Posted on 01/06/2022 8:12:34 AM PST by Salman
A top CPD leader canceled days off for the city’s cops over the upcoming weekend, and sources indicate the reason is that positive COVID tests have decimated the department’s active force.
In fact, the union representing front-line Chicago cops estimates 2,600 officers are currently out for medical reasons. Before COVID, the medical absence number usually hovered around 1,000, according to the union.
If the union’s estimate is accurate, that would mean about 20% of the city’s police force is out on medical leave. Cops who test positive for COVID are required to take ten days off.
The COVID surge is driven by a few factors, according to officers who spoke with CWBChicago. One source said some recent holiday parties became superspreader events that infected dozens of cops. More than 30 detectives were wiped out for ten days by one such event, according to the source.
And, it turns out, some overworked cops see COVID as an opportunity to get time off that the police department won’t give them any other way.
“Some [police officers] are getting tested just to get tested and have ten days off when they have no symptoms,” said one cop. “It’s the only way some can get time off because of seniority.”
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Its not covid, its Blue Flu
My goodness at this rate Chicago is going to be the shooting and murder capital of America . . . oh wait.
> about 20% of the city’s police force is out on medical leave <
Mayor Lightfoot should just ask 20% of the criminal element to behave themselves. Then everything would balance out. See? It’s easy when you think about it.
how’s that vax working out for ya’ll, Beetlejuice?
All those high-end stores should be fixed up and restocked by now. Time for a shopping trip!
“Mayor Lightfoot should just ask 20% of the criminal element to behave themselves.”
I wonder how they manage to avoid covid. Don’t criminals get sick?
Chicongo, Stalinois
They don't follow the news (hype) and carry on with their normal law breaking w/o noticing the media scare tactics.
The fire department that I retired from was about to fire all of the unvaccinated people. Omicron struck and they currently have more people out sick than any other time in the department’s history. The people out are nearly all vaccinated. They now have mandatory overtime for everyone. So the unvaxxed are working mandatory overtime to cover for all the “sick” vaxxed people. Of course, they have been told that they still will be fired once the “crisis” is over. But for now a mild cold which causes PCR tests to come out positive has saved their jobs.
I suspect Chicago is so far gone that fewer available cops won't impact the crime rate.
1De-policing as a consequence of police officers being punished for doing their job.
The CDC just this week has doctors and nurses returning 5 days after the initial covid fever. The PD has it at 10 days. Being in a squad car rolling the streets is most of the job in preventing gang activity, just do that. When are we going to “follow the science” mayor lightfoot and get the city workforce doing their job after 2 years.
This is the same administration that closed the parks in mid march 2020 because urban sports were being seen played during pair of warm days in march. Some Gold Coast Karen call to the 411 number and suddenly city parks were closed, I forget if it was before or after the haircut of shame. The Chicago city parks are a massive
With the burnham plan for greenspaces the parks are critical to foot and bike traffic. The city of chicago makes NY look like punks, with 8800 acres of green space, making it the largest municipal park manager in the nation.
Somewhere very early on inner city mayors and liberal state leaders were fed some mostly incorrect information on Covid affecting their voter block more than any other voting block. If they consider their voter block the unhealthy guess that is ture. Every action since then is an effort to hold percentage points at the polls.
ahh....So the Vax Mandates aren’t helping much are they?
Yeah, just require criminals to present a recent negative COVID test before they can rob someone. That should do it.
With fewer cops on the street, you might think that CPD leaders would use their resources to tackle the most serious crime issues facing the city now — shootings, carjackings, and the like.How's that for utilizing scarce resources?But it turns out that they are even more concerned with something called a PCI, that’s short for “positive community interaction.” Lightfoot and Brown made a big deal about PCIs during a press conference this year and pledged that officers would document 1.5 million of them this year — up from 500,000 last year.
What’s a PCI? Nothing more than a cop having some sort of engagement with a person on the street that they deem to be positive. Like most management gimmicks, it’s nonsense, and the front-line troops know it.
“Gimme two more of those b*llshit PCIs and put me clear,” a sergeant told a dispatcher this week, using rarely-heard foul language on a police radio frequency.
In another district, officers stopped to create a PCI while on their way to handle a domestic incident.
Yesterday evening, three cops who are usually assigned to work at headquarters were ordered to work in Englewood instead. What were they doing in one of the city’s infamously violent neighborhoods?
They were sitting at a gas station for over six hours, generating piles of PCIs.
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