Second City Cop

Labels: department issues

• Well COPA and the mayor will certainly not put it in writing, but the 'wink-wink' unwritten General Order and the BS "Sanctity of Life" (no the liberals still LOVE abortions) policy is just a cowardly, badly expressed DUTY TO RETREAT. Hey, that's fine ... as cops have ALWAYS said ... "PUT IT ON PAPER" You want me just to get back in the car and code it out when some abused kid comes out swinging a bat? "PUT IT ON PAPER." You are going to hang me out to dry when I do not have super-sharp video game reflexes and cannot wait to shoot and offender the split second his bat it raised in attack mode? "PUT IT ON PAPER"

• (720 ILCS 5/7-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 7-5)
  Sec. 7-5. Peace officer's use of force in making arrest. (a) A peace officer, or any person whom he has summoned or directed to assist him, need not retreat or desist from efforts to make a lawful arrest because of resistance or threatened resistance to the arrest. He is justified in the use of any force which he reasonably believes to be necessary to effect the arrest and of any force which he reasonably believes to be necessary to defend himself or another from bodily harm while making the arrest.

Labels: department issues, dumb ideas

• Armed robbers have targeted passengers this week as they get off trains across the city, police said.
  
  In each incident, the suspect walked up to a person who was getting off a train, showed a weapon and demanded property, according to Chicago Police.
  
  [...]
  
  The suspect was wearing a dark, hooded coat with a tan scarf, faded jeans and tan boots, police said.

Labels: crime

Labels: events

Labels: we got nothing

• Leaders of the rank-and-file Chicago Police officers’ union on Friday slammed the city’s police oversight agency, demanding a "clarification" on use-of-force policies a day after Officer [...] 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was ruled unjustified.
  
  "If an offender is wielding a bat against an officer, must he or she wait until they are actually struck before they can defend themselves?" union officials wrote in a statement.
  
  "Must they wait until they see a muzzle flash of a gun before any attempts to protect their lives and those of the public would be deemed reasonable? How far can the weapon be found from an offender before an officer’s use of force is deemed legitimate? Six feet? Ten feet? Fifteen?"

Labels: FOP, good news

• The agency concluded that a "reasonable officer" would not have believed he was in danger of death or serious injury.

Labels: info for the police

• After the deadliest year in two decades, the first half of 2017 seemed just as grim in Chicago as homicides remained devastatingly high, raising fears that the "spike" in violence had become a new normal for the city.
  
  Then in the second half of the year, homicides plummeted, particularly in two of the city’s most violence-plagued neighborhoods, contributing to about a 15 percent overall drop in killings over last year.
  
  That decrease has raised new hopes that Chicago could make progress in shedding its national reputation for gun violence, an image fueled by both President Donald Trump’s frequent mentions and by the distressing loss on Chicago’s streets.

• same mayor
• same aldercreatures
• same command staff
• same oversight by the ACLU, COPA, and other bad actors

Labels: crime, stats

• ...went to COPA today for an anov that my partner issued. they are throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. fyi they dont always let you view the bwc footage which is at the discretion of the administrator. fop attorneys do a good job. these guys are out for blood. they just reopened the 2010 shooting of william hope at Popeyes on 75th st and found those P.O.s [...] guilty of rule 14 violations via court transcripts. be very careful out there.

Labels: info for the police

• Chicago police disciplinary officials have ruled that an officer was unjustified in the fatal 2015 shooting of a baseball-bat clutching 19-year-old and an innocent bystander.
  
  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined that Officer [...] unjustifiably shot Quintonio LeGrier and 55-year-old Bettie Jones while responding to a domestic disturbance on the West Side on the day after Christmas two years ago, according to documents obtained by the Tribune through an open records request.

Labels: un-fucking-fucking-believable

• The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty dropped sharply in 2017, marking the second-lowest toll in more than 50 years.
  
  As of Thursday, 128 officers have died in the line of duty this year, with 44 shot and killed. That's down 10% from 2016, when 143 officers died, with 66 gunned down, according to data released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit aimed at honoring officers and improving safety.
  
  The only other year with fewer deaths in the past five decades was 2013, when 116 officers were killed.

Labels: officer down

• A state appeals court has found a section of the Illinois statute on DUI testing unconstitutional in a decision that reversed felony convictions against a man found guilty of plowing into a mother and her young son as they crossed a residential street in Rogers Park.
  
  Ralph Eubanks was driving 60 to 90 mph on Dec. 21, 2009, when he ran into Maria Worthon, 48, who was holding the hand of her 6-year-old son, Jeremia, according to authorities. The violent impact vaulted her body nearly half a block. She died immediately, while her son was seriously injured but survived.
  
