JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT WE WERE GONE FOR GOOD

Well were not!

No excuses just not posting.

So we have a new Pres well how dandy is that? Were a sleeper zzzzzzzzz.
Seems a number of Chicago's inner connected are heading to the house on the hill. Why we may even need to change the name to ChiHouze after all the Chicago players being lined up. Boy is the rest of the US in for a big surprise.

SHAKMAN CITY MUST PAY LEGAL FEES PONY UP

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MORE MONEY DOWN THE TOLIET THANKS CITY OF CHICAGO YOUR DRAINING US DRY.

CHICAGO POLICE CUSTOMER SERVICE? "WE WANT A REFUND"

Preview the new and improved Chicago Police Department. Some quotes you may have missed but will have the average Cop rolling with laughter and the word average is a huge compliment in these not so laudable vision times.

By far the best quote goes to Commander Riccio.

"It's all about customer service"

Lucy Moy-Bartosik, a 25-year-veteran chosen to lead the Foster District."They have to believe that this is a new vision for the Police Department," she said. "It's a new beginning for everybody."

Bond says the promotions represent a "significant amount of diversity."

"I think he listened to the concerns of all my colleagues concerning the first deputy," said Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th). "The first deputy is African-American. He is putting a Latina over the patrol division. I think he is listening to the community."

Jody Weis "No. 1 priority has always been to create an atmosphere of excellence with a team of proven leaders who will bring a new vision, new ideas and the positive role models for the men and women of this department.''

Weis said that during the last two months, he reviewed resumes of every non-union officer and then interviewed about 30 after he took office Feb. 1.

Peter Brust FBI's Los Angeles bureau, to head the new Bureau of Professional Standards to oversee the Internal Affairs Division, the training academy and on-the-job training, among other units yet to be decided. We're going to put everything in there that will help [change] the culture of the Chicago Police Department," Weis said.

"The ambition of the new superintendent is to address the morale issue," FOP LODGE #7 President Mark Donahue said. "I'll remain optimistic."

Commander Lynette Helm, 2nd district, was named chief of CAPS.?????????

ALDERMAN TUNNEY TICKET - BOND NEEDS CASH BOND EDUCATION

"It has to be very, very extenuating -- [such as] someone has to go out of the country," Bond said.

What irks us about this story are all the missing facts. What may have actually happened? The affidavit Tunney signed was more than likely an I-Bond-no cash needed bond. Bond saying its "extenuating circumstances" where citizens -- average citizens -- were allowed to pay a ticket and get their license back at police stations, is simply not factual. Bond needs to seriously brush up on her Bonds. You can't pay for a ticket at the station, you are allowed to post one of two types of bonds though.

Average citizens which now includes the Alderman Tunney story, have three choices on a traffic stop. Surrender your license and receive a ticket in exchange, present a Bond card and keep your license, or go into the station to post a Bond to get your license back within a limited time frame. The type of Bond I or 10% Cash of the fine, is determined by the Watch Commander, the Desk Sergeant and department directives.

Is it unusual for the Commander to get involved in certain cases, no its not. Its very apparent Commander Yamashiroya provided a courtesy service to the Alderman, which the average citizen may or may not get. After all it depends on the extenuating circumstance. Bond is misleading the media and presenting misinformation, which will only misguide citizens being stopped for traffic violations.

Now Bond, go and review why a highly paid Chicago Alderman could not have posted a 10% cash bond, like the average citizen. We gather it was possibly due to the extenuating circumstance, of Tunney being a Alderman. Or did Alderman Tunney post a cash Bond in his office to be carried back to the District Miss Bond? We doubt it, who would be foolish enough to even conduct such a transaction. We already know why Tunney made the call.

From the Suntimes
Tunney said an officer -- not the one who ticketed him -- brought the license to his ward office, and he had to sign an affidavit with conditions for getting the license back.

Yamashiroya was on vacation and couldn't be reached Monday, department spokeswoman Monique Bond said.

The returning of the license to Tunney's office will be reviewed, Bond said.

But she said there have been "extenuating circumstances" where citizens -- average citizens -- were allowed to pay a ticket and get their license back at police stations.

DANA STARKS CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT PR CONTROVERSY

Is the Top Cop a PR stunt?

"Top cop can be an insider" Daley says. We don't recall Mayor Daley, ever saying an insider was incapable of being the next Top Cop for Chicago. Daley had three choices already put before him as this story in the Suntimes demonstrated on September 22, 2007 and Dana Starks was not in the final mix.

As the Chicago Sun-Times reported last month, the board has hired the Police Executive Research Forum to conduct the search triggered by Mayor Daley's decision to reject all three finalists recommended by the Police Board -- insiders Charles Williams and Hiram Grau and New Yorker Thomas Belfiore -- and ordering the board to start over.

"PERF will use its considerable contacts and expertise in assisting the board as it searches for additional highly qualified candidates throughout the nation, which is the mandate we received from the mayor," Police Board President Demetrius Carney said in a press release.

A few things on this current article in regard to Mayor Daley and sitting interim Superintendent Dana Starks. Daley is looking for a diffuser a buffer between the loudest Reverends and citizens coalitions currently active. These groups have always challenged Police, even when the Police make the right decisions and their always led by African American political Reverends, who use their pulpits for voter gathering and their Democrats.

In Chicago if you don't make a lot of noise and rumble up marches along with media scenes, your simply non-effective. Call it the Chicago way, its been going on for years. While some of these Reverends may believe their representing the underclass or the impoverished and its always their drumbeat. Another way to look at this unusual Church and Political connection in Chicago. Would be to view it as a fuel for the Democratic Machinations that have driven Chicago Politics, and its a good portion of the glue in Chicago Democratic style of politics. These churches bring in voters and they keep the Reverends in power, with a strong ear from City Hall. Daley does not want to see what his father saw during the 1968 Democratic Convention, where riots broke out across the city. This is the power these various coalitions have over Chicago. Votes from the pulpit and potential Civil Unrest denouncing the Police and costing Daley his perceived progressive democratic reputation.

Some may disagree that Dana Starks is capable of being a Superintendent and others will stand on his inability to be truly effective, due to the control the Mayor has on CPD. Dana Starks has been known to be effective in his crime fighting style going back to his Commander days. Some even say he was innovative in his style. Dana is also said to be balanced in his relationships within all races in the rank and file. None of this is an absolute, and Starks would still need to work progressively towards cleaning up the problems within CPD. He would have to work from within, all the way from the ranks of Management, lower ranks and Internal Affairs. He would also have to hold his Supervisors accountable, sending a clear message, that his Officer's complaints must be respected by their Managers. IAD would need to cease in their given practice, of almost always making cops the accountable culprit, when it comes to saving Managers and clouts backside who either simply don't want to do their job or find it easy to dial 312-fav-orit. When CPD cleans up the inside of its favoritism for all the wrong reasons, we will see some change in the actions on the outside in the public view. With Daley running the department and clout running rampant, we don't see it happening anytime soon. There are two sets of rules, one for the clouted and one for the non-clouted.

Does Stark have prior connections to the same Reverends? The same Reverends who have such a strong hold over the Mayor leaves one to question, can Dana actually be effective for any real change? Some say he is connected and his connections have helped him for a long while. Clout will continue to rule either way and that is a big portion of the problem. Eradicating a working unit does not solve the major problems CPD has festering inside. Its a temporary fix, and won't be effective in the long run. CPD's history has proven it. Very few step forward with the truth, all due to the price to be paid, which can last a full career of punishment from all sides. Just ask those good cops tagged Beefer, who have tried.