Chicago Dispatchers

Monday, August 14, 2006

The City: Its own bank breaker.

The Sun-Times reminds of us of why the city continues to turn its pockets inside out.

City building inspector admits to filing a false report on a porch inspection. 3rd floor railing breaks the next day. 9 year old girl falls to her death from said 3rd floor, which had been inspected by said inspector. Said inspector gets fired. And same inspector later gets his job back.

Guess the city didn't get enough of building inspector problems after last year with the 18 year-old scandal.

If one of us "contributed," as the city apparently alleged, to the death of a citizen, the city would string a noose before the litigating family could even get off of the phone. The city *quietly* (shhhh) "signed off on an agreement with that resulted in...suspension without pay for more than four months." The four months of pay obviously will cover the costs of the litigation.

We don't like lawyers/unions. We now believe that it's because we haven't been represented by the ones who represent building inspectors.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this the little blonde who used to be a call taker at COS and got screwed out of being a dispatcher in the first classes? If so, they really messed up with that, because you turned out to be one of the best. I used to work there and from what I hear, it has gotten worse than ever. I am glad I am gone. What's with the new calltakers? Did they take a test? and when was it offered? Anyone know?

14 August, 2006 10:12  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ask about Ricky G
(ex-cpd commander,lt,now stripped), who was fired and now has a 1 year suspension instead. CAN YOU SAY CLOUT?

the city will pay out big on this one too!

25 August, 2006 03:10  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry for the of topic post. I'm looking for a clarification on procedure at OMC. When a call comes into OEMC and the request is for the police, the call taker receives the information and forwards it to the appropriate Zone Disptacher. When a call comes in foe Fire or EMS, the call taker forwards the call to the Fire Side, and Fire Side call takers receive the information and forward it to either Main or Englewood Disptach. If this is correct, can someone explain why the police call takers cant take Fire / EMS related call?

Thank you
Mark

27 August, 2006 22:59  

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