  Eubanks took off but was arrested 10 minutes later. He was forcibly subjected to blood and urine tests that turned up positive for cannabis, Ecstasy and cocaine, according to court documents. He was convicted in 2014 of first-degree murder, aggravated driving under the influence and failure to report an accident, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
  
  But the Appellate Court, in a decision issued Tuesday, found that a series of procedural infractions followed his arrest. Significantly, two of the three judges found unconstitutional the state statute that allows blood and urine tests to be taken without a warrant or a suspect’s consent whenever a police officer has probable cause to believe that a suspect was impaired and involved in a crash resulting in death or injury.

Labels: general

• The city of Chicago’s annual income from the Divvy bike share program dropped by almost 1ドル million after a major expansion into South and West side neighborhoods.
  
  Divvy income fell from 2ドル.86 million in 2014 and 2ドル.84 million in 2015 to 1ドル.97 million in 2016, a 31 percent drop, according to the city Department of Transportation figures. The city said it is improving its outreach to get more people to try Divvy and expects its income for the program to be about as high this year as in 2015.
  
  Transportation officials said the expansion to black and Latino neighborhoods on the South and West sides was an attempt to increase diversity in a program that was launched four years ago in mainly white, affluent neighborhoods. But the South and West sides pose challenges to Divvy because they tend to be less affluent and have more impediments to biking, such as fewer bike lanes, cycling advocates say.
  
  "People have barriers to getting on bikes, like cost and access and fear and both interpersonal violence and police violence," said Olatunji Oboi Reed, co-founder of Slow Roll Chicago, which is dedicated to increasing biking diversity.

• ....both interpersonal violence and police violence.

Labels: dumb ideas, un-fucking-believable

• One late afternoon over Labor Day weekend in 2016, near the arches welcoming truck drivers into the old stockyards south of Bridgeport, a gunman in a red minivan leveled a rifle and fired at a motorcyclist.
  
  The gunman hit the bike but not the driver. An officer found .223-caliber casings, the kind used in rifles modeled after the AR-15. The rounds leave large, jagged wounds. If used by someone trained to shoot, they can hit a target from 650 yards. A city block is 220 yards.
  
  Two gangs — the Saints and La Razas — had been sporadically using rifles for six months. This was the fourth rifle shooting in seven days. It would get much worse in the months ahead, something an officer at the scene seemed to sense.

Labels: crime

• Murders in the U.S. rose nearly 9% last year, and one-third of that increase came from just a few neighborhoods in Chicago, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the FBI’s annual 2016 publication, Crime in the United States.
  
  While violent crime (homicide, rape, assault, and robbery) also rose nationwide from 2015 to 2016 — over 4% — the data show the increase was not uniform, but rather concentrated in cities like Chicago and Baltimore.

Labels: crime

• Thirty-three state lawmakers in the 100th General Assembly will not be holding their seats in the 101st General Assembly. And that’s not even counting those who might be ousted at the ballot box in 2018.
  
  The exodus is unlike anything Springfield insiders have ever seen.
  
  National polling data have long shown Illinoisans at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to trust in their state government. Has that sentiment finally seeped into the Statehouse? Have the distant grumblings become an unbearable scream?
  
  Take a look at the breakdown of who’s leaving, and why.
  
  In the House, 25 lawmakers will not return to their seats in the 101st General Assembly. That’s a whopping 21 percent of the chamber. The situation is less severe in the Senate, where eight members are certain not to return.

• The Democratic Governors Association, in an attempt to attack Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) tweeted this week about how 33,000 people left Illinois for another state over the past year, continuing years of outmigration from the Land of Lincoln.
  
  With that tweet, the DGA is trying to make the public dumber. The DGA knows full well that Gov. Bruce Rauner doesn’t run his state. That would be House Speaker Mike Madigan (D), who has presided over the decline of a once great state during his 34 years as Speaker. By attempting to pin Illinois’ continued decline on Gov. Rauner, the DGA is either ignorant about how Illinois politics works, or they are lying. Most likely the latter, but either way it’s not good.
  
  The DGA wants to talk about the 33,000 people who have fled Speaker Mike Madigan’s Illinois over the last year. What they won’t be touting is the fact that during the administration of Gov. Pat Quinn (D), Rauner’s predecessor, 247,410 people on net left Illinois for the likes of North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Arizona, and other states that are better stewards of taxpayer dollars. Those 247,410 people who left during Gov. Quinn’s time in office, according to IRS migration data, took 13ドル.7 billion with them to states that that are better run and have lower taxes.

