More OT Money?
Grants from the federal stimulus package will give the Chicago Police Department an extra $20 million to spend on overtime for officers and new equipment in the coming months, according to a police spokesman.
The funds come at an opportune time as crime typically increases with the temperatures, but critics feel the extra cash should be spent on hiring new officers instead of paying an already strained force to work additional hours.
"Staffing is always a problem," said Mark P. Donahue, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge 7. "It's only gotten worse since last January."
What this says to us is no hiring for a long time.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
37 Comments:
Big deal. The OT will be like the Airport where it is only old timers that don't need the money or clout babies. Those of use that really could use the money won't get it.
Yawn.
more GPS. Can we use the money to get a new super.?
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=29227
Lets clean house over there & get rid of Daleys stooges !!! That's our money they are gambling with !!!!!!!!!
the twenty million is going for swine flu masks and kits for the beat cars-- also heard the lock up guys will look like they are on an asbestos removal team to avoid getting the swine flu. why do they blame this shit on the poor pig-- why not blame it on the guy who stuck his finger up the pig's butt and then shook someone's hand..
The funds come at an opportune time as crime typically increases with the temperatures, but critics feel the extra cash should be spent on hiring new officers instead of paying an already strained force to work additional hours.
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Aren't we already budgeted for 13,500 officers? Hmm, where do you suppose that money is going? Someone may want to do some "investigative reporting" on that. Oh wait, that would require some in depth reporting and a spine. Carry on. Nothing to see here people.
No more B.S. from the first W.C. about a late arrest given to me by incompetent dispatchers and supervisors who do not listen to the radio and fail to assign the job to a late car. Do what any honorable P.O. would do HIT THE MONEY BOX!!!!.
P.S. MAKE EM PAY!!!! For 20 Mil in OT
Just wait until the real deal occurs. This pseudo pandemic is nothing but an opportunity for Rahm/Obama to shine and look like they are on top of things.
As Rahm stated, "never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste".
When the real deal occurs in Chicago, the world will see how undermanned and unprepared we truly are.
$11 million of the $20 million is going to buy 238 new police vehicles and 543 in-car cameras.
I'll say it again. Never make a traffic stop with a camera. Read the general order on what you must say (the tactical greeting) during a traffic stop. This order was made six to nine months ago. So if someone beefs about anything, they look at the video and odds are pretty good you didn't follow the tactical greeting and IAD gets u for that. I like the cameras. Makes work a lot easier by not doing as much. Same as the Supreme Court ruling on searching. Life is good.
Yea sure!
Can we use the money to get a new WC in 4 on midnights? The former Captain demoted to Lt. Roberts is making everyone miserable. This man is why this job sucks. J/O had beat car pick up his kid from his house and put him in lock up to teach him a lesson.
Can we use the money to get a new WC in 4 on midnights? The former Captain demoted to Lt. Roberts is making everyone miserable. This man is why this job sucks. J/O had beat car pick up his kid from his house and put him in lock up to teach him a lesson.
4/30/2009 07:10:00 AM
that guy is a royal hating jagoff..
Is there anything from 35th St in regards to the "pandemic" other than a few sheets of common sense information they passed out?
What about something the troops can use:
Gloves?
Masks?
10 Foot Poles?
Decontamination Spray?
Quarantine tape?
Oh yeah...Flame throwers!
Eeeeek....Sorry about that comment about Flame Throwers, SCC! I've been playing too much Call of Duty - World At War!
i hope for a new cruiser.
Anonymous said...
Big deal. The OT will be like the Airport where it is only old timers that don't need the money or clout babies. Those of use that really could use the money won't get it.
Yawn.
4/30/2009 12:29:00 AM
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Quit bitching because you don't have the time on the job to get Airport Special. Us old farts have expenses too and we (like you) haven't had a raise in a while.
You have many more opportunities for extra money than us old farts ever had. You can work at Obama's house, work the CTA, work at a school, housing, etc.
Try making some arrests and writing tickets so you can go to court.
If you make DUI arrests they'll throw OT at you and you make it twice when you go to court out of key on motions, hearings, etc.
Quit complaining, I'll take my two days a month at the airport until I retire, maybe then you'll be able to get it then.
Until then, Up Yours.
Anonymous said...
$11 million of the $20 million is going to buy 238 new police vehicles and 543 in-car cameras.
I'll say it again. Never make a traffic stop with a camera. Read the general order on what you must say (the tactical greeting) during a traffic stop. This order was made six to nine months ago. So if someone beefs about anything, they look at the video and odds are pretty good you didn't follow the tactical greeting and IAD gets u for that. I like the cameras. Makes work a lot easier by not doing as much. Same as the Supreme Court ruling on searching. Life is good.
4/30/2009 06:16:00 AM
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You are one very paranoid person.
I have been saved twice from a beef because of a camera.
I never use the tactical greeting, but I am polite and courteous (until that isn't prudent)
I had one IAD officer comment (positively) about the choice of music on the radio during the stop. No discipline for that either.
