"Justice" is a Joke

We keep hoping that vigilantes will arise to spare the rest of us from this failed system:

• Henry Graham, a 52-year-old man with a lengthy arrest record who killed a man with a single punch on the Magnificent Mile, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, months after a judge found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, saying state law barred him from being convicted of murder.

  The state’s “one punch” legal standard that spared Graham a murder conviction may surprise many, but it is well established in Illinois, where nearly a century of case law holds that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone. Therefore, in almost all cases, a person cannot be convicted of murder when a single punch proves fatal.

That is a ridiculous standard because there are probably dozens of incidents where a single punch resulted in a death. We can name a couple off the tops of our heads. Certianly there are more and certainly a number were "mutual combatants." But there are a couple "ambush" type attacks that should have resulted in murder charges. This in one of them:

• Graham’s victim, Russ Long, was a 49-year-old River North resident and longtime Northern Trust employee. On June 29, 2023, he was carrying a shopping bag past the Cartier store at 630 North Michigan Avenue when Graham quickly approached him from behind without saying a word. Graham twisted his torso backward, then thrust it forward, driving his fist into the back of Long’s head, prosecutors alleged.

  Long fell forward immediately, striking his head on the pavement. As Long lay bleeding on the ground, Graham sat down on a nearby fire hydrant and stared at him for about five minutes, witnesses said. He walked away upon hearing sirens in the distance.

CPD didn't do anyone any favors with the "investigation" either:

• Two witnesses followed him until they crossed paths with a Chicago police unit. The officers detained Graham and, with their body cameras rolling, heard him admit to hitting Long and knocking him unconscious, prosecutors said. The police then let him go.

  For four days, Long’s friends tried in vain to get the Chicago Police Department to file a report about the attack. Finally, on July 2, a friend of Long’s called 911 from his hospital bedside and insisted that an officer be sent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to document the attack. Once again, the 911 call taker refused to dispatch anyone because Long could not speak, though they eventually relented and sent a car.

  Only then did CPD begin documenting and investigating what had happened to Long, who died of his injuries ten days later. An autopsy showed “severe injuries” to the left side of Long’s head, prosecutors said. His frontal bone and the base of his skull were fractured.

Four days and no one collected any info from an obvious Aggravated Battery. It sounds like the initial Officers didn't even do a Contact Card, but had body cam video with an admission...and he still walked away?

In the intervening three months, the attacker was arrested SIX more times, including four felonies for attacking Evanston Police Officers. Now he gets nine years - and with three years credit, he'll be out in about eighteen months. 

If we're still in town then, maybe we'll start walking the Mag Mile. 

Speaking of Ugly....

How about those White Sox?

One more chance to put a cap on their Cinderella run.

And since we're talking sports for a moment:

• Mike Ditka, the Hall of Fame tight end who played on the Bears’ 1963 NFL championship team and coached the team to its only Super Bowl championship after the 1985 season, has died. He was 86.

  He died about 9 a.m. Friday surrounded by family and friends, a family spokesperson said. The family had not announced funeral arrangements as of Friday afternoon.

He was a throwback to when the NFL actually meant something. Ditka wasn't a fan of the woke league, expressing disdain for the barely talented hack QB Kapernick, saying if he didn't like the USA, he was free to leave it.

Quite the character. 

fbi = Fondling Boners Indecently?

 

We suspect a lot more of this with the feebs....a LOT more:

• A retired FBI supervisory special agent from Colorado is being held in Cook County after prosecutors accused him of sexually soliciting a 16-year-old boy in the steam room of a Logan Square health club.

  At about 10 p.m. on September 30, the boy’s father dropped him off at the gym in the 2400 block of North Elston Avenue to work out after he finished his homework, prosecutors said in a detention filing for Jeffrey Green, 59. After exercising, the boy went to the steam room and sat on an upper level with Green and another person. The witness noticed Green masturbating and went to get security, according to the filing.

  Left alone with the boy, Green began walking toward him while continuing the sexual act, prosecutors alleged. Green told the boy, “Don’t worry,” in what prosecutors described as a “sexual tone.” Standing in front of the teenager, Green then asked if he wanted to perform a sex act on him, prosecutors said. The boy, who had never seen Green before, replied, “F*** no. Go away,” or words to that effect, according to the filing. He then sat in shock, prosecutors said.

You look at a lot of these supervisory agents and you just think, "What a beat off this guy is." Turns out, you might be right.

