Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Did Shit Just Get Real-er?

We've heard whispers about this a few times. Did someone wise up?
  • SCC you must hear this.

    The lesser of Johnson’s problems is his DUI. Supposedly the real investigation by the IG is on his close relationship with Chicago Uniform Company on Roosevelt and now his 01JAN20 retirement date is in jeopardy.

    Rumor is the other uniform stores contacted the IG when Johnson received freebies from C.U.C. [Their] concern is Johnson approved uniform items that C.U.C. had pre-made and stockpiled such as pink flag patches and an exempt raincoat and a rainbow hat for the Pride parade. Johnson approved the items without the required pre-notification to the stores which means no other store had time to make them before breast cancer awareness or the pride parade, giving C.U.C. a complete monopoly.

    If this all started with a free very expensive raincoat which Johnson then required all exempts to purchase, this is turning into something way bigger than his drinking problem. Id like to see all the receipts from everything he got from C.U.C. for himself or his relatives. I think the IG does too.
The Uniform stores have always had one scam or another going. The reason they kept quiet about it was because all shared semi-equally in the spoils. If someone (or many someones) got shut out of some lucrative markets, there are going to be some irritated people more than willing to talk.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

No matter what happens to Johnson on this job, when he finally leaves the job there will be no albatross around his neck, he’ll land on his feet running. All the brass have a horseshoe up their respective asses.

11/26/2019 12:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I retired nine years ago, am I missing something here. What is an exempt rain coat and how does it differ from everybody else. I still have my original, nobody wanted it. Maybe I will use it when I paint the house. And what the hell is a rainbow hat for the pride parade. Did they replace the blue & white(or gold) checkerboard band with the colors of the rainbow. This is starting to sound like that weird TV show, Project Runway.

11/26/2019 12:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The IG buried the Lt exam scam at the request of Rahm, after Rahm tricked Johnson into taking the Sup position.
Rahm used the Lt exam scam as blackmail for Johnson to do his biding. But, now, the IG is gonna do a legit investigation? Yeah, okay

11/26/2019 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw those uniform stores bighest scam and plus they are shitty uniforms to begin with.

11/26/2019 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck em all, buy your shit online.

11/26/2019 12:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Came on in the early 1980s.

Every time just before the uniform checks were to be issued, the Department came up with a new required or altered item. If you were lucky only about 3/4s of the uniform allowance would be needed.

The FOP contract with the 'First Issue ' clause put a stop to that.

11/26/2019 12:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck that IG, if it’s Ferguson he can’t pour piss out a boot into Lake Michigan. Larry Groot Lightfoot is ur watching this, threaten his pension or make him come clean about the Lieutenant test scandal and give up Genie Williams and the whole Noble crew who paid to get promoted

11/26/2019 01:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is no secret on the 5th floor. Johnson is willing to sell his soul for a few trinkets from "my guy Ben". Pink flag patches and rainbow hats both got certified with no warning and when all the others stores complained Johnson just told them it was done at the last minute "for a good cause." The other stores realized the cause wasn't for charity unless the Johnson family is a charity and now Joe Fergussen is playing catch up. The race should be on to serve him so he can't retire with credentials like how he did to so many.

11/26/2019 01:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw the uniform stores. All their paints are stupid baggy making all these new hires look even shorter an rounder than they already look.

11/26/2019 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Pride Parade... cometh before the fall.

11/26/2019 01:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If true, fast eddy Johnson needs to be sent to jail ant the people of chicago’ Star taken from him. Because it is not given. It’s earned each and every day!

11/26/2019 01:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

16 pink flag patches contracts and a BUTTON UP!

Take Pride indeed... Taste the rainbow raincoat!

11/26/2019 01:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The lesser of Johnson’s problems is his DUI."

He was taking new medication and misjudged the dose! Totally excusable and all too common error!

11/26/2019 01:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I know for sure one person at headquarters with ethics who was upset when he forced the pride hats through. All the IG has to do is search the AMC for the pride hats I think it was only 2 days before pride parade and the other stores started calling HQ asking how it happened Chicago uniform had them already printed and they only had 48 hours to get them made. And everyone was supposed to say it was for charity or something but it was obviously planned.

11/26/2019 01:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Escamerit just got 7 days when the I.G. thought that he should have been fired. Beck will just give Special Ed 7 days as well.

11/26/2019 02:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Moving right along.

11/26/2019 02:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kidney Bean still retires and prolly does some side shit with the city— scumbags always win

11/26/2019 02:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Which news channel will have the guts to be the first to report on this? Gee, If I did this Id be fired in a heartbeat!

11/26/2019 02:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So we are supposed to believe of Johnson that the lapdog de Groot is cankered? He might have been (is) a touch shady in some dealings?

SAY IT IS NOT SO! Have he no morals say thee?

