Napolitano Gets It Right
Someone is paying attention - but he was a cop, so he knows the system we operate under:
- Chicago Police officers will turn into clock watchers because of an audit on alleged overtime abuse that amounts to a “crock of b.s.,” Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st) said Wednesday.
The City Council’s champion for Chicago Police officers lashed out at Inspector General Joe Ferguson one day after Ferguson concluded that Chicago is wasting millions on police overtime because of an “unchecked culture of abuse” and “inefficient management” that has failed to control costs, eliminate fraud or prevent officer fatigue.
Napolitano has served the city as both a police officer and firefighter. His Far Northwest Side ward is home to scores of Chicago Police officers.
On Wednesday, he accused the inspector general of playing with fire.
Napolitano goes on to rip Ferguson for not understanding exactly what it is that he's critiquing, covering a lot of what we did yesterday. We'd charge him the $50 Chaplain's fee for "borrowing" our talking points, but he's not part of the media...but he'd probably pay it anyway.
Does anyone know if Out-of-Grade pay is part of the overtime budget? Because we had a thought, based on a couple of comments:
Does anyone know if Out-of-Grade pay is part of the overtime budget? Because we had a thought, based on a couple of comments:
- Rahm has something like 24 bodyguards. These 24 people passed no test, exhibited no special skills before being chosen, had no single qualification aside from being politically "reliable," yet they are paid at the E-3 level (Sgt pay) despite being mostly patrolmen (E-1). The two guys in charge are actual Sergeants who got promoted (meri-clout-oriusly) but they're drawing Commander pay (E-6?) without having passed a single exam.
And that's just the out-of-grade salary.
When they work Special Employment (as a number of them do), it's at the higher pay rate, so they're sucking up, literally, tons of undeserved OT. How much is that exactly?
Don't expect Ferguson to shine a light in that direction though.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
108 Comments:
No wonder Chicago is all F*&ked up.
First of all, any politician pushing gun control - in ANY form - should not be getting any "Special Detail" of armed bodyguards.
If the average person shouldn't need a gun, the politician should not have any bodyguards. As they say, "Practice what you preach." Lead by example.
Until Chicago cuts out all the bloat in their budget, they should not be crying poor-mouth to the state or anyone else.
Last time I looked, there was no position called King in city government.
Please don't forget to remind our viewers of the 7 officers and one sergeant who protect the mayor's royal palace each watch, for 3 shifts each day, 365 days a year. Robberies and ass grabbers throughout the district but not on rahm's block.
Big thanks to the useless "Facebook" unit for all of there "hard" "earned" overtime hours that do absolutely nothing
Clout babies
If it has a pay raise you should have to open it up to every police officer
Sergeants as commanders , no qualified lieutenants or merit captains
Let's not forget the officers assigned to protect the abandoned fire station around the corner from the mayor's house, used to house the mayor's car (really city car) 24/7/365 protection of essentially a garage, even when the cars are not there. The position on midnight's bring g their pajamas.
Best friend of the Police since he took office. Rahm hates him and will spend hundreds of thousands to get rid of him in 2019. Tim Heneghan won't even have the Irish behind him. Even the old country Irish in 41 won't vote for Heneghan. God bless you Anthony.
Naps is a good guy. Keep exposing the nonsenseNaps!
This report by Ferguson was instigated by Raht Emanuel. He has declared war on the rank and file.
Hey SCC, just a suggestion...maybe we can keep a tally of negative news stories about the big, bad police and how we need reform. The libfucks at the aclu are suing the Dept. (again), because we systematically mistreat the mentally ill. They want a seat at the reform table because they “don’t trust” the training we’re getting, that, according to a disabled guy. Another police bashing story. Let’s see how many stories they can go with where they bash us. Yesterday’s “OT” story, this today...ridiculous. As for Mr. Handicap on the news, and the rest of the idiots at the aclu, we have a simple solution to this “problem”. DON’T FUCKING CALL US WHEN SOMEONE IS OFF THEIR MEDS!!!’ Deal with it yourselves, or call the person’s doctors to deal with their goofy ass. I’d love to get on the radio and refuse the job. “No, squad. We’re not going. Send fire instead”.
What about office people who are off on holidays but get to come in and "work" for the overtime? Or the unique "65" team in 024 that would purposely self cancel their rdos when they fall on a holiday and show up for a couple of hours amd get 12.75?
Rahm has something like 24 bodyguards. These 24 people passed no test, exhibited no special skills before being chosen, had o single qualification aside from being politically "reliable," yet they are paid at the E-3 level (Sgt pay) despite being mostly patrolmen (E-1). The two guys in charge are actual Sergeants who got promoted (meri-clout-oriusly) but they're drawing Commander pay (E-6?) without having passed a single exam.
