PB&PA/ FOP ENDORSEMENTS

PB&PA
Endorsed Candidates – 2007 Municipal Elections
Mayor No Endorsement
City Clerk No Endorsement
City Treasurer No Endorsement

Aldermanic Ward
1st No Endorsement
2nd Larry Doody
3rd No Endorsement
4th No Endorsement
5th No Endorsement
6th No Endorsement
7th No Endorsement
8th No Endorsement
9th Anthony A. Beale*
10th John A. Pope**
11th James A. Balcer**
12th Carina E. Sanchez
13th Frank J. Olivo*
14th Edward M. Burke**
15th Shawn D. Monroe, Sr.
16th L. Elizabeth Lewis
17th No Endorsement
18th Lona Lane*
19th Virginia A. Rugai**
20th Willie B. Cochran
21st Leroy J. Jones, Jr.
22nd Ricardo Munoz*
23rd Michael R. Zalewski*
24th No Endorsement
25th No Endorsement
26th Billy Ocasio*
27th No Endorsement
28th No Endorsement
29th Isaac “Ike” Sims Carothers**
30th Ariel E. Reboyras**
31st Regner “Ray” Suarez*
32nd Ted Matlak*
33rd No Endorsement
34th No Endorsement
35th Rey Colon*
36th William J.P. Banks*
37th No Endorsement
38th Thomas R. Allen*
39th No Endorsement
40th Patrick J. O’Connor*
41st Brian G. Doherty*
42nd No Endorsement
43rd Tim Egan
44th No Endorsement
45th Patrick J. Levar**
46th No Endorsement
47th Gene Schulter*
48th No Endorsement
49th Joe Moore*
50th Naisy Dolar
* Incumbent
** Member of the Police & Fire Committee

FOP Endorsement
Mayor No Endorsement
Clerk Miguel Del Valle
Treasurer Stephanie Neely
1st Ward No Endorsement
2nd Ward Larry Doody
3rd Ward No Endorsement
4th Ward Toni Preckwinkle
5th Ward No Endorsement
6th Ward K. Norington-Reaves
7th Ward Ron David
8th Ward Cliff Underwood
CPD Detective
9th Ward Anthony Beale
10th Ward John Pope
11th Ward James Balcer
12th Ward Carina Sanchez
13th Ward Frank Olivo
14th Ward Ed Burke
15th Ward Shawn Monroe
CPD Officer
16th Ward L. Elizabeth Lewis
17th Ward No Endorsement
18th Ward Joseph Ziegler
19th Ward Virginia Rugai
20th Ward Willie Cochran
Rtd. CPD Sgt.
21st Ward Leroy Jones
22nd Ward Ricardo Munoz
23rd Ward Michael Zalewski
24th Ward No Endorsement
25th Ward No Endorsement
26th Ward Billy Ocasio
27th Ward Walter Burnett
28th Ward No Endorsement
29th Ward Ike Carothers
30th Ward Ariel Reboyras
31st Ward Ray Suarez
32nd Ward Ted Matlak
33rd Ward No Endorsement
34th Ward B.K. Kelly,
CPD Officer
35th Ward Rey Colon
36th Ward William Banks
37th Ward No Endorsement
38th Ward Tom Allen
39th Ward Margaret Laurino
40th Ward Pat O’Connor
41st Ward Brian Doherty
42nd Ward Brendan Reilly
43rd Ward Michele Smith
44th Ward No Endorsement
45th Ward Pat Levar
46th Ward No Endorsement
47th Ward Gene Schulter
48th Ward Mary Ann Smith
49th Ward Joe Moore
50th Ward Naisy Dolar

MORALE

$9 mil. award for crooked cop's terror
Sun-Times

Released Inmates Claim City Isn't Honoring $14.8M Settlement
NBC5

Attorney: City to pay man's family $5.25 million
Tribune

It has been a hell of a month so far and the next few don't look very promising.
The SOS scandal will be headlines in the near future and the Doruniuk case will eventually come up. Our contracts will expire this June and the city will continue settling nuisance cases.
Keep your head up and be safe....don't let the bastards get you down
SCS

IS THERE A PROBLEM HERE?

