Tact Schedules?
Anyone working tact care sound off?
- When are the geniuses at headquarters gonna realize that this Thursday start of the period doesn’t work with Tact teams being assigned to day off groups 61,63,and 65. Any team going from Nights to Relief are scheduled for Nights, Days, Nights, Nights. The teams need to be moved to 62,64,and 66. I know everyone there signed up for it but how can you justify on the A and A’s working 1800-0300 and then the next day 0930-1830.
We're pretty sure the only reason Special Ed had the Department go back to Thursday Change Days was to get rid of the Furlough Extensions that some bean-counter pointed out were letting all sorts of people (not the Monday thru Friday mice) get twenty-six day vacations. Can't have that!
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
132 Comments:
I’m still going to take my 26 day furloughs.
another well thought out plan in a long series of well thought out plans (sarcasm off)
Figure it out and deal with it. I’ve survived doing it for 13 years plus.
Hey, you’re on Tact, now shut up and eat this City’s collective shit! ....oh, and bring us some more blue cards please.
It’s called doubling back. Any boss worth his salt knows what to do
Im sure the 2yrs wonder tact boys city will be fine. They are in fact greatly taken care of for all those blue cards and pci's theyre huslting day and night.
Well, funny story about that is that the FOP even days in their handy dandy notebooks that the City has to negotiate that with them but of course didn’t. The city SHOULD be shaking in their boots about the backlash, but you know, the FOP has no teeth in the fight. Case in point, after Angelo and greedy assholes sold the young guys out by taking away duty availability for the first 42 months, they decided to throw salt in the wound even more. The city is REFUSING, to pay the young bloods that just hit the mark back in December their Duty Availability for January 7th. They have given no reason except to say that they just won’t pay. FOP’s response?? Deal with it. I feel sorry for all the young coppers on the job and those about to be coming on. This job is nothing like it used to be back in the day and now they can’t even get what’s owed to them. Absolutely pathetic. A double fuck you to both the City and FOP for keeping what’s owed away from them.
This is a reactive dept. now. Paint half the tact cars blue and white and stack the watch.
Tact. You asked for it , you got it. Waaa. No worries, your clouted lt. Will take care of you.
Smh... if you can’t figure out how to relieve that problem “among yourselves” then you shouldn’t be in tac. I remember when you were in tac and it ALWAYS worked out.. so in other words, there are things you can do to make it work...
I’m still getting 2 26 day furloughs this year!
Oh no, when will their Carhartt jackets get their rest?
“I know everyone there signed up for it but how can you justify on the A and A’s working 1800-0300 and then the next day 0930-1830.”
SNOWFLAKE ALERT!!! SKINNY JEANS POLICE ALERT!!!!
1). You crybabies signed up to be used as activity whores. Wearing skinny jeans and not having to work the abomination that is a beat car has its caveats, so deal with it, cupcake.
2). You can’t honestly expect anyone with a brain to believe you’re actually staying til 0300 hours when you have to double back, do ya? We know you get the early duck on those nights. Kinda like how you do when you have court in the morning. Been there, done that. And don’t tell me you “have to stay that late to swipe out”, because that whole system was circumvented in short order... but nice try.
3). I can only imagine how bad you’d bitch and moan if you were on the job when we rotated watches every period. THE HORRORS!!
Don’t forget to knock out a few extra ANOVs today fof the El-Tee, superhero.
Ed could care less.
sucks. but its once every 3 months. you just suck it up.
People still work tact?
It's not like tact works a solid 6 for 9 anyway
She shot at him for nuffin he was just at the fool.
First, make sure you get plenty of sleep and eat properly.
Next....
Kees me you fool!!!!
Then go back to the watch.
GO to work late...
Does all that college hurt the part of the brain that solves problems?
IF you ever expect to be an Active Detective this is fairly common to work shit hours.
Good luck with the trauma.
Wow 31 and a day here. Longest furlough very taken in my time was 7B and 8B with fill in days for 8A totaling 46 day furlough. Was never a earner and and burner. Still laughing all the way to the bank collecting my 2000 hrs plus C/U checks. The gift that keeps on giving.
The fact that you are publicly complaining about this speaks volumes about the 3 year millennial entitled attitude that has become the new face of the CPD. Did you forget the part where you volunteered to be on the team in the first place? I hate to break it to you levi law dog, but this happens on the watches during changes or even when they just change your hours for training if you work midnights.
You might as well learn now, you are not special just because you are on a tact team. In fact, you are kind of soft in the head if you are on one in this political and social climate. Nobody cares about your plight. In fact, your fellow gucci gumshoes probably would prefer that you not bring attention to the time they all actually leave.
And before you give me all the bs about "being the police" and other such nonsense, go ask JVD if he regrets even getting out of the car.
It one day of being a little run down. Man the f up. I worked midnights for 24 years and a full time job during the day. All while raise it 5 kids. So all you hair gels, who still live at home, toughen up
For the civilians out there, to be on a Tac Team you have to be willing to make petty arrest, no clout needed, it’s good and it’s bad, however some people who have never done anything but complain will tell you how it’s all clout, it’s not, now here comes the bitching.
Poor babies! Listen, I worked tact and gangs for many years and that's how the rotation goes. It's one day! Suck it up, buttercup. Plus, you're taken care of anyway, so get over it.
I can't believe how weak and fragile the snowflake generation is. Imagine the horror if we went back to rotating watches.
If that's too much of a burden, you can always go back to the watch. Until 1991 or '92, we rotated watches every 28 days and most of us survived.