Labels: state politics

• Good evening,
  
  From time to time I see you post stories on the blog about officers or members of their families that are in need of help. I'm hoping you will do the same in this instance. I am writing to you on behalf of an officer that works for me in Area Central Saturation.
  
  Officer Frank Miceli's 1 year old son Nick was stricken with a rare form of cancer earlier this year. Nick is the youngest of 5 children and was diagnosed with Stage 4 Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS). Only 350 cases of this rare form of cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.
  
  The treatment process for Nick will be aggressive due to the stage and malignancy of the cancer. In addition, it has metastasized to his lymph nodes. The journey ahead is long for Nicholas. He is scheduled to have 43 weeks of chemotherapy, possible radiation, regular scans & tests to monitor the cancer, and surgeries. Due to the aggressiveness of the cancer and the intense treatment involved, Nick’s mother, a CPS teacher, had to take an unpaid leave of absence from work. She is dedicated to taking her son to his weekly treatments sometimes 5 days a week. Our wish is to help make the path for Nicholas, his parents, and their whole family a little smoother.
  
  On January 14, 2018 the family is holding a benefit at 115 Bourbon Street from 2:00-6:00pm. Tickets are 35ドル.00 for adults (40ドル.00 at the door) and 12ドル.00 (15ドル.00 at the door) for ages 6-20, and child 5 and under are free. Tickets include: open bar, buffet, and live music. Tickets can be purchased online at www.nicksfight.com

Labels: events

• So far this year, there have been 10 murders in Maywood, five more than took place in 2016, according to Maywood Police Chief Valdimir Talley.
  
  The chief said that he believes pending federal gun legislation designed to make it easier to carry concealed firearms across state lines would only exacerbate the village’s violent crime problem.
  
  [...]
  
  Talley said that the proposed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 231 to 198, could make shooting crimes like the one that happened on Dec. 19 even likelier occurrences.

Labels: gun issues, suburban

• A man has died after he was shot by a concealed carry holder he tried to rob on Christmas Eve in the South Loop, according to Chicago police.
  
  Corey Haggard, 37, was shot around 6:15 p.m. Sunday at a strip mall in the 1200 block of South Jefferson Street, police said. He died at 11:37 p.m. on Monday at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner.
  
  Police said Haggard went up to a 31-year-old man who was leaving a store, announced a robbery and pulled out a gun. The other man also pulled out a gun and fired, hitting Haggard in the chest.
  
  Police said the 31-year-old man had a valid license from Indiana to carry a concealed weapon.

Labels: gun issues

• A Chicago Public School teacher was among more than 50 people arrested for selling drugs and guns in secret Facebook groups, police said. Officers conducted a series of raids overnight, and seized drugs and dozens of firearms, according to Anthony Riccio, chief of the Chicago police organized crime division. The announcement was made at a Thursday press conference.
  
  The teacher was allegedly selling drugs, and was arrested at Leland Elementary school in Oak Park, Riccio said. The teacher was found to be in possession of scales and other paraphernalia used in drug sales at the time of his arrest, Riccio said.
  
  An informant told police about the illegal trafficking on Facebook in February, Riccio said. Officers then infiltrated dozens of groups on the social networking site, which were "secret" and not visible in searches on the platform.

Labels: crime, we got nothing

• Aleta Clark says she was 18 months old when her mom dropped her off at a South Side police station and walked off.
  
  Nearly 30 years later, Clark walked into another station on the South Side in February to see a relative and noticed a lobby filled with people seeking shelter from the cold night.
  
  
  She came back the next night, this time with food. And every night since then. Around 10:30 p.m., she pulls up to the Area Central police station at Wentworth Avenue and 51st Street with her SUV filled with meals and drinks and clothes.
  
  The regulars have come to call the station Club 51.

Labels: un-fucking-believable

• The Chicago Police Department has tightened its policy on Taser use, rewriting the rules to discourage officers from shocking people who are running away or otherwise vulnerable to injury.
  
  The change drew little public notice when the department enacted new use-of-force policies in October.
  
  The revised order was issued a month and a half after a Chicago Tribune investigation detailing the department’s reliance on the weapon pointed out that the rule changes the department had announced did not specifically ban shocking people who simply run away and pose no serious threat. That prohibition has been adopted by other large police departments and endorsed by reform advocates and use-of-force experts who note that Taser shocks can cause people to fall and sustain devastating head injuries.

• There's a 73% chance that Foxxx won't charge you
• and another 78% chance you'll make bail, even on murder and hate crime charges
• and another 82% chance you beat the charge at court.

