Mr Weis,
Im writing you on behalf of my friends and fellow warriors on the Chicago Police Department. While Im not a Chicago Police Officer and wouldn't think of entertaining that thought under your "command",I am concerned for my friends and associates that ARE Chicago Police Officers under your mismanagement.Instead of encouraging good old fashioned police work you are deballing the Chicago Police Department and making it into a mockery and laughing stock.
While I understand that there are fiscal responsibilities,budgets and politics involved in your 300K + a year job, and I further understand that you have to keep Daley happy, what I dont understand nor fathom is how you can purport yourself to be the Chicago Police. You are not. You are a FED that was appointed to your position. You have not hunkered against a wall in a gangway in the 8500 Block of South Exchange under fire,gun in hand silently praying that you and your partner make it out alive, YOU have not kicked in doors in piss filled CHA Hi Rises chasing sex offenders,YOU have NEVER backed up a solo Officer on a burglary in 006.(and will NEVER have the BOND FOR LIFE that action brought) YOU have not EVER ran TOWARDS the trouble to pull out a friend from the fire.YOU have not had the satisfaction of seeing SEVERAL drug dealers indicted based on months of surveillance.YOU have NEVER been the first or 2nd car on scene at an Officer Down call,and you will NEVER know that sinking feeling as YOU are not the CHICAGO POLICE NOR DO YOU REMOTELY EMBODY IT.YOU have not been jumped,disarmed,and chased the offender WITHOUT A WEAPON.You will NEVER understand how with only a look we can tell Warriors and to a lesser degree THOSE WITH BALLS from Weisels.Yet YOU denigrate yourself by wearing the Uniform of the Chicago Police. Unearned. Which is a kick in the balls to those Officers that HAVE earned that RIGHT.
I dont understand how you can expect and demand these fine men and women to work in this toilet of a city and NOT offer them a decent contract. Hence, no contract no work. I support their plight FULLY.
Calls have been made for your RESIGNATION, Mr Weis. Not one or two but MANY calls. You have received a vote of NO CONFIDENCE by the General Membership of the Chicago Police Department,yet you still DISGRACE them by wearing that uniform. I wont touch on the Airheart incident as I have little knowledge of that other than the fact YOU RAN THE OTHER WAY and LEFT A FALLEN OFFICER TO DIE ALONE. The school I come from,that would have cost you a severe ass beating.Insofar as Officer Cozzi is concerned, you OVERKILLED that situation. Where the fuck were you in the Abate case? If any case needed your beady eyed ass to step in and "solve" THAT would have been one of them. And where Sir were you at the Trial of the 3 that defaced the Police Memorial? NO WHERE TO BE FOUND. That action,sir, is yet another slap in the face to the working police and DEMORALIZING.You are supposed to be a leader of men,a person that the Police will RESPECT and FOLLOW and TRUST. You EMBODY NONE OF THOSE QUALITIES.I have been practicing my profession for nearly 25 years Mr Weis and trust when I tell you, I, a lowly Security Guard, can instill more fire, more respect,and achieve more results(INCLUDING CONVICTIONS) in the field than you could on your best day.I am TRUSTED and RESPECTED something you wont ever know on this job.
If I could take your position I would in a heartbeat because not only do I have the respect of the police Ive known over 25 years, I respect them back. You are SUPPOSED to be the Top Cop in Chicago. Instead, I see a weasel. A spineless shell of a "man" dyed and gelled and over educated. It doesnt take an MBA to be the police in Chicago. What it does take is a SPINE, a HEART and a set of BALLS. When you get those, look me up. We'll talk. Until then, Do the Police and the Citizens of Chicago a huge favor and DRAFT YOUR RESIGNATION.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Stepping up.(What Im about)
There is a quote from Jack Nicholson in "A few good men" that will at all instances bring a resounding "fuckin A right" out of me. Mainly because Im OLD SCHOOL. I never acclimated to the New Age Weis Era Policing. The bile rises in my throat when I encounter a shithead that feels they are empowered and that I cant do this and I cant do that. Most times the words FUCK YOU are held within my head. Then there are other times they are not.
