Now They WANT ShotSpotter?

Or a replacement (which Conehead probably wants....as long as his team is getting the connected contracts):

• A Chicago City Council Committee is talking about public safety and St. Sabina's Father Michael Pfleger is calling out city leaders.

  He and others are upset that the city has not yet replaced the Shotspotter system, which detected gunshots and alerted police.

  Several advocates including those who have personally lost children to gun violence were clear that if there is no replacement for Shotspotter then the system needs to be brought back.

  It's been two years since the gunshot detection system was dismantled in Chicago.

And the Brandon Body / Conehead Corpse count stands at eighty-four according to CWB blog.

Were all eighty-four casualties pillars of society? Of course not. 

Will they be missed? By a small segment of their respective populations.

But what pfather pfleger forgets is the right people aren't being paid off, so the system stays inactive for now. Remember, the system was "racist" for being installed where the gunshots were most prevalent and the criminals were mostly minority and the voters were mostly stupid for buying into that narrative. 

Premature Detonation?

A lot of questions in the burbs:

• All lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway reopened on Thursday evening, after being shut down for nearly nine hours after a person was found dead in a vehicle surrounded by shell casings on the roadway.

Someone dead on the Eisenhower isn't that unusual. Someone dead amidst a collection of shell casings is slightly unusual.

But look who showed up to investigate:

• It’s unclear exactly what happened but the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed one person has died, and WGN9 reported that a bomb squad responded to the scene. Illinois State Police said they were assisting a federal investigation at the scene.

The "federal" part of the investigation included the ATF and fbi, drones and robots.

Bomb? Portable meth lab? BBQ gas cylinder?

Fun times - stay aware. 

Teen Takeover Discussion?

Why are politicians "discussing" lawbreaking? 

• As more so-called teen takeovers could be planned in Chicago this week, the concern over the gatherings seemed to be split in a South Side room, literally, on Tuesday night.

  "They're saying they want places to go, things to do. We have park districts and everything in our communities. Let's open it up for them," one woman said.

  Organizers with Acclivus, a community health organization, hosted a teen takeover listening session in Washington Park.

  "The kids are just dangling. They don't have nothing to do," one young person said.

  Tuesday night's meeting came as Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth said there will be intermittent closures of DuSable Lake Shore Drive ramps if necessary in response to planned large gatherings at Foster Beach on Thursday and Friday.

  Parking restrictions will be in place along the lakefront from Lawrence to Foster on June 4 and June 5 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., and the DuSable Lake Shore Drive off-ramps at Lawrence and Foster will be closed if necessary, Manaa-Hoppenworth said.

They have plenty to do - they just don't do it. 

They could also get....we dunno....jobs?

There are twenty-six MILES of beaches, many within walking distance of where these teens live:

• 12th Street
• 31st Street
• Rainbow Beach
• 57th Street
• 63rd Street 
• South Shore 

Just to name a few that are far closer than Foster Avenue. What's the attraction of going that far away from home, besides the abundance of victims and the lack of police manpower?

There are laws in effect - enforce them aldercreature. Stop making excuses for misbehavior.

Nice Double Standard Larry

So this is a top story in the Slum Times:

• David Ross passed the strenuous test to join the Chicago Police Department’s mounted patrol in 2023 by, among other things, climbing onto a horse, lifting five bales of hay and moving a 1,200 pound dumpster.

  The only problem: Officer Ross was on medical leave at the time and was supposed to be recovering from an “unbearable” knee injury sustained during an on-duty crash, police records show.

  Police investigators recommended he be fired for violating the department’s leave policy, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

But this is what Larritorious signs off on for "merit" sergeant and now "merit" lieutenant:

• when Yau she was a PO and was on IOD limited duty she was caught running the chicago marathon and instead of her being fired she only took 10 days and subsequently since then was merit sgt and now merit LT,

We guess if you're heavy enough, you can get away with all sorts of violations of Department rules....like banging recruits on a regular basis.

