Thursday, November 22, 2007

Aldermatic Pay vs Our Pay

2-8-041 Compensation for aldermen.
Effective January 1,2006, the salary of aldermen shall be $98,125.00. Beginning on May 21, 2007, this sum shall be adjusted for each calendar year by applying to it the rate of inflation calculated based on the Consumer Price Index - Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (Chicago All Items) published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The budget director or his designee shall determine such rate by comparing the figure for the most recent July with the figure for the previous July. Any adjustment shall take effect at the beginning of the first pay period for that year.
An alderman may choose not to have his or her salary adjusted for any given year as set forth in this section by notifying the budget director in a sworn statement on a form provided by the budget director for that purpose. This notification must be received by the budget director by September 15 for the choice to be effective for the following calendar year.
No other City of Chicago salary shall be allowed any alderman except as herein provided.

No alderman refused their pay adjustment.

For 2007 the pay was adjusted to 100,971.00 an increase of 2.9%

For 2008 the pay was adjusted to 104,101.00 an increase of 3.1%

In 2007 we (the police) received a pay increase of 2.0% and as of yet no increase for 2008, which puts us at a loss of real buying power of 4%. Thats not the route we need to take! So for 2008 we need 4% to break even and a larger increase for 2008 if we are to call any pay increase a raise!!

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Cook County Assault Gun Ord

FYI

DIVISION 4. ASSAULT WEAPONS

Sec. 54-211. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Assault weapon means:
(1) Assault rifles:
AK 47 type
AK 47S type
AK 74 type
AKS type
AKM type
AKMS type
84S1 type
ARM type
84S1 type
84S3 type
HK91 type
HK93 type
HK94 type
G3SA type
K1 type
K2 type
AR100 type
M24S type
SIG 550SP type
SIG 551SP type
Australian Automatic
Arms SAR type
SKS type with detachable magazine
Federal XC-900 and XC450
Feather AT-9 Auto Carbine
Goncz High Tech Carbine
Colt AR-15
Iver Johnson PM30 P Paratrooper
86S type
86S7 type
87S type
Galil type
Type 56 type
Type 565 type
Valmet M76 type
Valmet M78 type
M76 counter sniper type
FAL type
L1A1A type
SAR 48 type
AUG type
FNC type
Uzi carbine
Algimec AGMI type
AR180 type
MAS 223 type
Beretta BM59 type
Beretta AR70 type
CIS SR88 type
Ruger Mini 14/5F
Springfield Armory SAR-48
Springfield Armory BM-59
Bushmaster Auto Rifle
Auto-Ordinance Thompson M1
Auto-Ordinance Thompson 1927A1
TEC 9 type
(2) Assault pistols:
Uzi type
Heckler & Koch Sp-89 type
Australian Automatic Arms SAP type
Spectre Auto type
Sterling Mark 7 type
(Ord. No. 93-O-37, § 6-1, 10-19-1993; Ord. No. 93-O-46, § 6-1, 11-16-1993; Ord. No. 94-O-33, 7-6-1994; Ord. No. 99-O-27, Pt. 3(6-1), 11-23-1999.)

Sec. 54-212. Assault weapons; sale prohibited; exceptions.
(a) No person shall sell, offer or display for sale, give, lend, transfer ownership of, acquire or possess any assault weapon. This subsection shall not apply to:
(1) The sale or transfer to, or possession by any officer, agent, or employee of the County or any other municipality or state or of the United States, members of the armed forces of the United States; or the organized militia of this or any other state, and peace officers to the extent that any such person is otherwise authorized to acquire or possess an assault weapon and is acting within the scope of such person's duties;
(2) Manufacture of assault weapons;
(3) Transportation of assault weapons if such weapons are broken down and in a nonfunctioning state and are not immediately accessible to any person.
(b) Any assault weapon possessed, sold or transferred in violation of Subsection (a) of this section is hereby declared to be contraband and shall be seized and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Section 54-213.
(c) Any person found in violation of this section shall be sentenced to not more than six months imprisonment or fined not less than $500.00 and not more than $1,000.00, or both.
(d) Any person who, prior to the effective date of the ordinance from which this division is derived, was legally in possession of an assault weapon prohibited by this section shall have 14 days from the effective date of the ordinance from which this division is derived to do any of the following without being subject to prosecution under this division:
(1) To remove the assault weapon from within the limits of the County;
(2) To modify the assault weapon either to render it permanently inoperable or to permanently make it a device no longer defined as an assault weapon; or
(3) To surrender the assault weapon to the Sheriff or designee for disposal as provided below.
(Ord. No. 93-O-37, § 6-2, 10-19-1993; Ord. No. 93-O-46, § 6-2, 11-16-1993; Ord. No. 94-O-33, 7-6-1994; Ord. No. 99-O-27, Pt. 3(6-2), 11-23-1999.)

