Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Beware of Males!

Fantastic reporting from the thieves over at Channel 7:

  • Chicago police have issued a warning about 14 armed robberies on Chicago's West and Northwest sides.

    Thirteen of those robberies happened over several hours on Saturday in Avondale, Austin, Logan Square and Portage Park.

    Another armed robbery happened Thursday.

    Police said in each instance, the group of four to five men jump out of cars, pointing guns at victims and demanding their wallets and purses.

That's the extent of the descriptions given by ABC - "four to five men."

To add insult to injury....:

  • Police said the robbers were armed with black handguns, rifles and knives.

They do a better job describing the handguns than they do the offenders! But aren't they supposed to capitalize the adjective? We thought that was a Law or something.

After that, they list all fourteen addresses, but that's just reporting and does nothing to insult their viewers.

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Voting Today

IMPORTANT: Remember to vote NO on the "Bring Chicago Home" binding referendum. 

These jags constantly fight against non-binding referendums  even appearing on the ballot to reduce the size of government, term limits and all sorts of stuff that would actually change government, but then put forward a tax hike and lie about what and where the money is going. 

If the CTU is backing this, you know they're going to steal every dime.

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Standards Falling Nationally

Thinking of moving to Tennessee?:

  • Nashville’s police department changed its standards to increase the number of female officers that make up its workforce. As part of an initiative to make the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s 30% female, the MNPD dropped an ability test for police recruits and replaced it with an easier agility test, WSMV reported. The change resulted in more recruits passing, particularly women.

    The original test, known as the Cooper Standards Test, “measured pushups, sit ups, a 300-meter sprint and a 1.5-mile run,” a report from the MNPD said. During an 18-month period between 2019 and 2021, a total of 1138 recruits attempted to join the MNPD. Of those, 72 (6%) failed the Cooper Standards Test.

    In 2021, Police Chief John Drake signed the 30×30 initiative to make women 30 percent of the MNPD by 2030. Part of this drive involved dropping the Cooper Standards Test in favor of the Physical Agility Test which “consists of a 99-yard agility run, a rescue simulation (dummy drag), chain link fence climb, solid wall climb and a 500 yard run,” according to the MNPD.

If you really want to be amazed, check out this video report that has actual footage of the "agility run."

This isn't just reducing the standards (which all police departments did for age and gender anyway). This is obliterating any effort at having an actual ability to do what is required of police officers in dire life-threatening emergencies.

If you're retiring and moving to Tennessee, be aware.

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Trial Date Approaches

The trial is beginning soon for the drug-addled, carjacking, attempted-cop-murdering, newly-hired-85K-accounting spot person on 01 April.

Our reader / cop victim has been doing a lot of research on his assailant:

  • Can anyone name any employee in recent memory who was hired for a 85000 a year job with the city while awaiting trial for several violent felonies ?
  • Which high powered politician pushed through the application to the hiring stage with all these red flags
  • Is the city going to pay her the days she’s in court for trial for attempted murder , vehicular hijacking, and other felonies? 

This is going to be a bench trial at 26th Street, so some friendly faces in the courtroom would be appreciated. We'll post a room number when we have it.

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Monday, March 18, 2024

Wait...What? The Name?

We think the entire intent of this article is to change the name of a law? While claiming police are bad of course

  • In the midst of a partly cloudy October afternoon in 2022, Jesse Green dashed out the door of his home. Dragging luggage in one hand and clutching onto a sandwich, jacket and firearm in the other, Green hurriedly made his way to the back of his parked vehicle.

    As executive director of the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council, Green was running late for his trip to the Illinois Main Street Conference in downstate Bloomington — looking forward to furthering his knowledge in community and economic development.

    He loaded his luggage into the trunk, where he usually stores his firearm whenever he travels. But in his rush, he forgot to place his gun in its case. Instead, after closing the trunk, he quickly got into the driver’s seat and dropped some of the items in his hands, including his jacket and his firearm, into the passenger seat.

Notice who the offender is about to be. We underlined it so you don't miss it. Note, by his own admission, he is currently in violation of the law. Period. Full stop.

  • Before he had made it out of the North Lawndale community, Green found himself stuck in traffic. He turned down a one-way street — in the wrong direction — to avoid the congestion and passed by a Chicago Police car, which made a quick U-turn, flashing its red and blue lights, and pulled him over.

    During the traffic stop, while reaching for his license and proof of insurance, Green noticed the butt of his gun underneath his jacket in the passenger seat and informed the officer. “Hey, I have my weapon, and it’s in the seat,” he told the officer, who then instructed Green to step out of the vehicle.

Leaving aside the fact that CPD squads don't have red lights, while in violation of Weapons statute, he commits a traffic violation in full view of the police. Then he admits to the cops (who haven't even requested a search at this point), that his gun is on the seat, immediately accessible, loaded and uncased. The article says so, but twists it into a critique of....cops doing their job AND the name of the law:

  • Since his gun was not stored properly and Green did not have a concealed carry license, he was arrested for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a felony charge that could lead to one to three years in prison.