Political Season Underway

The first big name announces her intent to run for Conehead's job:

• Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza officially launched her campaign to become the next mayor of Chicago on Wednesday.

  In her announcement, she said Chicago deserves more competence.

  She's the latest to join a crowded field of politicians looking to become the next leader to occupy City Hall's fifth floor.

  But she was the first to have an official launch party.

She's got a tough road ahead of her, and middle-of-the-road isn't quite going to cut it. She's going to have to go scorched earth against a few of the entrenched Machine candidates and appeal to the stay-at-home voters to come out in droves. Thirty-three percent turnout isn't her friend - that's the commies / progressives / CTU friends.

Calls for Feds to Investigate Crimesha

Once again, the Chicago Contrarian has a piece by Paul Vallas, pointing out just how corrupt and useless Crimesha Foxx was and how her actions continue to drain scarce taxpayer dollars:

• Recent revelations surrounding former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx sent shock waves through Chicago’s legal and political circles. In a recent deposition, Foxx acknowledged that Gabriel Solache and Arturo Deleon-Reyes, who obtained Certificates of Innocence with her blessing, were both guilty of perhaps the most horrific double murders and kidnappings in recent Chicago history. That extraordinary admission reinforced longstanding concerns Foxx’s approach to conviction integrity had ignited Chicago’s now multi-billion-dollar wrongful-conviction liability crisis.

  Yet lost amid the public reaction was another remarkable aspect of Foxx’s testimony — one that had never been publicly disclosed. Foxx was deposed about the case of Marilyn Mulero, one of eight defendants whose murder convictions were vacated at Foxx’s behest in August 2022, in cases connected to former Chicago Police detective Reynaldo Guevara. At the time, Foxx announced that a “comprehensive case-by-case review” had uncovered police misconduct by Guevara that called all of the convictions into question. 

  What the public was not told, however, was that deposition testimony and emails now indicate that no meaningful independent factual review ever occurred. Instead, the vacaturs were precipitated by lawyers affiliated with civil rights firms that now represent many of those same defendants in lawsuits seeking massive damages from the City of Chicago. 

Crimesha's outright corruption has the potential to cost taxpayers a further BILLION dollars on top of the tens of millions paid out in cases where exactly ZERO evidence of innocence was ever presented in court.

As usual, go read it all for information you won't get from the bought-and-paid-for "media" types who are merely tools of the Machine. 

Naperville Did What???

They arrested their way out of a situation?

• Nine people were arrested and nearly three dozen citations were issued after large groups of mostly teens gathered in downtown Naperville on Monday evening.

  The gathering began around 5 p.m. June 1 along the Washington Street corridor between Chicago and Van Buren avenues. Anticipating large crowds, the Naperville Police Department deployed multiple teams of officers throughout the downtown area to deter criminal activity and maintain public safety.

  Five juveniles were arrested during the event. Charges included battery, assault, obstructing identification, criminal trespass to state-supported land, illegal possession of cannabis, illegal possession of tobacco by a minor, disobeying a peace officer and interfering with a peace officer.

Golly, if word of this gets out, it could completely revamp policing as we know it!

Don't Fall for This BS

The Department is looking to screw you into signing away Contractual Rights in the name of hugs and kisses. But they're asking for input:

• Thank you for visiting the Chicago Police Department’s public comment forum for the revised draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive.
  

  As part of our ongoing mission to grow trust within the communities we serve, CPD again invites the community to review and provide feedback on the revised Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive beginning June 2, 2026 through June 17, 2026. After the comment period concludes, CPD will review the additional feedback received to guide future revisions to the drafts. CPD will consider your comments before finalizing the directive.
  

  Below you will find a draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive. Please provide your feedback in the space below the draft directive. Thank you again for your continued partnership in building a safer Chicago.

The title of the proposed Department Directive is: Community - Police Mediation Pilot Program.

