Where's Barz?
Anyone surprised? We certainly aren't:
It's a decade-long issue that Chicagoans have sought accountability for: Drivers of color, many of whom have now filed lawsuits, allege they were subjected to pretextual traffic stops, or stops turned searches to investigate a crime that has nothing to do with the traffic violation they were pulled over for.
Members of one Chicago police tactical team on the near north side - the 1863 tactical team -- have faced the most misconduct complaints surrounding this type of enforcement than any other, according to the city's police watchdog agency.
And after a year-long investigation into the eight-person 1863 tactical team, the ABC7 I-Team has learned through court and public records that four members have been relieved of police powers, and two others, including the team's sergeant, have been reassigned to other parts of the city, leaving only two members still working in the 18th District.
The one re-assignment (according to comments) is to the usually desirable Gang Investigation Section, so not a penalty by any means.
Missing from any accountability - supervisors who demanded (and got) thousands of street stops, making promises to keep low seniority officers off of midnights in exchange for the TSSSSSSS cards that they passed off as crime fighting and used to grease their way to bigger and better things before coasting to cushy retirement gigs.
All those promises mean diddly-squat now - none survived the career of the now retired exempt(s).
In the meantime, Officers, raise your right hand, and please list your assets for the Court.
You have our sympathies, but you were warned.
Labels: department issues, scandals
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
178 Comments:
SCC, I know you have been retired but I do not think this was mentioned....the new stop reporting system (thanks 1863 team). T-stop, street stop, all contacts with people will require a stop report with a receipt issued every time. Search car? Narrative. Search driver? Narrative. Pat-down passenger? Narrative. Example: t-stop car with 4 heads and search based on plainview weed and you pat-down each of them, the report will require a separate narrative for each individual pat-down and for the vehicle search. Another thank you, 1863 team. Stay fetal.
Let’s put it this way, to the perspective of these types of officers there is never a search they can’t do. They will never say to themselves I’m legally not able to do this search. CPD never does pat downs, it’s always a full search. The goon mentally on tac of get guns just falls apart on camera and in court, good luck u morons. I get paid the same to just respond. Until this city votes to end crime and the dept changes its policies it’s logical to do nothing.
“ All those promises mean diddly-squat now - none survived the career of the now retired exempt(s).” The Sgt went to Homan. The Lt made Captain and bid out. Multiple meritorious promotions out of tact 018. You either won big or lost big… but something tells me those guys at callback will be alright.
I totally blame the boss who encouraged this stuff. Where are they now. I over the years heard boss telling officers to look into people who don’t belong or could be up to something. Now these “YES BOSS” officers are screwed. Everyone better recognize this stuff is not acceptable. The bosses are totally at fault and are no where to be found. Only an idiot would try to please the bosses.
As a former call back inhabitant who learned the hard way, don't do shit. Whatever fringe benefits supervisors may throw your way, early ducks, holding slips or whatever, it's all meaningless. Nowadays it's even easier to con tact guys because they have no time OTJ and are easily manipulated.
Goofy HEIN was responsible for most of this when he was in 018. How soon we forget. Piece of garbage he is. That’s why he’s keeping such a low profile. John, you are hated and have no respect. Loser.
Gang Investigations ain’t what it used to be.
Hasn’t been for about 8/10 years now at least.
Wait until the predator fto who notoriously sleeps with [pronoun] ppo’s in that district comes to light.
The Sgt should have protected the team. Instead the Sgt was either absent, derelict of duty, or a moron. The team was hard charging and where did it get them? In the era of constitutional policing and defund the police the current politicians don’t want criminals bothered. Police with heavy caution. You better have solid probable cause and or solid reasonable suspicion. If you don’t, leave the public alone. The Sgt should have been riding with the officers and training them.
I wouldn’t be participating in any fundraisers. Everyone has told everyone here to not do crap like this. The Commander, Lt and Sgt were laying cover to let them get so many complaints. The team got bad advice. Now the team will lose everything. For the young guys and girls go to your calls and go home. Stay safe and see you at your retirement party.
Police work on CPD has been dead for awhile. The safety act law was the final nail in the coffin. Take ten day suspension and stop being the police.
I knew a long time ago that those cards were a waste of time and not police work. The emphasis was to get as many cards as you could as this was what they wanted at 35th St. It showed the people were working!!!! No it showed that a lot of people never made arrests and avoided doing so but were great at bringing in the number of cards that the exempts wanted. A lot of people should have not been on tact and gang el. al. teams.