Tribune

Pamela Hester-Jones woke up at 10:30 p.m. Monday to a Chicago police detective knocking on her apartment door.

"He asked me if I was Lazarus Jones' mother and when I said yes he said, 'Your son's been injured,'" Hester-Jones said

But it was worse. Lazarus, 13, an 8th grader at Budlong Elementary School, had been fatally beaten during a gang-related fight Monday night in the Albany Park neighborhood, police said.

"I don't know what happened to my son. It was a tragedy, a mistake. He wasn't in any gangs," his mother said.

Hester-Jones said she last spoke to her son at 1:30 p.m. Monday as she was heading out the door to visit her other son, Jasper, who is incarcerated at Cook County Jail.

Lazarus, of the 2500 block of West Foster Avenue, was "beaten with a blunt object" around 9:45 p.m. Monday outside a liquor store at 3132 W. Lawrence Ave., said Chicago Police Officer Hector Alfaro.

Lets see its 10:30 pm on a school night and you are asleep but your child isn't home. You last saw him at 1:30 pm prior to visiting your other son who is incarcerated. It turns out your 13 year old is beaten to death outside of a liquor store about a mile and a half from home and you refuse to believe he was in a gang.
Incredible!

IN THE NEWS

Lawmakers propose new legislation to punish parents for underage drinking By Paul MeinckeABC7

February 19, 2007 - There is a proposal in Illinois to crack down on parents and other adults who provide teenagers with alcohol or a place to party. This follows several deaths and injuries involving underage drinking in the Chicago area over the last several years.

State lawmakers are proposing tougher penalties for adults who help teens drink. The proposal would make the offense a felony with penalties ranging from thousands of dollars in fines to prison time.

We have heard from a few misguided parents in the past, "kids are going to drink I might as well keep an eye on them". Well the prospect of facing civil litigation wasn't enough to persuade these people that it wasn't in their best interest to host teen drinking parties. Hopefully facing felony charges and the prospect of loosing all you own in civil court might just be what it takes to convince the "cool" parent to say no! Yeah they probably will still get drunk but be a parent not a friend and stop enabling your kids and their friends.


Hot dog seller cited for foie gras-laced sausages The Associated Press Washington Post

Aldermen passed a foie gras ban in August because of what animal rights activists say is the inhumane way geese and ducks are force-fed to plump up their livers. The ordinance passed over the veto of Mayor Richard Daley, who called it the "silliest" ordinance the City Council has ever passed.

Why stop at Foie gras? At this rate the ability to buy hot dogs, hamburgers, Italian beef and sausage pizza will be things of the past. No longer would you be able to buy leather shoes, coats, baseballs, footballs and so on. Come on aldermen when is the push for organic vegetables coming?


A law that moved "spring forward" three weeks earlier brings problems for software that automatically changes time TRIBUNE

Microsoft planned to send its daylight-saving patch to Windows PCs with the "automatic update" feature last week. Users with automatic updates turned off should download the patch from Microsoft. (New machines running Windows Vista are immune, since Vista was finalized after the 2005 law passed.)

However, computers running anything older than the most recent version of Windows XP, known as Service Pack 2, no longer get this level of tech support. Owners of those PCs should go into the control panel and unclick the setting that tells the machine to automatically change the clock for daylight-saving time. They have to make the change themselves when the moment arrives.

BRAIN CRAMP!