It is essentially a "bitch-and-moan" session where you meet with a complainant on "neutral ground" and they get to bitch about how you treated them. The draft says nothing will be recorded, no recording will take place, no records will be preserved.

Don't fall for it. You have Contractual protections for a reason and you have recordings during actual CR investigations made for many reasons. Don't let COPA and IAD screw you out of protections while they further neglect their jobs to do actual thorough investigations.

Criminals Can't Read Signs

Doesn't this mean anything????

We guess not:

• An armed man fired a shot during a robbery attempt aboard a Green Line train last week, prosecutors said.

  The victim, a 26-year-old man from Ohio, was riding the train southbound near 47th Street when 19-year-old Marquise Smith approached him around 1:15 a.m. on May 28, prosecutors said.

  “Do you want to die?” Smith allegedly asked the victim, who immediately moved to the other end of the train car. But officials said Smith pulled out a handgun and pushed him from one end of the car to the other while trying to take his camera at gunpoint.

  The victim crossed between cars while the train was moving and then blocked Smith by closing the door behind him and using his body weight to hold the door shut, prosecutors said. Smith, standing between the two train cars, allegedly fired a shot into the air, and the victim quickly activated the train’s emergency signal, alerting the train operator.

We're just going to say it - if you ride the CTA without a means of self defense, you're soft. 

It's obvious no one is checking the criminals, so why would you worry about being checked?

HeyJackass.com has a section for "2026 Self Defense" 

 Three total incidents? That number is far too low:

• 2025 was 4 dead, 9 wounded
• 2024 was 8 dead, 19 wounded
• 2023 was 8 dead, 15 wounded 
• 2022 was 9 dead, 16 wounded

Make Self Defense Great Again - boost those numbers. 

How Does This Keep Happening?

Gun grabbers and democrats tell us that MORE gun restrictions are always the answer....but then this happens:

• A Chicago man with a lengthy criminal history is facing felony charges after a 2-year-old boy allegedly found his loaded handgun and fatally shot himself inside a Pullman home. Prosecutors said Jamonte Shaw found a loaded 9mm handgun belonging to 31-year-old Johnny Hughes inside the home they shared with Jamonte’s mother and siblings in the 900 block of East 104th Street.

  At the time of the shooting, Hughes was asleep on a couch in the residence while Jamonte’s mother was in the kitchen with her 9-year-old and a 4-month-old. Sometime around 12:41 p.m., Jamonte allegedly found Hughes’ firearm and shot himself, prosecutors said.

  [...] Hughes is prohibited from possessing firearms because of his criminal record, which includes convictions for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon in 2016 and 2020. Prosecutors said his record also includes convictions for reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated fleeing and eluding, both in 2016.

  During a detention hearing, Judge Ankur Srivastava ordered Hughes detained pending trial. The judge cited Hughes’ history of gun offenses, the presence of multiple children in the home, and the fact that Hughes was already on felony pretrial release when the shooting occurred.

  Hughes faces charges of possession of a firearm by a repeat felon, aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon based on a prior conviction, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon with two or more prior convictions, and child endangerment causing death.

Multiple felony convictions....and still out, armed and committing more felonies.

You know what would fix this? More Gun restrictions on the Law abiding portion of the citizens! 

Bears Drama

The senate said "Sure," but the house said, "We can screw this up even more!" 

We had a heck of a time understanding this part:

• Illinois senators tossed up a desperation heave by passing a bill that would authorize Cook County municipalities with populations of at least 70,000 to create their own financing authorities for publicly owned stadiums that would eliminate the Bears’ potential property tax bills. But their House colleagues didn’t take up the measure for a vote, leaving the stadium saga in limbo once again.

So the Bears would pay for their own stadium, something along the lines of $2 billion or so, which we fully support. 

