CCL for the Win

Sadly, he only wounded one of the offenders:

• A licensed concealed carry holder shot an armed man who tried to rob him early Tuesday morning on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police, and officers tracked one of the suspects to his home by following a trail of blood.

  It happened around 2:40 a.m. in the 5200 block of West Montana Street, police said.

  Officers responded to calls of shots fired and learned that a 39-year-old man was exiting his vehicle when two men approached him on foot, police said. One of those men pulled out a firearm and demanded the victim’s belongings, according to CPD.

  The victim, who is licensed to carry a concealed firearm, drew his own gun and fired shots at the would-be robbers, police said. One of the suspects was struck multiple times in the legs, according to police.

Better luck next time Citizen!

Pay Your Fines Stacy

For someone who whines about millionaires and billionaires not paying their "fair share," how about just paying what you're supposed to?

• As president of both the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, Stacy Davis Gates wants government to take more from Chicagoans and businesses.

  But despite making $273,105 as a union boss, she apparently doesn’t believe government should take from her.

  Davis Gates has let $1,544 in Chicago water, sewer and trash bills pile up, according to the city’s Freedom of Information Act response from Dec. 16. She also owes the city $1,843 for parking tickets and speed violations.

We never made close to $273K, but you can bet on the few occasions we got a speeding ticket or a red light camera ticket, we paid it as soon as it arrived, because (A) we were likely ion the wrong and (B) there were job-related penalties if we ended up on that delinquent list.

Between the fines she and Conehead owe, Chicago might have had a balanced budget.

Shooting Update

The Police shooting the other day seems like a domestic gone crazy:

• Prosecutors have charged a paroled six-time felon with shooting a woman inside a South Side apartment and then trying to shoot the Chicago police officers who chased him into an alley, an encounter that ended with officers returning fire and seriously wounding the suspect. No officers were injured.

  Pierre Davis, 28, was taken into custody Friday night in the 7900 block of South Ingleside Avenue. Chicago police said no officers were physically injured. A 22-year-old woman who was shot earlier inside a nearby residence was hospitalized in good condition.

So offender shoots female, flees, is chased, and then exchanges gunfire with the Police.

How did a six-time felon get a gun anyway? We thought Porkulous made that impossible....and Conehead....and Crimesha....and Groot....and Rahm....and Shortshanks....and....

But they'll make every effort to take away your guns. 

Known Offender

Seems the Minnesota attacker had a habit of interfering with Law Enforcement:

• Democrats want you to believe that Alex Pretti, the man who died during a violent clash with Border Patrol in Minneapolis, was an innocent legal observer with a heart of gold. It turns out that Pretti’s armed assault that resulted in his death was not his first illegal interference with federal immigration officers.

  The underlying issue here is that Democrats have encouraged their activists to believe that they can commit any amount of violence and dangerous illegal behavior without any real consequences. The leftist activists deliberately endangering the lives of federal immigration officers on the streets, and fueling an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,347% increase in assaults, see themselves as heroes for their violence. Yet they also melt down anytime that violence backfires on them. Alex Pretti committed a felony and threatened officers with deadly violence one too many times. He fell for Democrat lies and it cost him his life.

The felony he was committing?

• 18 U.S. Code § 111 -  (a) In General.—Whoever—
  (1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or
  (2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service,
  shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

Committing a crime while armed pretty much negates the "he was allowed to carry a weapon" argument, because the minute you cross that line, the "allowed" falls by the wayside. Not to mention he wasn't carrying ID, which is a required component of Minnesota Law.

We could argue and counter-argue forever on this one. Was it unfortunate that someone chose to break the law? Yep, but he was an adult making bad decisions. Two-thirds of all assaults on Federal Officers care coming from nine cities - all blue state, blue city shitholes:

How about turning over all ILLEGAL ALIENS currently in state custody to the feds for immigration and deportation hearings and the feds wouldn't have to be in neighborhoods hunting for criminal ILLEGAL ALIENS. Texas has turned over more ILLEGAL ALIENS than all of these cities combined and the only assault was couple leftists attempting assassinate federal officers, accidentally killing a couple ILLEGAL ALIENS in the process.

In the meantime:

Residency Decision?

We get emails every so often:

• I'm not sure if this has been addressed, but I came across something recently that I thought that you and the troops may be interested in regarding residency.

  There is an interesting police board ruling from August 2025 where the Superintendent requested that an officer be terminated for living in the suburbs. BIA spent " 180 hours and 63 covert surveillance sorties of six to eight officers in covert vehicles" to prove that the officer was living in the suburbs and not residing in his Chicago residence. The police board found the officer not guilty due to the legal definition of residency. The board stated, " All officers and employees of the city shall be actual residents of the city.” “Residency” is not defined by any rule or statute. Residency is a nuanced determination set out in case law. It is important to note that establishing residency and abandoning residency are two different propositions having differing requirements of proof."

