Wait....This is a Thing?

A judge actually held someone without bail?

• A Cook County judge has detained a man after determining that he is “not a good candidate” for electronic monitoring because he “tried to set an entire train car on fire.” Quentin Williams, 38, is accused of setting multiple fires aboard a CTA Blue Line train in the Loop and threatening passengers with a box cutter, according to court records.

  CPD officers responded to the Jackson Blue Line platform at 5:48 a.m. on March 24 after receiving a report that someone was threatening people with a knife. A CTA employee identified Williams as the offender, but no victims or additional witnesses remained on scene when officers arrived. Police detained him on a nearby stairwell. Prosecutors said Williams has a prior felony conviction for stabbing a random person in the leg with a box cutter on a CTA train.

  While officers were still investigating, multiple CTA riders told them that Williams had just set items on fire inside a train car. Prosecutors said Williams had been riding the Blue Line when he entered an occupied railcar and used a lighter to ignite four packages of adult diapers and a cardboard Pampers box. Most of the materials burned out on their own, but prosecutors said he relit the box and diapers before exiting the train.

So if a judge has "a feeling," they can disregard the SAFE-T Act that releases multiple-convicted felons out to terrorize citizens again and again? The State actually asked for this, but time and time again, judges claim to be bound by the law. Now they're ruled by "feelings."

Mayoral Race Money

Well, we know who's going to be running commercials 24/7 shortly and who isn't garnering any support:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson has just $813,125 in campaign cash on hand — compared to $18.3 million for Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias — just a few months before deciding whether or not to seek a second term.

  The latest fundraising reports filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections show the rookie mayor raised $176,036 and spent $192,675 in the first quarter of 2026, with a so-called “burn rate” that will be difficult to sustain.

  During the same three-month period ending March 31, Giannoulias, who is a potential candidate for mayor, has been a fundraising juggernaut.

Alexi is used to dealing in millions of dollars, seeing as when he was working at Broadway Bank as the senior loan officer, he loaned two organized crime figures upwards of $20 million. And then when the bank went under, it cost taxpayers almost $400 million.

Coincidentally, Conehead's $813K is around 4% of Alexi's $18.3 million - almost matching Conehead's approval rating as decision day approaches for candidates to declare.

Conehead continues to burn bridges with the Machine, dissing a predecessor:

• As former Mayor Rahm Emanuel revs up for a 2028 presidential bid, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday described Emanuel’s eight years as mayor as “disqualifying.” Johnson did not identify Emanuel by name when he talked about the one Democrat in the crowded field of possible presidential contenders whom he would like to, as he put it, “x-out.”

  But there was no doubt about whose potential presidential campaign Johnson was attacking, even before Emanuel has formally announced. “I have very deep concerns about the former mayor of the city of Chicago. What he did in Chicago — from school closures to privatization to austere budgets,” Johnson said during his monthly appearance on WBEZ-FM’s “Ask the Mayor” program before a live audience.

And throwing in with the CTU's efforts to completely burn all credibility (paywalled article):

• Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that “May 1 is happening,” signaling his support for the nationwide day of protest as the Chicago Teachers Union continues to urge the school district to cancel classes so that students and staff can participate.

  “We have an opportunity in this moment to push the narrative, not just at the federal level, but for Chicago and the state of Illinois to show up on behalf of working people,” said Johnson, a former CTU organizer and close ally of the union.

Commies gotta commie - because they certainly can't teach worth a shit.

Facial Recognition Works Again

Remember, democrats want to forbid police from using this tool:

• The gunman who shot and nearly killed a downtown convenience store clerk last month was identified through facial recognition technology linked to the Illinois Secretary of State database, prosecutors said Thursday. It’s the latest case solved using the technology, even as state lawmakers move to bar Illinois law enforcement from using it.

  The 31-year-old victim had worked at 7-Eleven, 191 West Adams Street, for about six years when Jaquell Hayes, 30, entered the store on March 12 and began stealing over-the-counter medication, prosecutors said. The cashier intervened, and Hayes allegedly threatened him before leaving. Hayes returned the next day and threatened the clerk while reaching toward his waistband, prompting the victim to tell him to leave, prosecutors said. When Hayes refused, the clerk used bear spray in an attempt to defend himself, something he had never done before. Hayes exited the store.

  The clerk moved from behind the register to lock the revolving glass doors to keep Hayes from reentering. As he approached the entrance, he saw Hayes standing directly outside the door, pulling out a handgun and firing multiple shots through the glass door, according to prosecutors.

And without it, another shooting might have gone unsolved.

Gun Safety Day Next Month

Haven't seen any notices about this yet, but here's an e-mail reminder:

• I’m a retired range guy, possibly coming back as the same in a civilian capacity. Mike Mette has my scheduled to work Gun Safety days at the FOP on May 27-28 at the FOP hall. As always, it’s free. Same offerings, most but not all manufacturers are there to inspect. It’s a great free event, though poorly attended the last 2 years. 
   
