Interesting Idea
Not much good coming out of Baltimore lately - except this maybe:
- Baltimore will consider offering a property tax break to local police and firefighters.
The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that officials believe the relief would entice more emergency responders to live in the city. It would also help the city financially while fostering more trust between safety officials and the public.
The tax break would be $2,500 for a public safety employee who owns a home in the city. It would include sheriff's deputies as well as police and firefighters.
It might - MIGHT - expand the pool of applicants up from the miserable showings of the past ten or fifteen years. It would have to be doubled though.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
42 Comments:
Baltimore still plans to pillory - - - oh, sorry, I meant conduct a public hearing into misconduct on the part of the now-cleared police officers.
Tax break? You'd have to give me a free house and zero real estate taxes before I'd CONSIDER taking a police job there.
Just wait until the taxes are higher than the net worth of the home.
They need to stop with the "building of trust" bullshit. Everyone knows it's never gonna happen they just need to stop already they sound totally ridiculous. Not even the public is buying that shit
Get me outta here! Eliminate the residency requirement now. $2,500...joke.
Will Rahm consider offering a tax incentive to
Chicago first responders? I say hell no.
And yet chicago continues to force residency. Number one reason I left, couldn't stand the policy found a better department without residency
At this point, keep the money and get another better paying and safer job!
I'd pay an extra $2500 in taxes just to be able to live outside the city. Hell, I'd even come out ahead with all the other taxes, private schools etc.
Speaking of Maryland, did you see where the city council of College Park voted to allow illegals (sorry, undocumented residents) to vote in their local elections?
They then discovered that a simple majority vote was not legal and had to rescind the order until they figure out plan B
10 other Maryland towns already allow voting by illegals
Rahm is interested I'm sure
They would publicize the "cop on the block",and people would come to your door unannounced with their troubles.
On a side note I sold my home I Beverley and it was not police or fire who bought the home. So the notion of selling your ho.e in Mr Greenwood or Beverley or anywhere else in the city and nobody wanting to buy it who is not a city worker is utter nonsense.
So Fire and Police can then vote to raise taxes on their neighbors, with out having to pay themselves? Oh well, stay fetal and do the minimum required, that's what those left paying your wages and benefits deserve.
Anonymous said...
They need to stop with the "building of trust" bullshit. Everyone knows it's never gonna happen they just need to stop already they sound totally ridiculous. Not even the public is buying that shit
9/17/2017 12:20:00 AM
100 percent correct, can't even trust each other not to kill one another...
Seguros!
Insurance for the maxed out!
They can get rid of us and hire two new ones for each of us.
A FOP negotiating tool. Give up residency or pay each officer $5,000.00 to live in the city.
A tax refund are you high?
This city county and state is broke already.
They could not spare a penny let alone a tax refund......
Keep dreaming
Some other good news coming out of Baltimore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/freddie-gray-baltimore-police-federal-charges.html?_r=0
Charges have been dropped against Baltimore police in the death of street drug dealer Freddy Gray.
The BlackLiesMatter - fake news MSM narrative has collapsed. It's on to the next racist hate crime hoax. Just follow the Rev (Not!) Sharpton around, follow the lies of the Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC (Though MSNBC had to fire Sharpton).
Maybe the next BlackLiesMatter mob cause will be the police shooting of some thug in St. Louis - BlackLiesMatter mobs were attacking the St. Louis Mayor's home (Media covered up this story).
Please support blogs like SecondCityCop and the alternative Conservative media. Fox News can't be trusted as the Murdoch children are purging all Trump supporters.
We live in an occupied country folks. Stay strong, but be careful.
Jack Ryan
AllRightChicago
Jackryanod@protonmail.com
residency requirement FOP Local lodge #7 .......
Hahahaha!!! They must think "normal" people are as stupid as liberal democrats.
Is a tax break supposed to cushion the fall when they're thrown under the bus? The tax break is not worth the muzzle it comes with.
J.J.
reason I left, couldn't stand the policy found a better department without residency
But you still can't leave...... The blog makes u feel like your still here. You love what u left.
2.5k?🤔Sounds like moldy cheese in a mouse trap. Not enough "che$$e to work in a hate filled environment. Sorry, I ll take door #2
Rahm wants all of us to leave so he can give our homes to illegal aliens.
The problem for Chiraq first-responders, we have no other choice but live in the city. rahm will never give a tax break, he will hire the dregs of society to fill the ranks of the CPD if needed.
SCC...I recall you posting an article similar in nature. Rambo said he would like CPO to reside in the hood, um, west and south sides.
Tax break or not, including a free house/tax, an officer wouldn't be safe, nor his/her family, living among the evil monsters.
I can't imagine sending my child to schools run by gang bangers or family always in harms way. No way, Jose.
Tax break for buying in the depressed crime infested areas only or will it include the few plush lawn, tree lined fringe areas?
Have the jobless unwashed antifa and feral mutts been eating up all the City revenue handouts and the entitlement pantry is near empty?
