Advantage Goes to Units
Someone who had a lot of time on their hands broke down the Sergeant promotions over the last test. It's certainly an interesting set of statistics:
It certainly pays to be in a Unit.
Firstly, because you are exposed to a lot more police work than just the regular day-to-day operations of District Law Enforcement.
Second, because you're exposed to a lot more of the connected Subject Matter Experts who provide you with insight and answers to test material.
And third, because if you need extra time to study or join a study group, it's far easier to be somewhere that you aren't attached to a regular watch answering calls, and can flex your working hours - or even your RDO's - to accommodate your efforts.
Labels: promotions
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
112 Comments:
Pays to be in the office, kids. Keep chasing those numbers. It doesn't matter. What matters is that you have a screen and a chair in front of you daily. Learn from this and bid to the desk or HQ.
610, 620, & 630 scoring well on the Sgts test isn’t a conspiracy. These are detectives who already scored well on the detectives test. Good test takers are good at taking tests…
Break it down further
By race
Sex/gender identity
And orientation <-- JK ok this one. LOL
Doucherst is done!
Cook the Goose!
Simple, smarter people go to units.
I think this analysis is flawed, the Detective Division isn’t a “unit” per se. Excluding merit, to be in the Detective Division you had to of taken the detective test and scored well enough to be promoted. Odds are if you did well on detective test you would have done well on sgt’s test.
Dang no one out of 376
630 leading the pack….maybe more dicks will bid in for the secret study groups
And this is news to whom?
610, 620, 630, 640 & 650 scoring well on the Sgts test isn’t a conspiracy. These are detectives who already scored well on the detectives test. Good test takers continue to be good test takers.
Everything is on the up and up. Sons, daughters and friends of the bosses are in units getting taken care of as always. Now keep working hard you’ll get what’s coming to you. Most people will never have nothing coming to them, it is just a shit show. Years ago Patrol Men would say “l’m just a dog ass working my beat”. Don’t get up set, it pays the bills, it’s just a job and nothing more. Do your time and retire. The clueless boss are running the place with their Best Friends as their staff. Hard work means nothing. One mistake can cost you your job and freedom.
All of those things are true. Let's not forget that when classes are made years after tests are given, officers move around. It's very possible that they were in a district when they took a test, and then got promoted, or moved to a unit, before making sergeant.
What is interesting is that 3rd was the academy for 21 and 6th was 019 for another 11. 019 was recently run by merit sergeant, box of rocks Papaioannou who suddenly became smart enough to rank at the top of the lieutenants exam list and also spent most of his career in the academy.
Second, because you're exposed to a lot more of the connected Subject Matter Experts who provide you with insight and answers to test material
Or most importantly the handling/servicing of the subject matter expert's "unit" wink, wink...
I didn't take the test but for all the people complaining about the advantage of the test takers on the 3rd, 4th and 5th day don't you think the test takers on the 1st and 2nd day are the real dummies? Yeah real smart tell everyone the questions so they can get a better score! You shouldn't be promoted if your that stupid! I wouldn't tell anyone anything until the test is done. Also I have a good friend that was in the first class and he had the test on the 1st day. He studied his ass off and also told me that if I did take the test he wouldn't of told me the questions.
Be safe everyone out there and God bless, I pray every night for the officers still working the streets!
From someone that is in a very good spot but didn't forget where I came from!🍻
Breakdown by gender and race is missing with both score and merit.
Don't forget that they are SPECIAL.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Pays to be in a unit? are you kidding me? I have been a detective for a long time, think decades. I have no idea what patrol sergeants do. None. I never see it. If I was to study for the test I would have absolutely no 'advantage.'
you are forgetting the units already have one promotion if you are talking about the Areas - so 80% of the Dets. already have shown they can study for a test - so we have a bit of restriction of range going on here.
Amen
This is why seniority should carry more weight.
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
OT 7 years for grabbing women's butts.
Come on now it's a fucking simple battery.
I told you I wasted 25 bucks on a test ticket.
How many of them have beards?
Connect dots of who each ones clout is.
Same guy must have made the schedule matrix for snelling
Easy to be smart and score high when answers are provided to you. Those who know, know what I'm talking about. Special "group study". 😉
Lets be honest the officer staying down on burglar alarms and parkers for an hour, or going down on a personal or lunch when the dispatcher is giving them a domestic on their beat is not going to put in the effort or time to do well on a sergeant exam.