  The board goes ahead to site Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al as the case law:

  First, to establish residency, two elements are required: (1) physical presence, and (2) an intent to remain in that place as a permanent home [citations omitted]. Second, once residency is established, the test is no longer physical presence but rather abandonment. Indeed, once a person has established residence, he or she can be physically absent from that residence for months or even years without having abandoned it[.] Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al, 242 Ill.2d 303 at 319 (2011), quoting Kreitz v. Behrensmeyer, 125 Ill. 141, 195 (1888). (All emphasis in the original.) (Maksym’s continued reference to short absences is irrelevant to Respondent’s case.)

  (This case is actually Rahm Emmanuel's case to remain on the ballot after he was accused of not actually residing in Chicago.)

  We were all told when we joined the department that we must actually have to continually reside in a Chicago residence or be terminated. With this Supreme Court definition, if you initially establish your residence in Chicago, it would appear that you could then leave your residence for an extended period of time without having "abandoned" it. If you continue to pay a mortgage/rent, utilities, upkeep, etc on your Chicago residence while not physically being there, it would appear that you are in compliance as a resident.

  I am curious how this can play our for future incidences of officers spending extended amounts of time away from their Chicago residence or for those who have already been terminated.

Read the decision at this link here.

Anyone who has been around a few years can name at least three exempts who lived outside city limits, but no investigation was ever undertaken because of political clout. We can name at least as many aldercreatures who maintain residences in multiple jurisdictions and split time among them all. Not to mention someone who (if rumors are to be believed) currently lives in Lombard where his son and namesake plays basketball for a suburban high school. 

But hey, these are all rumors. 

Another Dumb Idea

Illinois.

Springfield.

Democrats.

All kinds of stupid - this bill is so poorly written:

• HB-3320 would force gun manufacturers to pay fees to help cover the medical bills, rent, court costs, etc of violent criminals if they get shot by a lawful gun owner —while committing a crime!

  That’s how Pritzker wants to ‘undo the effects of gun violence’ — by making gun manufacturers pay violent criminals if they get shot while committing a crime!

If a completely legal product sold in a completely legal manner is used legally....and said product functions properly and as designed, then there shouldn't be extraneous fees, fines or penalties attached to said product. 

There's a petition to sign electronically to express your displeasure with said bill, but we all know Springfield routinely ignores these. 

And if they don't ignore it, they merely do a "gut-and-replace" on some other piece of legislative bullshit like Fata$$ did with that other gun bill that was passed out of committee as an insurance bill after meeting all of the "open meeting" requirements, then had 100% of the language stricken and replaced with anti-gun legislation which was then passed in the dead of night.

Links here and here. 

Bunches of Hypocrites

There's a bill Porkulous signed last month to conceal information about government officials:

• Amid growing national fears about politically motivated violence and threats, Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly last fall to pass a sweeping statute allowing public officials to shield their personal information from public view.

  But the new law — signed last month by Gov. JB Pritzker — also erects a barrier between citizens and records long considered essential to democratic accountability, including marital status and basic information about whether lawmakers, county clerks and other officials actually live in the districts and communities they serve.

What else do they want to conceal?

• Under the law, government agencies, businesses and private individuals must redact and refrain from sharing the personal information of many current and former public officials upon request, though notably not those seeking office. Home addresses, phone numbers, personal email addresses and even marital status can all be removed from public view at the official’s discretion. The statute makes no explicit exception for journalism or political speech and applies retroactively, allowing officials to demand the removal of previously published material.

  Questions as basic as whether an elected official meets residency requirements — a cornerstone of representative government — could become legally fraught to investigate or publish.

And guess what else they're whining about?

• Democratic Rep. Katie Stuart of Edwardsville, the chief House sponsor of the law, said the legislation was modeled after a 2012 measure that allows judges to request the shielding of their personal information. That law was enacted after the 2005 killings of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow by a disgruntled litigant. Stuart said the measure reflects a sobering escalation in political hostility and violence.

  “Our spouses, our children, our loved ones deserve to be protected and not be put at risk,” Stuart said. “And really, nobody needs their life at risk to do the job of serving the public.”

Gee, you mean like Federal Officers wearing masks so as not to be doxxed? That's going on right now....including threats to Officers' spouses, children, schools that their kids go to, etc.

But politicians - especially democrats - are our betters, so they deserve complete secrecy while outing everyone else? 

Another Slum Times "Error"

The other day, we wrote about the Slum Times attributing nine shooting deaths and one stabbing death to being "police related." We poked fun at them and CWB picked up on it, asking for explanations.

The Slum Times blamed a programming bug and said they had corrected it. Their "Homicide Tracker" site notes the corrections and also blames it on a programming "bug." An editor also appeared in our comment section, thanking us for discovering the error and noting they had corrected the issue:

• Thank you for flagging this problem with the Sun-Times violence tracker. Due to a bug in the tracker, some homicides were incorrectly described as having police involvement. The bug was fixed this morning. — Ari Soglin, Interim managing editor-news

  1/22/2026 12:48:00 PM

Hooray for accountability, right?

