Last week, the Chicago Police blog Second City Cop suggested using electrical tape to obscure badge numbers during the May NATO/G8 summits. This led to readers of the blog offering better methods to hide their badge numbers. Stay classy, chicago police. more ›

Chicago Police officer Gildardo Sierra has been involved in three shootings while patrolling Englewood and West Englewood this year: two of the shootings have been fatal. more ›

Jody Weis stepped down as Police Superintendent yesterday, the final day of a $310,000-per-year contract he signed in 2008. Weis, had requested a written contract extension to stay on as Superintendent through the end of Richard Daley's mayoral reign. But Daley was unwilling to offer it; the contract extension would have required City Council approval. more ›

Anthony Abbate has got to have some of the hugest cajones on the planet. If we ever got shitfaced enough to lay hands on a woman and then had the videotape of said event broadcast across the globe, you couldn't find a hole deep enough or dark enough for us to hide in. And yet, according to the Trib, ex-cop and infamous asshole Abbate petitioned the court yesterday to request that a judge give him a second chance to defend himself: more ›

The Sun-Times is reporting today that the city and the FOP have reached a deal to let veteran officers retire at 55 instead of 60, in an effort to save as much cash as humanly possible. Cops retiring at the new lower-age cutoff would take a "staggered payout" of their comp time, whereas previously, older police retiring at 60 would otherwise be charged co-pays until Medicare kicked in at 65. more ›

We saw this a couple days ago and didn't get around to posting it - but since it might have been on the chests of a number of protesting cops earlier today, we thought we'd pass it on. You recall the FAIL Meter that we directed your attention towards a while back? Well, it's been repurposed by someone to take a more direct dig at the mayor. more ›

The ever-prescient Second City Cop has taken in the controversy surrounding the video of a Chicago Police Officer confronting a bus passenger that's been making the rounds as of late and has offered a rebuttal. In its response, SCC defends the officer, pointing out how many times the officer asks the passenger to leave the bus and explaining the officer's action. [Language still NSFW] more ›

Coming off the city's most violent year in over a decade, embattled Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis will finally get his wish when the CPD begins receiving the first of its 2,000 new Chevy Tahoes by early spring. In November, Weis inked the deal with Advantage Chevrolet to provide the CPD with up to 2,000 new SUVs over the next three years at a total cost of around $59 million. more ›

We told you yesterday about the 14-year-old that waltzed right into a Chicago Police station and began working. But how involved was the teen before the CPD caught on to his shenanigans? Chicago police Asst. Supt. James Jackson said, "The senior officer was in full control of the squad car at all times, and the 14-year-old never interacted with the public while present with the assigned officer." But the teen's mother begs to differ, claiming the teen "told her that he went on 10 calls Saturday afternoon, including a couple domestic violence calls." Second City Cop has even more of the low-down: 'Many of our commentators back mom's story and verify the kid drove the car. For more than a little while. He also got a locker, checked out a ticket book and rode back-up on in-progress calls." more ›

In one of the more mind-bending announcements to come out of City Hall as of late (which is saying something), the City of Chicago has signed a $59.2 million deal with Advantage Chevrolet to provide the Chicago Police Department with 2,000 SUVs over the next three years. All this could possibly mean that by 2011, squad cars would be replaced by Chevy Tahoes, which is a car that CPD Superintendent Jody Weis likes. What gets us is this Sun-Times article, which focuses on the fact that the City went to a suburban dealership instead of a city dealership. Hugh Clark, vice president of special accounts for Advantage Chevrolet "acknowledged the city would have preferred to award the lucrative contract to a Chicago dealership at a time when dealerships across the city are struggling to stay in business." more ›

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