Plus, we have inside info from The Keesing Bandit that his little black book has entire chapters of "contacts" contained within. 

Getting Ugly

And due to get uglier:

• As community leaders called for criminal charges against a Chicago police officer accused of using two guns to fire down a Little Village street, new details emerged about the young cop and the circumstances of the off-duty shooting that wounded another man over the weekend.

We'll leave the details to the Slum Times article linked up top. 

But we'll note that falling hiring standards have consequences far beyond what would normally be imagined.

Who NOT to Vote For

Someone posted this link in the comments. It lists all the candidates currently running for the elected Chicago Board of Education.

But most importantly, it lists all of the candidates currently endorsed by the CTU, meaning that they are bought and paid for stooges of the teachers who will vote to raise your taxes, give CTU people massive undeserved pay raises and continuously fail to actually educate the children of Chicago.

If you want to see a better list of candidates, use this one:

 

It was provided by a group that actually did the research and believes that these candidates provide the best opportunities to wrest control of CPS away from Davis-Gates and the CTU and place it back into the hands of responsible adults. 

Is every candidates perfect? Of course not. But these provide an opportunity that hasn't ever existed before. 

Save the Date!!!

Finally, after seventeen years:

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday the public would be able to watch the firing squad execution of a former Army officer convicted of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

  Speaking from the USS Abraham Lincoln to the conservative news outlet Real America’s Voice, Hegseth said Nidal Hasan is “going to get a firing squad of soldiers, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”

  “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” said Hegseth, who called the method of execution a “no-brainer.”

And they're going to broadcast it! 

The only thing that would make it even better was if they used bullets dipped in bacon fat before burying him in a bacon-lined pine box.

Maybe some red states will institute pay-per-view for their death chambers? 

CWB Judge Article Part 2

CWB has their second article up about judicial retention. This one covers six judges including a few of our most disliked, untrusted and incompetent DEI types:

• Every four years, Cook County voters cast ballots, deciding whether circuit court judges should be retained or not. It is rare for a sitting judge not to achieve the 60% retention threshold.

  Below are brief biographies, background information, and links to relevant cases involving Cook County judges up for retention during the current cycle who handle criminal matters in CWB Chicago’s coverage area. The first half of our list is available here.

They cover:

• Robert Kuzas, a former CPD member who seems to have a number of fans in our comment section, but who is also politically connected as he was the one who cleared Prickwrinkle's son and has a disturbing habit of drastically reducing bail amounts so violent criminals get out to commit more crimes;
• Teresa Molina-Gonzalez, a former prosecutor who said, "I can’t keep everybody in jail because the State’s Attorney wants me to" before releasing the repeat felon who lit a woman on fire on the Blue line; 
• and everyone's favorite incompetent DEI hire, Tyria Walton who released the woman who attempted to murder a CPD Officer with his own squad car, then accused CPD Officers of calling in threats to her without (A) filing a police report, (B) making a CR complaint with COPA, (C) notifying the Chief Judge or (D) notifying the Sheriff Protective Detail. In fact, the only notification she made regarding all of these "threats" was her campaign website.

Obviously, we're going to recommend against voting for a single judge, but go read the two linked articles up top and make your own decisions. 

Take the five minutes to read everything and then spend the sixty seconds it takes to vote NO on at least a few of these incompetent assholes.

Conehead Lied Again

Or his budget people did, basing vast expanses of the Chicago budget on pure fantasy:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is laying the groundwork for a budget proposal that could rely heavily on new taxes on corporations and wealthy residents as the city confronts an $880 million budget shortfall.

  Speaking about his priorities ahead of the release of his proposed budget, Johnson framed the upcoming debate as a fight over protecting city services while criticizing corporate interests and those calling for spending cuts before tax increases.

Sure, because making your first move "increase taxes" on corporations that are showing a distinct willingness to moving out rather than pay for Chicago unwillingness to spend money responsibly is a fantastic idea.

• His comments come as tensions build between the mayor and a group of 29 City Council members who recently sent him a letter urging the administration to pursue spending cuts and efficiencies before seeking additional tax revenue. That group has taken a hard line against a possible corporate head tax.

  Ald. Samantha Nugent of the 39th Ward said the city should focus first on reducing costs and addressing debt. "You know what we've heard time and time again is before we look to taxes, which is always where this administration goes, we have to look at the efficiencies that have been identified, and and we do have to look at debt," Nugent said.

