Rahm Drowns in Bullshit
Is the media waking up to the bill of good Rahm is selling? Probably not, but they're pretending:
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday emphatically denied he was treading water with his ambitious plan to hire 970 additional police officers over the next two years over and above attrition.
Emanuel did the political dance known as the sidestep as he welcomed 100 more recruits to a police academy he promised would soon be “busting at the seams” while churning out a conveyor belt of classes.
If it was "bursting at the seams," it'd be running nearly 1,000 recruits through right now so that they'd be on the streets before the killing season begins in May/June, and it'd be running full speed ahead until October/November so the retirement shortage would be unnoticed. That isn't happening.
Then you have the Fall Guy/Fall Gal speaking their pieces:
Then you have the Fall Guy/Fall Gal speaking their pieces:
- It happened when the mayor was asked about the declining police manpower under his watch and about whether he has any regrets about his heavy use of overtime to mask the manpower shortage.
“The question is not right. So, I’ll let Eddie [Johnson] speak to that,” the mayor said, deferring to his police superintendent.
Johnson then stepped up and took the political heat for his boss.
Special Ed lapped it up with a smile on his face, didn't he? Sold his soul right there at the press conference for everyone to see. Granny Clampett was right there, too:
- Anne Kirkpatrick, chief of the Bureau of Organizational Development, was asked about the Police Department treading water under Emanuel with the hiring surge merely reclaiming ground lost over the last five years.
“I’m here to speak to you about what I can do and what my mission is,” she said.
This from a woman who's biggest supervisory job (A) ended in failure, (B) cost taxpayers at least a million bucks and (C) was a department about the size of a typical Chicago Police District. No one asked her how she got hired and if it had anything to do with her threat of a Federal lawsuit for Rahm's running a "nationwide search" for applicants, then declaring he was hiring the black guy who hadn't even applied. Kirkpatrick weaseled a six-figure job out of that for herself. And no one asked about who followed her here from Washington for another high-paying taxpayer funded spot.
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posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
62 Comments:
Would you sign up again?
In today's environment?
Ed wasn't 100% pleased with the class' diversity though.
Take it from me, the academy is busting at the seams, that is not an understatement. They want to train more dics, sets and ETs also??? No way they are all fitting in the academy. I hear the classes will be put at 35th street.
"merit" promotions should be (from now on) be offered to most senior city wide police officers and so on down the ranks to retain some knowledge of how the job really is.......i.e: c.i.t. trained officers....god bless them....but mentals are quite easy if you you play with similar cards in your deck......sort cars? time and distance? how about a piece of gum or a cigarette to chill them out and a little verbal judo...mental style...or the other route...either way, I haven't gone to c.i.t. training yet.....do the ppos teach it?
Trade 1000 experience police officers who have years on the job, for a 1000 kids who slept through the academy and got 2 weeks or 1 month with a FTO... NICE business Rham... Do you expect any legit police work out of a cop who basically walk in the academy and ate lunch for 6 months? Wait for more lawsuits and bogus shootings which a gun was lost to asshole on the street
I'm surprised the media isn't all pissed off, they're the ones that are for once taking the back seat to smoke and mirrors, see how they like it......
There are nice cities in nice states all across the fruited plain recruiting young police officers, for nice police departments. Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would want to work for the CPD in this hellhole called Chicago?
This is WELL beyond being a Joke. This is a travesty. This is a disaster.
Rahm needs to go and ALL of CPD Command staff needs to be flushed down the toilet.
It is not just a problem in Chicago. Poor Mayors seem to be prevalent in the BIG cities. New York's DeBlasio is another "Gem".
Where are all the old-time investigative reporters? As for Chicago media, many of them need to be flushed down the toilet as well.
I have seen "Granny Clampett" several times now on TV. What exactly is her role in CPD Command Staff? I mean really, what does she do???
I am so tired of seeing all these six-figure bureaucrats who either duplicate someone else's responsibilities or just hang there looking "in charge" but could never be in charge of a one-car Chinese Funeral.
Chicago needs to trim its budget -- a LOT.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
There are nice cities in nice states all across the fruited plain recruiting young police officers, for nice police departments. Please tell me why anyone in their right mind would want to work for the CPD in this hellhole called Chicago?
12/15/2016 02:01:00 AM
They saw it all on tv! They want to work in jeans too...
