Monday, July 28, 2025

OT Cuts Coming?

Rumor from the comments:

  • Many don’t know this, but after Bud Billiken the department intends to drastically cut back on all voluntary OT that doesn’t directly affect district operations. Only OT will be offered in order to man downed cars. Overtime related to missions and any extension of tour other than a late arrest will be one. Counter terrorism OT will be cut along with all other bureaus. Only a [???]  number will be allowed since that is outside funded OT. Traffic, robbery and violence missions are gone for watches, districts tac and units. The last “forced” ot will be for Bud Billiken, air and water and Labor Day for 4th watch and then Mexican independence weekend for the whole department. Otherwise, it’s going to be an OT desert.  

Of course, by then festival season will be over, the schools will be open and classes at the Academy (which are suspended until November anyway) will be starting up, so the Department can pretend to "cut" OT.

Until May 2026 that is. Then - unless there's been a massive change involving ten-hour days - OT will start up again because another 400 cops are scheduled to retire before next summer.

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85 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Got to fill the beat cars. O.t. Will remain as long as clouted stay inside.

7/28/2025 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've been retired for a long time and I remember the department trying to cut overtime. It would work for a while, but would eventually return with a vengeance. So, just put up with it for a while and remember "pay me now, or pay me later".

7/28/2025 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

happens every year

7/28/2025 12:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good, fuck this city.

Find yourself a nice side gig with less headaches for decent money. Much less chance of stepping on your dick in the private sector than playing “tact warrior” doing some bullshit vice mission chasing dude for dope.

Give this city nothing.
Make them hire.

7/28/2025 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic. Anyone notice Snelling added a few extra metals on his chest for the graduation? Did he earn 7 additional as the Supt? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

7/28/2025 12:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What will PRT do with all the missions they would “ run “ the biggest one is 1906 and his useless assss

7/28/2025 12:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who’s that the overtime fairy?! Overtime will not go anywhere. The department cannot sustain the manpower shortage and can’t afford to not authorize overtime. All smoke and mirrors. Now join the circus and make your money

7/28/2025 01:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Won’t cut OT at the airports lol I guarantee u that !! Ohare is down several dozen officers OT is the only thing keeping the unit afloat. Spiro is in way over his head and has no idea how to make a decisions on his own. Ohare is a
terrorist dream. 3rd watch currently is the worst. Officers eating at their posts. Showing up late every single day. Arguing with dispatchers daily. Complete shit show. Same officers daily handling all the jobs. Unit is now a district and has turned into a complete joke

7/28/2025 01:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Makes sense

7/28/2025 02:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Said it before. I've seen OT in action. City should buy traffic cones.

7/28/2025 05:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha ha ha this city is a joke run by clowns.

7/28/2025 06:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heard the same thing. Our commander already told us a week ago that all OT to man beat cars has to be approved by the commanders office first and no holding cars over from the previous watch on extension of tour to cover downed cars. Our OT has been cut since after July 4th.

7/28/2025 06:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Detective cases will be cut down to one man per case unless in custody”.

7/28/2025 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC, if you want a laugh review employee resource E-05-36 which is application for commander. They lay out all this crap about qualifications and what is required of a commander.. then it has two paragraphs of how the supt may select anyone he wants outside the pool of interested and qualified applicants. What a joke. Then why have a process??? Also, look over all of the qualifications what an applicant should be able to do and the qualities they should possess THEN match those up to some of our exempts.. it’s laughable.

7/28/2025 06:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Make that money while you can, if you like it. This city is in financial disaster

7/28/2025 07:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

remember when they tried to cut over time in the det units, they said no more working o/t on a case out on the street, give it to the next watch, then when the court on the case started, they were crying about 2 det's from each watch being subpoenaed to court,,, hahahahahaha

7/28/2025 07:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe you should bid to a district and work 3rd Watch, they will show what real work is.Enjoy 050 Tackleberry.

7/28/2025 07:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh you have to answer jobs?? I feel so sorry for you, bahahahahah

7/28/2025 07:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It starts with the Commander.

7/28/2025 07:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the CUBS continue to do well..plan on overtime with the playoffs.

7/28/2025 07:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, what you're saying is he got his nipples pierced?

7/28/2025 08:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They will cut it until they can't . That is all.

7/28/2025 08:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, he did, all the Chiefs got medals for DNC… Leadership awards..No one else! Self-serving.

7/28/2025 08:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

12hr days have been talked about for the department in patrol but not for the other bureaus. They want to leave detectives and counter terrorism in the 4-2 but but district law enforcement and bureau of patrol would be put into a 12hr schedule.

7/28/2025 08:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Never wanted or needed overtime. Didn't need the money. Enjoyed my time off.

7/28/2025 08:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its going to be a 12 hour schedule, not 10 hour. Bet on it!

