Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Airport News

This one has been percolating for a while. It's popping up again and this time, some of hte details are being fleshed out:
  • Looks like McCarthys run for Mayor has paid off for him, the chatter from City Hall is McCarthy/Simon will finally get a HUGE security contract at both airports that will employ both unarmed security guards and armed off duty P.O.'S.

    Expect massive staffing changes at O'Hare as well in a panicked attempt to meet recommendations brought by an outside Israeli security expert who was flabbergasted by the lack of manpower in one of the worlds busiest airports and a massive expansion of O'Hare.

    As a stop gap measure Citywide OT initiative will be put in place until the airports are both completely staffed. The present Aviation Officers unfortunately will be disbanded but will get the first shot at being rehired at a considerably lower pay rate.

    The Mayor was finally convinced the only thing that could prevent a disaster is to have a large armed CPD presence. The wake up call was US Special Forces troops in Raqqa Syria found mock ups for multiple airports in the world with O'Hare being one. Hopefully we dodged a bullet!
So Airport VRI as a stop-gap? Does Ferguson know about this or is he busy writing another letter to the editor decrying overtime and the lack of a crime fighting plan by the people he refused to hold accountable for cheating their way into six-figure jobs/pensions?

This might be interesting.

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81 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Supe sent the Sun Times and Ferguson a rebuttal. Fuck Ferguson.

10/24/2017 12:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What they desperately need is a carbine operator OT program with trained officers carrying them at Ohare.

10/24/2017 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A whole lot less "Motha-Fuc--er" will be yelled in your face at Gate 27.

10/24/2017 12:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What happened to the airport security czar Vasquez? Is GMAC replacing him?

10/24/2017 12:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is quite frightening how very few police officers are working at Ohare. But when the city slashed the hiring for 12 years where do you get the officers to staff Ohare? The entire city is short handed. Ohare should have more officers and officers patrolling with rifles too.

10/24/2017 02:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ex-NYPD, a pension is not enough
for some high rollers
Rule #1: You don't talk about unarmed
security guards
And baby, McCarthy is pulling down top
numbers, loading up the 401(k), getting
matching funds, company vehicle, home
office, entertainment expenses
And above all, his company will barely turn a
profit after wages and expenses. Just a
retired cop still working to make ends meet.

10/24/2017 02:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't have too much security.
Teen idol Sal Mineo was stabbed to death.
RIP SM

10/24/2017 02:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aviation “officers” will “unfortunately” be disbanded? GOOD. They can now be the security guards they always have been and stop telling people they are the police.

10/24/2017 03:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Asked yesterday what it would take for change in Chicago, an attack on the airport could be it. Why no coverage in media about Israeli report? I know Rahm said don't report will make me look bad. As if anything could make him look food. Wake up Chicago your on the brink of a disaster. Vote these clowns out A.S.A.P, all of them.

10/24/2017 03:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Money buys silence.

10/24/2017 04:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sign me up.

10/24/2017 04:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ferguson is a bed wetter. Wait until a team of jihadists crashes a Sprinter into a terminal and beheads a dozen people waiting for their flight. I’m shocked it hasn’t happened yet. Emanuel and the bedwetter will blame it on the police.

10/24/2017 06:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Airport VRI as a stop-gap? Does Ferguson know about this or is he busy writing another letter to the editor decrying overtime and the lack of a crime fighting plan by the people he refused to hold accountable for cheating their way into six-figure jobs/pensions?

This might be interesting.

IG Joe Forgetsome was just nominated by the local chapter of the NAACP for man of the year...

10/24/2017 06:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Been thinking of bidding to an airport for awhile.

However,I feel that I do more good in patrol right now.

Had a great chalk talk with kids last night.

Explained to them the value of the EEOC beef and lawsuit.

The young gals were especially interested when I explained how filing one of these basically immunizes you from ever being fucked with. Properly played, can be turned into decades of choice assignments.

Class of ‘86

10/24/2017 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Side note, anybody read “Armed off duty P.O.’s” and think to them selves, why in the hell would they be hiring armed Pieces of Shit for this gig??

