Yoyo Stripped of Control
About damn time someone took responsibility away from this waddling disaster (Tribune article behind a paywall):
The second-in-command of the Chicago Police Department appears to have been stripped of virtually all of her duties related to the department’s daily operations, according to a new organizational chart sent Wednesday to CPD personnel.
Yolanda Talley has overseen much of the department’s day-to-day operations since March 2025, when Supt. Larry Snelling promoted her to the role of first deputy more than a year into his tenure at the helm of CPD.
Under the new order, released to department members in an administrative message, the first deputy’s office will supervise the department’s records division, which is staffed by civilians, its alternate response section, which handles non-emergency calls, its Office of Community Policing and the department’s detached services division, which liases with other public bodies like the Office of Emergency Management and Communication.
No word if her recent run in trying to park in a secured CFD parking lot was the final straw, but the list of offenses that should have disqualified her from even holding this position is extensive:
Talley, a 30-year veteran of the department, was previously the head of the bureau of internal affairs. She is the first Black woman to serve as first deputy superintendent, reporting directly to Snelling. Prior to internal affairs, Talley was commander of the Austin District (15th) on the West Side.
In February 2022, while Talley was still heading the bureau of internal affairs, her personal vehicle was involved in a narcotics arrest in the Harrison District (11th). The first deputy’s niece was driving the car, and a man in the passenger seat was seen by police throwing a package of heroin out the window before officers placed him under arrest. In body-worn camera footage previously obtained by the Tribune, Talley’s niece told responding officers, “Don’t even worry about it cause my auntie’s probably your boss.”
Talley’s niece was not arrested, but the man later faced narcotics charges and ultimately was sentenced to the Illinois Department of Corrections. Former CPD Superintendent David Brown later said there was “no evidence of any misconduct by Chief Talley.”
That proximity to dope deliveries IN HER PERSONAL CAR alone should have kept her out of the job.
The PPP Loans, too.
The fact that she got her car back without it being impounded should have brought her up on charges.
And the Tribune helpfully leaves out the fact that the "man in the passenger seat" ended up being the informant on the Anjenette Young search warrant that cost the city taxpayers millions in settlement money.
For all you people with little institutional knowledge of the CPD, here's a short manual:
- In the old days, the First Deputy ran the show. When we arrived, it was Townsend and he was connected enough that they waived the Mandatory Retirement at 63 requirement. That is the definition of power. After Townsend, we think it was John Thomas? We didn't really pay attention that much because we were busy having fun in those days. But we knew where the buck stopped.
- When Cline came in, he reversed the roles entirely. He wanted the headlines....and the power. So the First became a figurehead. Dana Starks was made First, but he had almost none of the power aside from promoting his people. Cline ran the show and sowed a lot of seeds of destruction.
- When the mayors started appointing outsiders, the First regained a bunch of the previously held power because they were familiar with the players and the power structure. J-Fledgar tried to upend it by shaking up exempts, but the First just moved all thirty of them around - no one got demoted. McCarthy was too busy screaming "CompStat!" and skirt chasing and drinking, so the First gathered more power. Beck froze everything in place, knowing he wasn't there for long, and the First was getting back Townsend-like powers.
- Then with Eddie "the Underwear Arsonist" Johnson, we were back to moron for a superintendent while the First and subordinate exempts actually "ran" things. Which brings us to today.
Unfortunately, the damage has been done along with the political class having far more influence on the Department that ever before. The second and third tier exempts had no idea how to run a department, chased away experienced people with brains and put the "friends and family promotional plan" on warp speed. There was no Townsend or Maurer waiting in the wings, just a couple pretenders.
Larritorious was a gym teacher who probably hasn't seen or signed an arrest report in fifteen years, let alone approved a TRR, and he was gifted how many promotions inside of 30 months? They wouldn't even allow him to pick a First for over a year, instead hanging onto a retiree with as much baggage as a small aircraft.
So Yoyo's fall from grace is certainly a good start. Demotion would be better.
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124 Comments:
very interesting
As someone hired in the late 1990s, your description SCC is spot on.
She is an absolute clown. Utterly incompetent. Borderline criminal, actually criminal with the PPP loan. Pathetic, embarrassing, and on top of that she looks very sloppy. Disgraceful.
SCC, this was definitely worth a midday post on your lunch break.
Back to work brother.
How is someone going to mention the tac LT from 012 today? He’s been mentioned everyday for the last few days. My popcorn is next to me and I’m ready to read and enjoy today’s antics.
He pick someone that was not going to compete with his ego. Talley should quit. He didn’t pick a 1st was because he is still paying Waller for helping him get his top gym position.