Not a cop, but WTF man? I do not doubt this, as you are a reliable source, but when you add up 9.5 bodyguard count, Burke the tax man, and other politicians, that would be close to 100 cops drawing special pay for babysitting. Damn. How would you suggest that is fixed?
Tim Heneghan’s blog and its ghost posters took Alderman Napolitano to task and all of OT cheats who had their days off canceled, the dui guys that help keep impacted drivers off the road,and various other commented insulting to police. Tim you are chicken shit punk.. I was there at community meeting that Naps called you out att the day you became irrelevant..
Off topic for this post, but I can't see where to send you an e-mail.
I took an unscientific look at history on mass murders in the U.S., and found that since 1900, there has been 852 people killed and 1,293 wounded in 37 incidents which includes Las Vegas. This does not include serial killers or terrorist related incidents.
According to Hayjackass.com, YTD in Chicago there has been 538 people killed and 2,409 wounded.
My point is, where is the national moral outrage at this? Or is it because it has happened over the course of the year and not all at once?
Maybe the city needs to be reminded of the fact that when the Hawks won and then were provided a parade for which the police department's personnel had all their days canceled and they still manage to prevent a shooting at the parade when a man wearing a backpack with weapons was stopped by Area Central. Could have had own own Miami or Las Vegas styled massacre.
Tim Heneghan’s blog and its ghost posters took Alderman Napolitano to task and all of OT cheats who had their days off canceled, the dui guys that help keep impacted drivers off the road,and various other commented insulting to police. Tim you are chicken shit punk.. I was there at community meeting that Naps called you out att the day you became irrelevant..
Sorry, but I'm new to this. What is the address of his blog.
Nice and the ET's are constantly fighting to get out of grade for doing both their job and the crime lab jobs even after winning a grievance. Commander & Lietenant routinely deny them and as we know the FOP are useless.
Don't forget they also get the pension at the higher rate, a ripoff, hauser was going to "look into this" years ago but nothing happened! Why can't rahm use private security like Securitas? Rahm says he is the green mayor who will do everything to protect the environment but has a fleet of suburban and tahoes, gas hogs driving him and his families ass around! Why not use Toyota Prius? If he switched to private security he could save millions, joey Ferguson there's your media prep!
Don't forget about the bodygurads who sued the department after Rahm didn't want them on his detail. One of the biggest jags from that is PD. Gets a unit because of the wife and cries when he's not wanted anymore. Been a jerk his whole career.
What about the young guy who got on that detail when he had something like 3 years otj.
Creepy Joe Ferguson is a political hack with zero integrity. His top subordinates include an assortment of buffoons, liars and cover up artists. FOP/PBPA, the media or any CPD member needs to FOIA his disciplinary history & personnel file to uncover the truth about this pandering City Hall Watch Dork. Let's see just how transparent Rahm's favorite marionette can be !
Out of grade is not applicable when working special employment. I know from experience.
It's like anything in life if you find abuses you deal with it. But to say we are all abusing the system is absurd.
Why don't media call Rahm on Overtime saves money. He was the one who has us understaffed. They gave all the use of force on Overtime. All those days off cancelled like Forth of July overtime. And a lot more. We all knew it didn't make sense. I love how we are always to blame.
E-1? E-3? Lol. I'm guessing SCC is a veteran?
What would happen if a terrorist decided to take a car and run over marathon runners and was driving away, could we shoot at him? Seriously, I missed that day of training and I don't want to get fired.
So have the Cubs pay and use "Andy Fran" security guards for the World Series if they get there..
Naps was for the weed clinic on Milwaukee even though 90 percent of people present at meetings that live around it
Are against weed sales...... live with your family next to it naps.........for the record we the people around it don't like the gang bangers that have moved around the dispensary conveniently. It's now f'ed up. Naps also is for a park on Caldwell and touchy area that will allow dude to now hang out in north edgebrook in close proximity to the edgebrook motel.
Naps doesn't really get it. If he did he would have gone to better schools.
The two guys in charge are actual Sergeants who got promoted (meri-clout-oriusly) but they're drawing Commander pay (E-6?) without having passed a single exam.
^ Now that my friend is corruption at it finest.
Ferguson got caught somehow someway as he and his office definitely seem to be carrying Rahm Dama Ding Dong's water as of late and doing his bidding and picking and choosing his targets.
Notice nothing on the Aldercrooks or any appointees ??
