CTA Detail
So we have the "Window Detail" over Christmas, where Probationary Police Officers are sent to Michigan Avenue over the holidays to provide a visible presence of "security" to assuage nervous tourists who might otherwise decide to stay home, shop online or :::gasp::: spend money in the far-safer suburbs.
Now we are going to have a "Tube Detail" to cover current failures in charge of Mass Transit:
Now we are going to have a "Tube Detail" to cover current failures in charge of Mass Transit:
- The Chicago police department is preparing to deploy a temporary task force to address crime on the CTA’s elevated train system. News of the plan emerged hours after CWBChicago yesterday reported that CPD and CTA leaders were preparing significant changes in the way the two agencies address rail safety.
“I want to put cops on dots,” CTA Vice President of Security Kevin Ryan told CWBChicago this week, referring to L stations that are represented by dots on the transit system’s maps.
The police department seems to be moving in Ryan’s direction with the patrol surge, which will run from March 5 to Memorial Day. Two or three officers will be pulled from each of the city’s 22 police districts to staff the mobile patrol unit for about eight hours each evening, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
Golly, is that Iron Mike? Must be nice to get such a soft landing.
And Albany Park residents - remember those ten cops you were promised to alleviate shortages? It just became seven. The Amazing Shrinking Manpower solution.
And Albany Park residents - remember those ten cops you were promised to alleviate shortages? It just became seven. The Amazing Shrinking Manpower solution.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
65 Comments:
Maybe KR will hire MJT to solve all the problems on the CTA.
They will just push crime somewhere else. Criminals go out to commit crimes. Just because Chicago CTA becomes a Police State doesn’t mean criminals will stay home and not commit crimes.
Maybe we can bring back the summer mobile parties again?
Ryan who used to be a former police officer wants to put officer's in the tunnels of those subways, which would put every officer's life at risk. Rumor is that Kevin already wore out his welcome at CTA, so Kevin sit in a corner and be quiet. I do not think CTA or City Hall would like a lawsuit of the family of an officer who gets hit by a train in those tunnels.
Dump the entire transit unit. Every single one. And the revamp it into a real unit that will actually handle transit problems. These transit guys now? The sit upstairs in their cars, and if something happens on the CTA, it gets dumped off on the beat car while they sit there dumbfounded. Beat cars, the bottom of the shit hill. Get rid of every one of the useless transit coppers and bosses.
Maybe get someone who knows how to run the mass transit unit.
hahahahahaha.... so 50 cops pulled from around the City to envelope the CTA as a "task force"... yeah right.
So once the crime drops on the CTA because there's suddenly 'some cops', the crime goes up everywhere else because there's suddenly 'no cops'... and then we'll have to rebalance things in a few months.
Lipstick on a pig.
Lol pulling manpower (reverse seniority most likely) from districts already short on manpower to man a unit that is going to do their best to figure out how to avoid work. What could possibly go wrong? Some real dumb fucks making the major decisions on this department. Doesn't surprise me dumb fuck KR is involved.
Hey Ryan, go fuck yourself. You were a police officer before. Did you want to sit in the filthy, shit filled tunnels when you were here? Why force officers to do it now? Shut the hell up and collect your undeserved pension AND paycheck. Dickhead.
These MF'ers never go away.
So Cindy Sam ruined the unit and still stays in position with the public evidence of her failure.
Bring back Bob Dart to run Mass Transit..
Kevin---or as we used to call him Cabbage---should realize that police officers won't fit on dots.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
But what about all those signs with the no guns allowed symbol? Don't the bad guys/girls read? What about that list of proper behavior expected of passengers on the CTA? Don't the people/folks read?
CTA Kevin Ryan: Go Fuck Yourself.
Nice try with the football "put a hat on a hat" lingo.
But this ain't sportscasting, and you're a piss poor excuse
for a leader. Your brain is filled with sound bites, boy.
Go practice in front of a mirror and find an understanding wife.
Another Eddie Johnson success story!
Have CTA police. And pulling from reverse seniority does not constitute a “task force.” Nobody is going to want to do it. Keep your fucking “cops on dots.” Good luck with the new officers off probation riding CTA and intermingling. They’re going to have no clue.