    Green is among a growing number of people in Cook County who have been arrested for unlawful use of a weapon resulting from a traffic stop. The increase has emboldened civil rights advocates who have long criticized how Chicago Police use traffic stops and has renewed efforts to rename unlawful use of a weapon charges.

Um....how did cops "use [a] traffic stop"? He drove the wrong way down the street in front of them and they did exactly what cops are authorized to do. Then the "executive director" volunteered that he had a weapon close at hand. He was detained, transported, processed and will get his day in court.

UUW is one of those charges that cops DO NOT have discretion on. You find a gun and someone in possession of said weapon, they better appear on an arrest report, there better be a case report, an inventory number, a call to the gun desk, sergeant and lieutenant signatures on the arrest report, and a call to Crimesha's office for approval (or disapproval) of charges.

Any one of those missing, and a cop is looking at suspension time. A number of years back, we know of a bunch of cops who were suspended, fired and faced charges of their own for making deals on the street regarding weapons. We also know of someone who made commander of 025 after being caught with a number of weapons in his locker on the west side, and you can search through our archives and comment sections for the history of Escamerit.

But all of this seems mainly to criticize CPD and the name of the law - Unlawful Use of a Weapon - along with the felony charge that goes with it. 

NEWSFLASH for WBEZ - CPD didn't pass the law, name the law or sign the law. And enforcing the law is kind of the job of cops everywhere, regardless of every leftist effort to have cops not enforce any laws, especially in the ghettos where crime is rampant.

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How Much?

The teachers are aiming big:

  • If the Chicago Teachers Union gets its way with the mayor they helped elect, their next contract will boost the average teacher’s pay by half to $144,620 in the 2027-2028 school year.

    The average now is $93,182.

    Teacher pay rose more than $43,000 since 2012 – nearly triple the private-sector salary increase. If CTU’s demands are met, another $51,438 will be added to the average salary by the next contract – a 55.2% increase.

The balls on these people are amazing.

The linked article shows their raises versus what private sector people have gotten and it isn't even close:

And their pay raises as compared to results:

These morons need to be brought to heel, stripped of the ability to strike and have pay directly proportional to classroom results. And it needs to happen now.

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This Sounds Like a Mess

In a few years, we'll probably be far away and just shake our heads:

  • Prosecutors say two Chicago men robbed a construction crew, exchanged gunfire with an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at the scene, fled, then returned to fire another shot, only to have one of the victims pull out a gun and open fire on them, too. No injuries were reported.

Robbers armed. Security armed. Victims armed.

No one can hit a damn thing, but everyone is blazing away.

Dart for Mayor!

Rumor popping up that Tommy Dart is looking into a mayoral run.

As Dart did such a good job emptying Cook County jail, it's hoped that he'll be just as successful in emptying out Chicago as Prickwrinkle's tool.

Conehead still has three years to go, but Prickwrinkle is already realizing he's a one-term failure, so perhaps she's lining up the next disaster?

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

S.O.I.D. Card Needed

When you're a felon who can't buy a gun legally, what are you left with?

  • A 65-year-old Chicago man is charged with attempted murder for allegedly attacking another man with a samurai sword in Auburn Gresham this week. Judge David Kely detained Gerald Davis as a public safety threat, calling the attack “brazen, bold, and violent.”

    Police responding to a noise complaint in the 800 block of West 84th Street around 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday found the 61-year-old victim leaning against a vehicle, bleeding from both hands and missing some fingers, officials said. The cops applied tourniquets to both of the victim’s arms to help slow his blood loss.

    They also saw Davis nearby holding a samurai sword, and they watched as he threw the weapon, Davis’ arrest report said. He was immediately detained.

We fully expect the legislature to begin a Sword Owner Identification process. Not to mention a registry for Assault Swords such as this felon got hold of.

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Conehead "Frustrated"

And not just by the waiting period at the hospital for his panic attacks:

  • Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday he is “frustrated” that the city of Chicago spent approximately $524 million on employee overtime in 2023 — 19% more than in 2022, with more than half of the total amount used to compensate Chicago Police Department officers for working extra hours.

    “Yes, I’m frustrated, yes,” Johnson said in response to a WTTW News story that was the first to report that the Chicago Police Department spent $293 million on overtime last year, 40% more than in 2022 and nearly three times the $100 million earmarked for police overtime set by the Chicago City Council as part of the city’s 2023 budget.

    “This has been a situation that has gotten increasingly out of control,” Johnson said at an unrelated news conference. “The superintendent and I, we both agree on that.”

And why is it out of control? C'mon, you and Larritorious are both adults, you may have passed elementary school at some point, maybe even high school. And you existed in the school system for a short while, correct?

  • Overtime covers shortages.
  • Shortages are caused by lack of hiring.
  • Lack of hiring was (is) caused by defunding, demoralizing and denigrating an entire profession to the point no one wants to do it.

And who spent the better part of three years doing that? 

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Maybe, Just Maybe....

He was guilty the first time around? 

A leopard doesn't change his spots:

  • A man who spent 22 years in prison after he was allegedly framed by a notorious Chicago Police Department detective is in line for a $5.5 million payout, even as he faces charges for a home invasion and kidnapping he's accused of committing a year after his release.