10/24/2017 07:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone has price to sell their soul.

10/24/2017 07:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The Supe sent the Sun Times and Ferguson a rebuttal. Fuck Ferguson.

10/24/2017 12:09:00 AM

Please!!!!!! “The Supt” wrote a “rebuttal”. Did you every hear him speak ?, he struggles with that,.... He had one of his “minions” write it...

10/24/2017 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Working the airport we used to laugh at the security because what else could you do? Its a clout unit so if you think anyone gives a damn what you think then think again. 50% , at least, are there on juice. I suspect 50% is a starting point however.

Once the Tac team was in a garage looking for a guy with an AK and they have their rifles out, naturally. A TV crew televised them and a call came from downtown to put the rifles away. So now because of MR. NY and the Israeli its all going on the up and up eh? If thats even close to being real they should re-hire, as an adviser, the guy who ran the O'hare Tactical training we would do once a month. At the very least let him keep that going because we were into some very advanced shit, as advanced as you can get in a shitty little indoor range. Guys who weren't any good starting getting good and guys who were good got better. Most of all they started learning how to operate as a team under the stress of fire in squad scenarios. Confidence shot way up.

So call this trainer, who is retired now, and hire him back to work with the 050 unit again and MAKE THEM go to training, and not just the Tac teams. Because its really bad there and nobody gives a shit, tho it does re-assure me the enemy is so fucking stupid that they havn't even seen it yet. Or at least acted on it.

10/24/2017 08:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ferguson will write whatever the mayor wants him to.

10/24/2017 08:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Gerardo Silva APD 305 said...

Disbanding Aviation Police officers is the biggest mistake and political corruption move ever!!! Over 200 Aviation Police officers who are Illinois State Certified police officers, attended the Chicago Police Academy and also work part time at various other Police Departments are Highly Qualified must not be thrown under the bus!!! We have 1 or more Criminal justice Degrees and we are also Military Veterans from all branches!!! We are all trained to be armed!!! Wake up Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we Aviation Police Officers serve and protect all lives 24/7 making Ohare and Midway Airport's safe!!God help us!!!

10/24/2017 08:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rham you always did think half ass... and to your benefit. Why not do it right and do it once. What I mean by this? There are police on this force who need a mental evaluation, this should be required yearly. But like you said, just waiting for a crisis to come around

10/24/2017 08:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Time to move I just retired free at last free at last

10/24/2017 08:57:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

GMAC strikes again. Ring that register.

10/24/2017 09:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

McCarthy/Simon will have Jeremiah Joyce working for them as governmental liaison. What’s right is right. South side end at the airports was squeezed by Emanuel. They will be made whole.

10/24/2017 09:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, McCarthy comes here and spews his NY rhetoric... then Bloomberg puts his millions into Preckwinkle's sugar tax... what is next?

10/24/2017 09:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The feds are paying for CPD and CFD at both airports. How many people is the city charging the feds for? They have been lying about this for years. In this day and age how can you have two international airports with unarmed guards?

10/24/2017 09:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did they ever find out who killed Karen Koppel, the girl friend of mob associate Ben Stein who was a mentor to Ricky Simon? She was shaking down the married Stein and disappeared in 1980 never to be found again.

10/24/2017 09:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...”officers patroling with rifles too.” Are you kidding! People might think there is a safety issue. Do you think rahm uses commercial airlines, so no heightened security needed, not for the rabble.

10/24/2017 09:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In these times, exactly WTF is the point of an "unarmed security guard?" To tell the guys with AKs "Don't do that?"

10/24/2017 10:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

An attack at O'Hare or JFK or LAX would cause a ripple across the country and destroy the airline industry. The city had better stop playing politics with people's safety. The unarmed feckless Aviation experiment should end and make it ALL armed CPD. Any airport you see except O'Hare, is full of armed real police.

10/24/2017 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If/when the airport is attacked if the Police move in and stop/shoot/apprehend the criminals or if there is a massive slaughter, you can bet the Mayor will either take credit for "his" Police Department, or he will be throwing cops under the bus left and right. Either way, he's still an asshole.

