch is going to be ten hours into a twelve hour shift. 
• Not only that, you're well into that Contract section (23.6?) that states the City will pay officers when their start times deviate more than two hours from assigned time. We thought Rahm and Special Ed were trying to cut overtime.

But then we remember who we work for, and we read this in the comment section....:

• But I have to throw this out there. At Wrigley I watched as Dep Chief Al worked like a maestro getting streets and sans to build all kinds of lanes, boxes, and aisles with barricades at Clark & Addison for the end of the Cub's game. He must have dug deep into his kindergarten drawing books for the plan. Five minutes after the game ended it all collapsed, nearly injuring a bunch of cops and trapping a dozen or more buses in the middle of the crowd for hours. Thanks Deputy, for reaffirming my belief once and for all that goofs run this dept. Planning for the World Series should be a real joke. I'm just thankful that no cops got hurt.

And we see this post in CrimeInWrigleyvilleAndBoystown blog:

• Good news: The Cubs advance to the World Series and the Chicago Police Department says they only arrested six people. (We've tracked seven. Whatevs.)
  
  Bad news: Many more arrests would have been made, but police were unable to transport detainees from within the massive crowd.

....and we realize that if there's a right way and a wrong way to accomplish a task, the Chicago Police Department will always create a third way that no one else would think of because it's too dangerous, too expensive and too dumb to consider, and then run with it, consequences be damned.

And congratulations to the Cubs. We're not writing about them for the same reason we've ignored the Blackhawks in the playoffs - they seem to do better when we aren't posting about them.