  Hours usually were 0800-1400’ish. Any mention would be appreciated. I usually message the busy districts in advance.

If we get a reminder, we'll post again closer to the date.

(comments closed here - informational post only)

New FOP Scandal Erupts

Fun times at the General Meeting:

• President John Catanzara informed members that he is finally doing something about the hostile takeover of Forensics by the private company Ron Smith & Associates. The room seemed cautiously optimistic — or at least as optimistic as you can be when you’ve heard a version of that sentence before.

  To his credit, acknowledging the issue out loud is a step in the right direction. Whether that step leads anywhere beyond the microphone is, of course, the part everyone is waiting to see.

  Then things got… interesting.

  After wrapping up what can only be described as a highlight reel of his own accomplishments, EJ stepped up to the mic. She started by thanking him for his “hard work” — which, given what followed, may go down as one of the more polite setups in recent meeting history.

  She then asked a simple question: whether he had charged his trips to Jamaica on the FOP credit card. The reaction said more than the answer.

  John looked like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He immediately denied it — flat out. EJ followed up by suggesting that if that were true, there should be no issue opening the financials back up to the membership.

  That’s when the story started changing.

  John claimed the financials were never open to members — which raised a few eyebrows, considering he himself reviewed them when Kevin was President. When that was pointed out, he pivoted again, saying members can’t see the credit card statements because, before they were locked down, someone saw a $5,000 steak dinner charge and “blew it out of proportion.”

  EJ’s response was simple: “But you still spent $5,000 on a steak dinner.” John tried to reframe it as a dinner for retirees. EJ didn’t budge: “It’s still a $5,000 steak dinner.”

  At that point, the wheels came off.

  Unable to win that argument, John pivoted hard — this time to attacking EJ personally, bringing up CR numbers related to her social media activity. There are growing concerns that complaints have been encouraged in response to her speaking out. He then suggested the Lodge has spent too much money providing her legal defense for IAD statements. EJ fired back with the obvious question: how much has the Lodge spent defending him over his own posts? Posts that forced him tor retire before he was fired. When she asked if it was in the neighborhood of a million dollars, John said he “didn’t know.”

  Which, at this point, seems to be the most consistent answer of the day.

So once again:

• the FOP credit card seems to be being used improperly;
• legal fees in regard to the president might be approaching a million dollars;
• access to union financials are still being denied to members despite the current president using them to beat the past-president 

The usual sycophants are defending these actions, because if they don't, they'll lose their Field Rep spots like the First VP lost his. 

The Friday update should be interesting. 

PPP Fraud Scandal Continues

CWB has the first story we saw:

• Chicago’s inspector general concluded nine investigations in the first quarter, finding that Chicago police officers fraudulently obtained forgivable loans under the COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program, investigators announced.

  A tenth city worker, identified as an aldermanic employee, also obtained a fraudulent PPP loan and then filed a false police report claiming someone had stolen their identity and used it to submit the loan application, according to the OIG’s first-quarter report. The report does not identify the targets of OIG’s investigations by name.

Nine cops, one aldercreature employee. Not a single name released though, and no word on the numerous exempt members who have been allowed to run out the clock and retire with their credentials. Or the numerous OEMC people who were racking up a few hundred thousands in fraud.

The Sun Times reports seems to go even further:

• Chicago’s top watchdog is heading for the exit — but not before dropping one last fraud bombshell on the Chicago Police Department. Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said Wednesday her office sustained allegations against 17 Chicago cops in the first four months of the year for allegedly scamming COVID-era relief funds and the police department agreed to move to fire them.

  Investigators dug into their Paycheck Protection Program loan applications — cash meant to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Another cop quit while under investigation. All told, the alleged ripoffs involving those nine cops totaled $284,000, according to Witzburg’s first quarter 2026 report.

  Fraud allegations also were sustained against eight other officers, but the Chicago Police Department hasn’t decide whether to move to fire them.

Why are so many police officers being targeted?

• “This was a triage effort, and we are not done yet,” Witzburg said. “The reason we prioritized CPD cases is because they occupy positions of tremendous public trust and they land on the witness stand, so their credibility is of paramount importance.”

The political structure has spent the last ten years or more undermining trust in the Department, burying it so deep it will take twenty years or more to resurface.

And with over 1,000 identified fraud cases in the works, seventeen is less than two percent of the total. There is far more fraud in other city departments....but those departments are far more politically protected than the CPD. Easier to pick on the cops and let the connected fade into retirement.

Remember Election Day

Remember the crooked DEI judge that released the naked squad car stealing cop assailant? She made completely undocumented and unsubstantiated allegations that she had been threatened by Chicago Police Officers....but made no reports to the Cook County Sheriffs who are in charge of judicial security.

