Park with the Engine Off?
Is this true?
- OT. We were told in roll call today to be mindful of how much gas we’re using. It were stopped we should turn the engine off. WTF.
At least it's been nice weather - could you imagine if it was below freezing and they wanted you to park with the engine off? Or 100 degrees like out west this weekend.
Maybe it's time to adopt the CFD model and park at the station until a call comes in.
Is Conehead having money problems?
UPDATE: How many cars on Conehead's detail?
- 150 cops across three watches - call it +/- fifty per watch
- days off, furlos, etc - that's twenty two-man cars plus at least one supervisor, probably two
So Conehead has twenty-plus cars burning gas 24/7 plus the two armored vehicles which are constantly kept running in case Conehead needs to leave in a hurry.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
126 Comments:
Iran’s keeping all the gas for themselves
A lot of years ago the wagons were told to park with their engines off to save fuel.
It's only a matter of time before the city removes the AC compressor from all squad cars.
more money issues lol.
Years ago when we would answer calls and park the squad, we were supposed to turn off the radio along with the car. At that time it took a few minutes for the radio to warm up enough to use it after starting the car. I can't remember anyone ever obeying this insane order.
old boss once told me that when the company starts restricting office supplies that you need to find a new job because the company is not long for the world..
Omg! All of the green initiatives and all of the climate change democrat led stuff. But yet the Democrat mecca of chicago dept buys cars with the ability for cars to run without the keys. I'm a little older, but I'll walk by running cars in the lot and wave hello but no one is inside. These cars are running and unoccupied for hours. But with the manpower shortfalls there are like 15 other squad cars not being used at all so I'm sure it evens out economically. Not counting more crime, deaths etc. I get it if they were diesel but a 4 cylinder heats up pretty quick. I agree we should all limit fuel consumption to help the cause with the war but they bought those enabled vehicles. The weather is getting better maybe they will make us use some of those fancy bike lanes.
The bosses are idiots. We were trained to always leave the engine running for safety. This gives you the option to move if something unexpected happens. ALA an attack on you sitting in your patrol vehicle. This is basic police tactics. The bosses who came up with this is going to get someone killed.
I'm not surprised. These kids come to the Area and leave their cars running for 8 hours at a time. Not really necessary.
Officers are in jeopardy with an order like this. Stupidity is everywhere with CPD.
You are missing brain cells if you actually listen to that suggestion and do it.
Please don’t encourage these folks/people to adopt the CFD model. It’s bad as it is.
Unfortunately a lot of the recent hires have already adopted the CFD model. It’s a sad situation. They have no pride in being a cop and could care less about serving and protecting.
Engine off Netflix streaming chillin like a villain hide and seek for a grand a week
That POS Brandon doesn’t even give Chicago business the repair jobs on the jalopy city vehicles, go look on central Bedford park 7400 south many city trucks from fire to streets and sanitation but the business is called “Chicago bus and truck repair. So tax revenues go to Bedford park, using Chicago taxpayers to foot the bill https://www.busntruckchicago.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUi2zfyQnI
Why do you think the unmarked F150 cowboys carjacking task force quit doing the missions citywide they would do all across the city from 016 to 004 on Wednesday nights. Money was being spent on gas for all the driving
Where is every single dollar from the red light and speed camera being spent. We need the media in this town to wake up and do your job.
In the 80's, in 002, we had a few cars that had a thing called "Thermal something or other" that would recirculate the hot water from the engine through the heater core when the engine was off. It did it for about 15 minutes until the water wasn't hot anymore. Problem was, cars were in such shit shape, it would run the battery down and car wouldn't start. So on to CW3 for R service. Used it once, learned my lesson.
Fck them!! “We re short paper”. Go print up every report you’ve ever done. Clown.
Absolutely use CFD model. Better places then nasty ass police stations to sit though……….
I believe they are talking about the idiots who are in the station for hours and leave their squads running the whole time.Ive seen people go home and leave their patrol vehicles running outside. lol
one for 24 hours
They have to disable the feature that allows the ford explorer to run without the key in the ignition
Park with your engine off so that we can afford to pay the illegals grift.
Conehead always had money problems (personally) now he has involved taxpayers. Illinoisans and just like New Yorkers when it comes to voting...Supidity! that you vote in someone who cannot handle his own household budget!
I would make sure every tour I go out and refill the tank on the squad no matter how gas much is in the tank. Im sure a message will be coming out soon NOT to get car washes anymore. This City is doomed. Thanks BJ!
Comment from an old timer. Back in the early 80' we had a device in out squad called "AutoTherm". Shut the engine off and turn the switch on. What it did is circulate coolant thru the system and ran the heater fan. Actually the city found something that did work. You may get about 30 minutes of heat. In the summer the air stayed on if it worked.
We usually got the memo after someone turned a car in and it ran out of fuel as it was not being used on the next shift. When an asshat complained, I told them to turn off the HVAC in their cozy office and see how that works for them. It my office.