Sec. 54-213. Destruction of weapons confiscated.
(a) Whenever any firearm or ammunition is surrendered or confiscated pursuant to the terms of this ordinance, the Sheriff shall ascertain whether such firearm or ammunition is needed as evidence in any matter.
(b) If such firearm or ammunition is not required for evidence it shall be destroyed at the direction of the Sheriff. A record of the date and method of destruction an inventory or the firearm or ammunition so destroyed shall be maintained.
(Ord. No. 93-O-37, § 6-3, 10-19-1993; Ord. No. 94-O-33, 7-6-1994; Ord. No. 99-O-27, Pt. 3(6-3), 11-23-1999.)
Secs. 54-214--54-240. Reserved.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Shawn and Wayne, a short story still being written.

Many of my brother and sister officers have asked me what is the story about Shawn and Wayne. Well the matter is still in the courts but here is some of what has been going on. There is more legal mumbo jumbo involved, but this is the basic story.

JUST THE FACTS, MAAM

Since 05 July, 1994, Shawn Hallinan has been a police officer of the City of Chicago. He was a member in good standing of FOP Lodge 7 until he was suspended from FOP Lodge 7 in June 2005. He was expelled from FOP Lodge 7 on 06 September, 2005. Wayne Harej became a police officer on 26 July, 1971. He was a member in good standing of FOP Lodge 7 until he was also suspended in June 2005 and expelled on 06 September, 2005.

Hallinan was one of the leaders of The IOU Team, a rank and file team in opposition to FOP Lodge 7 President Mark Donahue and his group, The City Wide Team. On 25 March, 2005, FOP Lodge 7 held elections for union officers. Hallinan formed The IOU Team of 20 candidates to oppose Donahue and The City Wide Team. Hallinan ran against Donahue for FOP Lodge 7 president. Harej ran for financial secretary. On 25 March, 2005, The IOU Team generally lost to The City Wide Team, but won seven positions on the Board of Directors. Hallinan himself received 43 percent of the vote for president. Harej received 41 percent of the vote for financial secretary.

Donahue and his fellow City Wide teammates then proceeded immediately to expel Hallinan and Harej from the Lodge. On 19 April, 2005, at the first Lodge meeting after the election, Hallinan and Harej were served with charges accusing both men of improper criticism of their election opponents and discussing such matters in public with the media and going outside the Lodge and bringing the Lodge into disrepute.

These charges referred to a major campaign issue, namely, an accusation that Donahue had grossly underreported his union salary on a report that the Lodge was required to file with the Illinois Attorney General. Under Illinois law the Lodge is required as a charitable organization to file a form G 990 with the Illinois Attorney General and report the salaries of the organization’s officers. The Lodge reported Donahue’s salary as being only $53,000 a year when Donahue was actually earning a total salary of $138,000 as lodge president. In December 2004, prior to the March 2005, election, Harej filed a complaint with the Lodge that Donahue had under reported his income to the Attorney General. When the Lodge ignored the complaint, Harej reported the discrepancy to the Attorney General, who then began an investigation. Under pressure, the Lodge had to file not one, but two, corrected returns. The first corrected return continued to under-report Donahue’s salary at $68,000. The final corrected return acknowledged that his salary was $138,000 as Hallinan and Harej contended.