So the merit promotions are basically 50/50?
Kinda blows the whole kiss-ass theory out of the water.
Wouldn’t the favorite ones be in units instead of patrol?
Also, the detective units scored well which is no surprise.
Some people are just good at studying, retaining knowledge, and taking tests.
It’s not a surprise that those people score better on the dics test and the sgts test.
Smart people score well on tests, who would have figured.
People who do well in high school tend to do well in college.
People who don’t do well in high school become city workers lol
And smart people who become city workers get promoted.
Not exactly earth shattering.
What is interesting is that 3rd was the academy for 21 and 6th was 019 for another 11. 019 was recently run by merit sergeant, box of rocks Papaioannou who suddenly became smart enough to rank at the top of the lieutenants exam list and also spent most of his career in the academy.
For some reason right after the LT scores were announced and he scored top 2(I might be wrong here), he kept telling everyone he did not cheat. And he wouldn't stop, it was the strangest thing.
People that work with no clout sometimes get lucky and get into units or good spots. These same people will put the same effort and actually study and end up getting promoted. Do people cheat yeah. But don't discount people that actually put the work in.
The fall Sgt class will be off the new list, reliable source
Just because they ended up in a unit when the class was announced doesn’t mean they were when they tested. Both times I passed promotion exams I was in a district and moved on, then was promoted
All of those things are true. Let's not forget that when classes are made years after tests are given, officers move around. It's very possible that they were in a district when they took a test, and then got promoted, or moved to a unit, before making sergeant.
It shows you have not spent anytime on the watch. Your average PO has nearly ZERO opportunities of "moving around". Every coveted position whether testable or seniority outside of patrol is rigged and goes to the family of bosses or their squeezes. I have even seen desk bids purposely not announced to the watch just so that one special officer with 3 years on is the only one bidding to the position. The actual police department, I'm talking the lowly patrol, does not operate like those units you "moved around" to.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dang no one out of 376
LMAO ! You can’t test your way off the island !!
Sorry, will disagree with this one for the most part. Most of those getting promoted from unit in the vast majority of the cases took the test while in patrol (historically). Just because they were able to go to a unit shouldn't take away from what they achieved.
From my own experience I found that sergeants who were field detectives tended to be better to work for. Both in terms of knowledge and personality.
or go to 019 I guess
Patrol - The Butthole of the Department - where you are truly treated as such.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Simple, smarter people go to units.
3/21/2024 01:00:00 AM
hahahahahahahahaha you mean all those "sos' sons of supervisors that went to units? or all those with a familiar last name that went to special units based on a "wink-wink" phone call?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How many of them have beards?
3/21/2024 07:11:00 AM
hey,,, leave my girlfriend out of this !!! hahahaha
Nonsense about dics being better test takers. How do you explain RC from 630? Sharp as a spoon. When he got to 630 he had to be taken aside and explained to why front wiping is bad. Then, he shows up at a major dog-napping press conference with supe and mayor and is on tv with tp stuck to his shoe. Word is, now this jabroni is turning down sgt because he put in for merit commander and thinks he is getting the nod.
I didn't take the test but for all the people complaining about the advantage of the test takers on the 3rd, 4th and 5th day don't you think the test takers on the 1st and 2nd day are the real dummies? Yeah real smart tell everyone the questions so they can get a better score! You shouldn't be promoted if your that stupid! I wouldn't tell anyone anything until the test is done. Also I have a good friend that was in the first class and he had the test on the 1st day. He studied his ass off and also told me that if I did take the test he wouldn't of told me the questions.
Be safe everyone out there and God bless, I pray every night for the officers still working the streets!
From someone that is in a very good spot but didn't forget where I came from!🍻
3/21/2024 03:59:00 AM
If someone thought they did well enough on the test and wanted to help out their buddies, they wouldn't hesitate telling them everything they remembered from the test. It might hurt them, but maybe they'd still get promoted anyway. If someone knew they bombed it, but remembered what was asked, they'd have no reason not to help out their friends. People who are just out for themselves or have no friends would not say a word. I know when I took the test, not the multi-day fiasco version, I told everyone who asked about it as much as I could remember. I didn't know if I scored high enough to be promoted, but I had no reason not to try to help other people for the next test. That's a different situation, but I think I would've done the same if I had taken the multi-day test. Maybe your friend wouldn't "of" told you the answers because he knows "your" stupid, as you've shown with this post. Maybe he's not the good friend you think he is.
