Pay Up Dart
And by Dart, of course, we mean Taxpayers:
- The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that officers who were suspended while undergoing disciplinary proceedings can sue the Cook County Sheriff’s Office for backpay lost during their suspensions.
In the 4-3 decision on Thursday, the state’s high court upheld an appeals court’s ruling allowing officers to sue Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s office over the legitimacy of the merit board before the decisions in their disciplinary cases were made. The merit board investigates disciplinary matters involving police officers.
The court also determined that the officers can resume their lawsuit seeking repayment for lost wages during their suspensions, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Dart (and his handler Prickwrinkle) fall back on the excuse that all scumbag politicians do when doing wrong:
The sheriff’s office bemoaned the decision, saying it will significantly increase the time it takes to discipline an officer for misconduct and make it more difficult to fire bad officers.
“Today’s Illinois Supreme Court decision is a catastrophic blow to law enforcement accountability,” sheriff’s office spokesman Matthew Walberg said in an emailed statement. “The decision rewards employees who engaged in criminal, unethical and despicable conduct at the expense of Illinois taxpayers.”
Isn't this Walberg the guy who used to be Kass's go-fer? And now he's another one of Dart's six-figure former media goons? Has Kass disowned this tool?
But notice how they fall back on "accountability"? Not that they want to do the best investigation possible and come to a legally sound and just finding - they want the ability to undercut Contractual protections and shortcut due process in order to sacrifice accused officers on the altar of political expediency.
It's too bad that Dart's stupidity is going to cost taxpayers tens of millions, but if he had followed the rules in place, none of this would have happened.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Papa John Dart
My pizza tastes like shit for a reason
it's on par with a false arrest. so whatever , if he told the truth , his statement should have read " I don't believe in due process, or the rights established by law and in our nation's constitution which had been legally protecting people because it might make me look bad " I just want to say I fired that guy" - this basically what every politician wants to do .
He's not a man. He's handled by a Prick Politician.
Ed Burke Jr. worked for Sheriff until he quit over way ego-maniac Dart belittled his staff. Now his mother sticks it to Dart in 4-3 decision. Karma is a bitch! Now go have another temper tantrum Tom.
Why do police officers have to be held accountable for everything? Let's hold the criminals accountable for a change.
Liberal logic never amazes me.
Too bad an enterprising lawyer hasn’t figured out a way to sue Dart personally for the decisions he makes and not have the County be on the hook, though County would be since Dart is an employee. Oh to have a sexual beef against Dart, how sweet it would be to see him dangling.
"...backpay lost during their suspensions."
Most of this is money the county should have paid these deputies all along, so the taxpayers were on the hook for it anyway.
Of course, that doesn't include interest, punitive damages (that Dart himself should have to pay) and legal fees.
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Merit board suppose to be independent entity not for rubber stamp for Sheriff. Dart illegally removed member of board in 2011 before his term was up cause he was pissed at rulings guy made. Then replaced him with this guy. Just a minor detail left out by Slumtimes
John Rosales, donated $600 to Dart's
campaign since 2012. Rosales is the $84,000-a-year director of Olive-Harvey College's South Chicago Learning Center, part of City Colleges. Rosales said Dart is a friend. Dart appointed him in 2011.
Walberg doesn’t mention the fact that Dart HIMSELF SCREWED THE POOCH by hiring not qualified or certified people to be on the merit board making the tough “accountability “ decision you know the old patronage appointment!!! Too bad they didn’t say Dart himself should pay out of his personal money
Nice way to deflect the fact that Dart had an illegitimate merit board. Assholes.
"It's too bad that Dart's stupidity is going to cost taxpayers tens of millions, but if he had followed the rules in place, none of this would have happened."
There's a word for that, I think it's accountability or something.
So just tell me when politicians are going to be held responsible for their negligence, malfeasance and out and out criminal acts they commit in office. I mean Dart is a lawyer, S A Fox is a lawyer, Mayor L L is a lawyer!!! These people violated the law(s) and cost taxpayers millions as well as other worldly damages!!! When’s the last time one of these “leaders” were indicted? Went to jail? Oh yeh Blago who didn’t get money and really went to jail because he closed doors for millionaire politician’s gaming the system!!! Then you have Fox who refuses to take looters, arsonists and murder’s to court or put them in jail. Mayor LL who has irresponsibly spent millions of taxpayer money while city is broke. Destroyed law enforcement blaming them for her own “ASS CLOWN” failings and thievery. Dart who is ANTI-TAXPAYER with his corrupt manipulation of the system! Add in Prickwrinkle, putz-ker, Mad-again and a slew of smaller players and you have the perfect storm to turn a wealthy thriving State into a bankrupt third world shithole!!! NOT ONE INDICTMENT YET BILLIONS AND BILLIONS IN DEBT!!!???
