That's Not a Rat
That's a moving target!
- Perhaps off topic but there apparently isn’t any money for rat control at the CPD range. My ex partner’s daughter is OTJ and recently had to qualify at the range. The qual session was canceled due to a major rat infestation with rats running all over. Any confirmation?
No idea if this is the new Academy range (which is a disaster anyway), the old Academy range (which is so outdated and polluted, it's near useless) or one of the Area ranges (broken more often than not and contaminated so badly the EPA ought to be notified.)
But we can name twenty or thirty guys who would have been skipping bullets off the floor, nailing rats just for shits and giggles.
Labels: from the comments, rumors
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
65 Comments:
Me. I’m one of those guys. That’s a brave rat to be running around down there.
Don't panic. That's the new qualification standards!!! Rats are cheaper than targets. Hit one and you qualify!!!
The biggest collection of rats can be found on the 5th floor HQ in BIA!
Gotta disagree with u sir im a 20 year old veteran and I have to admit the new range is pretty impressive by city standards. From my experience it’s clean functional and operational. I don’t expect much but however it does work
Some of the rats coming and going have two legs. I can’t tell you how many log numbers I have seen from in fighting or the new culture of blue on blue.
This reminds me of a story that an Orkin guy told me. He said he had occasion to go to the home of a Captain, who I often heard described as "soft as puppy shit," to set up traps for rats in the Captain's garage. When he noticed a lot of bullet holes etc around the garage, the Captain apparently fessed up that he'd often try to shoot them in the garage.
I remember the days on midnights, I'd bring my .22 and shoot rats by Ferdinand and Tripp. It was very cathartic.
That's not a bad idea at all as long as the shooters use frangible ammo.
It was built on a garbage dump
The new academy another DEI contractor disaster floors already cracking, another amusement park in the making like 35th street with tilting floors, doors that won’t close, rain in parking lot that is directed towards building lobby, infested with bed bugs and so much more get your tickets to visit free admission.
Come on a range full of officers blasting away and a rat problem? Mighty brave rats.
Years ago, kids used to go to the dump and kill rats with their 22s.
Yummy nothing but the best , go to any other major city no rats , clean , no sewage getting backed up in the district or academy showers either .
Heck, YouTube has dozens of videos of Australian dudes plinking rats with scope mounted BB guns. They’re a hoot.
that was just a pack of city aldercreatures doing a walk through
Years ago when I worked the range at the academy.
We had late evening qualifying......and when no one showed up to shoot we we used air guns to hunt the critters. It started after we found the boxes of targets and ammo being chewed on in a locked room! That entire building should be torn down.
And let the critters loose in the new yuppie buildings that surround the academy.
Those are just large cockroaches
Just think…. You shoot 10-15 rats running they should pass you.
I’m pro rats on the range. It makes for a more realistic setting. Also, everyone should have to drop and do 20 push-ups before qualification. If you can’t do 20 and then pass the test————-your fired.
MAGA and MCPDGA
My friends uncles cousins neighbor who used to be on the job said he’s never seen a rat there before.
We Toast target practice using now outlawed .38 shot shells in the revolver.
Many keeses for you.
New targets for training!
And LEOs used to rabbit hunt if their best included a forest preserve.
A friend who worked with me in 007 back in the 90's had been on a south suburban police department prior to being hired. The suburb had no animal control and many complaints about feral stray dogs attacking people. His department offered a ten dollar bounty on every stray dog they shot. After you killed it you picked it up, tossed it in the trunk and took it into the station for verification and disposal. He was parked, along with a couple of other guys bullshitting by a forest preserve one evening whe they spotted a dog. After some debate it was decided who would get the kill. The now deceased dog was put in the car trunk a few minutes later when a guy walked up and asked if anyone had seen his dog who ran away while chasing a rabbit....no shit..
The range at Soldier Field was the best except for the lead poisoning.
Heard IROCC shoots will not be done at any CPD Ranges next year.
Just get the Streets & San people to bait the place with Havoc. The rats love the stuff & they die in under a week. I've used it in my garage for years when they get in.
James Cagney says....
You dirty rrattts....