Pays to be in a unit? are you kidding me? I have been a detective for a long time, think decades. I have no idea what patrol sergeants do. None. I never see it. If I was to study for the test I would have absolutely no 'advantage.'
Correct. In addition, What a desk Sergeant does? Lock up procedures? BWC review ? CR procedures.
This is why seniority should carry more weight.
3/21/2024 07:09:00 AM
It does. With seniority comes more job knowledge, which should help you on the test. Time on the job doesn't necessarily help everyone though. Being dumb can last for decades. Some idiot shouldn't get a better chance at promotion because they've been dumb longer than someone else.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
OT 7 years for grabbing women's butts.
Come on now it's a fucking simple battery.
3/21/2024 07:09:00 AM
You might want to look into it a bit further. Often, it was way more than simple batteries.
You can also study during your tour of duty in units where in districts you have to answer calls and do paperwork
Breakdown by gender and race is missing with both score and merit.
3/21/2024 05:04:00 AM
The names give a pretty clear indication of gender, at least for the 99.9% who don't have the mental illness that makes them believe they're the opposite gender. The names are usually pretty easy to group into race categories too, without ever seeing the person behind the name. Let's try some examples:
Thomas Durkin - white male
Juan Morales - Hispanic male
Jamal Williams - black male
Now you give it a try!
As someone who has worked in unit and on the beat…. The beat officers do way more preliminary police work and understand who needs to be notified and what needs to be done on scene of a critical incident. When I was in a unit, you are never the first on scene and typically the first ones to leave, so you have no idea the little details that need to be completed. But being in a unit, you have way more time to study, especially at work and a lot more study groups. Plus the sgts and LTs usually want you do your best in the unit, makes them look better.
This was a great start. Next show by race. Then by family connection.
It’s NOT legit.
I’ll take on ANY of the names and debate them on ANY 5 general order knowledge or Clear functions.
Signed.
Working stiff with no medical or IOD usage in 25+ years
Detectives want to advance to sergeant rank, some will become lieutenants. Others will get assigned to a Detective unit after putting a year in patrol .
I would actually expect detectives to do better than the rest considering they're dealing with more serious crimes and legalities on a daily basis compared to watch personnel. Academy personnel should also rank high considering their work schedule allows more study time
What’s laughable is the amount of district, radio call chasing morons that actually think that should be an advantage to getting promoted to sergeant! Yes, it’s a tiring, difficult and tedious assignment, but after going back to patrol as a score aergeant after over a decade as a score detective, there’s a reason everyone starts in patrol! Basic report writing and traffic stops is not indicative of a great policeman or police sergeant. Neither is a great detective with terrible patrol skills and street experience. The travesty on this job continues to be the cheating promotions and merit promotions of the dollies, kiss-asses, race-normed, clouted, sons and daughters of supervisors, and all-around morons! Those people continue to be hidden and given choice spots throughout the department year after year! Free promotions over and over again!
It could be that people in special units are more talented, more intelligent, and more motivated to study.
80% of detectives are rank score. They have already proven they can pass an exam. It only makes sense that they do well on a sergeant exam. They already beat you on a detective exam. They will most likely beat you on a sergeant exam as well. Like Charlie Sheen said "winning"
Another poster already said it but these charts are flawed. I'm a test score Sgt. I've been a Sgt. for quite a while. When I made Sgt. I was in a unit. I took both part 1 and part 2 when I was in a district. There has to be some people the same as me from this test (I know this list has gone fast). The biggest disadvantage to a district now is they are massively short officers. When I took the test Districts had 50's and 06 cars. Those days are long gone. My point being is you could study in the car back in the day. Most units are very short now. The working units have to work. They have more freedom but can't be ghosts. Then you have units that do nothing or are house mouses like Intel, Training Academy, Detached Services, and Force Review, just to name a few. They have a big advantage to study on the companies dime.
I spend all these years trying to be the good guy, you know? The man in the white f'n hat. For what? For nuthin'. I'm not becoming like them, SCC, I am them.
Can we get the same break down for Lieutenant exam?