Trust me, they’ve got it covered
Get over it already....We did it for years and if you don't know how to do some thing about the next day.....Well...Then.... you're an IDIOT.......
as if tact teams are still around at 0100 on any given day...well sometimes one "token" car might be around until 2 (taking all dispatch calls, if there are any)...but of course those guys will start late (not noted on a&as)
Anonymous said...
It’s called doubling back. Any boss worth his salt knows what to do
1/21/2019 12:13:00 AM
Not with swiping
And why do officers volunteer for this terrible assignment? (rhetorical) I remember a brief time in a district when tact volunteers were so low that they were doing reverse seniority temporary assignments from the watch to cover tact officers on furlo. In today's times, Tact should be so decimated, they are begging people to join. Then, and only then, will the department take notice when they see a solidified rank and file. Back in the day, tact got to work on robbery and burglary patterns etc...today they are just a citywide detail unit. The hair gel generation has all too easily accepted being a go and fetch team for the DC's. It will require solidarity, but alas, that is in very short supply these days.
STOP CRYING:
1. U are the one who signed up for your so called TACT team. (Bad IDEA)
2. Big deal - u will not be at work until 3am the night before.
3. Go back to the uniform and sit in roll call and act like your Rambo because u just came off Tact.
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All tact teams are nowdays are little peasants for the commander.
Haven't been on tact in 3 years, but I worked it for 6. Never understood the changing shifts or the days/nights combo. Should be a 4th team. 2 day teams, 2 night teams. Nothing healthy about the tact schedule. Don't miss it. Glad to be back on watch. Should have left tact years ago. I was just young and dumb!
I worked tact/gangs for five years back in the day when there was still some good perks, but if you really think about it they are all scabs who gave up their union rights to be cool an
Always been like that while on relief. Been there, done that. It's called doubling back and has nothing to do with going back to changed day on Thursdays or the set DOG's. It's once every 3 months and you suck it up. Don't like it go back to the watch.
Once upon a time long long ago the period changed on Thursday and blue jean wearing backwards baseball hat having people would work nights on a wednesday then days the next day. Figure it out you idiots it was like this for years and years and everyone else figured it out.
Anonymous Jiminy Cricket said...
Well, funny story about that is that the FOP even days in their handy dandy notebooks that the City has to negotiate that with them but of course didn’t. The city SHOULD be shaking in their boots about the backlash, but you know, the FOP has no teeth in the fight. Case in point, after Angelo and greedy assholes sold the young guys out by taking away duty availability for the first 42 months, they decided to throw salt in the wound even more. The city is REFUSING, to pay the young bloods that just hit the mark back in December their Duty Availability for January 7th. They have given no reason except to say that they just won’t pay. FOP’s response?? Deal with it. I feel sorry for all the young coppers on the job and those about to be coming on. This job is nothing like it used to be back in the day and now they can’t even get what’s owed to them. Absolutely pathetic. A double fuck you to both the City and FOP for keeping what’s owed away from them.
1/21/2019 12:26:00 AM
Actually you were told that if you hit your 42 months in dec you won’t get your duty availability check in January , you will be credit for the time period in the duty availability check in April. You will be paid for being available from Jan to April . Although I do agree, the union should have never agreed to screwing the new people like this
“I know everyone there signed up for it but how can you justify on the A and A’s working 1800-0300 and then the next day 0930-1830.”
Suck it up soldier, remember you're the bung hole...er, the backbone of the department...
Why would anyone want to work tac anyways!
Oh no! How ever will you have the strength with so little sleep to make those riding bike on the sidewalk arrests? Or selling loosies? Or the latest, jaywalking!
Off topic but very relevant on this celebration of Dr King legacy. Originally saw the MSM'S coverage of the young boy in DC with the Native American drummer and wanted to throttle the kid but was disgusted by the "Real Story" of hate. I'd low like to applaud the young man and his classmates for exhibiting their right to make a nonviolent stand against HATEFUL homophobic, racist taunting by BLACK MEN against children. I don't buy for a second the story from the nut with a drum walking into the middle of a group of 100, 17 yr old boys sticking his drum in their faces to provoke an instant YouTube Moment. The radical Black nut balls, who are right out of a Jeremiah Wright sermon were calling these kids incest babies, called a Priest a child molester and trying to intimidate what was supposed to be a simple visit to our nations capital for a Pro Life March. Pure evil and a glaring example of Barack Obamas New Anti-White America and a complicent news media. We so need a new MLK and compromise in this great country, not an annoying steady beat of a race war drum.
Ummmmm, does anyone out there remember rotating shifts? Especially going from days to midnights? Off at 1600 back at 0000 hrs? Hello? Bueller? Anyone?
Wa wa Wa wa go cry about it. You idiots should be staying fetal not doing an dam thing.
Anonymous Jiminy Cricket said...
Well, funny story about that is that the FOP even days in their handy dandy notebooks that the City has to negotiate that with them but of course didn’t. The city SHOULD be shaking in their boots about the backlash, but you know, the FOP has no teeth in the fight. Case in point, after Angelo and greedy assholes sold the young guys out by taking away duty availability for the first 42 months, they decided to throw salt in the wound even more. The city is REFUSING, to pay the young bloods that just hit the mark back in December their Duty Availability for January 7th. They have given no reason except to say that they just won’t pay. FOP’s response?? Deal with it. I feel sorry for all the young coppers on the job and those about to be coming on. This job is nothing like it used to be back in the day and now they can’t even get what’s owed to them. Absolutely pathetic. A double fuck you to both the City and FOP for keeping what’s owed away from them.
1/21/2019 12:26:00 AM
Im sure the current regime will get right on that.
Smh... if you can’t figure out how to relieve that problem “among yourselves” then you shouldn’t be in tac. I remember when you were in tac and it ALWAYS worked out.. so in other words, there are things you can do to make it work...