Not so fast - it seems this "error" appears other times, at least once that CWB discovered and tipped us off to. Here's one from October of 2025 (click for larger version):

First thing you should notice is TWO separate guys named Oman Cobbs, 48, appear to have been murdered on the same day. The second one is listed as a "police shooting." If you click on the link, you find this story:

• The October death of a 48-year-old man found in a suitcase on the Southwest Side was shot to death in a homicide, officials said.

  Around 11:55 a.m. on Oct. 17, officers responded to the 3300 block of South Kedzie Avenue near the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago police said.

  There, officers located a green suitcase and inside it found a “badly decomposed” body of Omar S. Cobbs, according to police reports and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

So the Slum Times summary is that not only are Chicago Police killing individuals across the city, afterwards they're stuffing them into suitcases? We must have missed that lesson back in our training days and we don't recall anything like this in the e-learning modules before we retired. Is this a Consent Decree thing?

We'd hate to think the media was so incompetent at their jobs (and their editors so ignorant as to what was being published) that this happened regularly. Oh wait, we already think that and - once again - this proves it. 

Same Judge Again

Eight arrests in six months, and out because of the SAFE-T Act and a useless judge:

• A 37-year-old woman has been arrested for the eighth time in six months for carrying out a string of unprovoked, random attacks on the West Side while she was AWOL from a separate battery case.

  Prosecutors say Diamond Miller was in AWOL status from a pending misdemeanor battery case when she allegedly attacked three people within minutes near Pulaski Road and Cermak Road around noon on December 21.

You mean she didn't show up at court? Again? Why was she out?

• Records show that Miller failed to appear in court on a pending misdemeanor battery charge on December 2. Rather than issue a warrant, Judge Peter Gonzalez ordered the court clerk to send Miller a postcard reminding her of her court dates, according to court records.

Judge Peter Gonzalez? Why does that name sound familiar?

• A Cook County judge remarked that a man with a history of randomly and violently attacking strangers “seems to be expending a lot of energy getting into violent incidents allegedly” and that it “seems like we have a little anger management issue” before deciding to release the man on electronic monitoring rather than keep him in jail. Three days later, prosecutors say, that same man went on a violent spree in the Loop, punching three women in the face while he was supposed to be home on an ankle monitor.

  [...] 

  Gonzalez acknowledged concerns about Miller’s behavior during that exchange, telling the lawyers that Miller “seems to be expending a lot of energy getting into violent incidents allegedly,” and adding, “Seems like we have a little anger management issue.”

  Despite those comments, Gonzalez declined to detain Miller on the pending case.

Ah yes, the "Loop Puncher" judge, stating [in effect] that he knows this asshole is a piece of shit, doesn't follow court directives, has "issues" ....AND STILL RELEASES HIM TO ATTACK MORE PEOPLE!

This judge:

 

Probably a DEI hire. Definitely a political hack. 

Remember this name come election season - "Judge" Peter Gonzalez, friend to violent criminals.

Willie Sutton Lives On

We don't know if these people (or folks) know their history, but it isn't difficult to figure out:

• Nearly a century ago, serial robber Willie Sutton reportedly explained why he was sticking up banks by saying wryly: “Because that’s where the money is.”

  These days, crooks in the Chicago area seem to be centering on a new source of cash: establishments offering video gambling. The Illinois Gaming Board recently confirmed what many in the industry already knew: 2025 saw an explosion of crime, with more than $2.7 million stolen during 473 burglaries at those types of businesses last year.

  Nearly half of those burglaries — 219 — occurred between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.

  There have been at least 40 since Jan. 1.

What always surprises us (unless they just aren't reporting it) is the lack of burglaries or takeover robberies of weed dispensaries. That's a business with a TON of cash on hand, and due to banking regulations regarding drug transactions, much of it can't be deposited properly or in a timely manner.

When we begin our villain character arc, we know exactly where we're starting. 

Don't tell Batman.

Detective Exam Assist

From our email:

• I’m a CPD detective currently on the job. I wanted to pass along a study resource I recently put together for officers preparing for the Detective Promotional Exam, in case you think it’s worth mentioning.

  The site is 10-1 Academy (tenoneacademy.com). It’s a policy-based prep program built around CPD directives and how the Detective exam is actually tested. I built it based on real investigative work and exam experience, not test-prep gimmicks, and kept the cost intentionally low so it’s accessible.

  This isn’t an official CPD program and it’s not endorsed by the Department. It’s just an independent project I built for other officers who want a structured way to prepare.

We found some of these courses helpful, some not as helpful, back when we were taking exams. Every bit of info helps, so do with it what you will.

Comments closed here - informational post only. 