In order for a shooting to be made into a big story,it has to be a crisis.Rahm himself said,don’t let a crisis go to waste.The definition of mass shooting is 4 or more.So,now all the lefties are falling over each other to talk and write about this national crisis and gun control.They pick and choose.If they were really sincere about real change,the BLM agitators would be demonstrating in the hoods across America protesting the black on black,not gun,violence.50 in a day or 50 in a month.Whats the difference?Ask Rahm What the definition of crisis is.It might be how many votes can I get out of this or how many first responders I should send to Puerto Rico.He waited 2 weeks for this latest publicity stunt.Mayor Cruz won’t call him out for that because they both hate trump.
Ryan's bodyguards deserve that pay. Your arm can get really tired holding up that umbrella.
Not all OT is bad. There are those who genuinely work it. I think we've all seen it. But there are a number of people who abuse it (just like every other city department.) But you can probably look at the top 10% of OT earners across the department and wonder why it's so high.
YIKES!!!
http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dont-miss/tmz-stephen-paddock-booked-hotel-overlooking-lollapalooza-2-months-before-vegas-massacre
We'll stop dropping slips if Chicago residents stop shooting each other.
O.T. Aleta and her club 51 started feeding the urchins and piss bums at 51st and Wentworth last night. Stop by for a bite to eat and bring a can of Raid. Maybe CAPS can fluff the pillows.
The not so funny thing about this that there have been no threats against this Mayor. If you ever see a threat to the Mayor, it's coming from members of his own detail to maintain job security.
Wag the dog!!!!
It seems to me that IF there is an OT problem, that it is a supervision and management problem and the people who ought to be getting their ass kicked are SGTs and LTs and CPTs who are letting it happen under their noses.
Hahahaha!!! Rahm has a lap dog that's going to show the Police are the reason the city is going broke. Has nothing to do with his wild spending habits. Vote shit, get shit.
J.J.
No need to go any farther ,, 61 time keepers for CPD payroll .. Most corporations,
small businesses went electronic time keeping 25 years ago
Another democrat Rahm's taxpayer money down toilet waste
Money better spent on Street Patrols ? Special Ed ?
"Off topic for this post, but I can't see where to send you an e-mail."
Also off topic, and worst off topic by a person who is not from Chicago but out in the southwest enjoying that retirement check that rolls in once a month. You folks should try it. We need more retired cops.
Anyway, in regards to the post by Anonymous. I was just reading that the problem with America is white males, based on the nut job in Las Vegas.
After reading the post it got me to thinking. Your mayor, or at least your mayor's brother, is from Hollywood where the sniper is the now the most important character in any action movie. They always seem to kill people from very tall buildings. I think I saw a Tom Cruise movie where the sniper was shooting random people in a big city. Chicago?
Maybe we should blame a white males for these problems, a white male with the same last name as your mayor who makes movies where the cops are always stupid, corrupt, and racists. Oh, and the hero of he movie is always a sniper who shoots people from long distances.
Did the LV sniper get his inspiration from the mayors brother's movies? Na, it's Trump fault. Just ask your mayor.
I am sick and tired of hearing about racist cops. I can count the number of real racists cops that I have met over the years on one finger. He got fired for being an asshole, and no one was sorry to see him go.
You guys and gals have a very tough row to hoe up there. Retire, early, start drawing and come down here and get a retirement job.
Ahhh, Joe Ferguson. Seems like all FERGUSON stories about police conduct are full of shit.
Doesn't matter if it is the person or place...
It's time the DOJ start to drain the twerp murder mayor's political swamp...
A conservative estimate, based off personnel, costs the tax payers $2,950,000 on just salaries for the police detail assigned to the mayor. That's not including overtime, vehicle and equipment costs, etc. Yearly. Yearly-please don't preach about non-essential expenditures. No other city in the US does this for a municipal position. Media, start comparing.
attention alderman naps and the residents of the 41st ward timmy heneghan is receiving his support from mike Madigan and the 19th ward, if you want Edison park to turn into mt greenwood then vote for this tool if not keep naps, also my sources are telling me lisa Madigan is very interested in the 41st ward,
keep your friends close and your enemies even closer
Anonymous said...
What about office people who are off on holidays but get to come in and "work" for the overtime? Or the unique "65" team in 024 that would purposely self cancel their rdos when they fall on a holiday and show up for a couple of hours amd get 12.75?
10/05/2017 02:17:00 AM
You can thank little tom thumb byrne for that practice, another daley hack collecting millions in multiple city pensions...
Anonymous said...