Agreed it always always worked out...typical current tact cry babies
Boo-hoo!!
Imagine years ago rotating, working a watch (god forbid) and getting off days at 415 (with no early out) and having to be back at 11pm to work midnights...
Again in a beat car!!
We did it and somehow managed to survive.
God I miss those old days!
If you can’t figure out what to do when you double back you have bigger problems than that. It ain’t that hard. It doesn’t matter what day change day is you’re gonna double back every once in a while. Stop being a fucking cry baby and use your head.
Officers hired on or after January 1, 2015, shall receive duty availability pay commencing at Step 5 (after 42 months) of the Salary Schedule.
Poor baby. Maybe mom could call and have them change of you.
Double Team night!
You asked for more action, what could be better then a double shift. Now STFU and get some more blue cards.
I was a gang sergeant when the districts had gang teams assigned to them. (a very long time ago). It is very simple, you let your team go home a couple of hours early. If someone has to work the full time due to an arrest, you let then come in late. Ladies and gentlemen it mot brain surgery.
Not my problem. Fuck this Mickey Mouse job. Ez
We all know TACT suks, it will never be the same
as in the years past. Just look at who’s on Tact
and you’ll get a good laugh. Today’s Tact LT’s have
no Clue on how to run a solid tact unit. That being said
the Sgt’s are a joke and the results are disappointing.
Easy money on the beat, ha!
The city is REFUSING, to pay the young bloods that just hit the mark back in December their Duty Availability for January 7th
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The city should not be paying anything to anyone that is not contractually required. If it is contractually required and they did not pay it someone can bring it up in arbitration and it will get taken care of. My guess is the city is not trying to cheat anyone here. Someone (either the city of those complaining about it) just misunderstands when the extra $ is effective.
Double back day is every 90 days, deal with it.
Back in the days of watch rotation, everyone came back at 2300 after leaving at 1530. Some of the old time DCs used to hang around the back door and make cars wait until 20 after to come in.
The bosses today are cupcakes compared to those of 25+ years ago
It would be simple to switch their DOGs but I highly doubt they give two shits about the guys. Never have never will.
Wearing tight blue jeans and answering no radio calls comes with a price
Any good tact LT would take care of that.... Just not the by the book beat off in 008. He's too busy puffing his chest out as he walks down the hallway with his cool polo on
Blogger I Fart In Your General Direction said...
“I know everyone there signed up for it but how can you justify on the A and A’s working 1800-0300 and then the next day 0930-1830.”
SNOWFLAKE ALERT!!! SKINNY JEANS POLICE ALERT!!!!
1). You crybabies signed up to be used as activity whores. Wearing skinny jeans and not having to work the abomination that is a beat car has its caveats, so deal with it, cupcake.
2). You can’t honestly expect anyone with a brain to believe you’re actually staying til 0300 hours when you have to double back, do ya? We know you get the early duck on those nights. Kinda like how you do when you have court in the morning. Been there, done that. And don’t tell me you “have to stay that late to swipe out”, because that whole system was circumvented in short order... but nice try.
3). I can only imagine how bad you’d bitch and moan if you were on the job when we rotated watches every period. THE HORRORS!!
Don’t forget to knock out a few extra ANOVs today fof the El-Tee, superhero
Years back the whole watch doubled back twice every 3 months. Granted you had 7 1/2 hrs but only if you went from early car to early car. If you were on a late car and doubled back to an early car it was 6 1/2 hrs. But there was no early out. The whole watch did it so you had to stay till your assigned dismissal time Beat guys didn’t get the benefit of early outs.
It occurred 8 times a year.
1/21/2019 01:32:00 AM
The entitled millennial generation, everybody wins a trophy “police” of today just can’t cope with the real world. Don’t fret, 3 years on the job snowflakes, the retro check will cover some new skinny jeans a payment on that jacked up, 80K Jeep. And I was in 011 recently........ got babies on the tact team wearing “Fillmore Ranger” hoodies. ROTFLMAO!!!!! Badasses that can’t adjust to a double back schedule a few times a year, lololol. Now go write an extra anov for a few bags of weed, you hard charging “real police”.
I’ve worked Tact my whole career at 3 different ranks so in no way am I a tact hater. At this point the way policing is going I’d rather see them disband the tact teams and send them back to the watches where manpower is needed and backup is lacking. Nobody on tact is “flipping arrestees”, nobody is typing up search warrants, heck nobody even does surveillance anymore. The biggest thing Tact does nowadays is ride on hot jobs (chasing the radio), grabbing shoplifters and the occasional foot chase. Believe me, I’m not knocking them they are doing within the tight guidelines set forth by the department (all while wearing BWC’s). Put them on response cars back on the watch.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ed could care less.
1/21/2019 02:26:00 AM
Actually Mr. Wheezie and Rahm could NOT care less.
OMG..we have to do something about this
Quit your effn bitching.....midnight offocers work til 5 or 6a and may have to be in coirt at 9a. That happens more than once every 3 months
“It’s called doubling back. Any boss worth his salt knows what to do“
Exactly. Which really makes this a moot point. I’m a young copper on tac (5years), it’s not that bad. Who is complaining about this? Worst comes to worst, you come into work on 4-5hrs if sleep. Stop bitching about stuff like this, you make all of us younger guys look like a bunch of bitches. I started working at a very young age, this isn’t my first rodeo with a little lack of sleep if that’s what it comes down to. Not even my first time dabbling in government work. Fucking toughen buttercups, you’ll be okay. You work for the government, hurry up and wait and nothing makes sense, get used to it.