Worked in the "old" 5th district in the late 60's and we use to go out to the old grain elevators across from Altgeld Gardens and shoot rats on midnights.
At Midway I heard the 2 legged rats cuddle up with the 4 legged ones in the locker room on first watch. Yuck sleeping in a rat infested space like true hobos
OT:
THIS is why I will NEVER leave America again:
A guy comes to America. A picture of him is taken firing a shotgun at a club down in Florida. He posts the picture online. He is then ARRESTED by British for just posing with a firearm.
"Officers returned to his home and arrested him for “possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and a further allegation of stalking related to a photograph of a house that appeared on his social media.” He bailed out but was rearrested later and charged with violating bail conditions."
https://www.ammoland.com/2025/12/uk-continues-descent-into-tyranny-with-arrest-of-subject-in-linkedin-gun-photo/
Two legged or four legged?
Actually the lead contractor was a white guy but he was forced to hire minority subcontractors per the city agreement.
Ghetto Rats..except they are the four legged ones
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry...Just like at the carnivals!! Hit a rat you get a prize! Bonus at 25ft.
The 2 legged ones!
Invite the ghetto dwellers to come and get all they want, "They taste just like Chicken"
Recommend Terriers, particularly Airedales. This is how British Navy dealt with Rats, both ashore and afloat, beginning in 17th Century.
Gene Hackman. Need I say more. You see the disease he died from? Its survival rate is really low. I wouldn't step in the place for all the tea in China.
Right ? The whole 011th district area is rat infested and they are as big as cats
Great story. Nobody cares.
granny clampett says nothing better than rat stew teeeeeeee heeeeee
You mean 95 years old? Agreed.
That's actually realistic target practice!!!
The range staff should request confiscated pellet guns, pellets and CO2 cartridges from ERPS...
S07-01-08
Requests for Confiscated Property
I care and I'm somebody. So, suck it.
yet, you felt the need to comment
His wife died of hantavirus. He died a week later due to his health issues and not having her to take care of him. Both found at the same time. Really sad.
The January schedule is out and CPD ranges are on it
Hackman's wife was the one who died from a rat-carried infection. But point well taken. The plague (rat-carried) even shows up every now and then. I think most recently in Colorado.
Skipping bullets off surfaces very good asymmetrical training. Ask Sgt. Tim of Skokie, pretty sure it saved his life. That's Some Clint at Thunder Ranch thinking.
Whomever offered that bounty is absolutely a total jay-oh, but you should have kept that story to yourself.
BIA is the most corrupt group on the department. They just do what the bosses want. They don’t do proper investigations and the whole operations is a fraud. BIA should be shut down.
How about the department buys new. Using street junk is junk. There are air guns on the market that mimic our duty weapons. I know the department was using street guns for loaner guns too. Putting officers and citizens live at risk with repurpose weapons. That’s what they think of our officers. We ain’t worth buying new weapons. So much for safety and the sanctity of life.
That’s the times, brother.
Why is it a surprise, the place is built on a dump.
Please I dont know a copper on the job that could hit anything smaller than an elephant.. especially if it was moving.
you are the same goof always says don’t care nice story , but yet continues to comment
There are clubs in NYC that take their dogs on rat hunts...
City Rats Don't Give a Fuck.
Here in Texas you can go to any range for retired conceal/ carry. A state certified range instructor does the certification. I have a Houston PD range officer doing my certification. Pay range fees, 25 bucks to the TROCC people. Good for a year...
Yes...that is ONE fucked up story. Just goes to show you what some guys'll do for ten bucks...
Annual qualification have been trying to shoot. So far no one was able to hit one
Cities across the country need to bring that bounty back. Detroit, Atlanta, Houston and DFW have roaving packs of aggressive dogs that kill people.
Modern shelters avoid picking up dogs because they are already full of aggressive dogs no one wants.
Rats are Dangerous! Mid 1980s, in the course of a Building Search for an armed Crook, a Rat dropped from the stairs onto one of our Guys— who had his finger inside the trigger guard and touching the trigger of his S&W.
The resulting Negligent Discharge brought the entire Search to a halt.
Mass Confusion!
IF the Crook was actually inside the building, he was gone before calm was restored.
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