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- In the Chicago Police Department’s Eddie Johnson soap opera — you might call it “Days of Our Lives with Guns” — you probably have some questions.
Who made the 911 call telling police that a car was stopped on the street, motor running, with (now fired) police chief Eddie Johnson passed out after a night of drinking with a woman not his wife? Was it one of those hell hath no fury phone calls? Or was it merely some concerned Josephine Citizen worried about a man asleep at the wheel?
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And what happens now to the other cops, the responding officers, the watch commander and the commander, and their supervisors, since Johnson was allowed to just drive home without being administered a breathalyzer test? All should become clear in the report of Inspector General Joe Ferguson.
Well, don't count on that John. Fergie sold his soul for a bigger budget and more personnel by covering up the cheating exam scandal.
- As we reporters peel the onion of the Eddie Johnson soap opera, detangling this woman from that one and this friend from the other one, and figuring out who got a promotion and who didn’t, and how many of the other police bosses in Johnson’s command clique also promoted their own favorites, one thing is becoming clear.
If Lightfoot truly wants to change police culture, she must examine the poison pith at the center of the plum:
The merit promotions mess. And that’s no soap opera.
The question we all might want to ask is how many chiefs and deputy chiefs in the Chicago Police Department ever passed the lieutenant’s exam? Is it more than one?
We'll save you some time John. It's all of them. There isn't a single Chief or Deputy left (after this weeks retirements) who passed a test high enough to get promoted with (A) "merit" or (B) getting the answers at a Gene Wiliams-type study group, where you study the test with Subject Matter Experts who constructed the test.
If you can get around the Tribune paywall, it's a pretty good column.
If you can get around the Tribune paywall, it's a pretty good column.
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Lost all respect for RINO Kass when he kisses Dart ass on his low rated show about the great botanical jail garden and pizza parties. Not one mention of the thousands of criminals missing on home monitoring or the jail emtying. Also, Kass was the first jerk to harass that Bartman Cubs fan who had his life practically ruined. Watch the documentary where that fat head was the first to approach Bartman and heckle him. Only apologized when he got caught. Kass is a punk.
Can somebody shed light on the 6 month Wonder Woman who was sent by Eddie to run a DEATask Force team with no experience as a Sgt. EDDIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT STUPID MOVE. She does not deserve to be in DEA nothing with all her bad luggage, dope dealing boyfriends, lost her gun twice. Come on really, send her back to 007 so she can finish her Sergeants training
Fuck her clout, he’s gone now
Someone needs to FOIA Ald Tunney’s annual budget hearing questions. The ones he submits in writing. It’s obvious he has input from blue shirts. Here is two questions he asked in 2018 about merit promotions and the answers he received. The answers say it all about Fathead Ed’s attitude about merit promotions.
• I've been told that one of the biggest issues within the CPD that contributes to these lawsuits and settlements is merit promotions resulting in individuals managing patrol officers who are not qualified to do so. What are the criteria for merit promotions? Who determines who receives a meritorious promotion?
Such statements are most often expressed by officers who have personal issues with a specific supervisor, or perhaps are upset at not being promoted. That said, CPD takes the merit promotion process very seriously and has specific procedures that must be followed. These are governed by our directives, including E05-05 Career Service Rank Promotional Process and E05-04 Merit Board. The superintendent has the power and duty to make all appointments and promotions within the Department.
• I can understand that some individuals don't test well, but I am told that there are individuals who have been given two or three merit promotions. Have you considered limiting merit promotions to one for the duration of an officer's career?
That might produce its own problems and complications, but any way that might increase confidence in the merit system should be looked at.
This year he asked this, but we haven’t answered him yet. He beat Kass to that question by a month:
• With regard to individuals who have been given two or three merit promotions, how many current exempt members have been meritoriously promoted three times? Two times? Will you consider limiting merit promotions to one for the duration of an officer’s career?
hahaha special ed had Tom needaman as his attorney oh boy he’s screwed
Cindy Sam who is 61, is another one who thinks she is untouchable. She fails to realize her buddy is gone now which leaves her unprotected. You would think she would leave on her own, but like her buddy she will be told to leave. Her nut job friend SGT. MV and SGT. GR on third watch and the big one; "crazy Kim" should already have the bags packed, they are done. Kim turn in your keys to all the cars you take shopping. Oh, we all know you are putting OT slips in also. Hey mayor! Start with these idiots if you are really a reformist.
Keep digging Kass, it gets better
There has always been different methods of cheating on promotional exams. It only got worse once the merit system was created. In the beginning on the very first list, the supt listed the names of the merit promotees. Well that caused a ruckus amongst cops who didn't make the list, as it was well known all the merit promotees were clout heavy. Immediately the superintendent ensured all future promotion lists did not indicate who was meritoriously promoted. It became a secret for many years.
There was a detective test given in 1991 or so. The second part was at Curie High School. You were given a incident and had to explain how and why you would investigate it to 3 sergeants in a closed door room. The Personnel sergeants running the exam would hand you a list of all the sergeants conducting these interviews, and they asked if you had a problem with any of them. It gave the illusion that they were trying to help you by not putting you in front of your enemy who would probably give you a bad rating. But it really was for cops to say "put me in front of sergeant so and so", to which they did. You could have gone in that closed door room and talked about baseball and walked away with the highest rating.
That same year I was aware of Townsend providing the Personnel Sergeants running the exam that day a list of cops whose names were "red flagged", meaning they were all to receive high ratings.
I know of many cops who were given the test and answers by their exempt clout, so they could memorize it before the official test date. The smart cops kept the test and answers to themselves and only shared the truth later in life. Dumb cops like phattys son shared the test and answers that daddy gave him with his entire tact team. Although it certainly didn't hurt phattys career or his son, who obviously daddy knew wasn't smart enough to pass a test on his own. Let it be known that phattys son got smarter and did not share the lieutenant test and answers that daddy gave him with anyone. Phatty was livid when he got wind of what his dumb son did the first time.
Phatty did share the test and answers with his office staff, not just family, equal opportunity. The useless party girl now boss of a district is one example.