Pulled over for a traffic violation...
OK - yeah, you were pulled over for *THAT* as you should have been. If the coppers wanted to investigate something else too once they had you pulled over - then OH WELL, sucks to be you. Guess you shouldn't have been driving like an asshole or whatever you were doing.
Forget these stupid lawsuits - City should fight them all... stop paying out.
The complaints were coming in and no one said stop. I’m sure the white shirts told them they are doing a great job bringing in the numbers. Now the only ones supporting them are their family. The hardship on the family might lead to divorce. The white shirts will disown them in fear of getting their shirts dirty. Running and gunning days are long over.
A tac team is a reflection of the Commander. I noticed the tac team Lt and the Commander didn’t get mentioned. WOW?
Barz left in a hurry without his credentials after he was demoted for being at the center of a Lawsuit/scandal while he was a deputy chief at CST involving TSSS cards. He promised things, delivered nothing and lied to young officers and young Sgts to get them to bring in blue cards all for his personal advancement and financial gain. But don’t worry Barz will come to your court dates and morally support you after you disclose your assets or at the very least he may come to your police board hearing when they fire you.
Awe gee and crime was usually low in most of the 18th district. You had to be aware, but you were usually safe.
Goudy park wasn't locked after dark. Antique porch lights were stolen, a once in a while attempted actual mugging happened and newly planted flowers were stolen from the church garden.
When the young woman was grabbed on Dearborn, and forced to the cash station on Germania, then murdered, the neighborhood brought in CPD to train us.
Until all this lib nonsense started, low crime numbers existed, except in isolated areas. Everyone was concerned about getting pulled over and getting their cars searched. But most of us weren't up to anything.
Always one demographic caused the mayhem. They were usually caught thanks to CPD. Since the tutu mayotr, it's a toxic feral free for all. Thrilled I fled years ago. Be safe until you can flee.
I don't see how what this team in 018 was doing is different from what any other tac team does. They even put the squeeze on people working the watch for numbers. Been going on since the beginning of time.
It’s similar to the constant posting about X car going home early or Y Lieutenant doing half shifts. If nobody is really going to push it, fill out a complaint every single time, nothing will happen. But none of us are brave enough because we see what happens when people do speak up. They get launched or severely mistreated.
Exempts are never held accountable.
hmmmm, sounds like a certain homicide investigation when someone's nephew was not charged
Zero fucks given. Everyone including those goofs knew what time of day it is with the city and media and you had to be out of your fucking mind to do that shit and some continue to do the same shit thinking it wont happen to them.
Such foolish officers, good to know the white shirts have your back. Bahahahaha. Empty promises kept! No sympathy here.
Have you heard of a bill that Fatass Pritzker is trying to push through? Social media platforms with over a million subscribers in Illinois (Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram) will be taxed $165K per month and .50 per subscriber.
Same story, different channel.
Media must be hurting for anti police stories. 4 officers stripped for traffic stops? Something doesn’t sound right.
You’re wrong SCC. Blue cards/TSS cards are not part of this lawsuit. This has to do with searches of vehicles which would then require an ISR. Sounds like these officers were rifling through every car they came across.
I get everyone wants to blame someone else and Barz is always at the top but why is this only one team? If it were true the bosses were on them to produce, why did only half of one team do what the comments and blog say? If the pressure was really on, you would see the entire district and tact office doing that. This sounds like a witch hunt on a few officers.
The young guys in 018, got what we all told them?
And for us old timers that saw BARZ as the problem. We all told you so!
He was a slimy thing in the dark that can or will get you killed or incarcerated if you follow his orders?
As a Veteran and retired CPD, I can name the supervisors on both jobs that I came in contact with that cared less about the personnel under his charge? And Barz is at the top of the list. Followed closely by a Lieutenant Calleey U.S. Army……look him up? History always repeats itself……..
Fat fuck Barz still goes to the gym in Park Ridge and bad mouths everyone. Go away loser.
It’s as if abc7 just uncovered something huge here… it’s the same news story as 6 months and a year ago. The 4 guys have been stripped for a while.. the only difference is they found out two guys are no longer on the tac team and “reassigned”… no, they went to better places. Channel 7 just looking for clicks and you’re giving it to them.