Gee, an aldercreature wanting to look at efficiencies and spending practices? She must be high on something.

This is typical:

• City Comptroller Michael Belsky said the city is using a data-driven strategy that targets people considered most able to pay.

  "With employees we're looking at people with the highest salaries, highest amount of debt, that improves our collections. If it's people with vehicles in zip codes where they can afford to pay, we're gonna take them all the way through to judgement," Belsky said.

Not the people who aren't following the rules - the ones who can "afford to pay." Which are also the people who can afford to shop elsewhere - or leave town.

Democrats are idiots - vote for more!

Hilarious

This idiot might as well have used something like Facebook Marketplace:

• A Chicago man who federal prosecutors say fatally shot another man and then sold the murder weapon to an undercover agent has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, officials said.

  Levion Thomas, 31, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm but, according to Cook County court records, has not been charged with the murder that officials pinned on him.

  But federal prosecutors presented extensive evidence that Thomas used the Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol to kill 31-year-old Troy Pouncey on the afternoon of March 5, 2023, in the 7100 block of South Calumet Avenue, steps from William Meyering Park’s children’s playground.

  Two weeks later, on March 20, Thomas sold the same gun to an undercover law enforcement officer in the parking lot of a strip mall in Burnham, Illinois. Ballistics analysis confirmed that the pistol Thomas sold was the firearm used to kill Pouncey.

He'll likely never be charged with the murder unless he confesses to it. But circumstantially, will the Detectives Exceptionally Clear/Close it for statistical reasons?

Don't Be Dumb Part II

Everything is tracked and traceable to you:

• A now former Joliet police officer has been accused of abusing the Flock license plate reader database, according to Illinois State Police.

  Jeremy Harrison, 50, faces a charge of computer tampering and official misconduct in Will County, according to Illinois State Police, which conducted the investigation after accusations were made against Harrison.

  Court documents say the alleged offense occurred July 23, 2025, when Harrison was serving as a lieutenant with the Joliet Police Department.

  Investigators offered no other details on the case. Harrison is due back in court Nov. 17, per court records.

  Harrison makes for at least the third known case of a law enforcement being accused of misusing the database that tracks millions of drivers’ real-time locations in Will County this year.

Of course, police shouldn't be mis-using tools like these. But perhaps the more pertinent question is why are companies (and government) tracking millions of drivers in real time without some known purpose? Just because they can doesn't mean they should.

Initially Good, but then....

It took the media a day or so to catch up, but almost everyone in the comments saw where this one was headed:

• An off-duty Chicago police officer shot a person while firing two guns at the same time during an argument this weekend in Little Village, the Civilian Office for Police Accountability announced Tuesday.

  The officer was driving in the 2600 block of West 24th Street and encountered a group of people around 12:45 a.m. Sunday, according to statements from COPA and the Chicago Police Department. The officer exchanged words with a male in the group, then fired a gun “multiple times,” officials said.

  The officer then drove toward the 2300 block of South Rockwell Street, got out of his vehicle and “fired additional shots from two firearms simultaneously” toward the area of the initial altercation, COPA said. A male was shot twice and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition, police said.

If we had just ignored this one, people would say we were assisting in a cover-up.

If we had pointed out that you can't just open fire (with two guns?!?) on a group of people who may or may not have had anything to do with the previous battery, we'd be told to stop pre-judging, Monday-morning quarterbacking, blabbing to the media.

Well the media got hold of this one, not from here. Supposedly, the entire incident is on video, that part of town being loaded with cameras. And while the initial shoot could end up being justified, it's going to be difficult to do so with the second part.

It's only a matter of time before the video gets released, so be prepared.

Bad Tactics

And it ended with a suspension day:

• A Chicago police officer will serve a one-day suspension and undergo additional training after the city’s police oversight agency found he pointed his firearm at a 19-year-old driver and told him, “I’ll light you up!” during a December 2024 traffic stop.

  Video of the incident, which occurred as CPD broke up a “street takeover” in the West Loop, circulated widely online, and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) launched its investigation after someone tagged the agency in the video’s comment section on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Note that COPA "discovered" this video after someone tagged them on social media:

• During the stop, Officer (JE) positioned himself in front of Pena’s car and pointed his firearm toward the driver, according to videos recorded by a passerby and someone in Pena’s vehicle. [Officer (JE)] told investigators the stop raised safety concerns because Pena was wearing a face mask, was slow to respond to English-language commands, and the officer could not always see the occupants’ hands. [Officer (JE)] also claimed he spotted what appeared to be a replica weapon through the driver’s window. Pena was ultimately arrested on traffic-related charges and cited for possession of fireworks and a replica weapon, but prosecutors dropped all charges in February 2025.

