Second City Cop

• Mayor Daley announced plans today to privatize Midway Airport in return for 2ドル.521 billion from investors.
  

  The private consortium that would take over includes Midway Investment and Development Co. LLC, Citi Infrastructure Investors, John Hancock Life Insurance Co. and YVR Airport Services Ltd., Daley said at a news conference.

  The lease term would be 99 years, and, under state law, the city must use 99 percent of the lease's net proceeds for infracture [sic] projects around the city, Daley said.

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• Mayor Daley will eliminate 3,000 vacant positions and lay off 1,000 city employees -- 735 of them union members -- to solve Chicago's worst budget crisis in a generation, union leaders were told Monday.

  The biggest hit will be felt by Laborers Union Local 1001, whose members are in line for 300 pink slips in the Streets and Sanitation Department.

• The 3,000 vacancies to be eliminated include: 329 sworn Chicago Police officers; 424 non-sworn police employees; 12 sworn firefighters, and 10 non-sworn fire employees.

• Meanwhile, all but six of Chicago's 50 aldermen plan to accept a 6.2 percent cost-of-living increase that will boost their annual salaries to 110,556ドル Jan. 1. [...]
  

  Forty-four aldermen declined to sign the affidavit from Budget Director Bennett Johnson, in part, because of the effect it would have on their pensions. Some were offended that Johnson even asked.

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• A Chicago police detective who was beaten while off-duty on Chicago's North Side over a week ago is reacting to the news that the man accused of beating him will not face a more serious charge.

  Detective Steven Amato says he announced that he was a police officer during the beating. The beating took place after the man allegedly ran into the detective's personal car.

  Detective Amato and others believe the charges should be more serious because the attack was against a police officer. The police officer's alleged attacker, 27-year-old John Jasa,s remains free after attending court last week, where a judge refused to charge him with attacking a police officer. That follows a decision by the state's attorney's office to file what is "perceived" as a lesser felony because, they say, Detective Amato was off duty. The veteran cop counters, saying a Chicago police officer is "always" on duty.

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• Can someone let us know how we can alert the media that this asshole's conviction for attempted murder was for the ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ANOTHER POLICE OFFICER!!!! He took three shots at a uniformed officer when they saw him near a gang wake wearing a holster (about a block from his "neighborhood watch" site).

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• ...was at the Pension Board today to get payout info and walked into a shitstorm. Fox news covering Ron Huberman's effort to get credit for his CTA service. Total Bullshit. Anyway, a copper named Mike Shields who is running for a Pension Trustee spot was all over it. He confronted Huberman face to face and even gave an interview to Fox 32 calling BS on Huberman's pension grab. This Shields guy even brought his own camera. He asked a Pension Board secretary (ON FUCKING CAMERA!!) why she gave Huberman a private office as a waiting room while a disabled female PO on crutches was made to stand. I never worked with this Shields guy, but he stood up for us, for sure.
  he has my vote. See if you can get the video SCC. Its got to be really funny.

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• Creative Loafing Inc., owner of the Chicago Reader and five other weekly U.S. newspapers, sought bankruptcy protection after advertising revenue shrank for its print editions, Bloomberg News reported.

  The closely held company listed both debt and assets of 10ドル million to 50ドル million each in Chapter 11 documents filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tampa, Florida, where it’s based, according to Bloomberg. Creative Loafing took over the Reader last year.
  

• When Floyd Durr pled guilty in April to the sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, the book finally seemed closed on one of the most notorious criminal cases here in decades. But much remains uncertain. Including who killed Ryan.

  By Steve Bogira
  October 20, 2006

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• I guess we need to take this to the logical end. If fewer cops won't impact our safety, then fewer politicians shouldn't impact city services. Maybe the mayor and city council should resign, we won't elect anyone new, and Chicago will be a perfect city! (now that I think about it, it's a great idea!)

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• Tribune
• Sun Times
• Channel 2
• Channel 5
  
• Channel 7
  
• Channel 32

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• After Officer Patrick McDonald was assassinated by Daniel Giddings on Tuesday, neighbors came out of the woodwork and did what neighbors often do.

