Nice CTA Groot
Can you believe that there still hasn't been a single change in the command structure of the Mass Transit Unit?
- Three people were shot, one fatally, in a CTA pedestrian tunnel downtown overnight, police said. No one is in custody.
Just after 2 a.m. Monday, a witness flagged down police to report shots fired in the pedestrian tunnel that connects the Blue Line and Red Line at Jackson.
Officers responded to the scene and found two men unconscious with gunshot wounds, according to initial reports.
Medical personnel pronounced one victim dead at the scene. He was shot in the stomach and chest, according to CPD. The other man is in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with gunshots to his head and arm, police said.
At some point, you have to make a change, if only for the express purpose of looking like you're doing something.
That time has long since passed for Mass Transit. Our readers have provided numerous examples of general incompetence on a daily basis, but because the people running the place are wives, girlfriends, pin-cushions of bosses, they're allowed to stack up a body count, even get blasted at CompStat, and not a single consequence is handed out.
That time has long since passed for Mass Transit. Our readers have provided numerous examples of general incompetence on a daily basis, but because the people running the place are wives, girlfriends, pin-cushions of bosses, they're allowed to stack up a body count, even get blasted at CompStat, and not a single consequence is handed out.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Time to Go Cindy S.
And the dead guy . . . was wearing, yes, a bullet proof vest. Must have been beyond its expiration date, as was he, because it sure didn't work. Oh, let's not forget about all the little baggies that were scattered about. Shootings, drug dealing, robberies, beatings, the CTA has become a carnival ride from hell.
So much for the plan to stop all the violence. What is the plan for summer.
Remember when CTA has their own police department? Maybe it’s time to bring it back
I can't think of anyone I work with who actually cares anymore.
The department is broken.
I guess it's time for the new order.
Anyone seen Paul Kersey?
There simply IS NO police presence on the subways, period. Change!
This city makes me fucking sick. So done with it.
I would like a journalist in Chicago to seriously ask the mayor this question:
Imagine 20 years from now if you and your daughter Vivian were enjoying a beautiful summer day down at Navy Pier. As the two of you walk you are holding her hand when you hear a loud bang. Suddenly your daughter falls to the ground. You see the shock and fear in her eyes as she tells you she thinks she has been shot. Two hours later at Cook County Hospital doctors tell you they are sorry but your daughter is dead. You later find out it was an illegal alien. He waould have been deported by ICE but sanctuary city laws prevented that from happening. How would you feel?! Because that's what happened in 2015 when Kate Steinle was murdered in July as she walked arm in arm with her father, Jim, and friend, Frances Williams. Mayor Lightfoot, you and the rest of the politicians here in Illinois are hypocrites. You pretend to care about the safety of the citizens. You say Chicago must do better. Then you endorse a States attorney who refuses to put dangerous felons in jail. You embrace Sanctuary city laws which allow felons to remain free. You are nothing but a fraud who will pander to whatever will keep you in office. You have blood on your hands.
I’m sure the transit officers were sitting up on street level doing nothing. And then when the shooting occurred, probably stayed on street level and kindly pointed the beat cars in the right direction where the beat car handled the paper. Dump every one from mass transit, and bring in people who are willing to at least do paper for incidents that happen on CTA. They’re all fucking useless.
There’s nothing but cubicles full of girl friends of bosses in Mass Transit
Beck get rid of Crazy Kim and Cindy Shame in Mass Transit
Of course there isn’t any change. She’s connected. They aren’t willing to really fix the problem with crime on CTA at the expense of a connected person.
Please, no cops on CTA. It makes Lynda Lopez feel uneasy.
That time has long since passed for Mass Transit. Our readers have provided numerous examples of general incompetence on a daily basis, but because the people running the place are wives, girlfriends, pin-cushions of bosses, their allowed to stack up a body count, even get blasted at CompStat, and not a single consequence is handed out.
Labels: crime
All public conveyances should be for the impoverished only, no white guilt liberal tax paying riders allowed...
I would call the Command Staff of the CPD a bunch of clowns but I have respect for clowns. They get paid to make you laugh but the leadership of CPD makes you cry. If you are old enough to remember what the CPD was it makes you angry and sad at the same time.
At some point, you have to make a change, if only for the express purpose of looking like you're doing something.......................................