• But five months after the new rules were unveiled, the department issued a Taser policy containing a lengthy revision. The order now includes a section that advises officers not to shock people who run away, are intoxicated or could fall and suffer a head injury, among other things.The new language stops short of firmly banning Taser uses under those circumstances but says that "when practicable, department members should avoid" those uses.
  
  The department’s force policies are significant not just as guidelines but because they dictate conduct that can lead to discipline for an officer.

• The rule change is a step in the right direction, said Dominique Franklin Sr., whose 23-year-old son died after an officer deployed a Taser while trying to arrest him for allegedly stealing a bottle of vodka from a downtown convenience store in 2014. Dominique Franklin Jr. fell and hit his head on a pole, suffering a fatal head injury.
  
  His father called the rule revision "bittersweet," because it comes more than three years after his son died. He said he suspects little will change unless the department’s culture also changes and discipline grows more reliable.
  
  "Too many cops do stuff because they feel they can get away with it," he said.

• "Too many shitheads do this stuff because they feel they can get away with it,"

Labels: un-fucking-believable

• The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he relies on daily physical therapy, medication and prayer to manage Parkinson’s disease, but he showed few signs of slowing down Monday as he carried on a decades-old Christmas tradition with a sermon to inmates at one of the nation’s largest jails.

• "Our mission is to get you out of here and not return," Jackson told the crowd of roughly 200 men and women. "Jail is not a hotel."

• Someone changes your linens, washes your clothes, provides you with a gym, etc.;
• You can get some sort of room service at a hotel, like pizza to order;
• The windows don't open and the furniture isn't comfortable;
• You can engage in all sorts of sexual hi-jinks at a hotel with strangers - men, women, visiting lawyers, etc. And no one really cares.

Labels: county

• Around 6:15 p.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old man was leaving a store in the 1200 block of South Jefferson Street when he was confronted by a 34-year-old man who pulled out a weapon and demanded his belongings, police said. Once the robber swiped the property, the 31-year-old victim pulled out a gun and fired shots, hitting the would-be robber in the chest.
  
  The 34-year-old was rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition. As of Sunday night, he was being held in police custody pending criminal charges.

Labels: gun issues

• (Tribune) A man who spent decades as a Chicago police officer has been killed in rural Arkansas.
  
  Chester Hornowski, 71, was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in a residence in Mountain Home, Ark., on Dec. 5, according to the Baxter County Sheriff’s office. A man who attempted to flee the scene in a pickup truck as officers arrived was arrested after the truck crashed into a police vehicle, authorities said.
  
  
• (Sun Times) Chester Hornowski survived tours of duty as a Marine in Vietnam and 34 years as a patrol officer on the streets of Chicago — not to mention a long line of bouts on the city’s unforgiving political scene.
  
  But it was in rural Arkansas where the 71-year-old retiree’s generosity likely led to his fatal shooting earlier this month, authorities say.

Labels: media, we got nothing

Labels: events

• Chicago police seized three handguns after shots were fired in a Near North hotel room early Sunday.
  
  Police were called to a hotel in the first block of East Grand Avenue on the Near North Side around 3:30 a.m., police said.
  
  A hotel security guard brought the officers to the hotel room where shots rang out. Officers found a group of about 10 to 12 people and a bullet lodged in a wall of the guest room.
  
  Everyone in the room was detained, police said.
  
  No one was injured.

Labels: crime

• When Jennifer Maddox got the first call from CNN in November 2016, she was actually at dinner with the culprit who nominated her.
  
  "At first I wasn’t going to answer it, because I thought it was a telemarketer. She said, ‘Can I speak to Jennifer Maddox?’ I said, ‘Who’s calling?’ I thought she was about to try to sell me something," said Maddox, 46, a Chicago Police officer named one of this year’s top 10 CNN Heroes.
  
  "She said, ‘This is CNN. We heard of all the wonderful work you’re doing, and want to come to Chicago and visit you.’ I’m like, ‘OK . . . ‘"
  
  CNN Heroes has for 11 years honored people from across the globe, "everyday people who have dedicated their lives to change the world." A 20-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, Maddox founded Future Ties, a nonprofit after-school and summer program in Woodlawn’s beleaguered Parkway Gardens complex.

Labels: good news

• When I was born Illinois had 24 seats in the US House of Representatives. Now there are only 18. Now Illinois is one of the few states consistently losing population. Yesterday the US Census Bureau released its latest population figures--and among the findings is that Pennsylvania passed up the Prairie State, it is now America's sixth-most populous state. The more than thirty-years of tyranny of state House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat, and his public-sector union pals, is reaching its inevitable end. Illinois is a rotting corpse for maggots like Madigan to feed on.
  