Mayor Brandon Johnson losing his savvy chief of staff after less than a year in office
The appointment of City Hall lifer Rich Guidice sent a reassuring message to those most fearful of the most progressive mayor in Chicago history. But now, Guidice, who has seen Chicago through countless protests and special events, is abandoning ship before seeing Chicago through the Democratic National Convention in August.
guidice finally figure out it was a sh-t storm and that bj is a ghetto mayor
guidice has always been an 11th ward political hack and a yes man but in saying he also knows how to run a city government
he could probally to naperville schaumburg or even rosemont and do a decent job there
but chicago is know a ghetto run city run by a westside ghetto mayor
rich the best of luck
Tell us something we already didnt know!
ssc i was in a unit once i got there because i knew what i was doing and i worked yes alot of useless political hacks and dollies but some decent workers too.
if you do not have wack and are not going to get a merit promotion or a sceret study group
few advantages other than an early duck , over time, and 2 hour lunches
i survived in a unit for 2 years i was dumped to a nice northside district on days and i m still working n loving it everyday
advice to my non clouted working police officers , make the job work for you
Anonymous said...
Simple, smarter people go to units.
3/21/2024 01:00:00 AM
People with phone calls go to units. The rest of us are tied to a radio.
Time to go:
Illinois State Police to increase compensation for new troopers
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-state-police-to-increase-compensation-for-new-troopers/
Anonymous Anonymous said...
610, 620, 630, 640 & 650 scoring well on the Sgts test isn’t a conspiracy. These are detectives who already scored well on the detectives test. Good test takers continue to be good test takers.
3/21/2024 01:46:00 AM
And somehow some of those "good test takers" always know what the questions are going to be months before the test
I was promoted off of my test score to sergeant back in 1997.
I was a patrolman back then, and I made it off my score.
If you want it bad enough, you'll find the time to study, period.
To test a theory here, see where each of these new sergeants get assigned. Odds are they wouldnt leave a unit for a chance of working the street unless it was already fixed. Do a follow up. Connect the dots. Expose the clout. So much for the consent decree.
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
OT 7 years for grabbing women's butts.
Come on now it's a fucking simple battery.
3/21/2024 07:09:00 AM
If only he'd stuck to trannies....
Just see your Alderman with an envelope full of unmarked bills, for next promotion. What part of Chicago do you not yet understand?
People with phone calls go to units. The rest of us are tied to a radio.
3/21/2024 01:21:00 PM
You're tied to the radio because you don't know how to get out. There's plenty of people in units with no phone calls. Apply yourself. Some of you are as bad as democrats. "Wah it's everyone's fault but mine!"
hahahahahahahahaha you mean all those "sos' sons of supervisors that went to units? or all those with a familiar last name that went to special units based on a "wink-wink" phone call?
3/21/2024 08:57:00 AM
SOS? how many people on the job even know what that is? You're probably retired. Enjoy retirement, get off the blog.
Yeah right, the job is legit.
Fuck off !
https://apple.news/AstRhhWxKSk6eYpgyN_ZCZQ
this is not good… This is not good for Chicago. anyone with 20+ years should know this guy by now… He really has done it all… We are f$&@?! without him… Read between the lines … Richie does not agree with the social progressive programs, ideas and paths that someone to take in the administration. Richie is a really good dude… We just lost THE ONLY voice of reason in City Hall. Dark days are ahead
This is great listen to this military vet colonel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Nw8VGSl5cZo&fbclid=IwAR3ZvVPM6a3pZotqxljxZf5XHbhCtfQ6x3AHywpieRrpkqCReS_5HqcCJ7Y#bottom-sheet
Anyone really want to see something interesting, file a FOIA request to see the paperwork exempts have to fill out to justify their merit nominees. Most new exempts have nominated someone they haven’t even met. Why? They’re told to. Completely lying about their relationship with the nominee and the nominees work habits and successes.
DNC will be a big problem without RG
Conehead doesn’t have a clue
The appointment of City Hall lifer Rich Guidice sent a reassuring message to those most fearful of the most progressive mayor in Chicago history. But now, Guidice, who has seen Chicago through countless protests and special events, is abandoning ship before seeing Chicago through the Democratic National Convention in August.
guidice finally figure out it was a sh-t storm and that bj is a ghetto mayor
To the grammar police: YOU'RE a tool. You must HAVE scored low on this last Sergeants test and was a 1st day test taker. Don't worry the next test is written and I'm sure you will be in the 1st class. Hang in there!