Looks like an awful lot of gangbangers are gonna be driving your pretty, lifted, black pickup trucks.You'll be back living in your mama's basement.
"I was just terrified," said Limorris Bell, who sued members of the team after a 2024 stop-turned-search in the Gold Coast neighborhood
Sheesh, they could strip every 90's and early 2000's cop, if this low bar of " misconduct " is allowed to be set.
Hmm. Something? Well someone told me they will be alright because they are all putting it on Barz. He thought he was getting away with nice fat pension to go with his fat ass but nope. Hold on because it’s gonna be a bump ride.
Don’t worry, he won his way out shortly.
Randomly stopping vehicles and going through the cars and occupants just because? That was always garbage police work and no boss could tell me otherwise. With bwc and other cameras everywhere, what dummies would continue to operate like this? Go ahead, blame the libs and the bosses when it’s your own inability to figure out how to do the job that’s to blame. A lot of you were looking for a reason to do absolutely nothing, while telling yourself and everyone else that the job has gone to hell and that’s why you do nothing.
The Commander at the time was no one other than Barz. And the tact Lt is now the Captain
No, the 1863 idiots are at fault.
The Commander at the time was no one other than Barz. And the tact Lt is now the Captain
as always you can't fix STUPID it's forever teeeeeee heeeeeee
I was a Dog before being a Dog became fashionable.
I used to enjoy working 2nd in 011 when Joe and Dan were the Sgts. They were 2 of the best Sgts ever to work in 011 as neither one of them cared about any numbers, just as long as all of us went home safely. Oh, the memory of the milk crate sculpture.
I remember one day while being on CST, former Supt. Brown came to our roll call at McCormick with then 1st Dep. Carter and promoted Barz, in the middle of roll call, to Deputy Chief. My buddy and I did tons of stops, however they were ALL legit and the motorists complained not one bit. I can say it definitely was a numbers game. Not clearly spoken but definitely implied. We’d knock out 10 violations throughout the city without stepping in shit, made our Sgts. life easy and we chilled the rest of the tour…. Ate lunch wherever we wanted, caught up with classmates still on the beat and drove around looking for the next hot car or shooting.
At the end of the day, we made it work for us until the wheels fell off…literally
That’s the reason for the same attorney shopping this story to multiple news agencies. He’s trying to get the city to settle lawsuits that have no merit. Trying his cases in court of public opinion. It’s the same old dance with these bottom feeders. The city has obviously held out settling and it’s starting to cost the attorney money.
It’s the hatred of Barz that prompts this. This happens I. Every district and every team across the city.
I wouldn’t even bother.
They are going to pay dearly for trying to work hard.
I doubt they will be all right. They will lose in court. When the media got involved the bosses who told them to do this will lie and say I don’t know what they were doing. I didn’t tell them to do that.
The boss most definitely had them doing what they did.
Supervisors only get you in trouble and move on.
Tac Team syndrome the boss loves me!
I blame the bosses too. How do they get 100 complaints and now it’s a problem. The upper management was complicit in the whole thing. Nothing ever happens to upper management.
Only a fool would work their butts off with anti-police democrats in charge. The media got all the democrats elected.
Today’s bosses only care about themselves.
Agree!!!!
So true!
The supervisors know who’s who and allow this.
Hein, Barz and the last two Tac Lts, one who is now a Captain.
Sgt told them to do this shit.
I don’t even hear of any fundraiser’s happening anymore unless an officer is severely ill. Totally different department now.
This right here! ☝️
The way they give out time it’s easy to get 10 days and you can lose your certification. I keep telling people just do what you have to do. Total different times.
The city doesn’t care about their employees. Everything they do shows it.
Some people have to learn the hard way. We keep telling these guys.
Typical CPD boss.
Bosses are 100% the blame. Don’t trust a supervisor trying to get promoted off your back.
Most sgt’s are idiots. The idiots run the department.
One would think that 018 would be a great place to work.
The lieutenants were telling everyone to get those stupid cards.
Congratulations you made it out and I hope you’re living a better life.
Vote him out why there is a chance.
The Sgt had the majority of the influence on the team. The Sgt needs to be fired.