  [Officer (JE)] described his statement, “I’ll light you up! as a “verbal slip” intended to gain compliance, but acknowledged it could be interpreted as “I’m going to shoot you.” He also acknowledged that standing in front of the vehicle was not the “smartest” or “safest” position, but said it gave him a better view of the driver.

How does the Order read? Something like "Officers will not deliberately place themselves in harm's way" or "in the path of the vehicle" which was interpreted as attempts to provoke a shooting.

No one would have batted an eye if he had stationed himself behind nearby cover (building, car door, tree, etc). It might not be optimal, but directly in the path - front or back - is asking for a review that isn't going to go your way. 

Don't Be Dumb

In this day and age of "accountability," don't be stupid:

• Two former suburban police officers have been charged with misusing their authority to conduct unauthorized Illinois license plate searches, the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

  According to a news release, a DuPage County grand jury on Sept. 29 returned a 21-count indictment against former Itasca police officer Marisa Ciccola, 30, and a two-count indictment against former West Chicago police officer Gerardo Solis, 39.

  The grand jury alleged 13 counts of official misconduct, a Class 3 felony, and eight counts of computer tampering, a Class B misdemeanor, against Ciccola and one count each of official misconduct and computer tampering against Solis.

Remember that exempt who was stalking some woman, running her plate and phoning her after being told to knock it off? Even a demotion back to lieutenant didn't stop his behavior. Now someone sought and got a twenty-one count indictment (thirteen of those being felonies) against a single former officer.

Even if you can't see it, assume everything is being tracked, observed and recorded - you'll stay out of most trouble that way. 

CWB Judge List - Part One

The crew over at CWB has a list of judges that you ought to do your due diligence on:

• CWB Chicago does not endorse or recommend judges or candidates for political office. In the past, we have provided subscribers with information about Cook County judges who handle criminal matters during biannual judicial retention election cycles. This year, we are publishing that information for all readers.

  Below are brief biographies, background information, and links to relevant cases involving Cook County judges up for retention during the current cycle who handle criminal matters in CWB Chicago’s coverage area.

They list five judges and (being actual media) try to show good and bad sides of them all. The good sides are some of the sterner sentences we've been amazed at, but those are rarities. The bad sides include kowtowing to the SAFE-T Act inanities that endanger citizens far too often.

Regular readers know that we recommend against ever voting "yes" on a single judge, if only to send a message to the Machine that we're getting damn sick and tired of their catering to the criminal element. Especially DEI judges Walton and Lyke - if you can't be bothered to vote "no" a few dozen times, at least vote against these two assholes.

But if there aren't changes at some point, what's currently happening in France, Germany, England, Ireland and other parts of Europe might make appearances here - and this side of the Atlantic might be a bit more....demonstrative of their displeasure

IL Supreme Court Hearing

So about two weeks ago, there was an Hearing before the Illinois Supreme Court. We didn't follow it too closely because (duh) it doesn't effect us. Here's a summary a reader sent us:

• This is oral argument before an Illinois appellate court (or the Illinois Supreme Court) in case 132241, *Chicago John Dineen Lodge No. 7 v. City of Chicago*. The dispute arises from a 2023 Dispute Resolution Board (DRB) interest-arbitration award that set terms for the next collective bargaining agreement between the Chicago police union (Lodge 7) and the City.
  
  
  The award extended the longstanding right to private grievance arbitration (already available for lesser discipline) to the most serious cases—suspensions longer than 365 days and separations/discharge. Officers still have the option of the public Chicago Police Board process; the award does not change Police Board procedures. The City challenged two main aspects: (1) the requirement that arbitration of serious discipline be private (claiming it violates public policy favoring transparency and accountability), and (2) the requirement that officers remain in pay status while challenging serious discipline through arbitration (claiming it is arbitrary and capricious).
  
  
  Matt Pierce argued for the Lodge (appellant, seeking confirmation of the full DRB award). Aya Barnea (Ms. Barnea/Bernier) argued for the City (seeking affirmance of the appellate court’s ruling against private hearings and reversal on pay status so that portion of the award is vacated). The court took the case under advisement.

