Short...and Getting Shorter
This is what was working the other night in 020 (click for a larger image):
One sergeant, three 99 units, two 10-4 units, five cars listed as DOWN.
Additionally (which we removed fro the section marked "DETAILS," there are three 10-4 units assigned to downtown and four other officers detailed to the Tactical Team to fill four vacancies for a separate detail outside of the District.
In simple terms for our non-police readers:
- 1 sgt and 7 POs working the District to which they are assigned
- 1 sgt and 10 POs detailed out of the District from which they're supposed to be working.
So taxpayers aren't even getting HALF of their assigned officers working the District. This is happening Citywide. And it's about to get worse (as always, click for a larger version):
Again, for the non-police readers, Groot is about to steal 200 Officers from across the City to backfill a "Community Safety Team" which will be utilized well into December for anticipated riots and/or looting downtown, all at the cost to neighborhoods that are already seeing massive upticks in shootings.
You doubt us? Check out this article about Albany Park experiencing a 100% increase in shootings and killings in about nine months. It's already happening and it's only going to get worse.
Might as well kill morale across the board.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
78 Comments:
Groot acting on intel that Santa Claus would be hijacked.
Where is and who is the alderfuck? Try getting police on 1st watch in some of these district...until after 0200hrs .. this is a tex browne b.s. ..with carter's help ?
I think 017 needs their loud mouth know it all captain back. We are counting the days in 014. What a complete goof.
Might be a good time for the FOP to file some lawsuits regarding officer safety due to under manning and overworking and lack of days off to recharge!!!
Wow. How the fuck can they let that happen. That’s not even safe. Any other job and the people would walk off the job site. They should’ve called the union that day and had them come out. That’s beyond not safe. Wtf is the area chief doing about this. He’s letting it happen too. They are raping all the north side districts to send them downtown and south and west side. Enough already. Fuck. The good tax payers need police too.
Tell Groot, she loves the teachers so much and now that they can reduce the amount of teachers maybe they could fill in and do the police job that they so openly criticize!!! Big mouths but little cojones, no way would the little bitches do it, even if they could!!! That includes the completely useless mayor her/him/it/self!!!
The same thing is happening in 017. Skeleton crews across the board. Everyone detailed out all across the city. Then they wonder why crime has skyrocketed. There are no police left to police. The ones left in the district are run ragged all day long going job to job. What a joke. Never seen so many people looking to bail out of a once nice district.
Most of the people in 020 embrace the defund the police movement. Drive down Clark st and see all the anti police graphic art.
I think the criminals are about to teach them a lesson that will not soon be forgotten.
Fuck the police.... okay assholes
Old retired guy axin:
What do the 2004 cars do?
SCC, thank you for clueing in us non-officer types! We love and support the CPD and it definitely helps to understand the issues in civilian-speak.
Do more with less. Move personnel here, move personnel there. You want answers, well, we are not going to give you answers. We’ll give you the run around, but for answers file a FOIA. The more government says it is transparent, the more no one knows anything or is prohibited from answering questions by the community due to internal secretive protocols.
News radio tonight, Ravenswood Manor area has had 40 shootings and there are 10 ongoing gang conflicts. Governor goes away and ho boy.
"Community Safety Team"
Sez it all.
Adios Chicago.
Look at 1st district - they have 1 lt and no sgts working almost daily on each watch and like 12 total POS
She’s an incompetent stupid bitch
Groot is all about the ghetto. That is it. If she or the powers that control the department had any police experience or even fucking common sense, they would realize that they should pull all of the human resources out of the "Tier 1 & 2 Districts" and send them to the tier 3 districts. This is where you will have the most reductions in crime. If you wanted less crime and less victims, this is what a smart Chicagoan would do. If you want to keep pretending you are saving the ghetto for votes..keep doing what you're doing. Look at the numbers....Saturating the districts with do nothing lights and coppers does nothing. Disband all the bullshit...Put the coppers who want to be the police in the neighborhoods where violence BECAME a factor the last couple of years, and support your cops over criminals..
And get rid of Preckwinckle,Fox, and Evans......
Easy peasy....