We’ve all been screaming this for many years....merit promotions are the most corrupt and unfair system EVER! It’s a cancer for morale. It’s friends promoting friends and they return the favor over and over. It’s sick! Lightfoot should demote every single exempt that didn’t pass any of the tests. The damage merit has done will be very hard to repair.
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Deenahan is the only one.
Ralph Papa Thorson Says:
There should be Reparations for all living CPD Members and Retirees, for the suffering of discrimination related crimes of being victimized by FAKE Merit Promotions orchestrated by the Commiecrats at City Hall and the upper ranks of the CPD that were and still are in obvious collusion to illegally control the CPD thru political strong arming of legitimate promotions, and strictly for their own benefit, power grabbing, and dictatorial control thru just another form of their Now Gone National Pay to Play Schemes.
Soooo true. Merit "poisoned" the department. Merit should be 5% at the most.
If most of the exempt can't score well enough on a test to get promoted.....why are we taking test ?
The "bad test taker" scenario doesn't fly. Aren't the majority of people "bad test takers" ?????? That's why they're called "test" , that's why you study your ass off. Try putting in the time and work studying and you'll get the results.
If you ain’t pass no test, you ain’t deserve no white shirt— you got it Groot
one thing is for sure the when the x superintendent mess is looked at under a microscope and they start handing out time or separation the people on the bottom who really had little choice in any coverup will take the most heat
Commander of 6 Mohammad is great. Mcfarlane, Mcmahon, and ray Doherty are all great bosses who would make great commanders
Fire Dept. currently promoting 20 Chiefs that can’t pass a written/oral promotional exam unless they’re given a copy of the test & inflated scores. They needed to ‘re-math’ all the failures to get them above a passing grade.
Chief Karen Konow made Lieutenant on her own too.
Scored in the top 10 on my Lt Test and was in the first class, almost every merit LT in that class became exempts. The top 10 scorers hit a dead end. I guess that's what happens when you work for a department that is just an employment agency for the clouted, and you have no clout.
The Daily Mail has a picture of the officer he was with.
The British are brutal.
It's about time Kass did something right.
And now that Fast Eddie, reduced in rank to LT, retired yesterday instead of his proposed date of 3 Jan, Ferguson will never get the chance to interview him.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
No shit, look at Waller, Bradley and Cook. All three got promoted from that scandal. Bradley and Cook boning in Wallers office and Bradleys wife shows up. What a fight! Got swept under a rug quick.
Anonymous said...
Command personnel having illicit affairs with police women is nothing new. I do know of one past superintendent who had his driver as his girlfriend and when he retired and went on to head security at the State of Illinois Building, brought her along and gave her a great job. Many district commanders and others have engaged in this conduct, many openly. Manyh of the participants were married at the time. It was disgusting, but no one could do anything about this. Now with the merit promotions it seems much of this bad behavior leads to promotions. This is improper conduct and in private industry would get a person fired. It seems in the police department adultery leads to promotion and great assignments. It is time this conduct is codified within ethical guidelines of the department and leads to demotion.
12/04/2019 07:26:00 AM
12/04/2019 08:04:00 PM
Waller, Bradley, and Cook. This trio deserves the specialEd treatment. Someone should let Christina Anderson know that the IAD sgt investigating her complaint was sponsored by Waller for merit. Not only did Waller sponsor Cook but he’s bff’s with her boyfriend Bradley. No conflict of interest here.
12/04/2019 10:46:00 PM
Merit protecting the clout
The Madam Mayor will do nothing...anything that will demoralize the police will continue.
don't kid yourself, she HATES you!
12/05/2019 02:19:00 AM
Ctrl+Shift+N
And YOU are welcome my friend.
you would think that Beck(who IS READING this blog) would do something about such a cancerous situation within the Dept.
He will not.
just another puppet who can be controlled.
one more thing...California is a shithole.
show me what a man with balls from Cali. looks like Mr.Charles Lloyd Beck.
12/05/2019 12:18:00 AM
Agree
Kass used to have bigger balls...shrinking every day.
Talks about his manly upbringing and the "tough" side of the city.
he's become soft
Eddie Johnson is African American. He didn’t create the system. It was created by the old white Irish power structure, where racism and political tribalism reigned.
Whites were promoted. The Outfit made their cops. And black and brown patrol officers won promotion if they were connected to a Democratic ward organization with leverage at City Hall.
Karen konow NOT merit.
12/05/2019 02:19:00 AM
thank you.
With regard to individuals who have been given two or three merit promotions, how many current exempt members have been meritoriously promoted three times? Two times? Will you consider limiting merit promotions to one for the duration of an officer’s career?
12/05/2019 12:34:00 AM
I seriously doubt that the merit promotion system will ever go away. The horses are out of the barn and the political class loves the power of the patronage. But, I should think that the process be taken out of the hands of the city and given to an independent board, possibly at the University of Illinois or some such institution. Maybe a board of suburban police officials or the Illinois Police Chiefs Association. The certification process was intended to take promotions out of the political class, but that does not seem to be working.
Anonymous said...
There was a detective test given in 1991 or so. The second part was at Curie High School. You were given a incident and had to explain how and why you would investigate it to 3 sergeants in a closed door room. The Personnel sergeants running the exam would hand you a list of all the......
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And if you remember, the written part of that test was "race normed." If you were white, you needed a 90% to go to Part 2. Hispanics were in the low 80's and black was 70%. Partner got a 91% and went to part 2, I got 89% and was a no-go for Pt. 2. Next test for Dic in '94 was actually a straight test administered by Arthur Andersen. That Sgt's test also. But when the first 3 Sgt classes were overwhelmingly white, Daley shit and took down the list.
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12/05/2019 02:19:00 AM
Thanks brother/sister your heart and head are in the right place!
Seems like limiting merit promotions to a one time opportunity, similar to the way veteran’s preference points used to be limited for promotions, would go a long way toward somewhat legitimizing the process and greatly improving morale.
Hey Kass,
Better look up the history of new commander in 25th district.
Law suits follow this dork. Because he was so good at IAD.
Then he gets promoted when cheating scandal comes out of IAD with Eddie Johnson’s then girlfriend.
And you can see how all of that worked out
Kass should inquire of Robin Robinson's merit choices?
