Still Short Equipment
- According to members of the Chicago Fire and Police Departments, the Ford Motor Company has generously donated 8,000 face shields, 3,000 of which were to be distributed to firefighters, with the remainder issued to police officers. Malört, a firm which manufactures hand sanitizer, has similarly donated consignments of the hand disinfectant specifically earmarked for police and firefighters serving Chicago. In addition to face shields and hand sanitizer, 125 infrared thermometers were also provided to the CFD for the purpose of testing firefighters for the virus.
As puzzling as it may sound, particularly with Ms. Lightfoot, Chicago’s scintillating leader with the aura of Lawrence of Arabia at the helm, none of this reported bounty has been distributed to whom it was intended. Although the face shields were donated on March 28, according to members of the CPD and CFD, the protective gear and sanitizer was seized on April 2 and is undergoing a review according to departmental policy. Members of both departments have also disclosed there is a shortage of N95 masks for police and firefighters, both departments have been forced to continue performing their duties with outdated hand sanitizer, and police recruits have been assigned the responsibility of disinfecting police vehicles without being issued protective clothing.
The fact city policy has forbidden distribution of this equipment, of course, prompts the critical question: Why has Mayor Lightfoot not intervened and suspended CPD or CFD policy requiring evaluation of donated face shields and hand sanitizer? While CPD and CFD policy is the result of prudent deliberation, there are circumstances when a crisis looms, and broad mayoral discretion is unavoidable. COVID-19 is certainly one such crisis. As mayor of a city in the throes of the coronavirus, it is undeniably within Lightfoot’s authority to rescind the regulations to direct the donated face shields and hand sanitizer from being issued to CPD and CFD personnel. If the White House can direct federal agencies to accept Emergency Use Authorizations allowing the suspension of clearance processes, and if the Cook County Board can allow Cook County’s mean mom, Toni Preckwinkle, expanded power to contend with Covid-19, then it is unquestionably within the authority of Lightfoot to take the resolute step to temporarily suspend CPD and CFD standards to ensure its employees are issued the proper safety equipment.
We don't know what you all have gotten, but aside from the badly prepared and heat-sealed "PPE's" assembled by recruits in one of HQ's larger rooms and a few gloves we got from ambulance crews, we've seen no masks, no non-expired sanitizer and nothing resembling an actual vehicle sanitation kit.
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posted by SCC at 5:31 AM
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Ford Motor Company needs to demand answers on this.
All that shit is probably being distributed to Reverends on the South and West sides.
Raising legitimate questions that investigative reporters in Chicago USED to find answers to.
This city and dept. sucks!
I tell young people all the time wether going for Police or Fire jobs, go to another agency!
This city is piss poor in providing help and resources and solving our fair contracts because, Chicago does not care!!
Yet, Chicago will bend over backwards to help illegals and lawbreakers!
Also, don’t fill out the census forms and screw this city!
Its my way of responding to no new Police contract!
Fuck Chicago! KMA 25+ years!
Where is the union in all of this? Did they forget what their job is? If there was ever a time to get on stage in front of a national audience it's now.
I am surprised that the 50 thieves haven't been spotted wearing face shields and squirting hand sanitizer at each other. Or perhaps that equipment has been sold to line there pockets while Firefighters and the Police are left to die on the vine.
You are on your own so act accordingly.
Dear expendable:
You have not seen.
And they will not be seen.
Good
we're all counting on you!
Truly yours
Lori lightloafers
I could use a shot of Malort right about now.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Great article.
We haven’t seen any of this stuff come to a FH. Except the 125 infrared thermometers for the members to
take their own temperature was purchased by the CFFU Local 2. They were being proactive because the
city wouldn’t do what was needed for the health and safety of its members.
My neighbor is a rep for the Firefighters union. He told me the city won't let the shields be handed out until CFD members take a class on how to put the shield on! It's the same as putting on a visor, but Lori knows best
I am confused about transmission of the virus. The nose and mouth may be covered, but can` the thing enter through our eyes?
The reason for failing to provide this equipment is because mayor Larry ended her abilities to handle a crisis when it drew the LGQBT rainbow colors out of order. Chicago is a national joke, the state a national disgrace. Tons o Fun Pritzger cant have a press conference without blaming Trump for everything. Larry stands there bug eyed, dressed like a slob and humming Happy Days. Pitiful.
