Good
The gravy train is in trouble:
The former federal prosecutor overseeing the Chicago Police Department’s court-ordered overhaul warned Tuesday that drastic budget cuts proposed by Mayor Brandon Johnson could amount to a “devastating blow to future CPD reforms.”
Maggie Hickey, the monitor tracking CPD’s compliance with a slow-moving federal consent decree, said Police Supt. Larry Snelling has prioritized the reform push and insisted that “Chicago cannot afford for the pace to slow down.
“The proposed budget cuts would be a step backward for the CPD reform process at a pivotal point — just when progress is starting to be felt,” Hickey said during a status hearing in the federal court case.
Really? Because all we've been hearing for a few years now is how far behind CPD is in compliance, never hitting more than 25% of the "targets" and the monitor asking for (A) more money and (B) more overpaid non-working positions to be filled by political lackeys.
Do more with less Hackey. That's the message going forward and DC isn't bailing anyone out for a few years now.
And with Conhead's $300 million tax hike being cut down to a mere $135 million (or less) there might be even bigger cuts to the "reform" scammers.
Labels: department issues, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
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Hickey looks like she hasn't missed that many meals.
Time to say goodbye to her.
If everyone did NOTHING and let the city burn there would be no problems right? Just crime out of control. The Left could give 2 shits about that.
The Democrat’s wanted the oversight. It’s funny how they wanted to hook up their connected friends with high paying oversight jobs.
Reforms... heh. The whole "Consent Decree" was shoved on CPD a hot 3.2 seconds before Oblamer was out of office. The whole thing never should have taken effect - total bunch of crap designed to demonize the cops and beatify the criminals.
Get rid of the whole thing. Get back to basics.
What exactly are the "reforms"? Other than a pile of pointless reports that moved hundreds of P.O.'s inside, complete lack of interaction with the public, and threatening to fire people of assorted ranks over TRR's; what is the point all of this? What is our end state? Not even the chief of constitutional policing can answer that question. We sit around each day like a bunch of prisoners waiting for the war to end.
Only thing I can think of ....more buses of illegals would solve this...
Just wait until the new DOJ comes in, the consent decree is gone and Hickey and crew will be investigated. Just so the readers know, Trump LOVES Chicago Police Officers and understands what we have to suffer thru here.
If fuck head is so concerned with watching and controlling our every move, maybe he’ll have to divert money from one of his other woke nonsense projects. It’s gonna be a-mazing watching Chicago, NY and other so called sanctuary cities flood with illegals as January approaches and the new year begins. The bleating for Federal assistance is gonna fall on deaf ears and shit is gonna come right off the rails for these progressive (corrupt) administrations. I wonder how Adams and Johnson are gonna look in orange jumpsuits?
Hey SCC, OT, but the social security fairness act passed the House yesterday, now on its way to the Senate. This is to eliminate the WEP
City of ChiRaq better start saving its pennies? I expect the US Federal funds are about to dry up for any state or city that promotes illegal alien migration under the sanctuary status? Remember the Federal law out weighs the State laws! The new Border Czar clearly stated any state that gets in his way doing his job they will be federally charged! So I see plenty of CPD officers being called to arrest situational involving Federal immigration agents? So who does the CPD officers represent? The people? Who voted for the new elected president and immigration reform? Or the current Governor and Mayor who are holding the anchor of sanctuary status and have no money to pay for it?
Get ready for the $hit show of direct orders from Supervisors trying to keep their jobs? And the confusion of what local officers are supposed to do?
The department is so far behind the “consent decree” because it’s fake. No one gets in any sort of trouble if certain guidelines are not met. No one is forced to go to court and answer to an actual judge or US Attorney on why things are delinquent. The Department of Justice has no seat at the table with this phony consent decree. It’s all made up and the media constantly reports on it. Like so many other aspects of the police department it’s totally fake.
How bout reform for the criminal elements of society let us begin with that
It is hard to believe they are still pushing that myth.
I can give Chicago 50 million right now back into the coffers
Cut out the million dollar per ward slush fund the aldermen are given to spend on nonsense feel good crap every year.