CPD will never catch up. The city went to long without hiring and no one wants the job now with all the bad press. They better pay more and fix the pension. Also get rid of the residency requirement or limit it to 10 years to attract more applicants. Maybe make 25 years the max instead of 29. Most departments have 25 years or less to max out.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Take it from me, the academy is busting at the seams, that is not an understatement. They want to train more dics, sets and ETs also??? No way they are all fitting in the academy. I hear the classes will be put at 35th street.
My source says classes at Rainbow Push
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ed wasn't 100% pleased with the class' diversity though.
Yeah, nice comment. "welcome to CPD" recruits must feel like crap
Take it from me, the academy is busting at the seams, that is not an understatement. They want to train more dics, sets and ETs also??? No way they are all fitting in the academy. I hear the classes will be put at 35th street.
12/15/2016 12:35:00 AM
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It's not busting at the seams YET!
All that's in there are 150 recruits.
50 which will graduate next month.
Busting at the seams is putting classes of a 100 or more thru each and every month.
Talk of promoting dicks, et's, sgts., lts, is just that talk, not busting at the seams.
I don't know maybe it is just me but I looked at the picture of those recruits sitting in the cafeteria and I could be wrong but I tried to count how many were sitting there and I came up a bit short of 100.
If you could really drown in Bullshit how many people would the city have?
First of all, Kirkpatrick is simply incompetent. She keeps telling people "I'm working on it", but nothing gets done. Second, City Hall nixed the hiring of her friend from Seattle. At least for now. And they're not "girlfriends". Get off that already.
The recruits they are putting in the academy today are from the old police test that has been exhausted but the mayor reopened the list for a lot of people (Minorities) who were taken off the list. The people, that were taken off the list (Failed power test, Failed psychological test, Failed to show up for a test), were recalled and asked to try again. That is why the next few classes are majority minorities. You can bet they are not calling anyone back who lives in Mt. Greenwood.
There have been numerous changes to way they are calling people from the latest police test. I believe they have a pool of about 8000 and they have been calling 100's of people since October to take the power test first. If you pass, you have 3 days to complete the 72 page questionnaire online, then the next weekend you go to 35th to do the drug test and they give you a date for the polygraph. If you fail the power test they allow you to retake it with the State police or Chicago police.
Based on the speed they are testing people they still would not be able to put any people, off the latest police test, in the academy until approximately March but once they do, they will probably exhaust the new list by the end of 2017 which is why they are giving a new test so soon after the last one.
So they let the ranks deplete so they can replace it with the next generation of police that will not know how to do work "the way it used to be done". Well, isn't that fashionable?
They won't get sued as much and the Mayor thinks in terms of the bottom line. How foolish. There goes your experience. Police work isn't like training the line how to make a new automobile, but then again Rahm really wasn't good in business either.
Keep dragging it out in the sunlight SCC.
"He pretended to tell the truth and we pretended to believe him".
It's a fucking shame to see that old woman, granny, in a CPD uniform.
She should hold a civilian position with the title of director. She looks like she is
totally lost.
Nothing like the greatness of that period...the Academy was truly bursting by Sept86, which included Metro..although the place didn't prepare me for the clout, rigged promotions, fixed "spots", etc, those Instructors did prepare me to stay alive, out of jail,& to fight crime..bless those Teachers...all done under " Harold "..seems like he wasn't so bad...
Figures Lie
Liars Figure
It is truly amazing how the dishonest media just keeps following the lies and fairy tales (proper by a ballerina) we are down thousands come on media question how many have put in for the 55 and out next year? Ask how many will be 63 and have to retire? some districts are down up to 200 yes you read that correctly 200 officers, not counting units, the detective division etc...
I'm retiring in May, when I called personnel in late September with a question, I also asked how many had submitted PAR forms for 2017. I was told 574 were retiring before June 2017.
Rahm better call the fire department, because his pants are on fire.
Ask granny and special what is the formula to figure out how much manpower a police department needs?
2 ass hats...
Send GRANNY an Email ask her what the hell is her job?
Then ask if you can know what hours her girlfriend work and day off group.
GHOST PAYROLLERs... heaven forbid the media FOIA granny and other exempts old gps records on their taxpayer take home cars.
Media ass hats old GPS records can't be secret and those exempts all have brand spanking new rides that the FOP negotiated for and let exempts have.
Rahm proves time and time again that he's a major league asshole.
