Contrarian Wins Again
Five days ago, the Contrarian had this:
Here is some chilling news for Chicago.
Despite @ChicagosMayor's claim a hiring freeze would not affect CPD, we've learned no training classes will be accepted to CPD academy until December.
CPD is also preparing for massive cuts — defund-level cuts — to the police budget.
Late yesterday, the Sun Times discovered:
The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze.
And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — and submit proposals by Friday. The goal: $75 million in additional savings in 2025.
And amid all the noise, a "shortage number" appears:
Canceling police academy classes for at least two months also did not sit well with the police union’s Council allies. They noted CPD, with 11,660 sworn officers, already is 1,693 officers below its January 2019 level.
Between January 2022 and June 2024, the police department processed 28 academy classes, averaging 68 recruits each, over a 30-month period to make up for time lost during the pandemic.
If our memory serves us correctly, between January 1995 and December 1998, nearly 4,000 cops were hired with the assistance of federal grant money doled out by Clinton.
- 1995 + 29-and-a-day = 2024
Meaning there are 4,000 potential retirements on tap for the next thru 2027. We say potential because of the large number who did:
- 20 and out
- 55 and gone
- any combination of the above
- laterals
- the usual resignations, jailings, firings and deaths
Some enterprising reporter with time and FOIA ability could easily find seniority lists and put some weight behind those numbers.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 7:31 AM
51 Comments:
Studies have found that a city the size of Chicago only needs a police force of 6,500. That's comparing it to others of the same size.
Just like a fuggin democRat
No training? How are the Consent Decree peoples justify their existence and their six figure consulting fees.
Did B.J. Conehead's side piece have her baby yet? He gonna be getting served with child support soon. He won't be able to pay his water bill fo sure. The city is broke and its no joke. The city is broken and I'm not jokin.
How many cops here should thank Bill Clinton for their jobs. Are you ever going to respond to the the fact that Trumps budget proposals from 2017-2020 eliminated federal funding for local law enforcement?
The extreme shortages in service-ready CFD fire apparatus must be flagged to Chicago readers, via Letters to the Editor from firefighters, via blog posts, maybe even by flyers taped to lampposts. Most white-collar professionals still living in Chicago think crime-rates are exaggerated, that Brandon is just a little overwhelmed, and that everything is still reasonably fine in Chicago.
Lets sum it all up like this...
(1) The Mayor is lying whenever he speaks.
(2) Things are going to get way worse in Chicago
(3) It doesn't matter who is mayor as long as they are beholding to the cabal that is behind them.
Now apply this formula to Kamala and the White House
While the city is in disarray, the mayor goes on a British junket with the Big Ben clock telling him that time is up for his city. He fine dines on London's famous buffalo flavored catfish and chips. Conehead takes his photo in London while his staff takes booking photos at Central Detention. Conehead is no monarch from Buckingham Palace. He should bring back a red phonebooth so he can change into his superman costume creating a desired optic during public appearances.
Chicago needs more police to keep the lid on this trashcan of a city. Chicago needs working fire trucks with functioning airhorns racing to calls for service in Englewoods. Conehead fumbles again and his front line has collapsed. Thank you Contrarian for being a reputable source of information exposing real issues that affect Chicagoans.
He is defunding the police, say whatever you want but he is consistentl.
I will not raise property taxes. Well, maybe I will. I will not cut from police or fire. Well, maybe I will. I will not cave into CTU. Well, maybe I will. Consistently bi-polar.
Damn no classes? I was hoping Shemash could retread to help her get over her anxiety about having to be at work. What idiot made her a street deputy, should have demoted her and put her back in 012. She is a hot mess and someone give her Jenny Craig's number.
omg, the city needs to fast track police hiring!!!! THE MEDIA WILL RUN OUT OF DEMONIZING STORIES
Did these recruits quit their jobs yet?
Were they starting Monday?
Enterprising reporter, you make me laugh. What he’s gonna do is roll the dice with his voting block, after all, what are they gonna do, vote for someone who’s not like him.
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Not good for pension. Hire felons.
Hate to say it SCC, there are no enterprising independent reporters left, at least in Chicago. They report what the editorial board tells them to report. Anything that looks bad to the democratic cabal is nixed.
And what does this cause..? Unlimited OT for officers in district. Just has it's been for 3+ yrs. This will NOT help conehead's disaster of a budget. How many officers are on OT every single day? Hundreds..? A thousand or more..? He's a pathetic lying fkin moron.
50 and gone with 28 years pension wise in a few months. No need to stay on this job since my sugar momma has the insurance. This is a sinking ship and nothing can repair the damage.
I don’t see how the city will regain their strength back. Most of their candidates drop out because of POWER test failures or failing the psych exam. Also nobody wants this job anymore. Let’s not forget the people who vote for Mayors like Johnson
Well taxpayers have to take care of migrants. They are still arriving and having babies.. one in the stroller, one in the hip and two walking behind mama.
