Crime WAS Down

Remember a week or two ago how we warned Conehead and others about hanging their hats on the so-called crime reduction? How bragging about a drop could come back and bite them in the ass? 

These things are cyclical and are connected to too many other factors to predict any sort of short-term trends:

• economic factors;
• ethnic entanglements;
• foreign drug wars affecting supply and demand - even border enforcement;
• local gang battles over territory, rap music, disrespect;
• changes in local / state laws letting criminals out....if they ever went in at all.

And in spite of what McCompstat told everyone, the weather affects crime. 

Look at what happened in the middle of this week:

• in 40 hours, 51 people got shot, 9 of those died.

If you want to brag about crime reductions, do it on 01 January about the previous year.

Rumor #2

A lot of rumors popping in the comment sections. Here's another one:

• SCC, Expect big changes next week. Superintendent is pissed off. No more outer vest cover!! Your bullet proof vest will be worn under the uniform shirt, no more cargo pants, or baseball caps. No more gym shoes, only shoes that you can shine. Duty belt will be the leather one, no more nylon duty belts.
  
  Going back to the old school uniform. The way we left the academy is how the Sup wants us to to look on the streets.  

Either someone is bored or someone in charge is getting some heat from City Hall.

And before anyone starts whining about posting unverified rumors:

• we said, almost from the first ever post, that Rumor Central was a thing here;
• we've always used rumors that sound plausible as fodder for posts;
• it's the holiday weekend and what else have we got?

Besides, many of the rumors end up being true in one form or another. Many times, the publication of rumors actually stopped stupid ideas from coming to fruition. 

Rumor #1

Who was it who warned years ago that LEMART Training would open up the Police Department to all sorts of liability, not to mention obligations (real or imagined) to treat persons injured? Was it something "insignificant" along with hundreds of their readers? 

• Just found out this little nugget for all the hard working and caring P.O.’S that transported victims to the hospital in that chaos Wed. My neighbor is a paralegal for a Law Firm that is already drafting up Law Suits against CPD for not waiting for CFD and BLAMING CPD for deaths and injuries…disgusting!

We'll confess, we don't really believe this one. The lawyers would have to prove transporting someone resulted in further injury, along with negligence and intent. We're told the ones who died weren't the ones transported, mostly because of the nature of the wounds (massive trauma).

The City and Department could solve the entire issue by using the LEMART training for what it was originally instituted for - saving an injured Officer's life.

Or by stopping training for chest seals, tourniquets, quick-clot and bandages and leave everything to the paramedics....who are understaffed, overworked and wasted on tummy-aches in certain neighborhoods.

Happy Independence Day

 

We'll be in and out all day, with a few celebrations and BBQ's to attend, but we'll be checking in.

If you're home, enjoy it. 

If you're working, stay cool, hydrated, alert and safe. 

What in the Actual....

Rumor in the comment sections about stand-up Roll Calls being conducted all over Area 5 yesterday.

Anything to do with this?

 

Thanks to the dozen people who sent this one in. 

And thanks to each one who suggested this was the new policy to discourage foot pursuits. 

The Inspectors are looking for 5-11 pants and bump cards while commanders show up at Honors Funerals without proper insignia and this is going on? 

Weekend Prediction

Good thing the River North shooting happened Wednesday night. It would have thrown off our attempted prediction by almost 20.

Bad thing is it might provoke a cascade of revenge incidents across assorted territories, making our guess an exercise in futility. But we'll try.

Almost no rain on tap, high temps during the day, warm overnights, three-day holiday weekend.

Starting a few minutes ago 0000 hours, Friday 04 July and running through 0500 hours, Monday 07 July. seventy-seven hours total we're going to go with ten dead and twenty maimed - thirty total bodies with extra holes.

As usual, HeyJackass.com has the only numbers that we consider accurate and official. 

Chickens Home to Roost

So what could have sparked the tremendous and generous outpouring of gunpowder and lead that littered the streets of River North Wednesday night? Were there any warning signs? Anything that would have tipped off party-goers and business owners that something bad was on the horizon?

Well, there was this:

• According to court records filed in March 2024, Doyle was arrested in connection with the October 2023 incident in Calumet Park. Doyle [aka Mello Buckzz] allegedly hit Dade several times in her face, causing her to fall through a window, according to the court records. Doyle continued to punch Dade in the face, the documents said, leaving Dade with a broken nose and a “severe laceration to the right hand” that required tendon surgery.

Got thirty months probation for that one.

Reading some of her lyrics, we get a sense that this wasn't a one-off:

• [Chorus: Mello Buckzz]
  I got my blick out, pull up, hop out, boom
  Better not act like you want smoke, this bitch gon' tweak and act a fool (And act a fool)
  Tryna diss, we fill his ass up with hot shit, he think he cool
  I feel like Django with my switch, I'll wet a bitch up like a pool (Buckzz)

For the unaware:

• "blick" is a gun
• "hot shit" is fired bullets
• "switch" is an illegal device usually on a Glock that allows fully automatic fire

That's about the only verse we can quote without offending our mothers - the rest of the "song" is as verbally pornographic as you might imagine.