I put Kass in the same category as Mark Konkol, a whiteknight in conservative-friendly packaging, too obsessed with saving those who wont save themselves.
Isn’t Wheezie suing the City demanding another fraudulent promotion ?
To get around the Tribs paywall use private browsing. or copy the URL and paste it in Google and you can read all you want. Fuck paying for their drivel
On the subject of merit limitations, let’s start with Gilmerito Calderon who has taken a bite of the apple 4X. He played sick in Florida and was placed at the DOC just before the lieutenants test scandal. Great suck ass but can’t pass a test. Hmmmm!
Can the federal judge overseeing the consent decree obtain an injunction to stop all merit promotions for investigative review?
I don't think any of these reporters is capable of peeling a banana, much less an onion.
RUMORS AND MORE RUMORS This has not been Verified: The plot twists & turns involving the firing of Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson continue to unravel into one of the messiest scandals this city has seen in a long time, and that's saying a lot for this town. This is a re-post from A Public Facebook page.
"Dear Old Eddie Johnson - so the word on the blue and white streets is - Eddie was with Dip 1 at Ceres which was his former detail driver. He left Dip 1 and met up with Dip 2. Well Dip 1 followed him and called the police on Dear Old Eddie because Dip 2 was giving Eddie that superintendent attention in the car.
Special Ed reminds me of another former Commissioner, He name is John Brooks. who is the former CFD commissioner who eloquently said to reporters upon being under investigation for sexual harassment and I quote “ I do not proposition women. I don’t have to. Women usually proposition. God has blessed me like that”
Let’s see, you pay big money for an accounting firm to come up with a tests for promotions. Then when the “right” people don’t score well you say “some people just don’t test well” and then you promote people from the back of the list. I think universally that the people who don’t score well are the people who just don’t know the test material.
Why is it that no other profession puts people in service by merit after they fail a test? What about the people who don’t test well in the medical professions? How about the aviation industry? How about the engineering professions? How about federal law enforcement?
Why do they stop at the “some people don’t test well”. How about the rest of the criteria considered for merit promotion. “some people don’t speak well” “some people don’t write well” “some people don’t handle pressure well” “some people are just stupid”. Help me if I’m forgetting anything.
Dig in like a bulldog John.
HQ and the upper echelon of the department are like a cesspool.
Hey Cato! You and "Queen B" Theo better read up and stop her from running the units into the ground. We don't know what dirt she has on you, but it's pretty obvious.
Although it certainly didn't hurt phattys career or his son, who obviously daddy knew wasn't smart enough to pass a test on his own. Let it be known that phattys son got smarter and did not share the lieutenant test and answers that daddy gave him with anyone. Phatty was livid when he got wind of what his dumb son did the first time.
And he still had to get the kid to be made meritorious.
End Merit, is he out of his flipping mind? Merit and payoffs are the backbone of The Chicago Way. To him I say, stay in your lane. This column is nothing but Blasphemy. How dare he.
While he did not mention it in his Merit hit piece I'll bet he is against Clout as well. Shame on him, how is an dumb officer going to get promoted with out Merit and clout. Eliminate Merit and there will be no diversity at all in the CPD.
Pass a test to be promoted in the CPD, what a novel idea. Won't work, that would be racist or something.
Let it be known that phattys son got smarter and did not share the lieutenant test and answers that daddy gave him with anyone. Phatty was livid when he got wind of what his dumb son did the first time.
Matt Cline is a merit lieutenant nominated by Joseph Salemme.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Can somebody shed light on the 6 month Wonder Woman who was sent by Eddie to run a DEATask Force team with no experience as a Sgt. EDDIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT STUPID MOVE. She does not deserve to be in DEA nothing with all her bad luggage, dope dealing boyfriends, lost her gun twice. Come on really, send her back to 007 so she can finish her Sergeants training
Fuck her clout, he’s gone now
Sgt Janelle had her weapon borrowed by a “friend” years ago. She didn’t even report it missing / stolen for days after. The interesting part is that weapon was used in a crime out south. The weapon was recovered. It was SUPPOSED to be tested. That was BEFORE Eddie Johnson intervenes. Weapon was returned without being tested. That weapon was USED in a crime by someone she knows who borrowed it from Sgt Janelle. Also Sgt Janelle was MERIT SGT by Eddie by using ROBIN ROBINSON. After a whole 10 months as a 007 Sgt (school Sgt 2nd watch) EDDIE made a call and had Sgt Janelle moved into the Task force spot. Didn’t even do a day on the floor in 189 as a Sgt. Guess her war stories about buying “weed” from juveniles have proven how much knowledge she has. FU Eddie. Take this side piece away with the others.
KASS has sources.....good sources, but he also has his management at the paper to deal with, and THEY sure don't want
certain info out there in the public realm.......almost all of MSM is owned/controlled by big money liberal Democrats who
are striving for that NWO here......"We are in control, you will see what we want you to see, and hear only what we want you to
hear".....that's why there is barely a mention of what is truly going on in this here city regarding crime, who is committing it,
and the behind the scenes politics of it all.
But you just know that the top CPD echelon is not just dumb as a box of rocks, with no management skills or the educational
knowledge of our rules/regulations (having to go down 2000 spots on a promotional list to "merit promote" should be a clue)-
and this is where Mr Beck and Ms Lightfoot and KASS should start their investigations.......
Anonymous said...
Lost all respect for RINO Kass when he kisses Dart ass on his low rated show about the great botanical jail garden and pizza parties. Not one mention of the thousands of criminals missing on home monitoring or the jail emtying. Also, Kass was the first jerk to harass that Bartman Cubs fan who had his life practically ruined. Watch the documentary where that fat head was the first to approach Bartman and heckle him. Only apologized when he got caught. Kass is a punk
JOhny kass is a Tribune Sjw, yes ,he likely turned liberal kiss ass ,to save his job
What Say the Pimp Priest about his boy Special Ed
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Can somebody shed light on the 6 month Wonder Woman who was sent by Eddie to run a DEATask Force team with no experience as a Sgt. EDDIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT STUPID MOVE. She does not deserve to be in DEA nothing with all her bad luggage, dope dealing boyfriends, lost her gun twice. Come on really, send her back to 007 so she can finish her Sergeants training
Fuck her clout, he’s gone now
She knows it all just ask her. Also ask her about the ballistic hit that came back from one of her lost guns? Drain the swamp!