What caused this recipe for disaster that embarrasses the department as a whole because of a so called leader who is incompetent? MERIT NOMINATIONS. For God Sake Larry, You wanna boost morale? Get the hell rid of merit promotions! Its ruining the department!!!!!! or shall I use the term DESTROYING IT!
If he had the balls to demote her she would have retired. He actually did her a favor.
Accountability, who knew that it is critical in a leadership position.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the lock up debacle in 006. More than half the officers in that building don’t have personal key cards to access the building or lock up (that’s safe), and they have keycards for visiting officers from outside units. On top of that I don’t think the air conditioning works in that building making lock up a sauna…anyway heres the lock up story from the other day: hist team in 006 lockup with a shithead who has 375 grams of heroine. Their Sgt tells one officer to process by himself and orders rest of team to sit on a car for a homicide offender. The lone officer loosens shitheads cuffs and walks out of lockup leaving him unattended. Pookie removes his hand from cuffs, walks over to the unattended dope/evidence, and begins to flush it. What he didn’t flush he began to ingest. Officer walks back into lockup and doo doo is foaming at mouth and all the dope is gone. Had to shut down lock up due to the contamination as it wasn’t a clean destruction of evidence LOL! Also 006 is always at the forefront of all the fuckery in this department yet their commander remains through it all. Funny how that works!
Maybe she’s soon to be indicted/fined for her PPP scam. Gotta hide her and get out in front of it but her fall still needs a nice soft cushion to land on, can’t bust her all the way back down smh
This tells you all you’ll ever need to know about this fucking clown. She’s been in this position for a few months and she’s already not trusted to run this shit show.
If you want to see the quintessential DEI hire take a look at Ghetto Fab Yo-Yo. A true west side queen.
and any minute now the rev-runs will be crying that it's racism that the black man took the power away from the black woman,,, just plain racism
So I ask? Why have the spot? Why pay the extra money to have a first deputy? Aren’t we in a budget crunch? If we can go without a first then let’s do it. So she stays there, adds to her pension and pay a higher salary when we can save that money.. for someone who has no real job or duties.
Superintendent , she is not respected by the troops. She is not respected by the command staff. You have a problem. Zero respect. Terrible for morale, what’s left of it anyway.
She don’t care. She still need to have that power and get that check.. she still got bills.
about fucking time yahooooooooooooo
Thank You Jesus, too bad it’s a little too late. Great men and women have been chased out. The damage has been done.
Is there any other changes on the chart?
Remember when she was in the piss unit. What a show that was. Blantant reverse discrimination allowing her friends to take off whenever they wanted and denying everyone else. Loved to boisterously laugh all day while the "others" towed the line. Horrible working environment.
Ding dong the witch is dead
townsend was an a-hole but back in the day we at least could be the police
the best i ever worked for were escalente n riccio
Embarrassing!
When is this going to stop?
Is the Superintendent ok with all the unprofessionalism demonstrated by his Command Staff !!??
So once again, reward ignorance & incompetence by not only promoting, but giving less responsibility!
You go girl...
Could this reorganization have been in play when Talley was promoted to 1st Deputy and kept hidden ? Those orders dh not write themselves overnight.
Oh YoYo!
Finally!
This is a fresh start.
Yolanda Talley made history again. She was the first to serve the shortest amount of time as the first deputy.
A taste of her own medicine.
So, Talley you think the CFD give a fuck because you are the First Deputy?
I need a camera on Yolanda Talley and a full press conference regarding this. lol.
Tally is raggedy y’all. Karma is something isn’t it Yolanda. Get out , you’re a disgrace.
Put her somewhere that she can’t do any more damage. I was thinking more like the mailroom.
Thanks Supt.
DEMOTION? DEMOTION?
Are we talkin’ about a DEMOTION?
I mean.
It was a parking space.
Now we talkin’ DEMOTION.
My niecey and a bag-a-skunk?
Now we talkin’ DEMOTION.
Smartest study group….ever!
Now we talkin’ DEMOTION??
C’mon man.
A major step in the right direction.
I should’ve made a bet. I told y’all she wasn’t going to last two months.. She’s a disaster..
Bring on Don Jerome!!!
The department owes the CFD an apology.
She had more lives than Morris the cat. Strip her and force her to retire.
Snelling must be reading the blog...Talley was becoming too much of a liability for Larritorious. He should force her to resign or make her an inspector. Thats what they do to bosses to make them retire. She useless anyways...Stay tuned. I think there is enough will for this to make happen. Larry would be well within the scope of his authority, and it would boost morale to see Talley shown the door. If she goes on the medical, have a unit sit outside her house. If someone comes over to borrow her car, have a tack-tickle team put a stop on it and search. You know? The might be guns, or drugs. Maybe both.