We'll say it's nice to see that the rap community doesn't practice sexism in its thirst for blood and violence - if a girl is going to make a diss track, she and her posse are going to be targets just like the boyz.

So Much Generosity

The "crime is down" narrative takes a bit of a hit:

• Eighteen people were shot and four were killed in a drive-by shooting late Wednesday night outside a nightclub in River North, Chicago police say in their latest update.

  The shooting happened around 11 p.m. near the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue, outside Artis Restaurant and Lounge, as well as a Dunkin’ Donuts. A number of clubs and businesses are located in that area, and witnesses say they heard rapid fire and a car racing out of the area.

  “Traumatizing. I’m just shook,” one female witness said.

  A worker at the nightclub told WGN News it was holding an album release party for a Chicago rapper named Mello Buckzz on Wednesday night. The club was closing when the shooting happened, so a large group of people were heading outside.

That's an entire weekend worth of numbers.

If that address seems familiar, there was another incident just a few years back that barely accounted for four people (or folks) shot.  Back then, the bar was shut down as a "public health hazard." This time, the City probably ought to level the building.

Rivera Family Not Happy

We can't say we blame them:

• An attorney for the family of Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was fatally shot by her partner, [...], said Wednesday that [...] should have never been a police officer, given a serious complaint made against him during his probationary period, and the death of Rivera “should have never happened.”

  The lawyer, Antonio Romanucci, at a news conference on Wednesday called for an independent investigation of the shooting, saying the Chicago Police Department narrative “does not pass the smell test” and asked the department to publicly release [...]’s full disciplinary record as well as police body cam footage from that night that left the family with more questions than answers. “We have many questions that need to be answered. And we don’t yet trust the narrative that officer Rivera was shot and killed by her partner during a pursuit of suspects who never fired a shot,” he said.

  Romanucci wrote Chicago Police Department Supt. Larry Snelling a letter on Friday, requesting he ask the Illinois State Police to conduct an independent criminal investigation into the shooting and that he release video, audio and other evidence of the shooting. 

Illinois State Police investigating would be step in the right direction. We trust them a lot farther than we would COPA.

We can't really agree with the release of video, audio and evidence at this time however. There is still the potential for this to all end up in front of a judge and jury, and the Rules of Evidence cannot be compromised until such time as that result is ruled out. 

In the meantime, it's probably safe to assume that no one is seriously looking at our suggestions the other day regarding background checks, hiring practices and training. No one has the political will for everything that would be exposed.

Johnson/Fenner Soap Opera

Word on the street is that Eddie "Underwear Arsonist" Johnson is about to be served with a No-Contact Order of Protection from Nakia "IAD Group Test Cheater" Fenner regarding some allegedly unwanted  physical contact during a recent incident at the marital residence.

Who's got the scoop? 

Conflict of Interest?

A "conflict of interest" is defined thusly:

• A conflict of interest occurs when an individual or organization has multiple interests that could potentially influence their decisions, often leading to biased judgment. This situation is particularly important in fields like law, medicine, and business, where personal interests may conflict with professional duties.

We bring this up because we are being told of an ongoing issue involving the Medical Section and the Pension Board regarding the duty status of a number of Officers. Case in point:

• an Officer has been determined by multiple city doctors to be "mentally or physically unfit for duty." This finding makes the Officer eligible for a hearing before the Pension Board Disability Committee to determine what the Officer is entitled to receive;
• the Disability Committee however, has decided to disregard the findings by the very doctors they hired to do these evaluations, and has ordered the Officer to undergo an additional "functional capacity evaluation" in preparation for a return to duty;
• remember, multiple doctors have found that this Officer is mentally or physically unfit for duty, as in performing the necessary tasks to protect themself, their partner and the public, up to and including carrying a firearm.

There are a number of doctors hired by the Pension Board to do these evaluations. There is a doctor in charge of the Medical Section who appears to be a "per diem" employee of the organization that is paid by the Pension Board to conduct these "FCE" examinations and all seem to share some sort of professional association among medical facilities. Does it seem suspicious that an organization benefiting financially from a city entity recommending evaluations would be allowed to interact in this manner?

To top it all off, the Medical Section is slow-walking all of the letters and paperwork the Officers need for their hearing, leading to extensive delays in scheduling before the Committee, leading to lapses in insurance coverage. We're talking extensive delays, sometimes nine or ten months.

We shouldn't be surprised at all this incompetency as one of the Disability Committee members is Melissa Conyears-Ervin, recent Inspector General target and wife of the un-indicted stripper patronizing aldercreature. 

But this crap is driving families into debt and bankruptcy. 

Second Guessing Gets Worse

Many of our readers predicted something like this years ago, and we agreed with them:

• Timothy Glaze Dean was shot and killed by Chicago police on January 3 of this year. Police body-camera video showed he was holding a knife at the time. Glaze Dean was shot 20 times, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday afternoon by an attorney for his estate, who said this is part of a longstanding pattern and practice of excessive force used by CPD.

