Structural Problems
Although we think the author gave Larritorious too much credit, this is a decent takedown of the entire "consent decree" process by the Contrarian:
In the bizarro world that is Chicago, the public debate over “use of force” has been turned completely upside down.
In any rational society, the focus of government — and the concern of the public — would be on the people actually committing violence. The goal would be simple: Stop the criminals.
But in Chicago, the obsession is different. Here, the scrutiny falls not on those who pull the trigger, swing the fist, or terrorize neighborhoods — but on the police officers trying to stop them.
That’s not a coincidence. It’s the result of years of political pressure, ideological activism, and, most importantly, the federal consent decree that now governs how the Chicago Police Department operates.
The article correctly points out:
The deeper problem is structural.
The Chicago Police Department operates under a federal consent decree — a sweeping set of mandates that governs everything from training to reporting to officer conduct.
On paper, it’s about reform.
In practice, it has become an exercise in bureaucratic second-guessing.
The monitoring team reports that CPD has achieved preliminary compliance with 97 percent of the decree’s requirements — but full compliance in only 26 percent.
Translation: The rules keep expanding, the goalposts keep moving, and the scrutiny never ends.
Meanwhile, officers are forced to make split-second decisions in dangerous situations, knowing that those decisions will later be dissected in slow motion by lawyers, monitors, and bureaucrats who weren’t there.
That’s not how you encourage proactive policing.
That’s how you discourage it.
Scarecrow policing. Disengagement. "Stay fetal." We've covered it here for years. We aren't hopeful that the message spreads in a timely manner, but every voice added helps the cause.
Go read it all.
Labels: department issues
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Exactly what's goin on with this department and the city that panders.
The consent decree is the result of the Illinois Attorney General / State of Illinois suing the Chicago police department in federal court. The federal government did not sue Chicago police. So can it be called a "federal" consent decree?
Question: how many police departments that were under a consent decree were sued by their own state?
Scarecrow policing with sh*tbirds sh*tting/landing on the hood.
Young and or new officers have no idea what proactive police work can majorly negatively effect them. A very strange job. Do right but boss says you cannot do right then boss says you have uniform infraction and gives 2 year cutie an inside spot.
Scarecrow leadership. This piece that piece these pieces, pieces all over the piece right? That LT has a piece for everything under the sun in 25. Unreal
Not a federal consent decree. Its a made up consent decree through the state. Once they saw how much money could be made through the business of police reform and training. Hug a thug training basically.
Well...its a state consent decree, and a bullshit one at that. Built on the back of a BS whitewash rushed report from the Obama years that we are all racist. A report that only took 9 months of digging from the Obama feds, that supposedly found that after decades of locking up people we are inherently racist. But the Ferguson PD consent decree was based off 2 YEARS of Fed digging. Our dept is 12k, there's is maybe a few hundred. Make it make sense. And magically, the report was finished JUST in time, before Obama was out and Trump got in. And the state did it, cause Trump would've squashed it. Its an unnecessary consent decree, full of bullshit. Useless.
THIS IS NOT A FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE !!! God damn! How do people , mainly the media not understand this ?!
The defund and demoralize movement is alive and well in these big blue slave plantations. Hard to do police work in a toxic environment.
This entire consent decree is another left wing clown car. Like the way it was Rushed through before Obama term expired. Obama keeps spreading his disease in Chicago and around the world.
Only profession in the country where performing the actual job hired for WILL get one suspended, terminated or even jailed. Also, only company in the world where even the supervisors encourage zero proactive policing, zero chases, just hide in a hole and back only back other up. This city really upside down but we tend to adapt NYC's lunatic policies and look what happened to the Sergeant there. April 2027 cannot come quick enough.
The now portly former gym teacher can go fk himself. -P.0.W. 376
The self imposed consent decree is a total farce. Between all these “trainings” and nonstop elearning I honestly miss the days where the Dept would just leave us alone and let us do our job. I recently finished the 2 day search warrant training where many of the instructors are under the delusion that I am thirsty to write up and execute search warrants. For me, the current rules of engagement equal 100% fetal. No thanks, proactively police at your own risk.
