Sunday Rumors

Again, these are rumors:

• Absolutely no hiring and no promotions for 2010 and 2011. The Department will intentionally go under 10,000 cops and keep it there. Timekeepers and all other secretaries will be civilian jobs. All able-bodied inside folk are out on the street June 1. NO Sgts or Lts will have permanent inside jobs (other than district desk Sgts), all will be on the street. Lts not assigned to districts will go to any district and watch the department designates at any time (its about to go from the best job in the department to the worst). Inside people will report directly to the commander. All sick and injured officers will be sent inside or forced onto disability. The department hopes that forcing people on the street will give them an additional 500-1000 retirements.
  
  And my favorite:
  
  EVERYBODY in uniform starting June 1, including dicks.

The "no hiring" part of the rumor is wrong as there are 60 recruits poised to start the Academy before the end of April. The rest of it though....

We've been getting a lot in e-mails about full duty people being launched from HQ. With the contract approval coming up shortly, the City is looking to empty the medical rolls and that means either Return to Duty or Forced Disability. There's going to be a ceiling on the number of people allowed to be on extended light/limited duty and it's going to be political. It's also has the potential to be very ugly.