The cities you are comparing Chicago with all have very proactive sheriff's departments that augment them in their daily crime fighting activities. Here in Chicago the CCSD will not "patrol" or respond to any 911 call that is within the city limits. Sure, they will deal with unincorporated areas of Cook County, but it best not be an emergency, you'll be waiting a long time for them to show up and blow you off. In my 30 years otj I have never, repeat never, been assisted by the sheriff's office in any capacity. This includes 5 years as a sgt in 10 with many incidents right in front of jail walls. So, don't ever compare Chicago with any other city. You clearly don't know how politics works here. Crawl back under your rock and go back to sleep. Nit-Wit.
No cuts to the CTU or CPS. Plenty of money there. Oh, by the way, the city needs 14 Billion to comply with federal mandates to replace all lead water service pipes to commercial and residential property in the next 20 years.
Well, yes! CPD employs about 6500 patrol police officers and about 6000 clerical police officers. Many on the clerical side have fewer than 10 arrests in their entire careers. Get pregnant and head inside, pregnancy lasts 20 years, never to return to the beat car.
I have 20+ years of working patrol, like a fool. Too many bad days to list. Jaded, salty and almost finished.
Chicago is completely fucked with this incompetent bigoted, racist clown running Chicago into the fucking ground ! This mentality defective mother fucker is in way, way over his mental capacity, he doesn’t have a clue in running a city, other then into the ground !
You take federal money with their rules. Do you want a federal local police force (the democrats do)? Trump's DOJ did not go after local police departments with consent decrees. Local funding, local control.
Austerity. When democrats say it, it means- I’m giving too much free sh!t to people who’ve not paid into the system to support your needs.Maybe the mayor needs to start paying for his own hair and make up and frivolous trips.
That was a different Democratic Party. As much as the Clinton’s were a bunch of con artists that federal funding was largely in the wake of high profile cases like WACO. Its intention was every bit more about expanding federal overreach on weapons and adding crimes for Fedrral death penalty offenses. Laughably it was also supported by the Black Caucus and by Black Americans. The same people who would later cry “systemic racism.” So put that in your pipe and smoke it. If there’s any Bill that even smells of conservatism supported by a liberal, you can guarantee it’s got “federal overreach” buried somewhere in it.
Do those same studies account for all the mandatory overtime and cancelled days off they force on officers whenever any of the following occurs: DNC, Halloween in the hood, NYE, Mexican Independence week, anytime a pale officer shoots a brown person, pretty much any event taking place from June thru Labor Day?
Make all the EXTREMISTS in the ranks retire!!!
Were the studies done by BLM?
Yeah. Ok. If everyone works 99 on 12 hour shifts
Those studies assume that the metro force has help from the county and state, like LAPD has LA county patrolling and The NYPD having help from the Port authority and the transit police. We have no help here in Chicago from CCSPD or ISP. (I know ISP patrols the expressways but a lot of times they are not available and CPD has to help out.
More propaganda from a pro Kameltoe leftist.
I'm gonna be one of the 29+1. SeeYa
Good. Government spends too much money. Cut all taxes. Privatize police, people can sign up for the service they want.
If you are 50+ considered leaving.
Good for you, I don’t blame you one bit. I’ve been gone for about 7 months now and retirement is fantastic. Enjoy yourself.
Rumor has it all the people ar callback for the covid stuff are being reinstated by the end of the week.
And now this is where the city goes to 12 hour shifts. Catanzara was told this was the plan a long time ago, but he refused to believe it.
More OT means.... no new hires...means no fresh money into the pension.
Her weasel husband would come back and they could work together... Laurel and Hardy
He didn't pay his water bill... It was paid for his broke ass
Not been impressed with the recruits coming out of the academy, both in physical shape and mental fitness for the job. Everyone can learn eventually how to write reports so give that some time but it seems as if nobody taught them anything about what is a probably cause stop or a ras stop or an illegal stop. And FTOs are increasingly people with a few years on looking to get off midnight, with little ability to teach because they don’t have any experience while also not being willing to fail a ppo on a cycle for incompetence.
OT should be reserve for beat cops. But the people with the highest ot on the watch are inside desk crew
With a $1B budget hole, did anyone seriously think that cuts were going to be avoided in ALL city agencies? Don't be so delusional.
What is the deal with these guys and water bills? You have that big lake. How expensive can water be?
The real Spartans! No cowards.
The Democratic Socialists plan all along was to cut back on policing resources and allow further decay of the city. Democrats from their civil war days to today, they lay the path for disruption, ruination and destruction.
And judging from the grammatical errors in your post, I certainly hope you aren't among the ranks of current FTOs. Heaven help us!
Love the Contrarian. Been a fan since I met Sohnke downtown. That little booklet really opened my eyes. Keep up the good work!
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