Then the Bears would "gift" the stadium to the local financing authority (making it "publicly owned") and thereby relieving themselves of the stadium property tax bills (though they'd be on the hook for any other structures built on the Arlington Race Track property, i.e. hotels, restaurants, casinos, etc).

The distribution of stadium revenues is less well defined for the Arlington Heights location while the Indiana people have said the Bears can keep all of that money.

So a lot more bribes and favors have to be worked into a possible deal, sometime before summer - which is twenty days away, give or take a couple weeks.

Upcoming Street Naming

An Honorary Street naming on tap:

• ....received notice from [...] the Chicago 38th Ward Aldermanic Office, [...], that an Honorary Street Sign Dedication was approved and scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 13th at 12 Noon, on behalf of, Sgt. Tom "Buzzy" Eichler, USMC, CPD. 
   
  The location will be on OPAL (7832 W) and SCHOOL (3300 N) Streets in Chicago, 60634.

  Help is needed, I'm sure, to spread the word to friends of Buzzy and his family for this distinguished event in his honor.

Sgt Eichler had quite the reputation back in the day, an actual war hero for actions at the Battle of Khe Sanh and a record involving multiple Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and the Silver Star - someone who should have a street named in their memory.

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Zero Tolerance Experiment?

Seems like last week there was a minor effort to crack down on Compliance Violations downtown:

• New videos show street vendors being escorted away from their carts in the Loop—facing fines, citations, and possible arrest.

  Experts say this is something that's happening more and more recently and is renewing conversations about the legality of vending in the city's most popular areas.

  Typically, around Michigan Avenue, vendors line that part of Millennium Park, but as of Monday, the majority of those vendors were missing. Those who were there shared videos showing their fellow vendors being whisked away by Chicago police.

And they're complaining that the law hasn't been enforced for years, decades even, so it's unfair to enforce it now:

• "One ticket is maybe alright, but like the police are strict now—every week, every Saturday and Sunday they come," he says.

  Marlen Romero is also a street vendor selling fruit.

  "Because we have needs, we have to support a family, I have four children here," she said.

  Her husband had to run and rotate locations to avoid being seen by the police.

  "Meantime, we're looking to sell. I know there are laws here, I know is prohibited, but we're not hurting anyone, and sometimes they treat us like thieves," she said. 

Um, you're hurting actual established businesses who pay rent, property taxes, business licenses, etc. And you're selling in locations prohibited to be at. Not to mention you have no running water, no health inspections, no refrigeration for perishable items etc. Oh, and your tracking of Sales Tax Revenue leaves a lot to be desired. 

That $100 peddlers license (valid for two years) doesn't offset the downside of creating a Third World atmosphere.

Another Conehead Corpse

They just keep piling up:

• Police found a gunshot victim lying dead in a vacant lot in South Chicago on Saturday morning, apparently hours after he was killed. Exactly when the murder occurred is not known because nobody called 911 to report the gunfire, and Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network in September 2024.

  Police responded to a report of a person down in the 8000 block of South Marquette Avenue at about 11:47 a.m. Saturday. Officers found a male who appeared to be in his late teens lying face down in a vacant lot with gunshot wounds to his chest and flank, according to Chicago police.

No one called 9-1-1 and the body laid there for around ten hours....half of it during daylight. 

We get the feeling it's going to be an entertaining summer of bodies.

An Un-collectible Judgement

We doubt the family will ever see a dime:

• A man who was allegedly intoxicated and drag racing at 102 mph when he slammed into another vehicle, killing its driver in June 2023, has been ordered to pay $21 million to the victim’s survivors, according to court records.

  Marvin Bonilla, 28, had a blood alcohol content of .13 as he raced his Ford Mustang around 4:45 a.m. on June 23, 2023, according to a Chicago police crash report. At the intersection of 59th Street and Pulaski Road, he allegedly plowed into a Toyota RAV4 driven by 51-year-old Alberto Onofre.

  [...] He is currently awaiting trial on reckless homicide and other charges.