11/26/2019 03:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everything in Chicago is corrupt to its very DNA that flows throughout the core of this city and the Departments. This includes the imp on 5 at the seat of corruption, cronyism and Democratic Socialism. Literally there is nothing to be proud of in city's institutionalized corruptive style government. Fat boy and Hennessy guzzling Special Ed brings yet another stain on the City and another demonstration of corruption and shame at the top of the Police Department. This idiot can't leave soon enough. FOP was right - No Confidence Vote.

Remember he was selected to stay as Superintendent by the Groot. Another poor decision among many by Lightfoot. She won the run off with 33% of the vote. That should tell you something . Maybe we should take a No Confidence vote on the dummy on the 5th floor at City Hall.

11/26/2019 03:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The Uniform stores have always had one scam or another going."

Not really true... The uniform stores have always had creative options for unjust enrichment available and higher ups who might collude. Hardly a simple "scam" ~ 121 N. LaSalle St.

11/26/2019 03:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT. Is it true that Commander Wodnicki is retuning to the Area Central once his IAD investigator return from furlough? If so I pity the supervisors mocked him? Can you put the question out?

11/26/2019 03:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come on guys this is just another example of The Chicago Way and Chicago Values all wrapped into one money grabbing scheme. Nothing to see here.

11/26/2019 03:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well why aren't the Feds looking into it?

Imagine all the politicians greased by these uniform stores over the years. What a fucking racket.

11/26/2019 03:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I believe it but no chance he’ll get in any sort of trouble. And by the way merits ruin everything.

11/26/2019 04:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

C’mom. YOU try making ends meet on $260,004 a year and tell me how that works out for you.

11/26/2019 04:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Does everyone know that the department is looking into every pointing incident. They said all it would be is a “notification” to oemc. Well it turns out that they are tracking every pointing incident and force review unit is going in and reviewing BWC and reports for every incident. So u point your weapon, you are going to be scrutinized every which way they can and if they find something on one of the body cams that doesn’t match up... watch out. If u don’t believe me, go into clearnet and look at the new tab. Every pointing incident is in there and they’re investigating them just like TRR’s.

11/26/2019 04:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But he comes from such an honest family?

11/26/2019 05:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a corrupt democratic city.
With corrupt democrats in charge.
Nothing will happen to them.
Nothing!

11/26/2019 05:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sworn working at the Academy always had "freebee's" from select Uniform Stores.
That way recruits were steered toward select Uniform Stores.

11/26/2019 05:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Impossible! There is no way a Chicago Mayor would ever appoint a crook to an important government position!

11/26/2019 05:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fathead is out December 1st

11/26/2019 05:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But the narrative is that ‘Eddie has ‘done so much for the city and has given his life to the Department...’

11/26/2019 05:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Too bad no one reported him to the feds too.

11/26/2019 05:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good fuck him!

11/26/2019 06:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Back in the day some funeral homes had the inside track on receiving wagon drop-offs. Kind of reminds me of that.

11/26/2019 06:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

but didnt he take the required annual ethics training where you learn that is against the rules?

11/26/2019 06:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: heard that Lt and Sgt unions are filing grievances against the new area north deputy chief. Apparently they aren’t abiding to the contracts which states that employees need to be denied time due at least 3 days prior to the day off requested. Area north is not getting back to the districts that request replacements sometimes at all and many times not till the day before letting them know if they have replacement Lts or sgts. This is not giving the districts the ample 3 days to deny day off requests and leaving things chaotic and unknown till the last minute. Things were not this messed up under the former regime. Is it the new deputy or his staff that are inept and don’t like following the contract?

11/26/2019 06:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IG aint gonna do squat!

See they would have to actually ban the store from any city business.
Ed does not have to give any paper because he is done.

And yes he will still receive

a shiny retirement star
a gold braid pension
the ability to carry a weapon in any state

keep in mind the city stripped an officer for buying a uniform for a civilian to wear as a Halloween costume at the same store. Yet ED get to wobble off scott free with a bribe that actually has to do with his being the police.

kinda reminds you of his FRIENDs that steal social security checks from dead mom.

And yet his exempts all cheated at HQ and iAD and the IG could not come up with ANY evidence.

11/26/2019 06:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

By the way, everyone that got promoted under Waller cheated in some way or another. S Ben the tact Lt In 006 was promoted by Bradley the great. She’s best friends with Bradley’s wanna be wife Michelle who is another chronicle. Ben got caught cheating in grad school
And cried begged and pleaded her life saying that she was depressed for the loss of her granny who past away 8 years before she got caught cheating. They are all lairs and thrives all under Blockhead Eddie

11/26/2019 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Ed what goes around comes around, maybe if you didn't sell out to the man and stood up for the troops you wouldn't be going thru this

11/26/2019 06:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stop it! Get rid of his useless ass. Even if guilty he will never suffer any consequences. Remember this is Chicago and the connected never pay for what they do.

11/26/2019 07:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Johnson's real gig was playing Sgt. Pepper?

11/26/2019 07:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And in another Department, not so many years ago,
it was "steering" contracts for in-car radios. Steering is being
polite because one company got all the business. They gave
him the hook.
Beck has plenty to look into. He just accepted a job in Oz
Central. Don't let the flying monkeys knock you off your
bike Charlie. They're a native species and have been around
here since the days of Capone. Buzzards of the air if you will.
The real buzzards have two legs and make over $250K/year.