IAD won't hang you on an innocent mistake or a minor violation.
You are one of those who won't do work and will seek any excuse not to do it.
"When the real deal occurs in Chicago, the world will see how undermanned and unprepared we truly are.
4/30/2009 06:11:00 AM"
Yeah that Homeland Security Scam Bureaucracy his predecessor started only took 6years after 9/11to provide that Joke TARA Training.
Heckuva Job Brownie!
Can we get Ray Guns and new tin foil helmets......
For the MSF
It may be cheaper/more expedient in the short run to get cops to work O.T. at time at time-and-a-half rather than hire new cops if the Feds are picking up the bill.
They will not have to be trained at great expense. They are available immediately and when no longer needed can just be dismissed.
And, most importantly, there are no pension and insurance costs to the city.
Stay safe, if we don't have more police, we will have more criminals.
WE'LL ONLY SEE A PORTION OF THAT MONEY.THE LITTLE, SHORT, FAT, DIRTY HAIR FUCK WILL SKIM HIS PORTION AND HIDE SOME IN HIS 2016 FUND.DONT KID YOURSELF.
Big deal, the OT will go to MSF and TRU. They have to go by reverse seniority forcing them to work it during the summer in TRU.
Hey Scc no mention here on that new special order that is supposed to grade us? Three unfavorable remarks by any sgt or above and no special employment, no merit, no special unit etc ? Wtf! And it stays on your record forever!
Anonymous said...
Big deal. The OT will be like the Airport where it is only old timers that don't need the money or clout babies. Those of use that really could use the money won't get it.
Yawn.
4/30/2009 12:29:00 AM
Sorry hair gel seniority means something, someday you will get it until then do like the "experienced" have done! Work part time at the shows,drug stores etc!! And please STFU!
hey kid when you get some time on the job then you can get some ot
you will need it because you won't be gettin a pension
START PAYING THE SQUADROL CREWS TECHS PAY. THESE GUYS HANDLE CRAZYPEOPLE, SICK ARRESTEE DEADONES HOMELESS PEOPLE SIGNED MADE WAGONMAN.
OLD TIMERS NEED MONEY TOO! STOP COMPLAINING AND PUT YOUR TIME IN LIKE OLD TIMERS DID. WE WERE TOLD STICK AROUND KID YOUR TIME WILL COME, NOW OUR TIME HAS COME AND WE MUST SHARE WITH THE KIDS. WE PUT IN OUR TIME WHEN THE KIDS WERE GOING TO GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL! THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS WITH THE DEPT. TODAY, THE KIDS AREN'T PAYING THERE DUES
Dispatch: "Person shot 80th and xxxxx", anyone want to check that out?
Silence.
x10: Squad, did you give that person shot to anyone?
Dispatch: No, I (long pause looking over her board) don't have any cars.
x10: o.k.
Turned out to be bona fide. x10 finds crime scene, then plays hell trying to get a car to secure it, still no paper car.
How are we at full strength?
and charged his kid for what??? how old is his kid? from what i recall they were quite young--if this post is true and Lt. Roberts placed his kid in jail to scare him then there definitely needs to be an internal investigation and Lt. Roberts needs to be fired!!!
yeah...the Lt from for also left a note for the visiting watch commander to discipline any officer who didn't say here immediately when their name was called during roll call. He is a merit promotion who should have been fired for the shit he pulled when he was a captain.
Big deal. The OT will be like the Airport where it is only old timers that don't need the money or clout babies. Those of use that really could use the money won't get it.
Yawn.
Relax KID, you can work all the Special you want in Housing, or CTA; just like us OLD TIMERS who don't need the money did, for decades, before the Airport detail came along. You are obviously one of the new Cry-baby Police we now are stuck with, in the once Real Police Department. Too Bad, so Sad for poor little YOU, Boo-Hoo, Boo- Hoo, What can you Do????. Maybe Obama will give you some free money, try writing him a letter and explain how ROUGH you have it, cry-baby ...
The overtime will be for all special events downtown, and a few throughout the City, PR fest, Bud Billiken,etc. It will be assigned on a lottery basis, and not be time and 1/2. This will allow more officers to work it. It will also include a Lt. and Sgt picked by the soon to be the new head of the detail unit.
"...why not blame it on the guy who stuck his finger up the pig's butt and then shook someone's hand..
4/30/2009 02:05:00 AM"
No, Keesing Bandit, don't do it.....
How about money for a new contract?
IAD won't hang you on an innocent mistake or a minor violation.
Sure,they really are our friends. I can't believe some of the things I see here.
How many of you young cry babies are in the office every October whining about, I need days boss! I got kids, another job (part time) blah blah blah! Get a life will you?
The Rev's will have a say in how this money is spent.
"Sure,they really are our friends. I can't believe some of the things I see here.
4/30/2009 09:51:00 PM"
Sometimes you have to see it to not believe it.
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