    The City Council’s Finance Committee is scheduled to meet Monday, when it will consider a proposed payment to settle a lawsuit by Ricardo Rodriguez, who claims former CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara and other CPD investigators bullied witnesses into identifying him as the shooter in a 1995 Belmont Cragin shooting. Dozens of men have won release from prison based on similar allegations against Guevara, who retired from CPD in 2005.

    [...] But Rodriguez’s petition for a certificate of innocence was denied by a Cook County judge in 2019, a decision upheld by an appeals court in 2021. The certificate would have represented formal recognition from a court that Rodriguez was innocent in the murder, and entitle him to around $200,000 from a state fund for the wrongfully convicted.

    Prosecutors now allege that in August 2019, a little over a year after his release, Rodriguez, his younger sister and two accomplices went to a house in the 2200 block of North Leamington early in the morning wearing masks, police badges and bulletproof vests, according to court records.

Hmmm. Denied a "certificate of innocence," which is just a license for slimebag attorneys to extort money from taxpayers, and then caught up in a kidnapping gig. He claims he's being framed...again.

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

ISP on High Alert

All of the sudden, the Illinois governor WANTS border security?

What changed?

  • After hearing about the size of the average American, Haitian cannibal gangs rushed the southern border near El Paso this week in a race to be first in line for the smorgasbord.

    "Hey man, look at dat," Haitian cannibal and political leader Barbecue said. "Those are some chunky, chubby, rolly polly people coming at me. Hang on, let me grab my bib and steak knives. It's lunchtime!"

    After reports surfaced of Haitian gang members cannibalizing their victims, coup leader Barbecue announced he would be taking his men across the U.S. border to find a more plentiful source of food. With a nearly 30 percent overall obesity rate among adults, experts believe the U.S. is poised to be a prime destination for those wishing to dine on human flesh.

Texas Governor Abbott has promised to bus any and all Haitians to Illinois for some of that "corn fed governor."

Florida Governor DeSantis reported police in his state stopped a boatload of Haitians carrying drugs, guns, night vision goggles and about thirty cases of barbecue sauces:

  • A vessel from Haiti was intercepted two weeks ago with 25 refugees aboard, DeSantis said during a news conference in Winter Haven on Friday.

DeSantis supposedly shipped their boat north along with a detailed map of Chicago harbors and beaches.

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Chief of Patrol Named

Finally, Conehead is appointing Larritorious' command staff:

  • The Chicago Police Department has officially named 28-year veteran Jon Hein as the new Chief of Patrol.

    Police Supt. Larry Snelling described Hein as an "experienced leader" who has served multiple positions in the Bureau of Patrol.

    "I have seen firsthand Chief Hein's leadership in responding to public safety concerns, major events, and critical incidents and it's why I know he is the right person for this position. As Chief of Patrol, he will lean on this experience to oversee the direction of our Department's largest bureau and guide the public safety strategies in each of our 22 districts," Snelling said in a news release.

Also, Papaioannou has been named the Deputy Chief of Counterterrorism.

Nothing like burying bad news on a Friday night.

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Passing the Buck

As usual, no one wants to accept responsibility:

  • As Chicago’s top cop announced charges Friday against a convicted felon accused of brutally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and killing her 11-year-old son, Police Supt. Larry Snelling repeatedly said the attack “should’ve never happened.”

    But questions remained over what should have been done to prevent the attack, including why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday after having been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the pregnant woman while on parole.

We're going to go out on a limb here and say that since CPD doesn't run Stateville (or any other Illinois prison), then we're blameless. Larritorious can relax.

  • When announcing the charges, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx told reporters that the woman had a “lifetime” order protecting her against Brand. But officials in Foxx’s office later walked back her statement, claiming the order "had no expiration date" and they were “still investigating” whether an order stemming from a 2009 conviction was still active.

"...lifetime...?

So Crimesha - although ignorant of what an actual Order of Protection entails - appears to dodge responsibility also.

  • During a detention hearing Friday, prosecutors said the woman had been alerted when Brand was released on parole in October because she was the victim in previous domestic violence cases against Brand, including repeated violations of protection orders. Just months after his release, the woman received a text message from Brand on Jan. 30 threatening her family, prosecutors said. Two days later, he allegedly appeared at the door of her apartment building in the 5900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue.

    Prosecutors said the woman informed the state parole officials. When confronted by a commander from the Illinois Department of Corrections, Brand admitted going to the woman's home but claimed he was "looking for an apartment." Still, Brand was sent back to prison while the Illinois Prisoner Review Board considered the allegations, prosecutors said.

    The board held a hearing and “determined the alleged violations did not meet the preponderance of evidence standard,” it said in a statement, adding that Brand was “returned to parole on March 12 and notifications were made again to registered victims.”

    The board did not say why they did not find Brand in violation of his parole, given Brand’s criminal record and his past experience with the woman.

Now we're getting to who's to blame. The Parole Board - appointed by the governor(s) if we aren't mistaken - blew off the parole violation despite a history of parole violations because they're in the business of keeping prisons empty and not keeping citizens safe.

We could go through our archives and our work history and find dozens of instances where we personally called IDOC for a detention number and were refused 99% of the time. And this time it cost a kid his life.