J.J.

10/24/2017 10:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

private security is a joke in this country due to politics and stupid regulations. Most companies don't want to pay for REAL security.The industry attracts mall ninjas and idiots not professionals.

10/24/2017 10:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Midway is a softer target then OHare.

10/24/2017 11:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just makes too much sense boys and girls, wont happen.. This is Chicago and Illinois, both so fucked up, lets all start buyiung in Gary, IN for retirement.

10/24/2017 11:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Sup sent a rebuttal.? Have you not figured out he is a goof and a rahm guy. come on bro... get the Big picture

10/24/2017 11:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's the Chicago way, pay off the competition. f!ck Rahman.

10/24/2017 11:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"will be disbanded but will get the first shot at being rehired at a considerably lower pay rate. "
Ain't that a real kick in the dick for those guys.

10/24/2017 11:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

GMAC feathered his own cap
run you new Yorker
put the 9.5 back in a tutu
you just might win and be passing out the goodies in 2019

10/24/2017 12:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The duties that AVPD are responsible for can be handled by a $15 hr. civilian (unaccredited) that's a fact.
Should it go in that direction, I believe there would/will be a drastic drop in reliability, dependability and mostly integrity.
Since AVOD weren't given or ever had Police powers then why are they at the Airports?
Given the fact they all know the airport geography, it seems they will be a valuable asset should Rahm have to pull the plug on Mauer's AVPD.

Can't see any VRI for district personnel, there's not much they know about the airports besides standing around and that's what TSA has been doing since that type of OT was eliminated over 7 yrs ago.
The current undermanned CPD contingent is plenty good at that (not counting paper shuffler office staff) and seems to have worked out fine to date.

Pehaps then it could be the DHS, TSA, FBI, FAA may all have an upper hand in some sort of "takeover" of airport security and that current CPD Units could still remain to handle the day in-day out crimes from trespassing to thefts, drunks, lost stuff and traffic.
If left up to incompetents Rahm and Ginger, they'd continue to fleece the taxpayer with a scant armed and a bloated unarmed security sham at the Ecomonice Engine known as Ohare Airport*, since the airlines are being forced into spending money on more terminal expansion with a dismal outlook on flight operations, especially a volatile United Continental (*pardon that digression).

So was GMac given a milk bone for not challenging RottenRahm on the 2019 ballot or was this just a logical Washington DC decision?
Hmmm.
Dump Rahm Anyway.
I'm voting for Willie Wilson and guarantee I'll get a free turkey.

10/24/2017 12:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come on Joe look into the contracts in the past and current practice. The Daley's all made tons of money. O'Hare AP is the same airport where even the U.S. EPA ran from in starting up soil testing from saturation and jet fuel run off. The water table is also compromised much like the air that includes a 30 mile circle of poison. The collar communities continue to suffer from the jet fuel emissions fallout to the tune of approx 2-400 cancer related deaths per year. Yet again the priority is to load up the air routes www.airport24.com

10/24/2017 12:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

t is quite frightening how very few police officers are working at Ohare. But when the city slashed the hiring for 12 years where do you get the officers to staff Ohare? The entire city is short handed.

When mccarthy became super he was shocked to find out Mass transit had less then 120 po s compared to N.Y. 4000. 4000 must be the magic number since that is how down we are to the supposed 12,500 mark. Liar city keeps saying down only 800 yet every district is around 200 to the 330 that was in the 90 s. No body wants this job in the big classes of 1990 will retire after next year. BUT HEY, THE CITY PROMISED TO HIRE 1000 even though that many will retire by the end of next year. Everyone who travels can see ohare is so unsecured compared to other airports.

10/24/2017 01:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. Sessions cannot arrive soon enough bearing gifts of one hundred or more Feds to begin the swamp draining. Christmas would come early this year!!

10/24/2017 01:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All aviation personel got fitted for uniforms last week. Apparently over $800 was spent on each employee. Wonder who got that contract? But would they spend that kind of money then dump the unit few months later? Who's going to man all the outposts? O'Hare is a small city 30,000 employees work out there and someone has to monitor their access. Cpd isn't going to sit there and process O'Hare employees. Shit head guards aren't gonna cut it. There has to be a middle ground.