It’s Jon
You can’t be the police or you wouldn’t say the Sgt should be riding with and training them or the Sgt should have protected them. You have been watching too much TV
Barz, you got promoted for hiding the cheating by the NOBLE sgts at HQ, bargain for immunity for your part and release the kraken. Present the hard drive for the copy machine they used to make copies of the test. Get your pound of flesh you douche bag
Their method was probably different
The Chicago Police Department has the department they wanted. I blame the bosses at the top.
Wait until the complaint a recruit made against him comes to light. The allegations are outrageous what this guy was doing on the clock.
This is not new. You just weren’t doing it. Now go get me some blue cards, office. Blue cards!
Yes, a few years ago friends of mine lived on North Dearborn st. They moved after getting mugged, twice. It seems the black thugs were looking for more lucrative customers and found them in the 18th District.Stopping cars to investigate or stopping people on the street to investigate is not bad in itself. It is what happens after the stop.
Ive received complaints, even been called down to BIA. No supervisor ever told me anyone came in to make a complaint. They never tell the officers.
Why even make stops. Everyone’s driving, crazy all around the city.
I enjoy the blog, it’s a real life soap opera… Grabbing my popcorn 🍿
it's a shame because 18 and 01 have become such shitholes over the last 10 years
“Show me down on reports squad”
EC?
“ City should fight them all... stop paying out.”
I think you’re having a fever dream. Hit the medical
He’s going to the gym so he won’t be fat fuck , give him a break
Simple solution, don't stop anyone. You get paid regardless of activity so don't put yourself in the trick bag.
Back in the day a guy I knew was a SGT in a decent district. SGT got days on a phone call. Down the road the WC had a PO that wouldn’t “toe the line.” The WC was going to “correct” the POs behavior, he had the SGT do the “counselings” over a period of time. Guess who was left holding the bag when the law suit hit.
All that to stay on days.
Yet Idiots did.
Grown adults capable of making their own decisions.
And you cry because you’re doing 8 for 8.
I wonder why?
Everyone just stand down, protect your neighborhood. Let the rest of the city that hates you and wants to kill you tend to itself. Give reports, drive carefully to in progress jobs. See how they like their self created war zone when no one is there to protect them from themselves.
If anyone fell for the rah rah bullshit of Barz and got him more numbers then they deserved what happened. He was a self serving prick from day one. You would have thought people learned the rah rah lesson from Leo Schmitz, he got entire teams stripped with his bullshit, then disappeared like shit stains on underwear in the washer.
Generational wage slaves
when did he start going to a gym?
Sergeant riding and training tact officers. come on.
Actually probably 20-25 yrs
Retiree, comeback and walk the magnificent mile and see all the empty storefronts, gang members loitering,and homeless on cta and in the parks. Thanks Illinois Democrats, keep protecting criminals and illegals with your anti ice campaign.
Unfortunately, policeman can’t do their jobs due to the politicians.Sad, very sad.
I worked Patrol, Tact, Gangs and as a Detective in my Career. I knew the job was finished when these two events happened. In the late 1990's and early 2000s the implementation of the Vehicle Pursuit-N0 CHASE policy, and the court ruling in the Gang Loitering Ordinance.
After this the job became much more difficult. The officer's that adapted survived, the foolish non-clouted "hard chargers" got jammed up, while the clouted got promoted. I SEE NOTHING HAS CHANGED! I am glad to be successfully retired. I would not enjoy working in any blue city metropolitan area today!
It breaks my heart to see what has become of the once great CPD!
Stay Safe!
You know what causes all of these fuck ups? Fear of the beat car. You got coppers that are absolutely terrified to work on a watch. I’ve never heard a Sergeant in my district ask anyone to do anything more than answer their jobs and back each other up. They actually tell these kids to not do anything stupid, but they don’t listen because they all want to go to Tact, CST, PRT, Narc etc. They only have themselves to blame. If your being asked to do things you feel aren’t right, a district is only a To-from away! Grow up and accept responsibility.
Reason #1,113 to GFO. Do you want to spend 25-30 years doing nothing, but getting old and worried about covering your ass every day? The risk is always there for a false narrative where you pay the price for some capon boss or some phony racial/hate the police story. Perception is the name of the game, not actual facts. You may be better off gambling at a casino to secure enough money to retire on??? Or find a better use for your life and efforts. The CPD is a losing battle. Just my very humble opinion.