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Compelled Vaccinations

Anyone remember how this went with American citizens?

  • After a recent outbreak of measles in city-run shelters, Chicago said Friday it will now require migrants staying there to get the MMR vaccine to prevent further cases.

    The city also said it will not evict thousands of migrants from shelters on Saturday, as was the plan previously.

    Officials are prioritizing six shelters to get to a 95% vaccination rate by the end of this weekend.

So instead of threatening to suspend or fire the illegals, the city will merely expel them from shelters if they don't comply.

Last we heard, there were a dozen cases of active measles. Potentially hundreds have been exposed at the Cermak/Halsted shelter alone.

And now, in New Mexico, guess what made an appearance?

  • A New Mexico man has died of complications from the bubonic plague as state health officials scramble to assess the ongoing risk in the region.

This isn't an extinct disease. It manages to pop up now and then every couple of years, usually in the Southwestern US. 

Which as it happens, is Ground Zero for illegals who aren't being screened for anything.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Back to the Lobbies!

Have they gotten the smell out of all the police lobbies? 

The bedbugs and fleas?

The measles?

  • Chicago officials declined on Thursday to confirm whether they plan to evict from city shelters thousands of men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border, even as health officials scrambled to cope with an apparent measles outbreak in the city’s largest shelter.

    The lack of clarity means that the fate of as many as 5,600 migrants who are set to exhaust limits first imposed by Mayor Brandon Johnson in November — but then extended three times in January and February — remains in flux, less than 48 hours before Saturday’s deadline.

Conehead's people will probably pulls something out of their collective asses, but if they don't, guess where the illegals are headed?

  • Migrants evicted from a city shelter can return to the designated “landing zone” for buses from Texas at Polk and Desplaines streets in the West Loop, according to the policy imposed by Johnson.

    Pressed by reporters, Johnson said he did not know how many migrants were on the verge of being evicted from city shelters.

    “I don’t know if it’s a substantial number, but again, they can return to the loading zone,” the mayor said when asked about how many migrants must leave the shelters. “That’s one place, or they can decide to move on. You know, they don’t necessarily have to remain within the structure that we’re providing.”

And last time, the "landing zones" led directly to Police District lobbies for weeks and months on end.

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Still "No"


Another massive payout coming:

  • An unauthorized police chase leading to a traffic accident that left a 15-year-old boy unable to walk or speak will likely result in a $45 million settlement with the city — one of the largest in Chicago history.

    The proposed payment would go to Nathen Jones, who suffered a “massive traumatic brain injury” in the April 2021 crash, according to the family's attorney.

The reasons don't matter. The justification doesn't matter. 

Only the end result is what lawyers and juries are looking at.

Casino Problems?

That casino everyone was excited about? That was going to solve all of the pension issues?

Problems?

  • Bally’s is reportedly considering a buyout offer that could soon turn the publicly traded company to privately owned, as the corporation faces funding concerns over its Chicago casino.

    The Sun-Times reported Tuesday that Bally’s has formed a special committee to evaluate a bid from Standard General, a New York hedge fund, to buy out shareholders.

    [...] 

    Last week, the reports say, Bally’s CFO Marcus Glover told the Nevada Gaming Control Board that the company needs to bridge an $800 million funding gap to cover $1.1 billion in costs still remaining to build the permanent Bally’s Chicago Casino at the Tribune Freedom Center site.

    While Glover said Bally’s “has a source” to solve the funding gap, according to the Sun-Times, it has still not yet secured most of that financing with construction supposedly starting on the permanent casino site in just months.

We don't pretend to be financial geniuses. But when people who ARE financial geniuses start talking about "funding gap[s]" and "not yet secured...financing" then we start to wonder what the Hell is going on.

Chicago missed it's casino window two or three mayors when the investment "consortium" ended up being celebrities and connected politicians trying to get their beaks wet.

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Bears Playing Both Sides

They better not get a single taxpayer dime from this bull$hit:

  • The Chicago Bears stirred excitement and alarm Monday after carefully unveiling a piece of its plans for a new stadium and promising to spend more than $2 billion to help build a new publicly owned domed stadium on Chicago’s lakefront.

    The excitement came from fans and supporters who cheered the thought of the Bears staying in Chicago. But the alarm came from vast corners around the city and state, as the Bears’ plans lacked significant details and raised a host of questions — not only about how much public funding would be required and how that revenue would be raised, but also about how the Bears might win over Chicago and Illinois lawmakers as well as overcome opposition from open space and historical landmark advocates.

But over in Arlington Heights:

  • While the Bears have said their focus is on Chicago now, Arlington Heights officials said the team told them Monday that its interest in the former Arlington Park site “has not changed.” Village officials continue to try to get the schools and the team to reach an agreement on property taxes.

    “The Village’s focus remains on finding a path forward to a successful redevelopment of the former Arlington Park site,” Mayor Tom Hayes said.

So obviously, they're playing both sides....an odd position for a team that can't do either on the field.

But if they want control over the hotels, bars, associated gambling revenues, etc, then Arlington Heights is the obvious long term move.