One of our long time readers did an FOIA request seeking information about these alleged threats and found exactly....nothing (click for larger view):

• ....a foia request was filed with the cook county sheriffs department on whether any case reports were generated over judge Tyria Walton’s claims that Chicago cops threatened her after temple verdict . The sheriff stated they “can’t confirm or deny any records exist “..? So it’s big secret now if any investigation was initiated? They also use the “disclosing the identity of persons who provided information to law enforcement “.. well we all know she made the allegation in open court so it should not be an issue . We all know that any reports can be given with personal information redacted . With judge Walton running for retention on November it’s clear as day she lied . It should be simple , give the proof that cops are guilty of threatening her or resign your seat

What's even more disturbing is the complete silence from the FOP after this obviously corrupt "judge" lied to the media about imaginary threats and slandered the entire CPD without any documentation at all. That Dart's people are covering for a crooked judge isn't surprising, but the FOP ought to be reminding people that judicial retention is a thing and ought to be exercised whenever an Election Day comes up.

Late Notice Fundraiser

It's this Friday, but we just got an email about it:

Tickets available at this link.

Always a good time. 

 

Careful Out There

It seems we triggered the folks over at Forensics (click for larger view):

The Department used to threaten us with this one semi-regularly. It made us cautious, but didn't really stifle us much. We actually had a lawyer on standby for a while with all sorts of expertise in social media usage off duty, and he thought we might get a nice size payout....if we weren't in Illinois.

In any event, remember - they'll tie you up in the investigative process, but they'll have a difficult time proving they can control your off-duty behavior. 

They'll try though. That's what totalitarian leftists do (see the post a few places down from this).

Oh, and fuck off Meagan. 

UPDATE: And while you're fucking off, you might want to read up on Employee Resource Order 02-03-01. It has to do with Timekeeping. 

And then take a look at CPD 11.602S. That's your supervisor time card. How many acts of Official Misconduct are documented on that we wonder? 

We suddenly have four or five people e-mailing us all sort of stuff about FSD shenanigans involving people splitting shifts, working half-days, running personal errands while on-the-clock, the usual crap that goes on when politically connected people think they can get away with anything. We certainly hope they aren't picking up those children in a city vehicle while everyone else has to pay for babysitters.

Not the Smartest Criminal

A virtual confession on-line:

• Prosecutors say a Chicago man Googled how to kill someone with a hammer before using one to beat to death a transgender woman he had been in a relationship with.

  Deandre Bell, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Davonta Curtis, 31, whose body was found by family members inside her apartment in the 2400 block of West Lake Street on April 8. Prosecutors said she had been in an on-again-off-again relationship with Bell.

  In a detention filing, prosecutors said the two spent part of Easter Sunday together and video showed them returning to Curtis’ apartment building that evening. Sometime between 11:40 p.m. that night and early the next morning, Bell struck Curtis repeatedly in the head with a hammer, prosecutors alleged. Surveillance video then shows Bell leaving the apartment building alone at 1 a.m. on the morning after Easter.

This is why our closest friends have instructions in the event of our untimely passing:

• clear our browser history ASAP - phone, computer, everything

Lord knows we don't want the Keesing Bandit going through our internet searches.

Where is THIS List?

Ttreacherous ground being tread upon by the thought-police-wannabes in the City Council:

• A measure aimed at rooting out Chicago police officers with ties to extremist, anti-government groups like the far-right Proud Boys or Oath Keepers is set for a City Council vote as early as Wednesday.

  That’s after the 17th version of the measure passed the council’s Workforce Development Committee by a 6-3 vote on Monday, with some debate.

  The proposal from Ald. Matt Martin (47th) would ban Chicago cops from engaging in “extremist activities,” defined in the measure as any attempt to overthrow any level of U.S. government through violence or “unconstitutional means.” The prohibition also applies to the planning, execution or “material support” of hate crimes.

Seventeen versions of this "thought crime" bullshit and it still only passed out of committee six-to-three.

And they only cite supposed "right wing" groups, none of which (as far as we can find) have ever committed even a quasi-criminal offense in Chicago. Nor is there a single instance of Officers (who may or may not have signed up for these groups) allowing the group philosophy to influence or dictate and police action taken. 

But the record is bursting with references to teachers supporting the pantifa clowns, the #blm racists, officers in uniform kneeling in police stations or supporting left-wing middle east hate groups.

So who is deciding what is and isn't extremist? Conehead? Fata$$? Are they taking cues from the SPLC people who labeled assorted Christian, family-centric or pro-life groups as extremist? 

This law is only designed to persecute certain politics and make lawyers rich. 

Hide the Info!

Some people - COVIDiots mostly - don't like to hear about these ongoing revelations, mostly because they're ashamed that they caved to the pressure brought upon them. 

Even eBlogger is still taking down our posts that go against the narrative, so better save the link so you can read it when they try to shut it down.

This is from sworn testimony introduced in front of the US Senate: 

• On August 31, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) authorized the PfizerBioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster. By late October 2022, HHS reported that approximately 14.4 million people 12 years and older had received the booster. In November 2022, federal health officials became aware of a statistically significant safety signal for ischemic stroke among individuals age 65 and older following administration of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster. An ischemic stroke occurs when a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes blocked, preventing blood and oxygen from reaching parts of the brain. Despite the monthslong persistence of this safety signal in multiple vaccine safety surveillance systems, Biden’s FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) did not issue any formal health alerts, nor did they advise the public to avoid the vaccine. Instead, federal health officials continued to tell the public the vaccine was safe, but behind closed doors, they initiated multiple studies and statistical analyses—including a so-called “Stroke Project”—to investigate the validity of their assertion. These investigations continued through at least September 2025.