So, pile more coppers onto an already dysfunctional Mass Transit unit, and don't fix what's wrong...Appoint more merit hacks, after you tell us merit is "suspended" Why does the city always do everything that shouldn't be done, and nothing that should be done? Did you think we weren't watching?
Littlefoot, and Beck...It is fun to watch you play "Whack a Mole"...it's obvious to the casual observer that you guy's don't have a clue. But people are dying here...and the police are talking about being fetal on a public blog. That SHOULD tell you something.
I have NO faith you two will fix anything. Crime will rise and you will still say it's down overall. It's also Tom Dart's, Crimesha's and the C.C. judges fault too, but you are part of the perfect storm. I don't blame the police for acting fetal, they are weathering this crap storm in any safe harbor nowadays. Cook County has become "Shangri-La" for the criminals...
I am predicting at least another four years of stormy weather...
Taking CTA to/from O'Hare is a GROSS EXPERIENCE. Train cars smell of urine, the riders are a mix of airport-related travelers, homeless folks, and sketchy-looking guys eyeballing the other riders. Coupled with the GROSSNESS of Terminal Five arrival area, past customs control, being herded on to those GROSS BUSES by sloppily-dressed, text-messaging, and often quite rude connected folks who get "do nothing" jobs here at airport, to reach a filthy O'Hare Station where it costs a $5 premium to endure a 3rd-world subway ride to downtown. Welcome tourists! Welcome business executives! Welcome to the Banana Republic of Chicago!
Kevin Ryan this is incredible another job making that big money, already getting about $130,000 a year plus in pension and now I’m going for another Pension didn’t do anything on the Chicago Police Department yet now he’s running to Chicago transit Authority it’s funny how they all keep bouncing and bouncing to other six-figure jobs and qualified on skilled it’s amazing the Chicago way.
Man, I only got 16yrs on but I remember when CPD had a CTA detail and those officers actually worked and rode the tubes! Radios didn't work in some spots but thats been updated and corrected... so what toke so long?
It's the 3 lowest in seniority from each district for 3 months. They plan to drop some numbers by that time and sneak the detailed officers back to the district. Its their typical smoke and mirror solution for imagery. Set up an occpational army for short term deployment. Knowing that manpower can't be sustained, it's just a move to temporarily ease the carnage so it looks better, and then pull the manpower to see if the rats stay away from the decayed carcass. They won't, but that's all these imbicil politicians and political ass kisser bosses know. What a sham; what a shame. We could be so much better. Arrest, detain, incarcerate and reform to prevent recidivism while the incarceration process is active. Release only those proven to have reformed, extend and repeat the process for the inmates who are incorrigible or defiant. Try it!
Let's see, CTA crime is up, the Commander of mass transit was over promoted when she made PO, and the head of CTA security is an ex-CPD clouted jagoff.
Yup, seems about right.
Dress warm kids.
Pulling manpower from districts that don’t have enough manpower already. Putting that stolen manpower on CTA because the bosses at Mass Transit can’t seem to do their job. Great, lets short districts more manpower because of the stupidity of the merit boss at Mass Transit.
I hate this department.
If you get stuck in the tubes make sure you wear hearing protection. Ya you can file a safety grievance with do nothing top by the time it’s acted upon you will have suffered hearing damage. Consider getting a quality device that allows normal conversation but blocks out the higher decibel noise. It’s your hearing.
KR is not too bright
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ryan who used to be a former police officer wants to put officer's in the tunnels of those subways, which would put every officer's life at risk. Rumor is that Kevin already wore out his welcome at CTA, so Kevin sit in a corner and be quiet. I do not think CTA or City Hall would like a lawsuit of the family of an officer who gets hit by a train in those tunnels.
What are you talking about? A lawsuit against CTA and the city. All large cities with public transportation and el trains have transit police. New York’s transit unit is huge.
Maybe CTA and the city should close the subways for fear that one of those 10’s of thousands of daily riders might get hit
It's impossible to police now. There can be no force used until all de-escalation is utilized. That means back up and call for CIT response and establish a perimeter. The general orders have created lawlessness in Chicago.