Let's not forget the officers assigned to protect the abandoned fire station around the corner from the mayor's house, used to house the mayor's car (really city car) 24/7/365 protection of essentially a garage, even when the cars are not there. The position on midnight's bring g their pajamas.
10/05/2017 12:24:00 AM
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That is absolutely, completely untrue. That is just silly.
All this does is draw attention away from the fact that the mayor is not properly staffing CPD. It also paves the way for swiping in and out. Oh yeah, it makes the police department look bad during labor negotiations.
THIS IS FOR SUP ED (because I now you read this blog and you def don't return my phone calls anymore)...I'd like to believe you were dying inside yesterday when you stood there and ate the shit sandwich served by Joe F. ala D'Mayor. Good lord man, stand the up for your people - "you ARE our brothers & sisters keeper" and you have more allies in City Council than you think. You've been on this job long enough, have the time & age to GTFO and you're still eating shit sandwiches, why?????? Its just not worth it. Don't worry, your son will be taken care of by those you've helped over the years (and its been many - black, white & brown). Your wife...well, who truly knows what will happen after you leave (women are fickle with men in power who lose power). At some point, you'll have to make some hard decisions while looking in the mirror. I know you believe you're helping but you're not...unless you stand up and speak the truth (if it still in your). Leaving quietly isn't enough...you must right the ship before you go. You'd be the first, but that aint so bad Eddie.
1. Is Tim Heneghan the son/relative of a CC Judge?
2. Has anyone contemplated the proximity of the Hilton Hotel to Lollapalooza while conducting one of Rahm's active shooting drills or listening to Deputy Chief Nagode's pontificating?
Retired .38 spl +P
What happened to Joe Ferguson investigating skills on the CHEATERS LT TEST? He could not find his ass with both hands, only if Rahm said it was ok.
Hey SCC......just starting to hear rumors of the Vegas gunman booking specific rooms here in the Blackstone, overlooking Lollapaplooza.......
Kinda gives me goosebumps thinking what all could have gone wrong here had that tragedy unfolded here......
Do we have any excellence in leadership in the whole of the CPD? I know my brothers and sisters in blue fight the good fight, each and every day.......but how about our leadership? IS There a plan? IS There a SWAT team available at these concerts? Are we capable of co-ordinating with CFD, EMTS, Trauma Centers all on one radio band?
Just asking.......
Off topic:
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555580598/fact-check-is-chicago-proof-that-gun-laws-don-t-work?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202705
If weak laws/borders/crime around Chicago leads to violence against Chicago, shouldn't we reinforce our borders to keep them out? Shouldn't Rahm build a wall?
-Not a cop and not living in Crook county anymore, loving Wisconsin.
Hmm "crazy rahm" says no credible threats to Chicago,and we have it covered! What a goof what about this rahm? Did you know genie in a bottle predictor?
Stephen Paddock Booked Hotel Overlooking Lollapalooza 2 Months Before Massacre
http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/05/stephen-paddock-booked-hotel-lollapalooza-music-festival-chicago-vegas/
This is taken directly from the link front page of the well respected drudgereport.com.
The truth is rahm your extremely incompetent along with the exempt crew who have no clue what to do! Years ago the bosses were and many coppers also were war veterans who actually had the knowledge and foresight to get things done. The SWAT guys (no Im not swat) still don't have take home vehicles, this is totally insane especially when you drive over to 35th street and see all the daily dollies driving as their personal vehicles new police spec vehicles. Then of course we have the head of police finance at 35th street given his own police spec new vehicle and so many more civilians have these! The travesty is when it happens here and it will as seen by what this guy had planned in Chicago, we are not ready!
As the "rahm crew" the elected democrats which is everything wrong with this corrupt city-state-county, drink the wine and eat the cheese laughing like hyenas the people are bleeding,crime is increasing, police are being bastardized and thrown to the 24/7 dishonest media machine!
Hey Joey (I got a huge contract extension and millions in budget extras to screw police). why does your mayor have a huge detail? that are paid sergeants and commanders pay,and why is your mayor who says he is all about the environment and talking "stupidly" about President Donald Trump? The mayor "do as I say not as I do" is being driven around in huge 10 MPG tahoes and suburbans,while he could just as easily be in a 60MPG Toyota Prius proving he walks the walk, not just lying talking the talk?
For his "security specialist" detail, (312) 744-3891 that is the number for police pension board I called and many should asking why the mayors detail gets the pension of sergeants and commanders! When we work out of grade say as acting desk sergeant those hours should be pensionable giving 9161 coppers that are the same rank of the mayors guys a pension bump correct?
