Friday, March 15, 2019

Lemmer Award

The Special Service Award is described as follows:
  • ...is granted to any Department sworn or civilian member whose service contributed to any event that has a significant impact upon the historical direction and operations of the Department.
Now imagine being this disliked and garnering this little respect from the people you are supposed to be leading (click for a larger version):


The Department neglected to mention if the "significant impact" was positive or negative and the submitting supervisor obviously took it in a negative direction. The supervisor also took a three day suspension for his warped sense of humor and we are told he took it with a smile.

But how big of an asshole do you have to be that people are willing to take suspension time over your inability to lead? This award (#8099999) was deleted a few years after submission at the insistence of Lemmer, in case anyone ever discovered how little respect he had from the rank and file. And now, he makes his bones belittling men and women who have done more police work than he was ever a part of.

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107 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cooney picked a winner

3/15/2019 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous 29 and a day said...

outstanding

3/15/2019 12:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good job asshat! Now we know who destroyed 011.

3/15/2019 12:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

supervisors dont read honorables....just hand them to you as if its embarrassing

3/15/2019 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A ball-bust so fucking COSMIC
in scale as to make the Big-Bang
come off like a dry fart.

VERY well played by whoever typed this up!

Lemmer shows himself to be a thin skinned,
tender and easily chafed pussy for such a
wet-eyed punk retaliatory move.

3/15/2019 12:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just screams ASSHOLE!

I would NEVER work for this Lunatic!

3/15/2019 01:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just shows the brass like mean nasty people. They promoted him even higher and allow him to be a jerk. all the while knowing what he does for morale. Sad

3/15/2019 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Harrison Lifer said...

Retired Sergeant Gerald Murphy was the balls behind the submission of that nomination.

Murphy was also a persistent thorn in the side of lieutenant John Andrews - another micromanaging, morale killing company man that couldn’t be trusted as far he could be thrown.

Murphy went out of his way to aggravate, inconvenience and create more work for those two clowns as a tit-for-tat when they’d implement bullshit, unnecessary or redundant tasks or duties for the sergeants and their troops.

What people like Lemmer, Andrews et al will never be able to figure out is that the 011th District was functioning long before their arrival and that there was absolutely no need to reinvent the wheel in a shithole where 98% of the district hates the police. It was also absolutely uncalled for to nitpick minor uniform infractions, lunches that ran past 30 minutes and to hold time due requests hostage. And this was after putting the arm on same coppers (and sergeants) for activity under threats for non-compliance. But I guess such actions are expected from wannabes with rank who were never the police.

I’ll never forget how giddy with excitement Lemmer was when Glenn Evans would let him ride along to play police and harass the Arab store owners... he came up with a shotgun one day and boasted “we’re gonna go make someone’s day” ... or some bullshit like that. What a total fucking dickbag he is.

Anywho... guys like Murphy are few and far between. It was a pleasure to work with and for him. Guys like Tommy Lemmer and John Andrews don’t amount to a pimple on Gerry’s pasty white ass. And I’m certain Gerry has no problem with me attaching his name to this post... hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if he leaves his own comment and signs off on it.

Semper Fi, good Sergeant. You’re missed everyday here.

3/15/2019 01:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a ball sack! Once again the lowly beat officer is treated like the anus of the department.

3/15/2019 01:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah, good old Sgt. M. He told me he had saved up 30 days worth of VRI money for this.

3/15/2019 02:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lemming, last call for alcohol. You one strange guy.
5 Rum & Cokes (no rum). You still insist on paying
full price. I gotta keep a fake rum bottle just for you.
You weird me out, man. Must be on duty. Listen,
get rid of the fucking straws. It's really weird when
you bring your own. People gonna talk.

3/15/2019 02:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You think he purged 011, you should look back at how many left the old 023 when he was there. His ability to run patrolmen out of the old 23rd district was the only way I got there.

3/15/2019 02:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Besides using GPS and minute details to try to play “gotcha” to Cmdr’s and Lts up at the podium, he actually calls out districts for the amount of people on IOD. Busy district like 011 and 015. How the fuck do they have any control over how many guys fight their troops and cause sometimes and usually serious injuries. That whole west side is a war zone. They should be on their knees thanking the officers that come in every day to work there. Instead, Lemmer gets them up there and berates them. WTF. How bout trying this “Cmdr, captains and Lts of 011 & 015 thanks for working your balls off every single day dealing with the shittiest of shit this country has to offer. Please go back and tell the troops we appreciate them and if there’s anything we can do for them, let us know. You’re dismissed.”