  They made excuses. Worse, they eulogized Giddings, who was also killed.

  Here were people who could justify the murder of a police officer by playing the race card, forgetting that so many of their own black brothers and sisters are soldiers in the battle between good and evil that takes place every day on Philadelphia's streets.

• Let's say this once and for all, without mincing any words:

  Daniel Giddings was a worthless piece of trash whose exit from this world can only make it a better place. The horror is that, in leaving, he took with him a man like Patrick McDonald.

• a named target of a drug conspiracy
• found carrying narcotics in his mouth
  
• a home-body (unemployed)
• praying in an automobile?
• armed
• with even more drugs in his house
  

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• A 20-year-old man was fatally stabbed after a verbal fight became physical early Sunday in the North Side’s Ravenswood neighborhood. The incident happened in the 4600 block of North Rockwell Avenue... [...]

  Kevin Curtis, of 4108 N. Lawndale Ave., was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center at 2:20 a.m., according to a spokesman at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, who said Curtis was stabbed at 4639 N. Rockwell Ave.

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• Chicago Breaking News
• Shaved
• Katey's Kafe from Philadephia
• Domelights, also from Philly
• Officer Down Memorial Page

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• Chicago police officers shot a man tonight after a confrontation on the South Side, police said.

  After a police well-being check in the 7700 block of South Kedzie Avenue, an armed person confronted officers about 7:15 p.m. and was shot, police said.

  The condition of the person was unknown. No one else was injured.

  Police said a weapon was recovered from the scene.

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• "No, no," said Daley when asked about the lack of new hires and the impact on city safety. When pressed, Daley bristled and said "It just won’t."

  The mayor said he's "working on" hiring more police officers, but didn’t have a time frame for when that would happen.

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• Just weeks before he is to be sentenced, political fund-raiser Tony Rezko is in the midst of intense discussions with federal investigators, sources close to the investigation confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times.

  There’s no question federal authorities are interested in Rezko, a former top adviser and fundraiser to Gov. Blagojevich, as a federal witness. But one source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, warned it’s too early to call the discussions full-fledged cooperation.

  Already, however, Rezko has provided information to the feds, who are in the process of vetting it, sources said.

Labels: corruption, state politics

• As Daley hailed the opening of an extended runway at O'Hare International Airport, Weis waited at the edge of the crowd for more than two hours. After the event, as reporters asked Daley about police hiring, Weis stepped up to the microphone stand.
  
  That's when the mayor abruptly ended the news conference. Daley said he would talk today about O'Hare expansion and nothing else.
  
  "We're going to stay on this subject matter because I think it's important to stay on the subject matter," Daley said. "No, no, it's good to stay on it. Yesterday I took questions [on other topics], tomorrow I'll take questions, so you'll see me all week. Don't worry."
  
  A broadcast journalist mentioned the Tribune story to him, and Daley replied: "I know, don't worry. Tomorrow, we'll be there. OK, thank you."

• For the second day in a row, Mayor Richard Daley refused to take questions from reporters about his administration's failure to keep its promise to hire more police officers.

  Appearing at a Friday event to announce federal money for public housing, Daley once again avoided discussing the police issue.

  Police Supt. Jody Weis had promised to increase the ranks of officers as Chicago grapples with its first increase in its homicide rate in years. But the Tribune reported Thursday that City Hall has not approved department requests to hire enough officers to keep up with retirements and other attrition, resulting in hundreds of vacancies.

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• The backdrop for all of this, of course, is the city’s 420ドル million budget hole, which will likely require hundreds of layoffs, unfilled positions, and early retirements to plug--though the Daley administration hasn't been saying much about it. Some aldermen, though, are quietly suggesting that Donahue’s union could pay for a few more jobs if it were willing to give up a few costly perks. On top of their regular pay, officers receive 730ドル every three months for "duty availability"—that is, simply being on call, even though they get additional overtime pay if they actually have to take an extra shift. They receive another 600ドル every three months to pay for new uniforms, and they can take a check for any furlough time they deserve but don’t use. These benefits add up to about 73ドル million a year.
  