There’s also some very angry individuals on here who seem to get their days ruined by the mere mention of any copper with less time on than them. We got it, you, and only you, are the real police. Don’t worry, you’ll be dead soon from the fucking heart attack you’re going to have from blowing a gasket every day and leaving a shitty comment about the young kids on every post, no matter the subject of the post. So relax, superhero, it will all be over soon enough, shhhhhhh.
That’s coming from someone whose never been on Tact and if they are they should be dumped for such a stupid complaint.
A lot of us like to mock the tact team, some of them deserve it. However, they do a lot of the work that we on the watch won’t do. Despite the hair gel and arrogance, I’m glad they’re out there. Let’s nit lose sight of the fact that ee’re all on the same team, and that no one should be treated like that.
Are people really complaining about a spot they volunteered for? Easy to solve. Drop a to-from to go back to the watch.
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posted on social media -(JaMal Green's fb page comment section)
Maze Jackson
Yesterday at 8:48 AM
So when Toni Preckwinkle’s Black strategist forgot to end his FB live and we got to hear them in the car, it gave us the unique opportunity to understand how she participates and leads in the PHUCKING of BLACK PEOPLE!.
As I have said in numerous occasions, Preckwinkle does not have the ability to raise significant money (hence the Ed Burke extortion case) so the way she proves her value to White People is screwing Black People in plain sight. She also trades Black political capital for Toni Power.
In this case Toni promised away a very important county position to the North Shore and LGBT community in exchange for their mayoral support, regardless of what it meant to Black People. When the Black candidate chose THE BEST MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE who happened to be Black as well Toni infuriated her White Northshore base.
During the conversation you will hear her list the people (shame on the Black women accomplices she named Dowell and Hairston), the promises she made, her plan to use a Black gay northsider to take out the Black woman, and why she couldn’t use JB as part of her plan.
You’ll also hear her laugh about how she used most of her political capital to get “Robert” appointed senator in Obama and now Raoul’s old seat. The same “Robert” who testified that staying at his girlfriend’s house and Uber receipts was enough to meet the residency requirement, although there were numerous candidates with legitimate credentials.
Add to that: Chief of Staff sexual harassment, missing SUV, fired security Chief, press conference in front of Brian Sleet’s funeral, caught lying on how long she knew about harassment, lied of 10,000 Ed Burke extorted contribution, gave back $116K of Burke money, and there’s more to come! Plus she’s bringing the POP TAX back!
Why again Black People are we even considering her? Oh wait...you don’t know what I’m talking about? It’s in The Lion’s Den.
FOP blows. Hey SCC do you know there are over dozen guys assigned to administrative duties because they previously worked housing south. They’re only crime being they breathed the same air as that crooked ass Sgt. FOP’s answer is hey at least you have a job and getting paid.
The real question is why is anyone still working tact?
It was like that before... stop complaining.
Do u even 60 team bro. I’ll work for free.
End tact and gang teams now . Add that manpower to the watch so guys can get off once in awhile . Tact m gang teams are not allowed to do the real police work they were intended to do . End it already
BOO HOO...Let me hand you a Kleenex. No sympathy here. dont like it? Then go back to the fucking watch and STFU!
Go back to a beat car. Problem solved
It wasnt the union who agreed to sell out the young guys for 42 months, it was all you pay check to paycheck assholes that voted yes to ratify. Scared to lose your short changed retro with fop's "its the best we can do" b.s. I vited NO, all or none. Thank FOP, but also thank the short sighted jerks who voted YES.
Poor 2 year wonder who only went to tac to avoid midnights. Oh and to wear their HS skinny Jean's or their wana be tactical cargo pants and beards.
Hows that working out for you.. now you know why anyone with time and knowledge left or doesnt want it.
Then again you dont need more then a couple of hours of sleep to grab a pisser drinker or a SOL of someone without any dope or money on them.
Man up batches.. or go back to your mommies basement.
“The FOP has to come into the 21st century. They can’t be operating like it’s 1950 in Birmingham, Ala.,” McCarthy told the audience of about 100 people, nearly all of whom were black. “They have to understand that the world has changed. They have to recognize it and move forward.”
Will the next person that says hes gonna vote for Mcarthy because he love the police please leave your name so we know who the idiot is.
Ah yes shakey butchie from 008 nice to see he hasnt changed. So scared about losing his new spot that he forbids tac cars from going west of kedzie. So no tac for you 811 or 812. Its funny to hear dispatch try and give them a job out west and they refuse since it's not in their box.
As long as you idiots stay with the FOP you will keep taking it in the can. The only people that seem to get ahead with the FOP as bargaining group are the elected officials.
OT.. Pushing snow Sat.11:30 hrs,bank in Brighton park.Second time there,the handicap spots and entry are still passable but the rest of the entry and lot looks like I was never there due to drifting. Beige unmarked SUV with bearded PO in uniform parked sideways in the handicap spots blocking the entire clear walk way to the bank. I pull in and sit waiting while he looks over and gives me the "stink eye".
Hey dog ass, your tough guy glare didn't impress me, Pulled the pin with a star and two bars on my sleeve, making tall money by the hour and enjoyed my cigarette until your partner came out of the bank,you left and I could start pulling snow from the entry.
My question is, did you notice the elderly working class Mexicans climbing the snow banks while you blocked the only clear entrance,did you see the looks on their faces as they walked by and saw you sideways across the handicap spots in full uniform ?
I saw the hatred and disappointment in their eyes and they had good reason."We don't get respect,the public hates us wah wah wah". Some of you are a disgrace and don't deserve any respect.
Go back to rotating shifts, you'll love it
This asshole says this, the same moron who shot out streetlights, used his power and talked down to coppers when his daughter was caught disobeying the law,and then he dumps his wife marries a young girl and does this to bastardize police:
Former top cop Garry McCarthy stirs controversy on police union: 'They can’t be operating like it’s 1950 in Birmingham, Ala.'