  Six months after the crash, and more than a year before criminal charges were filed, Onofre’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bonilla. Cook County Judge Michael Otto later entered a judgment ordering Bonilla to pay a total of $21 million to Onofre’s wife and three children. The award includes $10 million for Onofre’s wife and approximately $3.67 million for each of his children, court records show.

But in the event he ever happens to win the lottery, the family is in line to collect first.

So....why couldn't this be standard practice for Officers attacked and injured by individuals who are never held accountable by the criminal "justice" system? That way if they ever won the lottery or (more likely) got some sort of settlement from the City over some other nonsense, Officers would be in line to collect before the criminal ever saw a dime.

SAFE-T Act Fugitive?

It certainly sounds like someone that the Porkulous Act released:

• A convicted bank robber who was on felony pretrial release and wanted on an active arrest warrant was shot and killed by federal agents after he opened fire during a standoff on the West Side on Thursday afternoon, officials said.

  The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased man as 25-year-old Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh.

  In 2023, Abdulhafedh pleaded guilty and received a four-year sentence in Will County for financial institution robbery tied to the attempted robbery of a BMO Harris Bank in New Lenox. Court records also show he received a three-year sentence in Cook County that same year for possessing a stolen vehicle and aggravated fleeing.

  More recently, Elmhurst police arrested Abdulhafedh on March 11 on a charge of possessing a stolen motor vehicle. He was released pending trial, failed to appear in court, and has been the subject of an active arrest warrant since April 14, according to court records.

Gee, a convicted felon in Will County AND Cook County....AND picked up another felony charge two months ago....and he got released on THAT charge after he pinky-promised he'd show up for his next court date. Which he didn't. 

He had quite the record, too, according to reporting by the CWB blog. 

And none of it seemed to provide even a whisper of a hint to Cook County judges (like Lyke and Thedford) that maybe....JUST MAYBE....this one wasn't really a good candidate for pre-trial release.

Anyone sick of democrats loving criminals more than law abiding citizens yet? 

Assignments

So the recent Lieutenants and Captains got their assignments (click for larger views):

 

 

Are those Inspection Division assignments are the usual "no-show" gigs for someone on the way out the door?

A Day Late....and a Week Early

Someone sent us these posters, but they ended up in the Spam folder, so we just found them. 

First up, this past Friday night:

Darn, we missed it. Any reports?

But we're early for this one!

Anyone know if these are legit? 

Brain Damaged?

Certainly seems to know what he's doing, where he's at, and what he might need to do inside:

 

Word is that judges Lyke and Thedford have been roaming the halls of 26th Street attempting to get him put on Electronic Monitoring because it's obviously dangerous in Cook County Jail if inmates feel the need to carry weapons inside.

Good thing no one startled him in the shower, right alderwitch Hadden? 

Not a Bright Idea

How long do you think it will be before someone gets beaten with one of these chairs?

• The Chicago Park District will debut 100 green metal chairs around Buckingham Fountain Saturday as part of a new pilot program that takes a cue from European cities like Paris and encourages people to socialize in the lakefront park.

  But having somewhere to sit comes with a price tag.

  The 100 chairs, which were manufactured by the brand Fermob in Paris, cost $54,438 in total, according to a Park District spokesperson. Of that, $24,438 was footed by the city. Lollapalooza, which partnered on the project and will host its 21st festival in Grant Park July 30-Aug. 2, paid the remaining $30,000.

  In a statement, the Park District said, “the seating program will transform the space and encourage social gathering.” The movable chairs will be in the park until September, except, the city says, during major events hosted in Grant Park, although it did not specify which events would prompt chair removal.

Unless they're going to fix these chairs in place with rebar and concrete pads, it'll be a few days, tops. 

Along with the betting on when someone will get beaten with a chair, how long until the first chair:

• gets tossed in the fountain?
• gets tossed in the lake?
• gets tossed in the river?

Our guesses?