  "Apparently the aldermen grumbling about such things don’t see the hypocrisy of their grumblings," Donahue says. "The average police officer coming out of the police academy onto the force is going to make an investment of 7,000ドル to 9,000ドル dollars—the department doesn’t buy the uniform, doesn’t buy the guns, doesn’t buy the shoes. What would the aldermen say if we proposed cutting the money for their staff and expenses?"

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• SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV – A man arrested for DUI in South Charleston, West Virginia, found himself in a heap of trouble after he farted on an officer while being booked at the police station.

  Jose Cruz was originally arrested and charged with DUI after being stopped on Route 60 for driving with his headlights off.

  The police report indicates that, while being fingerprinted, Cruz moved closer to the officer and passed gas on him. The investigating officer also reported that the "odor was very strong."

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• The Chicago Police Department is down hundreds of officers despite pledges by City Hall to boost the force to combat growing violent crime, police union and department officials confirmed Wednesday.
  
  Police Supt. Jody Weis, facing criticism over rising homicide rates, promised aldermen to expand the department by 75 officers as part of an effort to put more officers on the street. But City Hall has not approved department requests to hire enough officers to keep up with retirements and other attrition.
  
  Mayor Richard Daley has said the city must reduce personnel costs in the face of a dismal economy and a gaping budget hole but has not specified where the cuts could be made at this point.

• As Daley hailed the opening of an extended runway at O'Hare International Airport, Weis waited at the edge of the crowd for more than two hours. After the event, as reporters asked Daley about police hiring, Weis stepped up to the microphone stand.
  
  That's when the mayor abruptly ended the news conference. Daley said he would talk today about O'Hare expansion and nothing else.
  
  [...] With that, Daley walked away from the microphones, trailed by Weis.

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• MINNEAPOLIS - With long glares darting through the clubhouse, the White Sox attempted to put on the best game face Thursday night.
  
  That mask, however, fell off as Minnesota delivered another stunning blow to the Sox's American League Central title hopes.
  
  The Sox blew a five-run lead, as the Twins dealt them another blow with a two-run eighth off relievers Matt Thornton and Bobby Jenks that forced a 6-6 tie before winning 7-6 in extra innings.

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• The Democratic candidate for Cook County state's attorney defended her practice of accepting campaign cash from employees within the office, saying Wednesday that it should not reflect on her ability to make tough calls if elected.
  
  Anita Alvarez, who currently holds the number three post in the prosecutor's office, was ripped by Republican opponent Tony Peraica, who questioned the ethics of her decision to accept donations from subordinates.
  
  Alvarez characterized the donations as small gifts from "friends" who wanted to express their support.

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• A group of Chicago police officers will be in Springfield today when the Illinois Parole Board meets to decide the fate of a convicted cop-killer. [...]
  

  Richard Luckey will be 80 years old next month. 35 years ago, he shot and killed Chicago Police Officer Robert Wenzel during a traffic stop on Lake Shore Drive.

  Luckey and his passenger allegedly had been making plans to pull off an armed robbery before they were stopped.

  Sgt. Patrick O’Malley is among 27 officers appearing at the parole hearing and says the group wants "to make sure he serves the time he was sentenced", 75 to 150 years.

  The Chicago Police Department moved to two-person squad cars after Officer Bob Wenzel’s murder on a dark January morning in 1973.

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• CLTV reports that there has been an increase in the reward offer leading to the killer of an off-duty Chicago police officer and his female companion.

Labels: officer down

• A man found decomposed in the trunk of a car in Franklin Park Tuesday night had been shot in the head and strangled, according to an autopsy today.

  Residents in the 3400 block of Sarah Street in the northwest suburb called police around 8 p.m. after detecting a strong odor coming from the vehicle. When police opened the trunk, they found the body, said Franklin Park Police Chief Thomas Wolfe.

  Police are conducting a homicide investigation.

  Identification found on the body matched that of the owner of the car, a 43-year-old man reported missing from Melrose Park on Sept. 13.