Kevin Ryan, you aren’t putting cops anywhere. You’re not a cop anymore so stop giving orders to cops like you are one. You’re failing miserably over there so just accept the departments help in bailing you out, say thank you (two words which rarely come out of you’re mouth) and shut up you egotistical jerk.
u have a unit with less then 150 coppers. New York has almost 3000. And u wonder why this happens.This unit would have gone the way of School Unit if it wasn t for all the Federal money the city steals from the unit. Just ask the last commander of mass transit before he got dumped over that money.Hey, wasn t all the great cameras they installed suppose to stop the crime.
How can you "address crime" when you welcome and cater to the people who commit the crime?
Temporary police for a permanent non-stop violent feral predator problem.
Ryan came up with that idea?
Is he the Downtown is Safe™️ guy?
Same guy who had SpecialEd approve of ushering packs of disruptive feral youth back onto the S/B Red Line for free?
The shakey dude is a civilian that can’t even get his agency to provide timely (multi dollar H-D camera system) images so the CookmCounty States Attorney KmmmFxxxx can laugh and say “that all you got”?
Cops on Dots™️ a straight time redeployment by seniority (admin house mice are spared) that unarmed recruit probationaries will have to endure the full extended reach of el’COPA too.
Zero tolerance, arrest on sight and which Sgts are going along with the redeployed Cops On Dots, the 701’s or Districts ?
Question: Does CTA Management have a decent pension fund?
if the parents of the feral youth responsible for the crimes committed by their teens chicago would be a better place.
It’s a band aid on a sucking chest wound. Dunnnnit’mattttdoooh once the new superintendent is selected plans will be finalized to turn the CTA shit sammmich over to the Metra police. Done deal as of 01 June 2021. Metra currently hiring coppers enmass to prepare for the tradition.
Hahaha. “Cops on the dots” was the old term thrown around when they deployed TRU, but the dots were shootings and homicides (KR was the commander there too)
And soon there were none in the tax paying areas. Those areas soon to become problem pockets. Criminals tend to flock away from highly policed areas.
Eat free downtown don’t have to do shit come in with ooo not bad fuck the city !
Let me get this straight. A unit that is filled with merit leadership will bring in reverse seniority PO's to straighten things out? Dump the commander and cheater hack Lt's and bring in bosses that know what work looks like. Good Luck.
Shutdown the Redline!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dump the entire transit unit. Every single one. And the revamp it into a real unit that will actually handle transit problems. These transit guys now? The sit upstairs in their cars, and if something happens on the CTA, it gets dumped off on the beat car while they sit there dumbfounded. Beat cars, the bottom of the shit hill. Get rid of every one of the useless transit coppers and bosses.
2/13/2020 12:57:00 AM
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Hey sport, your assessment is a little off. Mass Transit officers for the most part do not get cars. Only 2 for fixed posts through out the city. The guys you see sitting around in cars marked Mass Transit are guys working Special Employment on their day off. Before you start shooting your mouth off, know what your talking about. Apparently, you don’t have enough time on the job to get special or you would know this.
Is the Tranist Unit Commander one of the LIEtenants?
Aside from crime being down before the upticked uptick, did CTA experience the same lull?
Has 701 Mass Transit and it’s management team been that successful, enough to continue its existence?
Fare increases, gubmint grants, remodels, extensions, flyovers and lets not forget that Rahm’s multimillion dollar outfitting of hundreds of high definition cameras. All that and still plenty of crime all hours of the day and night. Arrest all you want, make the boss happy, shit canned in all Cook Co Courts and COPA still gets a notification.
Folks are getting scared. Has ridership dropped?
LightLoafer stomping around for answers like a hog looking for truffles. Ain’t none here, ain’t none there.
Enter Cops on Dots. A reactionary deployment that’s all about making the voting public feel safe.
Never mind the new deployment was approved by our merit eggheads on the behest of a non law enforcement agency.
Wait you ask, isn’t that’s what 701 MTU is suppose to do?
Straight time tour o’duty, drive all the way down to 001 in the uniform of the day, fully equipped with this and that, standup roll calls without even a locker, all the way through Memorial Day. Nice to have those early furloughs for once huh?
Pancake batter for brains.
But it’s the Chicago reactionary way like another hot button issue LightLoafer has in Chinatown where folks refuse to head out to. No mention that it was the recent site of a horrific double homicide by a Cook County violent repeat offender.