11/26/2019 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

McCompstat could take drinking lesson from Eddie!

They are both drunks! Garry did his drinking at home, not passed out in his car!!

11/26/2019 07:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What the hell was it, a Burberry raincoat?
Harry Truman was a haberdasher. (Millenials, that means
he ran a small clothing store.) Of all the things to go down
on, he takes a flyer on a raincoat. It's not really the product
in question here. That's only a means to an end. It's hard to
believe that the coat was the only incentive. That family trip
to London, airfare, lodging, meals, NFL tickets---that had to
cost a bundle. But Soap Opera it is. Were the tickets free,
courtesy of the Bears? I can still remember photos of Eddie
behind the scenes at Wrigley during the World Series. This
guy always goes first class. It all adds up. A raincoat here,
expensive tickets there. Pretty soon you're talking real money.
That trip to London really did change his life. Do you think he
maybe felt a little guilt and realized that everyday working
people just can't afford to live like that?

11/26/2019 07:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's rich. Painting a house in a police raincoat.

11/26/2019 08:00:00 AM  
Anonymous CPDeeznuts said...

Chicago Uniform Company or CUC is run by a money hungry little weasel with a headset that no doubt gets tipped off at any new item from Dept. This CUC is always recomended by the academy for everything. I dont know why any likes CUCs.

11/26/2019 08:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He had a “special exempt” raincoat and that drunk slob couldn’t wear it at the DC memorial

11/26/2019 08:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Baggy pants. That's the new 'tact look'.
Now if those raincoats were Columbo raincoats, then you
would be on to something. But uniforms were always used to
designate rank. The detectives can't wear the same ones as
traffic, or chiefs, or sergeants for that matter.

11/26/2019 08:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please, don't ever let it get to the point where guys
can come to work with no socks. We'll be finished then.

11/26/2019 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You mean the superintendent isn't allowed to gain extra-curricular income from his title and position? Huh? Wasn't that why he accepted position? Why else be superintendent in super-corrupt must-be-connected-to-succeed Chicago?

11/26/2019 08:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

12:43 AM
Yeah, I hope Charlie traces back the chain of custody here
and realize things didn't start with Eddie Johnson. Eddie
was moved like a piece on a chessboard. It's criminal
considering his level of education. That wasn't just a
promotion, it was a grave in a cornfield. There's bigger
things at play here. Charlie Beck took the job in haste
only to wind up in The Matrix.
Charlie, you reading this, man?
It's much, much bigger than Eddie Johnson.

11/26/2019 08:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So COPA only investigates lower level cops? Hmmm.

11/26/2019 08:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard the instructors get a nice discount for directing recruits to Chicago Uniform. New guy told me an academy Sgt tried to fail him at final
Inspection. Told him his uniforms were the wrong ones. He was smart enough to show the patch inside his uniform that said otherwise.

11/26/2019 08:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh please. The guy is a walking viation. Didn't even apply for the job. Broke the Police Board rules. Nothing happened. His future ex-wife number 2 cheated a promotional test and nothing happened. Drunk unconscious at the wheel, nothing happened. Now the IG will get him over a baseball hat? Haha stop it. Who do you think he is, Trump?

11/26/2019 08:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm belongs in Victorville, along witn the likes of
Abby Lee Miller and Lenny Dykstra.

11/26/2019 08:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hot Rod Wod

11/26/2019 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reminds me when Leroy Martin made all exempts by a new holster that was over 100 bucks but he and a couple others got theirs free

11/26/2019 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The copper below gets a year and a half for selling information... Let's see what charges and how much time this Supt gets for the same egregious acts. Reform, transparency, double standards, we'll see how it plays out here. He and his cohort the puppet master Riccio should be going to jail! Where are his DUI tapes (the real story).

11/26/2019 08:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

C’mom. YOU try making ends meet on $260,004 a year and tell me how that works out for you.

11/26/2019 04:39:00 AM



Don't forget to add Fenner's $120,000.

They have to be pushing $400,000 combined. One percenters still feeling oppressed I'll bet.

11/26/2019 08:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah those thieving Demorats, you have one big Ass clown downstate, another one running ShitCago and now one caught with his hand in the cookie jar, no wonder this state is fucked!

11/26/2019 08:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is CUC the old Kale store? Did Tom V retire with all of his millions?

Old retired guy

11/26/2019 08:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT

If they can't bus the hood to you, they will bus your kids to the hood.




Under the approach, the city would no longer guarantee admission to a particular school to every student who lives in its zone. Instead, once the school is full, students who seek to enroll would be offered choices of other nearby schools.



https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/11/21/in-a-move-that-has-families-on-edge-chicago-is-exploring-enrollment-caps-at-popular-schools/

11/26/2019 09:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The superintendent's girlfriend was also giving a chair,too bad it broke causing her to go on the medical when she sat on it....