3/15/2019 02:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WOW! Just. Simply. WOWZER!! I'll buy some beers for whoever submitted this. Top notch work.

3/15/2019 02:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When are they finally going to get rid of compstat and the monsters it creates such as this lemmer clown. Lines of bootlickers pandering to this bullshit and it doesn't solve anything. Asking people to do things will always work better than telling someone what to do.

3/15/2019 03:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The whole point of comstat is to get a Cmdr up there and try to bust him out in front of the entire cpd command staff, their peers and whoever else might be in the building that day. To try to catch them off guard with some trickbag question. He asked a WOL the other day why his watch had less stops than tact in an area of robberies. Wondered why tact was doing all the heavy lifting with the stops. Well, you fuck nut, because tact isn’t tied to a radio and doesn’t have to answer jobs. That’s the whole point of tact. The whole point of the watch is to take care of jobs and do what they can in between. But seriously, why can’t anyone see that there is something absolutely inherently wrong with the whole comstat model. Of trying to embarrass commanders and WOL’s. Why wouldnt they just have a small private meeting consisting one district at a time where that can really sit down with each Cmdr and wols and address issues they want to address. This public berating and embarrassment is childish and does nothing but build resentment toward the brass.

3/15/2019 03:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to have a little respect for the man, until I saw what he was doing at compstat. Nit picking every little thing. Trying to play gotcha. Trying to front out and publicly embarrass supervisors. I just can’t reapect anyone that does that. No amount of money or title could lure me into a position like that. Same with inspectors. Going around all day trying to jam up coppers and searching parking lots for expired stickers. Give me a flippin break. You can keep the money, I’d rather retire with my conscience in tact.

3/15/2019 04:13:00 AM  
Blogger Sir Donkey, esq said...

Outstanding achievement. That said, I think Escamerit will be giving him a run for his money. In the last 1 1/2 years, 025 has had 6 Lt's leave, all citing Escamerit as the reason. In fact, the only Lt left, that was here prior to Escamerit, is soon do be forced out from age, so he frankly doesn't care. Yes, that's every Lt but one who have fled Escamerit.
I won't even get into Sgt's and PO's. Hell, half of 016 3rd watch was in 025 last year.
As of now, Escamerit is refusing to release officers who are trying to bid out, if they are trying for non-biddable units (ie - Sat or Homan), claiming manpower needs (025 hasn't had this many officers since its opening).
Sad how fast one jackass can completely destroy a place. Also sad how this has been ignored by the ivory tower.

3/15/2019 04:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When he got dumped out of Mass Transit,he had a melt down, had to go home sick, then went back to his condo calling Daddy, the Alderman, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny.........

3/15/2019 06:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brilliant and bravo!

3/15/2019 06:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't ever transfer out of a District because of a douche bag boss.....give it time...eventually he will be transferred or promoted and leave. Also....if you are assigned to 011....what the fuck can they do to you? You are in a shit place already......The days of activity are over....

3/15/2019 07:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Watch Lemmer wife get Merit Lt after getting Merit Sgt two goof balls

3/15/2019 07:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck compstat and every other Democratic b.s. idea out of NYC. It should have ceased with McCarthy's departure. WTF.

3/15/2019 07:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would nit pick every arrest report, used to stop arresting people if we knew he was working, and not just some reports, every report.

3/15/2019 07:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What do you call a man who grew up with
bedroom posters of SWAT team commander
Lieutenant Howard Hunter from Hill Street Blues?
Lemmer.

3/15/2019 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

supervisors dont read honorables....just hand them to you as if its embarrassing

When they do that, I always say, thank you for the honorable do not mention. Or, I crumble it up and thrown in the garbage right in front of them. If they don’t have the common courtesy to just summarize it, I don’t have the common courtesy to leave it in front of me

Lol

3/15/2019 08:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They don't even have this in W.VA., and I ain't
pickin' on them. Lemmer is a function of a large
big city force with too much blow money in the
budget and lots of places to hide. Never in one
place, this rotation bullshit is part of his m.o.
You hide freaks like this in plain sight by moving
them around. No one knows where he's been or
headed to and when he quits for the day. No traffic
jams for him. Back home in time to watch the
after-school cartoons.