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Lets be real here...She wasn't very good at her job, whatever that was...She brought some discredit to CPD and that is hard to do today. And no one liked her, or wanted to work for her. And she is a self-titled DEI hire who has issues with immediate supervision.
There are always suck ups who will work for a bad boss just to gain an upper hand at a meritorious promotion.
Yoyo..."Do not ask for whom the bell now tolls...it tolls for thee.."
Watch and listen for anyone who works for her to start making phone calls to land softly...lol!
But does she still get parking?
Like she cares, she wants the title not the job.
Talley should leave. Why would anyone take a job and then your boy makes a mockery of you. You’re his scapegoat. He chose her because he knows that they would talk bad about her. Therefore, any wrongdoing of his people would look away and focus on yo-yo. Let’s not forget his inappropriate behavior with recruits and PO’s. Until recently he was messing around to get on top.
Look at OCPR…. what a clown show. The city is broke but they’re about to promote incompetence. Look for those unqualified promotions. Larry you’re a joke. That’s why he is promoting people like him unqualified.
Larry is a clown as well. He should have gotten a number for all those inappropriate affairs he had. Walking around at the academy with stuff hanging out. Girls remember those days.
With all due respect, Mr. superintendent, you need to restore the morale. She has caused nothing but damage.
Yeah yeah you’re one of her flunkies. Tally has caused enough embarrassment to cover her and the superintendent. She was doing dumb sh-t before he even became the superintendent.
Bring back Seiser for First Deputy. He runs it. Always has, always will
Talley stay off of this post. This is a great day for the department as a whole.
Who, or Whom, is Yo Yo's Clout,? They should be " highlighted" to show their intelligence in Sponsorship.......
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh…. We all know who you are. Stop making it so obvious.
Soooooooo you think this is why Talley has been de-balled?? Sighhhh.. no you moron…. It’s not….
Amen amen amen…. We now have to pay a first deputy AND Cheif of IAD(who is Moore now a civilian) but still paying a salary. Just letting her sweeten her pension and we pay 230k more a year for her to have a title.. 230k can buy a lot of computers or maybe a few squad cars with our fleet in shambles.
How is he still a tact Lt?
Neither are any of the exempts
She's there and not going anywhere. If they demote her they are saying were incompetent for promoting her. They will let her fuck up the Task Force guys and cases and whatever else she's in charge of. Nothing to see here because they will makeup excuses to cover themselves and her. We've all seen that happen before.
No sympathy for Tally. None. Go see EAP again yo-yo. Just leave. Garbage. Karma. Also, I almost spit up my coffee rereading the top portion of the post where it says waddling disaster.
Huh !? Who me ?
Are you fucking serious !?
You can’t be serious.
You mean ‘back to sleep’ 😁
Talley isn’t even qualified to be a Mall Cop let alone the 2nd in command of the 3rd largest police department in the country. She might be better suited for Walmart. Hey y’all , let me see that mother fucking receipt.
You are not smart.
she aint leavin until she ready. the gold braid pension is set. her job just got easier. she dont give no fuck. pay me.
Sounds like targeting and a potential future lawsuit, you empty headed moron. As much as Talley is incompetent, you have her beat.
Well his brother who was merit Lt in the same class is now in charge of a unit. Must be nice. Merit promotion for two brothers because of Yo Yo and right to units.
JS has the mentality of a 12 year old boy, but I guess kissing Talley and Heins asses all these years has paid off.
To be fair, Snelling didn’t promote her, MAYOR JOHNSON promoted her. She is perfect for his awful agenda. A promotion like that has DEEP political tentacles.
They’re going to do a whole reorganization of the First Deputy’s Office because of her? Demote her to field lieutenant on midnights. Replace her with somebody competent.
Oh what a big man you are hey let me buy you a pack of gum I’ll show you how to chew it.
Oh do tell
No, but I would like to know where he touched you for you to be so interested in his antics. You should go ask him.
The only spot Jerome is getting is back to captain, the powers that be are pushing him out.
💯 Follow the Merit list….
Thanks 😉
I disagree, we should keep Merit but actually give Merit Promotions to Deserving hard-workers…. just because a person score high on a test don’t mean they have common sense 🤷🏼♀️
Larry chose poorly again with "Talley the Dullard".
Exactly what I thought. Hide her but she keeps the title. Seems legit. Clown show with real guns.
Tally screwed him over herself… He would’ve been good for morale. One of the last policeman left.