Called the FOP at 312-733-7776 no reply make that call this pension theft along with the gold braid bill must stop and the squeaky wheel gets the grease make that call!
If they did a real audit then they know who the real thieves are. Will there be punishment? Doubtful. The smoke is in the districts but the fire is in the clouted units.
Rahm and his lapdog inspector general and his lapdog media don’t want to hear this.
They don’t want facts and truths getting in the way of their overly biased anti police agenda.
It’s contract negotiating time and Rahm wants to keep pandering to “ the community” as Rahm constantly keeps talking about police “reform”
Make no mistake Rahm will continue to put out these hit pieces through his lapdog media.
When will the FOP counter Rahm’s bullshit?
I live in the 41st Ward. All I can say about 'Naps' our new Alderman, is that it seems we receive better (formerly nonexistent) city services. From what I've seen thus far he has been the most accommodating Alderman that we've had in my 43 years in that hood. I think his career(s) as a former copper then fireman has a lot to do with his conservative, down to earth attitude. Keep up the good fight sir. I'd be remiss not to mention Nick Sposato also a former firefighter and the other opposing factor to Rahms agenda.
I woke up today to hear the news that the whack job from Las Vegas had 2 rooms overlooking Lollapalooza and as both a parent of a son who attended all 3 days and a First Responder who would had to respond I was sickened. There is NO WAY our Dept is capable of dealing with that. It's the time for our F.O.P. to demand and invite the D.O.J. here to open up City Halls corrupt finances and why we are CRIMINALLY undermanned. It's time to demand a forensic audit to show where the billions in T.I.F. Funds are misspent.I don't care if our contract goes to arbitrator again, this is Pandoras Box and now more than ever needs to be opened.
this still amounts to black lives matter protests;
they too want to get paid same as those $15 per hour wanna-be wage earners;
and now "Joe Ferguson is on Rahm's political campaign wagon"!
My point would be where do they think this "inefficient management" comes from? I'm no PD officer but I'd place my bets on a lot of it being from pols and clout promoted officers.
Leonard Hamilton:
make them a gun that complies with the laws they feel the rest of us should go by, make them apply for a CCW permit and take care of their own business. Huge savings, and maybe they would have incentive to clean up the city some as well as not to bother the rest of us who would like to defend ourselves.
While the Inspector General is coming down on police for overtime (used to cover shortages due to the repeated failure to hire a sufficient number of police officers) what is going on at Community College District 508.
Never heard of it? Check your property tax bill. It is also known as "The City Colleges of Chicago" (pronounced "Shitty Colleges"). As the college district is still solvent, this is one place where Rahm has been directing his appointed stooges to spend large sums of money on construction and capital improvement projects like a new Malcolm X College to replace another college building that was not even fifty years old.
While on the subject, the word went down that the colleges are supposed to do all in their power to help keep "undocumented" students enrolled and to educate them on how to prolong their stay in the USA in opposition to ICE enforcing the laws against illegal aliens.
Chicago values according to Rahm.
SCC gets chumped by Napolitano comments..
Read his entire comment... he was voicing his opinion to protect having a bad light on Mayor rahmmy.... that would then divert Rahm' attention from his work
LOL
"[Rahm]’s been trying to craft a new system of police accountability to restore public trust shattered by his handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting video."
Did Fran just accidentally admit it was our mayor that mishandled the video?!?!
Well I demand a retraction, Fran! We all know it was the fault of the big, bad police.
Anonymous said...
E-1? E-3? Lol. I'm guessing SCC is a veteran?
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Just someone who pays attention - here's the link to the Salary Schedule. It's been E-1, E-2, E-3, etc for about a decade now. Thanks for reading.
http://directives.chicagopolice.org/forms/CPD-61.400.pdf
Correction SCC,
Supervisors are ranked E3-and up. Police officers are D1, D2, D2A, and D3 for officers that make Sergeants pay. It's in the FOP Contract book salary schedule
anyone who is a job category that calls for a higher pay grade, to include the crime lab techs, earn at that higher pay grade no matter what they do on the department, to include any special employment. There used to be, and probably still are, evidence technicians earning at the captains pay grade.
anyone who is a job category that calls for a higher pay grade, to include the crime lab techs, earn at that higher pay grade no matter what they do on the department, to include any special employment. There used to be, and probably still are, evidence technicians earning at the captains pay grade.And, their pension also reflects this pay . Nothing new here.
Anonymous said...
The not so funny thing about this that there have been no threats against this Mayor. If you ever see a threat to the Mayor, it's coming from members of his own detail to maintain job security.
