Rumors of Manpower
A few years back, Rahm cut 1,000 or so vacancies from the CPD, then told everyone the Department was up to strength. Groot eliminated 1,900 spots and told taxpayers the same thing.
Now another rumor:
- OT, but wondering if SCC has heard similar rumors from city hall... Talk of eliminating 800 CPD positions from the budget (see, we're not that short staffed). Also, from the boys over at FD- a cheating scandal with a captain exam.
Leaving aside there hasn't been an honest promotional exam in Chicago in decades, the rumor about cutting another 800 unfilled spots is just more of the same.
If an actual reporter FOIA-ed the manpower rosters from the 1990s, they'd see Department strength was somewhere in the area of almost 13,000 with the Clinton grant money flowing hot and heavy.
When we started the blog, the Department was flirting with something between 11,000 and 12,000. We started sounding the alarm as we saw personnel numbers dip under 11,000, and really started pointing it out when we hit 10,500.
Now the city can't hire anyone, retirements are outpacing incoming bodies by a what will easily be 300 or 400 this year and there isn't any signs of a slowdown, but you can see the shortages at every roll call.
Labels: department issues, rumors
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Mass exodus on 15 Jan 24. Close to 300
Call it quiet defunding.
So glad to be at the end, and to have encouraged my children to walk a different path.
Wife and I have done our bit for our beloved hometown.
Next man/woman up. You are in our prayers.
Just remember people the lower the man power the less poker contributing to the pension!
And with all the stolen promotion aka Ben, Cline, Harris, H. Lewis, R. Hill, Rapist Johnson, Betts, Mohammad etc soon to be draining the pension, it does not look good.
Eliminate all the 11 cars: 111, 211, 311, 411, 511 etc, etc, etc.
Each 12 car will cover 11 & 12.
Print up new maps.
They really want to make everywhere, in this city and county, and everyone, into a huge, self cleaning oven.
A gat for Everyone!!! Like dimwit oprah say,
A gat 4 YOU
A gat 4 YOU
A gat 4 EVERYONE!!!!!
7800 Tops
SCC,
As of today, we are flirting with 11,730 (all sworn and active duty ranks). A new class starts 10 Oct 23: 3 homerooms. 65-75 people (including rehires). As of 15 Sep, 557 have retired and/or resigned and we are on track for 750 by the end of the year (down from north of 1,000 who bailed in 2021 and 2022). Next month a lot of sergeants/lieutenants are leaving.
Please also know that “full strength” is all relative. Current budget allocation is for 13,176 full time positions, meaning we are roughly 1400-1500 short. Saying “we’re 2,000 short” means nothing unless you compare it to a handful of years in the early 00’s. At the rate of retirements and the rate of new hires coming in, it’ll take 10-12 years to get over 13,000 sworn.
The budget meeting that was had between city hall and the exempts stated as much- they were told to trim the CPD budget. Aaand that vacancies and OT will be sliced. D Unit OT is going to be targeted because, you know, working 2 hours of OT and getting paid for 10 hasn’t delivered reductions in robberies.
Further, the budget OT needs to be cut because the contract that’s agreed upon is loaded with $$$ (raises, bonuses, incentives), and that’s going to cost tens of millions more per year (info on this is coming in 2 weeks).
As long as we continue to do more with less or more aptly minimally with less and the bean counters figuring out how many calls for service can be backlogged or blown off from responding to the numbers will decline further. Chicago might be the only Department that will have more gold stars than troops to supervise.
No worries they are disbanding the Community Safety Team. Apparently McDermott leaked it to a few of his cronies and they’re now scrambling to find another unit to get to asap because it will go down ala SOS and MSF with no notice (any day now) and all of those poor young officers will get sent back to patrol to back fill beat cars.
After all, patrol is the “backbone of the department” and someone has to help answer calls in certain neighborhoods, who according to the recent OIG’s report, are being discriminated upon because there are “geographic disparities in CPD’s response to 911 calls and that they have experienced slow or no response” particularly on the South and West sides.
Instead of “racially targeting and discriminating” with all the traffic stops they do (see below report), now the CST teams will help out with the backlogs of calls in the districts they are assigned to and the department will kill two birds with one stone. Backlogs will decrease due to the influx of officers back in districts and traffic stops will also decrease which will appease those that are watching.
Don’t worry though, that’s just for now…. When the expected unseasonably warm Spring rolls around the new Superintendent will come up with another unit to exploit officers once again and at the end of the day PO’s will be left holding the bag of shit as identified in the below reports. Seems like us PO’s always get screwed one way or another and the bosses that use us for the dirty work get promoted over and over.