Is There a Lawyer in the House?

Imagine the outrage of denying service to people based on race....then remember, liberals and democrats  already do it based on religion, political affiliation and what your job might be:

• New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch is demanding that a Brooklyn hospital retrain all of its staff after emergency room personnel mistreated NYPD officers whom they mistook for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The hospital said it “regret[s]” the conduct.

  Several NYPD detectives were “met with rudeness, disrespect, and a lack of basic professional courtesy” at the Home Depot Emergency Department at New York University Langone Health—Cobble Hill last week, according to the NYC Detectives’ Endowment Association. The staff initially mistook the officers for federal immigration officers and suggested they go somewhere else for treatment, according to multiple reports.

We've run across dozens of stories during our career where hospital staff were overly rude and unprofessional to on-duty cops who had either been injured or were escorting prisoners who had been injured, usually during the course of resisting arrest or attacking Officers. A few times, we experienced medical staff attempting to dictate how custody of prisoners was undertaken, none of which ended well for those attempting to cite "medical authority" over actual Law.

If we're going to go down this road - denying medical care to Law Enforcement over political differences - then we see a lot of referrals to medical licensing boards, examining hospital certifications and lawsuits with punitive damages attached for medical malpractice. 

We'd suggest the FOP start looking into a few pro-Police law firms willing to take on hospitals - they're loaded with tax money, grant money and insurance money.

Jolly Olde England (or Scotland)

Imagine this....and you don't have a gun:

• A man who chased a police officer with a chainsaw in an attempt to murder him has been jailed for 10 years.

  Liridon Kastrati, 32, was found guilty in November of the attempted murder of PC Gary Cowan following a trial at the High Court in Paisley.

  The daylight attack occurred on 6 May 2024 in the Renfrewshire town after a Volkswagen car being driven by Kastrati, an Albanian national, crashed into a police vehicle.

  PC Cowan told the court he initially approached Kastrati with the intention of arresting him, but then found himself running for his life after the attacker returned to the car, grabbed a chainsaw, started it up and began to sprint after him while shouting "f*** the police".

As we understand, most cops in Great Britain still don't carry sidearms.

This is what liberals here dream of. 

Term Limits? Age Limts?

Good idea from a moron:

• Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this week that he wants a mandatory retirement age of 75 for people running the federal government.

  Emanuel made the comments at two events in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday — a conversation with reporters hosted by The Christian Science Monitor, and an event primarily focused on education policy hosted by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank.

  The former mayor, 66, said rule should apply to all three branches of the federal government — including the president, members of Congress, and all judges.

  Emanuel said he would include the rule as part of a greater effort toward ethics reform.

There ought to be term limits and mandatory retirements across the board for all manner of political animal. For far too long, these leeches build power and then shut out people with newer and (sometimes) better ideas.

In fact, there ought to be a limit to years of "public service" altogether that would shut out Rahm immediately - aside from World's Clumsiest Deli Slicer, he's never held a real job in his life that wasn't attached to politics, so his meter ran out years ago. 

At least he isn't suggesting what his brother did and start killing old people once they hit seventy-five, though we'd make a few exceptions.

No Remote Learning?

Schools were closed Friday because the teachers wanted another paid holiday. 

No mentions of "remote learning" so kids didn't fall behind.

About that....

How many millions were spent just a couple years ago for computers and software so that teachers could have almost two-years of off-site work, teaching remotely while test scores plummeted and social skills were destroyed? And what ever happened to all those computers? 

It gets a little chilly and all that "global plandemic prep work"  isn't up to handle a single day of sub-zero temps?

Makes us wonder. 

Great Idea!

We wish we had thought of this one:

• ...we have a pretty huge update and confession about this whole "Report ICE activity hotline" situation.

  By about 1am, we had reports come in from numerous states that there had been "incidents" at a number of biker bars last night.

  It turns out that "report ICE activity hotlines" had received "tips" about "off-duty ICE agents" drinking at dozens of bars. Those bars just so happened to be biker bars owned or frequented by individuals who haven't always been on the right side of the law.

  ICE protestors were alerted and given the addresses of these bars. According to friends of ours across the country, beta soy boy, gender-fluid communist Meal Team Sixers showed up with their "F-ICE" flags and tried barging into the bars. Except... there were no ICE agents drinking there. As a wise man once said... "now you's can't leave".

Unfortunately, we can't find any actual news coverage of these incidents (yet) leading us to believe it's a work of fiction....which is too bad because it would be hilarious to say the least.

Shooting

Southside:

• Injuries were reported in a Chicago police-involved shooting Friday evening on the city's South Side, sources told ABC7.

  The shooting happened at at East 79th Street and South Ingleside Avenue in Grand Crossing.

  The block was filled with officers from corner to corner Friday night. Chicago police confirmed that it was a shooting involving police.

Two persons turned up shot, but at the moment, only one appears to have been shot by the Police. 