All so they can dole out more elearning? Am I the only one that feels like this elearning has gotten completely out of control?
typical liberal democRATS.... always calling for "police reform" in an effort to keep the public's attention off the rising criminal activity by repeat offenders they refuse to prosecute or put in jail
Jan 20, 2025...The Day "AMERICA" makes a great comeback with a vengeance!! Go TRUMP and God Bless This Nation. Good does overcome evil !
Well Maggie, if the money's not there, the money's not there. There is no tree!
I tried to get in on this. They slammed the door in my face. This was a real gravy train.
Does anyone know if the Trump Justice Department could just get rid of this oversight agreement?
Who cares this department picks and chooses what parts of the consent decree they want to follow anyway. Time to be done with this bullshit
I heard that Conehead has three candidates in mind to head up the oversight of CPD: Pedro Grifol, Luke Getsy, and Shane Waldron. Conehead is a genius!
Hello SCC. Completely off topic, and apologies if I missed it, but how exactly do they intend to enforce this new <> 25MPH speed limit that was voted into place late last month? And where can we find the list of aldercritters who supported it?
The Contrarian apparently is the only media source who has said a peep (shocked face).
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-speed-limit-ordinance-higher-fines-penalties
Get rid of the TRED unit!
Sounds like Maggie doesn’t want her cushy high paying job to disappear. We need a lot more transparency and accountability in monitoring the “monitors “
This was a little Lisa "consent decree" not a real one from the DOJ that the city agreed too.
The only reforms necessary were related to insufficient training in firearm skills, use of force, 4th Amendment, physical skills and mental illness, and relating to equipment needs being met for police street operations. Everything else is a backdoor to the political agenda. Someone already said it, get back to the basics. No one cares if some of the public do not like the police, most of the public does. Most respect cops and will help cops as long as they see them doing what they're supposed to do. This fluff stuff is pissing most people off and only benefitting the criminal and liberal element. Scrap that nonsense decree and reassign the department members hiding behind it back to the street where they're needed. From the Deputy Chief all the way down to the three year Po staring at a computer all day, with half of it shopping. Reformulate recruit training, mandate more robust annual training, bi-annual firearm requalification and age based annual physical agility qualification, and give the cops and those specialized units the equipment they need and everything else will fall into place. Three steps close to taking back the streets and giving people the safety and security the are crying for.
Elearning should be a 15 minute refresher on an annual topic. There is no new material or completely revamped training done individually on a computer. That type of training should be scheduled during what should be the officers week long annual training (The week before the furlough segment). 15 minutes on hazmat, domestic violence etc, and get their asses back on the street where they are needed.
The consent decree is a failed endeavor. Over 500 paragraphs is unworkable. No chance of getting full compliance ever. Just more money pissed away over decades. I hope The new Attorney General shit cans it. Let’s see.
O.T. - H.R 82 (Social Security Fairness Act) has been passed by the house and will go to the senate. https://www.iaff.org/news/house-passes-social-security-fairness-act/
The consent decree was agreed to by the city, and will not be affected by any change in DOJ. The DOJ that faked the investigation and report that caused the consent decree to be proposed, wasn't even in power when the city agreed to the reforms. It's all a way to hook a few people up with high-paying "oversight" jobs on a neverending contract due to unobtainable reforms. The department will never meet the goals of the consent decree, because it's impossible, so the department just stays under bullshit oversight while tax dollars go to Hickey and crew. If you want the oversight to go anywhere, you need a mayor and city council who decide the police department doesn't need reforms and oversight. Good luck with that in Chicago.
I’m just happy we are so far behind. Having only accomplished 7% is a good thing
It all got finalized after he left office. His DOJ rushed a fake investigation, submitted a bullshit report, and the city agreed to abide by the consent decree. What they should've done is had the new DOJ under Trump conduct a new investigation, since the Obama one was clearly full of inaccurate and falsified data. Instead, the city just went along with Obama's DOJ and signed on for endless oversight. A real DOJ would've found no need for a consent decree. A real DOJ would also have found that the problems with the Chicago police department start at the top, and all but disappear as you go down the ranks. We don't have racist cops roaming the streets violating civil rights. We have a department that has unqualified and ineffective leadership.