WAKE UP AND VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT THE STATUS QUO!!!
Little Tommy continually screws the pooch. However, the Great Unwashed Democrat Welfare Voters must love him because they never vote him out.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Fuck him pay up motherfucker!!!!!!!!’
Can the repub party run anyfuckingbody against this useless shitbag?
Rules! We don’t need no stinking rules!!
Love the democRATs of Amerika.
The Sheriff is being handled and he's bemoaning it.
But I can't feel sorry for him because he's a slimy character.
The main issue that Dart tried to bury is that the Sheriff's Merit Board was ILLEGALLY CONSTITUTED, thus denied the deputies legal due process, and issued legally null and void rulings. Dart's appointment to the Board itself was illegal, plus the Board was issuing rulings when it lacked the proper number of Board members (a "quorum" in legalese), so decisions made by this Board WERE ILLEGAL. So the ILSUPCT majority found the Board was illegally operating, therefore the deputies did not have any other recourse except their lawsuit to protect their rights to due process before discipline.
Dart crying about having to now pay these deputies their back wages, benefits, raises, health insurance, promotional opportunities, training time, etc. is a crock of liberal shat. The deputies are now legally entitled to every penny, because Dart tried to play a game, lost, and now has been called out by Illinois highest court.
It’s not Dart’s stupidity, it’s his ego, also known as hubris. When the Percy Taylor case came down, Dart could have resolved this immediately, yet he chose to ignore the law. His attorneys could not persuade him he was wrong, so he doubled down and kept doing it. The state’s attorneys assigned to the case were dealt a shit sandwich because Dart thought he was above the law. Scores of deputies lives, marriages, and finances were ruined because Dart could not possibly be wrong.
But he owns this mess and now, and in typical Cook County fashion, the taxpayers eat it. No other county operates like this; the threat of millions of dollars of backpay would have brought any elected officials in another county to heal and stop the bleeding. But not in Cook County. Preckwinkle owns this, too. For all her lip service about black and brown people being discriminated against, ask Cass Casper or Chris Cooper how many of the officers put off were black or brown? Here’s a hint: over 75%. Sure seems discriminatory doesn’t it? Once again, law enforcement gets substantively less than due process.
Dart’s discrimination further shows toward the correctional staff. The vast majority of officers getting harmed by his actions were CO’s. Again, predominantly African-American and Hispanic. If CWB assigned one of its crack reporters to investigate this obvious discrimination, it would be a huge story: white sheriff illegally deprives dozens of black and brown officers of their due process rights.
The officers’ attorneys stuck with this case for years, despite ridicule from some unions and personal attacks by the sheriff and his merit board.
I foolishly thought for years that Madigan must have a plan for paying these pensions. I naively thought that someone as accomplished as him must have a plan. I never voted for a single democrat in my life, but still thought things would work out. I was hoodwinked.
Fart the sheriff, wrinkle the prick hater, and Gass the lad works for them lmao you can’t make this shit up!
Check out the county's twitter page. TV Tommy along with Lt Gov Stratton and ol Rev Jessie Jackson encouraging criminals at the county jail to vote for them! As you can see these democRATS are doing anything and everything to stay in power. Remember to say not to JB the hutt's "fair tax amendment" and vote Foxx out of office.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CCSOPIO/status/1317281690759344129
Durbin & Biden both supported and voted for the bill that cut cops social security benefit in half.
Keep Voting for these Elected Officials
And then Keeping Paying for Their Mistakes
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These Politicians have Hurt--Hard Working Tax Payers with Terminations
or Suspensions
Thank You. Illinois Supreme Court
Our Taxes will Go Up and Up with these Costly Mistakes
Dart is on his way out and is doing his best to stay in favor of RëichsWrinkle, he knew all along that his motion was a contract violation...unless he’s like Larri LightLoafer who slept or was absent most days in lawyering skool.
The entire Cook County system is a corrupt and criminal enterprise that needs Federal oversight.