I couldn't agree more. No matter how "heavy" or "connected" they are, they need to go. "promote" them to some imaginary job upstairs if you must because the citizens are starting to notice
The answer is the new detail in which every district is giving up 2 or 3 coppers who will patrol the cta. Nobody in their right mind would volunteer for this bullshit so it will be filled thru reverse seniority. That means a bunch of fresh faced new kids who know nothing will be in the tubes or on the elevated structures playing the police. Watch your six and don't get busted up fighting with one of these fools so that psycho bitch can let them walk right out of the county jail with a pat on the back.
Why blame the commander, it’s obviously some Blue Shirts’ fault.
Stop the trains between 11p-430am. Set up a UBER type service for people who can prove that they are working those hours, that service is paid for by CTA, only when being transported to and from work during the late night hours. The people, or folks, don't have jobs and have no need to be down there.
This alone shows how in over her head Lightfoot is. Truly a joke.
Can you imagine if that unit was run by a white male with those results? He would have been launched to 003 on midnights months ago.
VP of CTA security is in Mexico collecting his two paychecks from the city. Look him up on Facebook.
The people who have left our watch to go to Mass Transit were the worst dogs of the watch. Consistently... amazing.
This may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Oops. My mistake. It was Gloria on the camel and not Cindy.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Mass Transit? Who dat ? I work in the loop and NEVER see any officers on the platforms, surely not on the trains. Oh wait - I do see two officers sitting in a marked square car in the middle median on State St occasionally.
You are on your own on the Red Line . Good Luck with Kim Fox’s kids .
It’s trumps and the NRA’s fault. The new mantra of the left aided by the jag offs at the scum times enablers like Chris Fusco and Dold of the Tribune.
Groot don’t take no CTA so all is good.
The amazing thing is this came up on social media and the snowflakes jumped in with "this fearmongering" and millions of people use mass transit in the city and these types of things are going to happen. I wonder how they would react if the old guy getting stomped and punched and beat senseless happen to be their Uncle or Grandfather ????
Personally I choose to be in the area's of the city that are inhabited by civilized people
I call the CTA Blue Line "Englewood on Wheels."
Mass Transit is a retirement spot when it should be an extremely active unit. Old timers ruined the unit. As did the bosses there. But let’s stop blaming only the police for crime. Crime happens because criminals choose to commit crimes. We can only blame the police and different units so much for their response to crime patterns but not for the crime itself.
When was the last time any one of those merit bitches was held accountable?
Remember when CTA has their own police department? Maybe it’s time to bring it back
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Same with the parks.
Remember when CTA has their own police department? Maybe it’s time to bring it back
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And the CHA.
They do have two time keepers for 125 officers!
Clean out mass transit and start over, and who ever promoted the ones who were in charge should be fired
Question, has anyone ever seen the current commander of mass transit out riding the trains to see first hand what's going on? Does she come to any roll calls and ask the officers working there what ideas they might have to improve things? Too Good for that?
Paul Kersey, Chicago needs you.
The trr, ISR's, and bwc makes proactive policing impossible. Remember every incident on the train requires a evacuation of the car, notification of the car # for camera activation, establishing a zone of safety, requesting a CIT officer, and the use of time as a tactic.
Pathetic, when you follow the GO's.
America
First of all Einstein, Mass Transit can only do so so much with the minimal man power that they have assigned to that unit. The hell with what the pencil pushers say that their numbers are. It's basic math, you can't do more with less when you have an area the size of the Chicago Transit System to cover. It's simply ridiculous.For example, if you have only one unit covering the Red line south( Cermak to 95th.) during the afternoon when the school lets out and you have another unit posted at 55th/Garfield , and there's a battery in progress or robbery at 69th and the Red line. How is that Mass Transit's fault ? The guitar player that was stabbed by a female on the platform was no more the responsibility of Mass Transit, than a shooting victim in the districts. If that offender was going to committ that crime , the crime was going to be committed whether a cop was present or not. Mass Transit needs a minimum of at least 60-80 assigned officers,with at least 20-25 going to 1st watch. Additionally, the 1st watch Sergeants do a good job managing with the limited resources that they have. Hell, they have to log the two cars for Special Employment ( which might be on opposite sides of town), try and respond to in progress calls or calls for a Supervisor by a citizen, log the other remaining units that are along the transit line within the boundary or the Chicago Transit System , make required notifications as well as other responsibilities. The city needs to open up 1st watch special employment back to at least 12 officers, so that there can be at least 6 more units to cover the red and blue lines overnight.Every little bit helps, as a matter of fact,more officers should be able to work all 3 watches for special employment. We need more MANPOWER to cover the assignments, to all of you hypocritical "want to be go getters ". Stay fetal, stay fetal, all that B.S. S(ugar)H(oney)I(ce)T(ea) that is constantly being mentioned. However, when there's a legitimate manpower issue, mofos are quick to point blame or fingers at others when they don't want to do their job. Oh yeah, for all you readers that have a low or slow comprehension level, look up the word " Support ". Read it, study it, memorize it, say out loud, ok . It's called a support unit for a reason! Unit 701 does make arrests, issue ANOVS ,ride the transit lines ; however with limited manpower within the unit, Hell on the job , there's only so much that can be done. Stop promoting all of these upper level duplicate responsibility bosses and focus on more promoting and training more front line supervisors, and hiring more cops. Make the job more appealing,dump the residency requirement or add a outer mileage boundary or something.Lastly, I know there will be more than enough critics, haters, etc.. that will respond to my post. So what, have at it, I still want everyone to go home safely and watch each others back, Blue looks out for Blue !