I am not the Chicago Police and I would run the otherway as fast as I could if that job was offered to me today.
I HAVE however worked with the REAL Police that wore revolvers down low and retired in 1994 after 30 years service. These are the men (and a few women) that taught me and molded me.To them I am forever thankful.Yes I am cocky, yes I am arrogant,yes I dont wait for the "ok" before shattering a project door in pursuit of a bad guy. Yes, I will INSURE they go toPRISON.Yes, I have fierce loyalty to the REAL police and YES, I will ALWAYS have your backs. Yes I have a VAST amount of Pride for the work and the end result of a collective effort of the 019 Gang,Tac,and Narcotics(I didnt forget you Waldera) did in Lathrop Homes. "We saw we came we kicked ASS and when the smoke cleared peace was restored" While to some I am a 'lowly security guard' I have gone places and done things those that mock would puke at the thought of. I have gained a modicum of RESPECT which is evident EACH time I walk up to the 019 Desk. And yes, I have the balls and the fire and the spine to back that statement up ALONG with a Stellar conviction record to boot.And in light of this legendary history I am HUMBLE in the presence of true warriors. Unfortunately,times have changed and the Obamites have tipped the scales of 'power' . What pains me is when I see guys I have battled along side of in brutal conditions,stand there doing nothing. Not because of cowardice,(like the "police" women in 003) but because its simply too costly to do real police work anymore and we all KNOW Weis will shank you in a heartbeat. (Cozzi ring a bell?) What OFFENDS me now is what has replaced me at Lathrop. A man (if you want to call him that) that is power drunk,unstable(provable)
and has a propensity for VIOLATING LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS along with a propensity for propositioning women while on the job. "back in the day" when I was there,if i couldnt get the shit head I waited and plotted and surveilled and made DAMN sure when we took them down they STAYED DOWN. 8 hours there went like 20 minutes. Sure a few of the old hats in 19 thought I was insane (and I am but in a good way)but when the results came in and when the convictions came in the tune changed.I became the 'go to guy' when there was a major case,or the dicks(pontarelli) were looking for a hard offender. I had NO PROBLEM risking my safety in the pursuit of that. Now,I get feedback from offenders that I put away telling me what is going on there. I get feed back from Officers and Bosses about the shit going on there and the goof ball arrests being made. While Id jump in the mess in a heartbeat,now I have to look at my guys with a pained look in my eyes and shrug my shoulders. Im SURE they know that feeling. Im also sure they know that feeling is killing me not being able to help or protect the innocent that live in that hell hole. I have put 11 (12 counting Alex Valladez) Friends of mine that happened to be the police into the ground.Each time I swore I wouldnt go thru this again and each new time I found my self putting that black band over my credentials as a show of RESPECT. And EACH time, I cried and mourned even if I never knew the man or woman.I feel sad that I couldnt be there to try and protect that fallen officer like i let him down or left him hanging,SOMETHING IM NOT ABOUT AND DONT PLAY AT ALL.
What I do NOW is Support and Stand FOR the guys I stood with in the field. What I do now is help from the sidelines when 99.9% of me wants to jump in and bite the offenders forehead. So please when you make your comments of "not knowing" or "not having been there" I do and I have....many times over.
Im sorry that they have banded the balls of the Warriors on CPD. You are all a phenominal bunch of men and women and I was proud to stand with you in the fight. I was equally as proud to stand with you in court over the tagging of the Police Memorial. Back in the day,that crowd would have packed that courtroom. I intend to do JUST THAT on 23 Sept 2009.And that boys and girls on that job is what I STAND FOR NOW. "CODE" "ETHICS" "HONOR" "INTEGRITY" while Nicholson delivered it superbly and is just an actor,those words believe it or not hold true in some of us still today.