SCC you should get a little something extra in your check or your Christmas stocking.
You’re working your ass off covering the “soap opera” and cesspool known as the upper echelon of CPD.
It’s been a very, very busy week for you.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Cindy Sam who is 61, is another one who thinks she is untouchable. She fails to realize her buddy is gone now which leaves her unprotected. You would think she would leave on her own, but like her buddy she will be told to leave. Her nut job friend SGT. MV and SGT. GR on third watch and the big one; "crazy Kim" should already have the bags packed, they are done. Kim turn in your keys to all the cars you take shopping. Oh, we all know you are putting OT slips in also. Hey mayor! Start with these idiots if you are really a reformist.
Doubt it, wrong group
Ah, yes, Steve Bartman, one of the greatest scapegoats in the history of man. Cubs fans didn't have a black cat or a goat so they had Bartman. 3-0 Cubs in 8th when Bartman did what any fan would do (and others there did too)...try to catch a foul ball. Final score 8-3 Marlins. At least Kass gave a sincere apology for his actions in writing and in a video. After the Cubs did hang a World Series banner they should have comped Bartman for the rest of his life.
If you can get around the Tribune paywall, it's a pretty good column.
So Tribune & Sun paywalls allow a limited number of articles for which they I believe track with browser cookies. I get around these paywalls by switching browsers so instead of Chrome for example switch between Opera, Cake, Safari, etc.
Or use say Firefox and go into settings/privacy/ click "cookies" and check "disabled"; also tap on "clear private data on exit" and check "cookies and logins."
Then use your regular browser for normal browsing where you want sites to recognize you for automatic logins.
Disabling cookies and clearing cookies on exit should be redundant that is both and either should work but if I had issues I would do each individually; doing both does seem to work for me.
BTW I see on the Tribune site that Johnson is officially off the payroll, and it occurred me that he might liable for the same criminal charge that Smollett got for lying to the police if he told the same story CPD responers that he gave to LL.
The body cam video showed officers asking for identification, apparently not realizing it was the city’s top cop behind the wheel.
The source said Johnson then showed the officers his wallet, which included his police credentials visible.
They asked him if he needed help and the superintendent said no. The officers stepped back and Johnson drove off.
https://wgntv.com/2019/12/04/new-details-on-bodycam-video-on-edddie-johnsons-incident/
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Not just war on police even war on politically connected appointed so called bosses:
Arizona DPS director posts video of himself being let go with warning after being clocked at 90mph
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-dps-director-given-warning-speeding
The media salivates over this looking at Lori firing Eddie shit always rolls downhill don’t be the next contestant on Chicago most corruption filled game show lose your job,pensions, family, bank account, home, possibly freedom stay fetal especially the backward baseball cap, beaded, skinny jeans lifted wrangler driving on Cpd!!
Townsend, pos had a copper in his circle working intelligence who got caught talking to a mob guy in an fbi sting. Called him and told him pick a spot you've been picked up on a wire. i recall my interview to get in ocd, 2 sgts said it's nice to see an applicant who has done some actual work, do you have a phone call to make, lol my family was told in 1967 that you didn't vote with us when I wanted a bureau of forestry job. Clout was just something i read about.
How this doesn't violate the Shakman decree is beyond me. The intent is clear, promote friends , wives, girlfriends, relatives who are unqualified in the game cpd exempts call "Beating The Feds.' So after 25 yrs. of being a working cop and seeing this obvious in your face F.U corruption, I say F.U CPD corrupt merit brass. Chase the guy down the gangway at 2 am in the morning with a gun in his hand yourself. After all it was earned not given, right. P.S. I still predict we break 500 murders this year.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
There has always been different methods of cheating on promotional exams. It only got worse once the merit system was created. In the beginning on the very first list, the supt listed the names of the merit promotees. Well that caused a ruckus amongst cops who didn't make the list, as it was well known all the merit promotees were clout heavy. Immediately the superintendent ensured all future promotion lists did not indicate who was meritoriously promoted. It became a secret for many years.
There was a detective test given in 1991 or so. The second part was at Curie High School. You were given a incident and had to explain how and why you would investigate it to 3 sergeants in a closed door room. The Personnel sergeants running the exam would hand you a list of all the sergeants conducting these interviews, and they asked if you had a problem with any of them. It gave the illusion that they were trying to help you by not putting you in front of your enemy who would probably give you a bad rating. But it really was for cops to say "put me in front of sergeant so and so", to which they did. You could have gone in that closed door room and talked about baseball and walked away with the highest rating.
That same year I was aware of Townsend providing the Personnel Sergeants running the exam that day a list of cops whose names were "red flagged", meaning they were all to receive high ratings.
I know of many cops who were given the test and answers by their exempt clout, so they could memorize it before the official test date. The smart cops kept the test and answers to themselves and only shared the truth later in life. Dumb cops like phattys son shared the test and answers that daddy gave him with his entire tact team. Although it certainly didn't hurt phattys career or his son, who obviously daddy knew wasn't smart enough to pass a test on his own. Let it be known that phattys son got smarter and did not share the lieutenant test and answers that daddy gave him with anyone. Phatty was livid when he got wind of what his dumb son did the first time.
Phatty did share the test and answers with his office staff, not just family, equal opportunity. The useless party girl now boss of a district is one example.
12/05/2019 01:52:00 AM
He is currently a Lawyer now, did he receive the answers for the Bar exam also?