Wag the dog!!!!
10/05/2017 08:39:00 AM
On the contrary, handled a "heater"case a few years back, a nut job medical student threatened to cutoff the heads of rahm's family etc, suspect was identified and when city hall was notified one of rahm's chief of staff relayed that rahm declined to press charges.Rahm never personally spoke with the detective division. Since then the suspect has been arrested numerous times for similiar threats to other suburban public officials and corrupt democrats...
"Quick, Look At My Thumb"! "Boy, Are You Dumb"!
Wait not 700x the same guy that uses his company car to drive and park illegally downtown while he attends law school on the city's dime. All while living in the suburbs. No violations there right fergie?
Just took a look at Heneghan's web site. Elmwood Park fireman? Beat it pal.
ANTIFA,on November 4th Joe Ferguson and Rahm just said the city is yours. Enjoy your rally. The Sun Times can't wait 5o observe your uncontaminated peaceful protest.
The Vegas shooter booked rooms at the Blackstone hotel for Lalopalloza was suspected as an intended target. But he was a no show because as he would be in Chicago, he feared getting shot.
Does Rahm still take the CTA to work? There's half the overtime right there while his detail is waiting for the bus.
@4:05 pm...E/T earning at Capts. pay grade????...Are you fuckin GOOFY???...I NEVER came close to earning THAT pay grade, You Muckalooch...
Anonymous said...
I woke up today to hear the news that the whack job from Las Vegas had 2 rooms overlooking Lollapalooza and as both a parent of a son who attended all 3 days and a First Responder who would had to respond I was sickened. There is NO WAY our Dept is capable of dealing with that. It's the time for our F.O.P. to demand and invite the D.O.J. here to open up City Halls corrupt finances and why we are CRIMINALLY undermanned. It's time to demand a forensic audit to show where the billions in T.I.F. Funds are misspent.I don't care if our contract goes to arbitrator again, this is Pandoras Box and now more than ever needs to be opened.
10/05/2017 12:10:00 PM
Yes, we are undermanned. But if some nut job wants to take an elevated position and start shooting, he's gonna do it no matter how well manned we are. It doesn't even have to be a big event-targeting a typical lunch hour along
Michigan Avenue could also kill hundreds.
The whole media coverage of this was to turn non police against the police with lies and not facts.
To the guy who said that Napolitano supported the weed operation on Milwaukee Ave, your a damn lier. Naps people went door to door in opposition of it. That's the truth, not the bullshit you are putting out. Rahm overruled him because he hates him, he hates white ethnics and wants to make Naps look bad. So Tim Heneghan stop posting bullshit in your desperate attempt to muddy up the best Alderman in the City.
The reality that my children and many of their friends could have died at the hands of a "Madman" this summer infuriates me. Goddamnit Rahm stop shorting us on the essential things we need like adequate manpower,training and equipment. What the hell would we or could we have done if the Las Vegas shooter opened up on 100,000 kids in Grant Park? Could some type of individual calling himself a Journalist in this city call out the outright theft and neglect committed by our Mayor and City Council instead of pandering to the hit jobs fed them by a corrupt scumbag negotiating our contract in the media through a proxy dickhead IG? We should be staffed at 20,000 Officers instead we have to make due with 7,500 and THEN have stories written about our OT being so high. Whoever the reporter who wrote this story is they still have IG Jizz on their chin and Rahm Spunk on their asscrack. Hello F.O.P.!!!!!!
The city will do anything to keep the crime down. Denying overtime is the way. No more pinches that will be worthwhile. Who the fuck wants to go out there and sacrifice when no one in the white palace or downtown wants to make a difference. Sonny was right, the working man is a sucks.
Hey SCC......just starting to hear rumors of the Vegas gunman booking specific rooms here in the Blackstone, overlooking Lollapaplooza.......
Kinda gives me goosebumps thinking what all could have gone wrong here had that tragedy unfolded here......
Do we have any excellence in leadership in the whole of the CPD? I know my brothers and sisters in blue fight the good fight, each and every day.......but how about our leadership? IS There a plan? IS There a SWAT team available at these concerts? Are we capable of co-ordinating with CFD, EMTS, Trauma Centers all on one radio band?
Just asking.......
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Don't worry... we are in good hands.!!!
Some of our best and brightest were placed in sensitive positions to deal with our homeland security solely based on their experiences and had nothing to do with favoritism or their own personal beliefs. Matter of fact, the bosses are so willing to stand behind their picks and why they did What they did- and are currently doing- to the point that they are willing to answer to a future Department of Justice inquiry.!!!
