Eighty-One New Bodies
- A new class of police officers is joining the Chicago Police Department, entering the police force during the coronavirus pandemic and heightened civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
“We’ve never had the two intersect, where you have a global pandemic and unprecedented civil unrest,” Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said at a Monday news conference. “These people are quite aware of those circumstances and that background, and yet, they are committed to this profession.”
The 81 new probationary police officers were the first recruit class to undergo youth-led neighborhood tours, part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s promise for police reform, Brown said. The new officers will be trained, mentored and evaluated over the next three months.
- Michael Lappe, vice president of the board of trustees for the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, said 59 police officers are retiring in August, with another 51 retirements set for next month. “That’s unheard of,” Lappe said. “We’re seeing double the average number of retirees each month. The average is about 24 a month.”
So CPD is only down twenty-nine officers from earlier this summer.
And that's before the really big numbers hit toward the end of the year.
And that's before the really big numbers hit toward the end of the year.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
73 Comments:
Abandon all hope all ye who enter here.
People Apply for CPD for the Money, 70K a year after probation.
Just what the hell were they promised?
Big bucks and a secure retirement?
These men will get the shaft.
(Que Blaxploitation music)
Brownie: (thought bubble) Fools!
Recruits: (thought bubble ) ASSHOLE!
If the superintendent was any kind of leader, his words of advise would've been something along the lines of "go take the fire dept exam"
So the Sun Times is still lying about the George Floyd incident. The article said that George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officers.
The Sun Times is allowed to misreport, misrepresent, and flat out lie to its readers. The newspapers say they don't like to list the race of offenders in reported crimes in this city for fear of creating racial tension, yet creating racial tension is all that the media has done nationwide since at least the Trayvon Martin incident.
The coroner's report and the overwhelming mountain of evidence culled from police body worn cameras show that Minneapolis police officers did not murder George Floyd.
When will journalists be held accountable for their lies, which only serve to further inflame an already incendiary level of antagonism between a certain demographic and the police?
Fuck you Lil mad munchkin!
The irony and the hypocrisy of it all. Groot wants "reform" in the CPD which shamelessly rigs promotional "exams" which are based solely on clout aka "merit". Many, even most so-called "exempts" are incompetent "clout babies" who have no business even wearing a blue shirt. It's all politicians and current brass corruptly promoting kin, bribers and those who dispense "sexual favors" to their "mentors".
Shameless chutzpah in-your-face by the management of the most politically corrupt major police department in the nation!
These asshole sycophants couldn't lead a pack of starving hounds to a fresh side of beef.
Local mainstream media is complicit with their silence. City hall "owns" them.
Black lives matter.... not.
don't expect a retired star any longer. when you retire now they claim they don't have any because too many people retiring. if you don't believe, ask for yourself
I think this speaks volumes
Why does the city want police retirees to pay for their medical insurance at age 60???? Aren't police retirees suppose to receive FREE medical insurance at age 60 and older ???? FOP please do something.
Don’t forget all the laterals to other departments!
The 81 new probationary police officers were the first recruit class to undergo youth-led neighborhood tours, part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s promise for police reform, Brown said. The new officers will be trained, mentored and evaluated over the next three months.
Rumor of the day is they will be immediately assigned to Fort Lori until the expiration of her only term...
81 new bodies? Shoot, I was thinking you were talking about Chicago's shootings this weekend? But that was only 72 bodies.
Congratulations to the new CPD Officers. You are going to have challenges from Day 1.
81 crazy individuals. To accept this job these days even for 100K a year there’s just too much at stake. Financial ruin, freedom, and now more then ever health. F that.
Drop in the bucket. Kerplunk.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
And 2000 cut next year. New CPD number will be 10,000.
Why does the city want police retirees to pay for their medical insurance at age 60???? Aren't police retirees suppose to receive FREE medical insurance at age 60 and older ???? FOP please do something.