OT But why do you call the ignant ctu blm Brendon Johnson Conehead? Just wondering. He is an ugly fool!
The bosses on third watch let him do whatever he wants while we answers his calls everyday.
Show up, Shut up, take your radio calls. Go home in one piece! Retire leave Illinois! Nothing more!
But the boss who got promoted off their work is the Chief of Patrol now… hmm
But the complaints made to COPA never show up in district. You’d never know until you get called down to give a statement.
Which “Toe”? Big or little?
I did get stopped in a DUI sweep for "Not coming to a complete stop". I passed the field sobriety test and was never charged for the original infraction.
I don’t pay any attention to the bosses telling me to do goofy stuff. The bosses move up or retire. The naïve officers are left getting their life ruined.
The boss is going to be no where to be found.
All the stops were legit, the attorney is pushing the pretextual angle and racism to attempt to get this settled.
What are they putting on the bosses? I guarantee that no one told them to do this and not document anything
The Circus act continues and the officers left in the clown car with the doors locked from the outside.
Perfect example of working yourself right out of a job.
To bad more people don’t realize what’s going on and have to learn the hard way. Most supervisors never worked as officers and get officers to do stuff they never did. These guys should have known the minute the complaints kept coming in. But the idiot supervisors told them don’t worry, all is good.
Most sgt’s are idiots. The idiots run the department.
2/20/2026 09:40:16 AM
Let me guess, you’re wearing a blue shirt.
I know several Sgt’s who would ride with there guys to help them and look out for them. So the poster is right.
There’s a lot here that are blaming the Sgt, blaming the rest of the bosses.
Did the Sgt put a gun to the Officers head and make them do those stops?
Did Barz? Or the Tact Lt?
Oh wait, they were made to stay on Tact! Couldn’t go back to a watch, couldn’t bid to another District.
Slavery has been abolished for quite some time now, and the “I was just following orders” excuse went out the window at Nuremberg.
The Officers knew exactly what they were doing. I guess the “perks” were worth it.
I would never trust BIA, they are worse than COPA. Complete scum.
Who is working hard. If you are you better have another job waiting.
Exempts are the biggest pieces of $@!# going. I lost all respect for these people. All of them were nothing before this job and all of them will be nothing after the job. A bunch of retards.
GAME OVER.
add 2016 - introduction of ISRs and BWCs
RIP policing
CPD just pays the bills and you take it day by day. It’s only a job. A lot of people lose sight on what is important.
Because of his hair cut.
So agree.
Why blame the bosses? Were these adults not capable of making the correct decisions? I still like to work and stop cars but would not conduct illegal police work to appease Barz or other white shirts. BWC's are recording..... wtf were you people thinking....
he's not just ugly he's aunt ester ugh-ly teeeeee heeeeee
Tact is not what it used to be. Is it still l reverse seniority in some places?
I worked tact for roughly 10 years. Left not long after the Department rolled out the ISR. The writing had already been on the wall. Proactively police at your own risk. No one has your back.
Recruits have several complaints on this jaggoff he likes to text them and try to set up drinks and off duty meetings to talk about their futures no surprise in that district bosses and training officers hooking up with recruits even on duty common as rain on a Sunday afternoon.
FTO Rad on the loose!
Stealing money doesn't qualify as a full search. That's a theft.
the same scenario played out with the Dexter reed shooting and the tact team involved in it-
Commander Ward- at the moment she is being hidden in call back-
She was fully aware of all the idiotic stops and ways her tact teams were gathering their activity and did nothing about it.
Why? because the so-called leaders are looking toward their next promotion.
Meanwhile- that team is being investigated for all their stops prior to the shooting.
Anyone on patrol performing for bosses needs to get their head checked.
Hein was the Commander and then the DC of CCG his ass should be held accountable as well. POS would fk with all the WC and tac Lt if traffic stops were low. Fk him
Well, I suppose this means that I will have to get spring fever and go forth and multiple.....
🥴🙄😍😁
Chalkie
You guys can play the game that is offered to you (drink the cool-aid) or take a page out of The OG Cop’s Playbook and play your own game. Finance your house for 15 years and pay it off sooner. Drive a 4 cylinder Japanese car; it will probably last you for over 20 years. That is enough for your to retire with a pension. You do not need a $1,000 car payment, because you are not impressing anyone; we know how much money you make. After you retire, sell your house that you only made the required repairs on (no fancy upgrades) for over double of what you paid for. And sell it “as is.”