1. found in a trunk;
2. in Franklin Park;
3. shot and strangled;
4. missing from Melrose Park;
5. last name released a short while ago - sounded like "Sanes"

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• Mayor Richard Daley has sent a letter to Iowa's governor urging a pardon for Chicago Police Officer Michael Mette, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for assault after punching a man outside a 2005 party in Dubuque.

  Daley told Iowa Gov. Chet Culver that Mette "did little or nothing to provoke" the fight.

  "Mr. Mette's response to the physical assault he experienced was not pre-meditated, but merely a matter of self-defense in reaction to a very real threat," Daley wrote in the letter dated Aug. 20.

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• Federal agents have cracked down on the trafficking of fake documents on the Chicago's Southwest Side.

  More than a dozen people were arrested in police raids in the last two days. Among those arrested was the nephew of a Chicago alderman.

  Most of the 21 people named in the case were picked up Thursday as federal agents executed five search warrants in the Little Village neighborhood.

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• A Chicago police officer accused of killing two Cicero men in a Thanksgiving Day auto accident was indicted on charges of reckless homicide and drunk driving, authorities said Tuesday.
  
  Officer John Ardelean, 34, faces two counts of reckless homicide and four counts of aggravated DUI, according to a news release from the Cook County state's attorney's office.

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• The 9-year-old son of a Chicago police officer who last week shot his two children before committing suicide has died.

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• The Commander of TRU has not been seen in the unit since the passing of Officer Eddie Massas. No roll call briefing about the incident, no condolences, not even in the building to be seen for the past 48 hours. How does a Cmdr. of Police not show up at roll call after one of the men in his unit dies of a tragic accident?!? Peer support has been there both days. Both Lt.'s have addressed roll call but no sign of the Cmdr. anywhere. It is a sad, sad time in this department. They, read Exempts, have no regard for those of us still out there working the streets. Not one exempt member came by the unit to address the officers, not one. Not even our own Commander. Unbelievable!!! I obviously did not post this among the rest of the regards for Officer Massas because I did not want to put this among the condolences that are placed there, but I think this needs to get out to the rank and file. Yeah, they have our backs alright. The only ones that have our backs are the guys sitting next to us in roll call.

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• ARTICLE 5 NO STRIKE
  Section 5.1 — No Strike Commitment.
  Neither the Lodge nor any officer will call, institute, authorize, participate in, sanction, encourage, or ratify any strike, work stoppage, or other concerted refusal to perform duties by any officer or officer group, or the concerted interference with, in whole or in part, the full, faithful and proper performance of the duties of employment with the Employer. Neither the Lodge nor any officer shall refuse to cross any picket line, by whomever established.

• Section 5.4 — Discipline of Strikers.
  Any officer who violates the provisions of Section 5.1 of this Article shall be subject to immediate discharge. Any action taken by the Employer against any officer who participates in action prohibited by Section 5.1 above shall not be considered as a violation of this Agreement and shall not be subject to the provisions of the grievance procedure; except that the issue whether an officer in fact participated in a prohibited action shall be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedure.

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• At least Ron Magers and Roe Conn addressed it today, however, if they had just listened to their audience last Friday, they could have cut this crap off at the pass.
  
  They did not cut it off at the pass because they did not know what to say until getting their thoughts together. Today, four days later, Ron Magers said that the group he cautioned DID NOT include J-FED. He says that the rumor is FALSE.
  
  Magers did admit to nodding at Weis while walking past Weis, as Weis was watching the video presentation, on his way to shushing a group of people further away from the podium that were making noise and were apparently unaware of the ongoing video presentation.

• How dare SCC question Ron Magers, friend of the police and trusted media voice. SCC should be ashamed, shut down the blog, and perform assorted acts upon various farm animals, even though we never questioned Ron Magers.
• How dare SCC refuse to apologize for the comments made about J-Fed, the attractiveness of his chosen life partner, the blinding intellect that led him to select the brilliant members of the current command staff, etc, even though it wasn't SCC making them.
• Everyone knows that every single problem on this Department is solely the fault of SCC and the blog and began on 31 May 2005 despite the years and years of underground publications, bathroom walls, rigged promotional exams, political shenanigans and bedroom exploits.