Cool it, I get the city made a promise about retiree healthcare but we are one of the only departments in the country offering any type of healthcare to retired police. Most of them are all on their own after they retire. 2-3% isn’t really that bad considering cobra is upwards of $1500 a month. Only a matter of time until we are going to be on our own as well like the others.
81 new officers, How many thousand is CPD short??
Do the newbies get a contract or do they get the fucking the rest of the department is getting??
3 years without a contract!
Time for a massive "Blue Flu" pandemic!! Give Groot and the rest of the liberals the city they want!
The civilian superintendent related that the 81 new officers will join the ranks of 13,000. Where did he obtain that number? What a jackass!
More people would apply if you got rid of the residency requirement.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
don't expect a retired star any longer. when you retire now they claim they don't have any because too many people retiring. if you don't believe, ask for yourself
I think this speaks volumes
8/25/2020 01:10:00 AM
In ‘17 when I left there were no temporary retired stars, everyone was leaving for the free medical.
You have your retired ID, that’s all you really need. You show a star, retired ir otherwise they ask for ID anyway.
I received my retired star a few months later.
Why they can’t have the retired star ready your last day, for those that had to submit your par form the previous year, is another CPD mystery.
Hold on, so you’re saying that officers have only retired in August and some scheduled for September this entire year? I’m sure there’s been more from January to end of July.
Remember PPO's there is no job given enough time that can handle itself. Slow roll to all jobs except assistance calls.
"Grow up quick, kid. We need more meat for the grinder."
Check the Blue line police jobs, there are a lot of good suburbs out there, you won't have the shit show and activity of Chicago but they are paying good money. You will need to adjust your attitude and reteach your mouths and you can event move out of here.
Run kids, run.
My only advice to these poor fools is "go south".... and I don't mean Englewood... I mean fucking Texas!!! Get your resume and applications out there toot sweet! Don't stay in this God forsaken shithole any longer than you have to. Use this as a stepping stone for something better. Cuz God forbid you find yourself 20 years from now still pushing a beat car in the ghetto, miserable, angry, depressed, trapped..... trust me, it's not the job it used to be and it never will be again.
Why is anyone taking this job. It's the worst job out there. I can't wait to get out and leave this mess to start a new career.
I’m confused. How many retired since the first of the year and how many came on in the same time period?
By January of 2021 we will lose a minimum of 1,000 officers! It could get even worse, I’ve never seen so many people without the time or age just say fuck it.
Because the Sgts and Lts unions settled their contracts,
the insurance clause from the OLD contract is only valid for a few months.....
So......they only have a limited time frame to get out with less cost for their
Health Insurance.......
Not to mention WHO da fruck wants to stay with the leadership being shown here!
(Which is NO leadership).......
Not to mention the double-triple merit posers haven’t got a clue as to what can
be done to stop the destruction of the city by those allowed to do so, unrestrained....
Into the Valley of Death rode the 600.(81)
Manufactured Pandemic
81 re-educated recruits will be the last of the year. No 2021 budget will contain more CPD appropriations, but plenty for the expanding COPA and a few new civilian led policy groups. No federal bailout money will be the Larri excuse for further hiring, but works for her Defunding agenda. Then there’s that what to do about that $100 million New Academy.
Hashed Brown is a low energy, uninspiring, unenthusiastic useless boner.
Hashed Brown taking a page from Larri’s Agitator Handbook. He is NO friend.
A treacherous ball-less snake that takes orders from an angry toad.
During a commencement...how inappropriate and politically biased. Pandemic and civil unrest my ass. This 300 fuckhead really thinks this town never had a crime occur before.
Was it necessary to bring up Floyd, an active criminal resistor, refused to peacefully comply with a lawful arrest and died as a result of his own poor choice of actions.” BTW Hashed the Jugghead Judge, he was not murdered.
Maybe I would have loved to have been there for that speech, often when ever I hear these assholes repeat a social justice cliché I like to moan and groan out a “here we go” sigh.