Here is a bonus professional tip; earn a useful degree from a legitimate school. It is a beautiful thing, because the city will pay for it. As of right now, some of you do not have the skills required to write a decent resume. Now, you are running with the best.
Do not let this job have an iron clad leash on you. If you let that happen, then you will be working until the mandatory retirement age and making pension payments so that the early retirees can get paid.
And the best type of revenge against your yokel acquaintances is living better than they do, especially the dispatchers; you can have your second house in a great neighborhood acquired well before you retire.
And the lesson is over.
Signed,
The OG Cop
Speaking of holding people accountable, what is going on with the dispatchers at the OEMC? Has anyone been fired? Someone asked this question in a previous discussion, “does the discharged loan have to be reported as income?” The answer is yes (for the majority of the dispatchers and everyone else who fraudulently obtained the loan or improperly used the loan proceeds). Mr. Tax Man, please set up shop at the Chicago OEMC to get your numbers, you will earn a promotion, rise through the ranks, and make a name for yourself.
It’s amazing how these clout bosses roll into the private sector after retirement. I wouldn’t hire anyone that didn’t earn or have knowledge while on cpd. Money and power, unreal. These incompetent shits. I just remember how schocked they would get if you told them their star number and name would be on a moving violation they witnessed. What a joke
i'd rather push a beat car then work in 193! def not what it was years back...
Not exactly. It’s because the Sgts and Lts now a days are extremely lazy and want to be able to sit in their car, do a fake log and watch Netflix in the car and split the tour with their fellow Sgts.. the Lts just want to sit in their chars watch movies, eat and split the shift with their fellow Lts and can’t be bothered to do a TRR without getting crappy.. so they tell everyone not to do anything.. not because they want to keep the copper out of trouble, but because they don’t want to do anything…. That’s one of the biggest truths you will read here.
That’s actually the problem tho. Nobody in the districts or units really know of beefs are coming in, especially if the beefs are called into copa or made out online. COPA does NOT notify the district when a complaint is made. An officer can get 10 CR numbers in a month all called into COPA and they officer and supervisors wouldn’t even know it. The only time you would know is when the complaint is made at the district level, otherwise there is no notification to the district.
There will be no winning or losing in court. And yea, they will be stripped for a little bit and they will be getting time for certain stops. They’ve already taken time for some of the complaints and they are all over with with others still pending. None of these will get them fired or indicted etc. The mistakes they made is they did not issue tickets when making the stops. If you pull someone over for a certain thing, write them the mover to show your PC. These guys did not and that’s stupid. You don’t have to hit everyone but you should on most. They only wrote movers when making arrests. Same as the goofs in 011.. write the mover. If you get them out of the car to do a search or pat down or more then do the ISR articulating why. It’s a simple game, it’s all on camera, use it all to your advantage.
The commander at the time was Hein. He put the whole thing in motion and jumped off, leaving Barz and the rest to be the boogeyman. Simply looking at the compstat numbers for those years would show how traffic stops increased 700percent and then dropped 500 after he left.
The point is, the sergeant wasn't stripped while his whole team was. Moved from patrol to a unit and rewarded by John Hein.
What exactly did they do wrong? Stop and search shit heads? Who gives a fuck. Show me one decent person they fucked with. Police should be harassing these mother fuckers.
Supervisors in 018 are aware of the FTO because he drives them around!
Is this the guy who drives a 2025 Raptor?
You know why Lt’s. do not want to complete TRRs? It’s not because they are lazy, it’s actually self-created overtime they control. They don’t want to do them because most Officers do something wrong, usually minor, but no one wants to watch the video with a huge fuck-up. Then, the Lt. is an asshole for obtaining an unavoidable log number. If they don’t, TRED will catch it and the Lt. goes down with the Officers who fucked up.
Hey a$$hole- possiblywhiteshirt suckh0le, I believe the beef is that as a sgt, lt, cpt, cmdr, etc. Is that the white shirt is supposed to look out for and protect the blue shirt. Since the whiteshirt is allegedly more knowledgeable, experienced and held to a higher standard of responsibility than the blue shirt, they should never use their position and influence (or fear) to persuade the naive or fearful blue shirt to do something sketchy, fuzzy in the gray area or how ever you wanna say it.
