Publicity.

Sometimes we ponder what we can do to bring more outside attention to the blog. It would be nice to have some of our issues heard by citizens so they can see what we really have to deal with on a daily basis (as if they'd really care anyway). At times, we actually wish the media would take notice and make mention of us.

Then we think back to the fact that the only major media mention we've had in recent years was that NBC 5 News fiasco this past winter that made us look like utter fuckoffs, with the help of one particular CPD ADS. And we can't help but notice that CPD is plastered all over the news in a light that is in NO way positive. No reports of the outstanding job that many POs do, sometimes above and beyond the call of duty. It's to the point where in most recent weeks, Second City Cop has been dedicated mainly to scandal discussion.

So we'll tread on the way we've trodden since August of 2006. If we don't end up with a sizeable following outside of the job (the police world is its own subculture with outsider curiosity, whereas noone really cares about dispatching outside of dispatching - including the police), we'll live. At least we still provide a forum (one of two, now) for quite a few Operations employees to vent and otherwise talk about the job.

And that was the initial purpose, anyway.

By the way, thanks for the votes of confidence in the last post. But we can't and wouldn't kiss enough ass to fit ourselves into the mayor's pocket well enough. We know of some coworkers who'd be more than happy to, though.