The return was corrected under pressure. The undisputed under reporting of income became a major campaign issue. Hallinan and Harej went to roll calls to discuss this and other issues, including Donahue’s handling of the collective bargaining agreement. Hallinan and Harej also spoke to reporters who were covering the campaign. FOP Lodge 7 represents over 11,000 Chicago police officers. The battle for leadership of the city’s police union was of interest to the public, as shown by stories about the election in the Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere.

Stung by these attacks, Donahue and his team members acted to expel Hallinan and Harej as soon as the election was over. As noted above, Lodge officers filed charges at the meeting of 19 April, 2005. Then in June 2005, even before there was a hearing, the Lodge suspended both Hallinan and Harej from membership and refused to let them attend meetings. In July 2005 the Lodge held hearings on the charges. Donahue appointed his teammates to the committee that would decide on the charges. All the panel members were involved in the criticism and campaign attacks for which Hallinan and Harej were being tried. Shawn and Wayne protested that they were being tried by their political opponents, but nevertheless the union went forward with the hearings. On 06 September, 2005, the committee recommended to Donahue and the Board of Directors that the two men be expelled. The Board then voted to expel Hallinan and Harej. The decision was not unanimous, as some of Hallinan's IOU team members had been elected to the Board.

In addition to filing charges with the Board, both Hallinan and Harej appealed the Lodge’s actions to the State Lodge. On 02 December, 2005, the State Lodge held a hearing on the appeal. The State committee recommended that the appeal be denied but gave no reason for its decision.

FOP General Business Meeting 16 Jan 07

This is just an overview of the meeting:

It started out with a prayer for those members whom have died since the last meeting by name and we had a moment of silence in their honor, then The Pledge of Allegiance, and the winners of the scholarship checks. Then the officer’s reports:

Down in Springfield we will most likely make Pension portability our number one priority, along with compounding of the COLA increases, residency and retiree health care (see the list of $4.00 per 30 day supply of drugs from Wal-Mart on another post at this blog). There is a legislative committee meeting on the 25 of this month (Jan) to go over our priorities and which legislators to approach on our concerns.

There will be a National Day at the hill in Washington D.C. on the 13,14, and 15 of Feb to address our National concerns which include the Social Security reform bill, collective bargaining nationwide and also a discipline bill.

Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) invited Mark and Ted Street (State Lodge President) to join in Obama’s teleconference in which he announced the formation of an exploratory group prior to an announcement of a presidential run. Obama is reaching out early to the law enforcement community as he has done in the past when running for office. (ed note: Obama was the sponsor of the law which requires us to fill out those traffic stop cards and he purchased his current home at a savings of 300 grand with the help of indicted political fund raiser Tony Rezko)

The political action committee will be meeting Thursday and Friday to hear candidates request for endorsements in the upcoming aldermanic and mayoral election in Chicago, members may come to the lodge and watch but are not allowed to ask questions or make comments. Sixty candidates have requested our endorsement.

The board has selected our contract negotiating team and the list can be viewed on the Lodge website. The first meeting will be on 07 Feb 07 to go over the 85 pages of proposals from the membership which have been submitted over the past year and a half and to talk with the lawyers who will be assisting the team. The Lodge plans on being ready on 01 Apr 07, the first day we can begin negotiations with the City.

In answers to questions: Sgt test results should be out soon, due to the swearing in of the last class of sgt’s at the academy. The lodge is attempting to get 80% pension at 29 years and a day down at Springfield or to get the same as the State Troopers have which is 80% at 26 years and 8 months.

Officer Kevin Betovic 017th District asked why the finance department is not adhering to the law and paying officers and or not taking their time from them for training under 5 ILCS 325 The Military Leave Act which was passed in 2004. Officer Betovic believes that not enough is been done to let the membership know about this benefit and that the Lodge hasn’t done enough to get his time and money back to him.