11/26/2019 09:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just how much can one super sharp merit exempt expect to pilfer from a patch or just how low can one go to pad that unaccounted income.
They are NOT merit promoting the best.
Wouldn’t be the first time one of Rahm’s top pick appointments gets caught up in malfeasance.

I had to replace worn flag patches once at $5 per shirt.
If the first issue is free, drop $5 to either sew on a pinkie for the period or buy a couple new shirts/garments?
Seems they thought (plotted) of another way to get everyone to spend that allowance.

The rainbow hat thing is interesting. Who has the prototype?
What kind of hat do we have to get for Indigenous Peoples Day?

Jugghead SpecialEd is a dunce that should be wearing the customary chapeau.
I’m not sure if there is or if his letter of intent to retire is binding, after all he’s exempt from just about anything.
They will try keep him afloat through April 15 because they can.

11/26/2019 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Back when the FOP became a labor union for the CPD it was proposed that the CPD change from their uniform allowance to a uniform exchange like the CFD has. The uniform houses screamed that they would be put out of business and their lobby prevailed with the city council, I mean crooked council.
No balls FOP agreed and instead of having the CPD well dressed and equipped the CPD continues to look like beggars in blue and Hill Street Blues.

11/26/2019 09:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This would not surprise me one bit. Good old Ben has been scolded a few times in the past for his cheating ways. I remember when he was making vest covers and pants out of his truck by the academy and was busted for using materials that weren't even approved by the Department yet. He is always up to some type of shit.

11/26/2019 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eddie and Ben as thick as thieves. They gotta work together to have a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s the Chicago way

11/26/2019 09:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sew on patches ? What idiot came up with that idea? Use a pin on the lapel
or something similar Good cause , but dumb idea by dump people ! And throw
all that pride crap away! We are the police , stop playing politics !!

11/26/2019 09:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He wasn’t made Supe for being the brightest bulb in the box.... Rahm made him Supe cause Rahm felt he needed Ed’s complexion

11/26/2019 09:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Screw the uniform stores. They gouge the crap out of us, so gave no pity, when I went thru the academy one of our classmates father had a uniform store and we got a great deal on our shirts. They are all thieves.

11/26/2019 10:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is the media stupid??? I know, stupid question but doesn’t everyone know the obvious by now? The IG DOES NOT find wrong doing with the connected. The IG only hammers the low level unconnected. The media should FOIA all the IGs investigations and see for themselves. The Lts cheating exam is a prime example. Even the bias media will see the corruption.

11/26/2019 10:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did anyone notice the superintendent once again trying to shift blame to IN and WI for their lax gun laws? And even with Chicago's tough gun laws, the criminals don't care. They commit crimes anyway. You'd think by now the dummy would figure out that 2+2 still =4, and stop blaming everyone else for being a dismal failure at his job. Crimes up, take the credit, take responsibility. Do something. Do your job.

11/26/2019 11:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

imagine a merit LESS chicago police force............

WOW!!!

11/26/2019 11:22:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

Pink hats? Pride stuff? Tutus next?

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

11/26/2019 11:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder if the new uniform standards that were released in September was part of the same shenanigans? I refuse to purchase a new vest cover!

11/26/2019 11:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

who cares? the fat fuck is gone in a few more weeks.....

good riddance

bring in the next clown, asshat, whatever......

11/26/2019 11:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To quote Bugs Bunny, “What a Maroon....”

11/26/2019 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
C’mom. YOU try making ends meet on $260,004 a year and tell me how that works out for you.

11/26/2019 04:39:00 AM

You forgot about the wife’s salary

11/26/2019 11:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT
Are you buying this?
$2M worth of preorders poured in over weekend for
Cyber truck. It has no side mirrors and is not street legal.

11/26/2019 11:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing will come of this like everything else in shitcago

11/26/2019 11:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's not criminal. He's dumb. He's very, very dumb.

11/26/2019 12:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you want to have a real investigation it has to start with Mr Ferguson and it has to be conducted by the Government involving a Forensic audit of deposits into Mr Fergusons separate Accounts which are interesting to say the least.

11/26/2019 12:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
OT: Does everyone know that the department is looking into every pointing incident. They said all it would be is a “notification” to oemc. Well it turns out that they are tracking every pointing incident and force review unit is going in and reviewing BWC and reports for every incident. So u point your weapon, you are going to be scrutinized every which way they can and if they find something on one of the body cams that doesn’t match up... watch out. If u don’t believe me, go into clearnet and look at the new tab. Every pointing incident is in there and they’re investigating them just like TRR’s.
11/26/2019 04:41:00 AM

----
dept never hid that fact... that's the whole point of the policy

11/26/2019 12:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

could it be that the reason why LL went outside of the loop and got a outsider from LA to DRAIN THE SWAMP OF THE CPD. Remember, she was the head supervisor of OPS and the Head of the Police Oversight Committee. She knows who been naughty and nice. This way as the OUTFIT use to say, "I need a beard" Beck can clean house and she does not get her hands dirty and then appoint West as the Super.