Here is the problem with all the hiring, not enough FTO's to put the new recruits with. Evey study, every cop, knows the importance of FTO's. I don't care whether you are a doctor, lawyer, teacher, they never just throw you into a situation. Doctors spend years working with other doctors, teachers student teach, lawyers are second chairs on cases. But, the police, learn all the laws and policies and best practices and are basically thrown out on the street. Sure, they have to work with a veteran officer, usually the guy or gal no one else wants to work with and is cynical as hell. Garbage in garbage out. And they wonder what the problem is. I think it is great we are hiring more cops, we need them. But, how bout establishing a reasoanble program where you hire 30 a month, every month and make sure you have 12o FTO's so there is always an FTO for the recruits when they get on the street.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ed wasn't 100% pleased with the class' diversity though.
12/15/2016 12:26:00 AM
You're right. Special Ed was "concerned" with that.
So much so that he's calling for new recruit classes to be 70% minority. The old reverse discrimination ..... it's supposed to be ok when blacks do it to whites??
I think the new commander of the Academy (Godsel) will do a great job. He is, without a doubt, the right guy for the job.
The biggest jagoff in the world, Richard Daley started the bullshit when he enacted the 63 and out rule for city workers. Blame him.
By that Time if he does hired them ,,, 10,000 would of left already
Busting at the seams -- ill believe it when they start running 2 / 10 hour a day classes, the place is full of metro as well as the previous CPD class, and they hit the street in 16 weeks, just like the 90-1 class did. Until then, they ain't got shit.
Basic Democrat maneuver.
Task your flunkies to field the tough questions and later blame them for the misrepresentation.
Rahm is sputtering like a Daley these days.
When your presidential candidate loses, your house of cards really do fall.
Special Ed has no faith in Rahm to allow him to max out as Supt, but his pork sausage fingers are crossed.
Granny is being paraded out there for show, likely a up and coming Latina will be the next big thing from Rahm's bag of pandering.
Rahm caught up in a lie again and the voting masses aren't paying attention.
His lying is not getting noticed because he's on a constant pandering campaign which the media chooses to report.
Rahm will gladly don taller boots to wade through and out of his bullshit, then expect his flunkies to stand barefoot in it.
The mayor has hired Ed and Ed was put there to make changes what did he do? Shuffling the deck and installed more pension grabbing do nothing gold stars, he has accomplished zero. Terrible moral, no leadership skills, and examscam2016 yep he's really great!
OT: At least 10 female black sergeants to be promoted to lieutenant in January. Units included. 111, 620, 121, 610, 123.
We should have seniority count for something when ranking scores for these tests. 30% of your score on CFD exams is your seniority. That is a way to get bosses with at least a little more competence than most of the merit hacks we have now.
OMG.. Wednesday's Trib broke down how short CPD manpower have become .. down 359 Detectives since 2010 .. down over 120 LTs, Sergeants.. down over 700 Patrol police
Where is Ramy's extra 1000 police? What happened to all the Tax money ?
Heartless Taxpayer said...
I have seen "Granny Clampett" several times now on TV. What exactly is her role in CPD Command Staff? I mean really, what does she do???
I am so tired of seeing all these six-figure bureaucrats who either duplicate someone else's responsibilities or just hang there looking "in charge" but could never be in charge of a one-car Chinese Funeral.
Chicago needs to trim its budget -- a LOT.
12/15/2016 03:46:00 AM
If Rahmbo wins in 2018, Granny is the next Superintendent
How broke is Crook County ? Crook County Treasurer Marie Pappas sending out past due tax bills with big bold letters Printed on outside envelope, saying you are delinquent, your taxes are unpaid .
Funny this property was sold ,in 2014 .Called Treasure office saying I was no longer owner , asked to have bill sent to new owner.. Their answer? call another Crook County dept .
LOL.... seems like Crook County Pappas violating Federal Privacy Laws regarding debt
Won't help
http://europe.newsweek.com/chicago-gangs-violence-murder-rate-532034
Open laterals to CPD to cops that don't live in the city...and don't restrict current police to live in city....thousands more candidates with basic training in place....thousands of guys on the job now that could move families to burbs....win win? or exodus of middle class from city?
http://johnforsheriff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Anne-Kirkpatrick-Resume.pdf
Let everyone out of Cook County Jail and let them become Chicago Police Officers. They already know all the angles. They will have the support of the politicians and the fake priest.
12/15/2016 03:46:00 AM
If Rahmbo wins in 2018, Granny is the next Superintendent
12/15/2016 01:00:00
I don't believe any white person in their right mind would want the job or be offered the job, at least not when the murder rate is running so high.
You're right. Special Ed was "concerned" with that.
So much so that he's calling for new recruit classes to be 70% minority. The old reverse discrimination ..... it's supposed to be ok when blacks do it to whites??