This article will be “Exhibit A” to justify why I blow off as many jobs as humanly possible.
I code most jobs without ever getting out of the car.
I immediately “19 Paul” the typical ghetto nonsense jobs.
I refuse to do perform social distancing dispersals and God himself couldn’t make me go hands on with these mutts to arrest for non-compliance to vacate a corner with 10 other assholes.
No protective gear? No closing of station lobbies to the public? No legit decontamination of vehicles and equipment? No social distancing via cramped roll calls? What does that amount to, you ask? ...
NO work from me past showing up, collecting my equipment while masked and gloved, sanitizing said equipment and then spending the first half hour of the shift held down wiping and spraying down my assigned vehicle and allowing it to thoroughly dry before getting in it for the tour.
I am not a second-class citizen and refuse to be treated like one. I cannot and will not perform my duties if not equipped with the bare minimum of items to protect myself. Mayorette Larry can tour the McCormick place makeshift hospital with the best face mask, transported there and back in the vehicle which is without a doubt totally decontaminated prior to sliding her precious ass into it, but front line 1st responders get shit.
Fuck this city. Fuck the mayor. Fuck the governor. And fuck any supervisor who thinks they’re gonna put the screws to me to do anything outside of protecting myself as described until this shit is done.
Light foot has seized all donations for Her discretion. She will be distributing door-to-door party bags to ‘communities and illegal street vendors at most risk.’ She also use these items for south side residents claiming asbestos poisoning from the recent tower fall...
Should a company drop donated supplies at your District, the Mayor will quickly pull up your Ethics Statement and write you up for ‘accepting gifts valued at over $50.’
My buddies in 016 and 019 got a cool shield made by a retired cop, Can we get some in 003?
My guess: Someone sold the donations and they are trying to cover it up.
LIGHTFOOT will be on Bloomberg Virtual Meeting
on Thursday, April 16th @12:00 PM EDT.
She has time for THAT!
And where is BECKKER in all of this?
He goes to Cemetaries now as a strawman?
No nothing, see nothing, say nothing.
Just read that Willie Wilson has answered his called to duty. Once again. Donating. 10,000masks. To police. Going to happen today at FOP. 3. Pm.
I wish to thank you sir. For my family
Now make sure the officers receive them FOP.
Not like the. BS with the fire department
It’s time the unions. Come together and call out the Mayor
Decisions on who and where this equipment should go. Should not be debated
BS on if it meets the standards
Did the poor recruits meet. the standards on how to sanitize. NO
CFD and CPD are the backbone of our city
Remember who stepped up to really help.
Elections are coming
Thank you WILLIE WILSON
But wait those items will be redirected to communities of color because they are dying at a higher percentage that the CPD or CFD. What is left over will go to CPS teachers because they are so valuable. ARE YOU FETAL YET, IF NOT WHY NOT?
Still no department-issued PPE. I got the one Kindergarten Cop PPE kit which I used a week ago and now there's no replacements. I got the issued N95 mask from the Academy but used that for my jobs at the hospital and threw it out after a couple uses. Governor Pritzker said that all law enforcement in the state has the proper PPE...and if they don't its on them to notify their supervisors. {snicker}
Remember years ago when people used to make fun of "preppers"? I'll be joining their ranks and be doing lots of prepping once this is over.
Groot isn't that fast on her feet so she needs the stuff stuck in limbo while she figures out how to steal it from first responders and give to Jesse Jackass and Fathed Pflakey to distribute to the communerty (for a price, of course).
She is just buying time hoping you will forget the donations so she can sell it on EBay. Where is the FOP and the CFD union on this issue. They should hold a joint press conference to outline the real protection efforts or lack there of by HER administration. Guess clowns don't do well at press conferences. How about someone at FORD speaking up and asking why their donation is being held.
Guarantee those items are long gone. Where? No one seems to be able to tell. The Chicago Way, must have fallen off a truck on the way to distribution center. That or they stopped in one of the South or Westside communities and truck was hijacked. Would be fun to hear her answer on this one.
My local Police accept PPE gladly.
can you do shots of the malort hand sanitizer?
JB Patasz probably ate it all.
