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Originally Posted on April 05, 2016 In lockstep with our Membership, the Board of Directors shares everyone's disgust and outrage concerning the vile anti-police comments that were made at the CTU event this past Friday. Late Monday, we had our first opportunity to actually speak with the CTU leadership. We communicated our amazement on how days have passed and still these vulgar comments have gone unchallenged. We continue to wonder why a single utterance of condemnation has not come...

Originally Posted on March 23, 2016 Monday, March 28 from 5-6:30pm Join the University of Chicago Info. Session to learn more about their MSc in Threat & Response Management Program Topic: "The Value of Collaboration in Public Safety Training". Presented by Jill Ramaker, Executive Director, NIPSTA and UChicago, MSc TRM alum & Chief Patrick Kreis, Chief of Police, Winnetka Hear from current students and alums who will be there to discuss their experience in the Program. Food & ...

Originally Posted on March 18, 2016 The Department of Justice, DOJ, will be in Chicago next week and we have invited them to hold an Open Forum here at the FOP Hall. It is our opinion that Members will be more comfortable and better able to participate here in the Hall versus the Districts. There will be four DOJ members, and they will speak with officers in teams of two. It's very important to us to provide a safe venue where Officers can speak to members of the DOJ about their exper...

Originally Posted on March 14, 2016 An update from the Department of Management and Labor Affairs to the FOP on DOJ District Visits. The tentative schedule is as follows: Monday, 14 March, there will be 4 DOJ representatives going to District 022 at 0900. Tuesday, 15 March, there will be 5 going to District 006 at 0900, and Wednesday, 16 March, there will be 5 going to District 018. (The following week DOJ will be visiting Districts 001, 002, 004 and 005, details to follow) Attorneys...

Originally Posted on March 11, 2016 On May 21, 2015, the members from the Lodge as well as the Department attended a regularly scheduled Joint Uniform Committee meeting. It was at this meeting that the Lodge was informed the Department was planning to implement a brand new change in policy banning all visible tattoos. Although this issue was never discussed throughout during our Contact negotiation process, all of a sudden the City decided to drastically change the long-standing uniform...

Originally Posted on March 08, 2016 After signing the petition to keep 600 Chicago jobs from leaving to Mexico, President Angelo received the following (and somewhat disturbing) message from the National Director of the AFL-CIO. "Dean, Since we launched our petition calling on Mondelēz International—the parent company of Nabisco—to back away from its plans to ship 600 jobs from its Chicago plant to Mexico, more than 20,000 people have signed it. That’s huge, but that’s only...

Originally Posted on February 26, 2016 Patrick Molloy-D 39th Ward Committeeman Tim Heneghan-D 41st Ward Committeeman Diane Shapiro-R Court Clerk Jacob Miester-D Court Clerk Ann Williams -D ...