"get blasted at CompStat"????
You mean there's drinking and gambling going on?
I'm shocked. Computers were supposed to be the solution to
all of our problems. LAPD bought computers, CPD bought
computers, Balitimore bought computers. And the carnage
continues. Hey, if the computers don't catch it the first time,
is it legal for the humans to enter the data after the fact?
What happened at mass transit I was assigned there every winter, we had a foot post in the tubes for rush hour, lunch then rode the trains no cars. The regulars had to make 1 arrest per night usually a piss bum. Times were good then!
Wait a minute, isn’t that a sanctuary pedestrian tunnel? Sanctuary is becoming Synonymous with dead zone.
And another incident on the Cta? Can the Cta be sued? When will there be a change at Mass Transit? I know when... when something bad happens to a politically connected or influential person or family member. Why wait till then? Sad state of affairs. Time for a change from the top down. Yo Mayor! Do your job. Otherwise this is the only term you will have.
"All public conveyances should be for the impoverished only, no white guilt liberal tax paying riders allowed.."
Au contraire - the white guilt liberal taxpayers should be REQUIRED to use public transport and give up their gas-guzzling environment destroying cars. Let them deal daily with the hell they've brought to bear on the rest of the citizens.
Remember - a conservative is a liberal who got robbed at gunpoint. Best recruiting tool evah.
Hmmmm. More red line jihadism. Urban terrorists at their best. The Chicago pols own this mess!
The only thing that comes to mind is thank god there is no more “stop and frisk” going on and our criminals feel safe. The rest is just collateral damage.
2:11 great post you nailed it and her and Kim. This should go viral.
Allow concealed carry on the trains or put metal detectors at the turnstiles.
A few years back before CTA was not that greedy and the city not as much stupid it was barely crime on CTA because people were full staffed and were encouraged to work, ow you have what you got.
The CTA Police Force was very small. They should have a designated Transit Police Department that numbers at least 1000 officers. It's quite obvious that what is being done isn't working. Of course the communerty will then be up in arms because of over policing. In addition with Crimesha in charge there will continue to be a catch and release policy. At this point the best option will be to move far m, far away. Even McJersey was shocked at the small size of the transit unit.
The most useless, do nothings in the Department have always found a spot in the Mass Transit Unit. Apparently that will never change.
Cops On Dots premiering soon.
Will District/Unit Sgts On Dots (COPA min. required) be redeployed out to supervise?
What will be the extent of participation by the Transit Ghost Unit? How many sworn admin house clerks does it take to compile all those goose eggs humpers?
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Heard snowflake being interviewed on the radio this morning complaining about train crime on the Blue Line, say that it’s as bad as the Red Line. They’re switching over to bus routes to avoid victimization.
Could the insensitive, divisive color coding of the CTA system be on the way out too?
CTA L never mentions it’s midnight owl Rush Hour service. Turnstile hopping packs of armed feral ignoring those signs.
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Dot Cops selection process being refined for maximum efficiency.
Most low on the totem pole are most vulnerable especially coming off those 1st 2nd P furloughs.
Volunteers?
Crappy drive but tubes are better than a ghetto beat any day.
Bring that ANOV book because ain’t nobody going to jail.