3/15/2019 08:20:00 AM  
Blogger fillmoreranger said...

And don't forget he was canned as the captain in 011, the day he appeared at comstat following his statue's appearance on the blog. Maybe because the laughter from the others attending compstat finally made the powers that be realize he had lost all respect of the officers in 011.
Maybe that's why he is such a prick to the current compstat attendee's, their predecessors had the audacity to laugh at him.

3/15/2019 08:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CompStat is just like a Celebrity Roast.

3/15/2019 08:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is not new. Someone put him in for the same award When this stroke was captain In 11, he would come to roll call and shake your hand and thank you for being the police. he tried getting a Cr# on whoever built a reflecting pool using milk crates and a fountain. The response was a miniature statue of David outside the Captains office window with Captains bars on the dingling. Someone like that never changes.

3/15/2019 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

His girlfriend drinks from the same container of koolaid!











3/15/2019 08:33:00 AM  
Blogger Trumpisbest said...

Murphy was one of a kind. He was a cool kind of crazy. He actually lived in the hood.

3/15/2019 08:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That was classic and the best service award ever. It's too bad all the white shirts can't stand United against an asshole like this. And for that matter blue shirts as well. Once again do we have to spell it out to LEMMER compstat is a scam, it was made up by scammers and idiots who don't know police work, yet were still embracing this garbage. Who gives a fuck about positive interaction stops, i.s.r's, and any other bullshit numbers?? Lemmer will go down as one the worst bosses in history, along with any other who is tied to the COMPSTAT BUULSHIT. And if your a supervisor drinking the koolaid, and pushing it down to the ranks, your even a bigger pussy!! Yeah that means YOU!!!! Let's call out every district and supervisors pushing this crap and make it public who has no balls and no clue about policing.

3/15/2019 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lemmer is good with the computer, that computer is his bible. Anytime you speak to him , he backs up your comments by computer, via kaboodle, logs, arrests etc. , then if info isn’t accurate , he will bust you out, or even spar you .He is on his computer 24/7 watching people and even calls districts from his house to inquire about Officers. Take that computer away, you take his balls away !

3/15/2019 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol.... this is platinum.... better than coffee to wake up to

3/15/2019 08:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

.......rumors that parents paid big bucks
to get Lemmer into cub scouts....ya know,
I can believe it now when I heard there's
an MLB coach out there somewhere who
only played T-ball. we're dumbing down
entire generations, folks, in no small part
because of helicopter parents. makes me
recall the motto of some of these elite
military ground units: If it flies, it dies.

3/15/2019 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The guy sounds like a real dick.

3/15/2019 09:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This man gets off on humiliating others because it makes him feel better about himself. Compstat is the perfect vehicle for all the sick fucks that have so little self-respect they have to publicly embarrass and humiliate others.

3/15/2019 09:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There are a plethora of Lemmer stories but the one I witnessed caused me to lose any respect for the man. An officer in 023 asked for time due because his aging father was in ill health and he was told he may only live another day or two. Lemmer denied the time. Thankfully the following day Lemmer was RDO. The Lieutenant who was the watch commander came into work and immediately gave the officer the time off. The officer was able to spend that evening with his father and family and his father passed away that night.

3/15/2019 09:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I kid you not
(they're out there, you just have to find 'em)
Tampa Bay Rays, 28-yr-old with math degree from Princeton
whose entire playing career consisted of playing T-ball in
Canada at age 5. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
Jonathan Erlichman, the first analytics coach to ever join a
major league staff, proudly wearing number 97.
This guy makes Lemmer look like a real piker.
Fear not, CPD. You can always trade Lemmer to Tampa Bay PD.

3/15/2019 09:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Other than Dean Stone, never before has so much hatred been expressed for a certain employee. Yet the dept continues to promote this idiot. One thing to advance morons whom are innocuous, but this guy is hateful, vindictive & a real danger to not just the police but Chicago. Wake up Eddie, Rham & anyone in power! Don't be fooled by this goof psych him immediately; for he will certainly harm many people if not himself in the long run. Dean Stone & Jon Andrews saw the writing on the wall, now let's go Lemmer & all you backers, because he has & will continue to do damage. You see evidence here everywhere the guy goes people bail, why? Get a grip, perhaps, here's a thought, maybe it's this goof & not the rest of the world that is insane!