Read reports here:
https://news.wttw.com/2023/09/06/chicago-police-didn-t-track-how-long-it-takes-officers-respond-half-911-calls-watchdog
https://news.wttw.com/2023/10/03/stops-chicago-police-create-fear-and-sow-distrust-finds-survey-conducted-federal-court
I remember when I started we had beats, rapids, multiple wagons and tact cars everywhere. Today in my quickly waning career, I haven’t seen any rapids in years, down beats, and a two man beat car as an acting wagon in a district that used to be two districts. Politicians will continue not to care until it final hits home, their home.
Isn’t city losing population? Fewer cops need now. In fact by have any at all. Cannot chase criminals on foot or in car, told to observe and not act while sitting on fixed posts collecting OT. CPD has become an overpaid paper pushing drain on city budget. Couple that with the fact that the justice system in city has tilted in the criminals favor, no cash bail, refusing to file charges byDA, pleading down violent and serious felonies to nothing abolish the whole justice and court system. With them gone close all the jails, no one to lock up anymore. See how easy it was to balance the city budget. With those actions taxpayer population will flee leaving only criminals and welfare cheats left.
manpower on disability soon
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Meanwhile, district desks, SDSC, admin, CAPS, and DCOs are all packed with house mice while beats are down, 99, or doubling as the wagon...
Honestly, do you know who I primarily blame? It's us. We are to blame. Let me explain.
1. Cops are the ones who are agreeing to go to jobs that should be a 10-4 unit but they'll go 99. I don't give a fuck if you're going to a garage burglar alarm and the job is one hour old. Request a back up unit. Do not go alone to jobs that require two officers to go.
2. Yeah overtime is great. It's great in the short term but not in the long term. By working SDI,CHA,CTA, etc... you're helping the department in this vicious cycle of covering up the man power shortages.
3. Do everything by the book. Follow all orders, directives and laws. By cutting corners you're going to place your own job and freedom in jeopardy.
4. Cops can never stick together. Just take a brief look at one example when we did stick together though- the vaccine mandate. Coppers took action collectively as a group against Mayor Lightfoot. We won! We can move heaven and earth if we stick together.
In the late 90's all cars were manned including the rapid response cars, most cars on midnights were 10-4.
Early -Mid 1990's man power was 13,500. Our department is extremely top heavy let's start cutting positions at the top.
On the plus side, at least most of the PPOs coming off cycles already know what they’re doing.
“Leaving aside there hasn't been an honest promotional exam in Chicago in decades,…”
Doesn’t help when the very people you elected to FOP agree to allow the Department to promote people to bomb dog handler who didn’t even take the test or place on the eligibility list. FACT (my neighbor openly brags that he’s one). So your own union sold you out for what? Not to mention it sets horrible precedent. Didn’t they claim they’d vigorously fight the nonsense the City pulled with the last sergeant test? I still stay in the loop and haven’t heard a peep about that.
As has been said here before, your union is compromised and it’s more apparent as time passes. Cantanzara has been bought.
On the plus side, at least most of the PPOs coming off cycles already know what they’re doing.
Hahahahaha. This has to be a joke right
4. Cops can never stick together. Just take a brief look at one example when we did stick together though- the vaccine mandate. Coppers took action collectively as a group against Mayor Lightfoot. We won! We can move heaven and earth if we stick together.
10/09/2023 07:06:00 AM
Lightfoot’s whole plan fell apart when GP @ K9 uncovered the religious exemptions fuckery. It all began to magically vanish right after. I personally know a ton of people who HR just quit communicating with over their paperwork. They gave up cuz they knew they got caught. Dude saved a ton of people their job.
Tribune points out---NASCAR was a financial joke-- cites imaginary city "benefit" from giveaways and publicity , admits city put out in excess of 3.5 million and was paid 500K for permit and 120K for tickets/merch sales
However useless BK wants us to believe that "...The deal for the 2024 race will require that NASCAR reimburse the city for the cost of police, fire and emergency management staffing..."--as if that number wouldn't also be complete bullshit.
In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, and Eric Garner in New York at the hands of police, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois released a report in March 2015 that found officers stopped Black Chicagoans at a far higher rate than Latino or White Chicagoans.
https://news.wttw.com/2023/10/03/stops-chicago-police-create-fear-and-sow-distrust-finds-survey-conducted-federal-court
My comment: As usual the ACLU is using demographics instead of the crime rate. Are they even aware of the 'inequity' of the Chicago crime rates? So dishonest. #disbandtheACLU
10/09/2023 0007:57:00 AM
Got news for you, the fop has been compromised since day fucking 1 that it started and these clowns are still at it. Wake the fuck up people, decertify these clowns and get a real bargaining UNION in not a fraternal bullshit club.
10/09/2023 07:06:00 AM
Good post.
This is a prime opportunity to open a new Chief’s position to study the affects of no manpower.