  Election Data Services in a press release reports that Illinois will lose another seat after the 2020 congressional reapportionment--and it may end up being the only state losing two seats. Boss Madigan is a master gerrymanderer--he'll find a way to increase the number of Democrats in the Illinois delegation, even though the biggest population drops are in the lockstep Dem strongholds of Chicago, particularly the West and South Sides, and its inner suburbs.

Labels: state politics

• Two people are dead and at least 16 more have been wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend.
  
  The weekend's first fatality occurred on Saturday afternoon in the city's Austin neighborhood. Two men were sitting on a porch in the 5200 block of West Ferdinand at approximately 2:34 p.m. when a man walked up to them and opened fire.
  
  A 21-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body, and was pronounced dead on the scene. A 25-year-old man was shot in the ankle and was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

Labels: crime, stats

• Steven Seiler told police that, for about a month, he had noticed a bad smell coming from the bedroom of the Uptown apartment he shared with his wife, but he never bothered to look inside.
  
  If he had, Cook County prosecutors said Friday, Seiler might have noticed a pile of blankets covering his wife’s body, which was naked save for a blue tarp, Assistant State’s Attorney Julia Ramirez said Friday.
  
  Seiler said he didn’t find out his wife had died until he got a call from his daughter. The 60-year-old, however, was charged with concealing a death, implying that authorities believe he might have known sooner.
  
  [...] On Friday, Judge David Navarro ordered Seiler released on electronic monitoring. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wilson had been dead for at least four days when her body was discovered by police. The office is awaiting the results of toxicology testing before issuing a ruling on how she died.

Labels: county

• Jennell Cross had just settled into a leather couch to watch a movie in her daughter’s South Chicago home when she heard one bang, then another against the front door. Frightened — it was about midnight Thursday — Cross said she ran to the back of the home to warn her daughter. "Somebody’s trying to break in the house," she yelled.
  
  Shanae Cross said was trying to pull her mother into a restroom for safety when a swarm of cops barged into the house, guns drawn and shouting questions. The officers moved through the bungalow and tried to handcuff Cross’ 17-year-old brother. The family demanded to see a warrant.
  
  Finally, an officer called out the address on the no-knock search warrant.
  
  It was for a different home on the block.

Labels: department issues

Labels: gun issues

• It’s one of Chicago’s dirty little secrets.
  
  Robberies in the heart of the city’s business district have soared 132% since 2014. And there is no sign that things will be slowing down soon.
  
  Through mid-December, The Loop has recorded 356 robberies this year. That’s up from 294 last year, 179 in 2015, and just 153 in 2014, according to data provided by the city.

Labels: crime, stats

• So if the population at the jail is the lowest in three decades then why is Fart's budget the highest it's ever been? Shouldn't half the population mean half the cost? Hey toni when do i get my property tax refund for this?

• Down 4,000 right?
  
  Doesn’t Big Bird Preckwinkle always tell us it costs 143ドル a day to house a prisoner? Let’s do the math.
  
  4,000 x 143ドル= 572,000ドル per day.
  572,000ドル x 365=208,780,000ドル.
  WHERE IS THE MONEY?

Labels: county, money questions

• The owner of a store in the East Garfield Park neighborhood shot a would-be robber Thursday morning on the West Side, according to police.
  
  The 17-year-old boy tried to rob the store in the 200 block of North Kedzie at 10:46 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
  
  The robbery was interrupted by the store owner, a 40-year-old man, who exchanged gunfire with the suspect, police said.
  
  The teen was shot in the upper right shoulder and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said. He is in police custody, and was previously arrested for armed robbery on Nov. 28.

Labels: crime

• The population at the Cook County Jail has fallen below 6,000 inmates, its lowest point in decades, sheriff’s officials said Thursday.
  
  Cara Smith, chief policy officer for Sheriff Tom Dart, said the number has been declining for some time in part because of a drop in arrests, but the biggest change came some three months ago when criminal court judges were ordered to set bail only in amounts that defendants could afford to pay.
  
  Since the order took effect Sept. 18, the jail population has dropped to 5,909 inmates as of Thursday, down by more than 1,500, Smith said.

Labels: county

• The city of Minneapolis may fire its police psychology evaluator because his tests screened out too many minority candidates, despite already lowering psych evaluations far below the national standard.
  
  The July police shooting of Justine Damond triggered the city to scrutinize its psychological standards for police, with many claiming they’d become lax. Psychiatrist Thomas Gratzer has run psych testing for the Minneapolis police for the past five years, and in that time, he has eliminated four of the five tests used to determine whether a candidate is fit to be an officer, APM reported Thursday. Now, Gratzer is facing firing not for gutting his standard, but for screening out too many minorities.