Make no mistake, they will be coming police neighborhoods to loot and destroy. We will all be at work detailed to downtown or the ghetto. This is done by design. The fix is in. The caravan that rode thru Mt GW was just a probe. Be prepared boys and girls it’s gonna get ugly. These traitors have only begun. If you don’t believe that the politicians/some of the brass are in on it, then you blind and stupid.
Here’s what needs to happen. Start pairing one COPA member and one alderman with a desk dolly and issue each one of them a flashlight, a Big Chief pad and a few pens. One radio per team. Rent a Hertz rental and have them answer calls.. they don’t need a gun or cuffs..
Every cocksucker that wants to defund the police, have them sign up for this patrol duty.. oh, and give them a roll of toilet paper so the can clean themselves after they answer their first call and shit down their legs..
If these bastards never spent any time in the field, they sure as hell don’t have any experience as far as the police/public safety budget.
Groot and you idiot alder people, realize this. Once you defund and good people leave, there ain’t no putting it back together. You will have streets that look like a war zone and nobody in their right mind will come back to work. You damn sure better think it through.. and you pricks with the gold stars and cinco de Mayo ribbons will probably get your office buildings burned to the ground..
Biden and Harris won’t do shit for you either.. that fat bastard governor will be a candidate for chicharrones.
Get the fuck out while you can.
I knew starting that bullshit Unit 714 was all hype from the stupid Sup. Congrats on breaking down all the teams, congrats on getting rid of overtime, congrats of getting of morale, congrats on making 12 hour days with RDO cancelled as a solution to this. This is literally worse than my deployment to Iraq, it was reassuring we had a mission, knew our objectives and knew the timeframe we would accomplish this mission. I miss smoking ISIS into the ground and recapturing Iraq, but this job is what I wanted to do. Sadly the only solution to this dilhemia is to keep stripping districts of manpower and to send them to the shitholes to make our presence known. Whats the point if I return to my district of assignment just to go back into the same shit hole again? This is something one cannot make up. Stay fetal, stay sane and watch your partners back. This is going to be a stand-still war where the city will lose this battle.
Yup, we have cars down, people downtown, training, medical, IOD, and furlo...Can't afford to loose anymore, good luck to you citizens who expect police to show up in a timely manner for service calls when we dont have the manpower. Chicago, YOUR FUCKED!!!!
Groot lost the city.
The city is playing russian roulette with your safety. Those sheets are a disgrace and the continued shorting of manpower across the board is a recipe for disaster.
Absolutely an officer safety issue. The same way in 012 district yesterday sep 17 the powers to be called in 4 officers to back fill officers on tact and downed 4 beat cars sending a total of 10 officers from the watch downtown. But wait the 2 tact inside officers sitting at desks are exempted from this with other inside officers. Bosses don’t care about officer safety.
Not a cop here, but just saying as an average citizen my husband and I are really starting to wonder what we are paying taxes for??? All the basic and essential services, most importantly police, seem to be an after-thought to this imbecile Mayor as she obsesses on her maniacal progressive manifesto agenda. Don’t these Democratic politicians realize who keeps the wheels on? If I am not represented, if I am not being protected, if my standard of living is going to be jeopardized do they really think people are going to continue to pay for something we’re not getting?
And just how dumb are these people? Did everybody see the zoom video of the Minneapolis City Council? Crime is out of control and they seem to be baffled by it. Their Utopian vision can’t comprehend that there is something called criminals who have always and will always prey on innocents, and belong in prison where they can’t hurt anyone. They’re all buffoons.
She's hitting the liberals the hardest. Those are the ones who put her in office. Their brains are so atrophied by Starbucks Coffee that they don't realize it.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Get rid of all these ridiculous details.
Garbage detail
CTA detail
Summer mobile detail
can we please RECALL groot???
lets start the process now
2004 units are the bike officers
"Community Safety Team"
Another Liberal-coined feel good phrase designed to deceive and destroy any state of normalcy.
We Are All Replaceable
THANK YOU for translating the jargon for non-police readers. It’s much appreciated. And what a mess now that we understand it...ugh.