Marty start requesting and digging around all the financials on money allocated and spent on the consent decree.
There was a story online that said there is zero detailed accounting about how the money is spent. No general ledger showing details on how the $ is being spent/wasted.
Just an annual amount per year allocated to the consent decree team.
Would be interesting where the money is being spent or how much is unaccounted for.
We al know the decree is a democratic scam just to bilk $ from the city. Never let a crisis go to waste. And if there is no crisis create one.
I’d do it but still working and Marty is an investigative reporter. And a good one.
Just fucking stop doing anything proactive.
Well said. Many keeses awarded!!!!
This is the only profession that I know of that you can lose your job by doing your job. Also, this is the only profession that I know of that people that have never done this job dictate how you do your job. That’s like a garbage man telling a surgeon how he or she should perform surgery on a patient.
100% correct. But the cutie might need to man that beat car when the actual workers catch a cold and are out a month or two in the summer.
For the 100th time, it's not a Federal consent decree. The Federal Department of Justice doesn't care about the CPD. Yes, there is a Federal judge, but that doesn't make it Federal. The plaintiff in thks decree is the State of Illinois Attorney General.
Escape Illinois ASAP…..
Retired with nearly 33 yrs on. Suffered during Breczak, Martin, Hilliard, that idiot from Texas and maybe one or two I forgot in between all of that shit. Snelling is DEFINITELY a cut above all of the shitheads listed...Leroy Martin was a piece of shit. Resurrected CR#s that had already been settled and moved to fire guys who already were disciplined. I knew a few that got fucked from that purge...
You get paid the same regardless of what you do. And if you think your gonna get any merit promotion without any wack forget about it.
The only thing that will improve policing is a fully funded pension.
It is NOT a federal consent decree!! It is a self-imposed consent decree that was overseen by a federal judge....done to appease a certain demographic group.
A federal decree has money to support changes...this one has none.
Not a federal consent decree in the sense that it was brought about by the DOJ but the Little Lisa consent decree is administrated by a local federal court.
Rahm signed off on the Consent Degree so we have to pay for it! If the Fed's & City went to court & the city lost, then the Federal Government has to pay for the CD! Why do you think Rahm got to be the Ambassador to Japan!! Nice payback!
Last one out turn out the lights.
Are you talking about afternoons in twenty five
And don’t forget these other pieces, oh and another piece about that piece. I won’t say a lot except on these twelve other pieces… blowhard
Off Topic: A Federal Grand Jury in Alabama has brought 11 felony indictments for bank and wire fraud against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an extreme Left-wing organization that has targeted conservative and patriot organizations as "hate" groups. The SPLC (allegedly) paid money to an Aryan Nations affiliate, Unite The Right and former KKK members, and others to infiltrate conservative groups to "stoke racial hatred".
It is an excellent job creator for friends of the "democratic party".
Morris Dees' SPLC empire is finally going the way of the 27 different BLMs.
Praise be to God.
Didx you listen to Snellings testimony during VanDyke!? Do you remember his stripping orders during Covid?! You are not paying attention to the bouncing ball.
Why is a Federal Judge overseeing a State Consent Decree?
-If the Fed's & City went to court & the city lost, then the Federal Government has to pay for the CD!-
This is not and has never been true. Why do people keeping thinking/saying this??
-Yes, there is a Federal judge, but that doesn't make it Federal-
Um, it does. By definition. It's a federal court case. The US Govt is not a party, but that doesn't make it not a federal consent decree. Maybe try thinking of the phrase "don't make a federal case of it!"
-A federal decree has money to support changes...this one has none.-
Good grief all mighty! Why do people think this????? If the lawsuit that resulted in the federal consent decree involved the federal government as a plaintiff, there would not have been any federal money coming in to make the changes. In what world does a plaintiff in any suit WIN and then have to SPEND the money to make itself/himself/herself whole? That's kinda the opposite of winning. The loser (the state/city/other entity) in a lawsuit that results in a consent decree or settlement agreement pays the costs. Full stop.
-Why is a Federal Judge overseeing a State Consent Decree?-
Because the lawsuit was filed in federal court
We aren’t going to vote ourselves out if this tyranny.
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