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-garry-mccarthy-mlk-fourm-20190121-story.html
He was never the police and will never be respected, he is like a punk kid who had his ball taken away another terrible excuse for a so called man!
Anonymous said...
A lot of us like to mock the tact team, some of them deserve it. However, they do a lot of the work that we on the watch won’t do. Despite the hair gel and arrogance, I’m glad they’re out there. Let’s nit lose sight of the fact that ee’re all on the same team, and that no one should be treated like that.
1/21/2019 11:48:00 AM
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Someone has to go out there and pawn off all paper jobs on beat cars. If tact doesn't do it, who will??? And if tact isn't out there, who else will go to other people's traffic stops, pull everyone out of the car to search for guns, and then leave when there are no guns and leave the original car with 4 ISRs? I mean, it's a very hard, admiral job those tact men and women do. The 1 gun or 1 misdemeanor arrest they get a night is definitely worth the man power drain on watch cars. Backlogs be damned, tact has a real job to do!
I’m so sad for those newbies that have the nerve to get on the radio and ask for a paper car for reports. Do it all your self super star
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Quit your effn bitching.....midnight offocers work til 5 or 6a and may have to be in coirt at 9a. That happens more than once every 3 months
Whose fault is that moron........don’t make the arrest.
Of course there are some POs who always seem to manage to be off more than they work, and I’m not talkative about old timers either.
Usually those with “non-essential” positions.
Hahahahahahahaha, I love how everyone is trying to beat down guys on tac. Listen, I have 17 year on and I’m still on a tac team. I bring in one or two ears a week, some legit ISRs and it’s the easiest most laid back job going. Holding the offender call on signed complaints?? Yep, throw it over I’ll take it. I’m stupid because I’m on tac!?? Nah, I’m the one playing the game and winning. Haven’t made a felony arrest in over a year and my productivity is fine. 95 percent of my arrests are people with arrest warrants, investigator alerts and signed complaints. With doing THAT absolute bare minimum I get many perks. No lawsuits, no beat car, no domestics and no sweating trying to get a day off. I have 17 years on so I get any furlough I want. No running and gunning, just getting a few easy arrests a week and it’s all gravy. Use your head... it’s simple and no matter how much you wanna bash me remember I’m winning and winning big. I agree, some of these 3 year idiots run and gun and do stuff to get themselves in trouble. Smart easy arrests keep you out of trouble. I’d rather do the easy arrests I do thank go on domestics. Answering and dealing with domestics will get you down in federal court now faster than anything. Way too many TRRs on domestics that go bad.... that’s for the birds. I’ll take my abbreviated day anyway and listed to you bash it all you want.. ace it, it’s not hatred you have, it’s jealousy of the perks and schedule that some guys get and you don’t. I guarantee I bring in decent numbers which are all nonsense anyways but still do less than any lazy stay fetal dog out there. That’s called using your head and if you haven’t figured it out then then enjoy complaining about t every day in roll call mutts.
Gang teams going back to the Districts. Stay tuned........
Hahaha, I made tact after 2.5 years. 2 years after that unit 193 was asking for me. Trust me tactical warriors you don’t even know what police work is.
Anonymous said...
Ummmmm, does anyone out there remember rotating shifts? Especially going from days to midnights? Off at 1600 back at 0000 hrs? Hello? Bueller? Anyone?
1/21/2019 08:50:00 AM
yes and with a day off group change if your weekends were coming up and you were not one of the chosen ones. You could work 10 days in a row. If you were not a chosen one on a watch, you would just bounce between 1 and 3rd watch. But the watch parties going from 1st to 3rd...............
The hardest thing about Tact is the waiting and waiting for everybody to show up and get out for half off group breakfast, only to get chewed out later because nobody invited the sgt...(again) then wonder if the duck slip is a bit too much.
Nah.
I’ll still duck.
“...after Angelo and greedy assholes sold the young guys out by taking away duty availability for the first 42 months...” @1/21/2019 12:26:00 AM
– FOP should have defined Availability for Duty as it pertains to House Mice across the spectrum.
Spend years inside, by mgmt or seniority, maybe occasionally even wearing .38 snub, maybe never seeing a Beat and still considered Available for Duty???
Spend 3 months actually on the street - assigned to a real beat (no caps, review or desk) get a DA allowance the next period.
Now that’s a benefit worth some thought.
42 months in a day lit cubicle or 42 months on midnights and what’s the return on the investment for the house mouse again?
Something’s gotta give.
How about that fucker McWhiskeyDick saying the fop can’t be acting like it’s 1950 in Birmingham.
Fuck you WhiskeyDick.
Tell us what drunken NYPD coppers liked to yell when they were shooting out streetlights in the Bronx in the 1980s.
Of course there are some POs who always seem to manage to be off more than they work, and I’m not talkative about old timers either.
Usually those with “non-essential” positions.
1/21/2019 05:23:00 PM
Don't hate I put my time in and paid my dues so I'll take off (legitimately) as much as I want or need see, always knew the value of (taking) time, priceless
Oh, and a nother ting duty availability in my nonessential position I a still get stuck waiting around during media heater cases and holidays in case shit pops off to drive or whatever mundane tasks those million $$ idi*ts think of
Anonymous Anonymous said...
This asshole says this, the same moron who shot out streetlights, used his power and talked down to coppers when his daughter was caught disobeying the law,and then he dumps his wife marries a young girl and does this to bastardize police:
Former top cop Garry McC
Let’s not get carried away. Used his power to help out daughter. Do you remember recently hearing about a Lt doing the same thing on a po who stopped her son and then went into the district to continue it? Dumps his wife to marry a young girl(in her forties) He did run the record of the CPD on that. Never heard of that happening before. Next your going to say he came close to marrying his partner or was messing with a front office or inside po. That’s never happened on the CPD.