We here at SCS are having a tough time coming up with interesting subjects to post about lately. We don't seem to be the only ones afflicted with this problem. Second City Dick has disappeared from the blogosphere and without any warning. Many folks may have their theories but we know how tough it is to blog day in and day out and come up with something of interest. People seem to forget that this is only a hobby and we have families and jobs just like everyone else.
The guy/guys at Second City Cop, in our opinion, do an incredible job of striking a nerve and eliciting responses from the positive to the negative,the ignorant to the intelligent, the sophomoric to the moronic and some just plain outright funny comments. So today we were a little surprised when we went over to their site and it appeared they may have been posting just to post. Today they covered a couple of rumors from 007 and 12, the new dollar coins and Britney Spears. This isn't a knock on them as much as it is a conformation to us that we have to dig a little deeper to create stories of interest.

GOD BLESS

God Bless You Jose

SETTLEMENT

Quotes courtesy Chicago Tribune
The city has settled with the family of Cornelius Ware for $5.25 million.
The attorney for the family, Jon Loevy, stands to make lots of money for his firm.

Jennifer Hoyle of the city's Law Department said police have maintained that the shooting was justified and that the city is not acknowledging any wrongdoing by settling the case at this stage.

The jury was to return this week to consider damages and this settlement protects the involved officers from any financial liability.

Chicago Police Supt. Philip Cline defended the officers Monday.

"The jury never heard evidence that was crucial in this case," Cline said. "Evidence that illustrated the plaintiff had a conviction for [unlawful use of a weapon], that he was involved in a drive-by shooting and that a gun he possessed the night before was traced to a homicide.

"It's unfortunate and even more discouraging for officers who risk their lives every day to keep our streets safe."

Never has the Superintendent been more right!

"When the city of Chicago takes the position that no matter what the facts, no matter what the situation, it's always going to be justified, Loevy said. "Then the people in the city of Chicago have no reason to believe the city.

Since when have you cared about the people of Chicago? The only thing you care about Mr. Loevy is income. People who live in crime ridden areas often ask the police why they can't do more to the criminal element. I truly believe that the efforts of firms like Loevy & Loevy have hamstrung hard working policemen and the good people of Chicago pay literally and figuratively.
According to the Loevy & Loevy website "the guiding principle governing our decision process can be summarized very simply: achieving justice." Bullshit! Its money!
Read for yourself the Loevy & Loevy Website and see what contempt this firm has for the police.
If its all about justice why hasn't Jon Loevy taken on the wrongful deaths of policemen at the hands of cold blooded murderers? The answer: Money!

OFF-DUTY P.O. MURDERED

Murdered behind his home after returning from work.

“A family in there has lost a husband and a son. Our police family has lost a police officer and the City of Chicago has also lost a young police officer,” Cline said.

The officer was identified this morning by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Jose Vasquez, 34. After being found in the back of his building, authorities took him to Stroger Hospital of Cook County several blocks away but he was pronounced dead about 2:15 a.m.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Officer Vasquez and the Vasquez family.

(Inappropriate comments will be deleted)

COMPARISIONS

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE DATABASE
The above link was sent to us courtesy of one of our readers. Another of our readers suggested we compare the ratio of officers to investigators and officers to supervisors as compared to other agencies.
We looked at the tables and immediately found a discrepancy. According to this chart a new sergeants salary is $47,190 and the chart does not tell us the ratios of patrolmen to supervisors. Go ahead and view the site and come to your own conclusions. Thanks to the reader who sent the link.

EYE IN THE SKY

The other day we heard these guys on the zone. They were letting the troops know that they were available for request and no request too small.

Helicopters flown by Air Support include three Bell Jet Ranger helicopters and a Eurocopter A-Star helicopter. Staffed 24 hours a day, this high flying unit handled 1,466 calls for service in 2005 and was instrumental in 286 arrests, 68 assist other agency calls, the recovery of 55 vehicles and the eradication of marijuana plants.