3/15/2019 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, he fits in with the rest of the higher-ups at CPD - ineffective, incompetent and over-bearing. They should be able to accomplish the progressives’ goal of eliminating the police department in the next ten years.

Then “the community” can police itself.

THAT should be fun to watch.... from a distance.

3/15/2019 10:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This guy sounds like Captain Lacy from the Duce.

3/15/2019 10:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can insert Escamerits name in here too

3/15/2019 10:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

some years ago we altered the Word on the watch commander's desk top computer so that everytime a certain lieutenant would type his name on a report, Word would automatically alter his name to read, "Quigg", from the book and movie. It was pretty funny at the time and he did not catch this right away and a few reports went out with that name on the report.

3/15/2019 11:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As terrible of a person Lemmer seems to be, I fault the Supe and the handful of others above Lemmer. They promoted this asshat douche and are enabling him to roam free spreading misery. As much as one cannot stand an individual like this, one must always remember that the people really responsible are the ones behind the promotion. Furthermore, now that he is promoted, EJ, Riccio or Waller should reel him back in and advise him to STFU.

3/15/2019 11:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Comstat ( or whatever it is called) started with those weekly DOC meetings by Cline. Some exempt trying to embarrass someone of lower rank- then some clout heavy person would be asked softball questions that were probably given to him/her. It was a joke then, and I am sure it still is.



old retired guy

3/15/2019 12:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT....

Be still my beating heart, the Fibune just slayed Crimeisha ????

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-kass-20190314-story.html

3/15/2019 01:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And so it came to pass, Lemmer being in possession
of acute foresight, put out to sea with Lieutenant Dan,
both ignoring the maxim of any port in a storm. Despite
horrendous weather and near-death experiences, they
both weathered the storm, returning to port with a bounty
catch of shrimp since they in effect had no competition.
It's not what you know, but who you know, and Lemmer
was indeed closer to a higher power than the majority of
his peers gave him credit for.

3/15/2019 01:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sgt Murphy, it was a honor to work for you, sir. He was one of a kind .

3/15/2019 02:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That is fucking rich! Kudos to the ballsy magnificent son of a bitch that submitted that nomination!

3/15/2019 02:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) Here is hoping that when Lightfoot gets in the office that she reopens that link in yards billion and billions of dollars wasted with over 900 million of taxpayers money throwing hand in tax increment financing programs and the lapdog Brian Hopkins pushing this through hopefully she can get her federal partners involved to take back this money and find out what is going on and who they paid off to rush this through so the mayor could get his cut of the money!

3/15/2019 02:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lemmer's bosses know that he is a morale killer and yet allow this type of personality to continue unchecked. This goes to the very core of Supt. Johnson's inability to manage his police administration. Guys like Lemmer become toxic to all they come into contact with. Between Johnson and Rahm's countless poor decisions made over the past years regarding the Police Department and it's operational capabilities, have led to a demoralized and unmotivated police agency.

This we know. Rahm is fleeing town because he knew early on he was going to loose the election. The coward took the easy way out. Ed Johnson knows too, he is going out the door once the new Mayor takes office. The key to the Lemmer's of the world is that they are allowed to continue to poison anything they touch. That brings us to the situation we find ourselves in today.

If Lightfoot wins she is smart enough to know she needs the police. She can't wish crime away or legislate it away either. No matter her likes or dislikes of the police. She's got about two and one half years to show she can administer to all facets of the city - including crime. After that she begins political campaigning again. She already has made some big political enemies during this run. She will make many more if she continues with her progressive changes rankling corrosive and corruptive power players. The Machine won't like it. Seems to me she'll want to keep crime down (murders, shootings, carjackings, etc) and for that you need an active and motivated police department. A new and well experienced Police Superintendent is essential. Clown's need not apply.

Lightfoot needs to step forward and communicate directly to the Rank and File. With assurances and positive demonstrated actions the police will respond to Chicago's crime problem. This fix is not that difficult to make. She's got the will for it. The Lemmer's will not last long in this type of environment.

If Tonie wins, the Lemmer's of the world and their toxicity will flourish and thoroughly embed itself department wide. At best Tonie will have the status quo, at worst she will now own the "killing fields " of Chicago.

3/15/2019 02:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Going around all day trying to jam up coppers and searching parking lots for expired stickers.
=================
And yet this is what you did to the citizens all those years on traffic duty. Nothing like being a hypocrite.