10/24/2017 01:53:00 PM  
Blogger 008 2nd Watch DOG said...

Airport VRI, sign me up!
765B

10/24/2017 02:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh good, he got ride of 250 state certified police officers. I don't care what you say, they still went thru the Chicago Police Academy and also had state certification, period.

These kids were a good source of recruits for ours and other departments.

050 will have to get another 100 patrol spots to make up for this, plus increase the other security. Granted, this has been long neglected due to the democrats stealing everything they could. Oh yeah, they will only lay off the officers, the brass will stay. Same thing happened when they laid off all the greeters at the airport, all the union employees got the ax, the bosses stayed and got a raise! Never heard the union complain either.

10/24/2017 02:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to 10/24/17 08;33am I have to agree with you, it would a huge mistake to disband them if anything transfer them to cpd, also gmac is not your friend he is all out for the irish hate to admit im voting for rahm

10/24/2017 03:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the feds aren't paying for shit at the airports, every penny comes from the airlines, that's why the department of Aviation has it's own budget separate from the city. And thanks to Mayor Daley, the city doesn't even get a cut of the parking garage. And unless the city can grease the FAA, the federal law states the airports must be manned by Sworn officers, not security and that's the while reason. the Aviation guys go through the academy and take the state test.

10/24/2017 03:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Violent crime is on the rise in all areas of the city, but the airports are where these "well trained" CPD Officers should be utilized.

10/24/2017 04:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Supe wrote Ferguson a rebuttal!”

He did?
Sounded more like Superdork Ed Siskel wrote it.
To be fair, Eddie’s little woman is a brain, too—Joe said so.

With tiny dancer, you can’t tell who’s screwing who anymore.

10/24/2017 06:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remember when the jag off EMMANUEL said, "I'm going to STICK IN THE COPS EARS" by taking away the medical from retirees??

ANYBODY BUT EMMANUEL!!!!!!!

10/24/2017 06:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aviation Security Units disbanded?

I call horse shit on that.

SEIU isn't going to drop that one during negotiations at all...unless the City is going to offer a minimum 20% raise to all other SEIU Unit II employees.

10/24/2017 06:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Gerardo Silva APD 305 said...
Disbanding Aviation Police officers is the biggest mistake and political corruption move ever!!! Over 200 Aviation Police officers who are Illinois State Certified police officers, attended the Chicago Police Academy and also work part time at various other Police Departments are Highly Qualified must not be thrown under the bus!!! We have 1 or more Criminal justice Degrees and we are also Military Veterans from all branches!!! We are all trained to be armed!!! Wake up Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we Aviation Police Officers serve and protect all lives 24/7 making Ohare and Midway Airport's safe!!God help us!!!

10/24/2017 08:33:00 AM

Start filing Grievances and Labor Law Violations. I agree, you are all State Certified LEO's. Not PERK and TAN card carrying Securitas wannabes. I have never agreed with the way that the City has Treated DOA SEIU members.

Get off your asses and get your Stewards working.


Finance Guy on a Bike and SEIU member from 2006.

10/24/2017 06:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aviation “officers” will “unfortunately” be disbanded? GOOD. They can now be the security guards they always have been and stop telling people they are the police.

10/24/2017 03:02:00 AM

Settle down Kojak! Why do you care what they tell people? Does it somehow damage your "I'm a cop" machismo? Who gives a crap? They can tell people they are neurosurgeons and it will not harm a hair on your head.

10/24/2017 07:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We all know the real answer here. Just beg Tom Dart for some super heroes in brown uniforms they'll bring it under control and earn the trust of world travelers.

10/24/2017 08:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@1:53 pm , you just don't get it do you. They charge $800 a uniform ESPECIALLY if they know it's being disbanded so they can then charge some more for the new uniforms needed for the replacements. The Chicago way says get em coming and going,right?

10/24/2017 08:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There’s police at O’Hare where do they keep ‘em? I’ve been through there 25+ times this year and have only seen 2 cops total. Plenty of empty cop cars though.