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• INDIANAPOLIS---- A shortage of road salt and skyrocketing salt prices could mean slippery roads this winter in communities across the nation as officials struggle to keep pavement clear of snow and ice without breaking their budgets.

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• 004 - 13 openings
  
• 006 - closed
  
• 008 - 5 openings
• 010 - 10 openings
• 015 - 10 openings
• 024 - 12 openings

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• A Southwest Side man was beaten to death Sunday morning in the Archer Heights neighborhood. [...]
  

  Ulmer’s attackers beat him with their hands, fists and feet and he was initially hospitalized in critical condition with blunt force trauma to the head, police said. A description of the attackers was not immediately available.

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• A 33-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash late Saturday not far from his Near West Side home.

  The police Major Accident Investigation Unit was trying to determine Sunday why the motorcyclist, identified as Edward Massas, lost control of his bike in the 700 block of North Racine Avenue about 11:30 p.m. Saturday

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• The Midway sale is done it will be announced soon! My friend at city hall said that all the doa coppers at the airport will be "gone" and the city is trying to figure out how to bring another 65 cpd officers there to cover the airfield, and all the gates! We have no officers in the districts how will they fill this? then again king richie ordered a nice detail of coppers in osama obamas area, guess he could the same here right! The airports according to my friend will have a new commander by Dec 01 and the boss at midway will be back in 009 as a field LT. That is all! Updates as they become available! this city has more leaks than the titanic ever had!

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• Chicago police officers in nearly a dozen districts and units will try out new schedules in 2009, including a 10-hour, four-day work week, in a pilot program the city hopes will cut overtime and boost officer morale.
  
  Officers had been pushing for changes to work schedules during negotiations with the city on a new contract, now more than a year overdue.

• Three Chicago police officers were fired last month by the Chicago Police Board, according to records made public Friday.

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• During the Police Memorial Vigil, J-Fuck, his ugly ol' lady and all of his FED buddies were in the back of the room talking and laughing. Are you ready for this, RON MAJORS (SP?) had to walk across the room and ask these ignorant assholes to be quiet out of respect. Not only are we insignificant to this pig, but so are our fallen brothers and sisters. Nice huh?

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• More than a century after their deaths, three Chicago police officers were among seven enshrined Thursday night beside more than 500 other fallen officers at a lakefront memorial. Some were not considered to have died in the line of duty until recent decisions expanded the definition to include on-duty officers not slain by criminals. But for families of the seven names added to the Gold Star Families Memorial at a candlelight vigil, the honor was better late than never.

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• Harrison District officers in the 500 block of North Lawndale Avenue witnessed three dogs attacking a little boy about 7:50 p.m., according to police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor. NBC5's [...] reported that the dogs' owner lived next to the vacant lot, and the property is gated, but the pit bulls escaped and attacked the boy while he was playing with his friends. The child's brother tried without success to pull the pit bulls off of him.
  
  "The dog wouldn't let go, they just locked down," said witness Lawrence Balark. "Another kid was able to run and flag down a police officer that came back to the scene. When the police officer got back to the scene, he used excessive force, and pepper spray, (but) the dog was just relentless and wouldn't give up."

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• Federal officials arrested 21 people in the Little Village neighborhood in a second sweep of an alleged illegal visa fraud operation since last year.

  Agents with the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement began arresting people Thursday who were allegedly involved in an extensive phony document scheme. Many of the arrestees appeared in federal court Friday.

  Last year, agents swept through the Little Village Discount Mall in a controversial confrontation between federal law enforcement and immigrants who say they were unfairly targeted.

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• Chicago Police fatally shot a man early Friday after he refused to stop stabbing another man at his Near West Side home.

  Tyrone K. Bell, 20, of the 100 block of North Bell Avenue, was shot at his home and was dead on the scene, said the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

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• Serious crime is up but arrests are down in Chicago, and some police officers say they are working the streets less aggressively out of resentment toward their new chief and fear of being second-guessed by him.
  "People are doing just what they need to get through" their shifts, said Lt. Robert Weisskopf, president of the Chicago police lieutenants union, "and not any extra."