According to the IG we are all corrupt with Overtime, so since we don't want a further scandal we should as a FAMILY call in Sunday for the Marathon. Put up or Shut Up time.
OT: my partner and I were served a notice to appear before COPA as witnesses. Approx a month ago we made an arrest, arrestee alleged he was beaten up by coppers. So w/c pulled a log number. We found this out when I asked a Sgt to pull my trr form ( it is found only on approved trr that w/ c pulled a log number). Be aware, this is a common thing Hing now. Also, COPA is supposedly supposed to sustain 10% of allegations.
Re: the Vegas shooter. Maybe for festivals, concerts, Lollapalooza , etc. Have some in duty police officers stationed in nearby hotels, high rise buildings, etc along with some spotters, to prevent this form happening again. Small expense compared to what could happen.
Anonymous said...
anyone who is a job category that calls for a higher pay grade, to include the crime lab techs, earn at that higher pay grade no matter what they do on the department, to include any special employment. There used to be, and probably still are, evidence technicians earning at the captains pay grade.
10/05/2017 04:05:00 PM
Working in an "assigned as" status and working "out of grade" are not the same thing. "Assigned as" will get paid for anytime they work at the higher rate. "out of grade" will only get paid at the higher wage when they perform the duties. See "acting desk sergeant" vs "legal officer"
When Travel & Leisure Magazine named Phoenix,az the best city in the country for pizza earlier this year, eyebrows arched nationwide. Actually, jaws dropped back in New York and my native New Jersey. Argue all you want — there are few tastier topics to fight over — but the list of places producing quality pizza continues to grow in the Valley, especially in Scottsdale.
Ask knowledgeable locals for a pizza referral and you’ll likely hear names such as Lamp, Il Bosco and Pomo. But there’s also Craft 64. Located just off Main Street in the Arts District, the eatery opened two years ago. It’s located in the second oldest remaining home — built in 1937 — in downtown Scottsdale. But it’s what goes on inside that unique location that sets Craft 64 apart.
Ald. Napolitano is a stand up guy, just like his brother Andy and his father Tony. A true friend of coppers, paramedics and firefighters. The only guy with stones to stand up to the so called mayor. ♠️
Is there an info for a GMFM fund raiser.
Is this Heneghan in the 41st Ward one of the Heneghans who grew up on Rutherford by Garvy school?
Since we are such Overtime Thiefs according to the I.G. and Sun Times we won't be showing up Sun to "steal" from the taxpayers any more. Oh yeah by the way it's our team and now multiple others.
Of course nowhere in Ferguson’s shit article is the actual numbers in revenue that CPD brings to the city. Which has to offset the OT number astronomically. Impound fees, Parker’s, traffic citations and fees, court fees, anov’s, hell theres a fee for everything here. Even the fees have fees. Boot fees. The list goes on and on. But not a peep about how many coppers actually write triple their salary in tickets every damn nite. Ferguson you’re such a Rahm suckass.
Naps for mayor you got my vote Anthony love you.
Attention:
El Jefe (Rahm), not to be confused with El Hefe,
the guitarist, declared on National Radio News this
afternoon that The Bank of America Chicago Marathon
will go on as scheduled because there is no danger.
(remember Frank Zappa: "It can't happen here.")
So if El Jefe is in attendance on Sunday, he is likely
to be wearing a Kevlar Lite model and be at limited
exposure. I really think things will be fine and it is the
dreaded Media pumping up fear and loathing.
Will 19th ward alderman matt BLM oshea stick up for the cops in his ward like Nap does for the cops in the 41st ward?
Lets hear from the FOP.
Lets not volunteer for shit!!!
Cancel our RDOs and pay us double pay.
A sergeant should be able to work vri if patrolman are making sergeants pay
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Re: the Vegas shooter. Maybe for festivals, concerts, Lollapalooza , etc. Have some in duty police officers stationed in nearby hotels, high rise buildings, etc along with some spotters, to prevent this form happening again. Small expense compared to what could happen.
How is that going to prevent anything? What are they going to do? Stop everyone going into a hotel carrying a suitcase and search them? All they could do is maybe spot them a few minutes after the shooter starts and by the time other police were notified, determined where the shooter was, the damage would be done. He only shot for 9 1/2 minutes. No prevention at all
The reality that my children and many of their friends could have died at the hands of a "Madman" this summer infuriates me. Goddamnit Rahm stop shorting us on the essential things we need like adequate manpower,training and equipment. What the hell would we or could we have done if the Las Vegas shooter opened up on 100,000 kids in Grant Park? Could some type of individual calling himself a Journalist in this city call out the outright theft and neglect committed by our Mayor and City Council instead of pandering to the hit jobs fed them by a corrupt scumbag negotiating our contract in the media through a proxy dickhead IG? We should be staffed at 20,000 Officers instead we have to make due with 7,500 and THEN have stories written about our OT being so high. Whoever the reporter who wrote this story is they still have IG Jizz on their chin and Rahm Spunk on their asscrack. Hello F.O.P.!!!!!!