We're told that Mr Pierce pretty much gave a stellar performance and destroyed much of the City's arguments, which under normal circumstances, would result in a tremendous win for the Lodge (also from the email).

• Oral argument is not a final decision (the case was taken under advisement), so there is no formal winner. On the strength of the exchanges, the **Lodge (union) performed stronger**. The judges pressed the City hard on the foundations of its public-policy claim—whether Chicago’s local practice can create statewide policy, the lack of record evidence about other jurisdictions, the novelty and potential forfeiture of the First Amendment theory, the limited role of a consent decree, and the risk of disrupting settled private arbitration statewide. The Lodge’s statutory carve-outs, emphasis on deference, and consistency with decades of private labor arbitration appeared more tightly grounded in existing Illinois law. The City’s transparency and public-trust arguments are powerful as policy advocacy, but they faced steeper legal hurdles under the public-policy exceptions demanding standard. The pay-status issue received less sustained questioning and looked more like a classic “arbitrary and capricious” fight the City could still win or lose on the record. Overall, the Lodge left the stronger impression on the dispositive privacy/public-policy question. 

Unfortunately, Illinois is not "normal circumstances." Logic and sense don't usually exist here. Politics rules the day and distorts everything with its foul stench. 

You can hear the Court arguments here at this link. 

Amy opinions here one way or the other? 

Who Are These Guys?

So what is the OT schedule looking like? Days off cancelled yet?

• Braden Montgomery lined a two-run double down the right-field line, Sean Burke allowed one hit in 5 1/3 innings of splendid relief and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 on Monday to take a 2-0 lead in their AL Division Series.

  The surprising White Sox improved to 4-0 in these playoffs — all on the road — and are one win from advancing to the American League Championship Series for the first time since winning the World Series in 2005. Chicago became the first team to reach the postseason after three straight 100-loss seasons, including a post-1900 record 121 defeats in 2024.

Four road wins in a row, now on the verge of making a liar out of Conehead's vow to cut OT expenditures. The only good news might be that this is what the last White Sox World Series parade looked like:

 

Plenty of parking, too.

What a Way to Go

The comedy has started up over the botched Tennessee execution with the Babylon Bee leading the way - Ten Surefire Ways to Execute Criminals.

Number Five is Illinois' contribution:

• Place them between JB Pritzker and a hamburger: Oof. What a way to go.

Go read it all for the full amusement.

Off Duty Shooting

Little Village area:

• An off-duty Chicago police officer shot a man twice after being attacked and punched in the face on the city’s Southwest Side overnight, according to a statement released by the Chicago Police Department.

  Police say two men were injured, including the the one who was shot. That offender was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in fair condition and is now in custody. Another man who had been standing with a group on the sidewalk took himself to Mt. Sinai Hospital in good condition.

  The officer who was attacked was taken to an area hospital for injuries sustained during the altercation, police say.

Sounds like he shot the guy who reached into his car and punched him. 

No idea yet how the second guy got winged. 

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. 

FOP Friends and Family Plan

Good news - if you're dating the FOP president, you don't have to pay for your own lawyer!

• latest A.I. generated video here 

It pays to know the right people.

How Many Felonies?

Thank goodness for the SAFE-T Act:

• A 57-year-old man with 32 felony convictions and a long history of stealing electric scooters is back on the street after prosecutors charged him with stealing five more scooters, part of a citywide crime pattern that left Chicago scooter owners frustrated all summer and sparked two Chicago police community alerts.

  Incredibly, Randall Brown was released from custody without even being placed on an ankle monitor, and Judge James Costello indicated in a court document that there was “no obj,” apparently meaning there was no objection to his release.

  CPD’s newly formed Area 5 Motor Vehicle Theft Team arrested Brown on Thursday afternoon, capping a weeks-long effort to identify a man who has stolen so many scooters that victims formed their own Facebook group to post pictures, compare surveillance video and report sightings in real time.

Otherwise, all of these guilty people might be stuck in prison, unable to enjoy terrorizing and victimizing the law abiding and costing taxpayers countless millions of dollars in wasted money.

Dems love criminals! 

Conehead Corpse Count Climbs

Once again, a dead body lying around, this time for TEN HOURS:

• A 23-year-old man found fatally shot in Grand Crossing on Friday morning apparently went undiscovered for more than 10 hours before someone called 911, according to Chicago city records.