  Police body-camera video showed officers exiting their vehicle, answering a wellbeing check call for Glaze Dean. An acquaintance was concerned about his mental state and said he was playing with a knife. The video showed police entering the Little Village apartment complex, traveling by elevator to the sixth floor and announcing themselves at Glaze Dean's door.

  A second later, Glaze Dean walks into frame with a knife in his hand. Two seconds after that, as he walks towards police, they open fire, shooting 20 rounds.

  Some bullets were fired after he was already on the ground without the knife and no longer a threat, according Glaze Dean family attorney Greg Kulis. The entire incident took less than two minutes from when officers exited their vehicle. "The police don't say, drop the knife. They don't say, police, put your hands up, drop the knife, step back," Kulis told the I-Team.

  Kulis said the body camera footage showed a lack of any attempt by police to deescalate the situation and points to what he calls a broader problem with CPD of excessive use of force, referencing both Laquan McDonald and Dexter Reed, who were shot 16 and 13 times, respectively, by Chicago Police and were killed.

First up, anyone who cites the Reed shooting in any capacity can be classified as a Grade A Moron. Reed shot first, shot a cop, and deserved every bit of lead Officers were able to fire at him. Fuck Reed, Fuck Channel 7 and Fuck this scumbag lawyer.

Second, anyone who views the video from the Dean shooting sees that he (A) had a knife, (B) brandished the knife in a threatening manner, and (C) advanced on the Officers in a tiny hallway. There was literally tenths-of-seconds to decide, draw and fire. Once the decision is made to utilize deadly force to meet an oncoming threat, there isn't a single order, ordinance or law that requires Officers to take a hit - any sort of a hit - before using said Deadly Force.

But these scumbag lawyers and whore media types want it to be:

1. observe the threat
2. give verbal direction
3. observe if there is any reaction to the verbal direction 
4. draw weapon
5. observe the threat
6. point weapon with additional verbal direction
7. observe if there is any reaction to the verbal direction 
8. fire one single bullet
9. repeat steps 1-thru-8

Now go dig up the footage of the Reed or Dean shootings and tell us exactly where all of this was supposed to take place?

Once again, we make this open ended offer to any scumbag lawyer or scumbag media type:

• we will provide you with a full set of CPD equipment - gunbelt, holster, OC spray, baton, handcuffs and bullet-resistant vest. We will steal a Taser from a friend. We will get you a pistol and three magazines fully loaded;
• we will print out a copy of the Use of Force Order and get Larritorious to explain it to you as he is the (allegedly) preeminent expert on CPD;
• we will set up an address for you to respond to via a radio call, someplace with multiple doors, narrow hallways, bad lighting, etc.
• you will be required to place us into handcuffs within the Rules, Regulations, current Ordinances and Illinois Law. You will do this without damaging us or suffering damage to yourselves;

But....:

• we might be armed....maybe a stick, a pipe, a blade, blunt instrument, maybe even a gun. You won't know until you get there and find us....because we'll be avoiding direct contact with you;
• if you use anything besides your winning personality, we win and you lose; 
• losing will involve some sort of forfeit on your part, probably something along the lines of a written/televised apology and admission that you don't know diddly-squat about police work and everything you've been spouting is just so much bullshit in service of the lib-tarded agenda for starters; 
• after that, there will be a monetary and physical penalty to drive home the lesson.

Oh, and did we mention that we'll also provide you with a waiver, signed and notarized, absolving you of any damage you might inflict upon us - direct mechanical strikes, pepper spray, taser effects and gunshot wounds. We'll have it written up by an actual lawyer and make a video of ourselves reading it so there's no question we knew what we were signing up for.

And you'll sign the same waiver.  

Poor People Exempt from Law

Do we have to show a tax return or something?

• A program designed to allow low-income Chicago residents to have their traffic fees waived has been made permanent due to a new law.

  What we know: Under the program, eligible fees, fines, and costs due to traffic violations would be waived in Cook County for people experiencing financial hardship.

  County judges determine who is granted a fee waiver.

  The program was established in 2021 with a sunset of 2024. It was extended through this year, but state lawmakers voted to make the program permanent during this past legislative session.

  What they're saying: The Chicago-based state lawmaker that sponsored the bill explained why he pushed for the change.

  "We do not believe someone should be forced into homelessness because they can’t afford to pay a speeding ticket," said State Sen. Javier Cervantes (D-Chicago). "This new law extends grace to some of the most vulnerable members of our community, and I am proud to be a leader in getting it passed into law."

We don't know - if you can afford a car, plates, stickers, insurance and gas, then you can afford to either obey the f#$%ing law or pay the fines that go along with breaking the law. Or just take the damn bus.

Additionally, if they're in danger of losing their housing because they constantly drive like assholes, maybe they can just live in their car to save money.

Arrests After Brawl

The "Giant Brawl" post from the weekend is finally getting some coverage.

It's from CWB of course, because a giant crowd attacking and injuring four cops isn't worthy of lamestream media coverage:

• A chaotic street brawl involving Chicago police and a large crowd erupted on the city’s West Side Friday evening, sparked by the arrest of a 22-year-old man, according to a Chicago Police Department report.