11/26/2019 12:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT. Is it true that Commander Wodnicki is retuning to the Area Central once his IAD investigator return from furlough? If so I pity the supervisors mocked him? Can you put the question out?

11/26/2019 03:27:00 AM

Yes, in less than two weeks. From someone in the know.

11/26/2019 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPD doesn’t have a uniform...CPD has a rag tag collection of clothing options that you can mix and match. One cop can have a dark blue shirt, turtle neck, knit hat, vest under shirt, and leather coat while his partner has a lighter blue shirt, tie, cordura coat, vest cover, and crown cap. Third man in the car walks up with a baseball cap and cargo pants as the newest go getter strolls past them wearing a vest cover that has more attachments than an active duty soldier would require. “Uniform”. Lol.

11/26/2019 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He was just funnin!!

11/26/2019 02:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HQ and the uniform stores are all in cahoots. “Hiring freeze” announced followed by admin messages about no back molle, pride hat, inspectors out looking for uniform violations and this new bosses raincoat. These stores have been raking in the cash with the mass hiring and shitty quality over the past 4 years.

11/26/2019 02:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The company that was there before was famous for taking care of the bosses.
By the way, does the union stiff have a uniform committee? Used to be the city had to run anything like the new patches past them first.

11/26/2019 02:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want to see Riccio’s, Deveraux’s, O’ Shea’s pictures with the President at Trump Tower. Must be nice to that access. Lightfoot would probably like to see them also. Maybe make the pictures into Christmas cards.

11/26/2019 03:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Area Central needs the Wod, they haven’t charged a murder since he’s been gone

11/26/2019 03:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I retired nine years ago, am I missing something here. What is an exempt rain coat and how does it differ from everybody else. I still have my original, nobody wanted it. Maybe I will use it when I paint the house. And what the hell is a rainbow hat for the pride parade. Did they replace the blue & white(or gold) checkerboard band with the colors of the rainbow. This is starting to sound like that weird TV show, Project Runway.

11/26/2019 12:42:00 AM

Thanks for your service. Just be happy you got out of this shit show we have now. For the pride parade, the powers that be allowed a rainbow checkerboard in place of the regular checkerboard and they made our CPD uniform patch pink for breast cancer awareness month in October. All snowflake, feel good, social justice warrior, virtue signaling, garbage CAPS drivel.

Apparently all other diseases and cancers (that have way higher mortality rates than breast cancer) don’t amount to squat because the Superintendent’s wife doesn’t think so.

11/26/2019 03:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CFD is promoting 10 plus Captains to Battalion Chief, all these Captains scores under 70.... not passing. So watch yourselves and your families. This is the new math for CFD we are only used to if after law suits, not before. One of the promoted is the reason for the FAA scandal going on.

11/26/2019 04:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Academy personnel receive 30% off their purchase for sending recruits to Chicago Uniforms.
Recruits are badgered when asked about uniform store they used if it’s not Chicago Uniform

11/26/2019 04:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was supt.TH driver? Who sells tasers? 2+2=4

11/26/2019 04:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Johnson approved the pride hat on June 25th. All uniform stores received notification the same day, giving us 3 business days to obtain specs, work with our vendor, get them printed, shipped and on our shelves for the parade on the 30th. But CUC had a full inventory. Johnson approved the pink flag patch and required anyone wanting to wear the pink CPD patch to wear both on 30SEP19, the day before breast cancer awareness month. Same issue for us with vendors but somehow Johnson and his friends all got them from CUC. How did CUC get the heads up? The raincoat is what, $500? And no warning for us but required of all exempts. I want to know where and when Johnson got his raincoat, patches and hats. He must have receipts if it’s all legit.

11/26/2019 05:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's got a snowflake sweater and sheep pants what is this job turning into

11/26/2019 05:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


Anonymous Anonymous said...
I wonder if the new uniform standards that were released in September was part of the same shenanigans? I refuse to purchase a new vest cover!

Bingo! Same time as the hiring freeze was announced. Uniform stores have been raking it in w all the new hires and that well is drying up

11/26/2019 05:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To 8.40am: Leroy also couldn’t get his revolver out prior to inspecting a lockup. The other Leroy gun story is the time he “won a door prize” of a Glock 17 and blew a hole in his office’s desk. He then declared them unsafe and it took us 20 years to get striker fired weapons.

11/26/2019 05:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you get a look at the rainbow CPD suv in 019? How about ethnic flags in all the designated neighborhoods!!

11/26/2019 05:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

"That's rich. Painting a house in a police raincoat."

11/26/2019 08:00:00 AM


On a warm and sunny day too...

Unless painting in the rain is a new thing now.

11/26/2019 05:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who needs a raincoat? In the good old days, 1967 police academy one of the first things we learned is that as a cop you never get cold, wet or hungry. I followed that suggestion to the fullest. Rick1099

11/26/2019 06:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

want to see Riccio’s, Deveraux’s, O’ Shea’s pictures with the President at Trump Tower. Must be nice to that access. Lightfoot would probably like to see them also. Maybe make the pictures into Christmas cards.