Not a good night to be standing around outside. Try to keep warm and let readers know if more info becomes available.

Pension Troubles?

Of course, the pension is always in trouble - it's run by democrats and their appointees, in a blue-state-blue-city shithole where promises are made and broken on a daily (Daley?) basis:

• The alternative city budget muscled through the City Council over Mayor Brandon Johnson’s objections required the city to make the full $260 million advance pension payment to stave off another costly reduction in Chicago’s bond rating.

  Late last week, the Johnson administration ignored that mandate and made a half-payment of $130 million and promised to pay the other half later this year.

  Now, the renegade group of 32 alderpersons who rejected Johnson’s corporate head tax and seized control of a budget process are demanding to know why.

What do you call someone who defies the legislative body representing Chicagoans? Isn't that some sort of "king" or "dick-taker" or "asshole"?

That 6% is looking worse day by day. 

Good Weekend Read

Sometimes you have to take your time and direct your attention to a longer written article that really gets into the meat of an issue. 

This Contrarian article is one of them:

• 2025 was another banner year for Chicago media. Over the past year, what news consumers experienced in Chicago was more overt political bias in ostensibly neutral news media. Business as usual for Chicago’s print, television, radio, and digital media figures, in 2025, reporters continued to demonstrate their utter intolerance with opposing views and became less trusted to separate fact from fiction in the delivery of the news. 

  Whether it was covering up or whitewashing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s incompetence and mammoth failures as mayor or throwing a tantrum at Department of Homeland Security agencies enforcing immigration law in Chicago, in 2025, Chicago media confirmed their intent to serve as a protective chrysalis for politicians and groups they favor. 

  It was once a non-negotiable duty to maintain a strict pose of neutrality in the reporting of the news. However, instead of asking questions and learning a story, media figures in Chicago persist in their habit of creating news. With Chicago media simply disinclined to fulfill the core journalistic duty of telling the truth or holding powerful people accountable for their actions, contributors to Contrarian have collected some of the most egregious examples of biased journalism in Chicago for 2025. While some reporters profiled here are regulars, in this installment of “Worst in Chicago Media,” there are some new arrivals, including our worst journalist for the year. 

The Contrarian starts there, and then names names along with cited examples of the worst of Chicago "reporters" and their so-called "reporting."

Media trust is at an all-time low across the country and the Chicago media is doing their part to demonstrate that just when you think they're at rock-bottom, they find a shovel and start digging a basement.

Go read it all - it's good. 

HQ Was Closed....for Cold?

We can close down the Department for cold weather?

• I just wanted to send u this info in case u haven’t already seen it. This definitely deserves a post on its own. 
  
  
  35th and Michigan closed [Friday] for inclement weather ? Is this a fuckin joke ?! 
  
  
  Dozens maybe hundreds of officers with under 5 years on the job getting a day off because they can’t “work” in the cold ?! Going from their take home cars to the building is too rough ?
  
  So they get a free day off but patrol has to go to work and has to actually be on the street not in some cubicle nice and warm ??
  
  
  What about officers who want to clear from the medical tomorrow they won’t be able to ? Do they get that day credited to them ? Doctors note or not ? Do we all get a 8.5 day credit if we don’t come to work ?? This should be news worthy especially since Johnson said he was cutting CPD spending ? Who made this decision ? I’m assuming this will definitely be a grievance with the FOP. Please post and bring attention to this BS

Did this actually come to pass??

We wish we could have closed the Districts back in the day. 

UPDATE: At least part of it was closed (click for larger version):

So if the OPSA was closed, did everyone have to burn 8.5 hours? 

Any of our FOIA wizards want to start requesting the Time and Attendance Sheets for Friday? 

UPDATE: It was the civilian side?

UPDATE: Get a load of Cook County:

• Think that’s ridiculous? That morning we had an out of state warrant brought to Maywood. After getting there, Maywood despite having a room full of deputies, said it was a last minute decision to “close all the courthouses because of the cold,” and said out of state warrants had to go to 26. Apparently it was too cold for all the normal courthouses but at 26 the temp was manageable. County didn’t decide to say boo to anyone so everyone who went to Maywood that morning, had to re-direct to 26. Who would’ve thought that jobs in the Law Enforcement field have “bad weather days.”

What's next? The Post Office?

Gaslighting Again

When the video shows exactly what it was supposed to show, simply lie:

• City officials on Thursday released video and other materials related to the fatal shooting of a man by Chicago police officers in West Ridge last month.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said the incident began around 10:25 p.m. on December 9 when two officers responded to a call of a stolen vehicle in the 5700 block of North Washtenaw Avenue.

  According to COPA, officers saw a dark-colored sedan pull alongside the stolen vehicle and saw two people attempting to enter the stolen car. Both officers approached the suspects and ordered them to stop, COPA said.