I’ve gotten an honest chuckle of the amount of hate thrown around to fellow officers all because one person’s complaint! Same team folks. Some people wanna work on the watch, some on tac. Some people on this job are dorks, some are not. Let’s focus on real problems
I wish that there was an election every month. I had a snowplow drive down my block three times yesterday and today. Driver probably should remove the Ed Burke sign?
Hey Garry McCarthy. Tell us who’s tougher, big guy! Rugby or football players?
Fuckin’ stroke.
Time to start dropping dimes to other candidates about this clown’s bahaviour at Father Nangles retirement party at the White Eagle in Niles.
Or the Cubbie game.....
Or..........
Loser.
Go back to Hoboken or Hells Kitchen or wherever the fuck you’re from.
Welcome to the numbers game
I couldn't have said it better myself. Someone has to go out there and pawn off all paper jobs on beat cars. If tact doesn't do it, who will??? And if tact isn't out there, who else will go to other people's traffic stops, pull everyone out of the car to search for guns, and then leave when there are no guns and leave the original car with 4 ISRs? I mean, it's a very hard, admiral job those tact men and women do. The 1 gun or 1 misdemeanor arrest they get a night is definitely worth the man power drain on watch cars. Backlogs be damned, tact has a real job to do!
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Wait... You're telling us the tact warriors in your district leave you to write 4 ISRs after THEY pulled the occupants out of the vehicle and went through their belongings and the car?
Do you have a spine?
OT- looks like the beast has made it out to Orland Park Mall. Another mall down to go to. Growing up I remember hanging out at Ford City and North Riverside and used to think that Orland was where all the rich folks go. Haven’t set foot anywhere near Ford City and North Riverside in years, occasionally going to Orland. Another one bites the dust... not saying where I go now, it’s way out though. Truly sad
A seperate post needs to highlight this! This is how the city spends its fuckin overtime. PO in 011 assigned to radio room is averaging 140-170 hours a period, not one arrest made. Working RDOs in the radio room on midnights, traffic missions, and sitting on fixed posts on RDOs while tac in 011 is denied a simple search warrant on their RDOs and actually trying to do some real police work. This guy is making over 100K working the radio room on his RDOs! Overtime is not even spent on the street! Unfuckingbelievable. Research it and post it! Evidence is all there.
Anonymous said...
Hahahahahahahaha, I love how everyone is trying to beat down guys on tac. Listen, I have 17 year on and I’m still on a tac team. I bring in one or two ears a week, some legit ISRs and it’s the easiest most laid back job going. Holding the offender call on signed complaints?? Yep, throw it over I’ll take it. I’m stupid because I’m on tac!?? Nah, I’m the one playing the game and winning. Haven’t made a felony arrest in over a year and my productivity is fine. 95 percent of my arrests are people with arrest warrants, investigator alerts and signed complaints. With doing THAT absolute bare minimum I get many perks. No lawsuits, no beat car, no domestics and no sweating trying to get a day off. I have 17 years on so I get any furlough I want. No running and gunning, just getting a few easy arrests a week and it’s all gravy. Use your head... it’s simple and no matter how much you wanna bash me remember I’m winning and winning big. I agree, some of these 3 year idiots run and gun and do stuff to get themselves in trouble. Smart easy arrests keep you out of trouble. I’d rather do the easy arrests I do thank go on domestics. Answering and dealing with domestics will get you down in federal court now faster than anything. Way too many TRRs on domestics that go bad.... that’s for the birds. I’ll take my abbreviated day anyway and listed to you bash it all you want.. ace it, it’s not hatred you have, it’s jealousy of the perks and schedule that some guys get and you don’t. I guarantee I bring in decent numbers which are all nonsense anyways but still do less than any lazy stay fetal dog out there. That’s called using your head and if you haven’t figured it out then then enjoy complaining about t every day in roll call mutts.
1/21/2019 05:23:00 PM
Congratulations, 17 years on the job and you’re still on Tac. Have you ever wondered why you’re there and not on a unit, or promoted? No, probably not because you’re winning. Anyone who thinks that ANY arrest, whether domestic or due to signed complaints, is going to bring any less stress or liability onto themself is an idiot. You aren’t winning, you’re losing and just don’t know it. The goal is to avoid work and responsibility. Maybe after 20 years on you’ll understand it
Someone want to defend tac teams coming in with piss bums and sidewalk bikers ? Our job is to protect the citizens of this city so please explain why arresting some guy biking on the sidewalk keeps the tax payer safe ? maybe pc for a name check fine ok whatever. Oh wait the CPD is a numbers game still we haven't learned our lesson at all. We need a new mayor and police chief who will get rid of comp stat and quit running the districts like a sales contest. generating CB numbers for what reason other then a numbers game. More beat cars less BS units.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Someone has to go out there and pawn off all paper jobs on beat cars. If tact doesn't do it, who will??? And if tact isn't out there, who else will go to other people's traffic stops, pull everyone out of the car to search for guns, and then leave when there are no guns and leave the original car with 4 ISRs? I mean, it's a very hard, admiral job those tact men and women do. The 1 gun or 1 misdemeanor arrest they get a night is definitely worth the man power drain on watch cars. Backlogs be damned, tact has a real job to do!
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If by 1 gun you mean 1 TVB....and 1 misdemeanor arrest you mean an additional TSSS card. Atleast that’s the standard for Tac in 008.