Anonymous said...
Too bad an enterprising lawyer hasn’t figured out a way to sue Dart personally for the decisions he makes and not have the County be on the hook, though County would be since Dart is an employee. Oh to have a sexual beef against Dart, how sweet it would be to see him dangling.
10/25/2020 12:46:00 AM
He's an elected official, I guess it's the people that voted for him that are responsible..... wrong...who knows .....doesn't matter now.... pick one.
Percy will be back in uniform, god bless him and god bless DJT
Just Keep voting for the JagOff
never trusted Dart even when we lived in the 19 ward 46 years before retiring from the CPD and that 19 ward hq on western under Ginger made us cringe each time we walked by,,,it was total nepotism from the get go and loved it when the hangerson used to tell us """oh we don't have no clout""and we knew total bull shit, had a former 022 Comm, tell my neighbor ""Byrne has to get in my job depends on it"" so much for transparency,,,Dart got his Job through the Sheehan family handed down to him and was out of his depth the day he took it,,,,tried to set up gardenung projects at the jail that the inmates made fun of and the best was the animal husbandry where they caught the inmates screwing the animals go figure
The constituted laws of Merit Board are a few pages. It clearly states members must serve 6 year terms. Dart's dozen of attorneys overlooked this?
“The decision rewards employees who engaged in criminal, unethical and despicable conduct at the expense of Illinois taxpayers.”
This is simply a lie. I doubt seriously things are that much different there, than they were here. If an officer is guilty of criminal, unethical and despicable (whatever the definition of that is) conduct, there would be no back pay as the officer would be fired and the suspension warranted.
How many more years is dart going to embarrass himself in job clearly over his head.
tom darts says "vote for michelle darbro for state rep/
Sincere hope this wrecks your current political career, Tom Dart
and any hope for re-election or a run for other office.
Asshat.
Watched Dart snap on WGN Reporter who dared ask him why 18% of all Illinois covid cases liked to cc jail. The guy seems like unhinged prick.
Remember fart chief counsel J. Maher who called out his bs and illegal practices. Fart threw a fit and tried to have Maher charged with theft for turning in his county ID a day after firing. Fart should be in prison and glad Maher also won huge county settlement.
Dart will be our next mayor, be nice guys.
Former copper, prosecutor, currently lawyer in private practice for many years. I have represented Cops in various matters. My humble opinion is most lawyers who work for government are arrogant, not real energetic & want to please their masters & not willing to tell the emperor he is not wearing any clothes. All assistant state's attorneys are at will employees. So rather than try private practice they suck their bosses ass at every opportunity. Doing the right thing is not rewarded seldom is loyalty....starting to sound familiar?
Like many posts above, Dart is the one who always, and I repeat always tries to be the smartest guy in the room. Back when he was in the Sheriff's spot for the 2nd or 3rd year, some leftist reporter included him among the 100 most influential people in politics. All this innovative bullshit, the constant whining about the jail being a substitute for mental health facilities, bitching about overcrowding, even though Sheahan had nearly twice the population to deal with (never heard him bitch, do interviews or complain about conditions or whatever). Dart continually involved himself with shit that had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with administrating a correctional/holding facility for arrestees awaiting trial. He got into suing Craigslist, rehabilitating whores, rescuing puppies, overseeing capital projects like a quarry in Robbins, and goofy shit that has nothing to do with law enforcement in unincorporated areas of Cook County, overseeing security in the Circuit Courts or running the jail. Rather, he'd show up doing radio interviews in which he delighted in telling the interviewer how he has his Sheriff's police detailed to areas in Cook County that are as far away from their homes as possible. Who does shit like that? As posted here numerous times, he padded his payroll with relatives of media personalities by giving them titles like "director of policy" and other non-sense. At best, Dart should have been a social worker. His start in politics was working on an aldermanic campaign for a candidate who lost twice. As a 19th ward consolation prize he got a state senate seat for a retiring senator, and then when the district map was redrawn, became a state rep. Maybe it was the other way around. Whatever. Sheahan recommended him for the Sheriff's spot when he decided to retire, and the Sheriff' office has been nothing but fucked up ever since, with Dart trying to shift his shortcomings as an administrator to the previous sheriff, effectively biting the hand that fed him. That's all you need to know about this guy, all the qualities of a dog, with the exception of loyalty. So now, potentially the biggest fuckup of his time in office is about to bite him in the ass, and this time there's nobody to blame but himself.
