Earlier in the day Mark Donahue appeared on CLTV NEWS and discussed the impending expiration of the contract. The news story focused on a proposed 24% pay increase implemented over 4 years. Donahue pointed out that the department has a tough time attracting qualified candidates and money being the key issue. Also mentioned was a $3000.00 a year city of Chicago cost adjustment.
Of course the money issues are the only ones that the media would find of interest. However, I went over to the FOP Lodge 7 site and found a link to the contract proposal summary to find out what was also being put out there.
Key things the lodge is proposing:
(aside from money and discipline)
FTO's to D2A
FTO's to get 45 minutes
All 25 districts to be training districts
10 hour days for rapids on 2nd & 3rd watch
6 on 3 off for all others except administrative (not 2080 hours folks)
16% meritorious for Detective promotions
Test site north of Madison and test site south of Madison
Test graded and results same day as test
working day furloughs
Me too clause with Fire Department and Supervisors
and more at the FOP site..........
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What sucks is we as Sgts. have to follow FOP's contract lead. The FOP and the PB&PA have the same lawyers. I hope the FOP and the PB&PA can show each other a little cooperation.
Test sites North/South of Madison? Again it stinks for the South side, because you know they would have it somewhere right near downtown. Madison is not the mathmatical center of the city. Somewhere around 35th is. How about they have a site North somewhere, and one at Daley College for South.
FTO, the worst job on the CPD. Who in their right mind would take it? Look at the quality of recruits these days and ask yourself if you would be safe working with one of them? 5 CPD entrance exams in 18 months, desperate by all means to get a warm body to fill the retiree's shoes.
Trainers for cops tough to find
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/420749,CST-NWS-trainers09.article)
June 9, 2007
BY FRANK MAIN AND FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporters
Chicago continues to struggle in attracting veteran police officers to become trainers for rookies, a top police official says.
The city's budget contains money for 265 field training officers. But when a new class of 30 trainers takes the street soon, the total will reach only 155, Deputy Supt. Charles Williams said.
"It's fewer than I would like," Williams said. "I think it's a program we could do a whole lot more with. We're looking at ways to improve the FTO program."
In 2003, Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue warned that changes in the field training officer program "torpedoed" it.
The department scaled back the citywide program to 12 of Chicago's 25 police districts -- those with the highest crime totals.
The move was designed to give probationary police officers more experience in the high-crime districts where they were likely to begin their careers. But Donahue warned that fewer officers would want to become trainers if they were forced to leave their districts.
Williams acknowledged that has contributed to the diminished interest in officers becoming trainers.
Although Williams said the department is studying ways to attract more trainers, he would not comment on any proposed changes.
In its latest contract proposal to the city, the FOP is asking that trainers receive a higher level of pay comparable to what detectives make, as well as 45 minutes of compensatory time per day.
"They've got to open up all 25 districts as training districts," Donahue added.
"The people of Chicago are suffering. Recruits are suffering. In all likelihood, they are not getting all the training they could."
Look, we are going to have a long, hot, violent summer. Even 018 is rocking now:
Two shot, critically wounded at Cabrini-Green building
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/421178,shoot060907.article)
June 9, 2007
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
A man and a woman were shot and critically wounded in a building at the Cabrini-Green housing development on the early Saturday.
The shooting was one of two at the Near North Side housing project overnight.
Police officers touring the area heard shots fired about 3 a.m., and when they went to investigate, they found the two victims in a building on the 900 block of North Hudson Avenue, according to a report from the police First Deputy Superintendent's office.
A 25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and a woman in her 20s suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to the deputy's report. Both victims were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where they were listed in critical condition, the report said.
Earlier in the night, about 1:30 a.m., three people were shot at a party at a Cabrini-Green building in the 1200 block of North Burling Street, police said. Those victims -- a woman and two men -- were listed in good condition.
Belmont Area detectives are investigating the shootings.
Wow,
It looks like the City may actually win this one and it could be one small step forward towards ending the reverse racism affecting caucasian employees or future city employees.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070608firefightersjun08,1,5381100.story?coll=chi-newsroom-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
City wins reprieve on firefighter hiring
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Tribune staff report
June 8, 2007, 6:51 PM CDT
City Hall on Friday won a reprieve from an order to hire 132 African-American firefighter candidates who passed a 1995 exam but never were offered jobs.
The ruling means that, for at least the time being, the Daley administration is free to hire from a list of generally younger candidates who passed a subsequent test last year.