There is some good news. Listen to what Trump says. He’s going to do for Lawn enforcement. He talks about it around the 49 minute mark in this podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/x22-report/id1507444393?i=1000676406677
Better than having to go to PTSC to have some 5 year know it all read me a powerpoint for 8 hours.
i do not want anybody over for thanksgiving dinner if they voted for trump, "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin agreed, saying many people feel "someone voted not only against their families but against them."
hey sunny im white cpd a vet and i voted for trump i live in edison park i do not want you over for thanksgiving either
Neither the new DOJ, nor the old DOJ, has nothing to do with the consent decree. The consent decree comes from federal court, but it was the State of Illinois that sued us, not the DOJ. Research your facts.
We did not ask for a consent decree, but the State of Illinois did. They sued us, and won. Yes, it means more elearning, more bias training, etc. But they won't give us more training at the range or at the gym. Look at other big cities with consent decrees; they are under them for a decade or more. It's not what I signed up for when I became a police officer, but here it is. This is what they want to pay us for now. So be it. It is what it is. One payday at a time.
Any bets on whether Biden will open the floodgates at the border and allow in as many illegals as possible before Jan. 20?
Remember.....it is a self-imposed consent decree that Lightfoot put in place. No Federal money comes our way because of this.
It's not and never has been a real Consent Decree. In a real Consent Decree the feds pay for everything they are mandating to bring the department into compliance, this is a state decree started by Lisa Madigan when Trump's DOJ wouldn't have any part of it. The city is responsible for the cost, all they did was appoint Hickey as a Federal Monitor. It's all a joke that should now end but won't, because the Dems run Chicago and Illinois.
Hire more police officers, CPD pension benefits should mirror the CFD pension benefits. Only the Superintendent CPD and CFD Commissioner should receive pension based on last four years . All other appointed positions from Captain to First Deputy receive pension benefits on the last rank they tested for and promoted to in rank order . Not Merit. If you had three merit promotions and last rank was Patrolman,Detective,Sergeant . That’s the pension benefits you’re going to receive. It’s fair,it will protect pension fund from bankruptcy.
“Chicago Will Remain a Sanctuary City, Despite Donald Trump’s Threats, Mayor Brandon Johnson Says” – WTTW (Chicago)
November 12, 2024. Wirepoints.org
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This shows how obtuse and out of touch that Mayor BLM Brandon is with his citizens and police department. The Trump Administration will crush him.
Flush the decree and the rest of the politician's who back this and the safe t act down the sewer Start voting them out.
Did you think she was coming before she said that? Stop watching the view or worrying about what those braindead losers think or say about anything.
Sonny from the view admits her softball question was too much for KH ,so she gave her a lay up and she still couldn’t answer it. What a joke, admit it . She’s unqualified, she made Willie happy and got to WH. Cackling all the way to bank. Most qualified democrat woman of color .
Maggie your kickback money is running out. I hope Trump gets rid of Maggie Hickey and all of Lighthead’s people. I can’t wait until Maggie Hickey gets investigated so that we can find out why her law firm was chosen to oversee the consent decreee. Who’s is fattening Maggie Hickey’s pocket? Who knows who?
This is not true. LA and the federal territories were the only exception
The COPS grants ran out in the 2000s.
More house mice because of this Consent Decree.
It wasn't passed by City Council. It was deferred and published on 22 October, the day after it passed out of committee. Probably will stay tabled indefinitely.
That DOJ report from 2017 had very little data but a lot of anecdotes. One boss called the academy "a hot mess".
Lightfoot didn't put it on place. Rahm did.
There's a large caravan of them walking through Mexico as we speak.
Thieves are fighting over who’s going to be allowed to continue stealing money.
The first Trump administration did get rid of this oversight agreement. it was Rahm Emmanuel that decided to put it back in place himself.
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