10/24/2017 08:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Been thinking of bidding to an airport for awhile.

However,I feel that I do more good in patrol right now.

Had a great chalk talk with kids last night.

Explained to them the value of the EEOC beef and lawsuit.

The young gals were especially interested when I explained how filing one of these basically immunizes you from ever being fucked with. Properly played, can be turned into decades of choice assignments.

Class of ‘86

10/24/2017 07:16:00 AM

You're right. Baseless eeoc beefs are a perfect way for do-nothings to weasel their way into choice assignments. And bs like that makes it more difficult for those with legitimate complaints to get a fair shake. Please retire before your ophidian transformation further tarnishes your star.

10/24/2017 09:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would treat Ohare work like NFL work
Do NOT volunteer - especially for off duty work.
Make em ORDER ya and make em pay ya OVERTIME. Even then, protect yourselves.
The attacks are already in the works, many of them.
Now that they have lost their ground, they will go into throw spaghetti at the wall mode.

It is coming.

Most likely from the outside coming in.
Vegas was proof of concept my friends. And they have already trained the hundreds here already. You know, refugeeeeees.

Yeah, those folks Trump was trying to ban, the ones Lefty DEMOCRATS wouldn't LET be be banned.

If you FLY today, you are playing with your own lives.
If you volunteer for airport work, well, at least you are armed. Best not play as if it is free OT.
If you are assigned, well, it best be the most attentive job you have been on in years, or ever.

It IS coming. And it will be teams of semi auto armed bangsters, pressing forward except this time not dropping their arms. They will be reloading, expending ammo on their one way trip. Ya best arm up fellas....please. I want ya at least to have a fighting chance.

10/24/2017 10:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ask the CTAPD and CHAPD about mergers with CPD. All laid off. Unit disbanded and functions assumed by CPD. The only police department in our lifetimes (am an old fuck) merged into CPD was the Chicago Park Police. This city is run by imbeciles.

10/24/2017 10:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a disgrace and a huge liability that we have so few REAL police officers at our airports, especially O'Hare. Rahm and our brass don't want us to even look like we have any kind of police presence. God forbid a well armed police presence might just prevent an attack! When it happens (and it will), Rahm will regret not being proactive in airport policing. Blood will be on his hands. At least if he were to do as much as possible, he would cone out of any attack looking like he cared.

10/25/2017 01:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

""
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@1:53 pm , you just don't get it do you. They charge $800 a uniform ESPECIALLY if they know it's being disbanded so they can then charge some more for the new uniforms needed for the replacements. The Chicago way says get em coming and going,right?

10/24/2017 08:53:00 PM""

How about some photo's of AVSD sporting their new guard uniforms in full regalia? I bet they look sporting, tho not as good as the ones you wore BEFORE you got CNN to chase your Boss around his own building.

10/25/2017 01:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did they ever find out who killed Karen Koppel, the girl friend of mob associate Ben Stein who was a mentor to Ricky Simon? She was shaking down the married Stein and disappeared in 1980 never to be found again.
10/24/2017 09:55:00 AM
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The answer is no one is in custody. CPD' investigation by the dick' turned to shit everywhere it went. Rumor was someone was feeding info to Stein' crew. Ben was a made guy and Simon was alleged to of taken care of Ben' old gal friend. The dick' knew it and Simon played nice and then shut down. I think Simon was still otj when this happened. Simon was a cowboy in his younger days, ask around, He was a Grand ave hot headed J.O who Stein mentored all the way.

I would suspect the old paper files in storage had a major flood and few after the woman was no more. At that time, if you had a pager you were high tec. GOCR and IR photos took a trip to the old headquarters if you wanted a report and did not want to wait 2 weeks. Old SCC will sustain this fact how antiqued CPD was in the 1980'.

Stein is in hell now and little Satan Simon is 70 yoa now and using the idiot from NYC. McCarthy thinks the game is the same as in NYC was! O.C is low key all the way in Chicago. All the old money was invested into legit businesses.