• a couple hours
• a couple days
• a week - because they'd have to carry it somewhere

Whom comes up with this nonsense?

Interesting

How many times has "Close the Red Line" been posted in the comments as a way to stop the "wildings" or "takeovers" or general mayhem of the un-demonized?

Is this an "experiment" to see how it would work?

• Red Line trains will be rerouted to elevated tracks for the whole weekend — the first of four weekend detours needed for maintenance work in the Loop subway, according to the CTA.

  The detour will last from 10 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday. Red Line trains will be rerouted from the Fullerton to the Cermak-Chinatown stations.

  For the length of the detour, trains will not stop at these stations: North/Clybourn, Clark/Division, Chicago, Grand, Lake, Monroe, Jackson, Harrison and Roosevelt. Instead, trains will stop at Brown Line stops including Amitage, Sedgwick, Franklin, Merchandise Mart, Clark/Lake, Washington/Wabash, Adams/Wabash and the elevated tracks at the Roosevelt station.

  Free shuttle buses will operate between the Fullerton and Clark/Lake stations, the CTA said.

Well that's not going to stop anything - it's the wrong side of town.

Maybe next time. 

Gee, Ya Think?

How long has this been said here? And anywhere that intelligent people gather?

• The Illinois General Assembly will deliver the property tax relief the Bears say they need to build a domed stadium in Arlington Heights and throw a bone to Chicago by starting to untangle the traffic bottleneck around Soldier Field and the Museum Campus, a key state lawmaker in stadium talks said Friday.

  With the spring legislative session set to wrap up this weekend, State Rep. Kam Buckner (D-Chicago) said he’s confident that Illinois lawmakers will “find a deal that works to keep the Bears in the state of Illinois” and prevent Chicago’s beloved NFL franchise from accepting a far more lucrative offer to move to Hammond, Indiana.

  Buckner is the chief sponsor of the mega-projects bill that would allow the Bears to negotiate discounted property tax payments with local school districts and other taxing bodies.

It'll be passed close to midnight with little (if any) serious debate as to the actual costs....which will be borne entirely by taxpayers. 

He'll probably run for governor based on "his" bill, too.

CWB Doing Great Work

Yesterday, they called Conehead a liar and proved it....again:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday once again defended his decision to disconnect the city’s gunfire detection network, claiming that a University of Chicago study found CPD responded “four times faster to the city’s most serious 911 calls” in some South and West Side neighborhoods after the city ended its relationship with ShotSpotter. But that is not what the study says.

And what does it actually show?

• Robert Vargas, a sociology professor who leads the UChicago Justice Project, told CWB Chicago the study “was motivated by a specific set of claims made by elected officials that decommissioning ShotSpotter would have serious consequences for police response times.”

  However, Vargas also acknowledged that before analyzing response times, his students removed all 911 calls involving shots fired from the city’s dataset. In other words, the study’s conclusions about faster response times, if accurate, did not include gunfire calls, the only type of emergency ShotSpotter was designed to address and the specific response times elected officials had been discussing.

They took out ALL of the gunfire calls? Seriously? 

So this is yet another "Higher Education" bullshit program similar in nature to the crooked Northwestern "innocence" crap where they bribed convicts, lied under oath, slanted reporting, solicited perjury, aided and abetted by members of the Chicago media.

And the day before CWB had a little retrospective on fifteen years of wilding:

• What has gotten into kids these days? These “teen trends” and “teen takeovers?” This didn’t used to happen, did it? Well, as it turns out, it’s been happening a lot longer than even we remembered, stretching back at least 15 years across three mayors and eight police superintendents. Many of the 50-plus people arrested during this past weekend’s three mob-related incidents weren’t even born when it all started.

  The problem, it seems, isn’t kids these days. The problem is a steady refusal by mayor after mayor to directly address what’s happening.

