Let it Die Already
- Aldermen from across the city are demanding that Mayor Lori Lightfoot restore cuts to a community policing program that once was a national model before being left to wither because of inadequate training, insufficient funding and incessant bureaucratic shuffling.
Lightfoot’s proposed 2020 budget reduces spending for the Chicago Police Department’s Office of Community Policing by $381,936 — roughly 7%. Sixteen jobs will be eliminated, including 13 community organizers.
First Deputy Police Superintendent Anthony Riccio tried to soften the blow, saying all 16 jobs are already vacant.
Aldermen were not appeased.
Countless millions were wasted (and continue to be wasted) on this "model" that did very little - and believe us, we've been there since the beginning) and was more about lining pockets of connected persons and buy the votes of others.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Fuck the 13 Community Organizers
And dont forget the hiding of incompetent scared people that wanted no part of being the Police and have been stealing a paycheck and all the other goodies that go along with that useless program.
Exit scam CAPS....Enter scam NAMI....Just look over at The Rant to see how New York's DeBlowsio has already invented this new era money grab with his wife at the helm.
Cool, now I can park in the “Caps Office Only” space.
I'll give you 815,490 reasons that...
...CAPS WORKS!
Would I lie?
Never mind. I just remembered that I had also signed a non-disclosure agreement with the City of Chicago before they paid me the $815,490.00.
“...inadequate training, insufficient funding and incessant bureaucratic shuffling.”
CPD in a nutshell.
rb
Here are some ideas to get to the action and cut out the bureaucracy:
Know what you want to get done.
Know your priorities.
Eliminate paperwork whenever possible.
Cut out processes.
Empower people.
Don't put off decisions.
Have the information you need ready.
Keep “Action” at your forefront.
Look for action-oriented people.
Reward action.
Phather Phukup won't like this.
This program has been long known to be one of the biggest waste of money the police department has ever had. Former CAPS people will laugh and openly speak about what a joke it is and total ghost payroll spot. They say “it’s all smoke and mirrors but they believe we’re actually doing something.” Total waste of manpower also.
Get rid of it altogether, a huge waste of time since 1995.
Funny how those “community organizers” always manage to get in on that government funding.
Execute the murderers and rapists, which prevents them from repeating those heinous crimes.
Get rid of useless Robin Robinson and her bloated salary! She can't even come up with viable merit promotion nominations! Ain't that right
Ed?
Retired .38 spl +P
How about instead of community organizers we have a new job Community Exterminatior.
And dont forget the hiding of incompetent scared people that wanted no part of being the Police and have been stealing a paycheck and all the other goodies that go along with that useless program.
11/05/2019 12:24:00 AM
But I have kids! I need days and weekends off because I coach the kid's soccer team and I need a quiet office at work so I can Facebook and shop instead burning my off time at home to do them both. Some things are just non-negotiable. Now tell me about this place they call Two-Six & Kell? People talk about it at the CAPS meetings and I just have no information about it. What is it and where is it?
Together we can (I typed that with a straight face, it hurt).
Like the old timers would say when CAPS was first implemented, “CAPS is buuuuuuulshit.”
And they were oh so right.
Now I remember when caps first started and in way to get you to believe it was gonna work was to hand out those stupid looking little bags that hold papers with the caps Chicago police star on it
And it was made in China !!!!!
Caps has never solved or prevented any crime, fact.
Another program, if managed correctly, would be an asset. Of course our clout system completely bastardized it.
Several people built careers around it. People like Tom Thumb and others went to the top of the Department hierarchy pretending to do CAPS work for decades and NEVER made an arrest. Some stayed in CAPS for years. A caps sergeant never hears gunfire.
Escamilla's DCO program and the so-called community "ambassadors", another waste of resources.