7/28/2025 08:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great story

7/28/2025 08:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets start hiring and stick to eight hour shifts...(crickets)

7/28/2025 09:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And fewer crossing guards. So, one can imagine the CPD will cover this: Not Stacey or an Alderman. "Wonderful source:"
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/06/27/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-161-workers-in-cost-cutting-move

7/28/2025 09:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doesn’t the fed pay the OT at the airports?

7/28/2025 09:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They say this all the time, 1 teen takeover or mass shooting will change everything. They need to hire more people not based on DEI.

7/28/2025 09:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT will be back whenever the poop hits the fan.

Now, kees me you fool!!!!

7/28/2025 09:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Those aren’t Medals, they’re stupid plastic garbage. Nonsensical bullshit.

7/28/2025 09:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So....

7/28/2025 09:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT gets whacked every couple years on this job. I learned to not depend on it. This time they are cutting not to save money, but use it to spend on other things like mixed income housing, and illegal immigration, and sanctuary city policies. Rest assured another property tax hike is already in the works.
FU pay me...I just want to go home after a tour now. A late arrest seems like more trouble than it is worth.
The city needs to learn it's limitations and stop wasting so much money. That will eventualy be its downfall.

7/28/2025 10:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They announce this every year, and it goes wayside once shit hits the fan again.

7/28/2025 10:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s cheaper for the Dept for you to work OT at time and a half than hire a new PO with all the benefits.

7/28/2025 10:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep- every year, maybe twice, some commotion about OT. In reality, it’s cheaper than hiring the necessary numbers for patrol and doesn’t upset all the clouted insiders. How about this food for thought: fewer Chiefs and more Indians.

7/28/2025 10:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remember when they told detectives to hand off the murder investigation as they would not be given OT. So it was handed to the next watch. When that ran over it was handed to the next watch. They finally realized that every group of detectives would be subpoened to court and all would be making OT it was quickly stoped

7/28/2025 10:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cut that mayors detail

7/28/2025 10:52:00 AM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

Yeah right! Fill the beat cars with OT, only to down other beat on Burglary / Traffic Missions by some useless 06 sgt.

7/28/2025 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's a crazy concept. Maybe don't treat every Event like its a 9/11 terror attack. Canceling days off for the entire department is retarded.

7/28/2025 11:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Federal funding kid, department is mandated cry more

7/28/2025 12:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ask 106 rg about ot while he sits at home

7/28/2025 12:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He cant stand next to commander of the 25th district without looking over promoted

7/28/2025 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yea a side gig is the answer.. clown. How about you live within your means. Or maybe switch up your game to make arrest where you actually get court from. Unless you are one of the few that actually do what you preach and dont make proactive police work... then just live within your means sucka.

7/28/2025 01:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For the last 20+ years ot has been reduced but never cut out completely.. impossible with the shortage of POs, plus those in iod or medical.. the boy who cried wolf bs from the dept.
Why not just use the same math they use to report crime is down... then they can report in Jan 2026 ot is down 50% since Sept 2025.

7/28/2025 01:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cry me a river you work at O’Hare.. you either bid by seniority, bosses kid or got pulled in because you are a brown nose.

7/28/2025 03:21:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ord and mdw are in a different budget

7/28/2025 03:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our OT got cut last month. It’s been pretty bad. It’s like pulling teeth for OT. I’m in 005, they aren’t letting anyone work it for anything except if approved by the commander.

7/28/2025 03:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Only if they make it to the world series which doesn’t seem likely , 019 has several “ Wrigley Teams “ made that work hand and hand with the Cubs , own command center etc , Will be able to handle the Widcard , NLDS for sure no problem without overtime needed .

7/28/2025 05:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come to 008. Everyone here gets OT

7/28/2025 06:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is it true civilian employees for CPD work 3 days a week at home?

7/28/2025 06:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We are exorbitantly overpaid now...If you are having a hard time struggling to pay bills without OT you had better take a long hard look at your expenses. This is a middle-class paycheck, and many coppers try and live an upper-class lifestyle. Maybe you don't really need two brand new cars and an 850K mortgage.

7/28/2025 07:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yet, they allow a sergeant in forensic unit on light duty to work a ton of overtime.

7/28/2025 07:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The D- Unit would have no problem on the 10 hr schedule !

7/28/2025 07:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s the summer…. We’ve had OT cut since after the 4th… it has hit the fan and it’s still cut and from what I hear it’s going to not only going to get cut, but they are taking a chainsaw to it. A lot of people are going to be unhappy, OT will be gone mid August when it comes to ANYTHING voluntary. “Voluntary” OT is going to be completely gone.

7/28/2025 07:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Look for more unfilled and very slowly refilled postions soon.

7/28/2025 07:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

012 we were told no more missions on 3rd watch and no more special attention details on OT. They were down 4 cars on midnights the other night and they wouldn’t let anyone stay the 4 hours. They just left the cars down. This sucks

7/28/2025 07:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But handing off cases and in-custodies saved money at time. This allowed more kicked thr can down the road.