Multiple quotes in the comments. I’m honored. Fun facts though to those that responded:
1.) None of the younger kids I’ve talked to said they were told about not getting their DA if they made their 42 months in december. The city is using a bullshit loophole in the LOA that the FOP doesn’t want to close. These kids are already getting fucked out of almost 10 grand so this is adding insult to injury.
2.) The city will ALWAYS try and throw you under the bus to save money. Don’t kid yourself.
3.) The FOP is full of cowards and bought off morons that willingly give way to the city. Kinda how good Ol’ Dean fucked us out of insurance benefits and health coverage and didn’t even present the city’s offer to the reps for a vote.
And to everyone else bitching about tact teams, shut up already. If tact is such an easy spot and these kids are whiners then show them how it’s done. Join a team, buy some skinny jeans and show them what’s what. Haven’t been on a team in years but this whole hatred of tact is so pointless. Focus on the real isssue with this job and stop crying about the new guys on tact.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
End tact and gang teams now . Add that manpower to the watch so guys can get off once in awhile . Tact m gang teams are not allowed to do the real police work they were intended to do . End it already
Its hilarious why dont tact teams have car cameras? You would think they need em more than beat cars.
Get rid of tact I agree!!
Total waste
For the genius at 4:29PM bashing tact, with the 20+ years you have on the job read your GO's. If you didn't search the subject or direct anyone to search him it's not your ISR to do. But if you ever did your job and educated yourself instead of bitching and crying your whole career you would know this.
It wasnt the union who agreed to sell out the young guys for 42 months, it was all you pay check to paycheck assholes that voted yes to ratify. Scared to lose your short changed retro with fop's "its the best we can do" b.s. I vited NO, all or none. Thank FOP, but also thank the short sighted jerks who voted YES.
The above post is 100 percent accurate. People with time on voted yes for the bs contract and allowed this to happen so they can get that extra $300.00 on the retro check.
Exactly right, Tact has no clue whats going on...Just listen to the radio and hopefully get to the job before the beat car does so "I" can have the arrest (since thats what tact is all about..numbers) and if the offender is gone then youll hear ""Oh we need a beat car for paper" like you fucking idiots dont know how to do paper. Plus most of Tact people need to kiss the Sgts ass so I can leave early, get put in for merit, look at my nice jeans and please dont send me back to the watch.
Tact Teams are good for busier districts however, if they just do a little work and stop working half of their tours, they might be worth keeping around. But howa bout these glorified fake tact teams. Such a waste of manpower because they do absolutely nothing and the beats could use a few more bodies. This really need to be reformed because those robbery burglary car in 005 is a joke. Half the time they are busy chasing underage girls, eating lunch downtown, sneaking off to undisclosed locations such as bars and strip clubs. This Going to cause the commander a lot of embarrassment again
Years back the whole watch doubled back twice every 3 months. Granted you had 7 1/2 hrs but only if you went from early car to early car. If you were on a late car and doubled back to an early car it was 6 1/2 hrs. But there was no early out. The whole watch did it so you had to stay till your assigned dismissal time Beat guys didn’t get the benefit of early outs.
It occurred 8 times a year.
1/21/2019 01:32:00 AM
It did suck but the watch parties were great. We had camaraderie then. Diminished if not gone today.
1/21/2019 03:49:00 PM
Exactly!! When are we gonna finally wise up and dump FOP?
Double team day was THE BEST!!!!!
When did Gel heads become young bloods? Why?
Hahaha, I made tact after 2.5 years. 2 years after that unit 193 was asking for me. Trust me tactical warriors you don’t even know what police work is.
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This has to be a joke right?
Anyone currently working a tact team, any tact team, is a complete fool. Go back to the Watch and burn gas. If you don't we'll likely be running a GoFundMe account for you too soon.
Anonymous Jiminy Cricket said...
Well, funny story about that is that the FOP even days in their handy dandy notebooks that the City has to negotiate that with them but of course didn’t. The city SHOULD be shaking in their boots about the backlash, but you know, the FOP has no teeth in the fight. Case in point, after Angelo and greedy assholes sold the young guys out by taking away duty availability for the first 42 months, they decided to throw salt in the wound even more. The city is REFUSING, to pay the young bloods that just hit the mark back in December their Duty Availability for January 7th. They have given no reason except to say that they just won’t pay. FOP’s response?? Deal with it. I feel sorry for all the young coppers on the job and those about to be coming on. This job is nothing like it used to be back in the day and now they can’t even get what’s owed to them. Absolutely pathetic. A double fuck you to both the City and FOP for keeping what’s owed away from them.
1/21/2019 12:26:00 AM
Actually you were told that if you hit your 42 months in dec you won’t get your duty availability check in January , you will be credit for the time period in the duty availability check in April. You will be paid for being available from Jan to April . Although I do agree, the union should have never agreed to screwing the new people like this
1/21/2019 08:41:00 AM
Interesting....duty availability is in lieu of shift differential pay for weekends and nights. Vs regular work hours. Maybe prior to 42 months those PO’s should only have to work Monday -Friday 9-5...if the city and union agreed not to pay them for those weekend and night hours that would be an agreement that they don’t gave to work those hours either. The city originally agreed to it because when the union was formed, like other union contracts that specified high rates of pay for weekends and nights it would have been accepted and winnable with any labor ruling based on precedences being set in all other labor contracts. With the huge amounts of time put in by officers on the nights and weekends the union and city agrees to call it even with the additional payments but spread out amounts those golden spots that never have to actually work nights and weekends. So to take it away means your not covered to work those hours outside the regular universal work schedule.
