Chicago Police Department - Chicago, IL Review

Well I thought I would review my employer.  Where can I start there have been books written on this.  First,  political corruption has ruined this job. You need to understand that in every job there are jerks but you can not judge by that.  This is my perspective, I have been doing this for 10 years and its becoming a dis-service to the community.  When I first started we were allowed to do as they call proactive policing.  That means finding criminals and arresting them before they commit crime, now they do not want that, they want you to be reactive to policing and arrest people after they commit crime.  Secondly, you can not run a police department with politics.  The mayor as corrupt as he should police himself, he distances himself by insulating himself by using people to take the fall for him and he states "I don't know anything"  thats just silly and Chicagoans buy it?  If you have a problem with a few people (bad apples) you can not hold responsible 13,000 police officers.  The mayor does it for the votes pure and simple. The political corruption goes deep into promotions and supervisors appointed by aldermen and other politicians, the testing is a joke others seem to score high some how with never studying?  They promote people who are unqualified and if they were at your job, you would quit.  Most of the supervisors create so many problem for officers (just make you miserable) to do there job that most officers feel defeated and don't do anything.  They do the minimum to get by, because the whole system is futile.  The city wants you to generate revenue by writing tickets and giving hard working citizens a hard time.  I really enjoy my job but I have seen the changes for the worst and the citizen will really pay.  With criminals suing the city for petty things and getting paid.  One guy (career criminal) sued the city saying he was tortured with a chain saw and porn was downloaded to his computer (no evidence of either) and he was paid $195K which make me laugh.   This creates a deep pockets mentality, and really hurts the citizens because officer's then will do the minimum when you get raped, robbed or hurt the officer's will just give you a report and tell you good luck.  Is that what people really want?  The pay is horrible we make $65K with the average house in a good neighborhood costing around $300K and you have to pay for private schools(public are horrible) you will be living in the poor house.  Benefits are good decent health insurance.  Co-workers are average some are decent to deal with others just jerks so we have to deal with the same jerks you do trust me.   Overall, I like this job because you don't work in an office but I will retire as soon as possible and try to distance myself it is very frustrating and disappointing (just ask any cop) he will tell you don't even think of doing this job.  The stress from your employer is so bad that criminals are pleasant to deal with I swear. I'm sure that I could go on and on and on.........If anyone had the nuts they would make me superintendent, but I don't think that would every happen...lol