Hundreds of strokes were documented....and no one said a word. Just for historical reference, they pulled a polio vaccine in the mid-20th century when something like five adverse effects were reported and kept it off the market for years.

Like we said, save the link. They'll disappear it if they can. 

Fundraiser - Save the Date

This coming Sunday:

 

Even if you can't attend, it wouldn't hurt to buy a ticket.

Nice Weekend Conehead

Is crime still down?

• At least 28 people were shot, one of them fatally, during the weekend across Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

  CBS News reported that the fatal shooting occurred at 11:45 p.m. Saturday “in the 8000 block of South Morgan Street,” after two groups of people quarreled. 

  A 25-year-old woman was shot numerous times and died after being transported for medical attention. 

Hoping over to HeyJackass.com, the full weekend totals ended as follows:

• 1 dead, 29 wounded

Certainly a lower number of killings that most years and sightly above average woundings.

Warm all week, but rainy. 

UPDATE: CWB points out that this is a 50% INCREASE over last year:

• Warm weekend weather helped drive a sharp year-over-year increase in shootings across Chicago, according to information released by the Chicago Police Department. While only one homicide was reported, 29 other people were wounded by gunfire, with victims ranging in age from 13 to 46.

  Data compiled by HeyJackass, a website that independently tracks Chicago crime using public records and open-source reporting, shows 30 total shooting victims this weekend, a notable jump from the 20 recorded during the same weekend in 2025. The site’s historical data indicates that last year and 2022 were the best-performing years for the weekend since 2015, while the weekend’s long-term average stands at 34 victims.

Any "reporters" staking out Casa de Conehead for a unannounced trip to Northwestern?

Poor Reasoning

This criminal is sadly misinformed:

• We’ve learned more about the alleged motives of the man accused of causing widespread damage in a string of axe attacks on property at Chicago firehouses over the past two months, and we now know just how much damage officials think he caused: $130,000.

  Chicago cops arrested Jacob Bogdan, 26, around 2:45 p.m. Saturday when they saw him standing in the 200 block of West Cermak Road, directly across the street from the Chinatown firehouse where the crime spree began with an early morning axe attack on February 5.

  Now charged with 21 counts of felony criminal damage, Bogdan was ordered detained Sunday afternoon by Judge James Murphy III after prosecutors said Bogdan “carries an axe for protection from firefighters” and had threatened to kill his father, according to court records.

(sarcasm and silliness warning ahead) 

You don't need "protection" from fire fighters - you just have to avoid them. And in our long experience responding to jobs alongside fire fighters, we discovered the easiest way to accomplish this avoidance:

• avoid fires
• avoid fire stations
• avoid accidents
• avoid certain bars

However, if you like fire fighters, the best way to find them is:

• respond to fires
• hang around fire stations
• respond to accidents
• go to certain bars

Most citizens should be pissed this idiot cost taxpayers $130,000 in car repairs for the affected fire fighters.

This Crap Again?

Naming Park District property for an armed criminal justifiably shot by polioce:

• The Chicago Park District plans to rename a playground within Washington Park for a man who was killed in a police shooting nearby in 2014.

  [...] The Park District Board approved the district's request to start a 45-day public notice period.

  A playground on the northwestern side of Washington Park, at 53rd Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, would be named Ronald "RonnieMan" Johnson Playground. Currently, the playground does not have a name.

And here's the shooting coverage from 2014:

• Cook County prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against a Chicago police officer who shot and killed 25-year-old Ronald Johnson, saying dashboard camera video of the shooting shows Johnson was carrying a gun when he was shot.

  Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said her office conducted a "very careful" review of the Independent Police Review Authority's investigation of the shooting, and determined Johnson resisted arrest, and ignored several orders to drop a gun he was holding as he fled police on Oct. 12, 2014.

What does it say about a community that constantly memorializes the dregs of society, especially somewhere that children play?

Clear Those Intersections

One of our sustained disciplinary findings was over a crash:

• Five people were injured after a CPD squad car was involved in a car crash in West Garfield Park.

  Two Chicago police officers were responding to a call when a driver failed to yield to their sirens at an intersection in West Garfield Park and caused a crash, Chicago police said.

  The officers were driving in a marked squad car with their lights and sirens on just after midnight in the 3800 block of West Washington Boulevard. A 42-year-old man driving a gray SUV failed to yield to the officers and crashed into the squad car, according to police. Three parked cars also were damaged in the crash.

  The driver and two male passengers were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with minor injuries. Two officers were in good condition at a local hospital.

Sounds like no one was seriously hurt, which is a good thing.

