Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Ernie Reads the Blog

From the mind of Downtown Ernie Brown, comes this missive:
  • Effective immediately, all field patrol personal [sic] that receive any calls for service assignments via OEMC dispatch or PDT, will notify the OEMC dispatcher of their arrival to the assignment and the completion and departure from the assignment. Sergeants will monitor pending RAPS and perform assignments [sic] status checks to ensure that pending RAPS are cleared. The Sergeant will also ensure that when a unit has come clear that the RAP is cleared by notifying OEMC.
Evidently, Ernie is reading our post from last week wondering aloud if our antiquated half-assed system could actually track dispatch, response and clear times the way Milwaukee did in the referenced article that pretty much proves Less Police = Longer Response.

We don't know what DTEB hopes to prove by trying to track these numbers - there's no way in hell Rahm is going to let them become public, kind of like that "morale survey" that J-Fled buried after it was determined he'd have to resign his million dollar payday if someone quoted his words back at him.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought he went to Darien??

10/25/2011 12:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did I miss something? Didn't he leave to work for another agency?

10/25/2011 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Squad can I take a personnel in the station.
All personal will wear name tags.
Yeah! That is the right way to use those words.

10/25/2011 12:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Been retired for a couple years now, but thought I read not long ago that DTEB was retiring to take a suburban chiefs' job, no?

... and also Aunt Bee and the Skull and whats-er-name in 020?

10/25/2011 12:44:00 AM  
Anonymous John Doty said...

Ernie, you need to take it a step further. Any officer who is found by a supervisor to be elsewhere other
than what the computer shows as their location
should immediately be subject to a 3 day suspension.
We don't go for that nonsense here at the UCPD.
I run a tight ship here; based upon our recently
publicized robbery spree throughout Hyde Park,
especially in the University 'quad' area, it is
apparent that the few patrolmen I haven't fired
aren't doing much of anything as far as aggressive
patrol is concerned. But at least I know where my
little mouse droppings are at all times! This is a
valuable lesson you can take with you over to
Darien, Ernie. I hope these little management
morsels are of some use to you in the new job.
Let's do lunch!

10/25/2011 12:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So every time I get a call for a lousy parking complaint I have to waste air time? Okay, whatever you say.

10/25/2011 01:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thought he was gone

10/25/2011 01:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is any easy way to fix raps and pending jobs, look at specialized units

10/25/2011 01:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC..You're all idiots...If you were smart enough, and if the media actually cared, they would have made public the actual numbers...Just because the people at OEMC have decided to flip the numbers, does not mean the numbers are better..The frigging media knows this and refuses to publicize it..Look at call times..Do a FOIA request...It is now backwards..The call time is now transposed with the response or dispatched time that way OEMC can now saw the response time is better..Look at it!!! Why the hell would a Domestic (1) call be received at 2132 hrs, but and dispatched at 2128 hrs with a response time of 2135 hrs..Really? Just frigging look!!!! But no one wants to because then the big bad police would and fire would be too short..Thanks Ronnie...oh wait, this didnt start until after him? Hmm. Maybe you should throw the little fucker i na room for 2 days and see who he rats on to tell the truth.,....

10/25/2011 02:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is a good idea to "Revamp" I remember taking calls of " Young child cut finger,needs a lift to the hospital" Woman sick with the flu,needs a lift to the hospital" Both calls were refused by EMS. And should have been. But the police having down time for non-sense. Geez come on when I was a kid my mom took me by "CTA" And that is the way it should be. but some people feel free is free and always will.

10/25/2011 04:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Brown's starting this shit now, AFTER response times have turned to shit so they can allege some improvement at a later date.

Had this been started 5 years ago, it would have shown the truth.

10/25/2011 05:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How does he expect a street sgt to keep track of the beat cars? Just keep dumping more on the sgt to handle besides monitoring calls and logging cars.

10/25/2011 05:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How does this illiterate goof continue to send out these embarrassing memos? "Personal," "personnel." Oldest mistake in the history of department memos, but that's why smart bosses (read, just smart enough to know you're not smart) have someone proof read their correspondence. It doesn't seem that DTEB cares enough to stop embarrassing himself. Now that's arrogance.