• In addition, he asked federal officials to investigate an officer who had already pleaded guilty to beating a handcuffed man shackled to a wheelchair and was serving a two-year suspension. That angered the rank-and-file.
  They felt the officer "did something wrong and he paid his debt to society," Weisskopf said. "But it was as if that wasn't good enough, 'We didn't get our complete pound of flesh.'"
  Since then, "guys feel the superintendent and the administration does not have their back," said John Pallohusky, president of the police sergeants union.

• Through the end of August, the department made 103,589 arrests (not including arrests for outstanding arrest warrants) compared with 117,971 for the same period last year, according to the department. The 5,600 guns recovered is roughly half as many as police seized in the same period in 2007, internal documents show.
  Bookings in the Cook County Jail - where the vast majority of inmates come from Chicago - are down, too. In all but one month this year, the number of people booked into the jail was down from the same month a year earlier, sometimes by hundreds, according to data obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request.
  Chicago has had 322 murders through Aug. 21, or 42 more than the number committed through the same date last year. Also, police have received 10,000 more calls from people about shots being fired, and the number of calls about gang disturbances has jumped by nearly 4,000, according to the department documents.

• But among the slew of statistics kept by the department are "self-initiated" calls, or those in which officers stop and question people about possible drug or gang activity. Department figures show the total is down by more than 3,700 from the same period last year.

• J-Fed was brought in to rein in a Department out of control. Unfortunately, the facts on the ground didn't (and still don't) support this belief. The Department was directionless, but that was directly attributable to the last three Superintendents and their inability to move the Department away from the corrupting influence of politics. It's not entirely their fault - no one could completely resist Daley and the Machine. But each made it progressively worse by their inaction.
• When J-Fed came in blind, he had no choice but to make the moves Daley and the Machine wanted. The last twenty years of Daley has hollowed the Department in a way no one would have ever dreamed possible. There are almost NO qualified individuals to LEAD this Department. Any that could were chased off by the political animals, shunted into dead end sergeant or lieutenant spots, or simply frustrated by their inability to make real and lasting changes in working conditions.
• Managers don't make good bosses. Good bosses can be capable managers, but it almost never works out the other way. And when the criteria for promotion are bloodline, blow job or political sponsorship, the Department isn't even finding capable managers within its ranks.
• J-Fed, after dismissing out of hand a few hundred years worth of police experience, is saddled with incompetent political hacks left and right. So what does he do? Brings in his own stable of "non political" friends, thereby perpetuating the "closed shop" and dashing any chance of attracting capable managers who may have showed him the ropes.

• local law enforcement are a bunch of rubes and provincial hacks and if you spin them a yarn and promise them the world, they'll run right into the gates of hell because you tell them to.

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• Arrangements for Officer Mike Robbins:
  
  I am the daughter of Michael Robbins and I just wanted to share with you the funeral arrangements for my father. Please share with others so they can be in attendance. They arrangements will be the following:
  
  Saturday, September 20, 2008
  
  Memorial Service (@11am)
  
  St. Columbanus Church
  331 E. 71st Street
  Chicago, Illinois
  
  Burial Service (following procession)
  
  Oak Woods Cemetery
  1035 East 67th Street
  Chicago, Illinois
  "Garden of Meditation"
  
  There will NOT be a repast but cards of condolences can be sent to:
  
  (removed by request)
  
  Thank you for being so patient with our family as we take a moment to
  remember my dad.
  