• recruit with Tourettes,
• a guy who had to have two targets downrange in order to hit something his lane,
• one who couldn't walk without a cane,
• a drunk who made it to graduation day, but was too plastered to shake hands with the mayor,
• another aiming a gun at another recruit over an argument

Labels: out-of-state

• The father of a 5-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the hand in the city's South Chicago neighborhood has been arrested. This is the second time Kavan Collins has suffered a gunshot wound in his short life.
  
  The child was in his dad's bedroom in their home in the 8100-block of South Coles Avenue just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, when police said he found the gun under a mattress and shot himself in the index finger.
  
  Kavan was rushed to Comer Children's Hospital, where he was listed in good condition.
  
  His dad was taken into custody and will face charges, including child endangerment and a gun charge, police said. He also has a criminal history with the CPD.

Labels: crime, we got nothing

• Illinois again lost population last year and now has been surpassed by Pennsylvania as the nation's fifth-largest state.
  
  That's the "Christmas gift" of sort—a nice lump of civic coal—from the U.S. Census Bureau today as it released its latest estimates of state-by-state population changes.
  
  Look for lots of reactions from the candidates for governor and others after the new data sink in.
  
  According to the bureau, in the year ended June 30, Illinois lost 33,000 people, about a quarter of a percent of its population, dipping from 12,835,726 to 12,802,023. As one of my colleagues quipped, that's equivalent to a town such as Northbrook moving away.

Labels: state politics

• Inspector General Joe Ferguson said Tuesday he will conduct an audit in 2018 to determine why nearly 10 percent of Chicago Police vehicles — twice the industry standard — are "unavailable" because they are sidelined for maintenance.
  
  In his annual audit plan, Ferguson said he will also seek to determine why "the average length of time" it takes the city’s Department of Fleet and Facilities Management to service police vehicles is 21.3 days, which "exceeds industry standards."

• under-staffing the garages, and what staffing there is under-performs;
• body work, transmission work, every short of R-Service is off site;
• no warranty work - all the police "add-ons" void the warranties;
• no set maintenance schedule - Jiffy Lube could do a better job

Labels: department issues

• The city is trying to sell the 001st District parking lot! No joke. The buyer would have to build a parking garage for the district. Heard an email was sent out asking for count of the number of people that work each watch, the number of spaces needed for squad cars, the number of oversized vehicles, etc. First the tie clips an now this!! Let's see, you have mass transit, the Area Central Deputy, Central Detention and district personnel working out of the building. The shifts start at all different times. Say the land gets sold, where in the hell do people park while the construction is going on?!? And if the construction is anything like the building, it will be sinking into the ground within a year!! There's already a new elitist school going up right next door. If this doesn't show us that TPTB and the mayor doesn't give a shit about us, I don't know what will!! What politician has their grubby hands in this shit?

Labels: rumors

• ....the way the order is currently written, a PO is forced into an "outcome-based" situation...if the taser deployment is deemed "good", the PO is ok. However, if the taser based deployment is viewed by COPA as having a "less than desirable outcome", the PO is screwed because of the wording of the order.
  
  ANY AND ALL CPD POLICY REGARDING USE OF FORCE STARTS AND STOPS AT WALTER KATZ
  
  Katz was hand picked by 9.5 and ONLY KATZ has the final word regarding CPD use of force policy; if Katz can’t be convinced it’s a good idea, it will never be implemented. I can’t tell you the number of hours that gets spent trying to explain things to this guy. His agenda is NOT the police; it is PUBLIC PERCEPTION and covering the Mayor’s ass. His claim to fame is that he wrote the Use of Force Police for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Everything that we try to implement on the CPD is compared by Katz to that policy.

• Press Release announcing hiring
• Twitter Account , much of which would get you looked at by COPA/IAD
• LinkedIn
• San Jose Mercury News fawning profile
• another biography
• Q and A with Katz outlining a bunch of his philosophy

Labels: city politics, department issues

• ...in 007 a car was called in by the LT to talk, while they went in they rolled some stop signs and red lights.
  
  After talking to the LT they went back to their car and were stopped by COPA reps and told they were seen violating traffic laws and they won't be cited.....this time. But know they are watching.
  
  This is retaliation for a traffic stop where a cop, from another district but was doing OT in 007, stopped a COPA rep and cited them for the stop sign. And the COPA rep handed a business card to the officer on the stop. The PO let them slide on other tickets and only hit them for a stop sign.
  
  We were warned in roll call today because the officer that cited the butt hurt COPA fuckbag works in my district.

