He's Nervous?

We don't see him going anywhere without his driver, assistant driver and a retinue of hangers-on that would do a pop-star proud. He's not riding 99 on midnights:

• Police Superintendent Jody Weis told aldermen today he's "extremely nervous" that large numbers of police officers will retire from the already undermanned department over the next year.
  
  In addition to 74 officers who have signed up to accept the department's offer of early retirement at age 55, Deputy Superintendent Ted O'Keefe said roughly another one thousand officers will be eligible to retire in the next year.
  
  "It's impossible, frankly, to predict how many will retire," O'Keefe said.

Why not hire then Ted? Oh yeah, Shortshanks said "no." But he still found money for this!

• The department hopes to sign a contract by the end of the year with the PAR Group, a consulting firm for local government with offices in Lake Bluff, Weis said during a City Council budget hearing.
  
  Beat realignment has long been a political hot potato, with aldermen representing high-crime areas calling for more officers in their neighborhoods, and those from lower crime parts of the city loathe to give up any of their police.
  
• Ted O'Keefe, deputy police superintendent for administrative Services, told aldermen the contract with the PAR Group isn't finalized, but it is expected to worth in the neighborhood of $150,000.

Who has a cousin working for the PAR Group? You know there's a connection somewhere.