Get well soon Officers - summer is coming and Conehead is panicking. 

Privatizing Police Jobs

There has occasionally been noise about "civilianizing" certain police jobs and we've seen it in bits and pieces over the years:

• traffic aides
• lockup keepers (detention aides)
• desk personnel

We don't really recall anyone at the FOP putting up much of a fight - we couldn't strike over it and that may have been the beginning of Desk and Lockup bid spots being locked in - we aren't sure. Hell, we've advocated civilianizing the entire CAPS operation and even front offices to get more cops on the street.

This seems a bit far though:

• For the past two years, the Forensic Services Unit has been going through a major and controversial shift after the City brought in a private company, Ron Smith & Associates. The company was supposed to help get the lab accredited and train Latent Print Examiners. Since then, the City has paid them more than $4 million, and there are growing questions about what that money has actually delivered.

  What started as a limited consulting job has turned into something much bigger. Instead of finishing the work and stepping away, the contract keeps getting extended. Nearly two years later, the training still isn’t done, and the unit is more dependent on this private company than ever.

  At the same time, leadership changes have closely followed this shift. James Snaidauf, a former employee of Ron Smith & Associates, was appointed Director of Forensics. According to multiple sources, the qualifications for this job were written so narrowly that no one else realistically had a shot—it all but guaranteed he would get it. This wasn’t an open, competitive hiring process; it was a position built for a specific person. Since taking over, there’s been a clear push to move out sworn personnel and replace them with civilian hires, including people coming through pipelines connected to Ron Smith & Associates.

  Matt Marvin, who is also tied to the company, has been involved in this transition as well. Multiple people have reported hearing him make comments about how much he enjoys firing people and his hatred for unions. He has also allegedly told supervisors that there are future job opportunities waiting for them with Ron Smith & Associates. If true, that raises serious concerns about what's really driving decisions inside the unit.

  The pressure is now hitting the Latent Print Examiners directly. About two years into their roles, they were told they now need to get certified through the International Association for Identification or risk losing their title. This requirement was never part of the original job, and it isn’t required by any state or national standard.

  What makes this even more concerning is who’s tied to that certification. Multiple employees from Ron Smith & Associates—including Matt Marvin—sit on committees within the same organization that issues it. In other words, the same group connected to the City’s contractor is also helping shape or influence the certification now being pushed onto these officers.

This is a testable spot, correct? And as the writer points out, there is no history of these certifications being required at the State or National levels. This seems like a money grab for some connected company to (A) get rid of unconnected Officers, and (B) create a politically connected job market for the favored few. 

This also opens the door to a entire swath of testable spots being eliminated. The FOP used to fight over bid spots and job titles. Is that a thing any more? 

Axe Guy Arrested

Known offender it seems, and he got scooped up quick:

• A man is now in custody, accused of taking an axe to firefighters’ vehicles across Chicago, with police effectively extinguishing a bizarre crime spree on the same Chinatown block where it began.

  CPD said officers arrested 26-year-old Jacob Bogdan on Saturday in the 200 block of West Cermak Road, home to a CFD firehouse that was prominently featured in the 1991 Hollywood movie Backdraft. The arrest came hours after detectives issued a public alert about the string of attacks.

  Bogdan, now charged with 21 felony counts of criminal damage to property, is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing on Sunday.

How did the detention hearing turn out? It's property damage, so it's a good bet he's another SAFE-T Act success story.

Did he at least have to surrender all his axes? 

Real? Or A.I.?

From an e-mailer:

 Here's the link.

Are these things calibrated properly? And that flag doesn't look very aerodynamic.

Somehow we highly doubt it. 

Not Violent Enough

Surprise! Another blue state $hithole:

• A Florida man walked into a Fall River (Massachusetts) bank last summer, handed the teller a note that said “I have a bomb,” and walked out with $5,000. He got caught the same day with dye on his hands and stolen cash in his pocket. Open and shut.

  But before his case was resolved, a legal question made it all the way to the state’s highest court: could prosecutors hold him without bail as a danger to the public?

  The Supreme Judicial Court said no. Armed robbery, the justices ruled on March 10, doesn’t count as a violent enough crime to lock someone up before trial.

  Read that again. Armed robbery. Not violent enough. …

We really really need this idiots to become victims of their own rulings and stupidity. That's the only way they'll learn.

CFD Alert

From an e-mailer - if you click to enlarge it, the entire picture starts to pixelate, which we can't fix:

How many firehouses have actual gated lots? 

Fences high enough to discourage someone climbing it?

Like we suggested before, swing by, keep an eye out, maybe get some target practice in. 

More Oversight Nonsense

So....what exactly are her qualifications?

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has chosen Anjanette Young to sit on an oversight board for the city’s police department. 

  The update comes years after officers once handcuffed Young while she was naked, during a botched police raid in 2019. 

  The footage was made public in 2020.  

  As a result of the botched raid, the city later paid nearly $3 million to resolve a lawsuit Young filed against the city of Chicago.  

