Seriously?
We spent a bit of our career telling drunks and entitled morons that our squad car wasn't a taxi. That liability factors for the city taxpayers didn't allow us to be transporting people who were able to bus, taxi or walk to their destination. That we didn't give rides to anyone unless they were in handcuffs.
Now this is in the parking lot at HQ?
This is what they're wasting money on?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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We are very short on cars where I work.. can we put the rest of the CPD stickers on it and get it to use??? Why use a new car for this? It’s a propaganda tool.. a billboard. Take a car at the end of its life and make that the billboard. Put the new car in patrol.
CFD ambos should do the same since 90% of their runs are just basic Boy Scout first aid for the “community” needing a ride.
Hey Bud, They wouldnt do this at cook county department of corrections.
Same stupid paint job that they have in Niles Police Department. It’s supposed to represent getting a DUI. Anyway that’s what a niles copper told me. I just smiled and said that’s dumb as hell. I think he was butt hurt.
I read the fine print. Pretty cool
Anyone with one brain cell does not do ‘ routine preventative patrol.’
Conehead gave all the city’s money to the illegals.
Grab a fare. Tips would be acceptable.
"If you feel different, you drive different."
Ever get the feeling that if people weren't pizzed-off, by the gov't silly actions, they'd drive different?
Come on now. Drive drunk and CPD will be your taxi? PR car.
This was a pushed to prevent drunk driving. The city advertised it as, you have two options get a taxi or end up in a squad car for DUI. Nothing wrong with this IMO
Niles Police has one also.
3 of their coppers were killed by a drunk scum bag:
https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/drunk-driver-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-july-2020-deaths-of-3-niles-police-officers/
Tell boo to call for a bambulance next time. Huh?
Please tell me that’s a photoshopped joke.
This one is a federal grant. Typically there is some BS public comms component. This was a part of a DUI grant
Some boss thought this was a good idea.
Insane doesn't begin to describ this stupid paint job. It's worse than imaginable, unless they're imitating the old Running Scared movie? ( Where the 2 detectives drive around in a taxi, but first crash it to make it look real). Any way to waste money. Horrible
Jon P Heineken says if you drink a lot you can be my friend.
Niles PD has a car like that. It's parked outside their public works building on Touhy east of Milwaukee. Take a cab or get arrested. DUI deterrence. Not even a original idea
Much better than the crayola car for the alphabet crew. Should’ve put a Dave Chappell sticker on that one as soon as they unveiled it. At least this one could be used for arresting offenders but HQ probably won’t let it get dirt on it.
Don’t forget the BIG stickers on all other city vehicles with BJ’s name all over it.
The cost of the stickers and manpower to put them on
FUBAR. The job is just a paycheck ladies and gents, just a paycheck. We're police officers only on paper but in reality we're armed clerks and/or armed taxi drivers. Sir Robert Peel is turning in his grave. Once an unshakable Police Department turned into laughing nationwide stock.
Niles Police Department had a car like this as well parked on Touhy Ave. just east of Milwaukee.
It was a Crown Vic.
Saw this at the academy this year already.
I saw that before it is a part of a drunk driving campaign. There was a sign that went along with it that said something like
drinking? Take one or the other instead of driving drunk.
This Dept. is a fucking disgrace and embarrassment. Never knew we had this type of vehicle...First a plate reader turned LGBTQ mobile, now this?? WTF.
Im sure an e-learning will be out soon on how and when to use this vehicle.
The women who is running for political office probably needs some press and exposure and se feels this is a good and inexpensive way to go about this. I watched the video and it looks like she charged one of the ICE officers. Not nice.
Yes...this is an actual CPD public-relations vehicle. And no...you cannot have a new squad car to work the beat. Now go out there and answer those calls and bring in activity. {Honk Honk} Clown World Policing.
They must get a grants from NHTSA for this because Niles PD has one too. I just sits outside their public works offices on Touhy. I never see it move.
This appears to be a show car. It's telling people that the police will be their taxi(to jail), if they are caught driving while drunk. Uber for $10 or DUI for $10,000. This is likely a car the the department send out to maybe the traffic unit or DUI awareness campaigns.
how long before conehead starts selling advertisement spots on the sides of our squad cars like CTA buses.
In the meantime crash and grabs are on the rise of the Magnificent Mile decimating retail establishments. This brainchild of the cerebrals at 35th Street must be receiving federal or state grant money.
Absolutely the Dumbest idea in a Department full of DUMB ideas. What an embarrassment.
The exempts at HQ will be unveiling a short bus with the similar paint and sticker wraps combos. Their bus will be equipped with flashing blue interior lighting and choice of wailing sirens. Exempts are encouraged to rid their stress by activating the sirens, flashing the lights all while encouraging brain development and muscle motor coordination by playing with police themed mobiles with dangling handcuffs. Command staff are encouraged to wear an authentic crown cap which has "Police Officer" across the front in bold letters adding legitimacy and are given an official blow-whistle to play traffic. #2 crayons and police report coloring books will further enhance their day of learning. Exempts are encouraged to lick the windows to vent their stresses making funny faces at passing motorists reassuring the public adults run the police department while on recess heading to the park to play on the swing sets and monkey bars.