  The incident, captured in a viral video circulating online over the weekend, unfolded around 6:45 p.m. in the 100 block of North Lockwood, drawing dozens of officers to the scene after a “10-1” police emergency was declared.

The savages (that's a description of observed behavior) were attempting to free a narcotics arrestee, injuring a number of cops in the process.

And just a reminder:

• Under the SAFE-T Act, aggravated battery of a peace officer is not a detainable offense unless the officer suffers great bodily harm. Judge Susana Ortiz released Alexander, Burns, and Jackson to await trial.

Not a single assailant was held on any sort of bond except a signature.

This Must be Racist or Something

CWB blog has a post up about the weekend "pride" mayhem:

• Police arrested 39 people in connection with the Chicago Pride Parade and its aftermath between Sunday evening and early Monday, including six individuals who were illegally carrying firearms, according to the Chicago Police Department. One man charged with weapon possession was allegedly carrying two guns.

  This year’s arrest total is lower than the 53 arrests made last year but higher than the totals seen from 2016 through 2023. Of the 39 arrested, 13 individuals, including two juveniles, were charged with felonies, while 21 face misdemeanor charges, and one person received citations, a police spokesperson said. Charges were still pending against four people as of midday Monday.

And then they posted the Booking Photos of the felony arrests (adults only):

Something about this....

We're not sensing Conehead's "most generous" comment getting a lot of traction here.

Parade Aftermath

So what happened after the parade this past Sunday? A lot of comments pretty much lambasting the command staff:

• You want to hear something funny, turn on your police radio. Car 5 aka Jon Hein running the post pride parade debacle. What a useless moron. The parade ended at 1600, it is now 0100. This dumbass has all the manpower possible with days off cancelled and 12 hours shifts yet after 9 hours still doesnt have this under control. (SP)-Hein-(LESS) will prob continue to follow the people around for 4 more hours too.
• Hein should be dumped after last night. A total disaster with no preparation or leadership. Get some people in there that were the police. Not your side piece and house mouses
• The shit show last night is completely on Chief Hein. We had adequate resources, the problem is he just will not arrest people, he lets them walk around, just like all the protesters. Lack of experience and balls

All that talk about how police "can't arrest their way out of a situation" is just so much bullshit. A couple arrests, even a few dozen, stifles the baser instincts of people who don't want to spend the night in custody. 

Regardless, after seeing this photo of the aftermath (thanks to all who sent it in):

....we're more convinced than ever that this and every other parade needs to be moved to Grant Park for neighborhood safety, available parking ($$$), crowd control, equipment storage and clean-up reasons.

As an added bonus, Conehead could bid it out to some connected company and remove the incompetent police supervision almost entirely from the equation. Plenty of opportunity for some profit-skimming in there somewhere.

Profit Shrinkage

A 11.5% cut in the overall asking price (sorry about the paywall article, but there are work-arounds):

• Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley took 10% off the asking price of his Lake Shore Drive condo today.

  Daley, who served six terms as mayor from 1989 to 2011, is now asking $1 million for the two-bedroom condo. That's down $100,000 from what he had been asking for it since February. The condo first hit the market in November at a little more than $1.13 million. In all, Daley has cut 11.5% out of his original asking price.

  Crain's could not reach Daley, and his listing agent for the condo, Joelle Cachey Hayes of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A trust in Daley's name paid $865,000 for the eighth-floor condo in May 2015, according to Cook County property records. Ownership was later transferred to trusts in both his name and the name of his son Patrick Daley.

All those years of political favors and barely concealed corruption, and the disastrous trifecta of Rahm/Groot/Conehead trashes the downtown real estate market to the point Shortshanks has to take a double digit haircut to make a measly $135K before commissions and such.

Good thing he has two or three pensions to fall back on.

Your Wish is Granted

Good news out of Missouri:

• An alleged intruder who used brass knuckles to beat against a front door and break a window just before midnight Friday in Missouri was shot multiple times by the homeowner and killed.

  KFVS 12 reported that the homeowner, Austin Glastetter, was in the house with his wife at the time of the incident.

  Glastetter told the suspect, 31-year-old John Fisher, that he was armed, but Fisher allegedly responded by saying, “You’ll have to kill me.” Glastetter then shot Fisher multiple times.

If only more criminals were willinhg to announce their Rules of Engagement, crime numbers would drop across the nation overnight. Too often, victims have to guess at what the criminals actually want.

Time for a Change (long post)

This past Friday. following the funeral of Officer Rivera, the Slum Times posted an article regarding the disciplinary record of her partner who tragically killed her. 

We'll link it, but we aren't going to quote it or cite it. We can't say we're surprised by the number of Log Numbers in his short career. If you work certain places, you're going to catch complaints. If you're young, you're going to do stupid things, especially if you're out drinking. If you're minimally aware of how hiring standards have fallen, you're going to suspect that certain red-flags that would have prevented hiring in the past aren't going to be as rigorously applied when no one wants the job. And the habit of this generation to record everything and the social media fixation continues to baffle us.