A lot of the mfers I work with hardly ever leave the station. They code jobs without actually going. Show up 1 hour late and then ride the jobs they actually go to. When are the pu$$y white shirts going to start doing their job? What are they afraid of? They won’t get laid anymore with blue shirts? They won’t have fake friends? Geesh
and maybe the mayor can only have 1 car in his security detail
The original poster was probably referring to the idle engine feature in the new squads. Click a button, remove the keys, and squad stays on with engine running, a/c or heat on etc. The Gen Z cops love to leave the engine running while they’re inside processing their 5 hour domestic arrest.
They spend too much money on illegal aliens.
Helps on the way ice at the airport starting Monday. This is gonna be interesting.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-ice-deploy-airports-monday-assist-tsa-amid-funding-standoff
Leave it running your whole shift
Might be going back to horses and buggies. Tumbleweed wagons as makeshift squadrols.
Experienced NYPD cops see little incentive to stay with department if Mamdani cuts overtime
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/zo-no-nypd-experienced-cops-see-little-incentive-to-stay-at-nypd/
Very soon, you will have to option to take out an E Bike or E Scooter to save gas so the mayor can give out more money to illegals. A new order is coming out of Supts office which will authorize bicycle helmet, elbow and knee pads and gloves.
Time to fire brandon next year.
How about just shut off the engines & stop creating unnecessary air pollution & not waste the gas!
Idling engines are inefficient, overheat & also wear out the engines faster.
So, exactly why waste the gas & why doesn't the city buy plug in electric police vehicles, they don't cover that much mileage every day & could recharge when not in use.
I'd far rather see the city spend more to have to buy extra vehicles due to recharging time, than waste fuel & create pollution!
I can see some pro CIT, tree hugging, never worked the street LT saying something like this.
Could be worse…they could ask you to drive with the engine off. 😁
Just get your coffee, find a park or somewhere out of public traffic patterns, then answer your calls. They keep making the job easier.
Be mindful?
Frugality of costs requested by those pilfering like ravenous roiling maggots in a bucket of rancid flesh?
Damn, shirley, you must be just funnin'.
If this is true, it’s never been worse. If a company can’t afford pens and paper, they’re going under.
It’s a fantastic feature do it all the time car is at perfect temp after being in station for hours.
You sound like you have lost it. That was 46 years age. You were on horseback then.
What radio do you speak about? AM or police radio.
Exactly. Just turn off the car when you leave the car, problem solved.
The German Panzer corp and all of their mechanized mobility was ordered to shut off engines and avoid prolonged idling to conserve fuel during the late stages of WWII. Especially during the winter of 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. Pilots were flying with only about 20 hours of total flight time.
Had to wait for the radio to warm up? How many years ago? 50?
Do what you want, not what they want.
Don’t forget the cars parked at former mayors cribs that are burning gas 24/7.
Any idea how many of the last 3 mayors still have free security?
Sounds like y’all need to get ready for BIKE PATROL.
The 4’11”, 200 lbs House Mice could use the workout anyway.
Another delusional idiot
Concrete bike lanes and decorative curb cuts
They would have to be there to be able to do something.
Like last night in 017…( head shake)
It's not unreasonable to request that if an officer is going to be
down on a scene for a lengthy amount of time that they turn
their squad off. Gas has risen quite a bit over the past three
weeks, due to a war our country should have never started.
It's definitely going to take a bite out of the city's fuel bill.
That’s an OSHA violation. We are entitled to have working AC to prevent heat stroke or heat exhaustion.
Then we should have been gone 25 years ago…
These days every beat car would gladly shut off the car if it meant the radio would require time to come bqcl online.
You have no concept of electricity.
The missions are still going on
Rules are meant to be broken
The citizenry will get the police they deserve. And that’s what the citizens of chicago deserve.
When you think you’re the real police, but in reality youre just a good little company boy who agrees with the mayor on some dumb stuff like this. Plenty of democrats on this job I see.
Code jobs without going. Not a good idea.
So they want us turning off the squad cars to save gas the same way C.K. wants to save on boat storage fees by using the police lot in 004 to store his boat? Asking for a friend…
why don't they purchase all electric vehicles??? maybe cause they don't work.
Could be the cars here run 24 hours. When we go home we always leave it running for the next watch out of curtesy so the car is at perfect temperature inside. No need to wait for it to warm up or cool down.
"Can I get R-Service? i have a no start to answer my next call......"
Hold on a second...According to some of these posts', guys are saying people are leaving their squad car on while they go into the station to process an arrest or do a report etc.?
I don't care if you take the keys with you, that's just plain old stupid. I don't remember anyone do that in my 29yrs on the job. Maybe it was because we were parked so far away from the old stations, but still.
Are they doing this because the car will be too hot or cold when you get into it 30+ minutes later? For Christs sake, what have we become!
rumor has it that the city plans on buying fred flintstone type vehicles teeeeee heeeee
They really should reconsider stockpiling all that flammable material
I remember when the other cars in your sector were the ones who kept you in check. A Sgt was one thing, but 3 others cars on your ass about handling your beat was something you didn’t want.
These young coppers leave the car on 24-7 they don't understand that idle hours wear out engines.They just don't take care of equipment.