  The man was found in an area previously monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire-detection network, which automatically alerted police to suspected gunfire even when no one called 911. Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s ShotSpotter contract in 2024.

This is number ninety-five.

Good News

Lake Forest Officer Filip Czarnecki who was stranded in Managua before being flown back here for more advanced treatment is moving forward in his recovery efforts:

• We have some truly remarkable news to share! On September 29th, Fil officially transitioned out of the hospital and into a long-term rehabilitation facility—a massive milestone in his journey toward a full recovery. Even more exciting, Fil is showing incredible signs of progress every day. He is officially speaking, demonstrating sharp mental acuity, and showing strong memory recall. On the physical side, he is already working hard in therapy: standing up with assistance and actively participating in everyday tasks like putting on his own clothes. Seeing his determination and hearing his voice again has brought so much hope to his family, friends, and care team. While there is still work ahead in rehabilitation, these leaps forward are a testament to Fil’s strength and the power of the support, prayers, and donations you all have provided. Please continue to keep Fil and his family in your thoughts as he takes on this next chapter of healing!

Keep fighting the good fight Officer. Continued thoughts, prayers and best wishes in your efforts. 

M.F.S.G.A.

Following the botched execution in Tennessee the other day, excuses have abounded:

• expired Pentobarbital;
• jammed/clogged IV line;
• blown vein delivery;
• sabotage

But no one has mentioned the well known and documented fact that redheads often require upwards of 20% more anesthesia when undergoing medical procedures, which could describe a lethal (or almost lethal) injection.

Leaving aside all excuses though, you know what injection doesn't fail? 

Lead....at 2,700 feet per second....Make Firing Squads Great Again

One Month

We're about a month out from Election Day, and while we don't think much is going to change locally, there is one place that a concerted effort can send a message to the political class that there better be some changes.

• judicial retention

 And believe it or not, in 2024 more judges than ever ended up on the verge of losing their seats:

• Tuesday was the last day provisional ballots can be counted and it appears one Cook County Circuit Court judge will be losing their seat. Shannon O’Malley gained only 58% Yes for Retention votes. All members of the Alliance of Bar Associations rated Judge O’Malley not recommended for retention. In addition to questions about his meeting residency requirements, the Council had concerns about his courtroom management, where avoidable delays can mean that a child remains in a group home, psychiatric hospital, or other out-of-home placement longer than necessary.

  Most judges hovered around 73% yes votes on their retention and no judge gained more than 78%. Five additional judges did not break 65% approval ratings: Kathy M. Flanagan, E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Maura Slattery Boyle, Lisa Ann Marino,  and Ieshia Gray. An additional seven judges did not break 70%. In 2020, eight judges achieved less than 70% approval, with five below 65% and two not retaining their seats. 

Cook county voters are literally on the cusp of sending a message, maybe a few hundred votes in many races. For every four "No" votes, a judge needs to get six more "Yes" votes than previously counted. A couple hundred "No" votes would sink more judges in a single election than have been removed in decades past. 

It literally takes thirty seconds to vote "No" and convey your disgust with the system. Justice isn't going to grind to a halt without these idiots - has anyone seen a judge put in a full day at any point in the past century? There are plenty of them to pick up the slack and plenty of opportunity for judge bitch Beach to make temporary appointments if needed. 

Take the thirty seconds and vote "No."

Finish the Job Citizens

Witnesses jumped in after the fact:

• A 48-year-old woman fatally stabbed a 7-year-old girl on a South Side street Saturday afternoon, then was knocked unconscious by a bystander and taken into police custody, according to Chicago police and witnesses. Court records show the woman has had an outstanding felony warrant for more than 18 months.

  The girl was walking southbound in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue shortly before noon when the woman approached her and stabbed her multiple times in the back, police said. Multiple witnesses saw the attack, and one of them knocked the woman unconscious a short distance from where the child was found, according to a witness who spoke with CWBChicago.

Why not finish the job? Not to put too fine a point on it, but that part of town is notorious for non-cooperation with authorities. Why would they start now after a seven-year-old got stabbed....and killed. 

We'd actually admire the extra effort.

Cop Killer Had Quite the Record

And just a ton more proof that he never should have been on the streets after all those convictions.