  One suspect fled on foot while the other man, identified as Roberto Calvario, 20, jumped into the driver’s seat of the sedan they arrived in. Astruggle ensued between an officer and Calvario, and the officer fired his weapon as Calvario was driving away, striking him, COPA said.

Cue the usual lies:

• Body-worn camera video released Thursday shows that a 20-year-old man “posed no threat” before he was fatally shot in the head last month by a Chicago police officer in West Ridge, according to lawyers for the man’s family.

Cue Mama:

• Calvario’s mother, Awilda Ramirez, said the officer “didn’t have to kill my son.”

  “I want to ask that man why,” Ramirez said in a statement. “I want to ask that man why. I want to know why he shot my boy for nothing.”

Well Mama, he was in a stolen car. He had to fight to get back into the stolen car in an attempt to escape. Then he dragged the cop with the stolen car. Then it turns out he didn't just have a gun in his waistband, he had a second one in the car, meaning he had to really really really get away from the consequences of his own actions.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Maybe Mama can do a better job the next time around instead of raising a drain on society. 

Nice Pinch

One of those long-term investigations that seem kind of rare nowadays:

• Chicago police recovered $4 million worth of suspected narcotics and multiple firearms during a six-month investigation.

  The investigation, which concluded earlier this month, focused on narcotics being trafficked in Chicago and the suburbs. Officers served a search warrant on Jan. 10 at the home of a convicted felon involved in narcotics trafficking.

  During the search, officers recovered various suspected narcotics with an estimated value of $4.3 million, five firearms and about $54,000 in cash, according to CPD.

But only one arrest? He's charged with about fourteen different felonies, so he's probably already home in his own bed.

Still a nice arrest. 

A Wee Bit Chilly

Expected wind chills well into the negative double digits, and so cold, they cancelled the January Polar Plunge:

• One of this season’s annual Polar Plunge events, where brave swimmers take a dip in the freezing waters of Lake Michigan to benefit needy families, has been canceled due to the extreme cold in the Chicago area.

  A separate, a much larger Polar Plunge event, which occurs every March and raises money for Special Children’s Charities and Special Olympics Illinois, is not affected.

  This year’s plunge, scheduled for Saturday, was canceled due to “extreme weather and beach conditions,” according to a statement from the Chicago Polar Bear Club, a local nonprofit that holds the event each January to raise money to support families who need help with, among other things, covering medical expenses, finding safe homes and caring for extended family.

You know it's always cooler near the lake.

It would seem it's even colder in the lake. 

Stay warm if you can. 

Nice Editing Slum Times (UPDATES)

Evidently, the only thing driving crime this year is police shootings (click for larger versions):

 

 

So out of the twenty-five homicides already this year (per HeyJackass.com), ten of them (forty percent) have been police involved.

Someone ought to have a talk with Larritorious about that. 

UPDATE: the idiots in charge sent an intern back to correct all the errors....or as a democrat would claim, "cover up police crimes."

Here's the link to the corrected version. 

UPDATE: CWB rips the Slum Times a new one, too:

• In a remarkable series of errors, the Chicago Sun-Times has published data claiming Chicago police officers have shot and killed 11 people already this year — and felled another in “a police-related stabbing.”

CWB also goes a step further and relates that other websites (many A.I. fueled) "scrape" the information from major outlets and add it to databases that will then falsely report on police shooting numbers.

Dems Love Criminals

Yesterday, we wrote about the democrat effort to conceal, hide, and secrete the criminal records of thousands, probably tens of thousands of offenders from basic background checks. Not that big a deal if we're talking about tiny little misdemeanors. But there's no mechanism in place for persons who plead violent felonies down to misdemeanors. 

And then someone in the comment section raised a point that we are kicking ourselves for not remembering and mentioning:

• libtarded sites like the Invisible Institute have CR records going back decades for things that never even rose to the level of a quasi-criminal offense - mere procedural "crimes" at worst - that are available for public viewing and are used on a daily basis to question arrests and uses of force by Officers.

We haven't checked that site since we retired.....but we did today. We're still listed there a number of times. So are half-a-dozen deceased Officers we know along with dozens upon dozens of retirees we are acquainted with. A family member who died almost a quarter-century ago is still listed for a sustained "offense" that occurred took place in the 1960's.

But someone in 2024 who took a swing at a cop (Agg Assault), made incidental contact (Agg Battery), but thanks to Crimesha pled it down to a misdemeanor (Simple Battery) gets to seal up his records and hide his violent tendencies?

This is fair how? When do we get to seal up our employment records for things that were never even crimes?

Earthquake!

Reports coming in the the governor slipped and fell in the shower:

• A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was recorded overnight northwest of Springfield, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

  The quake occurred early Tuesday morning about 2.5 miles northwest of the village of Ohlman, roughly 36 miles northwest of Springfield, USGS geophysicist Rafael Abreu Paris said.