Serious question , I've never understood. If tact warriors jobs are to make arrests why do they drive around with cageless cars and constantly call best cops for transports
Congratulations, 17 years on the job and you’re still on Tac. Have you ever wondered why you’re there and not on a unit, or promoted? No, probably not because you’re winning. Anyone who thinks that ANY arrest, whether domestic or due to signed complaints, is going to bring any less stress or liability onto themself is an idiot. You aren’t winning, you’re losing and just don’t know it. The goal is to avoid work and responsibility. Maybe after 20 years on you’ll understand it
Agreed...... 17 years on and still hasn’t figured it out yet.
Anonymous said...
OT.. Pushing snow Sat.11:30 hrs,bank in Brighton park.Second time there,the handicap spots and entry are still passable but the rest of the entry and lot looks like I was never there due to drifting. Beige unmarked SUV with bearded PO in uniform parked sideways in the handicap spots blocking the entire clear walk way to the bank. I pull in and sit waiting while he looks over and gives me the "stink eye".
Hey dog ass, your tough guy glare didn't impress me, Pulled the pin with a star and two bars on my sleeve, making tall money by the hour and enjoyed my cigarette until your partner came out of the bank,you left and I could start pulling snow from the entry.
My question is, did you notice the elderly working class Mexicans climbing the snow banks while you blocked the only clear entrance,did you see the looks on their faces as they walked by and saw you sideways across the handicap spots in full uniform ?
I saw the hatred and disappointment in their eyes and they had good reason."We don't get respect,the public hates us wah wah wah". Some of you are a disgrace and don't deserve any respect.
1/21/2019 03:55:00 PM
Hey, tuff guy, why didn't YOU have the balls to ask him to move and explain why? Millenial cops are clueless, you have to explain everything to them. Just sayin.....many people are not aware until you call them out (but in a civil way!)
tactical Units make 90% 0f arrests , write more ISR cards , ANOV than all three watches in every district . citizens of Chicago need a midnight tactical unit in every district or assign tactical units to a 12 hour shift so citizens receive the protection they deserve .
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Serious question , I've never understood. If tact warriors jobs are to make arrests why do they drive around with cageless cars and constantly call best cops for transports
1/22/2019 08:46:00 AM
Christ ! Do u need everything explained ? Tact teams don’t have cages because they frequently (at least in the past) would need to work a three man cars
Not interested in pimping out arrests . However , to each their own... so much animosity on here jeeeez ! Everyone here writing essays and sh*t to make a point . My Goodness, Lord have mercy
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hahaha, I made tact after 2.5 years. 2 years after that unit 193 was asking for me. Trust me tactical warriors you don’t even know what police work is.
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This has to be a joke right?
1/22/2019 08:02:00 AM
No, it’s true, I did. Stop hating, hard work does pay off.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Someone want to defend tac teams coming in with piss bums and sidewalk bikers ? Our job is to protect the citizens of this city so please explain why arresting some guy biking on the sidewalk keeps the tax payer safe ? maybe pc for a name check fine ok whatever. Oh wait the CPD is a numbers game still we haven't learned our lesson at all. We need a new mayor and police chief who will get rid of comp stat and quit running the districts like a sales contest. generating CB numbers for what reason other then a numbers game. More beat cars less BS units.
Protecting the tax payers???? No. I’ll gladly bring in absolute garbage in order to get an easy one, do nothing for the rest of the day... and I meanNOTHING and go home a few hours early. You think I do this for the tax payers????!!?? Are you crazy!?!?? This is for me and me only. I work to benefit me not the public who hates us and will never stop hating us. I’ll do my time and every day I get to stay in tac and take it easy is one less stressful day closer to the end of my career. If I’m able to slide by doing this till I hit the 20 year mark then great, I’ll shit it down and go back to the watch on days.. not before I pick my last furlough with tac though. Stay fetal men’s stay miserable for your career on a beat at praying for days off. As many old timers told me coming up on this job.. make the job work for you. Well, a MCC arrest or misdemeanor arrest a day then do zero for the rest of the day is exactly that.. it’s woeking to the beat of my own drum. Even in units you have high expectations. I want nothing to do with that. Been in SOS and gang teams before and that work is done. Easy head and done. Maybe I’ll get two or three easy ones a week and I look like a superstar. Works great for me. 17 years and counting and very content.
02:20:00 PM
First off, that's very subjective speech. Maybe your tact team in your district is responsible for a majority of arrests, ISRs, ect. But the same may or may not be true elsewhere. There are just as many dogs on tact as there are in beat patrol. Also, beat cars have to take jobs, many of which don't correspond to actual crime or are crimes already committed with offenders long gone. It is also in the best interest of the community for beat cars to not actively seek arrests, as a beat car with an arrest is a car that won't be taking calls. If tact responds to a call, it's going to be an in progress call. If not, they're free to roam the district to pick whatever low hanging fruit they can find.
Whoever is complaining about this new change day, he/she doesn’t represent the entire Tact Teams city wide. However, if you haven’t figure it out yet, this new change day affects which shortens our furlough days.
That being said. I do have three stripes on my sleeve and work Tact. I chose to be here because I believe that Tact Teams have better camaraderie, flexible schedule, and freedom compare to the watch. I’m not a hard charger, but, I work whether arresting someone or gladly helping my fellow Officers on their beats.
I couldn’t help but shake my head when I read some of the comments here. I can easily tell who’s a millennial kid, 5 years wonder, and just jealous salty dogs on the watch. We’re on the same blue team. Don’t ever forget that. We back each other up. Some of you will get your chance whether Tact, Narc, SWAT, etc. or even get promoted by MERIT. Be patience.
I’m not gonna be specific what the Tactical Teams get as perks. We get ‘em and get ducks not that we kiss ass. We get ‘em because we pick and clean up the mess that lazy disgruntled PO’s kept dodging. Tell me I’m wrong..
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