  Warmest Regards,
  
  Michelle

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• To the officers of the 009th Dist. Thank you for the way you handled the scene. It was messed up from the beginning when the dispatcher dispatched the job to one officer without a backup. We all came together within an instant and we all knew what to do without being told. You represented the CPD, your district and your watch with respect. It doesn't matter what your specific duty was that day, either at the scene knowing what was happening or answering calls and not know what was going on with this family or if their fellow officers were safe. The officers of the surrounding districts that came into 009 for assistance, we thank you also. Each and every one of us handled this incident with dignity, and don't you let anyone try to tell you any different. Not one officer, sgt., or captain at that scene did anything wrong, ARE YOU LISTENING ROY, NOTHING WRONG. How dare you imply that a "blueshirt or whiteshirt" was spreading rumors, how dare you say that to those officers that dealt with that scene while you were in the command van or standing a block away, while your officers and supervisors were in that house. How dare you imply the officers did wrong-when your officers were the ones at the hospital talking to the children trying to keep them alive because that's all they could do. How dare you make that implication when your officers with not even two years' experience had to put his body in the wagon. You had no right to make that implication. If you felt that someone did or said something wrong at that scene you should have been a boss, a leader, and pulled them aside either that day or the next in order to find out what you wanted to know, but you couldn't even give us that much respect, to just talk to us instead of imply that someone did a bad job. We were better off without that meeting, we were doing just fine without your pep talk. You are the one that should be ashamed of himself, not us. Instead of it being us against them, it is always us against you.

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• This pirate walks into a bar with a big ship's wheel down his pants. The bartender says, "Excuse me, sir, but do you know you have a ship's wheel down the front of your pants?"
  And the pirate says...
  "Aaargh, it's driving me nuts!!"

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• Just for shits and giggles, we are hereby banning any comment or post that links back to the "official" blog of the CPD. We were actually toying with the idea of giving them a link in the sidebar, but not anymore. They don't like us, fuck em. We aren't going to send any traffic their way, good or bad. You want to write about them or make a reference to them, it better be as "that other blog" or it better be on your own website. Let's see how they like generating their own traffic instead of riding on our coattails.

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• Ending a nearly two-year investigation, Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday they will not charge any Chicago police officers in a 2005 fatal shooting of a motorist who was riddled with bullets after he allegedly tried to drive over an officer.
  
  Although the shooting of Emmanuel Lopez initially was ruled by police to be justified, the Cook County state's attorney's office opened an investigation in 2006 after a private attorney brought forward evidence that contradicted the accounts of the five involved officers.
  
  Charges would have sent shock waves through a Police Department already under siege for a string of misconduct scandals.

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• According to Forbes.com: "With 7.3% unemployment and a gallon of gas going for just under four bucks, the Windy City has some economic headwinds that result in a perfect storm for stress. Chi-town’s pollution problems (it ranked No. 7 in terms poor air quality) and lack of breathing room (it's No. 2 in terms of population density) couple to create a Midwestern Molotov cocktail of stress."
• ...Mayor Daley was asked about the Forbes ranking Chicago high in stress.

  "I can attest to that,'' Daley said citing his daily questioning from the media.

  But he dismissed the ranking as "laughable.''

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• Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 1930 hours the Chicago Police Department and citizens of Chicago will honor the dedication and courage of police officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
• This year's ceremony is dedicated to Officer Richard M. Francis, whose tour ended on July 2, 2008.
• The ceremony will take place at Gold Star Families Memorial Park. The park is located just East of Soldier Field.

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• An off-duty Chicago police officer who had just finished eating breakfast Saturday morning at a pancake restaurant near Provo, Utah, may have saved the life of a man who was attacked in the parking lot by a mentally ill man wielding fabric scissors, police said.

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• "I don't put a lot of stock in the blogs. We have thirteen-and-a-half thousand officers and about sixteen thousand people. When you see 234 comments posted, that sampling is pretty insignificant, statistically."

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Labels: department issues, safety issues

• [critique of our grammar]...why not offer an apology to all the "shitheads" whose murders you so enjoyed and tacitly promoted these past few months?

• [insane ramblings about murder] You reap what you sow, SCC. And you have sown a field of rotten filth. But take heart, it's a bumper crop.

• [blah blah blah, SCC cheers for murder] ...and the victims are little kids. Doesn't "Chalkie" come in Jr. sizes? MURDER IS NEVER FUNNY. KARMA IS A BITCH. Post ALL comments of take down this blog.

Labels: scc responds