7/28/2025 07:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, Ohare has fallen apart under the misdirection of Commander Spiros. He is a macro manager and gets his panties in a bunch if POs are not on their fixed post. Even when they need to relieve themselves or take lunch.
Then there is the 3rd watch Sgts trying to find a partner to work with a certain PO on the wagon, and everyone has refused to be assigned with him. This PO is a legend in his own mind, and thinks he wrote the book on Policing.

7/28/2025 08:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I chuckled at this. Hard

7/28/2025 08:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

bummed you couldn’t get there? Lol

7/28/2025 08:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is 100 percent truth. Look at these clowns with under 10 years on the job now. They all drive 80k cars, jeeps and trucks. Buy tons of toys, buying houses they don’t need yet and take tons of trips a year. Let’s not forget the online betting. Putting bets down like they have millions to spend. It’s their own fault and they are trying to live a life that way out of their pay scale. You didn’t go to Harvard and start a business.. you’re a cop in the city, start living like it. Too dependent on overtime these kids, I remember if I got 20 hours a period it was a great period. Now if these kids don’t get 100 hours they pout and stamp their feet like babies. Cut it all and go back to OT for seniority, these kids are gonna go bankrupt and maybe then they will make some lifestyle changes. The worst thing you can do is work 100 hours of OT for years and get yourself and your spouse use to that kind of money.. once that money runs dry, so will she.. and she will get it somewhere else.

7/28/2025 09:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Everyone in 008? You’re right, but it’s also ending in about 2 weeks. We will all be eating the same crumbs.

7/28/2025 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well let’s hope these detectives start getting in custodies. Ha. This department goes 1-2 times a year with ot cuts and then back to same ole crap. We are so undermanned. It will last 2 months max

7/28/2025 09:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

10000%

7/28/2025 10:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

depends on the unit but yes

7/28/2025 10:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We are not overpaid we deserve more money. NYPD make over 120K after 5 years. A lot of suburbs around Chicago make similar or more than that after 5 years. We are underpaid!

7/29/2025 12:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah yes. When his scammers jt and mc pretrial release mcc violations on Roosevelt redline but for some reason generate cb numbers for hours on end. If the cta smoker signs the pretrial, why is a cb being generated when an anov should be issued?

7/29/2025 12:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I’ve heard people work remotely from home as well. Not sure if it’s true, but NOTHING would surprise me the way this city is run.

7/29/2025 05:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Name another job that pays this much and the the employees can say "Fuck it, I aint doing shit "...regardless of morale, that is a piss poor attiitude.

7/29/2025 09:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The whole city should be ten hour days.

7/29/2025 09:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn’t know CPD had an airborne medal for exempts.

7/29/2025 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don’t see anyone bidding out of the airport so your bullshit about the Commander does not ring true.

7/29/2025 12:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The cost of living in NY is higher than here but you can always move to NY if you think is so much better to work for their department.

7/29/2025 12:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol “clown” and “sucka”, you already told me everything I need to know about you.
Get off your soap box hand job, some guys need the money, some guys don’t.
Let them do what they need to do. Easy to save up money while you grow old alone in mom’s basement.

7/29/2025 02:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stupid to say underpaid I need more money especially with housing market and kids etc!!!!!!

7/29/2025 05:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That’s because the OT extension cars from 3rd Watch don’t do shit in 012. Every night they’ll check off in a backlog but then put up at least three OT cars that don’t answer jobs or do paper to help relieve that backlog. “Turd Watch”

7/29/2025 06:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where have you been?

7/29/2025 10:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous
Yes, Ohare has fallen apart under the misdirection of Commander Spiros. He is a macro manager and gets his panties in a bunch if POs are not on their fixed post. Even when they need to relieve themselves or take lunch.
Then there is the 3rd watch Sgts trying to find a partner to work with a certain PO on the wagon, and everyone has refused to be assigned with him. This PO is a legend in his own mind, and thinks he wrote the book on Policing.

Yes! This! This dude is going to seriously injure someone ON DUTY, he’s already head butted someone on duty, had to be physically held back from a fight another time, argued with fists clenched with a female officer, and recently another fight he had to be held back from. ALL ON CAMERA. This clown is a ticking time bomb and no one wants to work with him. Why he is not psyched and sent for mental evaluation is beyond me. How many screaming matches where another officer thinks they are going to get punched in the face or head butted does it take to do something? Stop walking around like you are super cop, if you are so great why don’t you take the SGTS test and get paid to tell everyone what to do all day. DEUCES!!!!!!

7/30/2025 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does this mean no more SDSC guys and watch secretaries working their RDO inside?

7/30/2025 09:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The cost of living in NY is higher than here but you can always move to NY if you think is so much better to work for their department"
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Yes, but NYPD does not have to live in the city

7/30/2025 10:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

JT leads the district in OT according to the new OIG dashboard

7/30/2025 06:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cut Groots security detail , they all make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

7/31/2025 01:12:00 PM  

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