Thanks for reading and I miss this thing.....a lot.....
Lathrop One.
I am not the Chicago Police and I would run the otherway as fast as I could if that job was offered to me today.
I HAVE however worked with the REAL Police that wore revolvers down low and retired in 1994 after 30 years service. These are the men (and a few women) that taught me and molded me.To them I am forever thankful.Yes I am cocky, yes I am arrogant,yes I dont wait for the "ok" before shattering a project door in pursuit of a bad guy. Yes, I will INSURE they go toPRISON.Yes, I have fierce loyalty to the REAL police and YES, I will ALWAYS have your backs. Yes I have a VAST amount of Pride for the work and the end result of a collective effort of the 019 Gang,Tac,and Narcotics(I didnt forget you Waldera) did in Lathrop Homes. "We saw we came we kicked ASS and when the smoke cleared peace was restored" While to some I am a 'lowly security guard' I have gone places and done things those that mock would puke at the thought of. I have gained a modicum of RESPECT which is evident EACH time I walk up to the 019 Desk. And yes, I have the balls and the fire and the spine to back that statement up ALONG with a Stellar conviction record to boot.And in light of this legendary history I am HUMBLE in the presence of true warriors. Unfortunately,times have changed and the Obamites have tipped the scales of 'power' . What pains me is when I see guys I have battled along side of in brutal conditions,stand there doing nothing. Not because of cowardice,(like the "police" women in 003) but because its simply too costly to do real police work anymore and we all KNOW Weis will shank you in a heartbeat. (Cozzi ring a bell?) What OFFENDS me now is what has replaced me at Lathrop. A man (if you want to call him that) that is power drunk,unstable(provable)
and has a propensity for VIOLATING LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS along with a propensity for propositioning women while on the job. "back in the day" when I was there,if i couldnt get the shit head I waited and plotted and surveilled and made DAMN sure when we took them down they STAYED DOWN. 8 hours there went like 20 minutes. Sure a few of the old hats in 19 thought I was insane (and I am but in a good way)but when the results came in and when the convictions came in the tune changed.I became the 'go to guy' when there was a major case,or the dicks(pontarelli) were looking for a hard offender. I had NO PROBLEM risking my safety in the pursuit of that. Now,I get feedback from offenders that I put away telling me what is going on there. I get feed back from Officers and Bosses about the shit going on there and the goof ball arrests being made. While Id jump in the mess in a heartbeat,now I have to look at my guys with a pained look in my eyes and shrug my shoulders. Im SURE they know that feeling. Im also sure they know that feeling is killing me not being able to help or protect the innocent that live in that hell hole. I have put 11 (12 counting Alex Valladez) Friends of mine that happened to be the police into the ground.Each time I swore I wouldnt go thru this again and each new time I found my self putting that black band over my credentials as a show of RESPECT. And EACH time, I cried and mourned even if I never knew the man or woman.I feel sad that I couldnt be there to try and protect that fallen officer like i let him down or left him hanging,SOMETHING IM NOT ABOUT AND DONT PLAY AT ALL.
What I do NOW is Support and Stand FOR the guys I stood with in the field. What I do now is help from the sidelines when 99.9% of me wants to jump in and bite the offenders forehead. So please when you make your comments of "not knowing" or "not having been there" I do and I have....many times over.
Im sorry that they have banded the balls of the Warriors on CPD. You are all a phenominal bunch of men and women and I was proud to stand with you in the fight. I was equally as proud to stand with you in court over the tagging of the Police Memorial. Back in the day,that crowd would have packed that courtroom. I intend to do JUST THAT on 23 Sept 2009.And that boys and girls on that job is what I STAND FOR NOW. "CODE" "ETHICS" "HONOR" "INTEGRITY" while Nicholson delivered it superbly and is just an actor,those words believe it or not hold true in some of us still today.
Thanks for reading and I miss this thing.....a lot.....
Lathrop One.
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