OT: Serial skateboarding groper charged with 7 offenses gets 7 years...
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
Should have been 45 years all together, but Hellinois, so he gets to do the sentences concurrently instead of consecutively, then gets 50% off "good behavior" credit, and another 586 days off "time served" electronic monitoring credit, so he'll be out in 1.89 yrs (about 1 yr 11 mos or so)... Fucking democrats...
Hardly a deterrent against the next POS who wants to play grabass with women on the street... Hopefully one of them just handles it the next time it happens and the problem's resolved permanently.
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"Just see your Alderman with an envelope full of unmarked bills, for next promotion. What part of Chicago do you not yet understand?"
You must be an exempt by now. Explain the process.
I don't know anybody. I have the $$$. How much for Sgt?
Who do I give it to? No Ald is going to take it hand to hand.
Do I leave it with the Ald secretary with my name & star # on scratch paper?
Do I give it to my Precinct Capt? or District Commander or Area Deputy Chief?
Guarantees??? If I don't get promoted do I get my money back? 25-50% for expenses?
I firmly believe a promotion can be inherited or given for sexual favors, but not bought by anyone without a firm history of clout.
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This last class they balanced the race on merit. The pervious ones especially the first 3 classes it was 80 percent black merit officers. Numbers never lie.
I was promoted off of my test score to sergeant back in 1997.
I was a patrolman back then, and I made it off my score.
If you want it bad enough, you'll find the time to study, period.
That was probably the last legitimate test the city gave. You had a better chance making it because there wasn't as much cheating by the subject matter experts back then. Also, they didn't focus so much on merit promotions back then. It has gotten much tougher for the actual people who study for the test because the politicians have gotten more control over the final testing scores and the merit picks. I'm glad you made it, but if you took the test today politics would have placed you further back on the test. The city has been playing with the test scores since 1999. So it makes it much harder to actually study and score well because the politicians play with the numbers in their favor every test.
630 Has a secret study group! It meets every night at Sgt MB s spot
Anonymous Anonymous said...
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
OT 7 years for grabbing women's butts.
Come on now it's a fucking simple battery.
3/21/2024 07:09:00 AM
You might want to look into it a bit further. Often, it was way more than simple batteries.
Funny thing is that it wasn't, just a lot of victims.
Even in a busy district you have time to study. Trust me. Put down the youtube and tiktok. If you want it bad enough you will put in the work.
Let's face it. There are retards/dumb people in every cultural/Racial group of people.
Mexicans
Puerto Ricans
Irish
German
Polish
Asians
South Americans
Russians
Ukrainians
You get the gist
The list Is LONG.
NOT EVERYONE WILL PASS A TEST or MERIT SELECTION.
So stop with the hate.
OT: Well this took longer than expected... My baby din du nuffin!
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/03/chicago-serial-skateboard-groper-gets-7-year-sentence-have-a-nice-day-sweetheart.html
OT 7 years for grabbing women's butts.
Come on now it's a fucking simple battery.
3/21/2024 07:09:00 AM
If only he'd stuck to trannies....
3/21/2024 03:11:00 PM
Not a "simple" battery - this fuck should have gotten the whole 45 years to serve for the seven separate criminal acts he committed. Instead, here in Hellinois, he'll get 7 years to serve "concurrently" for all the sentences, then they'll cut that in half and take off the 586 days of "time served" bullshit when he was on EM, so you're at just shy of 2 years.
When he does it next time, I hope the women tune his ass up instead of wasting time filing reports that Crimesha and Co aren't going to do a thing about...
A good solid ass kicking will do more to prevent future occurrences of such acts than 2 yrs in jail...Oh well.
Old 14 yrs retired guy said:
One way a person in a spot has an advantage is they are not confused by the GO vs the actual procedure.
My partner & I studied hard. We had to take a turn on the wagon, and refused to remove a murdered body from a crime scene. We showed our LT on scene the GO saying we needed a toe tag before moving it. He liked us, but yelled like a mother fucker, "take this body away." We obeyed and jokingly remembered this.