And what the heck is a reform promise “youth-led neighborhood tour”... is there a bus, a guide, refreshments?
Or is it merely unemployed, uneducated Chicago’s feral youth showing where these recruit PPO’s have to pick up street garbage?
Committed to my profession as we all should....the 1st and 16th - it gibs me wings.
How many are taking laterals to other departments? How many LOA? How many are just quitting?
Add to the new covid outbreaks.
Free medical was age 60 until age 65 then medicare if you qualify, if you had sense to work a side job to accumulate the 40 quarters of earnings for basic medicare that my cardiologist says is the best basic insurance, then any social security earnings can pay for a supplemental insurance. It's been this way for years, I've been retired 10 years and prepared for it for 20 years before retirement and for 9 years before coming on the job. It's YOUR responsibility not the city's to prepare for retirement.
The mayor thinks she is a nationwide rock star. Want to bet she is angling for an appointment in the next administration if its Biden/Harris? That would extract her from here.
CPD needs 2000 new police officers .
Don't forget about the people that are resigning and taking leave of absence
Really sad to say this but I will not trust the motives of any of these new recruits. I feel like some will even be trying to bait veteran officers into some sort of bad behavior or negativity. This career has changed dramatically. 20 and done let’s all keep in mind whatever the next career is let’s make sure we all use retired police for any business, or trade work we need done.
And FOP please tell them if they are going to start pounding this consent decree when it gets cold and the election is over that we want the everything on there enforced not just the negative stuff. The more frequent testing for promotions, better resources for ptsd and hardships.
Any chance we can wait lightfoot out for a new contract? She obviously does not like or appreciate the police. Think of what career you walk into the bosses office to discuss a raise except the boss hates your guts and does not care at all about your family. And I know about arbitration but still seems like a very unpopular time to ask for a raise given we’re the bad guys now in the eyes of the uneducated and easily manipulated. Just think the pros vs cons fall on the side of waiting.....agree?
I really feel sorry for these new coppers. My very first day after graduating the academy as I was walking to the car with my FTO he said "In the academy you learn the basics and now you will learn to be the police." Over the course of my career I've seen that philosophy dwindle. With those of us who have been on the job a long time and are getting near leaving the future is in the hands of...well...lets just say less than enthusiastic, unknowledgeable "mentors" that don't give a fuck. the city has always been a very political place and we all have seen or experienced it. the problem is that policing our own, having integrity and getting the job done is on its way out. someone opened the window and it was sucked out. The politics will still be around but it will become a political machine staffed by liberal trolls.
IPRA was replaced by COPA and soon COPA will be replaced by god knows what. probably a group of half-assed community activists, Depaul graduates and any other liberal scumbags.
If you think I'm exaggerating do a search on YouTube for COPA Chicago and watch the video of a public affairs presentation. this clown looks like they recruited him straight out of a coffeshop in Wicker Park. he didn't even come close to being serious during his presentation. actually danced a little bit while he was answering a question.
I would say good luck to the future men and women of CPD but luck will be overrun by incompetence.
We used to avoid grabbing lunch in certain neighborhoods. Nowadays, I'd go anywhere in englewood or Garfield park before I step foot in a joint in Lincoln park.
Figures are wrong. Average monthly retirements is 24? 24 x 12 is 288 yearly retirements. Has never happened. So far this year they the first 6 months 247 have retired per the FOP monthly listing of retirement
The department and city are actually touting this like it’s a victory. 81 PPOs? That’s just a few per district if they were spread out evenly across the city. That doesn’t even make a dent. It doesn’t even register. Not to mention, they’re PPOs, they don’t know anything. Not their fault, they’re just PPOs. so 81 new cops who don’t know anything isn’t making any kind of difference anywhere. But the pussy media will tow the company line and project it as some major influx in manpower.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why does the city want police retirees to pay for their medical insurance at age 60???? Aren't police retirees suppose to receive FREE medical insurance at age 60 and older ???? FOP please do something.