Who gives a fuck if you were the commander of 18 or a deputy chief you might have that access too and if you're lucky enough to get a picture you do the same thing so shut the fuck up quit your bitching and go to work. Can't stand coppers jealous of other coppers.

11/26/2019 06:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...
Pink hats? Pride stuff? Tutus next?

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

11/26/2019 11:23:00 AM

Get the shaving cream, pink leg razors and pink tights boys and girls ooops blue tights Since these dumb new rules force you to act like .... may as well look the part

Jus funnin

God bless our blue the demonrats been hitting the special 100 proof sauce again.

11/26/2019 06:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The holster scam was Harley Schinker's brainstorm. He made out well and as an added incentive he received Krispy Kream's for several months.



Anonymous Anonymous said...
Reminds me when Leroy Martin made all exempts by a new holster that was over 100 bucks but he and a couple others got theirs free

11/26/2019 08:40:00 AM

11/26/2019 06:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT. Is it true that Commander Wodnicki is retuning to the Area Central once his IAD investigator return from furlough? If so I pity the supervisors mocked him? Can you put the question out?

11/26/2019 03:27:00 AM

Yes, in less than two weeks. From someone in the know.


Faster than a speeding squad car
More powerful that a roomful of deputy chiefs
Able to leap tall clearance rates in a single bound

ITS............ THE WOD !!!

11/26/2019 06:18:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

8:40AM...
Sort of like when the parish priest pushes a trip to the
Holy Land to the unsophisticated parishioners. Eventually
they find out that if a sales quota is met, Father and his Mom
get to go for free. "Walk in the footsteps of Jesus....."

11/26/2019 06:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Policing has become a HUGE business. Its all about "protecting and serving" connected types pocket books. Laws and rules are passed and rescinded for monetary gain not public safety. Its ALL about the dollars......

11/26/2019 07:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love to wear my CPD authorized rain wear when I attend the triple feature night at the Bijou theatre ...

11/26/2019 07:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can honstly say that, after retiring with 30 years, never bought an of that extra stupid shit. Never had cargoes or shorts or weirdo caps.

11/26/2019 07:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Special Ed should be nominated for the Kidney Bean lifetime award 🥇

11/26/2019 07:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The fat fuck should be fired and lose his pension or better yer charged with getting a kickback. Nothing worse than a drunken J.O thief. Blue shit gets caught for taking a pack of gum- Gets Fired and loss of pension.
Fat ass fuck is no better than the flash mobs ghetto trash.
Heard some stories of this mutt putting the arm on high line jewelry stores on Wabash, and Gold coast stores for cloths with a 90 percent discount. That Canadian goose coat he wears when the prick goes out was a given to him after he had seen the mgr at Neiman Marcus. His old lady is a patron there too, what is her discount?
The old saying " You can take the ghetto guy from the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of the guy."
Screw this mutt and thief.

11/26/2019 07:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic.

Who's the Lt. in 003 who RWOCed a DUI offender who ran over a Officer directing traffic the other night?

11/26/2019 07:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can honstly say that, after retiring with 30 years, never bought an of that extra stupid shit. Never had cargoes or shorts or weirdo caps.

11/26/2019 08:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

11/26/2019 04:41:00 AM

If you would’ve actually read the order you would’ve known that. So what’s the point? Did you think they were gonna make us do something that tracks and not track it? Time for you to pack your bags and find a new place to work skippy

11/26/2019 08:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Drunken criminal, had the balls to front off to Pres. Trump. Trump will have the last laugh.

11/26/2019 08:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT: Does everyone know that the department is looking into every pointing incident. They said all it would be is a “notification” to oemc. Well it turns out that they are tracking every pointing incident and force review unit is going in and reviewing BWC and reports for every incident. So u point your weapon, you are going to be scrutinized every which way they can and if they find something on one of the body cams that doesn’t match up... watch out. If u don’t believe me, go into clearnet and look at the new tab. Every pointing incident is in there and they’re investigating them just like TRR’s.

11/26/2019 04:41:00 AM

Why are you shocked? Thats exactly what the order says will happen.

11/26/2019 08:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPD doesn’t have a uniform...CPD has a rag tag collection of clothing options that you can mix and match. One cop can have a dark blue shirt, turtle neck, knit hat, vest under shirt, and leather coat while his partner has a lighter blue shirt, tie, cordura coat, vest cover, and crown cap. Third man in the car walks up with a baseball cap and cargo pants as the newest go getter strolls past them wearing a vest cover that has more attachments than an active duty soldier would require. “Uniform”. Lol.

11/26/2019 02:07:00 PM

Great post ! sad but true, then expect to command respect when as a whole, you look worse then a 3rd grade,cash strapped, security company.

11/26/2019 09:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
I want to see Riccio’s, Deveraux’s, O’ Shea’s pictures with the President at Trump Tower. Must be nice to that access. Lightfoot would probably like to see them also. Maybe make the pictures into Christmas cards.