10/25/2011 05:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It will be among the best empirical evidence to prove the Department (or a particular district or shift) is short on personnel.

It will document just how long it takes for an officer to get to a citizen's home or workplace when they call 911. I suspect the public will not be very happy with the statistics.

I predict that the Department will continue to not enforce this procedure (while other Departments continue to do it) and reverse this new directive to record arrival times once they realize just how bad the statistics really are. The media would devour this information.

10/25/2011 06:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HuH???? I thought the CLOWN is gone for good. . . . . I guess I was wrong . . . . . Wow what a nightmare!

10/25/2011 07:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guess just like mcstupid didnt consult with Rahmfinger, DTEB didnt consult with mcstupid. Because mcstupid has said many times, at compstat meetings, that he doesnt care about RAPS... Of course he has never put that in writing, but as usual, one hand doesnt talk to the other.

10/25/2011 08:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dont you mean someone reads it for him and translates it?

10/25/2011 08:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought Ernie was gone?

10/25/2011 08:47:00 AM  
Blogger Michael said...

why do guys lay down on jobs--- maybe because they are pooches--- maybe because they are having a bad night--- for most guys you ride a job into dinner, clear the job when the food hits the table so you can enjoy a half hour that you're not paid for--- it's up to the sgts to monitor what their cars are doing.... if you get caught sitting at the restaurant while you are on a job then you just take the hit--- it's impossible to walk into a place, order food, and eat it all in a half hour....

10/25/2011 09:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Darien took a look at his resume a little bit closer...thanks guys.

10/25/2011 09:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He is retiring end of November. Needs to make it to his 29 + 1day.

10/25/2011 09:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yah ok I will believe it when a srgt our the WC questions why the hell is a busy beats car, 2521R, is coming in with a TVB every night and WHY it takes them OVER 4 hours to process a TVB arrest EVERYTIME.... and WHY ITS OK TO DO THAT ON A WARM BUSY FRIDAY OR SATURDAY NIGHT! This leaving all the other beats to cover THEIR beat. Not to mention when they are not on a TVB arrest why is it when they do get banged they answer the radio with, sqd hold us down on a traffic stop at..... total crap... then they get the early duck! EVERY NIGHT= 4 hr TVB, LUNCH in station, excused! Total bull 2521R! That's call a traffic CAR NOT A BEAT CAR... OH BUT THEY DON'T LIKE OR WANT TO DO TRAFFIC CRASHES!

10/25/2011 09:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ernie pretending yet again...go flip burgers in Darien you uneducated hoodrat...bring all your uneducated southside lackies with you also...

Signed,

HATER

10/25/2011 09:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What??? Enie can read????

10/25/2011 09:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT
Hey SCC! It's that time of the year again! The WINDY CITY VETERANS ASSOC. Annual Fundraiser is this FRIDAY October 28th. WCVA established in 1983...is one of the longest running Chicagoland Veterans' groups in the Southside community. Many of our members are proud CPD and CFD brethren.

Beverly Woods Restaurant-11532 S. Western Ave (6:30pm-11:30pm) Great food , entertainment and OPEN BAR!!!

Tickets are only $25!!!

All donations go to help the disabled veterans of the Manteno Veterans Hospital. BE THERE BECAUSE YOU CARE...

Thank you for your support. Tell'em "Purple Shades" sent you!!!

Martin E. Tully-President of WCVA
006th Dist 3rd Watch

10/25/2011 09:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

More likely somebody is reading it to him!

10/25/2011 10:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
So every time I get a call for a lousy parking complaint I have to waste air time? Okay, whatever you say.

10/25/2011 01:00:00 AM

Who cares? Why do you care about "air time". Are you only allowed a certain amount or does it cost you anything? You're bitching about the wrong thing dork.

10/25/2011 10:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nooo, he didn't go to Darien... he thought he was going to work for Darren, a close cousin of reverend meeks... Considering DTEB's lack of spelling and grammar skill, it all makes sense..... when he found out that he was actually going to have to move to a town named Darien, he pulled the plug...

10/25/2011 10:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought that what those fancy buttons on my PDT were for, not hogging up the air.

10/25/2011 10:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ernie Brown is a byproduct of this departments managerial climate, a joke.