It's a perfect storm of crap.

We don't know what the final investigation will conclude, but we'll almost guarantee they won't address the most glaring deficiencies that led to this unspeakable disaster.

We will say this however:

• It is far past time to reinstate the Ceriale Rule and update it for the modern era.

For those who weren't around, Michael Ceriale was a CPD Officer who was on Tact, doing a narcotics surveillance in 002, when he was killed by a teen who fired a round at the location Ceriale was concealed striking him below his vest. He died six days later. Ceriale was only 26 and had a grand total of one year, three months and sixteen days on the job. Considering six months in the Academy, his street time was under ten months....and he was on Tact. While that was probably indicative of his drive, ability and skill, the brass belatedly realized that these admirable qualities didn't provide the greatest single attribute to a successful police career:

• experience

So downtown instituted a "probation plus three year" rule for any plain clothes assignment which back then meant Tact or Gangs. Anything past that usually required Tact or Gang experience anyway, so the other spots were covered automatically (barring phone calls - which still existed because why wouldn't they?) And it mostly worked. There was even a time where a separate training course was required before you worked plain clothes. It wasn't much of a course, but it was on paper.

Somewhere, it all went away. By the later stages of our careers, they were filling Tact teams via reverse seniority because no one with time wanted to voluntarily give up Contractual Rights and surrender days off to get sent all over the city for crappy parades in crappier neighborhoods that you had the seniority to avoid. But the Department didn't care - they had plenty of "volunteers" who would do anything to avoid midnights. If we're doing the math correctly, Rivera's partner had just hit three years on the street.

And here the Department is - the youngest and least experienced organization in over three decades, with lowered standards, overlooked red-flags, and a Personnel Department desperate for any warm body to fill a uniform. It's a recipe for disaster as evidenced in early June.

As we said above, it's past time to reinstate the Ceriale Rule with major updates:

• we'd suggest a five year minimum, with at least some of that time on midnights. First Watch is not natural, it damages the mind, body and soul, it takes a toll on families. But it provides experience in excess;
• a full week of training regarding plain clothes. This would include an emphasis on tactics. Tactics for traffic stops especially after that shooting in 011 where everything learned at the Academy seems to have fallen by the wayside. Approaching suspects, citizen interactions, proper equipment, etc. We'd even go so far as to suggest an actual tact "uniform" of utility pants and polo-type shirt with CPD insignia. The skinny jeans, ripped t-shirt, baseball cap look isn't professional and - valid or not - provides defense attorneys with far too many opportunities to claim "no one knew you were the police."
• supervisor recommendations on paper. Let's face it - Tact has devolved into a favor-based assignment. There have always been goofs, but it used to be cops with some significant drive who made the teams. Cops who could smell guns, spot hot rides, knew the players, could puzzle out the dope operation, things that come with experience. The really good Tact supervisors spotted these cops and recruited them. Nowadays, sergeants don't get to pick their teams, they get told who is coming over. Hell, the lieutenants don't even get to pick their sergeants. If the Department went back to actual supervisory input, then the white shirts (who talk among themselves) would know who the dedicated and smart workers are, and who's getting Court Deviations for missing Traffic Court or Log Numbers for verbally abusing citizens, and they wouldn't be on Tact. And then, make the supervisor responsible for the recommendations.

Unfortunately, there will be objections to these reasonable suggestions. We've made them before in one form or another, here and elsewhere. Our point, however clumsily we try to make it, is that experience is the greatest teacher in the police profession, and when combined with decent training is the only smart way forward to recover from this tragedy.

No one wants to be where where the Department is at today. 

Well Look at That

Two cops were ambushed up in Milwaukee the other day. One died:

• The 32-year-old Milwaukee police officer critically injured in a shooting Thursday has died, the Milwaukee Police Department announced Sunday.

  According to the Milwaukee Police Association, Kendall Corder was shot several times in his arm and chest, causing severe internal injuries. He had served on the force for the past six years.

  Officer Corder was one of two officers shot while responding to a 911 call near 24^th and Garfield on the city’s north side that came in shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday. MPD said the officers were unexpectedly ambushed and shot in an alley along North 24th Place.

The suspect was apprehended shortly thereafter, and that's where the story takes a horrendous turn.

Guess where the suspect should have been? Guess who cut him loose?

• Just two months ago, the suspect was given a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of vehicle theft and obstructing an officer from 2021, meaning said charges were dismissed and the suspect would only be punished if he violated the terms of that agreement. He obviously did.

  Notably, the suspect was given this deal even after he failed to show up even after not one but TWO bench warrants for failing to show up for court appearances during the nearly four years the case was in the court system.

  Oh, and the judge who originally signed off on a deferred prosecution agreement in 2023? Hannah Dugan, who now faces federal charges for helping a violent illegal alien evade ICE by sneaking him out of her courtroom through the jury exit.