As a citizen of Chicago, I am seriously thinking about moving to northwest Indiana. I can still commute to work and I won't need to worry about crime in the south Loop. Everyday there is something going on and have of the things don't get reported. This is the main reason why I read your blog, to get those hidden stories that don't make the news and get the officers take on it. I appreciate the honesty on this blog and for all the waste that takes place in Chicago and Illinois, the first place they start to look to make cuts is the Police Department.
Civilian here - When Lightfoot ran for Mayor, I thought there was sort of working relationship with the police? I guess I was duked by the narrative and I voted for her but I won't make that mistake again. Why the hatred for the police? Was it always there and we didn't know about it or what?
I am on the job and live on the border of 020 and 024. I hear gunshots daily...
This shortage of manpower is dangerous ! Pffftt the alder person doesn’t care.
ditto what katikati said
It gets better, these 200 cops, a lot of them won’t be returning to the districts after their “detail”. They’ll have the option to stay. And this “community safety unit” is cake. Once they disbanded 314, they essentially made it all saturation. Look at the numbers from when it was still 314 to when they changed it to “community safety team”, it’s hilarious. Guys who used to go out and hustle (no matter how stupid that is, but I’m making the point) now go out there and stop a few old ladies for their blue cards and call it a day. No one cares. They wanted saturation and saturation they got. So they’re stripping manpower from our nice tax paying districts to put 200 more bodies into a lazy saturation unit. What a god damn joke.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I knew starting that bullshit Unit 714 was all hype from the stupid Sup. Congrats on breaking down all the teams, congrats on getting rid of overtime, congrats of getting of morale, congrats on making 12 hour days with RDO cancelled as a solution to this. This is literally worse than my deployment to Iraq, it was reassuring we had a mission, knew our objectives and knew the timeframe we would accomplish this mission. I miss smoking ISIS into the ground and recapturing Iraq, but this job is what I wanted to do. Sadly the only solution to this dilhemia is to keep stripping districts of manpower and to send them to the shitholes to make our presence known. Whats the point if I return to my district of assignment just to go back into the same shit hole again? This is something one cannot make up. Stay fetal, stay sane and watch your partners back. This is going to be a stand-still war where the city will lose this battle.
9/18/2020 02:32:00 AM
Ironic you mention deployments. During one of our bullshit no reason 12 hour rdos canceled stints, another p/o and I were saying the same shit. This is only a job to me now. Always wanted to be the police, it’s part of who we are (if you took this job to help and defend the good by keeping the violent savage at bay) but not anymore. Just a punch in punch out job. Nothing more. The city, along with bullshit politicians and groups have crushed the reason and inner workings and pride most officers initially took this job for. 15 years ago If you told me it was going to be like this, I wouldn’t have took the job.
Officers. You can fix it. Go the fuck on medical or IOD if you have the chance. Protect your family and neighborhood. Why the fuck wouldn’t you? This is insane.
In my 23yrs on this job I have never seen the Detectives get pulled for so many details and wearing uniforms every month.
All I constantly hear is how shootings/murders arent being solved. Well, who wants to put in all the extra leg work for Foxxy Brown (see what I did there?) and some 24yr old ASA who is wearing skinny jeans and a sweatshirt after;
-Your four day off weekend was cancelled, again
-You went from working days to practically midnights (1600-0400) then right back to days again for 5 in a row.
-Any murder that comes in means at least one day of OT, on top of the 12hr days you just worked RDO.
-Nobody, including the hospital staff, wants to talk to someone in uniform.
-You get sent to some half assed training in the middle of your investigation, which has absolutely nothing to do with your current position.
-If you have young kids you leave for work before they get up and get home after they're in bed. This happens for a week straight with cancelled RDO's and catching a late job with an in custody.
-You are a younger Dic and you finnally start to understand the job, only to get sent to summer mobile or this new CST crap.
Now I know that everyone in the Department is getting screwed, but how the hell are you supposed to be motivated to work up a case after all that crap? This isnt just a once in awhile scenario either, its happening over and over. Guys are getting burned up and literally having heart attacks or stress related health problems.
This Department is run by total idiots.
Now go out there and do GODS's work.