Excellent article, so true. Everyone should read this article, that's what I'm screaming about. Post from 12/05/19 at 02:19:00 am
Fuck the tribune, Fuck Kass and every other "reporter" and media source. I stopped reading and watching most "news" sources because of their outward liberal and anti-police cultures. You shouldn't be reposting ANYTHING those scumbags print. Today maybe you agree with some things he says but that piece of shit, along with all other reporters, will be the first to hang another copper first chance they get as soon as the chance arises. The only way to put the final nails in the coffin that is chicago print media is to stop promoting ANYTHING they write... positive AND negative. Channel 2,5,7,32, 9, all their staff, their reporters, etc. can all rot in HELL. When you've witnessed, personally, the lies they propagate...The police lives they've helped ruin, you learn not to support them. They make their living on spreading misinformation and should all be gone... To say the least.
this sex pay to play has been going on for a long time. i work and live in 016 i wish i had a dollar for every exempt i ran into who was accompanied by his or her side piece( girl friend)
One of Beck’s first moves came Tuesday as he opted to remove Anthony Escamilla from his position as commander of the Grand Central District on the Northwest Side.
Escamilla had come under scrutiny recently — with the city’s Office of the Inspector General recommending he be fired — after he assigned some of the district’s officers to babysit his son, who has special needs, according to an OIG report obtained by the Chicago Tribune.
Anthony Guglielmi, the CPD’s chief spokesman, said Tuesday that, after meeting with members of the department’s command staff, Beck decided to “go in a different direction” and demote Escamilla to a captain position in the department’s inspections unit
Charlie Beck is making a big mistake , he just gave a corrupt commander that should have been fired recommendation by IG Office a company car and assignment with no accountability , yes but he stripped two officers for doing their job
what would charlie do if some dude spits in his face , explain this is not acceptble conduct , get licked , sir please don't lick me
FOP hold a no Confidence Vote Now
Anonymous said...
Can somebody shed light on the 6 month Wonder Woman who was sent by Eddie to run a DEATask Force team with no experience as a Sgt. EDDIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT STUPID MOVE. She does not deserve to be in DEA nothing with all her bad luggage, dope dealing boyfriends, lost her gun twice. Come on really, send her back to 007 so she can finish her Sergeants training
Fuck her clout, he’s gone now
12/05/2019 12:20:00 AM
For a minute I thought you were talking about ole Tommy B's daughter. She been taken care of from day one. Super secret task force, take home car, no arrests, merit sgt, etc,,etc..etc..
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Can somebody shed light on the 6 month Wonder Woman who was sent by Eddie to run a DEATask Force team with no experience as a Sgt. EDDIE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR THAT STUPID MOVE. She does not deserve to be in DEA nothing with all her bad luggage, dope dealing boyfriends, lost her gun twice. Come on really, send her back to 007 so she can finish her Sergeants training
Fuck her clout, he’s gone now
12/05/2019 12:20:00 AM
This is standard operating procedure on the CPD. Clout and connections are all that matter. CPD is a mess because of merit and connections. It’s been going on for decades. Hopefully Lightfoot, Beck and whoever is next Supt sees this crap and ends it. But unfortunately it’s the Chicago way. Fingers crossed
Brendan pass his own tests.....who else?, who else made Det, Sgt., Lt., on his own steam....lots that I know of but no exempts besides the smart little red headed fella
"...how many chiefs and deputy chiefs ... ever passed the lieutenant’s exam? "
"It's all of them. There isn't a single Chief or Deputy left (after this weeks retirements) who passed a test high enough to get promoted..."
Umm, this doesn't make sense.
"How many...?"
"All... There isn't a single [one]..."
Also, it sounds like the current batch of retirees (excoriated here for clout and incompetence) includes all those exempts who did pass. IOW, bad as they were, those left are worse. Are they all merit promotions?
Finally - I have seen much contempt for the entire command echelon. But ISTM that there was at least one good commander: the late Paul Bauer, who even before his heroic death in the line of duty was well-regarded. Is there no one else comparable?
Just A Civilian (who needs some clarification)
Kass only apologized for Bartman cause the bully got caught. You literally had hundreds of fans wanting to attack Bartman and Kass was throwing gasoline on the fire. The Tribune should of fired him for that stunt.
12/05/2019 01:52:00 AM
He is currently a Lawyer now, did he receive the answers for the Bar exam also?
12/05/2019 02:20:00 PM
Still a merit POS.
Charlie, don't for get to launch another worthless exempt: Crystal King Smith.
How did Beck know where to send ESCASTUPID? Beck did not even have enough time here to memorize the emergency phone number, but he already knew Escadope needed to be demoted and moved to indpections?
Anonymous said...
Deenahan is the only one.
12/05/2019 02:48:00 AM
Deenihan, Konow, ODonnel, Kennedy, Georgas
Shawn Loughran passed his tests.
Signed,
The Fetus
2:45 poster you really need anger management therapy. Lighten up your wound up way too tight. Opinions are like ass holes, everyone has one, you, him, her everyone is not to agree with your viewpoint but they have a fight to express it, yes even the liberal BS we hear a lot of today. Now take a deep breath and relax you'll live longer.
Who the hell is Kass? Oh, he works for the Fibune? That's the paper that shows up on my porch, free every Sunday. It goes directly into the blue recycle garbage can in the alley, it doesn't even see the inside of my home. I cancelled my subscription when G. Dubya Bush was President.
Newspapers, magazines, and network news have gone the way of the buggy whip, totally irrelevant. They are on life support, and the only reason they are still around is they are propped up by the leftist cabal. People are finally waking up to the fact that the socialist narrative the media is pushing is nonsense.
You chumbalones in the media better learn to code, the deep state, with its lapdog media, are going down.
Breaking News! The CPD promotion system is rigged and there’s crooked politicians in the City of Chicago.
I never knew. I sure hope someone gets to the bottom of all of this.
Don’t the sgts and Ltd test have an oral part along with the written? If that’s the case, then no test is on the square. You might not be merit, but making it on score isn’t muck different. Marking the oral is all bs. Had a buddy who sued a few years back Aand what he said and how he was marked didn’t compare. Certain people and certain boards marked differently and I think we all know of certain candidates who just happened to appear before a friend, ex boss or relative
new incognito mode has been defeated.
Nobody reads Kass anymore. Too bad.
Connecting the multi merit dots is too easy and very much the biggest code o’silence since examscam.
The gist of it is that Jugghaid SpecialEd and his predecessors gave out Merit Promotions like George Bailey gave out mortgage loans.
The old Bailey Bros building & loan never made a nickel on the investments and neither does CPD.
Just like Jugghead’s picks, play pool with some Nominator and get a bump or two up in rank.