I worked in the CAPS office for about a year. Talk about a waste of money. And I'm not referring to the people that work in the District CAPS Office. I'm talking about the CAPS Implementation Office. How many coppers know about that? That's where the waste and money is. How many coppers know or have heard about the Allstate grants? Allstate Insurance Company gives each District 12K a year to spend on the community. The City matches that so each District get's 24K a year outside of the normal budget to spend as it pleases. But the catch is it's almost impossible to get that money at the District level because it's controlled by the CAPS Implementation Office. THEY control the purse springs. So where does that money go? And how many people are employed there and what do they do? Anyone know? Trying to find out is like pulling teeth. NOBODY will give that information out at least not willingly. They have tighter security than Delta Force. They used to be housed down in the old Goldblatt Building in order to keep them out of the sunshine and public view. On occasion on of the bosses from that unit would emerge from that hole and venture out into the District to provide "support". But they didn't stay long. One of them, "Beth" used to always show up on her once a year visit with a cup of Starbucks, smoke and joke and then return to her hole downtown. Till she was busted for a DUI or something else which I forget. But talk about ghost payrollers and an extreme waste of tax dollars, THAT'S where the IG should look.
The program failed and is only intended to give money to the chosen few politically connected members of the permanent victim class free shirt army. All these community organizers are ex con criminal bangers like the cease fire pos scum.
But who will baby sit for escamerit
Community activism is nothing but a way for useless people to feel important.
Get rid of it already. That’s not the job of the police department anyways. Not our job to be setting up after school programs and baseball games for the kiddos, or whatever the hell CAPS does. We are to respond to calls for service, make reports, investigate and lock people up. That’s our core competency. It’s like the military in that when they had them winning “hearts and minds” and nation building. That’s not what the military is for, you’re taking them away from their core competency. They aren’t nation builders. Same here, you’re taking us away from our core competency with this CAPS nonsense, which also doesn’t work.
And I know some moron is going to rant about how CPD isn’t like the military. I’m fully aware, it’s a comparison of 2 groups being used for purposes for which they were never intended, that’s all.
Doomed from the start
Paying thieves to watch thieves
The Education-Congress Complex is so corrupt that a small
percentage have managed to rack up loans of almost $1M.
That should shock every taxpayer. When these fools default
the taxpayer covers the loss. Google the $1M orthodontist.
Sallie Mae I have more money?
I remember when Lynette Helm was named Chief of CAPS. I jokingly asked her, “Do you even know what CAPS stands for?” She said, “No, but I’ll find out tomorrow!”
Caps what a joke. All they do is shop all day and hide in the office! Put em on the street!
Maybe all those screaming AlderCreatures were getting a little kick back,nothing would surprise me in this ShitHole!
Turn the community room into a PO break room. Then, we can respond from the station like fireman. The community would appreciate it more and we wouldn't be harassing the community.
Damn, where's my CAPS binder?
ssc i work in 016 and previous to that i worked the westide
the caps office in 016 is a big joke do nothings who come in late leave early drink coffeee and surf the internet commander mb only puts her people in there
Oh, no! What will out-of-work “community activists” do now? If they can’t get a phony government job, they’ll have to go on welfare, ‘cuz they don’t have any real skills or job experience.
How many sworn po’s tied up to this boondoggle one way or another? I don’t think they actually want anyone to know.
So, "Together We Can't ".
"Broken Windows " are OK.
Federal funding to Sanctuary City should be drastically slashed accordingly.
CAPS is about as ineffective as any community organizer anyway, all talk - no action.
Whatever feel good promotional event CAPS puts out on a Saturday gets trashed Monday morning when The Kids go back to CPS elementary day care.
Oh, and cut the M-F house mouse residency program too...starting with the pathetic no-streets entrenched white shirts.
stop calling the districts you goofy aldermen and women.....
CAPS was meant only to give away “free stuff” at block parties and other assorted “community gatherings”. Pencils, note papers, folders, blue bags, frisbees, etc. with the CAPS logo DO NOT lower crime.
What would that boner from 015 do. He did name his son Austin after the district. Fucking tool.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Cool, now I can park in the “Caps Office Only” space.