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Take My Car, Please

Ultra liberal Canada has taken bending over backwards to criminals to another level:

  • “They’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”

    Unbelievable.

    Canadian police recommend leaving car fobs outside to deter armed thieves from breaking into homes. The thieves target cars, not other belongings, making it easier for them to steal without confrontation. This shocking advice raises concerns about home security and personal safety.

And, since Canada has a very ingrained anti-gun / anti-self-defense tradition, thieves can pretty much break into houses with impunity and take what they like.

Where did they come up with this completely stupid idea?

  • Some residents in California's Bay Area communities have begun leaving their parked vehicles with the trunks left open in the hope of discouraging auto break-ins.

    Photos posted on social media and shared by the San Francisco-based news station KGO-TV showed two SUVs parked side by side along an Oakland street. The trunk doors of both vehicles were open, and the vehicle owners could not be seen in the immediate vicinity.

    The person who posted the photo on social media watched the vehicle owners leave their trunk doors open and walk away, the station reported. The person added a caption to the photo that read, "Imagine having to clean out your car and leaving it open in public, just so people won't break your windows."

Ah yes....California. We should have guessed.

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Warm Day, Eh?

But weather has nothing to do with crime in the words of some New York carpetbagger from a few years back:

  • Nine people were killed in violence across Chicago over a 24-hour period from Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning.

    The large number of slayings would be unusual on a warm summer weekend and is startling for a late-winter weekday.

    Most of the victims were killed in shootings.

We're waiting for Goudie and Steinberg to tell us the racial breakdown of the victims and shooters to compare to the city population. 

Hopefully, with the slayings running from the far north side to the far south side, an acceptable equality of outcome will finally bring racial justice to the lib-tarded media minds. 

We couldn't bear another iTeam report or a Slum Times column about racist traffic stops!

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More of This Please

Hilarious:

  • Officials say a murder victim managed to shoot his killer before dying, and, after the murderer fled, a passerby took the victim’s gun, hunted down the killer, and shot some more. It all happened last Friday afternoon in the 7400 block of South Euclid, according to Chicago police and prosecutors.

The entire story is over at the CWB blog and it's a doozy. 

At reporting time, they still haven't caught the passerby....and one may be forgiven for hoping they never do.

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Less of This Please

Anyone see this one coming?
  • A man just released from prison for domestic assault has been arrested after an 11-year-old boy was killed and his pregnant mother critically wounded inside their home on the North Side Wednesday, officials said.

    The suspect, 37, has a long criminal history that dates back to at least 2004 in Cook County. He has been convicted of domestic battery and violating orders of protection in several cases. No charges had been announced as of Wednesday evening.

And....:

  • The suspect was most recently convicted of aggravated domestic battery home invasion and possession of a stolen motor vehicle in 2017. State prison records show the suspect was paroled Tuesday from the Stateville Correctional Center, where he had been held since Feb. 1.

    He previously noted in a filing in an ongoing civil rights lawsuit against state prison officials that he had been released from prison on Oct. 6. It's unclear why he was sent back to prison in the same case. Officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections, the state Prisoner Review Board and the Cook County state's attorney's office didn't respond to questions.

But of course, no "truth in sentencing" laws will be proposed and no return to a Death Penalty statute. Hell, even "life in prison" has no meaning in a democrat run $hithole state. 

Just keep piling up the dead bodies.

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"Restorative" Failure

This is what happens when democrats love criminals more than accountability:

  • After prosecutors charged Desmond Johnson with having a pistol in his waistband during a traffic stop last summer, they made the 20-year-old a deal. They would divert his case to the Restorative Justice Community Court and, if he completed the program, they’d drop the felony charge.

    Johnson agreed, signing a “repair of harm agreement” on November 6 requiring him to do five things: create a resume and cover letter, get a job, attend a gun education class, complete a 10-week “financial literacy class,” and “create a vision board to show positive thought patterns, goals, and individuality.” 

    He was also ordered not to possess any guns.

    Now 21, Johnson’s restorative justice plan is in jeopardy. Prosecutors have charged him with having a tactical carbine in a backpack as he ran from police on Tuesday, March 5.

This ass gets a "second chance" along with all sorts of conditions for an initial felony...and then disregards it completely because he knows he'll probably never be held accountable.

But hey, register your rifles so that Fata$$ can confiscate them after the next "mass shooting" occurs without any second chances for you.

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Not Teaching

Teachers are supposed to teach, correct? It's in their job title...."teacher." but they're encouraging kids to skip school to boost their numbers at a tax-hike rally:

  • The Chicago Teacher’s Union is accused of violating school district policies by encouraging teachers to help get students to attend a get-out-the-vote event happening during the school day.

    The Illinois Policy Institute has now filed an ethics complaint.

    It said the union sent a message to members asking them to get students to attend a Friday morning rally at union headquarters. It’s put on in partnership with promoters of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s real estate transfer tax. The message says students will listen to candidates and political organizers before marching to an early voting site.

    Chicago Public Schools prohibits teachers from engaging in political activity during work time.

Wasn't there an FOP president a few years back who got into trouble for being photographed with a flag while next to his squad car? He was punished for that.

