Minor Consequences
The number of years this went on, just pointed to how broken the Department has been:
A retired Chicago police officer accused of repeatedly filing false auto theft reports to avoid paying traffic fines has pleaded guilty and will serve probation, according to court records.
Jeffrey Kriv, 56, pleaded guilty to a single count of theft before Judge Jennifer Coleman last week. In exchange, prosecutors dropped eight other felony counts, including multiple counts of perjury. Coleman ordered Kriv to pay $4,500 in restitution as part of the deal.
Kriv, who retired from the department in January 2023, was accused of falsely reporting that his girlfriend had stolen his personal car on 44 separate occasions since 2009 to beat parking and automated traffic tickets. Prosecutors said he claimed during administrative hearings that his girlfriend had taken the vehicle each time the citations were issued. Officials alleged he submitted nearly identical false police reports to support his claims, which resulted in the dismissal of dozens of tickets.
Forty-four separate reports of his car being stolen....and no one caught on? Multiple perjury charges, but allowed to plead to a single charge that results in probation.
Must be nice to be connected.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
70 Comments:
“The hiring standards sure have dropped!”
Oh wait…
Was/is his girlfriend a blow-up doll?
If your get tickets, pay them....idiot....
What’s it going to take to prosecute a financial crimes compounded with multiple perjuries? Maybe he is, was, connected in order to avoid the other charges and get a slap on the wrist?
Poster child for f'd up hiring
Why couldn't any bosses ever step up with all the crap he pulled
Jeff Kriv wasn’t connected and he wasn’t very well liked either. He was good at DUI arrests, I’ll give credit where credit is due. But seeing that he had no criminal history, I could see him getting a decent plea deal. But this was rosier than I expected.
I thought it as 32 or 33 times but 44 times is obviously worse! What happened the other 43 times? No one caught on by the 3rd or 4th time? I’m assuming the “girlfriend” was interviewed? If she was interviewed why did it take so long to do so so it didn’t happen 44 times!
I knew Jeff from 15. He is the type of person who can not learn from his mistakes.
You can hire good legal representation when you own plenty of rental properties. Plenty of Kriv stories on the job. He parked his Lexus in front of the garage the first watch commander parked his car in and when 0400 came around for the captain to go he was stuck. Needless to say he was livid. Kriv fell asleep in the squad car and no answer on the radio finally coming in for checkoff at 0700 without a care in the world.
To say that he had a pair of balls on him is an understatement. When one of his many "urban" girlfriends got locked up in county he went to see her. He goes to county and presents himself as a detective doing an investigation and he needed to speak to her privately, unreal.
The retired goof thought no one would catch on. I guess he has to pay and then some.
This mope had to be wired. Check his Copa file. Worse I've ever seen. Can't believe anyone would want to work with him.
was he in 015?
Kriv was a piece of sheit since the day I met him, he was the DUI guy on midnights in 12th and the hero to many young naive officers. And yes, SCC he is connected, was I should say. His dad was a big shot MOB ATTORNEY, and he thought he was gangster himself but to me he was just a little mouse. But he was not retired when he would do these false reports to avoid paying a ticket, he was active. The department let him retire while he was being investigated.
I guess the standards have always been the same because he was hired in the late 90's
You take chances like this moron here also:
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/nypd-cop-snuck-into-ryder-cup-in-full-tactical-gear-claimed-he-was-on-trump-security-sources/
Remember him from DUI program. Would arrest his own mother if given the chance. Threw his career away for 4500 to try to outsmart the system. Wonder now if he was able to keep his pension.
I worked with him one time at Cabrini Green special employment. He hit every spot for freebies and never left a tip after eating at a expensive French restaurant that was comped.
Because he produced numbers, that's what they want.
Ease up new guy! Kriv is no friend of mine but I did have the misfortune of being on 1st watch with him in 013 when he started all his DUI MADD award winning OT $$$. All the other names in box 2 should prolly be a bit concerned because he’s not the kinda guy to take the full hit. I guarantee he would throw his “partners” on the rack and claim they should’ve intervened before that was even a thing. He was 99 mostly because others wised up and refused to be assigned a bt with him.
He was always involved in fukery because he’s a sociopath and dgaf about anyone but Jeff. Liar, predator, deviant and more!
Also the department doesn’t “let you retire” he was under investigation and didn’t receive any credentials is all. Signed retired with credentials, M T 😎
I'm guessing the deal protects his pension.
Having a big ego usually does that.
Comparing apples to oranges, Kriv wasn't some thug or CPS hire, that's what they're hiring today.
Bingo... not about hiring. He had over 20 on and d8dnt start acting like a shit head until later when the quality of supervisors became shit .. so he became shit like them
Rosie Palm.
He should be on Brandon's security detail, # 101.
This POS worked in 009 as a recruit. He should have been fired back then, but the clowns running the show just pushed him along.
Saw a lot of coppers do crazy shit but this one is unique.