8/25/2020 01:17:00 AM
Not in the new CFD contract that they are going to ratifier. Once that happens , we get the same in our new contract
81 new bodies for the Mayor’s house.
Are they even still on probation? Did they extend their probation while on pandemic vacation?
Congratulations Recruits...
Your lives and the lives of your
families will never be "normal" again,
especially in the new "be the change"
era of Chicago Policing...
Heh...
Let's see how you young'uns and your careers survive your
first REAL sideways encounter with Dude Inc. in the glorious
splendor of ALL his actual and implied criminal, cultural,
legal and societal immunity/impunity with the public at large,
up to and including all those who make lots of joyful noise
about being in the so called "silent majority."
The mayor, the city council, the cook county judiciary,
ccsao, the local media, "tha' communerty," copa/gapa
and every willfully ignorant, unhinged, untethered and
energetically wagging tongue with a dearly held uninformed
opinion - will cheer loudly as you are dragged up the knotty
hanging pine of faux outrage and public opinion predicated
on pretext and a rush to judgement.
Enjoy having been deliberately set up
for sure and certain failure for the
next 20 to 30+ years.
All in the name of:
"Police Reform and Accountability."
In the heedless and breakneck pursuit of:
"Community Justice."
Better known as the ongoing community revenge fantasy
against The Police and upright, law-abiding society.
"It's ALL Y'ALL FAULT why we is the way we are!"
Heh...
Meanwhile?
"Tha' Poleece ain't doin' enuff
to build trus' wit' US!"
Police Like You Have No Friends...
It'll be the ONLY way you can hope
to survive more or less intact.
Sgts are very short. Need a class of Sgts to go in. A class of Sgts will be coming this fall...
Anonymous said...
The 81 new probationary police officers were the first recruit class to undergo youth-led neighborhood tours, part of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s promise for police reform, Brown said. The new officers will be trained, mentored and evaluated over the next three months.
Rumor of the day is they will be immediately assigned to Fort Lori until the expiration of her only term...
8/25/2020 04:33:00 AM
Fort Louie is more secure than Fort Douaumont during the First World War the French secured this fort at all cost. During the battles of Verdun, the French were bled white by the German Army because of the national significance of verdun to the French people. The French emptied out Paris of all of its taxi cabs as it sent its soldiers to the front lines via cab along the A5 autoroute national. It’s amazing to think the French République was saved by a bunch of Renault cabs.
Larry would request all squads from the city if his/her/they/it’s house were under siege from assholing.... you would see Fort Louie secured by a double circled ring of CTA buses just Washington DC had in May of 1972. Look it up guys, the most arrests in the History of the United States occurred during the May protests of 1972. Securing Richard Nixon a landslide in the November 1972
81 newbies. 22 districts. 3 watches. massive retirements. oh joy of course they won't be spread around evenly either.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why does the city want police retirees to pay for their medical insurance at age 60???? Aren't police retirees suppose to receive FREE medical insurance at age 60 and older ???? FOP please do something.
8/25/2020 01:17:00 AM
Not in the new CFD contract that they are going to ratifier. Once that happens , we get the same in our new contract
The FOP does not have a Me Too Clause, only the supervisors contracts do....
Just so you all know the city failed to have the new sgt list by Nov 01 2020...hence, there will be more sgts made off the old list. What a fucking joke! Morale is at an all time low. The second part if given will be in early November almost a year from the first part. Wtf is wrong w these bosses!?
Do all these recruits hold masters degrees in social work?
Love the 81 new bodies headline about the number shot by Thursday this week.
New bodies needed to po at into the pension fund. The fund may be a sinking ship but new hires putting in 9.7% will keep the sump pump going. Tough life for the newbies, the job was a lot different in the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90"s. I was at the King riots in April '68 and then the DNC in August, believe me the hickory stick was in action. Lots of gunfire on the west side during the April riots, many bodies found in the burned out buildings. I was at Cook County hospital to handle a shooting victim. Said victim stated a blue and white car pulled up in front of the store he was looting and the men inside fired about 20 shots at him and left. Description of offenders, unknown males in a 4 door sedan, blue in color, unknown direction of flight.