3/15/2019 03:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When they do that, I always say, thank you for the honorable do not mention. Or, I crumble it up and thrown in the garbage right in front of them. If they don’t have the common courtesy to just summarize it, I don’t have the common courtesy to leave it in front of me

Lol

3/15/2019 08:14:00 AM

You’re so fucking cool.

3/15/2019 04:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't ever transfer out of a District because of a douche bag boss.....give it time...eventually he will be transferred or promoted and leave. Also....if you are assigned to 011....what the fuck can they do to you? You are in a shit place already......The days of activity are over....

3/15/2019 07:01:00 AM

Agreed. It may take some time but you’ll outlast them any day.

3/15/2019 04:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What's going on at FOP heard G.B. tried a power move again. Got caught by K.G who will let go to the wayside.

3/15/2019 04:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm is fleeing because he is on the wire worn by Solis. Everyone knows it, he's just trying to escape public embarrassment and reduce the possibility of the Feds making an example of a sitting Mayor.

3/15/2019 04:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I DO NOT HAVE A PASTY WHITE ASS!!!! I don't know what police woman told you this but its not pasty white. murphy

3/15/2019 04:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Going around all day trying to jam up coppers and searching parking lots for expired stickers.

Are you special that you do not need to have your sticker up to date????

3/15/2019 05:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought Caluris was put in for a similar award

3/15/2019 05:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Uh-oh.

Donald Donagher Jr, the owner of a Pennsylvania debt collection business, has been indicted on pay-to-play charges linked to the office of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.

And, to think, she was almost our Mayor!

3/15/2019 05:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

OT....

Be still my beating heart, the Fibune just slayed Crimeisha ????

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-kass-20190314-story.html

3/15/2019 01:26:00 PM
Could it be the Tribune is finally coming around and the democratic control is lessening due to Lightfoot winning? Independent paper back again? This could be very interesting the sun times also delving into the cheaters liars and thieves the democrats and just waiting for the federal hammer to drop on many and soon?

Lori Lightfoot stated recently and being a former federal prosecutor she still has friends there,she said that soon maybe weeks at maximum many more will be indicted at city hall and county building lets watch that hammer drop. Hey Feds thank you and if you need us to do transports just call it would be a pleasure to throw their asses in the back of the wagon and take them crying to federal building!

Lori you take care of the coppers and give us a fair shake watch how we can reign in the terror network of criminals that rob,carjack,murder,shoot etc. Lori but first grab all the gold star morons and make them resign get lean and mean cut them to a third maximum and make them work after you put in all new people at the top,this fake clown show must go quickly to being respect back to CPD!

3/15/2019 05:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anybody have The new lieutenant assignments?

3/15/2019 06:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I came otj with Lemmer, so he is already way-maxed out for time, but he has 6+ to max out on the age.

And, you know this guy will stay until the very end. The very, very living end.

Plan around him if you can. He's going to be with you for 6+ more l-o-n-g years, cowboy boots and all.

3/15/2019 06:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This guy sounds like Captain Lacy from the Duce.

3/15/2019 10:36:00 AM

Do you mean "My Chair Malfunctioned" Bill?

3/15/2019 06:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe an award for this and you think basketball is not thug-alicious:

Soulja Boy released after L.A. arrest; says he’ll perform at Bulls-Clippers game
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/soulja-boy-released-after-arrest-says-hell-perform-at-bulls-clippers-game/

soulja says this very intelligent statement:
“Yeah, I’m out… I just got out of jail right now and I’m performing at the Clippers game,” he said, while sitting in the passenger seat of a car. “Tell you, this (expletive) ain’t going to start… I had the biggest comeback of 2018 and they try to lock me up, they try to hate on me…I’m the hottest rapper in the game.”

* just carrying a pistol he be keepin real real dumb! the problem is black kids follow and believe in pos like this and the mommas allow them to act out like this and then bam "my baby be shot the kilt him," is heard! That is why basketball and football ratings are rapidly falling this and the anti-police banter!

3/15/2019 06:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we talk about what John Doty did to 021?

3/15/2019 06:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT
Follow up on NV plane crash impersonator
https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/pilot-lived-a-mysterious-double-life-then-a-plane-crash/article_b3ec55c1-bbfc-5393-a00e-97cf77e534ad.html
RENO, Nev. — Jordan Aaron was the president of a Carson City sushi restaurant who once ran for justice of the peace in Arizona. Antonio Pastini was the brash ex-Chicago cop who befriended a brothel mogul and spun yarns of a bare-knuckled youth in the Windy City that read like a cross between “Goodfellas” and “The Outsiders.”

