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Another make-work spot for someone with way too much baggage. But when has that stopped Shortshanks from doing what he wants?

• Ex-city Fleet Commissioner Michael Picardi, suspended by City Hall this year after an embarrassing contracting mistake, has landed a new $129,000-a-year job with the Chicago Police Department.
  

  As a deputy director, Picardi will oversee the police department's general support division, which includes the city auto pound, equipment and supply, and document services and graphics, according to police department spokesman Roderick Drew.

It used to be that people with embarrassing episodes in their past were shuffled among various city departments until such time as the heat died down or the offender earned enough pension time to be eased out. We're pretty sure the Department used to be left out of that mix. But not any more.