Why does the city want retirees age 60 to pay for medical insurance???? Medical insurance should be FREE for retirees age 60 and older. FOP needs to address this issue in the contract.
Figures lie, and liars figure.
Um, unprecedented? The patriots fought a revolution against the most powerful country in the world during a small pox epidemic. So, save it. We haven't done shit that hasn't been done before, by people that were supposedly our inferiors.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Why does the city want police retirees to pay for their medical insurance at age 60???? Aren't police retirees suppose to receive FREE medical insurance at age 60 and older ???? FOP please do something.
8/25/2020 01:17:00 AM
Not in the new CFD contract that they are going to ratifier. Once that happens , we get the same in our new contract
8/25/2020 11:31:00 AM
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What are you smoking?
Anonymous said...
Add to the new covid outbreaks.
Free medical was age 60 until age 65 then medicare if you qualify, if you had sense to work a side job to accumulate the 40 quarters of earnings for basic medicare that my cardiologist says is the best basic insurance, then any social security earnings can pay for a supplemental insurance. It's been this way for years, I've been retired 10 years and prepared for it for 20 years before retirement and for 9 years before coming on the job. It's YOUR responsibility not the city's to prepare for retirement.
8/25/2020 10:29:00 AM
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Thank you. Finally someone with some common sense tells it like it is. If you do not take ownership of your future, then you are bound for a life of misery on this job. I am out soon. I worked other jobs and I have worked more than enough to qualify for medicare. And I have a few solid career options. No one is going to do anything for you. Do not wait until it is time to retire to start planning your future.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I’m confused. How many retired since the first of the year and how many came on in the same time period?
According to the FOP website and their monthly listings of retirees, 247 have retired in the 1st 6 months
30 of those 80 will leave CPD for another department or leave police work completely.
WOW! I can sleep with my doors and windows unlocked tonight. How about a fair contract now!
Bad time to be a police officer. Can't wait to retire from this shithole!!!!
20 and out with Pension. No age no medical
Why would anyone want to come on the job in today's world!!!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE
Believe it about the retired star. Retired in February and still no retirement star. Keep being told they will let me know. Was a white shirt and doesn’t matter, nobody getting them. Not holding my breath.
The mayor thinks she is a nationwide rock star. Want to bet she is angling for an appointment in the next administration if its Biden/Harris? That would extract her from here.
8/25/2020 10:29:00 AM
That is called the 9.5 Golden Umbrella Exit Plan. She must not know it failed to blossum and fruit a few years back. God willing, it will continue to perform unsuccessfully. And, if our luck holds out, no national news program will hire her as a consultant. Seeing her ugly, grotesque mug repeatedly on the screen each day would cause me to wretch. F.U.L.L.
What a jackass!
8/25/2020 07:19:00 AM
Have some respect!
He is a much-heralded jackass.
I get the city made a promise about retiree healthcare but we are one of the only departments in the country offering any type of healthcare to retired police. Most of them are all on their own after they retire. 2-3% isn’t really that bad considering cobra is upwards of $1500 a month. Only a matter of time until we are going to be on our own as well like the others
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ISP upon retirement, gets full coverage life insurance for the rest of their lives and (wait for it...) And THEIR FAMILY, TOO!
Thank you. Finally someone with some common sense tells it like it is. If you do not take ownership of your future, then you are bound for a life of misery on this job. I am out soon. I worked other jobs and I have worked more than enough to qualify for medicare. And I have a few solid career options. No one is going to do anything for you. Do not wait until it is time to retire to start planning your future.
Marry someone who has 40 hours, stay married for 10 years and you get Medicare even if you get divorced. After 10 years of marriage you are entitled to Medicare on the spouses work record. Can’t be taken away
When I retired, they gave me the application to purchase another retirement star. Do they still do that?
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