They want Absolute control. Boomers are making their final push
The connected ,community getting the donations … then selling on open market .. clown mayor larri's way
Ford should sue larry
They mayor said she sent enough equipment and called the officers in the field short of the equipment liars.
you think all that PPE seized EIGHTEEN DAYS ago is still there? LOL And they have not made a decision in the past two weeks how to "distribute" it ? LOL
Kinda funny Groot talking about having hand sanitizer every 5ft in her office? LOL
Two weeks at that? LOL I'd venture every alderman in Groot/Periwinkles click has a few boxes. The Fat Man's mansions and family has many boxes. "Community leaders have a few boxes. Reveruns got a few. etc.etc. You'll be seeing convicts walking out of jail with a bag of PPE.
The few crumbs left, Groot and Co. will make a big scene of handing out to maybe this week after they get a press conference arranged with the media. Not a bad reaction time 3 weeks in the face of a deadly national emergency. LOL Or it might them another week to fully squander everything .
Call me cynical , but it is just precognitive pattern recognition. No worries, I'm Groot's handpicked Super-Brown will make all things right in CPD land
I've been retired a long time now. I can't understand what happened to all the supplies we were supposed to have. Where did the money go?
Should the union ask the feds to investigate?
She will just blame trump..
They told me i wasnt medically clear to wear a mask. Not allowed to fit test. No mask given.
Chances are good this equipment has been distributed....to family members of the political class within the police and fire departments.
Jimmy Carter........Cook County’s mean mom, Toni Preckwinkle...........public service announcements on Twitter in which she bears a closer resemblance to a dimwitted millennial spouting off on Snapchat than the elected mayor of Chicago
I couldn't have said that any better!
Nothing, not a freakin thing. My Sgt luckily put together a kit for all of us on his dime because well the city didn’t.
You have to do what it takes to protect your people. Our leadership only knows how to blame Trump instead of handling the problem in creative ways.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israels-not-so-secret-weapon-in-coronavirus-fight-the-spies-of-mossad/ar-BB12wwnH?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15
This Dept has absolutely no capacity for logistics or should be allowed to make an attempt at it.
But don’t think the City or IL is any better with their dipshit run general services.
Operating (especially during these challenging times) is not a Mon-Fri 8-4 job.
But Larri & JB say otherwise, it’s either they don’t have the stuff, gave it to someone else or they’re hoarding it to push a shortage narrative for political attacks against the Federal government.
Imbeciles showing up late, slackers too lazy, disarray and no accounting, and mostly a management that can’t even match the socks they put on in the morning. When anything is sent to EQ&Supp it’s likely misplaced and lost. The only plan they have is send out a message citywide for units to pick that shit up whatever it is only the that day. After that it’s likely lost or tossed.
Jake and the Fat Man will blame the Federal government..so what else is new.
In any case and if it matters any, should those donated PPE items be ever located, they will be distributed in late July probably on Friday the 5th by 1400 hrs. Once Sanctuary gets taken care of First Responders will be second in line.
003 did not have enough PPE for officers on 3rd watch.
Willie Wilson Thank you for your continue support of our police once again
Mayor of Chicago. You are shameful
Since all criminal, traffic and civil courts are closed until ???? Why on earth are we still paying 1,000’s of judges, and thousands of States Attorneys and Public Defenders and tens of thousands clerks and other flunkies. Why don’t all these DEMORATIC patronage workers join the “getting no check” people. Then all the phones will be ringing off the hook to their politicians and this will come to an end overnight.
“We don't know what you all have gotten, but aside from the badly prepared and heat-sealed "PPE's" assembled by recruits in one of HQ's larger rooms and a few gloves we got from ambulance crews, we've seen no masks, no non-expired sanitizer and nothing resembling an actual vehicle sanitation kit.”
Thanks SCC. I can 100% attest to this exact same thing.