So in response to slow business, another City reaction, LL sent out her stooge commissioner from Chicago Department of Public Health to assure the public about the Coronavirus, not the roaming violent feral. “Please do not allow stigma, xenophobia or fear to control your decisions,”. There no need to worry about the flu. It’s safe in Chinatown and take the CTA too !
I remember someone saying downtown was safe, that the CTA was safe, that crime is down.
Where are these liars?
your going to have to wake them up if you have a problem. But the White Shirts had to come up with something to calm the midget down.
Go away Kevin! You are not the police anymore. Let it go.
Me thinks she is getting scared. Willing to grasp any straw no matter how ridiculous. Oh well let the Midget have her fun, not easy having a Napoleon Complex.
Maybe if mass transit would stop sitting at the downtown hotels cafeterias all tour shit would get done.
Anonymous said...
hahahahahaha.... so 50 cops pulled from around the City to envelope the CTA as a "task force"... yeah right.
So once the crime drops on the CTA because there's suddenly 'some cops', the crime goes up everywhere else because there's suddenly 'no cops'... and then we'll have to rebalance things in a few months.
Lipstick on a pig.
2/13/2020 01:13:00 AM
Oink!
>Fart!<
"Sooo-EEEEY!"
The only thing that was ever honest
and straight-up in Chicago WAS the stockyards.
the VP at the CTA......Mr. Personality?
Kevin, remember your son is on the job, do not make it hard on him because your a jag-off!
The tunnels are dark as hell, when a train observes anyone in those tunnels the train stops and then that holds up the rest of the system. Have a officer trip and fall on the tracks because they can not see where they are walking, due to Kevin Ryan wants them patrolled. Fuck him send his kid down them to patrol.
2/13/2020 06:32:00 AM
cabbage head....thanks for the laugh and blast from the past bandit.
Unplug the red line at 7-730 everyday. The jihadists will have to jihad at home in their own hoods.
I remember CTA having its owners police, until Byrne discontinued it. If CTA can waste money on studies, upper management salaries, cameras and El extensions, then it can reinstate its own police. Also, reinstate the Guardian Angels and the guards with the dogs.
Just don’t look in the radio room @ PTS.
Maybe you should hire off duty Police to work their days off and give them Yes time and a half CTA has big money big grants and have been in the black for years WTF the answers clear
WHY is the mass transit Cmdr still there ? She’s been a total failure and no one has the guts to get rid of her.
Anonymous said...
Let me get this straight. A unit that is filled with merit leadership will bring in reverse seniority PO's to straighten things out? Dump the commander and cheater hack Lt's and bring in bosses that know what work looks like. Good Luck.
For what it’s worth, the only Lts currently assigned to PTS earned their promotions, by score, without any noble assistance. I also heard there is a push to bring in a couple others who did the same (they only have two Lts working there).
What that unit needs is MANPOWER - not officers looking to save the world, but just officers willing to do their damn job - even if the bare minimum. If we got that out of them - might be a slightly different situation.
It’s been a while since we have called out an individual police leader. But if Chicago’s going to get serious about crime on the CTA, Commander Cindy Sam is the wrong person to lead the charge.
https://cwbchicago.com/2020/02/cpd-cta-forming-changes-to-transit-security-as-cops-expose-investigative-hurdles.html
CTA could start by bringing back the conductors. The operator navigated the train and the conductor sat in the middle of the train and watched the passengers and opened and closed the doors. CTA cut the position out and the place went to s%$#.
CTA should hire a private police force like METRA
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The tunnels are dark as hell, when a train observes anyone in those tunnels the train stops and then that holds up the rest of the system. Have a officer trip and fall on the tracks because they can not see where they are walking, due to Kevin Ryan wants them patrolled. Fuck him send his kid down them to patrol
If someone is spotted in the tunnel how about waiting at each end. OMG have an officer fall and trip. Might see where they are going if they used a flashlight. Dark as hell. So are midnights and most of 3rd watch
Calling a reverse seniority manpower boost a Task Force is the funniest thing I have heard in years. Will be all rookies, and deadbeats. Born to fail in the city that works!
CTA once had its' own private security. Mayor Byrne cut it.
Metra is not a private police force, it’s under the RTA umbrella. The 3 agencies that make up the RTA are: Metra, PACE(the bus service) and the CTA. So the CTA is not going to have any issues shoveling the Policing of the CTA to the Metra Police.
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