Simon is sharp, he evaded the FBI for years. If shit ever hit' the fan, McCarthy will take the fall. Let us all hope they both take a fall by the G. McCarthy/Simon, if they get the airports security contract, then the city is truly gone to the pits and bed rock. Ginger might of been dining with Simon, her 300 plus K job must not be enough to live on. Trips on the arm via the airlines to way out foreign lands can get expensive.

Old saying "Chicago ain't ready for reform."

10/25/2017 03:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Will frank come of retirement and work for gary?

10/25/2017 03:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

 Anonymous said...

Anonymous Gerardo Silva APD 305 said...
Disbanding Aviation Police officers is the biggest mistake and political corruption move ever!!! Over 200 Aviation Police officers who are Illinois State Certified police officers, attended the Chicago Police Academy and also work part time at various other Police Departments are Highly Qualified must not be thrown under the bus!!! We have 1 or more Criminal justice Degrees and we are also Military Veterans from all branches!!! We are all trained to be armed!!! Wake up Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we Aviation Police Officers serve and protect all lives 24/7 making Ohare and Midway Airport's safe!!God help us!!!

10/24/2017 08:33:00 AM

Start filing Grievances and Labor Law Violations. I agree, you are all State Certified LEO's. Not PERK and TAN card carrying Securitas wannabes. I have never agreed with the way that the City has Treated DOA SEIU members.

Get off your asses and get your Stewards working.


Finance Guy on a Bike and SEIU member from 2006.

10/24/2017 06:53:00 PM

Hey honey how about you guys ask uncle rahm to be folded into cpd midnights in 005 or 007 awaits you.Me and about 300 other po's are waiting to bid to the aiports do your 27 years in the ghetto and you can return to your glorious spot or else quit.

10/25/2017 03:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is Maureen Joyce's function at Midway? To many high paying jobs with little or nothing to do at MDW. ORD is "bigger" then MDW and that can only mean more political appointees that haven't a clue. Just ask Erin ODonnell.

10/25/2017 03:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Gerardo Silva APD 305 said...
Disbanding Aviation Police officers is the biggest mistake and political corruption move ever!!! Over 200 Aviation Police officers who are Illinois State Certified police officers, attended the Chicago Police Academy and also work part time at various other Police Departments are Highly Qualified must not be thrown under the bus!!! We have 1 or more Criminal justice Degrees and we are also Military Veterans from all branches!!! We are all trained to be armed!!! Wake up Mayor Rahm Emanuel, we Aviation Police Officers serve and protect all lives 24/7 making Ohare and Midway Airport's safe!!God help us!!!
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Gerardo, graduating a police academy does not make one a police officer. It merely means that you completed the coursework required by the state of Illinois to qualify for employment as such. You must receive a sworn commission from a department. So despite all of your Facebook photos of you wearing an aviation security uniform that says “Police”, as has been stated time and again the aviation security officers were not and are not police as a result of your employment with the Department of Aviation. You may be part time police somewhere else, and that’s all well and good. Seek full time employment with a municipal, county, or state agency if you want to be full time police. It isn’t happening at the DOA.

10/25/2017 05:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't have too much security.
Teen idol Sal Mineo was stabbed to death.
RIP SM

10/24/2017 02:28:00 AM"


Wow! No offense to Sal, I'm actually old enough to remember him, but I couldn't stop laughing at your post.

10/25/2017 05:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Settle down Kojak! Why do you care what they tell people? Does it somehow damage your "I'm a cop" machismo? Who gives a crap? They can tell people they are neurosurgeons and it will not harm a hair on your head.

10/24/2017 07:10:00 PM

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -

Yes, it does hurt me as a cop. You see, I applied myself and made sacrifices and worked hard to gain full time employment as a police officer. I didn’t have an alderman with a phone call. So I give a crap. Because I have earned it. That’s why I’m not a security guard.

And they can go ahead and tell people they are neurosurgeons, as you suggest. But they better not tell people they are police, because that’s a crime. And seeing as they were ordered to remove all pollce insignia from their uniforms and security vehicles and an abundance of city hearings, memos, and orders advised them that they are not sworn law enforcement officers, calling themselves police could get them locked up.