Is this a paid position? Because you know that there isn't a single aldercreature with the balls to actually oppose this appointment or hiring based on any actual qualifications. Being the victim of a mistake doesn't make you any sort of expert on police work, oversight or legalities.

This is a political move.

Karen with a Shovel

We can't upload the actual video to the post, but we can link it (don't worry, you don't need a social media account to view it):

• Instagram link here 

Quite a bit of restraint here. She's got a shovel, she's carrying it at port arms, she even swings it at a squad car after damaging half-a-dozen other cars. Truth be told, we probably would have tasered her. 

If you bother to read the comments, everyone is wondering if the Officers didn't kill her because she's of a pale persuasion, conveniently ignoring that she wasn't threatening or advancing on cops or citizens - she was committing property damage and Officers know that if they shot her, they'd be charged within hours.

You have  the police performing exactly how they're supposed to, but the tiny brains have to allege racism where none is even in play. Hell, the cops on scene appear to be :::gasp::: reflective of a diverse Chicago populace.

Good job Officers. 

CFD Cars Attacked

Check on fire houses if you can:

• Friday morning marked the second time someone targeted a South Side firehouse this week.

  A union rep told ABC7 that a man wielding an ax damaged seven personal vehicles in the Englewood neighborhood. About 12 vehicles were torn up earlier this week at a separate firehouse.

  Vehicle after vehicle parked in front of the fire station at East 59th and South State streets could be seen with ax markings slashed into their doors and windows early Friday.

We remember being invited to a few dinners when we checked in with CFD. We also walked in a couple decent sized poker and dice games certain evenings (wagering toothpicks only). 

Plus, you might get to shoot some asshole wielding an axe. 

May Day

Not even hiding the communism any more:

• The president of the Chicago Board of Education is pressuring the new Chicago Public Schools CEO to cave to union demands to cancel classes on May 1 for a day of protests, according to a memo reviewed by WGN Investigates, but the new schools’ chief stood firm late Thursday.

  “My position has not changed,” CEO Macquline King wrote in a memo.  “As a career educator, I believe every minute in the classroom is vital for our students.”  She added the entire school board should take a public vote if they want to cancel classes that day.

Why lose a day of badly needed instruction for kids who can't add, can't read and probably can't even spell "communism"?

As a couple aldercreatures point out:

• “May 1 is a day on class instruction, our students need to learn in the building,” Ald. Ray Lopez (15th Ward) told WGN Thursday morning.  

  Another alderman agreed. 

  “I think it’s a terrible idea,” Ald. Nick Sposato (38th Ward) told WGN. “I respect everyone’s right to protest. Why can’t this protest be on a Saturday?”

If it was on a Saturday, everyone could attend....but then teachers wouldn't get a three-day weekend.

Justice by Bearcat

Wow:

• A California sheriff’s detective was shot and killed Thursday while serving an eviction notice after an armed suspect opened fire on deputies in what authorities described as an apparent ambush that led to an hours-long standoff.

  The suspect, identified as David Eric Morales, was ultimately killed when a law enforcement BearCat armored vehicle ran over him after he continued firing and refused to surrender, authorities said.

  "The suspect was lying prone on the ground, in camouflage clothing, continuing to pose a threat," Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said later during a news conference. "The situation was resolved, and the suspect is now dead. He was not shot. One of the BearCats ran over him and killed him."

A quick search has the BearCat weighing in at just over eleven tons. You use what you have available under the circumstances and a vehicle greatly reduces the chances of a miss or an unpredictable ricochet.

Sympathies to the California law enforcement community for their loss. 

Another Conehead Corpse

His next mental breakdown is long overdue:

• A man was found fatally shot near a parked pickup truck in Brighton Park early Thursday, and indications are he may have been there for more than two hours before being discovered by a passerby.

  The shooting occurred in the 3100 block of West 39th Place, an area that was monitored around the clock by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the program in September 2024, despite opposition from the police superintendent and a City Council supermajority.

  Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a person down at approximately 4:15 a.m. and found the man, who remained a “John Doe” as of midmorning, lying between a pickup truck and some scaffolding. He had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and body and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Twenty-nine shell casings were located nearby, but only two calls came in about it. But there's no way of telling if those twenty-nine were from this shooting or stacked up from three or four other shootings.

This Might be a Deterrent

If you make the punishment painful enough, it might make an impression:

• A man who trafficked fentanyl and cocaine and illegally possessed 17 firearms inside his Wicker Park home has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison, officials announced Thursday.

  Hugo Pinzon, 36, pleaded guilty to federal drug and firearm charges in exchange for the sentence from U.S. District Judge John Kness, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.

And this was a guilty plea, so you know the feds were pushing for twenty years just for starters. 

This is why Project Exile worked in Virginia for the short amount of time in was in effect - ten year minimum, federal time, far from home, no parole for any federal gun crime conviction.

No One Remembers Her

This is the young girl who was killed a few years ago shortly after Lil Homicide met his completely JUSTIFIABLE fate:

• A 17-year-old girl died after being shot in the head while in a vehicle in Little Village on the West Side Thursday.

