Friday, June 22, 2018

Graduation Foul Up

Did this really happen?
  • OT: How in the hell does this happen? The nine newly promoted Lieutenants from the previous go-around showed up at Navy Pier yesterday with their families in tow to attend their graduation ceremony only to be turned around. They were informed by Academy staffers that they were not on the list to graduate. After leaving Navy Pier and arriving home, their were all contacted and directed to return to Navy Pier to participate in the ceremony. After spending another $20.00 on parking, they all crossed the stage. 
It's 100% believable - we've seen who runs special events for the Department. And the way the Department delays "graduations" until Rahm is available to do multiple classes. If they're out $20 for parking...twice...they should just chalk it up to how much the Department thinks about them.

Labels: ,

53 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Now they know how patrol is treated.

6/22/2018 12:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was at the ceremony, they left off some of the names from the list and they weren’t in the program. Fucking embarrassing.

6/22/2018 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can't have a graduation without the supreme commandante, Mayor Rahm.

6/22/2018 12:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's $28.00 for parking - not $20.00 (40% difference)...

6/22/2018 01:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who cares about the ceremony anyways? It's all a sham. Better to skip the ceremony if your merit than to go and act like you belong there.

6/22/2018 01:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Clout... who gives a fuck

6/22/2018 01:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“What’s fop gonna do about it!?” Oh wait, they are LTs. Seriously, the incompetency in this Dept..my God. I wouldnt of answered my phone. Used to be proud moments to graduate, but it means nothing now a days.

6/22/2018 02:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Really , they are out $20 bucks. I’m sure their bump up in grade will take care of that. Not too sympathetic

6/22/2018 02:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes it’s true.

6/22/2018 04:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't care. Clout or noble got them promoted just part of the political game.

6/22/2018 05:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Graduations are coordinated by the Academy staff (front office) and the Mayors office.

6/22/2018 06:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just add the $20 to the donation you made to your sponsor to be made a LT. Cost of doing business

6/22/2018 07:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It was not a big deal. It was identified and mitigated in a matter of minutes.

6/22/2018 07:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another CLUSTERFUCK by CPD and all concerned.

6/22/2018 07:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's b.s. I work at the Academy. They were on the list and their graduation batons were made about a week before.

6/22/2018 07:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

$28 to park at navy pier that day...wtf!!

6/22/2018 07:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shouldn't the academy be filled with the best and brightest? How could you have duds teaching future cops?

6/22/2018 07:51:00 AM  
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...

I'm sure the ones in charge of the ceremony were merit appointees.

6/22/2018 08:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who cares. The Lt’s are going to be sitting in an office with their feet up on the desk the rest of their careers.

6/22/2018 08:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The incompetence in every unit and part of the CPD is being more apparent everyday. Could it be the new people they are putting in these positions and where are they coming from?

6/22/2018 08:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WHEEEEZZZZEEEE was there and stated that this would never happen if she was "EXEMPT" then took 4 hours on the end because she came in late....

6/22/2018 08:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I actually tried to skip my own promotion ceremony (I made it off score without the answers) they said I would have to turn in a slip if I didnt show. What a colossal waste of time couldnt wait for it to be over.

6/22/2018 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Newly promoted to Lt.?
Their Comp time on the books just went up in value so just look at the extra $20 as the cost of doing business with this ass backward department.

6/22/2018 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

$40 smackaroos? Sheeeet, some of them paid far more for the study material so I’m sure they won’t mind. Earned, not given!

6/22/2018 10:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If any of them are over 55 and don’t t immediately hit the medical, they’re chumps.

6/22/2018 11:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This sounds like something from a “Police Academy” movie

6/22/2018 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow. How about the extra costs to family and friends besides the disappointment of the moment. I bet the merits were shi--ing a brick.

6/22/2018 11:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Now they know how patrol is treated.

Really? They were all in patrol as patrolmen and they all were in patrol as sergeants. Get a grip.

6/22/2018 11:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Really , they are out $20 bucks. I’m sure their bump up in grade will take care of that. Not too sympathetic

If all you took out of this was that it was about the $20, then you are a complete moron.

6/22/2018 11:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the Training Division.
They like to have group ceremonies whenever possible to save whatever, time, personnel, money, but mainly the mayors schedule.
But if the highly paid, internal house-mouse police there can’t organize an simple ceremony, what does it say about running the rest of the Academy functions.

Good thing nobody was lost, jack-robbed along the way or left unattended on an empty short bus.
That would not bode well for The Right Man formthe Right Time™️, who is riding high with the low crime statistics.

For $20 (additional) those affected by the shutout, can get their image superimposed on a Rahm2019 City skyline calendar.
Contact The Academy for details.

6/22/2018 12:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I’d expect nothing less. FUBAR

6/22/2018 01:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doesn’t surprise me, most of the academy staff is incompetent as hell. For those great cops who stay at the academy, I tip my hat. Being around those morons all year must drain the soul.

6/22/2018 01:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BY the way...

A few of the merit(LT) already have RDO SAT/ SUN as new LT's.

They all were allowed to change shifts and RDO's so none of them would have to go to ceremony on their own time. Of course they all left to celebrate and did not have to work the shift for the day.

Only lowly recruits have to work shifts the same day as ceremony.

6/22/2018 03:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Really , they are out $20 bucks. I’m sure their bump up in grade will take care of that. Not too sympathetic

6/22/2018 02:59:00 AM

Really? Thats what you take out of this? You are a goof!!!

6/22/2018 03:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to worry. The two meritorious annointed ones will have the money paid back to them.

6/22/2018 03:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We have to holdup all promotions until the 5th floor people are there. We need all the good PR we can get

6/22/2018 05:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's b.s. I work at the Academy. They were on the list and their graduation batons were made about a week before.