U.S. District Judge Joan Gottschall agreed to delay imposition of her hiring order, as well as damages estimated at nearly $28 million, pending the outcome of a city appeal in a 1998 class action case filed on behalf of more than 6,000 black firefighter candidates. Gottschall earlier had ruled that administration of the 1995 test was flawed and discriminatory.
The city has contended the suit was filed too late.
Gottschall agreed with city lawyers Friday that if the appeal proves successful, "the city would have invested resources in processing and training firefighter candidates who have no right to their jobs" and that their hiring could invite lawsuits from successful candidates from last year's exam who were passed over.
If the city loses its appeal, however, the $28 million damage figure would climb to reflect additional lost wages of the 132 candidates whom Gottschall ruled would have been hired if the earlier test were fair.
when is the next sgt's class supposed to start??
Quit your bitching and move out of the crappy south side.
It's only a matter of time before you need to sell your house and move north anyway.
Sure--move to the pretty north side. How about Lawrence and the lakefront? It looks like the "Night of the Living Dead" out there. How about Wilson and Kimball? English as a second language with Assyrians/Koreans that drive their cars with reckless abandon. How about Belmont and Broadway? Best leather bars in the city. I think I will stay on the south side with and pay only about 1/3 of the same mortgage I would have to pay on the north side. Besides--I won't have to watch all the women kiss Ronnie Woo-Woo. At least some man is paying attention to the girls out there.
Yo Mark , Thanks for everything you've asked for in favor of the retirees. You asshole moranic idiot. Take the proposals and stick them up Daley's ass.
..."I think I will stay on the south side with and pay only about 1/3 of the same mortgage I would have to pay on the north side"...
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Real smart move, idiot.
Keep throwing money into your mortgage.
Have fun when you need to sell your crappy house in Mt. Greenwood or Garcia Ridge and you only get 1/2 of your original investment back.
Anonymous said...
..."I think I will stay on the south side with and pay only about 1/3 of the same mortgage I would have to pay on the north side"...
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Real smart move, idiot.
Keep throwing money into your mortgage.
Have fun when you need to sell your crappy house in Mt. Greenwood or Garcia Ridge and you only get 1/2 of your original investment back.
Mon Jun 11, 09:44:00 AM
Wrong again Forest. My house in Beverly is up by 50% in less than 10 yrs.
To Sun Jun 10, 12:39:00 AM
Spoken like a true south side irish drunk mama's boy. What happened, did you get thrown out of your western ave dive early tonite? You probably still wear your st. rita jacket and crap your pants every south side irish parade. Do us a favor and stay on the south side. We don't need you coming north and fucking up the gene pool. And yes there is a reason the houses are cheaper, if you can't figure it out then you have nothing to worry about, however I will gladly pay the premium for my family's sake. But you are probably restricted to the basement of whatever house your parents live in.
To "Smart Move Idiot"-
Sorry to disappoint you but I don't live in either Mt. Greenwood or Garcia Ridge. The house is not crappy, the lot is large, and I bought long enough ago that the house is worth at least three times what I paid for it. There's even a (horrors) Starbucks down the street. Go ahead and take care of your half a million dollar bungalow with a postage stamp size lawn and say hello to the element who has discovered a lot of easy victims with only little girlie police to protect you.
..."There's even a (horrors) Starbucks down the street"...
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So what you are telling me is that you live right by the tracks. Again, smart move IDIOT.
Go ahead a contact a real estate agent, and then get back to me. I bet you won't have the same song and dance.
Say hi to all the savages coming and going from St. Barnabas and Sutherland.
"element who has discovered a lot of easy victims with only little girlie police to protect you".
"Little girlie police??"
Are we not all Chicago Police? What makes the police in your area tougher?
Must be all the animals you see on a daily basis.
"Say Hi to all savages you see--"
They're everywhere--the trick is knowing how to deal with them.
Northsiders have them all over the place. They may be of different ethnicities. but they are there.
By the way--The property has tripled in value in nine years--Thanks for asking
"We don't need you coming north and fucking up the gene pool..."
Could you imagine how frustrated the poor women up north would be if we didn't make the trip. Since the majority of north side guys are much more interested in looking at each other instead of the women, they become easy picking. Keep up the good work!!!
"What makes the police in your area
tougher? Must be all the animals you see on a daily basis."
I couldn't have said it better. The animals are up by you also, just attend any game at Wrigley Field. They keep coming there because they certainly seem to be getting a free pass.
Hey---I always thought the St. Rita jacket was a good look. They won the state championship in football last year, and as I remember, kicking the shit out of north side schools.
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