And weren't there a couple of cops, kneeling in the lobby of the 006th District with fists raised is support of some drug dealer who overdosed in Minnesota, who had CR numbers filed against them? they didn't get punished if we recall.

And now teachers, on the taxpayer dime, are encouraging kids (who cannot read or do math at grade level), to skip school for a tax-hike rally, when the rules specifically state kids of voting age can have two-hours to vote - either at the beginning of the school day or the end - but nothing about playing hooky.

Time to outlaw the teachers union.

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Academy Class Cancelled?

Again, from the comments:

  • dis month's recruit class is being cancelled because there are not enough new hires to fill two homerooms. Lonnnng gone are the days of 80-120 being hired per month... at a time when hiring standards were much more strict.

    Recruitment unit has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for months. Going to grocery stores and gas stations in the barrios, handing out flyers, desperate to have black and brown kids sign up for the exam. ask anyone who's sat in meetings with command staff: it's all about race over quality. and HR is being told to "work up" files. example>> years ago it was zero drug use... then it was no drug use within 10 years, then 5, then 3... another example was arrests. felony arrests on record? no problemo, as long as it's nolle'd you're good.

    rough sea's ahead, guys n gals.

Looking for verification. This 80-to-120 would have been useful this fall, manning the desks citywide, freeing up uniformed coppers for DNC duty.

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Re-Hire Program in Trouble?

More rumors!

  • rehire program is going to be nuked. it's been a failure in almost every measurable metric. many of them have gotten rehired, only to come back and stay a few weeks/months and then resign... again. people who have applied to be rehired have copa and Bia cases when they left and aren't coming back. domestic beefs, issues with the agencies they left to, you name it.

    applicants in the process will be okay but there's going to be a cut off date in the next few months to wind it down.

So....the grass wasn't greener?

Looking for verification.

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Good Point

The media lies constantly, and their lies are bankrupting Chicago:

  • Asked about Kimberly Foxx’s greatest accomplishment as a prosecutor, candidate Clayton Harris stated without hesitation Foxx’s “exonerations.”

    It doesn’t require deep knowledge for Chicago’s seemingly endless supply of political swamp creatures to understand where and how their bread is buttered. Harris certainly knows that if he wants to pull off winning the election to a job for which he is, like Kim Foxx, completely unqualified to hold, he must maintain the strict dictates of the ruling party in Chicago.

    [...]

    But most importantly, the exonerations are the lie that binds progressives like Foxx and the media in Chicago. More and more, the sole purpose in Chicago media is to protect their doomed narratives so endemic in the exoneration movement. By supporting Foxx’s exonerations, Harris has given the critical wink to the Chicago media.

As Preib explains:

  • Crimesha exonerates criminals
  • criminals use connected law firms to sue Chicago - why do you think Crimesha is starting up a new law firm in her final months? To be closer to the money!
  • connected law firms use their share to further the progressive agenda and expand the money machine

It's an extensive road map, so go read it all. 

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Beware the Dump

A comment provoking a lot of vitriol:

  • Hey SCC, off topic but my wife just gave birth and I informed my Sgt that I will be taking my 12 weeks which was fought for for years. I was informed that if I take the 12 weeks I will be dumped and told 4 weeks is what I will take. I have been hearing other officers being told the same thing. I’m taking 12 weeks, if I get dumped what recourse do I/we have? Anyone know if we can sue the brass for a hostile work environment ? My wife and I thank you for any advice

If you have enough money, you can hire a lawyer to sue anyone for anything.

And if the FOP got the twelve weeks family leave approved, it's certainly a Contract violation. We know the supervisors got it, but did the rank-and-file?

In the meantime, unit assignment usually comes with conditions. And certain units (Mounted comes to mind) are specifically exempted from certain Contractual protections (no summer furloughs). And if you make waves....we're assuming it's not a biddable spot....you make your choices and you live with the consequences.

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Dolton Again?

Not only is the mayor of Dolton bucking for a stint in Federal prison, a trustee is flirting with State penitentiary time:

  • A trustee of a south suburb is accused of sexual misconduct with a village employee while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Las Vegas, according to a pair of complaints filed with the Illinois Department of Human Rights.

    The trustee vehemently denies the allegations.

    The employee worked for Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard who was also on the trip along with her security detail and other village officials.

A quick search of the Dolton website has six trustees listed, three of them women, leaving three men under a cloud. 

As far as we can tell, the only people investigating this allegation is the Illinois Department of Human Rights, which we imagine doesn't have the personnel, equipment or authorization to investigate an actual crime. 

But we suppose in a state with all sorts of unauthorized agencies operating outside of their lawful mandates, we shouldn't be surprised.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Refusing Endorsements

Almost humorous:

  • The Democratic candidates for Cook County state’s attorney distanced themselves Friday from the controversial head of the Chicago police union after he released a video making favorable comments about them both.

    John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, said his remarks were not meant as an official union endorsement but an encouragement for rank-and-file police officers to not vote Republican.

    “The Cook County state’s attorney’s race will be decided in the Democratic primary,” Catanzara says...