Think about it, both Rahm and LightLoafer hired out former police brass help to get the bs consent decree and 21st Century things rolling, something Jugghead himself neglected.
Remember his unpreparedness, ‘duly noted’ quip? That’s how much confidence they had in SpecialEd’s ability.
All Merit promotions under SpecialEd should be reviewed and repealed where necessary.
This soup opera wouldn’t have happened if Seiser were Superintendent.
And yes, he’s still available.
As a concerned citizen and regular reader of the blog I believe the definition of Merit is. Cash to right people, great BJ's, easy lay or married the right person. Not once have I seen any mention of an outstanding or meritorious event leasing to a Merit promotion. Only Who You Know, Who You Blow or How much you pay. Do I have CPD Merit wrong?
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
No shit, look at Waller, Bradley and Cook. All three got promoted from that scandal. Bradley and Cook boning in Wallers office and Bradleys wife shows up. What a fight! Got swept under a rug quick.
Anonymous said...
Command personnel having illicit affairs with police women is nothing new. I do know of one past superintendent who had his driver as his girlfriend and when he retired and went on to head security at the State of Illinois Building, brought her along and gave her a great job. Many district commanders and others have engaged in this conduct, many openly. Manyh of the participants were married at the time. It was disgusting, but no one could do anything about this. Now with the merit promotions it seems much of this bad behavior leads to promotions. This is improper conduct and in private industry would get a person fired. It seems in the police department adultery leads to promotion and great assignments. It is time this conduct is codified within ethical guidelines of the department and leads to demotion.
12/04/2019 07:26:00 AM
12/04/2019 08:04:00 PM
Waller, Bradley, and Cook. This trio deserves the specialEd treatment. Someone should let Christina Anderson know that the IAD sgt investigating her complaint was sponsored by Waller for merit. Not only did Waller sponsor Cook but he’s bff’s with her boyfriend Bradley. No conflict of interest here.
12/04/2019 10:46:00 PM
Merit protecting the clout
12/05/2019 06:02:00 AM
These arrogant motherfuckers are unbelievable
Kennedy, Georgas...NOT legit--asmin Sgts for Mauer--who was the SME expert (and shared his insight with them---altho rumor is he had the wonder twins actually do the review for him)
Eddie's biggest mistake, Gugliami. Simple as that, trusting him. He helped put your dirt out here so he could keep his job after you are gone. Wake up! Great management team Dumb Eddie.
Don’t the sgts and Ltd test have an oral part along with the written? If that’s the case, then no test is on the square. You might not be merit, but making it on score isn’t muck different. Marking the oral is all bs. Had a buddy who sued a few years back Aand what he said and how he was marked didn’t compare. Certain people and certain boards marked differently and I think we all know of certain candidates who just happened to appear before a friend, ex boss or relative
12/05/2019 07:37:00 PM
I took the Sgts test a few years back and there was no oral part.
I just wanted to leave a word with who ever had the final call with Kidney Bean in his car. Regardless of a reporter saying Mr Bean should have been given a “breathalyzer,” a preliminary breath test is only allowed after an officer has established reasonable suspicion that the driver may be under the influence. This requirement is set by state law, 625 ILCS 5/11-501.5 in the Illinois Vehicle Code. This law was put in place to keep officers from unjustly having motorists submit to a PBT randomly and without reason.
The odor of alcohol on someone’s breath alone isn’t enough to establish reasonable suspicion of DUI. There must be other signs of the driver being under the influence (People v Boomer 2001). An officer can’t quantify a level of intoxication based upon the strength of alcohol on someone’s breath (People v Mckown 2010).
The officer cannot force a civilian to conduct field sobriety tests. There’s no ticket or arrest charge for refusing. The officer has to decide if there is enough evidence to arrest (beyond just an odor of alcoholic beverage on breath), or allow the person to drive.
A police officer, or in this case a Chief, could be forced to submit to testing as part of an internal investigation of a policy violation. But the result of those tests wouldn’t be admissible in a criminal case based on the officers Garrity rights. You could have the Chief absolutely nailed with a slam dunk policy violation, but you’ll never get a license suspension or DUI conviction with that same evidence. And does Chicago policy allow for a patrol officer to conduct an internal investigation of policy violations on another officer, let alone the Chief of Police? Would another internal investigator have to be ordered to the scene? Does the Chief have to stay on scene for the internal?
There was no alleged traffic violation. The Chief allegedly gave a reason for his drowsy state. Without reasonable, articulable suspicion of DUI beyond the odor of alcohol, and the driver having been identified, there would be no reasonable suspicion to allow further detaining the individual without a civil rights violation occurring.
I am a Drug Recognition Expert Instructor and SFST instructor, certified by ILETSB, that travels throughout every corner of the state instructing for academies and MTU’s. If any officer on scene that night needs some help, please reach out. I will not charge you, or your attorney, any fees
Will Charlie Beck and LL allow to the corruption
to continue ? Civilian Eddie Johnson sent out a
few emails that should be looked at. For example,
the promotions of Avila, Bradley and Tirado. A Chief
and two deputy chiefs. Friendship promotions of these
people who had no business getting bumped that high up.
Merit hacks that took advantage of the drunk EJ
They have Not had any significant implementation of anything that
deserved these positions. But they came in strong only to dump
people who have been doing a good job but had no clout!
Beck it’s time to do the right things within CPD
The un-clout people will support you all the way !!!
7:02 poster... You may think I'm wound too tight, not really. I don't disagree though that I do need anger management, but in my opinion of the media I'd say it's justified. Like the poster right after you... Why do coppers support any of the media that will make every attempt to ruin our lives if it sells papers? You attack me for hating them then you probably go buy a paper or watch the local news (almost always multi anti-police stories) like nothing matters, until you or someone you know is the next headline. They'll have zero mercy. And you support the industry? I don't buy "that reporter is police friendly" They're all the same when their paycheck is on the line. In your eyes I may be wound too tight or need anger Management, but that pales in comparison to how anti-police the media is. You know how I'll live longer? Never reading another newspaper, watching a local news cast, talking to or hearing another reporter ever again. It's not that hard. You just seek out internet information sources that share the truth. Breaks over, back to my anger Management class.
