Verified

Via PDT messages:

• I got a message via PDT today, as did my whole zone, that the Director of the Department of Revenue has issued a memo stating that ALL police cars, marked and unmarked, will be issued parking citations if parked illegally. No matter if they are on an assignment or not, unless they have the blue lights and/or sirens on they will be ticketed.
  
  This is not the stupidest thing I have ever heard on this department but it sure is close. Now we are at war with Department of Revenue. OK, they get stopped for going three miles over the limit, obstruction of traffic etc. fuck this shit. This is Daley, you can bet on it.

This is ridiculous and someone downtown or at FOP better put a stop to it. Because somebodies feeling are going to get hurt and then a bunch of Revenue people will end up in jail and the Inspector General will have his hands full.

UPDATE: More verification:

• Unit from 001 gets of the air after narrowly avoiding a parking ticket from a bike unit from the Department Of Revenue. 001 units states on the air that he has been warned by a man from the Department of Revenue that he has been told to ticket all "M" plated cars that are parked illegally. Only those that have there lights activated (that are illegally parked" will be given a pass. At that point 190 gets on the air asking for a repeat of that message... Message is repeated, and before 190 can respond Car 100 gets on the air asking for WHO gave that order. Car 100 then orders all units to continue with status quo until he can confirm that validity of the memo.
  
  Turns out that the Asst-Director of the Department of Revenue has issued a memo that states ALL cars even those bearing an "M" plate that are illegally parked will be issued a parking citations (in retailiation to the Channel 2 story regarding the CTA's vehicles???).
  
  Somebody got on the air stating that 5 city vehicles on Lake Street across from the Thompson center. I went there, and am able to verify that 5 unmarked vehicles were indeed ticketed. 2 State of Illinois unmarked cars with State of Illinois plates, and 3 Cook County unmarked Police cars all had Tickets hanging on them.

And so Rome continues to burn while the civil authority crumbles.