Labels: corruption

• Teen shot by off-duty Chicago cop in alleged carjacking attempt held without bail

• [ASA] Antonietti said the officer was sitting in a vehicle in the 3600 block of South Prairie Avenue about 6:50 p.m. in the Bronzeville neighborhood. The victim, an 18-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department had finished work in the 11th District and was about to head home, officials said. He stopped his vehicle and was gathering his paperwork. He saw two men walking south on Prairie. He was untying his work shoes, Antonietti said.
  
  One of the two men approached the passenger side window; he said something and made a gesture as though he was asking for the time. The officer glanced in his driver’s side mirror. He saw the second man, holding a long-barreled gun, according to Antonietti.
  
  The weapon soon was aimed at the driver side window and the man ordered the officer out of the car and threatened to kill him, according to Antonietti.

Labels: media, shooting

• Rahm Emanuel appeared Tuesday on Stephen Colbert’s "Late Show" and wowed the host and audience with his rabid anti-Trump rhetoric. Perhaps jealous of his famous Hollywood power-agent brother, Ari Emanuel, Rahm giddily joined the cacophony of late-night TV anti-Trump snark and, unknowingly, provided Chicagoans a Nero-like vision of a failed leader playing his fiddle as his city smolders, beset by rampant violence, failing schools, and a fleeing population.
  
  It’s a time-honored tactic. Failed autocrats divert attention from internal problems by blaming outside influences. Fidel Castro mastered the art of distraction for decades, ascribing responsibility for his country’s rampant poverty not to his own failed Marxist-inspired economic policies but to the longstanding U.S. trade embargo, which he termed "the cruel blockade against the Cuban people." Emanuel follows a similar playbook: ignore the bodies, mostly black ones, lying dead in his streets and instead focus on that Donald J. Trump guy in the White House.

Labels: city politics

• A dumpster filled with books was discovered behind a Chicago Public School Friday in Chicago's Washington Heights neighborhood.
  
  Community members said the books, found outside Kipling Elementary School in the 9300-block of South Lowe Avenue, were in good condition.
  
  CPS said the books were thrown away because they were outdated or in poor condition, and no longer fit for classroom use.

Labels: money questions

• Veteran CPD officer shoots boy during attempted South Side carjacking

• Veteran = someone who should know better
• boy = poor youngster confronted by old cop

• An off-duty police officer nearly became the latest victim of a carjacking in the city when he was confronted by two people Monday night who tried to take his vehicle at gunpoint in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side.
  
  "It shows how brazen these offenders are," Chicago Police [spokesperson]. "They’ll target anyone, and tonight it just happened to be one of our own."
  
  The Harrison District officer, an 18-year veteran of the department, was sitting in his vehicle about 6:30 p.m. in the 3600 block of South Prairie when two males came up on either side of his vehicle, police said.

Labels: shooting

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• Mayor Bill de Blasio’s police detail won’t be the only officers from the New York Police Department in Iowa on Tuesday. There will be more New York cops traveling to the Hawkeye State to simply protest their boss.
  
  In an aggressive move, New York’s biggest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, is sending about a dozen officers to protest de Blasio as he heads to Des Moines with the intention of imprinting his image on the national stage, reported The New York Times.
  
  Hence, their acrimonious relationship doesn’t appear to be improving anytime soon. But no one expects it to given the mayor’s public policy on so many issues.

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• A group of Chicago activists want the city to crack down on shady gun dealers.
  
  Members of "United Power for Action and Justice" are demanding the city stop doing business with gun dealers whose weapons end up at crime scenes.
  
  The group is calling on the city to release an approved gun dealer list for officers who need to purchase weapons for their jobs. That way, taxpayers would not be funding gun dealers who skirt the law.
  
  The group is calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to change the loophole that allows officers to buy guns from any dealer.

Labels: silly people

Labels: we got nothing

• When practicable, Department members should avoid the use of a Taser on subjects who:
• are elevated above ground or are in an unstable position (e.g., tree, roof, ladder, ledge, balcony, porch, bridge or stair);
• could fall and suffer an impact injury to the head or other area;
• could fall on a sharp object or surface (e.g., holding a knife, falling on glass);
• may be less able to catch or protect themselves in a fall (e.g., restrained, handcuffed, incapacitated, or immobilized)
• may have impaired reflexes (e.g., from alcohol, drugs or certain medications);
• are running, or are otherwise in motion;
• are operating or riding any mode of transportation (e.g., vehicle, bus, bicycle, motorcycle, or train); or
• are located in water, mud, marsh environment if the ability to move is restricted.

Labels: department issues, dumb ideas

• If Republicans succeed in limiting the state-and-local tax deduction, one hope is that this could finally inspire a come-to-Jesus moment in prodigal high-tax states. Democrats in Illinois ought to be especially chastened by new IRS data showing an acceleration of out-migration.