If you were new to Chicago you might of thought the following described the Chicago Police Departments Aviation Unit. In fact this is a description of the Memphis Police Department's Air Support Unit.
A little research and we found that Nashville Metro P.D. has 3 Bell Jet Ranger helicopters. Tampa P.D. boast 3 Bell Jet Rangers along with 2 military OH-6 (little birds) and 2 fixed wing airplanes.The LAPD with the largest Air Unit in the world has a total of 17 various models and 1 airplane. NYPD also has a large aviation unit but their website gives no insight to the number of aircraft in the fleet.
Cities from medium to large have aviation units and now Chicago can boast about its lone helicopter. Welcome to the new millennium

FRIDAY 09 FEB 07

Lawsuit filed in bid to rebut police study on new procedures

Criminal defense lawyers are going to court to try to force the Chicago Police Department and other agencies to release data they used in a study that claims a reform of police lineup procedures does not work.

The 2006 study claimed that police lineups in which witnesses are shown people or photos one at a time, instead of all at once, are less accurate.

TRIBUNE

Parole opposed for murder convicts

Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine on Thursday called for changes to the process in which the Illinois Prisoner Review Board reviews cases, pointing to two murderers who were recently granted parole.

TRIBUNE

Police Officer Accused of Assaulting Meter-Reader

R. Eugene Pincham is the arrestee's lawyer...need we say more?

SERGEANTS PART II RESULTS OUT

According to the Departments offical blog the results were mailed out on Wednesday
02 Feb 07

DICKS LIST

002
Blum, Chris
Garlington, Christoph D.
Davis, Arthur
004
Cobb, Aaron S.
Stoll, Kevin M.
Kajdi, Steven A.
005
Watson, Arleseuia N.
006
Jackson, Donovan
008
Cunningham, Mark T.
011
Sipchen, David W.
Killackey III, John E.
012
Chavarria, Alejandro
Mc Govern, James F.
Ulleweit, Fredrick C.
013
Kennedy, Michael T.
Acevedo, Marco A.
Oseguera, Albert J.
014
Riley, Patrick J.
017
Hansson, Jeffrey G.
018
Drew, Michael J.
019
Lorenty, Glen F.
Corcoran, James F.
Broderick, John P.
Jantke, Fredrick F.
020
Perez, Albert
Beck, Thomas E.
022
Glynn, Kevin P.
Piechocki, John M.
Costello, Robert R.
023
Elkins, Eric J.
025
De Cicco, James C.
Goduto, Leonard P.
Wright, Brian E.
111
Dolan, Christine M.
124
Seledon, Oscar
125
Jackowiak, David A.
140
Sullivan, Patricia L.
153
Ferguson, Brian J.
177
Otten, Marvin F.
188
Daniel, Heather L.
189
Bean, Ricky A.
Freeman, Daniel R
193
Olson, Keith R.
Dineen, Thomas P.
Louis, Edward H.
196
Buie, Gregory W.
Jurek, John J.
253
Murphy, Cullen T.
Cochran, Michael G.
Butler II, James P.
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NEW DICKS LIST OUT

Congrats to the 50 new dicks. Sorry we don't have the list but we will put it up on Thursday night.

On another note we have been hearing that another class of sergeants will be made sometime this year off the existing list......To those on the existing list we aren't trying to get your hopes up. To those waiting for the results of the new test we certainly aren't trying to piss you off.

Why the delay in part II test results? We aren't going to pretend to know the answer but we'll speculate anyways.
We had heard that there was some sort of grievance filed and that has led to a delay in publishing the results.
Another scenario is that certain persons are in striking distance of making it off the list and they are clout heavy....why waste a merit selection on someone who can make it legit?

Update: One of our readers sent us a heads-up from CHECKERBOARD, the official blog of the Department, and they confirm that the Sergeants results were mailed on Wednesday. We empathise with those of you that were under 500 on the list and didn't make it.

Ex-Border Agent Said Beaten in Prison

We ran a story a few weeks back about two Border Patrol Officers found guilty in the shooting of a drug smuggler.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a vocal supporter of the agents and opponent of illegal immigration, criticized the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to protect Ramos and demanded a full presidential pardon for the two men.

"Not only did the administration choose the side of a foreign dope runner over the agents who stopped him from smuggling a load of drugs into the county _ now they've failed to protect that agent while his case is on appeal," he said in a statement.