He isn't wrong, but neither candidate wants the FOP nod, and....:

  • Both Burke and Harris released statements Friday saying they had not sought the endorsement of the FOP or its controversial president — and seeking to tie the other to the union.

They're not campaigning against Crimesha and her record of dead and maimed minority victims, but that the support of the police union - which at its most basic stands for law and order - is a bad thing.

Incredible. Democrats love crime.

And guess who has noticed this also? The conservative business community:

  • Conservative donors in finance are supplying six-figure political donations to Cook County state’s attorney candidate Eileen O’Neill Burke this week, helping her open a gaping lead in fundraising for the March 19 Democratic primary.

    By Friday, with a little more than two weeks before balloting ends, O’Neill Burke had reported nearly $1.92 million in donations, more than twice the $750,000 reported by her opponent, university lecturer Clayton Harris III, who won the Cook County Democratic endorsement.

Business owners are losing millions here and billions across the nation in blue $hithole states and have realized that the only way to stop the bleeding is a return to law, order and punishing crime.

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The Other Migration

Millions of illegals have invaded and are scattering to blue-state-$hitholes, and that is causing the "other migration:"

  • A lot has been reported about celebrities like Joe Rogan moving out of California in recent years. However, economist Stephen Moore says there's a much broader trend here.

    During a January interview with Fox Business, Moore claimed that over the last 10 years, about five million people have left the so-called "blue states" Illinois, New York, California and New Jersey.

    “This is one of the biggest mass migrations in American history,” he said.

It certainly is.

Between 1920 and 1970, nearly six million blacks moved from the south to northern cities in search better jobs and an escape from the Civil Rights violations. In 1920, the US population was around 106,000,000. By 1970, it was 203,000,000. That works out to about 6% of the total population growth uprooting itself and moving.

In 2010, the population was 308,000,000 and in 2020 it grew to 331,000,000, then five million people moving is around 21% of the total population growth moving elsewhere. 

That's a huge number and gives a different spin on the seven million illegals - a low-ball estimate - streaming over the border. The people leaving are the ones that can afford to, and those staying (or arriving) can't.

Talk to some soon-to-be-retired coworkers. We'll bet around half are leaving town before next year.

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Closed for Business

A couple days ago, we mentioned Pittsburgh PD wasn't responding to an entire series of calls for service that weren't "in progress."

That wasn't the full extent of the disaster that is Pittsburgh:

  • "The Purge" is coming to Pittsburgh between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., and if that works out well enough for the city's criminal class, maybe they'll expand those hours.

    [...] Under the new rules that went into effect at the end of February and were just given nationwide attention by End Wokeness on Twitter/X, there will be no Pittsburgh police at the city's six police stations between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.

They're actually closing police stations for four hours overnight. Cops will still be on the streets, and they'll probably have some form of access to locker rooms and such, but the lobbies will be closed / locked / unavailable.

We used to joke with the desk crew about hanging a "Closed" sign on the entrance on particularly busy nights...and some of the overly slow nights, too. But Pittsburgh is actually doing it.

Maybe Conehead will let District Commanders dig a moat out front and raise the drawbridge for a few hours overnight or on major holidays.

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Monday, March 11, 2024

Paging Cuck Goudie

Anyone got his number? We found another racial disparity he needs to report on:

  • Under Mayor Brandon Johnson, Black people hold more top salaried city jobs and top mayoral appointments than any other racial group, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found.

    Along with Johnson, Chicago’s fourth Black mayor, Black city leaders now include the police superintendent, fire commissioner, corporation counsel, budget director plus heads of several city departments and the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Transit Authority, all key mayoral appointments.

As Chuckles pointed out quite loudly the other week, blacks make up 28% of Chicago's population, white white people account for 32%. 

Conehead's cabinet does not reflect this in any way, shape or form. We expect lots of headlines this week.

Someone better call that wife-beater, beta male, too. He loves to toss out the racial stats claiming token whites being butt-hurt about promotional opportunities and ignoring brown people entirely.

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"Reimagine" the Past

Let's see....take multiple million dollar properties along with millions of commercial square footage off the tax rolls pretty much forever....what could go wrong?

  • The city of Chicago has announced plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city's downtown into mixed-used and residential towers.

    The initiative, called LaSalle Street Reimagined, would convert nearly 2.3 million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of Chicago, an area known as The Loop.

    The plan incentivises developers to make the conversions and locally owned businesses through grants to inhabit vacant storefronts, building lobbies and former banking floors – while incorporating housing into the towers above.

Correct us if we're wrong, but didn't Chicago used to have giant sets of high rises dedicated solely to housing? We seem to remember spending a lot of time answering calls there. 

Elevators never worked, hallways smelled like piss, shit and weed, holes in the walls to make multiple apartment "suites," Chain link fencing in the breezeways, surrounded by rats, and often raining canned goods when we pulled up to a call.

But damn, we never missed Leg Day, climbing the stairs three and four times a night.

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Stop Asking Questions!

Just open your wallet peasant:

  • The Chicago Teachers Union will soon ask the city for financial assistance to house teachers.

    For reference, the median teacher’s salary is more than $93,000 compared to Chicago’s median household income for the whole city of $71,000.