The Department has informed the Lodge that 005th District is 10 officers short and that it was taking 10 officers from the 002nd District to cover that shortfall. Officers are detailed out of district for 90 days by reverse seniority, but no officers with 1st or 2nd period furlos were used.

The Lodge contacted the State OHSA to inspect the 025th District building. Numerous sightings were issued to the City, which has 15 days to respond to the issues or correct them in 30 days or start paying fines. Other police buildings will be inspected in the near future for other health code violations. This is being thru the State instead of by grievance as the State can fine the City for its inaction on this serious health matter.

FYI: 16 and 17 of May are the dates for the next firearms safety day at the Lodge, watch the website for more info. Tara overtime is on hold till April. If you use anything (crutches, cane etc) to help you walk for an injury, you do not have to report to the medical section. Both the Lodge and City have motions for summary judgment in for our case against the City for taking time due.

Officer John Tierney 016 Dist asked how much money was the Lodge paying for lawyers in two cases, one against Wayne Harje and Shawn Hallinan and the other in defense of a wrongful firing of a staff lawyer. Mark stated that it was inapproiet to comment as both cases are in court. I made a motion to withdraw our case against Wayne and Shawn but was ruled out of order and I withdrew my motion.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

This is a partial list, more drug names will be added

This is a partial list of the drugs that you can get a 30 day supply for 4 dollars from Wal-Mart. This list is not complete and I will add more names as I'm able too. One can get these drugs with a prescription. You don't need to have any drug insurance to get a 30 day supply for 4 dollars, the 4 dollars is the total price that Wal-Mart charges for these drugs.

Therapeutic Category
Allergy:
LORATADINE 10MG TAB
LORATADINE 5MG/5ML SYP

Therapeutic Category
Analgesics:
ANTIPY/BENZO OTIC SOL
BACLOFEN 1OMG TAB
CYCLOBENZAPR 10MG TAB
CYCLOBENZAPR 5MG TAB
TRAMADOL HCL 50MG TAB

Therapeutic Category
Anti Anxiety:
BUSPIRONE 5MG

Therapeutic Category
Anti Inflammatory:
BETAMETH DIP 0.05% CRE 15
BETAMETH DIP 0.05% CRE 45
BETAMETH VAL 0.1% CRE45
BETAMETH VAL O.1% OIN 15
BETAMETH VAL 0.1% OIN 45
DEXAMETHASON 0.5MG TAB
DEXAMETHASON 0.75MG TAB
DEXAMETHASON 4MG TAB
DICLOFENAC 75MG DR TAB
FLUOCIN ACET O.01% SOL
FLUOCINONIDE O.05% CRE 15
FLUOCINONIDE 0.05% CRE 30
HYDR000RT 1% CRE
HYDROCORTISONE 2.5% CRM
IBUPROFEN 100/5ML SUS
IBUPROFEN 400MG TAB
IBUPROFEN 600MG TAB
IBUPROFEN 800MG TAB
INDOMETHACIN 25MG CAP
MELOXICAM 15MG
MELOXICAM 7.5 MG
METHYLPRED 4MG PAK
METI-1YLPRED 4MG TAB
NAPROXEN 375MG TAB
NAPROXEN 500MG TAB
PIROXICAM 20MG CAP
PREDNISONE 10MG TAB
PREDNISONE 2.5MG TAB
PREDNISONE 20MG TAB
PREDNISONE 5MG TAB
PREDNISONE 5MG 6 DAY PAK
SALSALATE 500MG TAB
TRIAMCINOLON 0.025% CRE 15
TRIAMCINOLON 0.025% CRE 80
TRIAMCINOLON 0.1% CRE 15
TRIAMCINOLON 0.1% CRE 80
TRIAMCINOLON 0.1% OIN 15
TRIAMCINOLON 0.1% OIN 80
TRIAMCINOLON 0.5% CRE