Those whipper snappers! Back in my day we did real police work and started the cars with a crank after we got a job from the call box
Maybe the savings could be put in the under funded pensions. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/the_public_pension_death_spiral.html
What about all the Cars at Lightfoots House 24/7 365, who's not even a city employee anymore....
I thought they got rid of that useless carjack team?
Who paid for all those nice cars they always had?
Find me a GO or SO that tells me to do this tough guy.
Sorry do it all the time. The department put this in the cars and I’m going to use it.
Buy gasoline futures, then the spot price doesn't matter.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the city proposed collecting a 1%“Gas tax” from our paychecks. That would be the beginning of an ultra Exodus.
How about we eliminate all the money for anti violence felons and phony pastors. Millions saved.
Absolutely, I’ve had people refuse to take certain cars out because “it’s an older car, you can’t even leave it running…”
Where can I get a F150 to drive around in?
Welp, it's an open secret BJ's security detail totes his extended family hither & yon. And of those 150 officers & 22 official vehicles, at least one is used M-F to tote 2 of his children up to Thorpe Elementary in Portage Park, a selective enrollment school where many of the NW Side's Dem power brokers send their offspring.
Everyone seems to overlook that the enormous security detail gets paid D3. So when you turn off your vehicle, enjoy D1
Won’t happen. Defrosters won’t work properly.
At the dealership for all the recalls.
"Trained to leave the engine running"?? Craziest thing I ever heard of. That never was trained in Chicago, at least not in the 1990s or 2000s. Can anyone confirm if CPD trains this?
@ 3/22/2026 10:28:51 AM
Hahaha guess you never worked in the 100k + crown vic era
Juat because the vehicle has that feature doesn't mean you need to use it .. bunch of kids that want to look and feel cool like they are ISP.
Maybe start with your sloppy appearance and uniform infractions first to try to look and be cool like ISP .. kidos..
We won that war on day one remember.
Happy 95th birthday, thank you for your service.
Do the opposite, rev the engines, accelerate hard to next red light and hit the brakes. Lets see if we can double the gas expenditure this year. When B J cuts his costs so will we.
Uhm. Yeah. I think not.
Who cares..do you pay for the repairs or a new car???? Why you so concerned? Go back to eating your cold meatloaf sandwich.
Geez, you sound like a merit Stupidvisor!!! Go back and review your go's and tell me where it says we need to do this.
So, what the boss is saying is do not patrol your beat, just find a spot to chill out and shut off the car. Save gas=No Blue Cards, No traffic Stops. Ill make sure my beat car runs the entire shift without shutting it off.
That is not an OSHA issue…where do you morons come up with this shit?
I’m sure 10:28 is a medical ranger like the fraud working as the DSS in 022…but here is fact OSHA standards for motor vehicles (e.g., in construction under 29 CFR 1926.601) require things like operable defrosters, windshield wipers, brakes, horns, seat belts, and other safety features—but not air conditioning. Similar rules in maritime (1917.44) and shipyard (1915.93) contexts focus on maintenance and safe operation, without mentioning AC.
What training was that? Because in 25 years I’ve never been trained that.
Sounds to me like they adapted to the times. You should too.
How much gas gets used on street sweepers after every teen trend trashed Michigan, Wabash, and State?
I never listened.
I came on in the class of 98-1A and the instructor told us it’s not our gas leave it run so you have the option of moving if something happens. So the above post is right.
LOL!
Today’s white shirts are a joke and only care about themselves.
Love it! Yes! <3
I love it!
Retired & loving it.
Don’t our yuts steal the car when you leave the car running?
How about assess who really needs a take home car? Civilians, lieutenants Sergeants at headquarters have take home cars....for what? Ridiculous. Are they wearing body worn cameras and stopping for hand waivers?
You forgot to mention all the gas used to travel out of state of sporting events. The drivers even took an extended road trip with the Mrs to the East Coast visiting National Parks on the city’s dime…..
What would you know about it? You have probably never left Chicago. Leave the fighting to the menfolk. Our military is slaughtering those bastards. If you don’t think they are an imminent threat, you were taught by CPS Marxists and pro-Islamic traitors.
He said, “Entitled”.
You weren’t tipped off by the dropping credit rating?
All the shifts
She only has a driver now. Just like Rahm and Daley…
Rahm and Lightfoot both still have drivers…
Think of all the gas 1100IDA saves by never leaving the station.
I think this is it. It's one thing if it's subzero or high 90s and your out of the car for lunch. Keept it at temp. No issue. But with these newer vehicles that you can just leave on without the key, coppers are just walking away with the car and lights on, leaving it for the night. Stop it already!
Overweight a requirement to be in the mayors detail ?
None. When was last time you saw one at night?
Mark levin is that you?
I’m just trying to figure out why someone would leave a car running for several hours when they are in the station. No, wait, no figuring necessary. Cops will do asshole stuff just because they can, not because it makes any sense. And then they brag about their own stupidity – acting as if they got one over on someone. And then tell stories about it later at the bar. Childish behavior runs rampant here.
Exactly.
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