So you are saying that LasVegas police were short of essentials? Guess they didn't have the manpower, training and equipment.
They must have been , it happened there.
CPD staffed at 20,000. Never been more than 13,500 and never will be. That's a pipe dream and you would cry like a baby if you had to pay for it with your property taxes. And if you want to make a valid point use valid figures 7,500 officers is totally incorrect
I woke up today to hear the news that the whack job from Las Vegas had 2 rooms overlooking Lollapalooza and as both a parent of a son who attended all 3 days and a First Responder who would had to respond I was sickened. There is NO WAY our Dept is capable of dealing with that. It's the time for our F.O.P. to demand and invite the D.O.J. here to open up City Halls corrupt finances and why we are CRIMINALLY undermanned. It's time to demand a forensic audit to show where the billions in T.I.F. Funds are misspent.I don't care if our contract goes to arbitrator again, this is Pandoras Box and now more than ever needs to be opened.
There is no way ANY department can deal with an incident like the Vegas one or could have prevented it
You can train all day and have more officers and that idiot will still be shooting out that window
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
What about office people who are off on holidays but get to come in and "work" for the overtime? Or the unique "65" team in 024 that would purposely self cancel their rdos when they fall on a holiday and show up for a couple of hours amd get 12.75?
10/05/2017 02:17:00 AM
All it would take is the commander to stop that, but he and all the rest won't. Until a commander is held accountable and demoted and suspended this will never stop. The bosses all know this is happening in almost all the districts and units but make no attempt to stop it
You know you guys aren't writing enough of anything to offset that overtime!
Anonymous said...
Let's not forget the officers assigned to protect the abandoned fire station around the corner from the mayor's house, used to house the mayor's car (really city car) 24/7/365 protection of essentially a garage, even when the cars are not there. The position on midnight's bring g their pajamas.
10/05/2017 12:24:00 AM
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That is absolutely, completely untrue. That is just silly.
The former firehouse is the mayors house detail command post. One person at the fire house, plus the 4 at the house, plus a sgt, and if there’s a relief car. All from 019’s ranks. That is not part of rahm’s security detail. That’s just for the house.
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2017/08/06/can-mayor-rahm-emanuel-manage-chicago/&refUR
The above article
is the sole reason the twerp from the burbs sicked his IG lackey to look into the overtime the article is about a month old. I didnt have a day off for 6 weeks of the summer due to mandatory day off cancellations because the dark swan was worried that the numbers could have out paced 2017.
Hire 2000 more police the classes from 85 to 90 only have about 250 people left of more than 2000 hired during that time frame.
Where's the link to that Heneghan guys blog?
We should all be able to see and respond to it.
Working in a suburban agency, there are festivals to be worked for overtime. The organization running the festival is billed the cost of the overtime. However, due to what some would call poor accounting practices, the officers are paid out of the department's overtime budget and, when the organization is billed, the money goes back to the city but instead of going back into the overtime budget where everything would equal out, it goes into a different fund. So the numbers are skewed and where it shows that the overtime budget was "x" dollars, it was actually offset by the outside organization that paid those officers to work the event. On paper, that isn't shown. Wondering if Chicago has a similar practice which leads to innacurate reporting of how much the city spends on police overtime.
OT: my partner and I were served a notice to appear before COPA as witnesses. Approx a month ago we made an arrest, arrestee alleged he was beaten up by coppers. So w/c pulled a log number. We found this out when I asked a Sgt to pull my trr form ( it is found only on approved trr that w/ c pulled a log number). Be aware, this is a common thing Hing now. Also, COPA is supposedly supposed to sustain 10% of allegations.
10/05/2017 07:07:00 PM
1.) You can print your own TRR, Inventory and Arrest report. Take your thumb out of your mouth and put on your big boy pants and do it yourself.
2.)Dude beefs they are supposed to pull a number, and no, nobody has to tell you. Was you use of force approved? If yes, feel good. If no, feel bad.
But but Ferguson is ALWAYS right. And I also approve the penny tax. Not
$176 million in parking ticket revenue. We're good
Wasn’t his commander who recently retired just a patrolman?
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