They were one and the same person.

He used two names and two Social Security numbers. He kept different driver’s licenses and bank accounts under the two names, an ex-wife alleged. The ex-wife — one of four — said in court filings that he kept multiple identities to hide money, and she hinted that he had “trouble with the law.”

But he might have lived out his days simply as Tony Pastini, the garrulous retired cop, had his twin-engine Cessna not plummeted 7,800 feet on Feb. 3 into an Orange County, Calif., suburb, killing him and four people who were on the ground.

From the smoldering wreckage, investigators plucked a police badge belonging to Retired Chicago Patrolman #15599. That discovery would help unravel the threads of a life story Pastini spent three decades crafting. The 75-year-old, it turned out, had never been a Chicago cop, though it appeared he wished he had been.

“Tony … loved cops,” said Jeff Partyka, a retired Reno police sergeant who frequented a deli Pastini ran in the 1990s. “They didn’t just gravitate to his restaurant because of the cop thing. He was always friendly and respectful, and he actually did have pretty decent food.”


More at the link*

3/15/2019 06:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

OT....

Be still my beating heart, the Fibune just slayed Crimeisha ????

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-kass-20190314-story.html

3/15/2019 01:26:00 PM
Alright John Kass your unleashed the power of corrupt city hall is dwindling at the Tribune, get em John be the next Mike Royko who had solid fortitude, Finally John your back,I can remember what the daleys did to your family at westlawn foods that was located on 58th and Pulaski, great family business and what they did to bring it down,all the hard work your family did the best produce the best meat will never forget brother!

3/15/2019 06:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


That is not new. Someone put him in for the same award When this stroke was captain In 11, he would come to roll call and shake your hand and thank you for being the police. he tried getting a Cr# on whoever built a reflecting pool using milk crates and a fountain. The response was a miniature statue of David outside the Captains office window with Captains bars on the dingling. Someone like that never changes.

3/15/2019 08:31:00 AM

You are a keen observer. This is 2014.

3/15/2019 06:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

supervisors dont read honorables....just hand them to you as if its embarrassing

When they do that, I always say, thank you for the honorable do not mention. Or, I crumble it up and thrown in the garbage right in front of them. If they don’t have the common courtesy to just summarize it, I don’t have the common courtesy to leave it in front of me 

Lol

3/15/2019 08:14:00 AM

Some supervisor took the time to write an award for you and then you throw it away because it wasn't read out loud to you?! What a cry baby! Guys like you are a big part of the problem in this dept. Everything has to be a confrontation if your ego gets bruised.

3/15/2019 07:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, 2:48:00 AM
Re: WOW!/WOWZER!/beers

Thanks for the compliments.
SCC is the Pulitzer of Police Blogs
(thanks to all the readers)
"Give light and the people will find their own way"
E.W. Scripps, 1878

3/15/2019 07:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
That is not new. Someone put him in for the same award When this stroke was captain In 11, he would come to roll call and shake your hand and thank you for being the police. he tried getting a Cr# on whoever built a reflecting pool using milk crates and a fountain. The response was a miniature statue of David outside the Captains office window with Captains bars on the dingling. Someone like that never changes.

3/15/2019 08:31:00 AM

Take a closer look.

3/15/2019 08:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I couldn’t stand Sgt Murphy he hated workers but this was a great job by him

3/15/2019 08:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When he was an inspector he would come into the districts and talk about how he would bring GMAC up on violation of Rule 31 if he ever criticized him at compstat and now here he is doing the same thing. Don’t forget Mr Pink, the knife cuts both ways.

3/15/2019 08:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Captain's stories of his days doing Police work consist of stories of DOPW arrests and getting the offenders fined in court. The guy is a blow hard and a joke.

3/15/2019 08:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Billy The Kidder said...

Anonymous said...

I DO NOT HAVE A PASTY WHITE ASS!!!! I don't know what police woman told you this but its not pasty white. murphy

3/15/2019 04:58:00 PM

Ok...

Blushing peach?

Toasty tan?

Ruddy red?

Nyuk-Nyuk!

3/15/2019 09:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please stop comparing Lemmer to Steve Buschemi.