10/25/2011 10:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Notification of arrival is nothing new in the rest of the police world, just Chicago. But coming up clear from a job is the way it's always been. Not that it ever stopped someone from rolling around for a while milking a burglar alarm or who knows what. So what's the beef?

10/25/2011 11:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thought that ghetto lying pos was gone! guess not the fatass clown is going to max out the huge pension he will steal from our fund!

10/25/2011 11:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Since our squad cars are being used as cabs can we charge these lazy fucks who need a ride to the hospital a dollar. Alderfool Burke wants to place an additional $1.00 surcharge on all cab rides in the city. The poor cab drivers (yes I do have some sympathy for them...they are working folks too) already are paying the highest gas prices in the country get hit with another rate increase. For folks who depend on tips this just takes a bite out of that. But hey if I was a rich Alderfool with a free city car, FREE GAS, and free body guards 24/7, why would I care about some working stiff trying to feed his family.

10/25/2011 12:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Huh? DTEB is gone, right? Where is this info coming from? He already started his new job.

10/25/2011 12:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is any easy way to fix raps and pending jobs, look at specialized units

10/25/2011 01:44:00 AM

Yeah...what the hell are these specialized units for? They ride around 3 deep..use them to get out of these fucking raps! It's always about beating down the Beat car!

10/25/2011 02:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought he went to Darien??

10/25/2011 12:20:00 AM

And when he finally gets there...I highly doubt that Darien will go for this bullshit from him. They're gonna laugh and say "Yeah ok big guy...you can go back to Chicago with that madness".

10/25/2011 03:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What do you mean, "Ernie reads the blog?" That means he knows how to read. I don't think so.

10/25/2011 03:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think that mouth breather can read. I'm sure one of his possee read it for him and then dumbed it down for Downtown Ernie Brown to understand.
Why do we still have this idiot? Doesn't he belong to Darien now? Boy did they get fleeced!

10/25/2011 03:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ernie is here until the end of the year.

10/25/2011 04:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm sorry, but officers do a terrible job of informing OEMC when relocating, etc...

The Sgt's need to step up and do a better job of monitoring this. Someone is going to get hurt one day.

10/25/2011 06:15:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yah ok I will believe it when a srgt our the WC questions why the hell is a busy beats car, 2521R, is coming in with a TVB every night and WHY it takes them OVER 4 hours to process a TVB arrest EVERYTIME.... and WHY ITS OK TO DO THAT ON A WARM BUSY FRIDAY OR SATURDAY NIGHT! This leaving all the other beats to cover THEIR beat. Not to mention when they are not on a TVB arrest why is it when they do get banged they answer the radio with, sqd hold us down on a traffic stop at..... total crap... then they get the early duck! EVERY NIGHT= 4 hr TVB, LUNCH in station, excused! Total bull 2521R! That's call a traffic CAR NOT A BEAT CAR... OH BUT THEY DON'T LIKE OR WANT TO DO TRAFFIC CRASHES!

Your grasp of the English language is delightful...Not!

10/25/2011 06:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DTEB is said to start in Darien the middle of November and boy we cannot wait for his innovative ideas here in Darien. Puppet of the mayor to pad those retirement years is all he will be. She fuckin hates the cops

10/25/2011 06:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I CALL B.S.......Ernie can't read!

10/25/2011 06:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nobody is going to do this. No one did it in my district today.
Ernie Brown, he be "Ignant"

10/25/2011 08:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He is staying until the end of the year so that he qualifies for a higher pension.

Your Mayor the pension reformer at work.

10/25/2011 09:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

According to an Uncle who lives in Darien, and who attended the village meeting where DTEB was voted to be the new "Chief". At the conclusion of the meeting DTEB was SWORN in as the NEW CHIEF of the Darien Police Department.

I dont know if you can do that...Being sworn in 2 different juridictions.

On a side note. Will KM retire and follow him there?

10/25/2011 09:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lets say in the perfect world coppers upon being dispatched a job, acknowledge it and press the appropriate button on the PDT. Then upon completion of the assignment code/clear.

With the pressing of the keys OEMC has created a "Time Line" of events related to that job.