• Chicago’s police pension bailout in the General Assembly's budget deal this summer could be derailed if the state continues to empty out as Illinoisans flee for better tax climates and opportunities elsewhere, a researcher for a fiscal advocacy group said.
  
  "My impression is that the budget deal made it appear more likely that Chicago could make the numbers that were projected," Bill Bergman, director of research at Truth in Accounting and a blogger on financial issues, told Chicago City Wire. "Whether or not the deal actually made it more likely is another question, given trends in migration that appear to show acceleration, if anything, in taxable income out of the state, and the implications federal tax reform poses for future migration trends."
  
  Bergman recently blogged about Illinois as one of five states, along with Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Maryland, "rapidly running out of gas" when it comes to taxable income that fuels any government's financial engines. In that post, Bergman referred to recently released IRS data that revealed a significant increase in Illinois' adjusted gross income outmigration in 2016.

Labels: pension

• Amazon may have just dropped a clue about where it will build its next headquarters.
  
  The retailer registered a lobbyist, Jacob Oster, on December 7 with the Georgia State Ethics Commission, ahead of the start of Georgia's legislative session in January, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
  
  The lobbyist's presence in Georgia is now "the buzz of economic development circles," spurring speculation that Amazon is taking a closer look at the state as the potential site of its next home, the report says.

Labels: general

• Shootings across Chicago have left five people dead and 11 more wounded since Friday afternoon. In a particularly violent six hours of the weekend, nine people were shot — three of them fatally — in attacks Saturday night into Sunday morning.
  
  The most fatal recent shooting took the life of a 15-year-old boy as he rode in a car Sunday morning in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 6:50 a.m., someone in a white vehicle crashed into the back of the car the boy was riding in and then someone fired shots into it, striking the boy in the head, according to Chicago Police. He was pronounced dead at the scene in the 5100 block of West 47th Street.

Labels: crime, stats

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• The bold idea was that private financing could be found for much-needed, big-ticket improvements for the city, making it possible to get more of them done sooner and sparing taxpayers from having to foot the bills. City Hall says that still can happen.
  
  But the infrastructure trust has fallen short of the expectations the mayor laid out. It has yet to raise a dime in private financing for a single public works project, records show. At the same time, it has cost Chicago taxpayers more than 5ドル.1 million to pay for its handful of employees, offices on Wacker Drive, consulting fees and other expenses.

Labels: money questions

• A 21-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday night in a Target parking lot on Chicago's Southwest Side.
  
  He walked up to a 2014 Nissan Altima parked in the 1900-block of West 33rd Street in the city's McKinley Park neighborhood and started talking to the person inside around 8 p.m., police said.
  
  Moments later, witnesses told police they heard gunfire. The 21-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds to his back and chest. He was transported in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where he later died. The victim has not been identified.

• The 27-year-old man was taken into custody and two weapons were recovered. Police said that the 27-year-old man was released without charges.
  
  The Chicago Tribune reports the shooting started out as an armed robbery attempt. The victim reportedly had a gun when he walked up to the vehicle and tried to rob the older man, who the newspaper said is a concealed carry license holder.
  
  The 27-year-old man reportedly fired his semi-automatic weapon - one of the two weapons later found in the vehicle, along with expended shell casings - after a struggle in the car. He was reportedly returning to the scene when officers stopped him in the 3300-block of South Damen.

Labels: good news, gun issues

• Fox 32 News has learned that State's Attorney Kim Foxx has accepted the resignation of one of her top aides, after an internal review revealed he was steering significant amounts of legal work to his former law firm at unusually high rates.
  
  The resignation of the acting Civil Actions Bureau Chief, Chaka Patterson, comes after Fox 32 News first made inquiries about the State's Attorney's use of outside counsel six weeks ago. State's Attorney Foxx’s office provided us with a statement saying that her own review of outside counsel practices revealed that Patterson was referring significant business to his former law firm, Jones Day. Documents provided to Fox 32 News show Jones Day attorneys were sometimes being paid up to 500ドル an hour, rather than the customary rates of about a 185ドル an hour for outside legal services.
  
  The state's attorney says an outside law firm has agreed to do a review of Foxx's use of outside counsel--at no cost to the county. And in the meantime, any outside counsel who are selected will only be chosen with the approval of the judge who's handling the case.

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• All Commanders and Unit Commanding Officers should be aware that personnel assigned to pick up the payroll checks on 15 DEC 17 will also be receiving a small package of first issue uniform tie clips.

Labels: dumb ideas