Residency is an absolute killer for recruiting and retaining. So many suburban kids would do the job but don’t want to live in Chicago. They want to live in the suburbs they grew up in. So instead they go to suburban police departments. Another killer is Lightfoot, mayor BJ and the other aweful Chicago politicians.
So, how many actually on the street? 5,000 total, maybe?
Covering three watches?
Quit your bitching Glen P. Retire already and stop being aggravated with shit that’s out of your control. Everyone knows that the promotional exams have been fixed for decades and any of your legal battles will go nowhere. You have it pretty good doing nothing and unlimited OT. Stop your nonsense already and enjoy life.
Every officer drains the pension. What we should be doing is our jobs and stop crap like this. We were her leaders of and fed into the anti Chicago and police frenzy because we didn’t like Lightfoot and Brown and look at both of them, gone back to their homes away from Chicago and we are stuck here hoping our wives and children don’t become a victim. Then any boss that tries to make a decision we attack. We rarely point out the good they do, but when we do it’s normally because they went against the grain of city hall and we get them in deeper shit. We are our own worse enemy.
Anonymous said...
Honestly, do you know who I primarily blame? It's us. We are to blame. Let me explain.
1. Cops are the ones who are agreeing to go to jobs that should be a 10-4 unit but they'll go 99. I don't give a fuck if you're going to a garage burglar alarm and the job is one hour old. Request a back up unit. Do not go alone to jobs that require two officers to go.
2. Yeah overtime is great. It's great in the short term but not in the long term. By working SDI,CHA,CTA, etc... you're helping the department in this vicious cycle of covering up the man power shortages.
3. Do everything by the book. Follow all orders, directives and laws. By cutting corners you're going to place your own job and freedom in jeopardy.
4. Cops can never stick together. Just take a brief look at one example when we did stick together though- the vaccine mandate. Coppers took action collectively as a group against Mayor Lightfoot. We won! We can move heaven and earth if we stick together.
10/09/2023 07:06:00 AM
As to #4….how did we win? She never dropped the portal mandate or vaccine mandate. The 95 year old Covid believer arbitrator ruled in Lightfoot’s favor not ours. The courts ruled in Lightfoot’s favor. Everyone had to comply with the portal and Lightfoot simply ignored the religious exemption. She forced nearly everyone to get the shot.
3. Do everything by the book. Follow all orders, directives and laws. By cutting corners you're going to place your own job and freedom in jeopardy.
Very well said. Those of you who were MPs (especially marine MPs) already know how to do it. Follow their directives to the letter. Take your time and do a real good job on each call.
Fill manpower…. Get rid of the goofy units. Crt, cst. Desk Dollie’s at 35th st. Caps unit paper pushers, how many in the academies? How many still at “call-back” because of the covid shot? Start there. Then start going after many of the medical abusers by following them and documenting their golf swing and gym workouts while their too sick to wirk. That could help a little
The city is fucking broke and spending it like a drunken sailor on migrants.
Seeing a PPO with neck tattoos was encouraging for the outlook of the department.
Dwindling down.
Enter the Democratic Socialist National Convention in 10 months. Another bigger and better "Summer of Love" coming up. Quoting Deam Wormer "being drunk, fat and stupid is no way to go through life" - unless you are a Chicago politician.
Anonymous said...
Eliminate all the 11 cars: 111, 211, 311, 411, 511 etc, etc, etc.
Each 12 car will cover 11 & 12.
Print up new maps.
10/09/2023 12:38:00 AM
Back in the late 80's the Tribune did a story about the fact numerous beats were not manned. City solution? Cut the number of beats and sectors and you then have 100% of the beat cars manned. Problem solved!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Seeing a PPO with neck tattoos was encouraging for the outlook of the department.
10/09/2023 03:01:00 PM
They have had them for years
One of the best officers I ever worked with had neck tattoos. Wish there were more like him
On the plus side, at least most of the PPOs coming off cycles already know what they’re doing.
This is a joke comment, right? Today’s PPO can’t stay off their phone long enough to tell where he is.
Get the felons on the payroll and paying into my pension!
Lightfoot’s whole plan fell apart when GP @ K9 uncovered the religious exemptions fuckery. It all began to magically vanish right after. I personally know a ton of people who HR just quit communicating with over their paperwork. They gave up cuz they knew they got caught. Dude saved a ton of people their job.
10/09/2023 08:20:00 AM
Damn right!
GP did money to help out cops during COVID than jcat and flop ever did!