Learn how to help the Agents through Friends Of The Border Patrol

MERIT?

Cost of Clout
$12 million from your taxes will go to those denied jobs, promotions because of politics, deal says (SUN-TIMES)

Noelle Brennan, the monitor appointed by a federal judge to oversee hiring in the wake of federal patronage prosecutions, would become more or less permanent, overseeing hiring and parceling out the $12 million to victims.

We were led to believe that Shakman did not pertain to our wonderful merit system and then we see this;

At Brennan's suggestion, City Hall agreed to overhaul a controversial "merit promotion" system that critics say the Police and Fire departments used to promote clouted candidates.

Got a complaint? Go to the Shakeman Monitor

DRUG BUST IN 008

A 56-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after police found $22 million of drugs in the vehicle he was driving.

In a SUN-TIMES article 8th district tact officers are credited with the arrest. Job well done! These officers will undoubtedly be recipients of new vehicle stop award that Deputy Superintendent Williams has spoken about.

2 ARRESTED IN BOSTON

Two people were arrested for disorderly conduct when a publicity stunt went awry.The men were hired by a marketing firm to place electronic light boxes throughout Boston and nine other cities including Chicago (see TRIBUNE).

The 1-foot tall signs resembled a circuit board, with protruding wires and batteries. Most depicted a boxy, cartoon character giving passersby the finger -- a more obvious sight when darkness fell.

Great Job Time-Warner! Not only do you think you can use the public way for your commercial gain but you think its ok to flash an obscene gesture to any passerby including children. Criminal charges have been set in motion lets hope civil proceeding also are considered.

Free parking

Here is a story in the SUN-TIMES about a S&S supervisor who used a city garage to store his personal vehicle. The supervisor is taking 30 days. We wonder if the same case could be made against district commanders or watch commanders who seem to think the sally-port is their personal garage?

NEW SERGEANTS ASSIGNMENTS

TO----------------------FROM
001 BRIDGES, Tim R. 018
002 FICHT, Leonard K. 024
002 LOPEZ, Jose L. 640
002 McINERNEY, Raymond J.009
002 ROWLING, Steven R. 253
003 DOWNS, Richard E. 153
003 HEIN, Jon P. 013
003 MULLINS, Stanley M. 006
003 PARKS, Cedric V. 620
003 SVILAR, William 610
003 ABER, Nicholas E. 012
004 PITROWSKI, Dawn M. 011
005 FLANAGAN, Thomas J. 701
005 FLANIGAN, Kevin T. 603
005 KINNEY, David B. 620
005 MORRISSEY, Margaret M. 018
005 PETTIS, Christoph 050
005 ROYSTER, Thermon A. 610
005 SMITH, Dennis L. 022
007 BOCARDO, Michael R. 193
007 JASICA, Shannon K. 022
007 LOMBARD, Richard P. 620
007 SCHAAF, Jeffrey A. 010
007 SULLINS, Edward J. 045
009 DORRIS, John E. 008
009 MUSZYNSKY, Michael W. 019
009 O'DONNELL, Johnny 603
010 BORJA, Jean P. 012
010 GEORGE, Mark A. 017
010 SOTO, Alexis C. 015
012 BIELICKI, Anita M. 057
012 FORBES Jr., Terence P. 025
012 LAUFER, James R. 025
013 AXIUM, Jack A. 050
013 BAZAREK, Michael G. 640
013 O'DONNELL, Weslene M. 018
014 NIEVES, Luz A. 121
014 ROWAN, James G. 153
015 AYLWARD, Patrick M. 015
015 BANICH, Thomas J. 023
015 BARZ, Michael J. 650
015 BETANCOURT, William 014
015 DEVINE, Peter C. 640
015 MONTGOMERY, Phyore D. 121
015 PARHAM, Andre 006
015 VALDES, Hector A. 630
024 DELGADO, John M. 013
025 ERNST, Raymond G. 650
025 MILLS, Thomas 121
025 WHITE, Glenn 015