I used to enjoy reading Kass until his style changed. The dees and dose guys style sucks.
Deenahan is the only one.
12/05/2019 02:48:00 AM
Deenihan, Konow, ODonnel, Kennedy, Georgas
12/05/2019 06:15:00 PM
Godsel, Loughran, McCruddin
Kass is s cheap knockoff of mike royko not even close
There are 2 Compelling Government Interests that are recognized to allow such a process. 1. Diversity ( a facially neutral system with a disparate impact would have to pass through a burden-shifting analysis, that the CPD merit system would not survive) 2. Remedial action to cure past discrimination. Either one must be so narrowly tailored
to pass the most Strict Scrutiny. The means must perfectly fit the ends and if there is any other way to achieve the Compelling Government Interest, the merit system will fail Strict Scrutiny. It is very likely that the current system is Unconstitutional and would fail a Strict Scrutiny analysis. But it is also true that an Illinois court would screw that analysis up and go the wrong way. Any challenge would have to go up the appellate ladder.
Kennedy and Georgas worked for a subject matter expert, I believe they scored #1 and 2 on the test. Funny how that works.
Anonymous said...
We’ve all been screaming this for many years....merit promotions are the most corrupt and unfair system EVER! It’s a cancer for morale. It’s friends promoting friends and they return the favor over and over. It’s sick! Lightfoot should demote every single exempt that didn’t pass any of the tests. The damage merit has done will be very hard to repair.
12/05/2019 02:15:00 AM
First of all, all (well most) passed the test as a lot of them had the answers. The thing is that they scored in the very bottom. With a few exceptions that never took a test and one of them is still a Commander, he is the Commander of OEMC, Felipe Reyes, he's a PO. There were a few others and the other one that comes to mind is Cronin (retired), he never passed a test either and was promoted to Commander as a gang specialist.....others can chime in but those are the two that I recall.
Ernie Cato NEVER passed a test! He used to b**** and complain about all the nepotism and Merit promotions until he started benefiting from it! He crossed over to the dark side and when he was in the position to promote people, he promoted his lover/ former partner, from the detective division.
Why can't test scores be foia'd?
Talk about absolute embarrassment.
Anonymous said...
Don’t the sgts and Ltd test have an oral part along with the written? If that’s the case, then no test is on the square. You might not be merit, but making it on score isn’t muck different. Marking the oral is all bs. Had a buddy who sued a few years back Aand what he said and how he was marked didn’t compare. Certain people and certain boards marked differently and I think we all know of certain candidates who just happened to appear before a friend, ex boss or relative
12/05/2019 07:37:00 PM
I took the Sgts test a few years back and there was no oral part.
12/05/2019 09:49:00 PM
Seems to me there is an oral part for promotional exams, you weren’t doing it right.
Just A Civilian (who needs some clarification)
12/05/2019 03:38:00 PM
everyone takes part one of the promotional examination. The passing score is usually set pretty low, and it has been as low as 40% in past exams. Then if you pass, and everybody usually does, you go on to part 2 which is much harder. The merit promotees do not have to take part 2 and most do not. I have had people brag that they will be a merit promotion and actually walked out of the exam room. I also know people who came back from a eave of absence, often for more then a year, to make a merit promotion. Yes, the system is rigged. It is rife with corruption and cronyism. Then you have high ranking command staff who are considered " subject matter experts" who help write the exam. I find that pretty funny and ironic since these " subject matter experts" never scored on an actual examination of job related topics. Then somehow these " experts" help coach the insiders for the upcoming examination. And, you wonder why the honest hard working rank and file are pessimistic and cynical and disgusted? The deck is stacked against them. These multiple merit promotees run the department. Funny how that works
Konow Konow Konow Konow! Ridiculous! Incompetence at its best. Lieutenant, Commander to Deputy Chief in less than 3 years.
I took the Sgts test a few years back and there was no oral part.
12/05/2019 09:49:00 PM
There is always an oral part, remember when they put you in the small closet room with the plastic chair, a red light above and a 4" hole in the wall with Duct tape around the edges...….
Wezzie say EJ is always on the bottle jajajabwahaha
First of all, all (well most) passed the test as a lot of them had the answers. The thing is that they scored in the very bottom. With a few exceptions that never took a test and one of them is still a Commander, he is the Commander of OEMC, Felipe Reyes, he's a PO. There were a few others and the other one that comes to mind is Cronin (retired), he never passed a test either and was promoted to Commander as a gang specialist.....others can chime in but those are the two that I recall.
12/06/2019 12:09:00 AM
Plenty more, many never even showed up to part 2. Before the last sergeant test you only had to take part 1. The day part 2 came you didn’t even have to show up. It’s sickening.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Eddie's biggest mistake, Gugliami. Simple as that, trusting him. He helped put your dirt out here so he could keep his job after you are gone. Wake up! Great management team Dumb Eddie.
12/05/2019 09:06:00 PM
He’s garbage but far from EJ’s biggest mistake.
no wrong most current (as of last week) exempts did not pass the Lt.s test and please do tell where the answer fairy is. 90 percent that made it off the list legit are still Lt.s........ The merits got the spots right away and /or made exempt. Simple run their names in the scc blog search box and compare. Why would they waste their time giving you the answers if they are not going to bump you up? Clout be Clout!.-G.C.S. Cronin retired Deputy Chief, so did Sgt Keating.
Hellooo BGA , Pam Z
Charlie Beck assigns a Captain that the Inspector General recommended be fired to Inspections to write up the backbone of CPD for minor infractions
whoever did that should be demoted immediately , they made a complete fool out of you Charlie Beck
Escamarmit tony baloney should have been fired as a P.O. for not inventorying guns recovered on the street but some politician saved him
Officers assigned as Inspectors ,Inspections Division are the elite of CPD
rank should be held by Sergeants not Captains that are Cowards
Biggane was number one when she was Cline's sergeant in supt office. Coincidence??
Nice job Jonn Kass. Where've you been?
Anonymous said...