  Lydia Jimenez was shot around 7:45 p.m. in the 4100 block of West 25th Place, about two miles from her home, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

  She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead, according to police. The 20-year-old man driving the car was uninjured.

Just riding in a car, minding her own business, when some gang banger (two sixer guessing by the address) decides to fire some rounds down the street and kills a passerby.

Pretty much exactly what Lil Homicide was doing the night he got JUSTIFIABLY killed. We don't recall any protests or petitions over this one. Certainly no one got sued civilly.

Three Years for a Cooler Toss

NYPD Sergeant headed to prison for a manslaughter conviction:

• A former NYPD sergeant was slapped with at least three years behind bars Thursday for killing a fleeing drug suspect by chucking a cooler at him — as police advocates ripped the Bronx judge’s sentencing decision as “one of the darkest days in the history of our profession.”

  Ex-Sgt. Erik Duran — the first NYPD officer convicted of killing someone while on duty in a decade — begged Judge Guy Mitchell to give him “a chance” as he apologized to the family of 30-year-old Eric Duprey, a delivery driver with a criminal record who crashed as he fled arrest during a 2023 sting operation.  

  “Your honor, I am asking for a chance to be there with my kids. I am asking for a chance, just one,” pleaded Duran, a 38-year-old married dad of three who served on the police force for 13 years. 

  But while the judge conceded that he did find Duran to be “remorseful,” he argued the sentence of 3-to-9 years in state prison would serve as a “general deterrent” to other police officers.

The "deterrence" is going to be even more police disengagement across New York City at a time when they can ill afford it.

Was this a smart move? No, not really. 

But was there an intent to use the cooler as "deadly force"? Not even close. The sergeant was just trying to trip up a fleeing felon who was driving a motorbike ON THE SIDEWALK in an attempt to flee a felony drug charge. 

Reversible judicial error? Perhaps. But we also might not have put our trust in the bench trial, especially after New Yorkers proved themselves somewhat sane (and growing intolerant of lib-tarded policy) after acquitting the former-Marine of killing that psychotic homeless asshole who was threatening subway riders.

Going to rough in the meantime. 

"Not Going Back"

Doubling down....or tripling down....on stupid:

• Members of the Illinois House Legislative Black Caucus said they “remain open to thoughtful, data-driven refinements” to the landmark criminal justice reform law known as the SAFE-T Act, but will not consider measures that undermine the goals of the law, which eliminated cash bail as a condition of pretrial release.

  In a lengthy statement released Monday, the 22-member caucus said in part that they’re “not going back to a system where penalty enhancements, jailing more people, ignoring root causes and underinvesting in our communities were treated as public safety policy.”

  “That system was not just. It was not smart. And it did not make us safer,” they wrote. “We will not support legislation that carries the remnants of the system we left behind, because those approaches are adversarial to this work, adversarial to fairness, and adversarial to real public safety.”

Do you think these morons ever heard of the "social contract"? Here's a basic overview:

• ....social contract is an idea, theory, or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Conceptualized in the Age of Enlightenment, it is a core concept of constitutionalism, while not necessarily convened and written down in a constituent assembly and constitution.

  Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order.

In other words, we agree as a society to get along....BUT (and this is the key) everyone has to get actually get along. When one segment decides they don't have to get along with everyone else and those nominally in charge do everything in their power to remove the legitimate authority from enforcing the social contract, then things break down

1. people begin to get fed up;
2. they lose respect for the institutions;
3. they stop participating in a process they consider illegitimate; 
4. they move away;
5. in the extreme, they form loose alliances to do the enforcement that the government refuses to do

In other words, vigilantism becomes more prevalent....and eventually, the norm.

We might be mistaken and we might have missed a step or two, but it sure looks like we're in the midst of Step 4.

You know what discourages misbehavior?

Avoidance of consequences, like fines and prison. 

And do you know what permanently discourages misbehavior? 

The inability to do it again. 

San Fran "Solved" Crime

Well, not really solved, but they put a sizeable dent in the crime numbers via a very simple solution that no one ever thought of before:

• In just two years, car break-ins are down 85% from their previous highs. Robbery is down 30%. Burglary is down 33%. And most impressive of all, homicides haven't been this low since 1954. To give you an idea of how long ago 1954 was in San Francisco terms, the city was on its fourth in a string of five consecutive Republican mayors.

  All of these figures are courtesy of Austin Justice, an X account that tracks "Austin’s rogue criminals, prosecutors, and politicians." I suspect "Justice" looks at San Francisco with Texas-sized envy — and who saw that coming?

  The real question, though, is, "In two years since what?"

  In 2022, voters finally had it up to here [hold hand six inches above head for visual effect] with the city's soft-on-crime/George-Soros-sponsored district attorney, Chesa Boudin, and recalled him with a solid 55% majority. Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins to the job as Boudin's interim D.A., and she was elected to a full term in 2024.