One is a bonafide hero that at the height of his acting career went back to ground zero to help recover the bodies of fallen firefighters and police officers. People that he had served with not more than 10 years earlier.

The other is Lemmer.

3/15/2019 09:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

When he was an inspector he would come into the districts and talk about how he would bring GMAC up on violation of Rule 31 if he ever criticized him at compstat and now here he is doing the same thing. Don’t forget Mr Pink, the knife cuts both ways.

3/15/2019 08:31:00 PM


So he would welcome a chance to actually defend himself
from a Rule 31 allegation like the man he fancies himself
to be and not seek revenge like the tenderly weeping pussy he is?

He's going to fuck with the wrong Copper having a really bad time
who has nothing to lose and get his ass meat torn from the bone.

Why have bad supervisors always been protected on this job?


3/15/2019 09:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I knew him in Englewood in the 90's. Worst boss (non leader) of the department that I've ever encountered in my 30plus years on this job.

3/15/2019 09:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Commander RD who started this. Wasnt he living in LaGrange at one time and was told you better get back. Most people wouldn't get that break!

3/15/2019 10:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3/15/2019 08:14:00 AM

You’re a real hard ass, wish I was just like you.

3/15/2019 11:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. Pink. Thats a good one, I like your humor

3/15/2019 11:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To be put in the CO book and read in every roll call before there district comp stat meeting

3/16/2019 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can we talk about what John Doty did to 021?

3/15/2019 06:21:00 PM

Doty is a prime example of an asshole.

3/16/2019 04:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey idiot those awards are not for you. They are for your family and they say that you were a good guy or girl. While we know what they are the public and your family doesn’t. Think about it, you are still are hero to some people. You will regret that move in time.

3/16/2019 06:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don’t forget Cindy Shame and Crazy Kim in mass Transit two do nothing eating ,shooping nut jobs

3/16/2019 08:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:18 pm
Has there ever been another “chair malfunction” disability pension in the history of the CPD or any police department for that matter?

3/16/2019 08:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Uh-oh.

Donald Donagher Jr, the owner of a Pennsylvania debt collection business, has been indicted on pay-to-play charges linked to the office of Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.

And, to think, she was almost our Mayor!

3/15/2019 05:36:00 PM

Almost? She never got close.

3/16/2019 09:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Rahm is fleeing because he is on the wire worn by Solis. Everyone knows it, he's just trying to escape public embarrassment and reduce the possibility of the Feds making an example of a sitting Mayor.

3/15/2019 04:37:00 PM

I am skeptical about this. Politicians such as Rahm and Madigan always make deals that benefit themselves, but usually are too smart to take an envelope of cash. They like to make stock deals and get law firm and insurance business, not outright bribes for zoning issues. But, sometimes they slip and maybe they will be caught up in this newest federal investigation. Anyway, when Burke or Solis come to trial the tapes will be made public and we will see who said what, even those actors who were not charged.

3/16/2019 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I couldn’t stand Sgt Murphy he hated workers but this was a great job by him

3/15/2019 08:20:00 PM

Hey "worker?"

Maybe you weren't as smart in doing your work
as you thought you were and the Sgt. stopped
you from stepping on your dick and making
unnecessary "work" for him that would involve
cleaning up behind yet another "worker" from
"Fillmo'" convinced of their Police Godliness...

Tell another war story...

3/16/2019 10:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When Lemmer came to 023 as a newly made Captain he said that he was personally appointed by Supt. Cline (thanks a lot) to advance Clines strategies to address issues of chronic crime and disorder. He then went on to micro manage every aspect of the Watch even when RDO. He had the Watch secretary (yes they still exist) fax over the line up when he was RDO so he could “approve” it. Then if the Lt. Who was the acting WC changed anything he would thereafter them with a SPAR. Just ask Lt. Stasch who when threatened with a SPAR from Lemmer wrote his response to which Lemmers face literally dropped and asked “Are you really gonna submit this?” After Stasch replied in the affirmative Lemmer blinked and the issue was dropped. As always Lemmer ran to the DC and complained that he wasn’t be obeyed on his RDO. Lemmer was very Ralp Price-esque in that he is way too educated beyond his ability to function. Where as Lemmer has a personality, albeit a unique one, Price was just a over educated, inflated ego, pissant.