On our Sgt test one Q was when is a toe tag place on a dead body? The GO answer was at the scene before the body is removed (as we showed our LT). The reality was the wagon did not carry toe tags, the District did not have toe tags, only the morgue had toe tags. Because of our fucking around we scored the correct answer, while every wagon man in our district, probably citywide, got it wrong. One correct answer meant 100 pts on your finial score. It should be noted that a week or so after the test, the GO was amended to reflect the morgue was the "new" procedure for toe tags. There are 'fixed' answers on all tests, like 'notify the watch commander' which I got wrong because the GO said keep your exempt informed of your CR investigation. WC was not mentioned. This has been argued add nauseam. I do not want to re-open it.
Another trick is when they issue a GO days before a test that changes a procedure. Back in the day getting a new GO, printed on paper, held behind the Desk, was very difficult to obtain. Now you have it on line, but either way it is not fair to issue new orders, subject to testing, before a test.
I've been very lucky. But, it is hard to explain to your family that you wasted a lot of time studying in a casino rigged against you, because it is the only casino in town.
One more class off the old list in September! They have to get to at least 300 off the list…
To test a theory here, see where each of these new sergeants get assigned. Odds are they wouldnt leave a unit for a chance of working the street unless it was already fixed. Do a follow up. Connect the dots. Expose the clout. So much for the consent decree.
3/21/2024 02:58:00 PM
People do a lot of things for a 30,000 raise
Simple, smarter people go to units.
Ego. Enjoy your career of having someone else’s on your chin.
Bureau of patrol for life because f’ being beholden to anyone, this department or this city.
-9171 second class of previous list.
Wow, cry babies. I took the test for Sgt and would have made it off of score. Placed in the top 200, but realized what a dump the city was turning into and left for the suburbs. Would only look back for our great furlough time and early ducks. Word of advice to any officer within CPD, use your medical! Scam the system like all the bums do. Only used it before I resigned but looking back wished I had used it more. CPD doesn’t care for your well being. God bless you all!
Exactly why crime is not being solved
Everyone busy studying of shopping while on duty
Anonymous said...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dang no one out of 376
LMAO ! You can’t test your way off the island !!
3/21/2024 08:44:00 AM
Rotflmao silly ass sh*t lolol
Don't you know they were smart enough to clear and get assigned back to their dist before the list was made so they looked like a street copper. Yes giirrlls
This list is done
They will take off the new list for sept
Rank-order will be out by DNC
Snelling and his crew need their people in
Anonymous Anonymous said...
hahahahahahahahaha you mean all those "sos' sons of supervisors that went to units? or all those with a familiar last name that went to special units based on a "wink-wink" phone call?
3/21/2024 08:57:00 AM
SOS? how many people on the job even know what that is? You're probably retired. Enjoy retirement, get off the blog.
Hey genius, they were using “SOS” as an acronym for “Sons Of Supervisors”, which was clearly explained in the comment. But you’re either too stupid or too much in a hurry trying to disrespect someone that has paid their dues. Who the Fuck are you to tell a retiree to “get off the blog” ?! Many of us want to hear what the veterans have to say, value their experience and don’t want to only hear the opinions of the tik-tok police !!!
To the grammar police: YOU'RE a tool. You must HAVE scored low on this last Sergeants test and was a 1st day test taker. Don't worry the next test is written and I'm sure you will be in the 1st class. Hang in there!
3/21/2024 05:17:00 PM
Hey, you're learning! There you go, buddy! You still used the wrong verb in your post, but you realized your earlier mistakes, thanks to my help. When the subject is "you," the correct verb is "were," not "was." I didn't score anything on this last test, because I didn't take it. I saw no reason to waste the money or time, since I was already promoted in the first class from the test I did take. I'm also retired, so I won't be taking the next test. Good luck to you though. I'm sure you'll do great. Even if you don't get promoted, you'll probably learn so much just by studying. You could even grab an English textbook to brush up on your skills. I suggest something at the 4th grade level. We don't want you to get frustrated and give up.
P.S. Make sure you accuse me of cheating or being connected in your next post, because there's no way I was just smart enough to get in the first class on my own.
OT, when are they going to make more canine officers either off of the patrol or explosives list?