(This is an updated article from 01 October - the original publication was closer to the shooting date, but this version outlines more of Talley's criminal record and how hte SAFE-T Act failed completely at keeping this recidivist criminal off the streets):

• A seven-time convicted felon accused of shooting of two Chicago police officers was wanted for evading parole, escaping from electronic monitoring, and had two pending felony cases against him at the time, court records confirm.

  The suspect, 26-year-old Alphanso Talley, was charged late Sunday night with 20 new counts, including murder, attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping, and other charges.

  Talley, who has a history of violent crime, is accused of shooting and killing 38-year-old John Bartholomew, a 10-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, and critically wounding another officer, a 57-year-old man with 21 years on the force.

Paroled on two cases, an active warrant on another, cut of his ankle monitor, seven felony convictions, and still managed to get released over SAFE-T Act provisions by (who else?) DEI retard judge Lyke.

Keep voting democrat for more! 

Lots of Bears Movement

Just to be clear, we care little about the NFL any more. Long time readers will recall we used to do regular postings about sports, mostly about the Blackhawks, but we followed the Bears, too. That all changed when they went "woke" and the whole league went anti-police. 

Now, we only care as much as it affects where our tax money goes....as in they should get zero.

But the Springfield theater is ramping up for the fall veto session where the actors pretend to make deals and rip off taxpayers - just look at all these articles: 

• Channel 7
• Channel 9
• Slum Times

And all of them say the same thing - that the billionaire owners are meeting with the billionaire governor and NFL officials in some sort of "last ditch" effort to keep the Bears in Illinois. We still think they're staying because the Hammond location would require two years and a few billion dollars just to decontaminate the site. 

The correct palms will be greased this fall. 

COPA Releases Video

From a shooting a year-and-a-half ago:

• New videos and documents detailing the shooting of an alleged knife-wielding suspect by CPD in the lobby of a River North hotel back in April of 2025 have been released by the city’s office of police accountability.

  On Thursday, officials from Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) announced that their office had released a host of materials in connection with the incident, including response reports and video that captured the shooting.

  According to police, the incident unfolded just before 2:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2025, in the 100 block of East Hubbard Street, near State Street and Wabash Avenue in River North.

And in the entire article, there's not even a hint that COPA is attempting to hand out suspension time. 

So is this a textbook "good shoot" or what?

We watches some of it and the main question we have is why are Tasers still being issued / used / required as a Use of Force option when they're inaccurate and ineffective, needless endangering Officers' lives via hesitation and time constraints in dynamic situations?

We weren't ever big fans, but in hindsight, we realize that they failed nearly as often as they worked, which aren't good odds in this job.

Rats Bailing?

The rumor mill is gaining steam:

• There’s a rumble that at least one of the lodges in house attorneys have severed ties with the FOP as a result of the federal investigation. 

If true, this would be a big deal as liars lawyers aren't permitted to operate in unlawful atmospheres unless (A) they're heavier than whale shit or (B) they have any desire to keep their law licenses unblemished once the shit really hits the fan.

Anyone know if it's true? 

More Changes

Here's a partial list of moves:

• Chief of Patrol – Andre Parham
  
  
  Street Deputy – Bryan Spreyne 
  
  
  Deputy Chief of the Strategic Deployment Division – Jill Stevens
  
  
  Commander of the Narcotics Division – Lewis Courts  
  
  
  Commander of the Alternate Response Section – Joseph Mark 
  
  
  Commander of the Forensic Services Division – Patrick McGarry 
  
  
  Commander of the 009th (Deering) District – James Triantafillo
  
  
  Commander of the Inspection Division – Davina Ward

There are also a bunch of "acting" positions being filled:

• Commander Sheamus Mannion will be Acting Deputy Chief of Patrol
• Commander Johnny Tate will be Acting Deputy Chief of Area 4
• Commander Michael Neckermann to Acting Commander 001 
• Captain Darwin Butler to Acting Commander 007
• Captain Michael Poppish to Acting Commander 008
• Captain Charles Artz to Acting Commander 011 

Quite a few unqualified names there....this is obviously the political payoff list. 

Seven Years

Does this seem like an appropriate sentence?

• A woman initially accused of trying to murder a Chicago police officer during a 2023 South Side confrontation has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and been sentenced to seven years.

  Resendez, 41, was charged with attempted murder in connection with the September 2, 2023, encounter in the 9900 block of South Ewing. But officials never publicly accused her of firing directly at the officers. The confrontation was captured on both officers’ body-worn cameras and a city surveillance camera.