  “A magnitude 3.8 is a small earthquake. This is a quake that is typical for the central U.S.,” Abreu Paris told the Sun-Times. “Anything above a 4.5 is a little high for the region, so a magnitude 3.8 is something that you could expect anywhere in the world.”

Luckily, it was during shift change, so there were twice the usual number of State Troopers on duty available with moving straps to rescue Porkulous.

This Will End Well

And if you believe that, we've got a "vaccine" for you to try:

• Chicago police officials this week said more civilian investigators will join the department’s bureau of internal affairs as the office works to finish investigations more quickly and decrease its backlog of pending cases.

  “Those investigations have to be done timely and they have to be taken seriously across the board,” Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said during a Tuesday status hearing on the city’s ongoing federal consent decree. “When we’re doing these investigations, we want to get them done as quickly as possible because if there’s a sustained finding (of misconduct), we want to be able to apply training or discipline as quickly as possible.”

  Hastened internal affairs investigations would bolster both complainants’ and officers’ faith in the discipline process, Snelling said.

When has "hastened...investigations" ever instilled confidence in any finding? For years, all we heard coming out of the Detective Division was "continuing investigation" which (during the Crimesha years) was more a method of never appropriately charging felons. And if we ever got to Court, everything hinged on a "thorough" investigation, which wasn't accomplished in short order - it took time.

Civilian investigators lack the training, understanding and experience to properly and adequately investigate most police matters. We recall the giant stink about COPA not being authorized to investigate /officer Involved Shootings - are these civilians (A) legally authorized to investigate sworn personnel and (B) violating Contract protections?

Meters Already Re-Sold

Chicago was never really in the running:

• Chicago's parking meters have been sold to another private company. The Johnson administration considered buying the meters back, but the sale price was way too expensive.

  Parking downtown at a meter spot costs $7 an hour, up from $3 an hour when the city owned the parking meters 17 years ago. In what has been called a disastrous, lopsided 75-year deal, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley sold the meters to a private company for $1.15 billion.

  "They made about $2 billion in earnings, you know, basically a year, little over a year ago. So, they've already made their money back. For a company like this, it's easy to flip it to somebody else," Ald. Scott Waguespack said.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson says it sold to an unknown company for at least twice as much as the original price in 2008. For the past few months, the mayor's team looked into the possibility of buying the meters back. "We had our teams run the numbers and look at every variation of a potential deal. However, the more we looked into it, the more problems emerged," Johnson said.

Chicago has a spending problem more so than a revenue problem.

So how about closing under-utilized schools instead?

Hiding Criminal Records

So not only is Fata$$'s SAFE-T Act releasing criminals back onto the streets at an alarming rate, now offenders will be able to hide their criminal tendencies and past records:

• Just the other day, a man was beaten with a metal pipe in Chicago's loop by Piere Thorne, a career criminal with 57 prior arrests. The victim, an unidentified man, suffered a bleeding head wound, lost teeth, andsuffered facial and jaw fractures as well as cuts to his face.

  Thanks to Illinois' ridiculous pro-criminal policies, Thorne will not spend a day behind bars for this attack. Late last year, career criminal Lawrence Reed set a 26-year-old woman on fire on Chicago's Blue Line. Reed had anywhere from 22 to 49 prior arrests, according to various media reports. He was later charged in conjunction with an arson at Chicago City Hall that predated his attack on the woman.

  But Democrats haven't met a criminal they won't go to the mattresses for, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is no exception.

  He's just signed the "Clean Slate Act" which would seal criminal records every six months. That way, we'll never know how many dozens of arrests criminals in Chicago have when they rob, maim, or murder more innocent citizens.

There are a couple exceptions that democrats are hanging their hats on:

• sexual violence against minors, 
• DUIs, 
• reckless driving,
• serious violent crime

But there is no mechanism for those who plead violent crimes down from higher charges. How many times have we seen particularly Aggravated Batteries pled down to Simple Battery for whatever reason? We were the victim in quite a few of those types of incidents over our careers. 

Do you think an employer would like to know if an applicant has a habit of attacking police? Or a landlord might like to know if someone with an unhealthy interest in property damage would make a good tenant?

But now, you won't know what you're hiring or who you're renting to. 

More COVID Revelations

Just in case anyone still believes the government had your best interests at heart:

• Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged “impressive data” showed stronger immunity from a COVID-19 infection than vaccination while publicly pushing mandated shots, newly released documents show.

  Former President Joe Biden’s top pandemic response officials discussed a thorough study from Israel showing the superiority of natural infection in August 2021, simultaneous with the initiation of federal vaccine mandates via an Aug. 24 Pentagon memo, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Protect the Public’s Trust, indicating officials who helped compel COVID shots had contemporaneous scientific evidence they were unjustifiable for millions of Americans. The officials distorted the evidence in public statements, repeatedly saying vaccination is necessary for immunity.

They wanted to see how easily the populace could be coerced into giving up everything for a "vaccine" that provided less protection and more long term damage than the virus itself. 