It was Snelling. He said it at an annual ceremony it was his choice and his choice only. Do we want Hein??? Because Hein is horrible, that’s his next choice.
No you have to pay for all those unqualified civilians that are about to get promoted. At OCPR this civilian walking around telling people he’s getting a big promotion. Coppers need squad cars and we are here doing the opposite spending our money with useless people.
Neither Snelling. Never been a street cop. In the academy all his life. Do we respect that??
Larry choices are bad all around. Have you seen his promotions??? Hein is 10 times smarter than Snelling. At least he was on the streets. Hein for Sup. Lol
Riccio stepped in it during the Bobby rush “popcorn-gate”. Made a statement and looked and sounded like an asshole because of it. Guy should’ve kept his mouth shut but decided he knew better. He didn’t. Glad the midget is gone.
Dumb Entitled Idiot that
Didn’t Earn It
Can I get an Amen to that. Ghetto fabulous. Next thing a video will show up with her twerking with a squad car and the skyline in the background.
The Helen DeWitt award for First Deputy goes to......
She was her own fall guy because she didn’t have to do none of stuff she did.
You’re doing gods work brother
She’s shockingly stupid and inexplicably arrogant. It’s the worst combination a leader could have. She isn’t qualified to lead anyone or anything.
Riccio was a stroke job
Townsend was a powerful figure, but it was the “second deputy “ who was the real police. You old timers know who that was.
Is Larry now a Talley wacker?
7/30/2025 08:43:56 PM
You stole my promotion, mam.
She still makes more money than 99% of the police force even though she’s incompetent and corrupt. Who’s the fool?
I give her credit. She has broken that glass ceiling rising through the ranks despite her gender and her oppressed lineage. She is a positive role model for at risk females who seek a esteemed title and a get paid more than a living wage. Women forums will highlight her accomplishments, her ascending job descriptions and her dedication earning her promotions to higher ranks. After all, she is the first female of color to hold such a C.E.O. like command in the Chicago Police Department.
Chicago is the second largest, not third.
Changes are coming with all of the openings at exempt and Captain. What we hearing now? Be cause the next moves will give a glimpse into who’s got the power.
Description of 80s was good to. I believe it was Thomas that died at home.
Heart Attack?
Line of Duty.
He was "Listening to the police radio,"
Reading comprehension is tough, I know CPS doesn’t prepare you well for life…in the first sentence “I wonder if…” would imply a lack of certainty. I know reading is hard, maybe a little more practice and we can get you up to 3rd grade level. The comment was more of a segway into pointing out how retarded 006 is so we can all have a good laugh…MORON hahaha
Not to mention all the wasted money on civilians who hold the same rank as a gold star in a bunch of made up positions. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians!
Extremely not smart
"Unfortunately, the damage has been done along with the political class having far more influence on the Department that ever before. The second and third tier exempts had no idea how to run a department, chased away experienced people with brains and put the "friends and family promotional plan" on warp speed. There was no Townsend or Maurer waiting in the wings, just a couple pretenders."
Appointing the inept is done purposely for a couple of reasons; 1. It's somebody too dumb the run the program on their own, so you can easily control them, and 2. You DON'T allow the development of a strong leader who a) won't listen to you, and b) might actually be a political threat at a later time.
What a break for Yoyo.... same pay, same title, less work. And she keeps the Company car so she can lend her personal car to family.
Why would Talley want to park in a CFD parking lot? Doesn't her company car have the M plates? She's on call 24 hours per day, right?
Or just stop the page from loading fully. The article will be there before the paywall kicks in.
001 free of any scandals and crime is down under DH. They won’t promote him further due to envy of his ability
We also have this assclown Sgt JLO … Aka Sgt “I’m
number 7 in my sergeant class”
This fool is trying to get a tact team and will get you jammed up trying to make a name for himself.
What took so long? Where is Dana O’Malley? The Superintendent would be better off getting advice from SSC, a crackerjack box, fortune cookies or his horoscope.
Somebody is fed up with YoYo’s b.s.
The new org chart has no constitutional policing Chief, only a deputy chief who reports directly to the executive director. Is this Chief spot getting axed?
Okay YoYo.
Bwahahahahaha!!!
I was so happy when Riccio and his cry babies left.
Hein only in charge of street deputies. Thought he ran the Bureau of Patrol? Another moron that thinks he’s God.
Add the D-Unit to the list.
That’s what I’m saying.
Okay poots 🙄
Why would Talley loan her personal vehicle to her niece that has a suspended driver’s license and a live-in dope dealing boyfriend? She’s nuts.
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