Stay safe Brothers and Sisters, it aint getting any better.
OHHH thank you scc I needed a good laugh. IF NOT ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS hahhahahha. So glad I am retired.
Having the department run by merit hacks who not have a clue how to organize or run things. Any boss with a ounce of brain has let or will be very shortly and department will be rudderless like a ship in a storm and the blue shirt holding on for dear life and praying not to be thrown overboard. Stripping the districts to make up some bullshit temporary solution to a problem that was created by our cowardly mayor who believes that the solution to the problems is to let the criminals go with a slap on the wrist and told to go home and be good. The hatred created toward the police is unbelievable and the left keeps piling it on to were there will be no stopping it until it is met with a violent end and the police again being blamed for the failure of the left's politicians. What these asshole protester want is entitlement something for nothing and most of all they are almost all young and dumb following blindly by a false movement of black lives matter which only matter when the police are involved not the black on black killings. I see no protest for black community actions just the police. Tax payer flee this city because it will only get worst and you are paying for services that you never receive but you can bet the minority communities will receive ten fold, Run Forest Run
...And Lyin’Larri is going to freeze hiring.
Larri and that chip on her shoulder are playing games, but will certainly blame somebody else.
One thing about overall low manpower is that HQ restrictions on time off, even mid-week. In what appears to be such the case, as long as guys and gals are getting time off, then the schedule is appropriate (until shit hits the fans, and it will) for these challenging times. But sending Units elsewhere whether downtown or ghettos and everyone gets screwed over ?
Complacencies in mismanagement.
Perhaps 001/018 manpower has their hands full with run of the mill crimes like every other district.
Going on the cheap by not having a SpecEmp initiative to pay even straight time for the downtown detail...but again days off are scarce.
We all have been there when the schedules were lean and when they were overloaded, but the 020 example is just nuts - it’s not 1990 anymore.
Justifiable mismanagement;
I’d love to see the HQ 0800-1500 house mouse schedules...probably never a down car (cubicle). Talk about Duty Availability disparities. Mmm-mmm-mmm.
As for Ofc. Down Car... he/she/they ought hit the Medical from exhaustion for covering all those Beats.
Anytime you cannibalize districts of cars our efficiency level tanks and we end up not being able to adequately take care of the most important asset this department has, EACH OTHER. We've seen this rob Peter to pay Paul shit in the past, but this is the usual city hall fuckery on steroids. When are these ungrateful, never worked a day in their lives, political hacks going to realize we're not chips in a poker game.
So according to the sheet, if the early cars check off at 10:45pm that means there is only ONE 3rd watch officer covering the entire district until a couple midnight cars roll out at 11:45pm. One solo officer covering an entire district for an hour?
This has been the new normal for the past month now. The lack of manpower is appalling and extremely unsafe. There are now late roll calls with ONE officer. Yet, everyday they pull 6 officers from every watch to go down to the Michigan Ave detail and 4-5 officers from every watch to backfill the tac teams that are also detailed downtown. In service training is still pulling 2-3 officers per watch as well every weekday. Only a matter of time until someone gets seriously hurt or worse.
Here s a practical idea for dealing with Antifa, BLM riots if Trump wins or loses (these as& holes, like to riot and loot to protest or celebrate )
Go to the went out of business bowling alleys and get their left over bowling balls .
Distribute the bowling balls to residents in across the Chicago North Michigan Avenue high rises .
When the BLM Antifa mobs come again to riot and loot the Magnificent Mile , have designated residents toss the bowling balls off of their roofs and balconies down on the mobs. Also have some guy like Napoleon Bonaparte (tough Corsican) down in the middle of the street (a tough throw for the bowling ball tossers on the roofs) fire in to the rampaging mobs at street level .
This is how the original Napoleon put an end to the mobs reign of terror in the French Revolution .
Some tough guy needs to step up in our Chicago.
JR
The desk couldn't have scraped by with a Sgt and 2 POs?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I think 017 needs their loud mouth know it all captain back. We are counting the days in 014. What a complete goof.
9/18/2020 12:19:00 AM
Note to 014: When you complain about absolutely everybody, maybe it's just you.