3/16/2019 11:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tiny tom thumb burn , may have stood on a stake of $50's to get hired would call people out at comp stat meetings , napoleon syndrome
rumor was covered up a big theft ring at streets and san , was rewarded with commissioners job

3/16/2019 11:25:00 AM  
Blogger Old Chicago Gal said...

Anonymous said...
Don't ever transfer out of a District because of a douche bag boss.....give it time...eventually he will be transferred or promoted and leave. Also....if you are assigned to 011....what the fuck can they do to you? You are in a shit place already......The days of activity are over....

3/15/2019 07:01:00 AM

Agreed. It may take some time but you’ll outlast them any day.

3/15/2019 04:21:00 PM

As my friend who worked for the city would say "We are we be's - We be here when they come and we be here when they go"

3/16/2019 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He doesnt look like Steve Buscemi,he looks like Nelson from the Simpsons

3/16/2019 02:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

At 3/15/2019 09:22:00 PM

"Why have bad supervisors always been protected on this job?"

Tradition.

3/16/2019 02:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Almost? She never got close.

3/16/2019 09:21:00 AM

Dear Sheldon, I was being sarcastic.

3/16/2019 03:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

6:18 pm
Has there ever been another “chair malfunction” disability pension in the history of the CPD or any police department for that matter?

3/16/2019 08:35:00 AM

Not that I ever heard. Captain Bill and his cause of injury are both quite unique.

3/16/2019 03:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
6:18 pm
Has there ever been another “chair malfunction” disability pension in the history of the CPD or any police department for that matter?

3/16/2019 08:35:00 AM

Theres a sergeant at callback trying now.

3/16/2019 05:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

003 has the prince waiting to replace Lemmer in LT willingham. Dont look for any "favors" unless you bring in ISRs

3/16/2019 05:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lemmer back in the 90's working on a tact team in 009 would never go South of 39th st and mess with the Black gangs, he would go to the parks and arrest people for having sex in their cars. Real bad ass.

3/16/2019 06:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

At 3/15/2019 09:22:00 PM

"Why have bad supervisors always been protected on this job?"

Tradition.

3/16/2019 02:23:00 PM


Yeah there's that...

But it's something way more evil,
toxic and vicious behind why such
perpetually wretched human beings
can find a home at CPD and not only
to stay, but prosper and thrive.

We alway said that these bosses should
be rounded up and locked inside Bulk
Storage down on 39th & Michigan to
"supervise" the rats and each other.

No weapons.
No cell phones.
No outside contact.
No getting subordinate flunkies
to do their dirty work for them.

Make them fight over the one land line phone
in order to generate dueling c/r#s on each other.

10 hours a day. Six days a week.

Since they're "exempt" an' shit.

If there was a REAL Superintendent at the controls...


3/16/2019 07:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nominated for a Lemmy!

3/16/2019 08:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Anonymous Anonymous said...
Nominated for a Lemmy!

3/16/2019 08:21:00 PM



Don’t ever soil the good name of Lemmy with this d-bag. God bless Lemmy Kilmister \m/ \m/

3/17/2019 12:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Can we talk about what John Doty did to 021?

3/15/2019 06:21:00 PM

Doty is a prime example of an asshole.

3/16/2019 04:39:00 AM

John Doty was the most bipolar, idiotic, schizoid fucked up commander I have ever seen on this job.
Yet the blog never really kicked him in the ass for some of the antics and bullshit he pulled as a commander. 006 and 021 hated him.
It took some University of Chicago cops to finally call out Doty for his idiocy. he took a hatchet to the UCPD and fired and force demoted a bunch of cops when he made deputy chief of that force.
He in turn was shown the door and disnvited to a watch party at a Hyde Park tap.
And his bff Milton Owens was also fired as well.
Good riddance to the bad trash which is John Doty.

3/18/2019 02:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
supervisors dont read honorables....just hand them to you as if its embarrassing

When they do that, I always say, thank you for the honorable do not mention. Or, I crumble it up and thrown in the garbage right in front of them. If they don’t have the common courtesy to just summarize it, I don’t have the common courtesy to leave it in front of me

Lol
I am a lt. in a district and I read EVERY honorable that the troops get. After all the bs that we get everyday from the citizens, the exempts and assholes everywhere it is the least we can do to say thank you for doing a job that almost no one else will. There is next to nothing left to take care of the troops so reading an honorable is a small way to say we appreciate what they do day in and day out.
Stay safe!

3/18/2019 06:49:00 PM  

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