They recalled McCompStats lies about closing a beach because of "heat," attacks on bikers, the Mag Mile, Millennium Park....like we said, fifteen YEARS of mayhem, much of it covered in our archives.

Give them a visit and read the only decent crime reporting in Chicago any more. 

Lawsuit Re-Filed

This is going to be dragged out in the hope the City settles:

• The family of Adam Toledo filed a fresh lawsuit this week against the city of Chicago and the police officer who fatally shot the 13-year-old boy.

  The case was filed a month after the family abruptly dropped another lawsuit filed in Cook County court, just days before opening arguments were set to begin. Now, the legal process will begin again in federal court, over five years after Toledo was killed.

In the previous trial prep, the scumbag lawyers threatened to have a hundred witnesses to testify - for something exactly ZERO of them actually witnessed - all in the hope of an offer from the City to go away. 

The trouble was the existence of body camera footage, a stop watch, a working ShotSpotter system and the criminal record of "lil' homicide" being part of the official transcripts would severely reduce any sympathy a jury might have.

fbi Shooting

Evidently the feebs are still in Chicago doing something:

• A person has died in a shooting involving an FBI agent Thursday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said.

  One adult was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, which happened around 3 p.m. in the 3700 block of West Lexington Street, according to the Chicago Fire Department and the FBI.

  Chicago police officers initially responded to the scene, but officers have turned the investigation over to the FBI, the department said.

  Authorities have not released information about what led to the shooting. No other information was available.

Nothing about the usual community outrage commonly associate with law enforcement shootings, so that's good. And no law enforcement members were reported injured which is also good.

What are the feds up to on the west side? 

Out of State Corruption

What's with the crooked brass lately?

• The police chief of New Chicago, Indiana, was taken into custody in Ohio and is accused of stealing a gun tied to a criminal investigation and selling it to a pawn shop.

  Earl Mayo, 45, was arrested Friday in Clark County, Ohio after he tried to evade arrest. He leads the New Chicago Police Department in Lake County, Indiana.

  Mayo, who wrote a self-published novel about a bad cop turned good, titled, “When Lines Are Crossed: Love, Trust, Betrayal,” is facing seven felony charges, including theft, official misconduct, attempted obstruction of justice and unlawful possession of anabolic steroids.

That guy sounds like a piece of work.

How about this one?

• Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who was hired to oversee reforms in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, chose to resign rather than face disciplinary action for interfering with an investigation into his conduct, Mayor Jacob Frey announced Tuesday.

  O’Hara, who led local police during the recent federal immigration crackdown in the city, was under investigation on accusations that he was engaging in intimate relationships with city employees.

Investigative interference? Intimate relationships? That's almost like a requirement here.

Fundraiser

 One week away:

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Nice E.M. Program judge Bitch

Damn....the keyboard stuck again....judge Beach:

• More than one-third of the people on electronic monitoring for shoplifting cases in Cook County have gone missing, according to newly released data from Chief Judge Charles Beach. So have a quarter of the robbery defendants. Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campaign to overhaul the county’s ankle monitor program and improve its transparency.

  Tuesday’s report shows that of the 244 missing defendants, about 24% were on electronic monitoring for domestic-related charges. Alleged shoplifters dominate the balance: 24 people put on ankle monitors after being charged with shoplifting have gone AWOL, but a separate report by Beach’s office shows only 73 people are on ankle monitors for shoplifting, so a third of them have gone missing.

  Also showing above-average disappearance rates: burglars. Nearly 15% of them have slipped away while awaiting trial. And 27% of people charged with battery have gone AWOL, too. For more serious aggravated battery cases, the AWOL rate is 10%.

The main trouble we always saw with EM was that anyone who disregarded the restrictions was more apt to disregard consequences - meaning that when they were in danger of being caught which they almost always were:

• they had broken the law once and got caught, 
• they broke it a second time violating the terms of release,
• then they were far more likely to actively resist arrest and do anything they could to avoid going back inside.