I can stomp my feet like a baby and cry “but I AM A PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL PLAYER!” and wear a baseball uniform. That doesn’t make me a professional baseball player.

- Kojak

PS Go back to checking purses with your drumstick, Andy Frain. Your shitty attitude is one reason you’re not a cop. You obviously don’t understand the value of earning a police badge.

10/25/2017 05:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The uniforms they are being fitted for are basically the same one they have now. All dark blue, from 511. Also a great uniform coat. So they will look the same with a different patch and badge.
To fulfill her anti-cop ego, she is spending hundreds of thousand and also loosing some grant money. Not that she cares for the safety of the citizens. Typical democrat.

10/25/2017 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. SouthSide says ---

Class of '86? Still a rookie.

10/25/2017 01:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Finance Guy on a Bike and SEIU member from 2006.

10/24/2017 06:53:00 PM

Shows how little you know. If they can disband the ChaCha police, they can disband aviation. There is no grievance.

10/25/2017 01:21:00 PM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

Anonymous said...

“Supe wrote Ferguson a rebuttal!”

He did?
Sounded more like Superdork Ed Siskel wrote it.
To be fair, Eddie’s little woman is a brain, too—Joe said so.

With tiny dancer, you can’t tell who’s screwing who anymore.

10/24/2017 06:03:00 PM

>Hears muffled noises
in back bedroom...
Goes to investigate...
Slowly opening door...
Covers moving like a WWF
free-for-all is going on...
LIGHTS: (ON)/Off
Snatches covers<

"GYAAH-HAH!
You NAS-TEEEEE M/Fers!"

Can't un-see Chicago-style Fuckery.

Seriously...

Watching Rahm, Joe Ferguson, the city council,
the media, the joyful haters and all the other
ongoing bullshit orbiting the flawed/faulty
premise that The Police are the problem here in
Chicago, we surmised that it's pretty much not
all that unlike watching the occupants of the
Monkey House at Lincoln Park Zoo running to and
fro, screeching at the top of their lungs while
flinging shit and trying to fuck a buttered
football...

...And pretty much the equivalent amount of
solutions to the ACTUAL problems at hand are
being put forth how now?

No damn wonder regular, everyday people are
throwing their hands up in disgust, retreating
to fall-back/final fight positions outside and
away from Democrat controlled urban areas like
Chicago and taking their treasure with them.

"You're racist if you try to escape."
"You're selfish and lack civic spirit."
"You're mean and heartless if you don't
share more of what you have with others."

We reckon the real problem is that people really
aren't as stupid as the progressive powers
that be wished they were.

Realizing and recognizing "Diminished Return"
is affixed to the splintery business end of the
Progressive Model Risk/Benefit - Reward/Punishment
thingy that upright, decent and law abiding
people are being menaced with by the likes of
BHO, Rahm al-Ghoul & Co. and their mindless
but fanatically devoted useful idiots who
perhaps will get shoved against a bullet pocked
wall by those they thought they shared common
cause with.

>Snicker!<

We're quite sure there was much amusement when
Lenin finally decided that Trotsky had served
his purpose...

...And Trotsky finally realized as much.

The best purge is always the first one when all the
useful idiots are swept from the game board.

"Thanks for playin', but..."

We just want to see the faux cheerful and chirpy
Progressives and their allies faces when it happens.

"Stop being so mean and unfriendly!
Public Servants aren't supposed to think
that way! Stop it. You're scaring us!"

Oh yeah... Almost forgot...

The Police are the problem.
Right?

Police Like You Have No Friends.

10/25/2017 01:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah that little certification diploma is about as legit as your grammar school diploma. Stop thinking hanging it on your wall make you the "real Police" of the fact you occasionally direct traffic in some small suburb. "Experience" is what makes you the police. "Experience" would have prevented those 3 guys from Losing their jobs dragging the Oxy dealing cocksucker off the United airplane.