11/26/2019 03:02:00 PM

Does Tiny Tony look like a munchkin next to them?

11/26/2019 09:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's all bullshit, when you have a sellout like Ferguson conducting investigations, it will only amount to what his political bosses want him to find. A 5th grader could have uncovered the cheating Lts, but it went too far and too deep within the dept. The fallout would have been a shit storm. When you have one of them a commander already, you know Ferguson closed his eyes and ears real tight.

11/26/2019 09:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As long as junior gets a break on his white shirts.
He should be in the next class

11/26/2019 09:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@11/26/2019 07:58:00 AM

Also to millennials: Harry Truman was the 33rd president of the United States.

Obama was not the first and only POTUS after all... Despite what Twitter says.

11/26/2019 09:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

@11/26/2019 11:44:00 AM

Car collectors and those who buy to flip electric toys for the rich.

11/26/2019 09:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Johnson approved the pride hat on June 25th. All uniform stores received notification the same day, giving us 3 business days to obtain specs, work with our vendor, get them printed, shipped and on our shelves for the parade on the 30th. But CUC had a full inventory. Johnson approved the pink flag patch and required anyone wanting to wear the pink CPD patch to wear both on 30SEP19, the day before breast cancer awareness month. Same issue for us with vendors but somehow Johnson and his friends all got them from CUC. How did CUC get the heads up? The raincoat is what, $500? And no warning for us but required of all exempts. I want to know where and when Johnson got his raincoat, patches and hats. He must have receipts if it’s all legit.

11/26/2019 05:14:00 PM

Exactly how many pride hats did you expect to sell?

11/26/2019 09:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shit Just Got Real

11/26/2019 10:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've been buying online now for a while. You end up paying about the same, but I'd rather have my money go elsewhere than the uniform stores. Someone has to be getting a cut somehow, somewhere. The Chicago way

11/26/2019 11:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM

Wrong Sparky.........the raincoat was for exempts ONLY.
Read the orders

11/26/2019 11:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the poster at 6:05pm. You miss the point. Did they have the balls to stand up to fat Ed and Lightfoot about their incompetent stance on Trump. NO! They snuck around and got their pictures. Their jobs are to back us. Cowards. And you’re a big suck ass!

11/26/2019 11:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Man,you youngsters dont know the half of it involving Special Ed,s thriving enterprises.Still alot of people around that witnessed his exploits when he was lowly Foot man shaking down the local merchants.Those were the good old days for him.Revenue off of the books!

11/27/2019 12:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard Wheezy and Patrina got any bling they wanted from CUC and Eddie had no choice! Ain’t wifey happy and hubby happy!!!!

11/27/2019 01:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM
completely weatherproof:
Its called being inside stupid Hence "A good policeman would never get tired wet or hungry"

11/27/2019 02:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To: Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM

Sorry, incorrect. Raincoats are the same except for command staff. What is different is that they do not use the reefer. They use the wool long coat.

11/27/2019 04:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
The fat fuck should be fired and lose his pension or better yer charged with getting a kickback. Nothing worse than a drunken J.O thief. Blue shit gets caught for taking a pack of gum- Gets Fired and loss of pension....

11/26/2019 07:43:00 PM
=========================================================
When I was in 008, every day Schenker would call 832 to write all the cars parked on the parkway from Haggerty Chevy at 67th- Western. Got called to do it one day, and the manager comes out. When I asked him why the D/C was so hot on the new cars parked outside, he told me Schenker was in the dealer and demanded that they GIVE him a new car. When they wouldn't pony up with a brand new car for zip, the tickets started. So when I got the call to tag the cars, I'd go inside and tell them, they'd move the cars. Jagoff Schenker found out and started yelling at me saying I should bring in at least 20 parkers from that dealer every day..

11/27/2019 07:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where can I get my Catholic hat ban? I wouldn't want to be left out in displaying my personal beliefs while on duty.

11/27/2019 08:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Patting my foot waiting on Black Friday turn up for boss dumping
Time for these bastards to hit the road Jack

11/27/2019 08:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We need a contingent of Chicago Police Raincoats to go to
Mardi Gras. They just might be stunned and give you the keys
to the city.

11/27/2019 08:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is it that that the people who make the mo$t are the cheapist ???

11/27/2019 10:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s called procurement fraud and deceptive practices. Colluding with a company to enrich your own pockets with $$$$ and / or freebie$ with a big fail to follow presiding standard procurement procedures. What else has this Superintendent done ? I guess he failed to take his ETHICS exam just like wifeee.

11/27/2019 10:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Procurement fraud: kickback in the name of free stuff. Using his status as Superintendent to allow only one company acquire the product and resulting gained money in the scheme. Failure to follow estabshed buying protocol. Conflict of interest, etc.

Drunk at the wheel.

Wife test cheater.

FAIL .

11/27/2019 10:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

nonymous said...
To: Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM

Sorry, incorrect. Raincoats are the same except for command staff. What is different is that they do not use the reefer. They use the wool long coat.