12/15/2016 09:40:00 AM
yes this is racism at its best, but no one in the media will call him out as they are afraid of the racial politics of this town, and many really believe that only black officers can and should police black citizens. I have sen lazy as hell officers of all races and both sexes and great police officers of all races and both sexes. No on has ever produced any study to show that race is a factor in most police work. If Johnson is really proposing this then he is a racist. I have had black people tell me that they are not racist, they just prefer black people. I have worked for racist white commanders, racist black and hispanic commanders. Chicago is all about racial spoils. As you can see Rahm appointed an hispanic women as the replacement city clerk, in which he said the office has been a " Hispanic" office for decades. It is disgusting and sick but ok if you only say this about blacks and hispanic. I have never heard and will never hear any politician say that a certain elective office or a certain police district is a " white" district or office.
Anonymous said...
I think the new commander of the Academy (Godsel) will do a great job. He is, without a doubt, the right guy for the job.
12/15/2016 10:04:00 AM
I agree with you but there is one big problem. Calloway as the deputy chief. He has blocked any positive changes made by his staff for years. We are hoping that Godsel will take over the daily operations of the academy but it seems he always survives. I always wonder if Fitzpatrick and Johnson realize how incompetent calloway is at the academy? Talk about a fish out of water.
nonymous said...
Take it from me, the academy is busting at the seams, that is not an understatement. They want to train more dics, sets and ETs also??? No way they are all fitting in the academy. I hear the classes will be put at 35th street.
12/15/2016 12:35:00 AM
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It's not busting at the seams YET!
All that's in there are 150 recruits.
50 which will graduate next month.
Busting at the seams is putting classes of a 100 or more thru each and every month.
Talk of promoting dicks, et's, sgts., lts, is just that talk, not busting at the seams.
I don't know maybe it is just me but I looked at the picture of those recruits sitting in the cafeteria and I could be wrong but I tried to count how many were sitting there and I came up a bit short of 100.
12/15/2016 06:37:00 AM
You tried to count the number of recruits? WTF! Are you that stupid? If you know anything about the academy, ask any staff member for the correct number of recruits. It is not a secret. Who dresses you every morning?
Anne "Granny Clampett" Fitzpatrick is a SINECURE that wouldn't know a felon if he bit her in the ass. Get rid of this useless drain on our tax coffers.
Even with 100 new recruits, they are only going to promote 50 Sgts and maybe 125 Detectives. There will be enough room at the academy.
http://johnforsheriff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Anne-Kirkpatrick-Resume.pdf
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that's a great read..
This is her police officer experience:
Police officer - 1982-1985 Memphis TN
Accomplishments include:
Earned Masters degree
Hand selected to join a small team in R&D to design a new rank structure
Recruited to Join OCD and Narcotics - DECLINED BOTH
Four years as a police officer 30+ years ago, and her accomplishments have nothing to do with police work. Then, 8 Years as a sergeant in Washington state, also no police work listed as accomplishments. Then became a Chief for 3 different departments. Who IS her whack?
1:48PM...sorry Charlie. That idea would have been great a decade ago. Chicago couldn't pay me enough to leave the burbs now. Yeah we're unhappy with some things but not that unhappy.
Anonymous said...
http://johnforsheriff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Anne-Kirkpatrick-Resume.pdf
12/15/2016 03:26:00 PM
So...
According to her resume, Anne Kirkpatrick has done everything
in her thirty-four years of "law enforcement" except actually
be THE Police.
This isn't a Police Officer's resume...
It's the resume of a scared little girl
bureaucrat impersonating a Police Officer.
It's REAL heavy on "I changed shit and
made new, onerous rules for everybody else
to abide by."
Just look at the woman and ask yourself
this question...
"If she were my partner and we got sucked
into some ugly shit that required emergency
action to make it right, would I be able to
depend on her to handle Police Business
if said ugly shit swapped ends and came at us?"
Hell m/fing no she wouldn't...
She would run away, lock herself in the squad
and scream her head off while YOU'RE brawling
with some big ugly things.
And when the brutality and civil rights
beefs come down,(regardless of the fact
that you were fighting for your life)she
would be a willing witness for the offender(s).
Can't remember if it was in 015 or 025
when one so called officer ran and locked
herself in the car while her partner was duking
it out with some mouth-breathers.
After the cavalry arrived and the all-clear was
sounded, she unlocked the doors and he got into
the car, then promptly laid his kel-lite across
her front teeth so that they both had to go to
the hospital to get patched up.