Would you buy a used car from Tommy? A criminal justice socialist democrat destroying the the back end of the CJ system. The unholy Trinity of the most corrupt criminal justice system that money can buy. Kimmy (the State's Atty, the Criminal Courts (Evans) Black Robes and little Tommy. And the taxpayers are footing the bill. Stupid is as stupid does.
In a day and age where more and more men have become complete pussies , Tom Dart is top 5 pussies of all time. He really is a pompous puss.
Cook County has tons of money so there is no problem paying out a bit extra. Oh...
"Durbin & Biden both supported and voted for the bill that cut cops social security benefit in half.
10/25/2020 10:16:00 AM"
That can't be actual. No Democrats would piss of the liberal base by working to only reduce police benefits (the Social Security amounts they paid into when they were not cops mind you) by just half... Only half? C'mon!
If those two were real progressives they'd make sure cops have nothing to retire on - pension or SS (before or after being a LEO) and that punishment will anyone racist enough to want to be a peace officer!
And the chairman of the Merit board leaves his part time position and takes a high paying job with Karen Yarbrough. Gathers a huge pension after two years. Go figure. I guess we are all chumps. Don’t work too hard.
He already is Mayor. Of Ford Heights!
I’m incredibly relieved by this outcome. Not sure how many people will get relief now, but they ruined so many lives. The Sheriff is a huge assholes in this, as is the State’s Attorney and the private lawyers they paid millions to defend this loser case for six years. Suspending these guys without pay was the original sin. Those salaries were re-budgeted and available for redistribution as bonuses to an expansive executive staff, including attorneys employed to keep these guys off the payroll.
For a guy who postures himself as a good government maven, everything about this violated the provisions of Shakman. They treated protected employees like at-will/Shakman exempt.
The real question in this case should be: who pays? If a private insurer were on the hook, they’d disclaim liability because the SMB ignored everything. The County is obliged by ordinance to indemnify but this was willful. A friend told one of the private lawyers who defended this case in early stages (Taylor) that it’ll live in infamy as the worst public employment disasters in history.
Something about Dart is off. He’s never won a competitive election. He had an utterly unremarkable legislative career, if you exclude his bold pronouncement in the mid-90’s that he aspires to be Speaker. He’s the elected Sheriff and chief law enforcement officer but still insecure enough that he needs to fire an employee for reporting rumors that he beat his wife AND sued him AND HIS wife AND HER employer for defamation. That’s real amateur hour rubbish.
That one lawyer Casper used to work for the Union and did nothing for these guys when they were suspended without pay but pretends to ride to the rescue at the last minute. Guy’s a weasel.
Remember Dart lost state treasurer race to a Republican in 2002. In a state where donald duck with a D after name could easily defeat any Republican. LOSER!!
Some lib tard group sent mail propaganda to jail inmates for voting. Left in mail room, now want to sue. L m a o!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
It’s not Dart’s stupidity, it’s his ego, also known as hubris. When the Percy Taylor case came down, Dart could have resolved this immediately, yet he chose to ignore the law. His attorneys could not persuade him he was wrong, so he doubled down and kept doing it. The state’s attorneys assigned to the case were dealt a shit sandwich because Dart thought he was above the law. Scores of deputies lives, marriages, and finances were ruined because Dart could not possibly be wrong.
But he owns this mess and now, and in typical Cook County fashion, the taxpayers eat it. No other county operates like this; the threat of millions of dollars of backpay would have brought any elected officials in another county to heal and stop the bleeding. But not in Cook County. Preckwinkle owns this, too. For all her lip service about black and brown people being discriminated against, ask Cass Casper or Chris Cooper how many of the officers put off were black or brown? Here’s a hint: over 75%. Sure seems discriminatory doesn’t it? Once again, law enforcement gets substantively less than due process.
Dart’s discrimination further shows toward the correctional staff. The vast majority of officers getting harmed by his actions were CO’s. Again, predominantly African-American and Hispanic. If CWB assigned one of its crack reporters to investigate this obvious discrimination, it would be a huge story: white sheriff illegally deprives dozens of black and brown officers of their due process rights.
The officers’ attorneys stuck with this case for years, despite ridicule from some unions and personal attacks by the sheriff and his merit board.
10/25/2020 09:36:00 AM
They deprived plenty of White Officers of their due process rights too.
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