What's a third violation since there weren't any consequences the first two times? This happened time and time again. And now judge Bitch Beach thinks some "study" is going to cure the anti-social tendencies of people (or folks) who had zero regard for the system in the first place?

Conehead Supports Wilding

For all the noise politicians are making about battling the "teen takeovers," guess who isn't a fan?

• Despite a Memorial Day weekend marred by teen takeovers turned violent, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that stricter curfew and parental responsibility laws are not the answer to the perennial problem plaguing Chicago.

  Johnson said 15 arrests were made early Sunday after a car veered into five Chicago police officers and injured them as they tried to disperse an unruly crowd of youths gathered on the Near West Side. But those arrests, he added, did not prevent an even bigger crowd from overtaking the 57th Street Beach in Hyde Park and spilling onto Lake Shore Drive on Memorial Day.

  That tells the mayor throwing the book at young people and their parents is not the answer to the problem of unruly gatherings summoned by social media.

Here we go again with the "You can't arrest your way out of these situations" bullshit.

Yes you can - you just have to be consistent with it. Every. Single. Time.

This guy gets it:

• Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s hard-nosed approach to unruly groups of young people largely succeeded in controlling the flash mobs that plagued Michigan Avenue during then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s tenure.

  “I didn’t have a mayor like Brandon Johnson who made excuses,” McCarthy said. “Let’s stop calling them teen takeovers. That is sending the wrong message. That sounds cute. These are mob actions. … There needs to be some sort of accountability for not just the kids but the parents and elected officials. Permissiveness is not working. It’s never worked. All it does is cause bad behavior.”

McStreetlights was always a secret fan of the blog and here he is almost quoting us about rewarding bad behavior causing more bad behavior. He was also the candy-ass who mothballed the LRAD despite it being the best available tool for dispersing crowds.

Don't Demonize the Dog

Must have been a Chicago rescue dog:

• A woman in Nebraska was injured after a dog inside a nearby truck accidentally fired a shotgun, sending a pellet into her arm.

  Police in Scottsbluff responded to reports of a shooting at a gas station on May 22, initially believing a BB gun was involved. However, officers later confirmed that a real shotgun had discharged from inside a parked truck with a camper attached.

  Investigators said the truck owner had gone inside the convenience store while a passenger stood outside the vehicle. A dog remained in the back seat near a loaded shotgun.

  According to police, the dog moved across the truck and accidentally triggered the firearm, causing it to fire through the passenger-side door.

Who's riding around with a loaded shotgun where a dog can walk on it anyway?

Not Once, Not Twice

What the actual f#$%?  Three times?

• An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated.

  An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated. 

We don't know who needs to hear this, especially you new kids, but a car is a lethal weapon. If only we had someone....a gym teacher even....who passed themselves off as a Use of Force "expert" (when he wasn't banging recruits) to explain this to the younger Officers.

Amazingly, judge Ankur Srivastava kept him in custody. 

Final Weekend Tally

Believe it or not, these are actually lower numbers than the average:

• A toddler and man died, and at least 38 others were wounded, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago in the least deadly holiday weekend in 16 years.

  Despite the fatalities — authorities said the one involving a toddler was an accidental suicide — more people were wounded over the holiday weekend than in 2025, when 25 people were shot in the city’s least violent Memorial Day weekend since 2010.

  Still, gun violence remains lower than the pandemic-era peak. In 2021, during the same holiday period, the city saw 65 shooting victims, including 15 deaths.

And for the first time in memory, the Slum Times numbers actually agree with the HeyJackass.com numbers. Usually the media plays down the numbers and goes with the manipulated totals in an attempt to make the people in charge look better.

So is the media actually doing reporting again? 

UPDATE: Yeah, we noticed the "accidental suicide" phrase the Slum Times invented, too. The media might be accidentally accurate in terms of statistics every so often, but they're old pros at creating stupid terms to advance the "progressive" agenda.

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