Posted on 07/18/2020 6:56:42 PM PDT by BackRoads775
NORTH CHICAGO, IL – The city of North Chicago is is leaning on a seldom used state law that allows them to recall retired officers during an emergency situation.
The city believes that it has hit that “emergency” threshold to invoke the law.
The North Chicago Police Department was unable to adequately staff their 9-1-1 dispatch center, which they subsequently closed. The city argued that at one point prior to the closing, they were only able to have six employees to cover the call center around the clock, seven days a week.
(Excerpt) Read more at lawenforcementtoday.com ...
The reason why tcities are so eager to go along with defunding the police and letting prisoners out of jail because of “covid” is because they are bankrupt, and this is giving them cover to cut their budgets.
This sounds like South Africa trying to lure back the white farmers who fled for their lives....
“And so it begins...”
What begins?
Thanks then I don’t feel so dumb. Never went further north than Evanston, Lake Forest and Kenilworth.
Growing up in Waukegan, it’s a place that non-ferals were told to avoid, especially 22nd Street.
The only option left is system failure. And we're close.
Yeah, I was "college prep".
I could have blown any of these knuckledraggers in the PD or the FD out of the water on the qualification tests.
Sometimes I feel like looking up my high "skool" counselor and punching him in the mouth.
I believe much if not all of North Chicago has been off-limits to Great Lakes personnel for years. It had a notorious vice district long before it became a post-industrial urban wasteland.
I have been watching all the crap going on and laughing.... Once again the commies have overplayed their hand... Now they are alienating their own base... The beginning of the end
In my opinion 90% of disability claims are scams. Probably 99% of government employees.
Older Democrat economies are bleeding out to places like Florida. There's little Democrats can do to slow the escape of their tax base.
Thank you for the clarification which makes a lot of sense.
And I think you’d agree that it didn’t take much effort to make a good point.
North Chicago just received a 750k grant to hire 3 more officers, community outreach etc. Staffing will be at highest level in years.
One guy retired 17 yrs ago. He is 62.
North Chicago is in Lake County near Waukegan.
Considering the ex-cop that was living next door to me on fraudelent full pension disability, I have to laugh. Disability is a well known scam on PDs and FDs.
Yup. That is why I expect cop disability claims to explode in the coming months.
It is the easy way to get away from a hostile work environment with a full wallet.
Whoa! Was John Paul Jones your Company Commander? (J/K)
This stuff started in the 1950-1960’s. I worked for two railroads as a brakeman and later a conductor in two summers, and two thanksgiving and Christmas and during semester breaks. I made more money as a brakeman/conductor than I did while working as a college grad for a major company in 1960.
I joined the Navy reserves in 1961 and served the active duty and later 3 years active reserve for 6+ years.
After the active duty, two friends with one of the railroads offered me a great deal. I could return with the previous work counting as seniority and the active Navy time as seniority/time towards retirement. I could have been eligible for a railroad pension before I was 50 years old, the state fire department and a Navy reserve retirement.
Due to federal firefighting skills/2 summers before my Railroad time, I could have worked 3- 12 hour shifts per week as full time as a fireman for brush and forest fires and 20 years towards retirement including the 2 years active duty Navy time.
Being a Viet Nam era vet, I was eligible to get my MBA with basically no cost to me, which I did. That would have enabled me to teach at a state college for another paycheck and retirement.
14 more years in the Navy reserve would have qualified me another retirement.
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