What if?
Heard this the other day from a fellow employee, "The best thing we could do is go back under the police department!" Get some cops detailed here also because we are so short, resume under police orders, maybe get us a better chance on a different union. True or not true? Do you think we need to be placed again under the direction of the police department? I don't know about you but way back when, at 11th and State when we were under the direction of the police a good chunk of the problems we have now were nonexistant. And our job was actually fun! Hmmmmmmmm
posted by oldschoolcos @ 3/30/2008 02:59:00 PM
6 Comments:
At 30 March, 2008 15:45 ,
Anonymous said...
Will never happen due to the City losing too much federal money by keeping us a separate entity. But , it was better. If only dreams can come true. Speaking of is the DepDir still the same or removed to another spot?
At 31 March, 2008 08:47 ,
Anonymous said...
Never gonna happen,too many jobs doled out by the fifth floor. More and more traditional police jobs are being civilianized, Cos...loop taffic...meter maids....traffic management...detailed services. You're looking at several thousand jobs that were done by police officers. All those jobs now go to aldermanic appointees who dole out jobs for patronage. That's why you don't have enough officers in patrol to handle the number of calls for service. When a special function would occur,the district would send a car for the detail for 4 hours and you would at least get them back for the remainder of the tour two and a half-three hours tops, but at least they would work because they were going home in three. You don't get the traffic aides coming back to clear out the 25 bullshit dist's that have been sitting for the last two and a half hours.
At 31 March, 2008 12:15 ,
Anonymous said...
Regardless, it will never return to how it once was at 1121, and for you that were not there, it was not heaven, either. Civilianization messed it up for everybody. The civilians hugely upped the numbers of whiners, cryers, weirdos, whackos, nuts, drunks, dope heads and whores. That was the beginning of the end.
At 31 March, 2008 19:27 ,
Anonymous said...
No doubt about it, the old, old days when a bunch of old ready-for-retirement guys ran the zones were the best that existed.
Those days were long gone by 1996. By then, you had a hugely disproportionate number of female POs assigned permanently to COS as a hiding spot. You had news crews filming the sleepers on 1st watch through the glass partition.
There were dispatchers at 1121 who did a hell of a job til the end, but there were more than enough clout bunnies, both civilian and sworn, who had wrecked the place by then.
Doesn't matter anyway. You take the politics out of it, and you'd still never find enough qualified people to work at 1411 without a significant increase in salary scale.
Its hopeless without more money, and its amazing that some of the good people there have stayed as long as they did.
At 01 April, 2008 21:29 ,
Anonymous said...
I remember the old COS well---and actually miss it. Yep, this from a copper who also remembers decorating the Xmas tree with refused time due slips. Oh well, as they say ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END.
At 14 April, 2008 20:44 ,
Anonymous said...
Having been a former 1121 sworn dispatcher I can honestly say that I miss that old place! There was a certain comraderie between the beat car and the zone. Not to mention when we answered the phones we knew what the Police could and couldn't do out there so we cut through the BS leading to less calls for service.
I have often thought of retiring and then working as a civilian dispatcher but with the way things are going in this city, FORGET IT!!
Counting down to 25 & out
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