PB&PA Officials Resign

Statement on the Sergeants Union website:

• On 22 November, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Chicago Police Sergeant’s Association held a special meeting to discuss recent events effecting the organization. At the meeting the board took the following action:

• The Board accepted the resignation of John Pallohusky effective immediately.
• The Board accepted the resignation of Mary O’Toole effective immediately.
• Vice President Robert Kirchner has assumed the office of President immediately.
• Sgt John Stahl from the Inspection Division, who worked as an accountant before joining the Police Department, was appointed as Treasurer.

We know we have a lot of sergeants (and lieutenants, captains, gold stars and Mike Masters) reading the blog and we are as sickened as they are that fellow cops could even be accused of perfidy like this.

We also stand by our previous statement that J-Fed's comparison of the accused as "Bernie Madoff" is misguided at best...

• Madoff stole around $18 billion from ten or more thousand people, ruining countless lives. This sergeant stole dues money from 1,200 fellow cops, not retirement nest eggs

...and prejudicial to a potential jury pool at worst...

• Madoff ruined lives from coast-to-coast and was rightly painted as a monster.

Those commentators ripping us for making part of this story about J-Fed's inappropriate statements must not remember he is supposed to be the Superintendent of Police, not the State's Attorney, not the Judge and certainly not the jury. Even Shortshanks has had sense enough to keep his mouth shut about this one.