Therapeutic Category
Antibiotic:
AMOXICILLIN 500MG CAP
AMOXIL 5OMGIML DRO
BACITRACINOP OIN
CEPHALEXIN 250MG CAP
CEPHALEXIN 500MG CAP
CIPROFLOXACN 500MG TAB
DOXYCYCL HYC 100MG CAP
DOXYCYCL HYC 100MG TAB
DOXYCYCL HYC 50MG CAP
ERYTHROCIN 250MG TAB
ERYTHROMYCIN 2% SOL
ERYTHROMYCIN OP OIN
ERYTHROMYCIN25OMG ECCAP
GENTAMICIN 0.1% CRE
GENTAMICIN 0.1% OIN
GENTAMICIN 0.3% OP SOL
IONIAZID 300MG TAB
METRONIDAZOL 250MG TAB
METRONIDAZOL 500MG TAB
NEO/POLY/DEX 0.1% OPOIN
NEO/POLY/DEX 0.1% OPSUS
PENICILLN VK 125/5MLSOL
PENICILLN VK 250/5MLSOL
PENICILLN VK 250MG TAB
SELENIUM SUL2.5% LOT
SMZ/TMP DS 800160 TAB
SMZTMP 20040/5 SUS
SMZTMP 40080MG TAB
SULFACET SOD 10% OP SOL
TETRACYCLINE 250MG CAP
TETRACYCLINE 500MG CAP
TOBRAMYCIN 0.3% OP SOL
CIPROFLOXACN 250MG TAB
POLYMIXIN SULF/TMP SOL

Therapeutic Category
Antidepressant:
AMITRIPTYLIN 100MG TAB
AMITRIPTYLIN 10MG TAB
AMITRIPTYLIN 25MG TAB
AMITRIPTYLIN 50MG TAB
AMITRIPTYLIN 75MG TAB
CITALOPRAM 70MG TAB
CITALOPRAM 40MG TAB
DOXEPIN HCL 100MG CAP
DOXEPIN HCL 10MG CAP
DOXEPIN HCL 25MG CAP
DOXEPIN HCL 50MG CAP
DOXEPIN HCL 75MG CAP

Therapeutic Category
Antifungal:
FLUOXETINE 10MG CAP
FLUOXETINE 20MG CAP
FLUOXETINE 40MG CAP
NORTRIPTYLIN 10MG CAP
NORTRIPTYLIN 25MG CAP
PAROXETINE 10MG TAB
PAROXETINE 20MG TAB
TRAZODONE 100MG TAB
TRAZODONE 150MG TAB
TRAZODONE 50MG TAB
FLUCONAZOLE 150MG TAB
NYSTAT/TRIAM CRE 15
NYSTAT/TRIAM CRE 30
NYSTAT/TRIAM OIN 15
NYSTATIN 100000U CRE 15
NYSTATIN 100000U CRE 30
NYSTATIN 1 00000U OIN 15
NYSTATIN 100000U OIN 30

Therapeutic Category
Antipsychotic:
FLUPHENAZINE 1MG TAB
HALOPERIDOL 0.5MG TAB
HALOPERIDOL 1 MG TAB
HALOPERIDOL 2MG TAB
HALOPERIDOL 5MG TAB
LITHIUM CARB 300MG CAP
PROCHLORPER 10MG TAB
THIORIDAZINE 25MG TAB
THIORIDAZINE 50MG TAB
THIOTHIXENE 2MG CAP

Therapeutic Category
Antiviral:
ACYCLOVIR 200MG CAP

Therapeutic Category
Anxiety:
HYDROXYZ HCL 1OMG/5ML SYP



Therapeutic Category
Asthma:
ALBUTEROL 0.5% NEB
ALBUTEROL 2MG TAB
ALBUTEROL 2MG/5ML SYP
ALBUTEROL 4MG TAB

Therapeutic Category
Cardiac:
AMILOR/HCTZ 550 TAB
ATENOL/CHLOR 5O25MGTAB
ATENOL/CHLOR100-25MGTAB
ATENOLOL IOOMG TAB
ATENOLOL 25MG TAB
ATENOLOL 5OMG TAB