7625A KM thinks 716 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Still out doing all the dumb shit she did in 003, with her 3 years otj. Don’t badmouth the CST south...they’re doing the lords work lololol
*Wait Till Just before and After the Election
*When DemoRats Steal The Presidency with mail in Votes
Wait.. where is Chuckie Goudy from bs ABC7 Chicago news? Oh !! cant bash CPD on this one ..no story
Does anyone remember when they “ defunded” south Vietnam? Same thing will happen here... the bad guys are gonna win. Well, now the commies are the good guys in their eyes. Everyone’s quality of life is gonna go down the toilet. The city-state and country will become a socialist shithole.
Citizen here - If we know there is going to be mass protests, and communities like Mt. Greenwood are going to be targeted with violence and rioting on election and beyond. If police officers who live in these communities, refuse to disobey orders and opt to protect their loved ones, what are the reprecussions? Will they write you up, dismissal, etc.,
BLM is very organized in diverting law enforcement and these tactics have been effective. Just wondering what I will need to do in this scenario.
Mt. Greenwood resident
To all the Alderman. Every watch is depleted to bare minimum as it is. We are all stressed out and need more man power at each district. Watches have been stripped and are staffed to dangerous levels, this is an officer safety concern not to mention less cars are patrolling each ward leaving tax payers short on service and safety.
Follow up question to that little attorney guy Sam Almirante
and his Offer to take care of the coppers business after
the Columbus clusterfuck.
Did anyone take him up on that?
Assigned to 20 , find a TVb as soon as you hit the street .
Here's a novel idea how about having the white shirts ride two to three deep and answer all in progress calls, they have the power of arrest and their delicate minds can do the paper too, merit hacks excluded of course...
Last time I voted was in the Hillary / Obama primary (I know). No need to put names on my ballot this year - just going with Republicans all down the ticket. If I do not, I sure can't complain when someone I care about gets threatened, hurt or killed.
The fighting 017th has recently had a bunch of gang related shootings with 2 going to boot hill. The 2 they are now squeezing into their 8th grade graduation suits are no great loss. The rest of the swiss cheese gang are professional victims in line to become another 0110 in the near future.
Violence interrupters? Didn't Rahm try that with Cease Fire and waste a couple million? It failed miserably before and will do so again. And how many of those interrupters were arrested themselves
Take a peek at the 015th district sheets for 3rd watch. Not much better
eta see my taxes last year were how many thousands of dollars and I have almost zero police in my neighborhood. Where have they gone. To the areas that have almost no taxpayers living there? Why? My neighborhood is having a crime wave because the criminals know there are no ops around so it has become a great hunting ground. So maybe I should stop paying my taxes until I get what I am paying for. Same les for the schools huge portion of my taxes goes to CPS but they have been closed for the last six or seven months and probably won't open unil next year if then. Do I get a rebate on the school and police part of my tax bill? What do mean your raising my taxes next year. Goodbye I have had enough.
Isn’t this a violation of the consent decree on so many levels?
I feel sorry for the officers of 020, not the maggots in 020 who support BLM etc. All those clueless assholes who dine or go antiquing on Clark Street have no idea that it wasn’t much to look at 25 years ago. Police activity there & along the border of 023 is what helped turn that area around...when you could do proactive police work & help a neighborhood out of the gutter.
Hiring freeze and 600 retire this year. So we can all forget about RDO's next year. Going to be working 12/7 for a long time. PSTD looking better and better.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Here's a novel idea how about having the white shirts ride two to three deep and answer all in progress calls, they have the power of arrest and their delicate minds can do the paper too, merit hacks excluded of course..
Hard to do when you are the only Sgt on the watch the other one sent to 018 daily.
This is what you get if you want to defund the police. No one will show up when you cal 911. Also there were 2 homicides this past week in 020.
WHY is the National Guard NOT BEING CALLED IN? This is where they are needed. I even mentioned it when I went to protest loudly at the Western Avenue 19th WARD OFFICE!