The dept wanted this to go away so bad .. imagine the fall out if it came out the dept lacked in doing anything to this pos allowing him to continue to work arresting people and testifying at trials "i swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth".... sometimes. Hey Kriv being an asshole to 99% of those you delt with on and off the job is coming back and kicking you in the arus.. nice legacy you left behind clown. FYI duis in the ghetto isnt a skill.. just means you stopped a few cars. It's like beating up the one armed, one eyed midget and claiming your a champion fighter.
Kriv will go down as just another if CPDs corruption scandals
He has to be a North Sider
All the OT money from DUI court , making him one of the highest paying officers but he couldn’t pay his tickets smh
No, he was a psychopath stalker of female’s from his pretextual traffic stops and only one boss had the dick, Tom Larnick, to try to stop him.
True story , except he went to a county jail in Wisconsin, falsely stated he was a CPD detective there to conduct an interview, and promptly got into a domestic with tootsie in an interview room. Another beef he beat! Oy vey!
An old scam. In the mid 1990s I stopped a car that came up stolen. Was being driven by an owner. A dozen parking tickets in the car. Driver says the car was stolen but they found it and self recovered but never reported recovery. Driver said her parents didn't know they were supposed to do that even though both parents were CPD sergeants. I made the recovery, cleared the record and in the Extra Copy box sent copy of vehicle recovery sup to Revenue and to IAD. Probably went nowhere.
Now that’s how we should all do our job. Fuck that boss hole. I ask: where is your garage spot to park your personal car? You’re the working police, that boss sat in his office doing Lord knows what. I can tell you it wasn’t police work. So, everyone should block that spot. This dude is a hero and someone to emulate. Shit, put a statue of him in front of FOP as the kind of officer we should all aspire to be. Now remember, Get Fetal and Stay Fetal.
Juicy (Smellit) is rolling his eyes at this one.
Why pay em he got a slap on the wrist that's the problem
What was he thinking? Over tickets
Scumbag
Lets hope he lost his pension. And all my years of being around this stuff, that’s probably the dumbest fucking story I’ve ever read and the dumbest crime committed by the stupidest person anybody’s ever met
Ah yes. As the haze in my crystal ball clears, I see an officer being detained by two IAD Lt.s, waiting to get a warrant to search a bag on a table in a police station. The bag belongs to the officer it seems. It looks like he doesn't want them to look inside the bag. Oh my! The officer has grabbed the bag and is running out of the station with the Lt.s in pursuit, and yelling to stop. The Lt.s return to the station empty handed. What could have been in the bag? Oh no the haze is returning. Can you: "Name this Beef?"
I’ve yet to meet a person who had a decent thing to say about Kriv. He was and still is a piece of shit.
The immortal Kriv
We had a hero dui guy in 4. few years ago he got booted off the job after I think 8 years working security now after he moved to Indiana!
Dei hire…. Oh wait
and what was the punishment for that gold star that was illegally cashing his dead mother's social security checks for what about 10 or more years?
@7:48am yeah he's much better. Hes only a convicted thief and a liar. Goof
Calm down Jeff
He owned a crapload of section 8. I think he lost a lot of them in the 08 crash. His tenants had no idea he was the police until at least one filed a report on him. Unfortunately for him, the sergeant approving the report had dealt with him and recognized the name.
He didn't beat it entirely. He took time. Over the years he took an extraordinary amount of time.
Nobody wanted to work with him. That's why he was usually alone on a traffic car.
Still has his picture on the wall in 007
He was a bully and a coward. Never locked up a tough guy.
By learn, do you mean learn to be better at not getting caught?
The boss was Tom Karnick, an actual good guy. You had to be a true Ahole to get under his skin.
go to the pension board meeting and watch the vote.
Actually he grew up on the North Shore... I went to high school with the guy - he was a piece of work back then too.
CWB had this moron in a story back in '23...
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2023/08/pursuit-training.html
Check out the comments.
His beady eyes I tell ya! Beady!
That asshat is a contestant on a show called Special Forces. I’m watching only because of him-as I want to see him get his ass handed back to him. First episode was last week and his first comment was answering he’s there as a contestant because people lied about him…
It’s worth watching-he’s scared shitless.
Tonight there’s a water event and also a boxing event. Hope he doesn’t quit! Channel 32 “Special Forces” tonight @ 2000-2100.
Milking the mooch.
...Plenty of stories of cops like him....BUT he made it to retirement, credentials or not he's on the pension payroll !!......
There wasn't any
You will loose your pension if the felony conviction is duty related. I'm sure he will argue that these were domestic related crimes done off duty which anyone could accomplished with out using any official police powers.
Only lose the pension if convicted of a felony in the performance of your duties as the police.
But is he.
No. He was an ass right out of the gate.
I also was in 015 when kriv was, he thought he was the smartest guy and was a douche.
Still an apples and oranges comparison. At least Kriv knew how to make a felony arrest and could f***ing speak and write English. Look around the room at your next roll call. How many of these Croc-wearing Tylenol babies that they hired in the last 7 years can write a legible narrative or make a decision without a sergeant? How many will be doing federal time 10 years from now?
What a big dick. Not well liked by many many on CPD. Sure neighbors, too.
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