@ 10/09/2023 11:33:00 AM
Don’t have a dog in this fight as I’m not in your union. So someone isn’t afraid to fight on behalf of you and call out those in power on their bullshit and you say it’s “bitching”. Okay. Just cuz you’re a coward doesn’t mean everyone else is. Things don’t and won’t change when you sit on the sidelines and let them continue to do what they will. Promo tests surely will continue to remain shady when there’s no pushback from the spineless yes men and women like yourself. And when your fop is in bed with the City on this? Well then that brings another part of the problem that needs to be eliminated. The dept appreciates the weak minded like you. You keep on being oblivious and let the adults fix things.
Quit your bitching Glen P. Retire already and stop being aggravated with shit that’s out of your control. Everyone knows that the promotional exams have been fixed for decades and any of your legal battles will go nowhere. You have it pretty good doing nothing and unlimited OT. Stop your nonsense already and enjoy life.
I’ve come across Glen P. a few times. He’s pretty decent. His number was called up on the previous Sgt list by score and he turned it down a couple times. Just some food for thought.
I’m wondering if the end game of attrition has less to do with managing to get more with less-as every US for-profit business has done for the last four decades-and is actually designed to accelerate the collapse of the police pension fund. These are not Democrats making these decisions and instead anarchists with a visceral hatred of Americas white middle class in general and policemen-the thin blue line-in particular.
As long as we have crazy left handed antagonistic bullshit being spout by crazy John Cantazara, we are lost when it comes to contracts and the city working with us. That’s why Chicago was left out of that last legislation benefiting by police! Somebody has to say it. He has no negotiating skills and fights everyone unless he thinks he can control them. We are our own worse enemy. Let’s work to protect our future than feeding into unnecessary bullshit. And before you say anything, yes I plan on joining the next team.
Fuck this job, I fucking did. royalty
Cheating you say ‘ can I get those e-learning answers’
nonymous said...
Seeing a PPO with neck tattoos was encouraging for the outlook of the department.
10/09/2023 03:01:00 PM
It seems that body art is now accepted by many large urban departments as well as beards and long hair, especially on women. Everybody is short handed and I suspect they do not want to turn down anyone, to include arrest records
"Eliminate all the 11 cars: 111, 211, 311, 411, 511 etc, etc, etc.
Each 12 car will cover 11 & 12.
Print up new maps."
10/09/2023 12:38:00 AM
"Back in the late 80's the Tribune did a story about the fact numerous beats were not manned. City solution? Cut the number of beats and sectors and you then have 100% of the beat cars manned. Problem solved!"
I never claimed this was my own original idea.
I copied it. Therefor I am Exempt material.
This department may as well have kiosks printing vins and dins, police work is long gone. Cutting department in half won't increase or decrease the crime.
I have neck tattoos and definitely do this job much better than whoever is complaining about them.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
4. Cops can never stick together. Just take a brief look at one example when we did stick together though- the vaccine mandate. Coppers took action collectively as a group against Mayor Lightfoot. We won! We can move heaven and earth if we stick together.
10/09/2023 07:06:00 AM
Lightfoot’s whole plan fell apart when GP @ K9 uncovered the religious exemptions fuckery. It all began to magically vanish right after. I personally know a ton of people who HR just quit communicating with over their paperwork. They gave up cuz they knew they got caught. Dude saved a ton of people their job.
10/09/2023 08:20:00 AM
While that's a great win, there is still the covid termination cases for officers. So when can this CR and bs mandate just disappear? When will they start rehiring the officers they pushed out from COVID? When will they take these bs CRs and expunge them for the stupid job of LL? When will the city finally realize leaving people in 376 for years is a fucking waste of time, money and manpower? Oh wait, pie in the sky reality no one wants to push or admit until it becomes relevant.
There are still officers who are stripped in callback, still on no pay status, denied from coming back to CPD because of the cities term of "good standing" when the city was wrong with the mandate. Along with the union not pressing on the city. Like how stupid can this place be? If orders from a superior whether written or oral are absolute then alot of bosses would catch civil cases, CRs or take multiple different hits on them already. OH wait, this is CPD and this is Chicago where the rules are for thee, but not for me.
Honestly that could help relieve some of the manpower if the upper echelons of this city were so stupid.
If you google the initial press conference with Mayor and Snelling they both used the words that the open 1500 positions will be reimagined.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Residency is an absolute killer for recruiting and retaining. So many suburban kids would do the job but don’t want to live in Chicago. They want to live in the suburbs they grew up in. So instead they go to suburban police departments. Another killer is Lightfoot, mayor BJ and the other aweful Chicago politicians.
10/09/2023 11:02:00 AM
When I got on in the early 90's 28,000 took the test. That's when it was broken down into qualified-well qualified- whatever the third category was. There was a '91 test then another in '93 I believe. Did 28k take each? I believe so.
Where would a new kid even move to in this city? What neighborhoods, besides the ghetto, are even affordable anymore? I suppose they could rent for their entire career.
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