There are 2 Compelling Government Interests that are recognized to allow such a process. 1. Diversity ( a facially neutral system with a disparate impact would have to pass through a burden-shifting analysis, that the CPD merit system would not survive) 2. Remedial action to cure past discrimination. Either one must be so narrowly tailored
to pass the most Strict Scrutiny. The means must perfectly fit the ends and if there is any other way to achieve the Compelling Government Interest, the merit system will fail Strict Scrutiny. It is very likely that the current system is Unconstitutional and would fail a Strict Scrutiny analysis. But it is also true that an Illinois court would screw that analysis up and go the wrong way. Any challenge would have to go up the appellate ladder.
12/05/2019 11:08:00 PM
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To demonstrate a prima facie case of disparate impact per Title VII (Affirmative Action) of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, one has to show the less dominant race was promoted (or hired) at less than 4/5, or 80%, of the ratio of the more dominant race. If 5 out of 10 whites are promoted, that’s 50%. 50% x 80% = 40%. So if less that 40% of blacks gets promoted, they have established a prima facie case of disparate impact. Now they can sue, but that doesn’t mean they’ll win that just gets them in the door.
The City can fight any racial ratio if they can prove the test (promotional/entrance exam) predicts job performance. This must be done by the test designer. This was done in Wash. v. Davis, 426 U.S. 229 (1976) where SCOTUS upheld the racial results. Chicago no longer even tries to do this. Now, they set the bar super low and just use the last number of your social sec# for hiring, all the while balancing the racial make up so no one is hired at less than the 4/5 ratio. Poof – no lawsuit. Remember when the entrance exam categorized you as: Well-qualified, qualified, and some third category (I forgot what they called it)? In that scenario the city had to defend the predictive power of the exam. Here's a case where merit was fought but the case didn't survive.
Barnhill v. City of Chicago, 142 F. Supp. 2d 948 (2001)
• P’s alleged racial discrimination due to the fact that the 1998 Sgt’s test included 30% merit.
• This is both an EP claim and a title VII violation claim. With regard to the EP claim, the court said P’s failed to show discriminatory intent. With regards to Title VII claim, the court said P’s failed to showed disparate impact on white males.
Anonymous said...
Deenahan is the only one.
12/05/2019 02:48:00 AM
Deenihan, Konow, ODonnel, Kennedy, Georgas
12/05/2019 06:15:00 PM
Godsel, Loughran, McCruddin
The article was questioning if there are deputy chiefs or chiefs who ever passed the lieutenants exam..
Godsel, Loughran, and McCrudden are not deputy chiefs yet - but they were promoted off the list
LT Ben has NOT passed a promotional exam... but runs around as if she's gods gift to CPD...NOT! She's a big joke!
A disrespectful supervisor that talks down to people, Incompetent with NO Leadership skills, NONE!
Kass is employed by a lefty newspaper , he has to walk softly or he will be gone .
JKass is from a working neighborhood , his Family owned a grocery store , shaken down by the Daley organization during the 59 ,60’s .
Blogger Rough&Tumble White Guy with a Basic Education said...
Anonymous said...
There are 2 Compelling Government Interests that are recognized to allow such a process. 1. Diversity ( a facially neutral system with a disparate impact would have to pass through a burden-shifting analysis, that the CPD merit system would not survive) 2. Remedial action to cure past discrimination. Either one must be so narrowly tailored
to pass the most Strict Scrutiny. The means must perfectly fit the ends and if there is any other way to achieve the Compelling Government Interest, the merit system will fail Strict Scrutiny. It is very likely that the current system is Unconstitutional and would fail a Strict Scrutiny analysis. But it is also true that an Illinois court would screw that analysis up and go the wrong way. Any challenge would have to go up the appellate ladder.
12/05/2019 11:08:00 PM
You completely lost it all by you last sentence. Are you aware the top of the appellate ladder is the Illinois Supreme Court headed by Justice Burke. Need I say more. I’m sure you are also aware that the CPD retirees filed suit regarding healthcare being guaranteed in the state constitution. Well the state employees had filed a suit in 2014 using the same arguments and basically mirroring the retirees case. Illinois Supreme Court ruled in their favor so how could the CPD retirees lose once they went up the appellate ladder and ended up at the Supreme Court who rules for the state employees. They can’t contradict their previous ruling
Guess what they did? Refused to hear the case, with no comment
My point is don’t count on anything going up the ladder
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Blogger Rough&Tumble White Guy with a Basic Education said...
Anonymous said...
There are 2 Compelling Government Interests that are recognized to allow such a process. 1. Diversity ( a facially neutral system with a disparate impact would have to pass through a burden-shifting analysis, that the CPD merit system would not survive) 2. Remedial action to cure past discrimination. Either one must be so narrowly tailored
to pass the most Strict Scrutiny. The means must perfectly fit the ends and if there is any other way to achieve the Compelling Government Interest, the merit system will fail Strict Scrutiny. It is very likely that the current system is Unconstitutional and would fail a Strict Scrutiny analysis. But it is also true that an Illinois court would screw that analysis up and go the wrong way. Any challenge would have to go up the appellate ladder.
12/05/2019 11:08:00 PM
You completely lost it all by you last sentence. Are you aware the top of the appellate ladder is the Illinois Supreme Court headed by Justice Burke. Need I say more. I’m sure you are also aware that the CPD retirees filed suit regarding healthcare being guaranteed in the state constitution. Well the state employees had filed a suit in 2014 using the same arguments and basically mirroring the retirees case. Illinois Supreme Court ruled in their favor so how could the CPD retirees lose once they went up the appellate ladder and ended up at the Supreme Court who rules for the state employees. They can’t contradict their previous ruling
Guess what they did? Refused to hear the case, with no comment
My point is don’t count on anything going up the ladder
12/08/2019 04:29:00 PM
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It would go up the ladder in the federal courts, not the state courts- based on the Civil Rights Act of 1965 Title VII. But Merit has already stood up to strict scrutiny in the federal district court - that's a trial level court I beleive - I don't know that the case has been appealed. The case is Barnhill v. City of Chicago, 142 F. Supp. 2d 948 (2001)
Burke was the sole vote stating Illinois could change the police pension remember that? The rest of the justices said it would violate the Illinois constitution. This was sometime around 2014.
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