Anne Kirkpatrick is more of a law enforcement
gypsy than McBucketMouth.
She covers herself with degrees and certifications
in order to flit from executive post to executive post
"reforming" Police departments.
The woman is a Police Hater personified who
managed to outsmart Rahm and finagle an
exempt position with CPD.
Mistress of Pain and Punishment,
Grief and Aggravation...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
First of all, Kirkpatrick is simply incompetent. She keeps telling people "I'm working on it", but nothing gets done. Second, City Hall nixed the hiring of her friend from Seattle. At least for now. And they're not "girlfriends". Get off that already.
12/15/2016 07:09:00 AM
How old is she? 70 ?
"merit" promotions should be (from now on) be offered to most senior city wide police officers and so on down the ranks to retain some knowledge of how the job really is.......i.e: c.i.t. trained officers....god bless them....but mentals are quite easy if you you play with similar cards in your deck......sort cars? time and distance? how about a piece of gum or a cigarette to chill them out and a little verbal judo...mental style...or the other route...either way, I haven't gone to c.i.t. training yet.....do the ppos teach it?
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So a guy with time on the job should get merit just because he has time on the job? I've met and known a large amount of people with a lot of time on the job who don't have a clue of anything on this job. You can still have 25 years on and not know a thing if you are a dog who has never done anything. Wow, You can deal with mentals on this job...insert slow clap here. That's your claim to fame, you can deal with mental?? Listen, anyone who has worked a beat car and over 10 years on can handle a mental and keep him calm by shooting the crazy breeze with him. Stop trying to justify yourself getting merit one day.. dogs sneed not apply just because they think they are special because they have time on the job. You want a good merit system then work hard, really hard and ensure you have ample time on a beat car in your resume. Tac or other teams on your resume would be a plus but not required especially if you have a good hardworking beat copper who comes in with good activity, has knowledge of the players in the district, conflicts and makes arrests. You have all of that along with time on a beat car then you are fine in my book. Just having time on doesn't cut it.
Commenter talking about people from new list not being called, that's wrong. They started last month calling veterans from it and Godsel is a super stroke, he won't get much done unless there's a photo/media opportunity then he strikes is like a catwalk model, his tweeter account is always buzzing. Does he have a designated photographer at academy already? He sure had one in 009 when he was actually at work, taking part in some public gathering.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"merit" promotions should be (from now on) be offered to most senior city wide police officers and so on down the ranks to retain some knowledge of how the job really is.......i.e: c.i.t. trained officers....god bless them....but mentals are quite easy if you you play with similar cards in your deck......sort cars? time and distance? how about a piece of gum or a cigarette to chill them out and a little verbal judo...mental style...or the other route...either way, I haven't gone to c.i.t. training yet.....do the ppos teach it?
@@@
So a guy with time on the job should get merit just because he has time on the job? I've met and known a large amount of people with a lot of time on the job who don't have a clue of anything on this job. You can still have 25 years on and not know a thing if you are a dog who has never done anything. Wow, You can deal with mentals on this job...insert slow clap here. That's your claim to fame, you can deal with mental?? Listen, anyone who has worked a beat car and over 10 years on can handle a mental and keep him calm by shooting the crazy breeze with him. Stop trying to justify yourself getting merit one day.. dogs sneed not apply just because they think they are special because they have time on the job. You want a good merit system then work hard, really hard and ensure you have ample time on a beat car in your resume. Tac or other teams on your resume would be a plus but not required especially if you have a good hardworking beat copper who comes in with good activity, has knowledge of the players in the district, conflicts and makes arrests. You have all of that along with time on a beat car then you are fine in my book. Just having time on doesn't cut it.
12/15/2016 11:58:00 PM
...shooting the crazy breeze...good way to put it
Rahm no bullshit they will be coming for you soon! Very soon. Say hello to Blago.
Anonymous said...
"...shooting the crazy breeze...good way to put it"
12/16/2016 08:24:00 AM
"What had happened was who had said sump'n?"
Rahm did you have buttered pop corn while watching the Macdonald video?
"If Rahmbo wins in 2018, Granny is the next Superintendent"
Well you have next year to find and fund a decent candidate to run against him and you can forget that cops, cinderheads, city workers vote.
That ship has sailed, get a Hispanic or Black candidate that's unsullied by the BS. Then you might get a decent Supe.
What BS Rham goes to Washington DC again
Just to have brunch with other former
Chiefs of Staff of white house.
Mayor get off of your knees. Your begging too much
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