No one cares about oemc
GFY pal.....real good and hard. Biggest truth you'll read here is you're a fn moron
Lots of them resigned but from what I k know there are about 20 or so that remain. It’s bad optics for Conehead and the city they all fit one demographic and one gender. Terminating that many in one swoop isn’t a good look.
Do you still have to do those cards if you lock everyone up?
If you’re a young strapping lad doing your PPO rotations there for a month it can potentially be a “great” place to work if you catch my drift.
Heyb2/20/2026 12:15:44 AM stfu . Every tac team in the city .. every PO on a watch.. every one thirsty for the ot missions .. was doing it. 1863 was just the first, so far, to get dinged for it. So go crawl back into your closet pretending you nerve did any to get something in return.
Just like the CC cluster f... cpd bosses really now how to f up a useful tool for catching bad guys.
1863 was no worse than anything else going on in this dept.. just look at the new sgt list ...POs on the Brady list were promoted.. right m.e. Jr.
He .. will be.. the next 1863 but worse.
Barz did rat out the cheating going on at HQ? So the then bosses gave him the Lieutenant promotion. Then the investigation into the cheating allegations were closed unfound…..
Barz goes to that gym to hit on the single women and soccer moms! He boasts about working for NFL and MLB……since he has another captive audience.
100%
Getting on tact is known as the "Good ol Boys Club". its all the buddies working together
He’s from France. (SNL)
I’m over 15 years retired. Is there still a Personel Concern program?
Unless you get divorced and you EX takes you for the house, part of your pension and a large child support check.
Not exactly. It’s because the Sgts and Lts now a days are extremely lazy and want to be able to sit in their car, do a fake log and watch Netflix in the car and split the tour with their fellow Sgts.. the Lts just want to sit in their chars watch movies, eat and split the shift with their fellow Lts and can’t be bothered to do a TRR without getting crappy.. so they tell everyone not to do anything.. not because they want to keep the copper out of trouble, but because they don’t want to do anything…. That’s one of the biggest truths you will read here
Signed jealous blue shirt who says “I’d never want to be a boss on this job” but is to dumb to score well enough anyways.
Who said it was a guy?!?!?
Hopefully you’re not the police. You might end up in federal prison if you put that philosophy into play. Or are you just another loudmouth copper who knows everything yet does nothing?
That’s Racist!
That's called, being afraid of their own shadow. Their job is to supervise and correct the mistakes of those they supervise. They are supposed to get log numbers when it is warranted. They are not supposed to be everyone's white-shirted friend. That is how you end up with officers who "accidentally" shoot their partners.
During these blue card times that was either the 1st deputy or then Superintendent Brown pushing them it wasn’t just in 018. A LT in 001 said that the blue cards would jam people up and if you're going to a stop a car write them for the infraction . To stop a car just for a blue card is ridiculous and a waste of time.
Bingo
The city has been on a civilian hiring binge. Most new hires headed to OEMC, 311, medical Section and General Services. Stay tuned.
What's bad optics for Conehead, The Chicago Police Department, and Snelling, is that the officers being stripped, and possibly terminated by CPD, may have their state certificates suspended or revoked by Keith Calloway's ILTESBEI, thanks to the Saf T Act. I don't place the bulk of the blame on the 11th-18th district tact officers, I blame Hein and Barz. They followed the orders and leads of Barz and Hein. The department should have fired and charged Barz years ago. He has or is getting sued by minority officers. His Community Safety Team is getting sued or beefed on by blacks and Hispanics. Now his 18th District team is being administratively and possibly criminally charged because of Mike Barz. I would not be surprised if there's a federal investigation into all of Barz's activities , teams and complaints. I hope so.
"This is not new. You just weren’t doing it. Now go get me some blue cards, office. Blue cards!"--the Stop Report IS new. No more blue cards.
"Every tac team in the city .. every PO on a watch.. every one thirsty for the ot missions .. was doing it."--no we weren't asshat!
Uncle Hulka? The big toe?
People are so scarred of these supervisors......give them a mover(maybe or don't things have changed), a Parker, a CTA check and.....A city service request (do you new folks know what that is) every couple days....the blue cards were cool but not now just write the ticket....if they ask for more screw em'. grow a pair and don't be pressured into a lawsuit....
Yeah 018 is bad. You should stay where you’re at. 🙄
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