Worked Mass Transit back from 1985 to 2006. We had some crime but absolutely nothing like this Thefts, begging, and graffiti were the main problems. CTA wasted $millions on cameras but police presence is what works. City has to hire more cops and beef up patrols on the CTA and streets.
I can't think of anyone I work with who actually cares anymore.
The department is broken.
I guess it's time for the new order.
I’m at that stage in my career. I only have 3 years on.
I love being a police officer but when everything we do is over scrutinized and a mistake can cost you your career
Even if it’s an accidental-honest mistake. We are not believable anymore. No human being deserves to be scrutinized the way we are.
My buddy he’s not a cop even told me if people were over scrutinized in every job a lot of people would lose there job.
I believe that is the goal of the city-copa is to fire as many cops as they can
That way it’s saves on the pension payment.
Make it a revolving door.
They want a good 3-5 years out of you being proactive until you realize that the more contact with the public the higher the change you have of Lossing your job. Then the mistakes you made when you were proactive will be brought to light before you make it to being vested into the pension.
The Intel Officer is dumb as they come, over there in that unit. Should of heard him at Comp-Stat, seemed confused. They should put him at CPIC and learn something.
CTA needs Bernie Getz !!!
As long as people bring in ANOV’s so they can leave early she won’t be replaced. It’s the only thing keeping her there. She has numbers for compstat.
well anyone on the job knows its every man for himself. Ive got kids to raise, mortgage, tuition, medical, cant take care of my family from a prison in Baltimore. These people are getting what they asked for. They vote in all these politicians, this is the result.
If you work special employment CTA with someone from a unit outside of Mass Transit, you do your checks, mill around the platforms, answer jobs, etc. You are seen. If you happen to end up with a 701 regular, they won’t even get out of the car to swipe...I was told by one regular 701, “no one checks that.” Also never understood the reason for detailing a special employment CTA unit to be stationary at 95th Street when there is a fixed car there that never leaves their hideout. The only reason for that would be those guys are being taken care of to do absolutely nothing.
Whats the point in arresting these transit assholes when Kimmy lets em go in a matter of hours? The STATES ATTY is the problem! Lock a few of these mutts up with no I bond and maybe shit would change.
One CTA special employment working the midnight shift. They have cut down cta special from 100 per day to 40. Pretty significant
The Intelligence Section of-the CPD is the ultimate oxymoron. There is absolutely nointelligence in the command structure of the CPD. Zero, nada, zilch. LOL at the term CPD Intelligence anything.
That is why merit is a violation of the shakman decree, isn't anyone listening. F--k i'll pay to be a big boss, 200k, then i'll appoint my mom, brother ,sister father ,uncle ,aunt and play auntie etc... Fu--. this city. Wake up 1%, these dummies will ruin Michigan ave and downtown. Get rid of them.
The CTA is a dead trap. Riders beware!!!!
Mass transit needs to increase uniform officers on the platforms including riding the trains. They need to open up undercover/plainclothes to those who are proactive. They also need to have k-9 and Officer with rifles on busy platforms.
I lived in a few European cities in the 90s. We took the trains, drunk, everywhere. It was great. There was barely a police presence. People generally "policed" themselves. Even in the Ukraine where people were DIRT poor, there wasn't a lot of crime, just drunks getting hammered and singing down there. They had little Hooch bars(it is warm). How the hell can you run a city without a safe transportation system? Can't Kim Foxx use her "Ghetto Pass" and convince some of those people to police themselves a little?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Remember when CTA has their own police department? Maybe it’s time to bring it back
2/18/2020 12:34:00 AM
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They had one until about 1981. Small, only did paper on property crimes to CTA property. Only had 2 one man cars on the street per shift (one North of Madison, one south). Didn't even have lights on the cars (only flashing headlights guys put in themselves) until the last year before they were disbanded. Absolute clout job. Nobody got it that wasn't heavy as shit.
Now, if you had told us that the 2 people in our academy class voted most likely to quit during their first week (Cindy Sam and Patricia Walsh) would end up as a Commander and Dep. Chief, we would have laughed our asses off.
Reinstate the Guardian Angels and the guard dog patrols. CTA can afford them.
Obviously we must disarm all law abiding gun owners and make owning a gun in Chicago an expensive nightmare. That'll show those gang bangers!/s
"...worked Mass Transit from 1985-2006..."
You must have had a great chinaman. Did you attend the monthly "soirees" they had on Archer Avenue? It was full of active duty and retired guys bragging how they escaped real work their entire career.
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