Mt Greenwood resident—Hit the medical and protect your home and family first!
call in the NG, charge the criminals and don't I bond them. Or would that deplete the Democratic voting rolls?
ow I know that everyone in the Department is getting screwed, but how the hell are you supposed to be motivated to work up a case after all that crap? This isnt just a once in awhile scenario either, its happening over and over. Guys are getting burned up and literally having heart attacks or stress related health problems.
Stay safe Brothers and Sisters, it aint getting any better.
9/18/2020 08:31:00 AM
Poster brought up a MAJOR point here. We aren't machines, and no matter what the bosses, or cartoons and Chuck Norris movies say, once broken we don't regenerate. More like we atrophy and return to duty at a reduced rate. And once the ticker goes... That's it. Stress the cardiovascular system and it does return at 100%. Crack a knee and you Will get arthritis. We aren't guaranteed any time on this Earth. Family must come first, along with our health. Letting those that hate our guts grind us into not only early retirement, but early deaths makes no sense. We need breaks, those that are religious recognize that a day of rest is prescribed. Anyone with medical training agrees. But our 'leaders' know better? Get documentation, and remember that hypertension is a killer, sleep deprivation will lead to not only high blood pressure, but mental instability. The myelin sheaths in the brain must be renewed, and sleep is the mechanism. Don't let the job ruin your health.
Too close to retirement, retirement never looked so good. Can't wait to retire from this shithole!
DEFUND the police, BLM, bring in the SOCIAL WORKERS...UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
To the poster at 7:17am, the south loop is over due to the alderscum Sophia King as she's a cop hating soft on crime radical pro blm racist.
As soon as she as chair of the progressive caucus in league with Lori, the socialist caucus, Michael Kelly and the Grant Park Advisory Council gave into the Antifa/Blm mob and took the statues down it was over. When that happened the mob was on their way. After that Loris buddy con artist cop hater Jamal Green blocked traffic, kicked cars, chanted F CPD, stopped emergency vehicles and had a pizza party for four hours.?When I complained Loris sycophants said it was a peaceful 1st amendment protected protest. The truth is lori told her command staff of Ed Burke’s clouted Michael Pigott and gutless commander Jake Alderden to stand down because Jamal is her friend. They had a Zoom community meeting of over 100 people, King would not allow citizens to speak.
Thank a Police Officer Day - September 19th, 2020
(3rd Saturday in September)
Thank a Police Officer Day—also known as National Tell a Police Officer "Thank You" Day—celebrates police officers, with citizens letting them know how much they appreciate the work they do. Citizens may wish them a simple "thank you," or may perform small acts of gratitude on their behalf, such as buying them a coffee. Businesses are encouraged to donate something to them or to offer them discounts. For example, a restaurant may donate breakfast to a police department.
Police officers spend their days coming into harm's way, often risking their own lives while protecting others. According to the creator of the day, they are often also criticized and underappreciated—there may be some bad apples, but the vast majority are hard-working and professional public servants. Thank a Police Officer Day was started by the Whole Truth Project, a pro-police organization "set up to protect and serve those who protect and serve our communities." The Whole Truth Project was founded by Andrew Hale, a Chicago-based attorney who had often represented police officers, and who wanted to show appreciation for them.
https://www.checkiday.com/2aae9173f365029c48059a4a8c3c94cc/thank-a-police-officer-day
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Motherfucker! They stripped 016 of the Police to try and keep the animals from murdering each other when were the ones paying for the Police protection and the ones WHO FUCKING WANT THEM HERE.
Cocksuckers!
Speaking of Albany Park & the 33rd Ward's Communist Alderman, she supports gang members over law abiding citizens.
https://twitter.com/RossanaFor33/status/1307110838487179266
Yeah, let’s pull even more officers to that new bullshit 90 days team, so they can bring more blue cards just like summer mobile. What a joke. In 11 we have no people, no time for personal, lunch or take a piss. And fucking Surge mission, what a fucking bs,driving around like bozos with light and sirens on. Summer mobile ask for back up on traffic stop but want take fixed post or some bullshit paper. Has to love these 1-2 year wonders.
How many down cars , cars detailed out of 22 on first watch .
Why is 2211 sent to a Walgreens at 95th& Ashland . The bs calls there can wait .
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