I’m not going to really take one side or another. First, when people go to narcotics, gangs, fugitive or other units like that I do believe that you have a bit of a sharper officer going there.. now not always, but most of the time. Clearly units also have many hacks who are there because of an alderman. But seeiously, I have worked in units with some very knowledable officers. Why? Because I fell that have experienced a lot. Lots of arrests that use force, become clusters, highly involved, need to involve felony review and detectives. When you do that more often than a guy who is on a beat car cutting reports and handling domestics everyday it does give them an edge on being in those very complex situations. Don’t get me wrong, some of the best policeman I have worked with and learned from were on the watch. But, those guys also moved on to units at one time or another in their career. I loved working the watch. I loved a beat car but I also loved my time in a unit. The caliber of the officers in a unit does exceed those on a watch in many, not all cases. After my “unit” days and I became an old guy who could get days and early car by bid I went back to a watch and slowed down.. I still love it and love the guys and girls I work with. But there is a difference in many cases but not all. Some great patrolmen on the watch would make awesome supervisors but just don’t want it.. and that’s admirable. They do it to be the police and do it for themselves. I love it. But those are few and far between on many of the watches these days. Guys now a days work harder to blow off jobs, not get into a complex situation and when they do, they immediately call for a sgt every single time. If you can’t take a dump without asking a sgt a question, then you shouldn’t be a supervisor let alone a policeman. 28 years, I have three years till 55 when I leave. Took one promotion exam in my career. I didn’t get it. Bitter?? No, not at all. I love being a blue shirt and I just am not afraid to admit, being a sgt just isn’t for me. I like being a beat cop out there with the boys on the watch. Pretty simple. A lot more here need to just be able to admit that…
It shows you have not spent anytime on the watch. Your average PO has nearly ZERO opportunities of "moving around".
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Try again. I spent 15 years in a shit hole Southside district, working a Bt. car. While there, I took the Sgt test, then ET test, then Detective test. I quickly made detective, off the list. Then I would've made ET off the list if I wanted it and wasn't already a detective. Then I made Sgt, also off the list.
It CAN happen but people would rather make excuses.
The detective divisions are not units at all. That is the bureau of detectives. Like it’s been said in many comments already being a detective and presumably scoring well on a previous test is going to prepare you to score well on the next one.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
hahahahahahahahaha you mean all those "sos' sons of supervisors that went to units? or all those with a familiar last name that went to special units based on a "wink-wink" phone call?
3/21/2024 08:57:00 AM
SOS? how many people on the job even know what that is? You're probably retired. Enjoy retirement, get off the blog.
3/21/2024 04:17:00 PM
Hey kid, it's like this,,, the city will always come up with a fancy sounding name for a unit, spot, detail, etc,, to make it sound like a great spot to get officers to volunteer and work, then there will those "special" ones who ask mommy, daddy, auntie, uncle, boyfriend to get them in there so they can do nothing. The names change, the results never do
It shows you have not spent anytime on the watch. Your average PO has nearly ZERO opportunities of "moving around".
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Try again. I spent 15 years in a shit hole Southside district, working a Bt. car. While there, I took the Sgt test, then ET test, then Detective test. I quickly made detective, off the list. Then I would've made ET off the list if I wanted it and wasn't already a detective. Then I made Sgt, also off the list.
It CAN happen but people would rather make excuses.
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Captain obvious here. (Technically) anything CAN happen. Anyone can become the superintendent's driver, right? It's all legit. For real.
Just a test does NOT identify good leaders.
Newsflash!
Nothing in this world is Legit. Got it? Now move along...
Let's divide it up by which parish or high school you went to!! I tell you what I've noticed, majority of those C-viller's score well on promotional exams! What's in the water over there!?
Congrats McBroom!
Its all a matter of SUCTION!!
Like most police officers I went through 8 years of grade school, 4 years of H.S. And 4 years of college and what I saw at every level was that the so called “poor test takers” where simply the ones that didn’t know the material. It doesn’t take test taking skills to fill in one of four choices. You either know the material or you don’t.
I paid 50 for secret study group in A3, and got 1500 on Sgt exam.
Just a test does NOT identify good leaders
^ relax. already know your merit and egotistical where you walk around and act like your better then everyone. You’re a natural born leader who can’t pass a test or score high enough, but your leadership skills since birth make you the best supervisor out there! Look in the mirror at yourself and laugh. Clown.
The detective divisions are not units at all. That is the bureau of detectives. Like it’s been said in many comments already being a detective and presumably scoring well on a previous test is going to prepare you to score well on the next one.
3/22/2024 04:38:00 AM
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well, for supervisors it is still kind of a unit because it is a phone call spot
I became a Detective and bid to 630 just to improve my chances of becoming a Sgt.
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