That said it would be a mistake to disband Aviation. I think its a mistake not to arm them too. Yes I know they have some silly screwed up officers but what Dept. doesn't? Tho I have to admit it would be funny to see a few of their Delta squad assholes who used to laugh at CPD running around in their new wardrobe. WTF do you expect when you go under cover in this city and get CNN to chase your Boss around HIS building? I hope this bunch has finally figured out CPD officers have nothing to do with their predicament.

They are mostly good guys. Nobody should want to see them out of work, or working for 1/2 pay.

10/25/2017 03:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
What is Maureen Joyce's function at Midway? To many high paying jobs with little or nothing to do at MDW. ORD is "bigger" then MDW and that can only mean more political appointees that haven't a clue. Just ask Erin ODonnell.

10/25/2017 03:30:00 AM
She's not he official greeter making 6 figures, Erin was a food server but connections made both of them $$$$$$$$! Here's a riddle what big boss at midway brings their school age children in to eat there? Pathetic!

10/25/2017 05:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jane Byrne disbanded the CTA police remember them the guys with the dark green uniforms and guns.Okd Man Daley disbanded or should I say merged the Park District Police with Chicago police in 1959. It was still a disband since they had no administration.
Remember the Cha Cha Police ? Daley and Hilliard told them to “ChaCha Y’all” too.

10/25/2017 08:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Anonymous Anonymous said...
Mr. SouthSide says ---

Class of '86? Still a rookie.

10/25/2017 01:19:00 PM
— — — — — — — — — — — — — -
Hey, where is Mr. Southside’s photo with his mullet? And no comments from the Keesing Bandit? No keeses for anyone?

What has the world come to?

10/25/2017 08:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We laugh at Airport Cops and how we are so well prepared. In 27 years I have seen CPD as a backward law enforcement agency. Hell you go to any suburb and they are 100 percent more prepared for anything than we are. As far as the politicians, we are all expendable. Remember the bank robbery in Los Angeles where the offenders had automatic weapons. They were able to get heavy weapons from gun stores in the neighborhood. Good luck in Chicago. By the time SWAT got there the death count would be phenominal. But my point is no mateer what politics plays a big part in the police department. CPD is not much better equipped than Airport Police other than CPD having a handgun. If the airports or any other situation arose where there was an active shooter or shooters with automatic weapons everybody would be fucked. Look at the equipment in the vehicles of any suburb or small town in Illinois. Almost all have both Carbines and Shotguns. Many have fully automatic weapons, MP5's, Ar15's, etc. Plus they have all the equipment they could could need for any situation that arises. What we have is a spare tire and hopefully it isn't flat. We have been lucky. An attack is not a matter of if but when. The shooter from Las Vegas originally had a few reservations at a hotel overlooking Lollapalooza. Why he didn't show was a blessing.

So I will say this. Maybe Airport Police are a bunch of goofs compared to everyones standards, but are they worse than 8 dollar an hour unarmed security guards. Maybe Airport police never worked the streets but they have always been there at the airports if CPD needed help. That you can't say is a lie. Hell I would be happy if they armed them. If anything ever broke loose such as an attack at the airports, the one thing that you always want is strength in numbers. Is it better to have 5-8 armed CPD when all hell is breaking loose or 15-16 armed PO's no matter if they are CPD and APD. We don't have the equipment and fire power we need, so the next best thing is having as many armed PO's as you can.

Agree or not, it is the truth. If you disagree so be it, but I hope you are never in a situation where all of a sudden you regret your opinion.

10/26/2017 12:23:00 PM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

You show me someone here, besides yourself cutie, who deserves keeses and they will get them.

Now, Kees me you fool!!!!

10/26/2017 02:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aviation guys are heavier than a ton off bricks, the heavies will keep the job, the beat goes on,Its not what you no,It’s who you no, the game of life so RIGHT ON fellows and good luck your the best.

10/26/2017 09:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

McCarthy and Simon are good buddies with ex gop rino crook guy chiparoni who used to be Edgar’s press person. Always was friendly with dems and those in the combine. He may have helped with the ohare deal. His firm is close to Rahm. Also a chance ass kisser.

10/26/2017 11:06:00 PM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

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10/27/2017 07:52:00 AM  

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