We have to be real here. The police are being treated like canaries in a coal mine. Well, not really as the miners actually liked their birds and treated them well. If there is a real disaster EMS will be dropping like flies, with the military coming in with MOPP gear to clean up the mess; Tac nukes acceptable. This is all an ugly game of takeover, at least until the previously marginalized groups that didn't buy into this foolishness decide enough is enough, and the libtards reap the whirlwind. All we can do is stay safe, stay healthy and come out the other end of the GI tract. Best to all
I guarantee you that everyone close to the mayor is sporting brand new ppe, as part of the evaluation process. This bitch of a mayor has the nerve to complain about the president and then withhold ppe from cfd and cpd. All the while she proclaimed that the city was absolutely ready for this crisis in February. Then she complains that the federal government didn't do enough to prepare and isn't helping enough. Liberalism is a disease, too bad the virus doesn't target Democrats.
larry would rather delay the delivery, or pass it along to the hospitals, than see the protective equipment go to the police where it was intended.
Speaking of short on equipment, yesterday in 003 3rd watch roll call, lieutenant "W" coughed into her hands and told everyone she has allergies, then proceeded to hand out ppe kits, today she tested positive for corona
Shame on the City of Chicago, the CPD leadership and those who can’t even get simple equipment out to the workers. What’s wrong with all of you ? Here you hVe a legit company donating life-saving items dedicated to first responders and they can’t even get that right. Looks like the city will hang on to the hand sanitizers until it’s 4 years expired.
Such a shame and how embarrassing for the mayor and governor! How can they even show their faces, taking from generous people and failing to distribute!
Why are local restaurants and businesses providing 35th st with food, gloves masks etc before the troops on the street are getting them? Also it's sad to see CAPS officers donning masks on social media while midnight officers are getting nothing
" Malört, a firm which manufactures hand sanitizer"
And now I know why they call it a Chicago handshake!
How about this. FOP. Make distribution no mayor. Bullshit involvement
Check off each mask as given out
Use FOP rep in each district to submit. A list
Officers go pick up
P O first
Bosses last. They already. Have theirs
And they aren’t sitting in hospitals on prisoners
Equipment is so necessary. And we all don’t have Mask. Gloves. Ppe
I hope I get one from the new donations
Bless you Willie Wilson
Roll calls still inside
W H Y??????
I happened to work special employment with an officer assigned out of HQ. She seemed to have access to all kinds of face masks, gloves, testing etc...though her regular duties involve sitting inside. My guess is that anyone at HQ is more than adequately outfitted & protected.
Ah, Shortages, the telltale sign you are living under Socialism.
Remember it wasn't Frank Cannon the multi billionaire corpulent gold ladel in his mouth governor who would reach in to his vast pockets to help out. It was the guy who worked his way up in life and has a big heart and generally wants to help people
I keep a bottle of Malort at home. Kills everything. Good cells and the bad cells too.
Can I still get some of those turkey Pringles? They were delicious.
I am confused about transmission of the virus. The nose and mouth may be covered, but can` the thing enter through our eyes?
4/13/2020 07:15:00 AM
Eyes are the primary area of infection. Unlike the mouth, there is no saliva to provide initial immune response. And using all that alcoholic hand cleaners will break down epidermal layers, even worse for the fools using peroxide. Hot water and soap is always the best; have to break down the lipid encasement of viral and bacterial vectors. Wearing eye pro should always be a consideration from first responders. We should Never trust to luck when dealing with the public.
Do you have N95 mask or even rubber gloves from the City that care so much about us as the Police? No, don’t risk your health and family health when we’re not afforded the basic essentials. Love seeing all the bosses with the fancy face covers though.
Thank you Mr. Willie Wilson for your kind donation!
OT- OEMC is so short on dispatchers, after mandating them to work 12 hour days , cancelling their RDOs, and combining zone 5 and zone 7, it still not enough. Im pretty sure tomorrow Zone 11 and Zone 2 will be combined.
Anyone ask Groot where she got her custom face mask from.
Back in the day, Locasio's at 80th and Kedzie used to stock a Lithuanian bitters called Three Nines. It made Malort taste like a chocolate milkshake.
My buddies in 016 and 019 got a cool shield made by a retired cop, Can we get some in 003?
That is your commander and CAPS fault
You ask why, I'll tell you why. Because its a scam, its 911 on steroids.
In 015 there has not been any distribution of safety items except for some basic masks and food
Prep gloves donated by local businesses.
4/13/2020 07:20:00 AM?
You forgot the "Fuck my paycheck" statement.
it's less deadly than the seasonal flu, why are we shut down?
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