The grass may be greener in the Hoosier State, than it is in the Land of Lincoln, for Chicago police officers attempting to defy the city’s vaccine mandate.
“Hey Chicago Police Officers, we’re hiring! No vaccine mandate,” Indiana State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield tweeted. “Apply today, at statetrooper.com [for] lower taxes, great schools, [and] welcoming communities.”
Around 2,000 officers have refrained from uploading their vaccination or testing status into the city’s online portal by the October 15th deadline, and the department responded by issuing a memo on the 18th that non-compliers could have their pay withheld or lose their jobs.
Any civilian or sworn employee who shirks the policy “will become the subject of a disciplinary investigation that could result in a penalty up to and including separation from the Chicago Police Department. Furthermore, sworn members who retire while under disciplinary investigations may be denied retirement credentials,” the memo reads.
Indiana GOP Senator Mike Bruan said those officers “would be welcomed with open arms in the Hoosier State,” in an effective sales pitch.
“Our police do the hardest job in the world, and they deserve respect — not losing their pay or being fired for refusing to comply with a ridiculous vaccine mandate,” he remarked. “Indiana’s police departments are hiring now and will welcome you with the respect you deserve.”
“My office stands ready to help connect Chicago police officers to an Indiana police department that is hiring now and doesn’t have a vaccine mandate,” Braun continued. “Welcome to Indiana!”
The sentiment was echoed by Munster, IN Police Chief Steve Scheckel, who said his city, which is just over the Illinois border, is the ideal place for cops “looking for a better quality of life for their family.”
“We’ve been seeing more and more Chicago police officers when we do an emergency hire, which is basically a lateral transfer,” he said.
Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police filed for a temporary restraining order against the mandate, which will be heard by a judge this week, While the city mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened that “there will be consequences if people are not complying with what the policy is by the Oct. 15th deadline.”
Indiana might be the logical place for holdouts to find new jobs. “It’s really just a step across the state line to a better life for the officer,” Scheckel encouraged.
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Shitcago should keep their cops and imprison that bridge troll Lightfoot
Too many deranged liberals running loose to do that. The fact that possum face goon is still in office says it all.
It is “Litefoot”.
“Litehead!”
The way things are coalescing between Red America and Blue Commieland it will be easy to divide all this up before too much longer and go our separate ways. I’d rather do it with borders and boundaries than bullets and knives, but either way it needs to get done. They HATE us and want us gone, there is no compromise or room to peacefully coexist with evil, corrupt, deranged goons who want you dead. In the communist lexicon, “Unity” means eliminating any dissent, proven throughout their bloody history. “Unify” or “Unification” is the act of doing it. So when the hollow-headed corrupt dementia riddled commie crash dummy said that if he was elected he would “Unite” the country, it was a THREAT not a promise.
That munchkin needs to follow the yellow brick road back to Ozz.
HOORAY INDIANA, WE NEED MORE STATE THAT WILL STAND UP TO THIS CRAZY ADMINISTRATION.
democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot
Fuhrer wokefoot cannot deny retirement benefits to an officer who chooses to do so. The pension is protected and directed by the Constitution of the State of Illinois. Gov JB Hutt tried to change all that with a progressive tax and would have been able to change the Constitution and rape the pension fund but it failed on the ballot, big time. A CPD officer can only have pension benefits delayed if he/she is under criminal investigation at that time.
I know the police don’t want to leave the people defenseless, but hey need to secure their own families. Lightfoot is the villain here.
Jump ship. The people will take care of them selves. they will probably leave too.
That’s what they voted for. Maybe this is what it will take to get the citizens to open their eyes, and stop voting democrat.
That UGLY ßitch will be reelected by a wide margin by the stupid idiots of schittcago!. They LOVE the control she has over them!!
hey go to a better place, and that would be almost anywhere other than chicago… I wouldn’t be cop there period
Watch Chicagoans defect by the hundreds to Indiana! The ones with brains, that is… As for the ones who remain behind, you get who(m) you elect. So it goes.