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FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHICAGO LODGE #7
EXECUTIVE BOARD
DEAN C. ANGELO, SR.
President
RAY CASIANO, JR.
First Vice-President
Frank DiMaria Second Vice-President Daniel D. Gorman Third Vice-President Greg Bella Recording Secretary Kevin Kilmer Financial Secretary John Capparelli Treasurer
Bill Nolan Immediate Past President John Dineen Parliamentarian
Sergeants-at-Arms
Bill Burns Al Francis, Jr. Jim Jakstavich
Trustees
Robert Rutherford, Chair Dean Angelo, Jr. Mark Donahue
Pat Duckhorn Sergio Escobedo Kathleen Gahagan Michael Garza Joseph Gentile
Ken Hauser
Tom Lonergan Kevin McNulty Landry Reeves
Inez Riley
Jay Ryan
Steve Schorsch
Ron Shogren Daniel Trevino
Field Reps
Keith Carter Marlon Harvey Thomas McDonagh
Magazine Committee Members
Greg Bella, Chair Joseph Gentile Bill Burns Thomas McKenna Michael Carroll Reggie Smith
President’s Report
Send us your good news
For some time now, it has become more and more obvious to us that every month some new issue develops into the latest prior- ity, and winds up being signif- icant enough to dictate the direction of the President’s Report. This month is no exception. It would be
a working knowledge of how inner- sanctum things tend to play out in the CPD, any time a significant event occurs, or a heater winds up in the headlines, not only would the corresponding “shuffling-of-the- deck” come as no surprise, most of those in the know expect it.
DEAN C. ANGELO, SR.
refreshing to have an occasional opportu- nity to use the Chicago Lodge 7 Magazine as a vehicle to share the level of professional- ism, compassion and sheer acts of heroism that the women and men of the Chicago Police Department perform day in and day out. To that end, we wish to extend an offer to members to submit incidents, stories or events that portray the level of quality serv- ice and dedication to the citizens of Chicago that we know, all too often, go unnoticed and underreported. Any sub- mitted articles have the potential to become part of a new “Members Section” of the magazine. Please type and send elec- tronically any pertinent information to the Lodge via doreen@chicagofop.org.
Another issue, which has once again entered into the local headlines and one that we hear of time and time again, deals with the most recent wave of reports claim- ing that City Hall is admitting that we need more police officers. Wow! How many civil- ian oversight committees did it take for them to come up with that affirmation? For the past two-plus years, to every media source and to every interviewer, we have been talking about the obvious shortage of manpower and regularly calling for the need for more frequent and sustained hir- ing practices. Our message has never changed. The Department is shorthanded, and we consistently have stated that the Chicago Police Department needs to hire 2,000 new officers.
Same Old...Same Old
Scores of pundits, politicians and profes- sors continue to search for ways to stem the ever-increasing levels of violence facing Chicagoans, as well as the country-at-large. The cry to implement one program or another seems to happen so often that it feels as if their opinions surface with the same frequency as the rising and setting of the sun. They all have a theory. They all have a fix. They all offer new theories. They all promote one matrix over another. It truly baffles the brain to see so many non-police have so many answers at the ready to address Chicago’s violence. There are enough theories being bantered around out there that they could fill Soldier Field several times over.
If there were ever a saying that best fits the persona of the Chicago Police Depart- ment in the year 2016, we tend to believe “The more things change, the more they stay the same” would make the final cut. Ponder for a moment what has recently been occurring with regard to the Depart- ment, and ask yourself if you recognize any of the following recent developments:
A recent headline called the latest round of changes within the upper echelon of the Chicago Police Department “musical chairs.” Not only is this type of personnel- shift less than unique, it is also not the first time the “musical chairs” reference was used as a way to depict an intra-organiza- tional multiple change within the top ranks of our beloved agency. For those who have
Some of the regular panelists question the positive impact hiring more officers will
Addressing Violence
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