  Video released by COPA, shared at the end of this story, shows Resendez and another person walking down the middle of the street before moving toward the sidewalk as a CPD squad car approached. The officers drove alongside Resendez for a short distance before getting out of the squad car to speak with her.

  As one officer told her, “Lemme see your hands,” Resendez turned and pointed a firearm toward the officer, according to the officer’s bodycam video. Two shots were then heard, prompting the officers to take cover. The video does not establish who fired the shots, but CPD said Resendez “produced a firearm and later admitted to pulling the trigger in the direction of a Chicago Police officer.”

One question is why did she make it to sentencing? 

Here a Tax, There a Fee

The Tribune is noticing Conehead's attempts to kill Chicago....and they actually call it "dumb" (it's a paywalled editorial):

• A new parking meter deal is done and dusted, as City Council on Tuesday approved a $2.53 billion agreement allowing Stonepeak Partners to take over the remaining 57 years of Chicago’s parking meter lease. Good. We were tired of writing about this historic disaster.

  But that doesn’t mean there cannot be another one just ahead.

  Now, aldermen are looking to the future. And as some gaze into their crystal ball, they see a brave new world in which suburbanites pay more to park.

  An idea is floating around to bifurcate parking meter prices, adding a surcharge of 25 to 50 cents an hour for non-Chicagoans who park in the city, according to Ald. Walter “Red” Burnett, 27th.

  It’ll raise revenue, he says, though he couldn’t say how much, and encourage public transit, though that doesn’t take into account the frequent inadequacy of those options from the suburbs, especially on evenings and weekends.

  What we know for sure is that such a move is crazy-town nonsense.

Fifty-cents-an-hour isn't a deal breaker for most suburbanites....until it isn't fifty-cents-an-hour anymore. You can bet the price will go up....because it never goes down.

And there will almost certainly be levels of pricing, like five-bucks-an-hour for a school bus or twenty-per hour for one of those tourist coach liners. It'll add up and make it so even more people don't want to come here. Have you seen what they're charging to rent a car at the airports? Not just the fees - the taxes, too. It's all going to come crashing down at some point.

Destroy the Tax Base!

The headline:

• At City Club, Mayor Brandon Johnson asks why rich put profits over ‘the lives of my neighbors’

The simple answer:

• because your neighbors don't contribute much to society

The article (password protected) - is essentially just a demand for more money - a strategy that will cause corporations to leave Chicago faster:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the city’s corporate class of ignoring Black and brown lives Wednesday in a wide-ranging speech to a crowd of business leaders who cheered his ideas but greeted with silence his promise to pay for them by taxing the rich.

  The appearance at the City Club of Chicago was Johnson’s first major public speech since announcing his reelection campaign a little over two weeks ago, and signals that he is entering his fight for a second term — and his fourth budget — with as feisty a message as ever.

Channel 7 also writes about more efforts to further degrade the city tax base:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson used a campaign-style speech before the City Club on Wednesday to argue that Chicago's upcoming election is a battle between working people and the ultra-rich, warning that crime could increase if corporations are not asked to contribute more.

Higher taxes will cause corporations (and upper echelon taxpayers) to leave the city.

Coincidentally, so would higher crime numbers as evidenced by the past few mayoral administrations. 

So this seems like more of a public service announcement that the corporate class ought to work moving expenses into their operating budgets if Conehead actually wins. 

Blog Makes the Instagram

Another one of those A.I. videos with a special guest appearance by the blog.

• video link here

The JPud finger guns are amusing as heck. 

Shades of Johnson

Remember when that CPD Commander was cashing his dead mother's SSI checks for years?

At least he wasn't keeping momma in the freezer:

• A Portage Park woman with a history of fraud convictions who kept her dead mother’s body in a freezer for nearly two years so she could continue collecting the woman’s Social Security checks is now facing federal fraud charges.

  Eva Bratcher, 73, already received an 18-month state sentence for concealing a death and possessing a fraudulent ID card. Now, federal prosecutors have charged her with embezzlement of public funds and failure to disclose life events, alleging she collected $16,752 in Social Security payments by concealing her mother’s death. The charges are part of a nationwide federal crackdown on fraud.

Kenneth Johnson was stealing money for over twenty years....and he got two years probation.

This woman didn't murder her mom and only chased the checks for two years. What kind of sentence is she looking at?

Sox Advance

As of this writing, the Cubs might not make it.

Conehead's accountants aren't losing sleep yet, but....