Really, then why are they not on the event Program?

6/22/2018 09:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To all the haters! It’s not the parking fee. It’s the point that these Sworn members of the CPD had their families attending a promotion ceremony proud of their children and their kids coming downtown to be just turned away and humiliated - yeah I know they make better money than you, they gonna have their feet kicked up on a desk , they are LTs - get over it! They took a test and out of 9 seven made it legit! Their families are proud of them! Just like yours when you got on this job or got promoted ! ~ stop hating other sworn members - get a life

6/22/2018 09:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off Topic: Rahm you better open up the tresure chest and commence with the payoffs, looks like they are wondering what did you do to quiet chuy?

Latino pols to discuss lack of Hispanic mayoral candidate
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/latino-pols-to-discuss-lack-of-hispanic-mayoral-candidate/

Excerpt:
• Backshot: Gutierrez is rumored to have cut a deal with Mayor Rahm Emanuel to keep Garcia out of the mayoral race by vacating his seat to pave the way for Garcia’s candidacy

Ahh yes luis got paid-off and no feds or "investigative" media looking at the easy answers! Sit chuy sit nice job rahm! You scheme is unraveling like your failed time in office! "If you tell a lie and believe the lie does that make it true?"

6/22/2018 09:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ok- so in response to the poster that said the New LTs are already in Saterday /Sunday day off groups please tell us who they are and how can that be? If not shut up!

6/22/2018 09:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets not forget today's fiasco as far as the 4th of July overtime initiative.
Rescind the original order, and change all the dates that time due will be denied.

Whoever fucked up the 1st order should be on midnights in some shithole district.
At least tell us who it is. My guess is probably not the guy who signed the order,

6/22/2018 10:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have 18yrs on the job and I have come to point that I hate to tell anyone i'm an officer. The departmemt has been become a disgrace. They give rank to those that continously do wrong, they don't protect us, they rather sweep things under the rug and never investigate things properly. I've never been this bitter with the department. Tone on top is not trying to make the department better. You can't get into the unit unless you are sleeping with the right person. There no use of doing any work cause it only backfire.

6/22/2018 10:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LMAO good.

6/22/2018 11:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
BY the way...

A few of the merit(LT) already have RDO SAT/ SUN as new LT's.

They all were allowed to change shifts and RDO's so none of them would have to go to ceremony on their own time. Of course they all left to celebrate and did not have to work the shift for the day.

Only lowly recruits have to work shifts the same day as ceremony.


6/22/2018 03:01:00 PM

You sure? The only recruits that work on graduation day are those that work 1st watch, which would be the next day.

6/22/2018 11:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They’ll retire with 6 figure pensions and cash out about a quarter million in compensatory time and you’re bemoaning they had to shell out 20bucks for parking? Seriously ?

6/23/2018 12:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would give a shit, but most of those merit Lt. are taken care of. A few of them are as smart as rocks. 7th Disrict

6/23/2018 07:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Anonymous Anonymous said...
They’ll retire with 6 figure pensions and cash out about a quarter million in compensatory time and you’re bemoaning they had to shell out 20bucks for parking? Seriously ?

6/23/2018 12:22:00 AM

Agree. I’ll cry a river for them.

6/23/2018 11:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A few of the merit(LT) already have RDO SAT/ SUN as new LT's.

They all were allowed to change shifts and RDO's so none of them would have to go to ceremony on their own time. Of course they all left to celebrate and did not have to work the shift for the day.

Only lowly recruits have to work shifts the same day as ceremony.


Not sure about that. Talked to a recruit that day and she said she was going to call the district the next day for her watch and DO group

6/23/2018 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
To all the haters! It’s not the parking fee. It’s the point that these Sworn members of the CPD had their families attending a promotion ceremony proud of their children and their kids coming downtown to be just turned away and humiliated - yeah I know they make better money than you, they gonna have their feet kicked up on a desk , they are LTs - get over it! They took a test and out of 9 seven made it legit! Their families are proud of them! Just like yours when you got on this job or got promoted ! ~ stop hating other sworn members - get a life


In the last few years these screwups have become common place. It will continue and become more frequent considering the top brass and who they are putting in the positions below. Competence is not longer a requirement

6/23/2018 11:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I blew off my promotional ceremony. No regrets.

6/23/2018 02:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's b.s. I work at the Academy. They were on the list and their graduation batons were made about a week before.

6/22/2018 07:37:00 AM

Sounds like you have the inside scoop. I bet your job is tough. Are you the baton handler? You don't "work" at the academy. How many minutes do you have on the job? Batons being made has nothing to do with being turned away, not being on the program, or anything else. Someone fucked up and someone signed off on the fuck-up. But it's the academy, so no one cares. You're all just playing police and thinking you're making a difference. Keep churning out moron snowflakes and kissing those ashes that got you your spot.

6/23/2018 07:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Sounds like you have the inside scoop. I bet your job is tough. Are you the baton handler? You don't "work" at the academy. How many minutes do you have on the job? Batons being made has nothing to do with being turned away, not being on the program, or anything else. Someone fucked up and someone signed off on the fuck-up. But it's the academy, so no one cares. You're all just playing police and thinking you're making a difference. Keep churning out moron snowflakes and kissing those ashes that got you your spot.

6/23/2018 07:36:00 PM”
——————————————-

You forgot to sign your name;

“Sincerely, a salty jealous fuck whose shitty attitude = pushing a beat car in the ghetto for my whole career”

6/28/2018 11:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They tried to get my ass but I was too f**king smart. I know your're out there lurking you evil F**k and God is coming for you!!!

9/13/2018 02:03:00 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

Newer Posts.......................... ..........................Older Posts