Even after this asshole missed not one but TWO court dates in violation of the "sentencing agreement," the judge still let him skate on his continued law breaking. And instead of this criminal being behind bars, he was free to ambush Milwaukee cops....and the judge was free to later aid and abet a violent ILLEGAL ALIEN avoid an ICE arrest and certain deportation.

It is certain that democrats love all criminals. 

This Just Looks Funny

But it's what "police work" has been reduced to:

• One of the stranger videos to go viral in Chicago this week featured one of the slowest police pursuits of all time. The footage showed the driver of a hoopty minivan creeping along a four-lane street, weaving in and out of construction cones and driving the wrong way — all at about 2 mph — while a swarm of Chicago police patrol cars zigged and zagged in an attempt to contain him.

  After seeing the footage, we had to find out what that was all about.

And CWB did find out what it was all about. There's video linked here.

And the truly sad part is there will probably be a bunch of suspension time handed out for paint scratches, uniform violations and something to so with Use of Force just to screw with the cops. 

But they got it done, so good job everyone. 

This Just Looks Worse

Wasn't Navy Pier the #1 tourist attraction in Illinois for a number of years running?

What happened?

• A man was killed in a stabbing Sunday at Navy Pier, and the suspect was seriously wounded. The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. in the 600 block of East Grand Avenue, Chicago police said.

  A 56-year-old man and a 64-year-old man were in an argument at the location when the older man allegedly stabbed the victim multiple times with a sharp object, police said. The victim was taken to a hospital for multiple stab wounds to his upper body, where he was later pronounced dead.

  The suspect was also taken to a hospital in serious condition with a stab wound to his chest. He is in custody, police said.

"Mutual Combatants!" Right Crimesha?

Oh wait, she's not here any more. 

Nice tourist attraction though Conehead. 

This Just Looks Bad

Even the video is hinky:

• A Chicago Park District lifeguard who killed one teenager and badly injured another at the Douglass Park swimming pool on Thursday also tried to shoot a third teenage boy, but missed, prosecutors said Sunday.

  The revelation came during a detention hearing for Charles Leto, the 55-year-old concealed carry holder now charged with multiple felonies, including first-degree murder.

The usual suspects are leaping to conclusions before any evidence has been presented aside from the bail hearing, and that is rarely ever the final word. 

Giant Brawl

We're told this was in 015? This is disgusting in the extreme:

• link here

Officers being manhandled, punched, dragged and thrown to the ground as the neighborhood frees a bunch of people who were obviously about to be arrested.

There used to be time when there would be an overwhelming response and the hood would get shut down for a couple weeks. 

Now? Might as well post the "No-Go" signs around the block and leave them to their own devices. 

School Layoffs

About damn time, but far too few:

• Chicago Public Schools’ crossing guard staff were cut by 15% Friday as the district announced sweeping layoffs in an effort to fill a projected $734 million budget shortfall. District officials said 161 employees in various positions were laid off and 209 vacant jobs would not be filled in what they described as a “careful and strategic approach to reduce spending while minimizing the impact on classrooms.”

  Nearly all of the 87 members of SEIU Local 73 who were let go were crossing guards, officials said. Another 24 vacant crossing guard positions were closed. Seven Chicago Teachers Union members were also laid off, with 19 open jobs eliminated. And 67 central office and network offices employees were laid off, with 166 positions across those offices closed, officials said.

  The reductions come a day after interim CPS CEO Macquline King pegged the district’s budget shortfall at nearly $730 million, hundreds of millions of more than what was acknowledged by her predecessor, Pedro Martinez, who left last week after being terminated.

"hundreds of millions more." So CPS lied. Again. And Conehead wants CPS to float a bond issue or some such nonsense, saddling taxpayers with even more debt, just so connected banks can make money on the junk bonds.

How about closing some schools? Remember this from WirePoints? (click for larger version)

That was 2022.

Here's 2023:

It didn't get any better in 2024 either. 

How about closing these twenty schools? Even closing ten would eliminate around 100% of the shortfall.

So Who's Getting it Worse?

These are red light camera tickets:

• Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued more than triple the number of tickets per intersection as on the North Side between June 2024 and May 2025. Fines citywide dropped over $12 million from the previous 12 months.

  Red-light cameras on Chicago’s South Side issued the most tickets per intersection during the 12 months through May, ticketing 2.6 times more drivers than the citywide average and over triple the number as monitored intersections on the North Side.

  Drivers citywide were fined nearly $56.5 million, without accounting for late fees, through 564,708 tickets from June last year through May. That’s 120,709 fewer tickets than during the previous 12 months and a more than $12 million drop in revenue. The drop was $15.4 million from the peak 12 months before that.

So fines are down tens of millions - money you know that Conehead has already spent in his "budget."

But although the rate of ticketing is higher on the south side, total fines are higher north:

• Red-light cameras on the South Side issued an average of 9,692 tickets, or about 6,623 more tickets than each camera intersection on the North Side.

  Despite the high volume of tickets per intersection on the South Side, drivers on the North Side received 73,309 more tickets, costing North Side drivers $7.3 million more in total than those on the South Side.