No and stay out of the secretary’s and assistant secretary’s spot too
Where are we going to put them if we have no CAPS. Front office is full, can’t squeeze in anymore chairs
community policing is a waste of tax dollars , CPD trains every police officer , supervisor as community policing officers while in the police academy . we do not need a special caps office or civilians being paid to do nothing .
CAPS Officer does no police work , they arrive late , shop , check gps of their cell phone , police vehicle , police computer searches , total political hack assignment , nothing is accomplished by caps
Cuts? 009 CAPS are the only people getting OT in the District.
Go CAPS!!
why don't the aldermen demand that sergeants promotional multiple choice be graded by actual score , not pass / fail .
last test pass was 60% , is that really fair to all the men and women that are African American , asian , caucasian , hispanic that are preparing for the exam , want to be future leaders , supervisors of CPD . Why does the Mayor , Alderman ,CPD Exempts want police officers that are unable to compete with their fellow officers to supervise police officers . many of the supervisors indicted for drugs ,thefts , sexual assaults were merit , as the sergeant that shot an unarmed child while off duty . All Police Officers should protest ,maybe 10% Merit , but in Rank order justifying the heroic or leadership skills that sets the merit pick from his peers . Not the bottom of barrel bjqueen or suck ass political hack .
Some people have gotten very fat off the CAPS gravy train.
The fact that it’s ineffective and a waste of manpower doesn’t bother them.
Word has it that all foot post positions will be eliminated as of 01Jan because of the budget cuts to community policing
Gotta have spots for the connected!
35th street caps is a political machine that has hired tons of connected civilians in the last year but has not accomplished much
Takes me back to the old 019th CAPS Office follies of hoarding all sorts of donations and hiding them in their back storage room and the weekly raids of the Bulk Storage area by the nerdy CAPS Lieutenant shuffling the fancy Mountain Bikes out the back door.Those were the days!
I remember when Lynette Helm was named Chief of CAPS. I jokingly asked her, “Do you even know what CAPS stands for?” She said, “No, but I’ll find out tomorrow!”
11/05/2019 07:54:00 AM
Undeserving, unqualified and amazingly incompetent. She was perfect CPD exempt material.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Community activism is nothing but a way for useless people to feel important.
11/05/2019 07:38:00 AM
What are they to do? LINK isnt enough to live on, so communertae activism is a good side hustle, Safe Passage pylon is another up and coming ghetto career.
How about eliminating Alderman too or at least cut their pay. They get paid six figures to sign off on stop signs, street work, eat free meals in their Ward, while pushing Socialist, bullshit agendas like 40th Ward Andre Vasquez..kids a total piece of shit with his gift of gab. City and communities appoint mega ass clowns to make decisions in budgets. Chicago is a downward spiral of progressive burning trash.
thank you old CAPS program for 2080 hrs and one year on the books at retirement time
Solution One NR Sgt and two POs, per district. ONE District meeting open to the public each month. No OT, No bulls--t bureaucracy. and NO caps forms Oh by the way thats the way it used to be many many years ago.
For God sake get rid of CAPS.
How about the XOs who balked at being reimagined as Watch Commanders also run CAPS office--with civilian and one Officer ...these useless Captains are a joke
Well, the CAPS program may be languishing, but the DCO program is on the way in.
We have sent 1 lt,1 sgt and 1 PO to training for 3 days to (NY?) to get familiar with this program. Understanding is there will be 10 PO's 2 sgts and 1 Lt operating this. 025 already has a pilot running. They've been asking for volunteers at all roll calls. Hours are something like 1000-1700, days off could be changed to address problems, blah blah. Search directives for "neighborhood policing program". one of the forms is 21.142. If that doesnt look like a 'humper' from back in the day, I don't know what does.
Oh, and watch manpower won't be affected. More people will be sent to the district to cover for this....Or so we're told. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
why don't the aldermen demand that sergeants promotional multiple choice be graded by actual score , not pass / fail .
11/05/2019 01:48:00 PM
Now that is hilarious! You are asking for fairness from the most corrupt group known to man. You should do stand-up.
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