If FR's are allowed to live outside the border, $2500 would not be enough (for me) to move back.
Can't trust the Democrat.
Yeah,$2500 to live in a shithole. Sounds great.
I didn't know we were suppose to give bonds to what they can afford? Five dollars in pocket, ok.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/latest-move-in-bail-reform-chief-judge-replaces-all-bond-court-judges/amp/
The funniest part of this is that democrats are starting to admit that you have to CUT taxes in order to stop hemorrhaging people from an area being destroyed by over taxation of some and under taxation of others - IE The Progressive Tax Code.
Funny it is that they STILL have to try to only offer their solution to their own special chosen feew while refusing to realize that the LAW (which taxation is) has to apply to EVERYONE just the same or it WILL NOT WORK. You know - EQUALITY, it actually does have to be part of the Rule of Law or Epic Failure will inevitably result.
Sounds like a plan. How about just cover my property taxes all together.
Another stupid idea. Baltimore stopped being a livable city in about the mid 1980's. There was a migration of working people leaving for the suburbs and that shit hole has been going downward since. It was chronicled in the book Homicide: Life on the Street. Why would anyone live in a shit hole for a few dollars more you could live in a nice community 20 miles awa? I mean really. Another stupid idea from stupid leadership.
They should give you CPD, CFD and city employees a break to move into Englewood and mentor the community with your work ethic and your personal responsibility to lead the way for the community. Any takers? I would rather see more CPD living in the burbs. That is what you should all be pushing for. No residency requirements rather freedom to choose where you live. It seems it would increase morale and with it performance in my opinion.
I would pay the city 2500 buck so I don't have to live here
2500? no thanks.
Anonymous said...
reason I left, couldn't stand the policy found a better department without residency
But you still can't leave...... The blog makes u feel like your still here. You love what u left.
9/17/2017 10:11:00 AM
Intelligent people leave when something isn't healthy for them.
Jobs.
Relationships.
Towns.
States.
Visiting the blog is simply touching base. You can miss being CPD, but you can be smart enough to physically remove yourself from the cesspool.
Congratulations to the original poster; getting out was a smart move.
take the $2500 tax break for all city workers , retirees that live in Chicago
Hey, SSC, did you see this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-nation-portland-police-end-104002299.html
Anonymous said...
Another stupid idea. Baltimore stopped being a livable city in about the mid 1980's. There was a migration of working people leaving for the suburbs and that shit hole has been going downward since. It was chronicled in the book Homicide: Life on the Street. Why would anyone live in a shit hole for a few dollars more you could live in a nice community 20 miles awa? I mean really. Another stupid idea from stupid leadership.
They should give you CPD, CFD and city employees a break to move into Englewood and mentor the community with your work ethic and your personal responsibility to lead the way for the community. Any takers? I would rather see more CPD living in the burbs. That is what you should all be pushing for. No residency requirements rather freedom to choose where you live. It seems it would increase morale and with it performance in my opinion.
9/17/2017 02:48:00 PM
Chicago keeps reincarnating "Cop Next Door" to suck in
the gullible by appealing to their "civic duty to give
back to the community."
Fukdat...
"The Community" gains WAY disproportionately compared
to it's overall investure, which by the way is the far
side of absolute dick-all.
Truth be told...
People and folks think that because you're a Policeman,
somehow you forfeit the right to safety, peace and quiet.
Officer Next Door =
The same hate crazed m/fers watching you
leave for work are watching you come home as well.
Or somebody beating on your door to roust you
and come deal with their self inflicted crisis
of the moment involving affection for barter/trade
or some similar such foolishness...
Damn right some bozo-visor will honor their
dissatisfaction with a C/R initiation...
Not worth the potential grief and aggravation.
Hopefully the Coppers in Murdermore have pride
enough to tell the city to GTFOH...
I would also take a pay cut to live outside the city. Drop my pay by 5000 and ill come out on top.
How could that possibly be legal?
Get rid of residency...FOP #7...Not doing a goddamn thing..
The residency stipend isn't anything new. It was first introduced at contract negotiations by the Donahue crew and the by Shields. Surprise, surprise, It was quickly refused by the City. An arbitrator told FOP they'd never get it in arbitration and would have to negotiate it if they really wanted it.
The reality here is that if any of you think your going to get even $2500, let alone $5000, for nothing you are in dreamland. A 3% raise nowadays is a sizable raise. A copper making 75,000 would get 2250 at that rate. Do you really think the City is going to throw another 2500 on top of that?
The key to the Baltimore thing is that there isn't residency. The $2500 is to entice Officers to move into the City.
You have to be realistic at contract negotiations. Demand the moon, but know what reality is and what you're willing to settle for or what an arbitrator will actually give you.
9/17/2017 10:20:00 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How could that possibly be legal?
9/17/2017 10:47:00 PM
Other cities have been doing it for years so it would appear to be legal
I would take a 3 percent pay cut to leave, in a fucking heartbeat.
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