Of course, none of this means a damn thing unless the fines are paid promptly on time. The money is spent as if it was there, but it never is and the so-called media watchdogs never seem to ask that question.

No Fireworks?

Again?

• With the Fourth of July falling on a Friday, there will once again be no fireworks show downtown to mark the holiday.

  The city has confirmed that there will be no fireworks display in Chicago this year. Navy Pier will still hold its twice-a-week fireworks display on Wednesday, July 2, at 9 p.m. and Saturday, July 5, at 10 p.m.

  Madeline Long, director of communication for the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, told WGN News last year that “as has been the case for several years, the City does not host fireworks for the July 4th holiday.”

Not sure how many years in a row this is, but we remember working for the 3rd of July and it was an amazing shit show. 

 Every. Single. Time.

And we can't imagine the Department being able to handle anything like it nowadays. It would be broken windows, mass looting, multiple OC and Taser deployments, fights on every corner....you know, like it is all summer anyway.

And no arrests, just endless lawsuits until the next one.

Besides, the firework displays in the hood are almost better these days. 

We Laughed Way too Hard

Nearly thirty years certainly contributed to our dark sense of humor:

• A suspected shoplifter trying to escape Houston police made a wild and painful decision inside the Galleria Mall on Sunday afternoon—jumping from the second story and crashing onto the ice skating rink below.

  According to local news outlets, police officers were working a security shift inside the Galleria when they were alerted to a theft in progress. They quickly located the suspect, who bolted through the mall and jumped over a second-floor railing in an attempt to escape. He landed hard on the ice below, and let’s just say…he didn’t get far.

  Video captured by witness Ken Gilliard shows the man sprawled on the rink, screaming in pain. “As soon as he fell, he tried to get up. And I guess he noticed that his legs were broken. He screamed, ‘My legs are broken,’” Gilliard told Click2Houston. In the video, officers can be seen stepping onto the ice to reach him.

No video of the actual leap and fall, but the aftermath is still amusing.

So is this part:

• .... the suspect shouted, “Come get me,” right before jumping.

No problem moron. You probably won't ever be running again.

Dems Luv Criminals

In case you needed reminding:

Drunk drivers - one of the single largest populations of killers of the innocent - and dems support them.

And how about this out of Denver:

• The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to shutter a highly successful anti-theft auto license plate tracking system. The system was not closed due to concerns about privacy or finances. It was shut down because Democratic members believed that ICE could use the data to deport illegals.

  In May, the council refused to renew the $666,000 contract with Flock for camera monitors around 70 Denver intersections to screen for car theft. That system resulted in the recovery of 170 stolen cars and 300 arrests. It is also credited with key evidence in the investigation of hit-and-run and murder cases.

  However, it could also be used to assist ICE, and that is all that matters. Councilman Kevin Flynn explained it is all about Trump’s election: “We know that it can help solve crime. But I think since maybe Jan. 20 of this year, those concerns are greatly heightened and have a new reality about them.”

So screw recovering your stolen car. If the successful program inconveniences even a single ILLEGAL alien, then it must be stopped even when it benefits actual taxpaying citizens.

Who's This A$$hole?

Can't even wear the proper insignia of his rank at an Honors Funeral:

 

It's our old nemesis "commander" Tate who evidently couldn't schedule a vacation quick enough to skip another funeral.

Larritorious is all hyped up on uniforms and sending out the Inspectors to look for the 5-11 pants, but doesn't seem to notice the exempt staff looking like trash while honoring a fallen Officer.

Protect it from What?

Because we know who ain't misbehaving:

• Chicago Police Department leaders announced their safety plan Thursday ahead of the city’s 54th Pride Parade this weekend.

  The parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. Sunday, is expected to draw roughly a million people to the North Side neighborhoods of Northalsted, Lake View, Uptown and Lincoln Park.

  Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said the department’s goal is to prevent any outbreaks of violence after the parade ends, which he said have occurred in previous years.

Oh, just the aftermath? Wwe haven't seen anything like actual barricades capable of stopping cars and / or truck driving down sidewalks or streets. For that, you'd have to profile certain individuals, and we all know who has a habit of driving cars through crowded parade routes.

The after-party is a completely different type of profiling....and no one wants to say that one out loud either.

All the more reason to put every parade down in Grant Park, use salt trucks, steel bollards, and tire shredding devices to secure the route from terror-types, and get the rowdy morons out of the neighborhoods where they plunder the residents and attack the party-goers.

Trust the Government!

That thing that never happened? It happened again:

• In a study covering 1.3 million women of childbearing age, published in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, a simple analysis was done comparing the rate of conception between women who were vaccinated and those who were not, and there is a dramatic difference in the results. 

  This should come as no surprise by now--early on in the vaccination program, women experienced serious changes in their menstrual cycles, and subsequent studies showed that other changes to fertility were likely. The menstrual changes were a red flag that the public health officials ignored, reassuring everyone that they were of no concern. 

  They made those assurances based on nothing but hope--or indifference. Their commitment wasn't to the health of the women but to the viability of their vaccine program, regardless of the actual costs and benefits. Their view of "informed consent" was simple: if people are informed, they might not consent. So don't inform. Just lie. 