Unfortunately, society failed. Never forget what they did. 

Conehead Corpses Trifecta!

Not a good look for an already ugly individual:

• Three shooting victims in Chicago lay undiscovered for extended periods Sunday — one for nearly 10 hours — after gunfire struck them without any accurate 911 calls being made. All three victims were shot on streets previously monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network before Mayor Brandon Johnson deactivated the system in September 2023. All three died.

  The delayed discoveries highlight growing concerns about shooting victims who go undetected due to a lack of 911 calls. According to HeyJackass.com, a website that independently tracks Chicago crime data, 18.5% of people shot in Chicago last year died. But among victims who received delayed first responder responses due to a lack of 911 calls, the fatality rate is nearly three times higher at 53%.

It's that final stat (the 53%) that is probably going to drive a concerted effort to re-instate ShotSpotter in some form or another. 

Chicago being broke is going to play a big part in it, too. For the most part, people getting shot aren't typically innocent bystanders.

An Opportunity!

Unfortunately, due to efforts of Conehead, Groot and the 9.5-digit-midget, there isn't any money to rectify this issue:

• Nearly two decades after a $1.15 billion deal privatized Chicago’s parking meters, a window has opened to seize the valuable asset back from private investors. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is at least exploring the idea. But the mere discussion of the multi-billion acquisition raises more questions than it answers.

  Chief among them is whether a city already saddled with more debt per capita than any big city in the nation should borrow billions more to buy out the 57 years that remain on the parking meter deal that Chicagoans love to hate.

  “The original deal was a disaster for taxpayers, and we have to make sure that we don’t compound that disaster,” said Ald. Bill Conway (34th), vice-chair of the City Council’s Finance Committee.

  A former investment banker who still teaches finance at DePaul University, Conway said the leveraged buyout would use meter revenues as collateral on the loan.

First of all, this would (probably) involve hiring massive numbers of parking enforcement people, which if we know government employees (and we do), would be a massive drain, even if they got the Police Department to pitch in.

Second, there would be quotas....and quotas lead directly to corruption on a massive scale. Which means you'd need body cameras or some sort of oversight for the enforcement people - meaning another massive expenditure.

Third, as the article states, there is a declining need to go where the meters are, mostly downtown. In fact, there is a concerted effort to discourage driving downtown, let alone parking there. And with businesses fleeing in massive numbers, conventions leaving for warmer, friendlier climates, tourists going to where they won't be robbed, beaten or shot, the "doom cycle" sets in. Higher pricing discourages drivers and less drivers using parking necessitating higher fees, etc, etc.

Seems like a losing proposition either way. 

Crime is Down....in DC

This is going to be inconvenient for democrats:

Almost like a visible police presence, whether local or federal, pays dividends.

The Great Hat Debate

So, which one -with the chilly temps expected this week:

Choice A - skull cap:

 Choice B - Rocky the Squirrel:

We owned both. 

Time for Some Water Cannons

A question asked quite a few years back by us, and this past summer by others, and finally by our old friend over at CrimeFileNews:

• If the goal is to reduce injuries, then we need to stop pretending that chemical agents and kinetic projectiles are “gentler” options. Tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and impact munitions put people in emergency rooms. Sometimes they put them in hospitals. Always they create lawsuits, especially in blue states where juries reward bad behavior with lottery-sized verdicts.

  There is a better tool, and it works.

  Properly used water cannon trucks drastically reduce injuries. No chemicals. No burns. No broken bones. No permanent damage. Just water. A lot of it.

This would be especially effective in the current weather conditions (especially in Minnesota) - a light spray directed in conjunction with the strong midwestern breezes and all the protests would evaporate long before the resulting ice crystals would melt. Salt trucks on standby and any disruption would be minimal.

Have you seen the videos of Minnesota pantifa rioters pulling over cars and going through them, looking for evidence of ICE involvement? Or these same terrorists accosting citizens on the street wearing anything red, white and blue, and making them remove it in order to pass safely along city streets? This is supposed to be America, but the communists are in full control as police are ordered to stand down and do nothing.

Smoke, Fire?

This was all over the comments over the weekend:

• Joseph Vecchio racked up more complaints than any other officer in his six years on the Chicago Police Department, many of them stemming from his work on a tactical team that’s developed a notorious reputation.

  Vecchio was stripped of his policing powers late last year after the city’s police oversight boss told Supt. Larry Snelling about the “concerning number of complaints” he faced.

  He had been the subject of 76 investigations since he joined the department in October 2019, wrote LaKenya White, the interim chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. At the time, he faced allegations of domestic abuse, civil rights violations and providing false statements about traffic stops involving guns.

And whose name is all over this budding scandal?

• Barz

Seventy-six complaints in six years. Fifteen lawsuits. Settlements already in the six digit totals.

What can we say that hasn't been said already?