"If you feel different you drive different" - Finally someone gets us...
The messaging utterly failed. You’d have to tell someone the meaning because it doesn’t speak for itself.
Couldnt they have saved some money by photoshopping a picture of such a vehicle and putting it up on a nearby billboard?
Put a $$ on ride-a-longs. Promote like a safe room experience. A safe way to get the real chi experience. *safety waiver and legal cya required before entry/participation of course
No.
Bring back the old style blue and white cars, with the MARS lights and of course-the Star on the door
This money could have been spent on a DUI saturation patrol....actually enforcing the law....instead of PR propaganda bullshit. I just want to know what moron approved this.
Why not have patrol do “Uber” runs to make up for the budget shortfalls. If illegals can schlep for Amazon and Uber, Lyft etc after getting a piece of the $1 billion spent on them, we might as well make it up while working since BJ and the like don’t want us to do actual police work.
And what did it actually accomplish? Is it going to do real time picking up drunk runs? Or is it going to sit at HQ most of the time and make “community” appearances a few times a year? Meanwhile, what message does it send, that the police are a taxi service? What an actual waste of money. I guess it got someone promoted for writing that dumb grant.
I'm reading this after reading that CPD, among big city LE Depts, has the lowest morale in the country. Fuck.
Supposedly this is a dui thing, but its a terrible waste of money because it isn't at all obvious what it is. Clearly a DEI nepo baby came up with this nonsense in some nobody suburb. CPD saw it and thought, yeah, lets blow another 80k on a useless car.
Reminds me of a hybred squirrel/rat, or rat/squirrel.
From scar circling mid waist to tip of fuzzy tail, bushy haired squirrel, from same to tip of nose, short haired rat.
Big sucker. Big like a cat.
Wondered which half was daddy and which was mommy spawned.
Would it look more STUPID if the colors were reversed with Yellow Cab if front and CPD Blue/White in back?
In the police headquarters lobby there is a mural of Lady Justice. On one side of the scales appeared to be either a law book or a Bible; on the other side of the scale is wad of cash and a hourglass. No telling what the hourglass means, but the cash is pretty obvious.
Somewhere there are people who sit in an office somewhere and thought this was a good idea to dump a ton of money into it. These same people never worked in a busy district, ever in their careers. They have been squirreled away avoiding police work, and are silently waiting for the next merit promotion. I can spot them just walking through HQ halls. They are carrying a big box just back from picking up lunch for the office, or carrying someone's dry cleaning, or organizing a bulletin board, or sitting in a plain clothes car outside HQ waiting for a bosshole to finish a meeting. They add nothing to the mission of CPD and suck resources out of the department.
Just like the alphabet car for the community there for example the trans part of it that murdered so many people we have cars for them also ridiculous
Can we get a half cpd half ICE vehicle?
Multi tasking.
Calm down soy boy
Its pathetic what's happened to police. Instead of fulfilling his child's illusion of a hero, he drove a junkie to a Citgo and was called a nazi by a suburban grad student and his father-hating girlfriend who works at law firm, after chauffeuring them to a bar in Wrigleyville.
I understand the marketing, but the idea is 30 years too late. People now take UBER.
We are more like Uber.
Nice editing by Gemini.
Majority of CPD officers don’t arrest people for a DUI.
So, we are going to be Uber drivers between calls? Are gratuities acceptable? No Taxes on tips, right?
They got a medallion on that thing?
Murphy in the morning! Damn I'm old.
Oh wow. Thanks for the info
Great analysis and observation
What
This is Chicago. I’ll guarantee you if you did a poll, more citizens would think it means “Call/flag down the police for a ride if you’re drunk.”
They should just have a bus with a disco ball and stripper pole.
Maybe they can draw up a vehicle that is half CPD and half CFD. A fireman and a policeman can ride together on calls. When the police man shoots somebody the CFD guy who is trained in life support can step in and save the offenders life. When the car comes upon a fire the fireman can run into the house and save some people.
This federal grant money could have been spent on educating you how federal grants work, but the car was a better use.
Someone tell me how the city can save money and have city vehicles rolling around with Minnesota plates but I can't?
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Which plate do they use? TX, MP, or one of each?
Then the taxi emblem should be in the front, as the rear seat takes you to jail.
They've been putting advertisements on trains and busses for decades Sherman.
It would look better
Where is the "Hyatt Hotel" sign courtesy of FatAss?
Lynwood, IL has the mayor's name on their squad cars. What a joke.
Yep aren’t taxi, but then there was the time my partner got conned into taking Seiser with us at CTA. Nothing like lugging a car full of spoiling meat around all night.
Maybe if they got off their cell-phones.
DUI, I don’t consider it a crime. Just revenue generator.
ISP Troopers write plenty of DUI tickets! You don't see that shit on their cars!
Bill Cozzi wrote at least two DUI's and a book of parkers every day for years. They still nailed him to the wall...
And would make more sense as the message is to call the cab 1st or end up in the BACK of a squad car !
Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to put an Uber sticker on the back window of the car????
"Does it look like it says Taxi on the side of it?!?!"
Shit.....ok, get in.
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