In the first full scale study of it's kind, the Czech Republic found that "vaccinated" women had successful pregnancies reduced by over one-third compared to the unvaccinated. It wasn't a vaccine - it was a population killer. 

Anyone know when the show trial and executions are going to start? Start with the US governors who locked down states while they and their families flew around ignoring all the "rules."

Out-of-Grade Slips Ready?

We highly doubt this is going to work out well: 

• Chicago police officers were relieved of one of their most grisly responsibilities 25 years ago: hauling dead bodies to the medical examiner’s office.

  Cook County initially took over the job, then handed it off to a series of private companies with mixed results — and a few scandals along the way.

  Now, the city’s decision to award a five-year, nearly $4.5 million contract for body removal to a single Northwest Side funeral home is raising questions — one police supervisor wondered whether “a funeral home is equipped to handle the city’s volume.”

  Wallace Harrison Funeral Home was the lowest of three bids for the lucrative contract.

And  just how did they get this Contract?

• At one point, GSSP was charging Chicago $915-per-body, the largest removal fee paid by any big city in the nation. Wallace Harrison Funeral Home will charge the city $172-per-body.  

Talk about your "low ball" bid. 

And the manpower in place to fulfill the Contract? 

• Wallace-Harrison told the Sun-Times that she has 20 transport vehicles and 20 employees. But the affidavit she filed with the city last fall indicates that her funeral home has just five full-time employees, including herself.

  The affidavit lists only one employee by name: Nakia Wallace-Harrison. A second manager is listed, but not identified. The three remaining employees are listed as “TBD.” 

As in, "No one has been hired for the position yet." 

This has disaster written all over it, but suddenly, the wagon just might be a financially attractive job. One body moved is D-3 pay for the tour.

Another Surrender

Enabling crime every single day:

• Chicago Police Department officials agreed to revise proposed new rules and prohibit officers from searching vehicles based on the smell of raw cannabis, a coalition of reform groups told the federal judge overseeing efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department.

  The coalition of police reform groups behind the consent decree — the six-year-old federal court order requiring the CPD to change the way it trains, supervises and disciplines officers — told U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer they had dropped their request that she order CPD leaders to revise a proposed policy designed to set new limits on when Chicago police officers can stop and search Chicagoans.

  The coalition, led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, “applauds” CPD for amending the policy in late May, calling the latest version “an improvement” that reflects an agreement reached in August 2023 that prohibits officers from “conducting an investigatory stop or search of an individual based solely on an officer smelling cannabis/marijuana without any other specific and articulable facts of criminal activity,” in a court filing made Monday.

Hooray!!! You just made cops jobs that much easier.

Of course, the Illinois Supreme Court has been a beacon of consistency, too:

• The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in December that the scent of raw cannabis is enough for a police officer to search a vehicle, even though marijuana is legal in the state. Three months before that decision, the Supreme Court found that the smell of burnt cannabis was not probable cause for a search.

So "raw" cannabis is enough for a search, but "burnt" cannabis isn't, even if the "burnt" cannabis is initially indicative of someone driving while high.

To top it all off, CPD pretty much ceased doing traffic stops for weed years ago:

• ...CPD officers rarely stop Chicagoans on suspicion of unlawfully possessing cannabis or violating the law regulating the possession or use of medical marijuana, according to CPD data.

  In the seven months between December 2024 and June 2025, just 70 traffic stops were conducted on the basis of suspected violations of laws governing the use and possession of cannabis, according to CPD data.

  In 2024, CPD officials reported officers made 295,846 traffic stops to the Illinois Department of Transportation, which is required by state law to track all stops made by police officers throughout the state.

That means that 0.0002% of traffic stops are for smelling marijuana in any form. Two-ten-thousandths. Cops saw the writing on the wall long before the ACLU got involved in de-criminalizing crime.

Arrest in Animal Killing

Guess where they found him:

• A 15-year-old boy was charged after allegedly killing two animals in the yard of a Northwest Side residence.

  Police arrested the boy Tuesday in the 3000 block of West Harrison on two felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and misdemeanor criminal trespass.

  He’s accused of unlawfully entering a yard in the 5200 block of West Newport on May 22 and killing two animals.

So much of the truly twisted crap seems to begin, end or pass through two locations - 007 and 011. No surprise either that both of these locations have led Chicago in violent crimes in something like eighteen of the past twenty years. Must be something in the water. 

The countdown to his first arrest as a serial killer has begun. 

Kenny, Is That You?

Why is this reminding us of something?

• A Maywood man was been charged in federal court with fraudulently obtaining Social Security benefits in the name of his deceased father.

  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said 61-year-old Richard Young Jr. was indicted on four counts of band fraud and one count of embezzlement of government funds.

  According to an indictment, Young’s father died in 2006. Seven years later, Young filed an application with the Social Security Administration for benefits in the name of his deceased father.
  

Perhaps he can pretend to be a connected Chicago Police commander. That criminal only got probation for over two decades of Social Security fraud.