Therefore- OEMC/City has the ability to harvest stats from the data produced by the Beat Car. To me the big question is what will be done with that data? Reports can be produced to show response times, Time spent per job, broken down by district etc.

Now all that data becomes Public and would be accessible to the general public via a Freedom of Information request.

10/25/2011 10:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Expect RAPS to increase tenfold in the districts that had their lockups closed. These Districts were bare bones to begin with. Now the transporting cars will be down much longer taking prisoners to the hospital when the "detention facility" won't take them, waiting for youth dicks to show up, dealing with nitpicking and petty WCs and lockup keepers. Penny wise and pound foolish.

10/25/2011 10:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow he can read?????"?

10/26/2011 12:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He Can read ????????????

10/26/2011 12:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

*** AGAIN, PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE ***

The "powers that be" are freaking out about job backlogs and officer response. The media and citizen groups are watching.

NOW IS THE TIME TO REPORT ALL CRIME!

Show the citizens of Chicago how short of manpower we really are. Report all crime you normally do not, ie: assaults, batteries, neighbor arguments, kid fights, neighbor assaults, road rage assaults, etc... REPORT ALL CRIME!

WHEN YOUR CAR STOPS, YOUR FINGERS START TO TYPE!!

10/26/2011 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Didn't the Beverly Woods Restaurant burn down a few yrs back?? Is it safe to attend? I thought Western was a dangerous spot?

-Midway copper

10/26/2011 01:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(Quote Yah ok I will believe it when a srgt our the WC questions why the hell is a busy beats car, 2521R, is coming in with a TVB every night and WHY it takes them OVER 4 hours to process a TVB arrest EVERYTIME.... and WHY ITS OK TO DO THAT ON A WARM BUSY FRIDAY OR SATURDAY NIGHT! This leaving all the other beats to cover THEIR beat. Not to mention when they are not on a TVB arrest why is it when they do get banged they answer the radio with, sqd hold us down on a traffic stop at..... total crap... then they get the early duck! EVERY NIGHT= 4 hr TVB, LUNCH in station, excused! Total bull 2521R! That's call a traffic CAR NOT A BEAT CAR... OH BUT THEY DON'T LIKE OR WANT TO DO TRAFFIC CRASHES!

-> (Your grasp of the English language is delightful...Not!)

ok lets ignore the point of the comment with an attempt to attack the "the grasp of the English language". First of all this is what you get when one leaves a comment via cell phone as they wait in between their cases to be called. Bottom line its officers like 2521R that dog their calls staying down in the station on bull tvbs, maybe a misdemeanor arrest, that contribute to the lack of back up, possibly contributing to POs getting hurt. Come on wheres the supervision? wheres the accountability? Not saying they are bad officers, but WHAT I AM SAYING IS, they should be a TRAFFIC car not responsible for a beat! Traffic cars are not counted in the mix, BEAT cars are. HANDLE YOUR BEAT 2521R!!! Or at least stop with the bull arrests of every Hispanic driver you can see, and take radio assignment because that is what beat cars do!
2521r=ghost traffic stops when ever banged!

10/26/2011 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a retired beat sergeant, I can honestly say that the things the administration asks a beat sergeant to do, and with no support at all not even from the watch commander, is just not possible. You cannot respond to calls, continuously monitor the radio, hunt for your numerous assigned cars and keep track of the cars time on jobs all at the same time. You are going to miss a few things on occasion and if something happens they will blame you. When you try to do your job and the beat cars complain on you to the watch commander do not expect support. you might even get your ties slashed or some asshole scrawl on the bathroom walls or hospital coffee room about you, or worse, no backup. The sergeants need more support, more help and greater prestige in the department. Glad I am retired and i feel for those beat sergeants sill working. Oh, don't forget the paperwork requirements. Are they still doing CR numbers?

10/27/2011 01:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DTEB probably has a secretary (it might be a male or female). So, what is very embarrassing is that the secretary, an “intellectual,” is writing these memos. Also, certain aspects of the job are so dumbed down that the benchmarks are a complete joke. For example, some supervisors do not recognize decent writing. I am not defending DTEB; I am pointing out that DTEB has assistants (most supervisors at that level have someone doing the writing).

10/27/2011 04:40:00 PM  

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