    CTU also said it wants money for housing students experiencing homelessness or temporary living situations, but the first item on their list of housing demands was: “Financial assistance for CTU members to live and work in the city.”

    CTU’s contract proposal states their housing agenda starts with “Bring Chicago Home” on the city’s March 19 primary ballot. They gave $200,000 to the effort to promote the tax hike.

This is the referendum on the ballot that was declared null-and-void by the courts and is currently on appeal. 

Anyone know why CTU is concerning itself with housing students? As far as we know, CPS doesn't run any boarding schools or orphanages. 

And since they're making $22,000 more than the average Chicagoan, why do they need housing assistance? Many already live outside the city in violation of existing ordinance and without the required waivers granted to certain specialists.

To all those questions and more, the head of their union says, "Shut up and give us money":

  • On that nasty subject of (dare I say this?) money, Gates was stridently indifferent.“They’re gonna say, ‘these are great proposals and can’t nobody pay for it and CTU with all of this, that and the other and who’s gonna pay for it, Stacy?’ ”

    “Stop asking that question,” she said. “Ask another question.”

It's far past time to bring the teachers' union to heel. If police and fire can't strike because of public safety concerns, why shouldn't Springfield take away the CTU's ability to hold children and their education hostage for money? 

And that's just for starters. How about something like Michigan (and many other states) did years ago and de-couple school funding from property taxes? Deprive them of unlimited taxpayer funding and Chicago might actually see some real changes.

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Another Pension Scandal?

Seriously?

  • For those that haven’t heard…one of our famous rank-thief families has done it again. One of the [had the answers] clan has managed to get disability for stress. Apparently being a multiple merit promotee and lt exam cheat takes a toll on your psyche. Though if that is true, our entire exempt structure may collapse.

If it's true, Conehead may collapse. Again.

Anyone know if this is true? We heard she had applied for disability based on stress, which is ridiculous. Related to the Riccio regime, she has been taken care of her entire career, cushy assignments, "merit" and Mom had the answers with her not-so-secret study group....how is that stressful?

By the way, we got the list for the study group with all the email addresses included. Since some numbskull used their Department address for the study group, would that mean that all emails and attached study material is discoverable via an FOIA request?

Asking in case Tony gets it into his head to try something stupid. Again.

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Re-criminalizing Drugs

Has there been any good decision made by a leftist government in the past twenty or so years?

  • The Oregon House passed bill 4002 last week that will once again make the possession of hard drugs a crime, reversing what many called an ill-advised decision in 2020 to decriminalize possession of small amounts of drugs. That decision was carried out under a ballot initiative approved by Oregon voters. 

    The reversal of course was spurred by a surge in deaths from opioids, including those of children, which has been fueled in part by the proliferation of fentanyl, the AP reports.

After "decriminalization," overdose deaths jumped by 1,300% (84 to over 1,100). 

Usually we'd call this a good start on reducing the addict population. But the number of innocent kids overdosing on mommy or daddy's stash also skyrocketed and no one was being held accountable, even as they passed all sorts of laws about storing guns, ammo and making it impossible for regular folks to buy a self-defense firearm to protect themselves from burglars and robbers out to score their next fix.

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

What the...?!?

This one came out of leftist field:

  • Father Michael Pfleger worries Chicago city officials’ recent decision to remove school resource officers from all Chicago Public Schools could have the opposite effect of what’s intended.

    “You really disrespect schools to make decisions that they felt was best for them,” the long-time pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn Gresham told The Center Square. “You’re saying, ‘Well, we know better.’ This is their school, and since when do we know better for them? I think the process was terrible and disrespectful. That’s not a progressive move. Progressive is supposed to be listening to the people and having the people in the decision-making.”

    Soon after authorities moved to pass a resolution stipulating that the district draft a new safety plan, erasing police from the equation, the plan was unanimously approved by the city’s seven-member Board of Education. It is set to be presented for final approval by June 27.

Actually Mike, that's exactly what "progressive" means nowadays. They know better, despite all evidence to the contrary, and they're going to make sure everyone else follows their diktats, consequences be damned.

Not too dissimilar to how you've "run" Sabina in absolute defiance of archdiocesan rules and Archbishop orders for years.

We just don't know what your angle is on this one.

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Shooting, Barricade Incident

Sounds like no one injured:

  • Authorities responded to a police-involved shooting and an hours-long standoff Saturday afternoon on Chicago's South Side. A man who was barricaded inside an apartment in the 8000 block of South Western Avenue has been arrested, Chicago police said.

    The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said they responded to a police-shooting at that location. At least one Chicago police officer discharged their weapon.

    It was not immediately known if the suspect inside the apartment was injured.

This seems to follow the pattern of quite a few incidents lately. Bad guy runs, cops pursue - but only up to the point where the offender is trapped, SWAT is called, incident drags out before ending.

We can't say we're surprised at these procedural developments. And we'll say that SWAT is probably going to earn their money the next few years....or decades even. 

No one wants a police shooting, not even the police.

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Reminder

If you're reading this after 0200 hours and you didn't move your clocks up one hour to 0300, you're an hour late for Roll Call.

Open post for Sunday.

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