11/27/2019 04:23:00 AM


Lieutenants and up, all must have the long wool coat. The raincoat referenced here was a new item that the Supt wanted for exempts only. No one else. Because they are exempt, they cannot claim first issue and get it paid for by the department.

11/27/2019 10:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Raincoats for Lt and above have epaulets.

11/27/2019 11:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

kinda like Lewin and the phone makers etc?

11/27/2019 01:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Who needs a raincoat? In the good old days, 1967 police academy one of the first things we learned is that as a cop you never get cold, wet or hungry. I followed that suggestion to the fullest. Rick1099

11/26/2019 06:04:00 PM
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

You left out, "or goes home with less money than he left his house with that day."

F Troop 4ever

11/27/2019 06:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

While we are on the subject of uniforms.....Hopefully Charlie Beck gets rid of the CPD bus driver uniforms and brings this Dept into this century with LAPD dark blue....the Black and whites would be a nice touch also!!!

11/27/2019 08:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Patches!? We don't need no stinkin' patches!

11/27/2019 09:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
CPD doesn’t have a uniform...CPD has a rag tag collection of clothing options that you can mix and match. One cop can have a dark blue shirt, turtle neck, knit hat, vest under shirt, and leather coat while his partner has a lighter blue shirt, tie, cordura coat, vest cover, and crown cap. Third man in the car walks up with a baseball cap and cargo pants as the newest go getter strolls past them wearing a vest cover that has more attachments than an active duty soldier would require. “Uniform”. Lol.

11/26/2019 02:07:00 PM

Great post ! sad but true, then expect to command respect when as a whole, you look worse then a 3rd grade,cash strapped, security company.

11/26/2019 09:03:00 PM



100% true.
Phat Phil's legacy.



11/28/2019 12:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM
completely weatherproof:
Its called being inside stupid Hence "A good policeman would never get tired wet or hungry"

Actually, the saying goes a good cop is never COLD, wet or hungry. Maybe you were "tired" when you wrote that. Now, what were you saying about someone being stupid?

11/28/2019 01:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
nonymous said...
To: Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yes Lt.’s and above have a different raincoat than Sgt.’s and below. Don’t know what is differen just that it is

11/26/2019 06:59:00 PM

Sorry, incorrect. Raincoats are the same except for command staff. What is different is that they do not use the reefer. They use the wool long coat.


11/27/2019 04:23:00 AM


Lieutenants and up, all must have the long wool coat. The raincoat referenced here was a new item that the Supt wanted for exempts only. No one else. Because they are exempt, they cannot claim first issue and get it paid for by the department.

11/27/2019 10:34:00 AM

The new raincoat that everyone is referring to is like a trench coat that Lt's and above can wear over their blouse during summer Class A uniform standards. The long wool coat is worn over their blue for winter Class A. They all still wear the same rain gear as everyone else does with Class B or C street uniforms.

11/28/2019 08:49:00 AM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

Considering there is a slow-moving corruption investigation being pursued by the U.S. Attorney in the NDIL, perhaps this may be Johnson's unlucky year. The feds occasionally indict people for bribery for low dollar items like sporting event tickets and dinners. Since he's a high-profile figure, he may actually have something to worry about. If this is true, and Ferguson makes a referral to the USAO, things could get interesting. Can Johnson trust the uniform store owners will cover for him when facing a federal grand jury? Getting indicted for a public corruption charge carries the real possibility of prison. Imagine what putrid juices could flow from squeezing a corrupt shit bag, and who he'd be willing to throw under the federal bus to knock off a year in the BOP. We can only hope...but we all know how these things die on the vine.

11/28/2019 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry, incorrect. Raincoats are the same except for command staff. What is different is that they do not use the reefer. They use the wool long coat.


11/27/2019 04:23:00 AM

well, partly correct. The long wool coat is for dress events. A Lt or above can wear a reefer but with black plastic buttons. I do so for years.

11/29/2019 07:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I was in 008, every day Schenker would call 832 to write all the cars parked on the parkway from Haggerty Chevy at 67th- Western. Got called to do it one day, and the manager comes out. When I asked him why the D/C was so hot on the new cars parked outside, he told me Schenker was in the dealer and demanded that they GIVE him a new car. When they wouldn't pony up with a brand new car for zip, the tickets started. So when I got the call to tag the cars, I'd go inside and tell them, they'd move the cars. Jagoff Schenker found out and started yelling at me saying I should bring in at least 20 parkers from that dealer every day..

Yes, this guy was one of the biggest goofs to ever wear a gold star. Lots of stories about him when he was a lieutenant in 012. A prime example of what politics does to a police department

11/29/2019 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

7.53am, I remember when somebody slipped a picture of Fred Flintstone into the framed picture of The Mayor behind the desk in the old 008 station. It was there for at least a week

11/29/2019 06:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

shanker was walking hemroid that wouldn't go away

12/03/2019 11:34:00 AM  
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...

The rainbow flag in 019 is absolutely gorgeous. Every district should have one.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

5/16/2020 08:20:00 AM  

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