  Jenkins has her own troubles, including committing two acts of prosecutorial misconduct, resulting in her placement in a mandatory diversion program to teach her the errors of her ways.

  But there's one thing Jenkins does exactly right, and it's that one weird trick that works so well against crime: She actually prosecutes criminals. 

First, they got rid of the Soros-backed commie prosecutor.

Second, the new DA actually started jailing and prosecuting crimes as written by the legislature.

Who would have thought that YOU CAN actually prosecute your way out of crime? Why had no one ever thought of this before??

Next thing you know, deporting actual criminals might drive the numbers down ever further. 

Someone want to tell Fata$$? Conehead? O'Neil-Burke - though she might have a tiny inkling.

Conehead's Non-Demonized Yutes

Funny that you have to go to England to find this article:

• A shocking video showed a group of young boys in Chicago wearing masks and nitrile gloves while proudly showing off their firearms as they walked through the city in broad daylight.

  One boy could seen with a long gun tucked inside his red coat, with the length of the weapon stretching nearly the full size of his jacket.

  Another flashed a handgun toward the camera, as others in the group also displayed their weapons and shouted out a gang affiliation.

  Some held what appeared to be rifle-style firearms with extended magazines, openly waving them around in public.

  'We out here, b***h,' one of the boys said. 'This [is] our block, n****.'

This is part of some contested real estate between a couple gangs, but it is literally four blocks from where Lil Homicide was blasting away at passing cars on 26th Street before he was justifiably shot by police.

This is also what Conehead and his commie friends support while wanting to disarm every one else. 

Cynthia White Died?

If you're old, you remember her.

What we remember is that an entire Tact team in 002 either went to jail or got fired (or both) while she skated after wearing a wire and testifying in court against them all. It was claimed she was rooting out a corrupt team, but team members said she was in on all of the corruption - she just flipped first.

The trouble is not only did she skate, she managed to get promoted to sergeant, lieutenant, captain (we think) and Inspector. That isn't because she was some super smart test taker. We think she held back just enough info on someone heavily connected and parlayed it into advancement

A more controversial figure would be hard to find.

Nice Shot Citizen

Another happy ending!

• A licensed concealed carry holder shot and killed a man who broke into his home and charged at him early Monday, a shooting that occurred inside a home directly across the street from a Chicago Police Department district station.

  The 33-year-old concealed carry license holder called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and told dispatchers he had shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street and had already begun performing CPR on the man, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. His home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District station.

  Officers arrived and took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder, who remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m.

The homeowner isn't required to attempt life saving measures?

Who would have thought?!? 

Let's get this homeowner a box of ammo. 

Stupidity Gets Co-Sponsors

Like attracts like....and moron attracts moron:

• A North Side lawmaker’s effort to strip Illinois police investigators of one of their most powerful new tools since the advent of DNA indexing has failed to get out of committee. But the bill has two new co-sponsors, both from Chicago, suggesting it is far from dead even though its supporters can’t seem to find any examples of the technology being used to wrongly accuse anyone of wrongdoing in Illinois.

  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, would ban any local or state law enforcement agency in Illinois from accessing a facial recognition database, and would prohibit agencies from working around that ban by partnering with or contracting out to a third party to do it on their behalf.

  Tom Weitzel, the retired Chief of Police in suburban Riverside, was blunt in his assessment.

  “Facial recognition is one of the most important investigative tools to come along in policing in 50 years,” he said. “Eliminating it outright is reckless and dangerous.”  Cassidy’s bill, Weitzel continued, “doesn’t regulate facial recognition; it destroys it. It strips police of a critical tool used to identify violent offenders and protect the public. No one in Illinois has ever been charged based solely on a facial recognition match. That claim is a myth, and it should not be driving legislation.”

To be honest, most democrat sponsored legislation is based on "muh feelings" and not actual facts. We could point out hundreds of examples without breaking a sweat. It's about (A) control and (B) loving criminals more than law abiding citizens.

If you look at the co-sponsors, they're the usual mix of idiots. And the ACLU supports this without being able to cite a single instance of anyone being actually charged in Illinois, instead citing a Michigan case from a number of years ago when the technology was in its infancy and the subject was merely detained, not charged. 

Pay Your Bills

If an Officer appears on one of these lists, they are the subject of an immediate SPAR, upgradable to a CR Investigation and suspended without pay until they are enrolled in a payment program, sometimes involving direct garnishment of wages.

But if you're a teacher or a CTA worker?

• A substitute teacher owes City Hall nearly $200,000 for building code violations, fines and traffic tickets he racked up over the past 25 years, making him the single biggest debtor working for the city of Chicago or its sister agencies.

  A convicted bank robber landed an entry-level job with the CTA’s Second Chance program even though City Hall says he owes more than $136,000 in fines, mostly for drinking in public and selling individual cigarettes near Douglass Park — a likely case of mistaken identity since he was in prison when the police issued those tickets.

  The operator of a West Side religious store owed the city more than $28,000 in water bills, but it didn’t keep her from landing a job as a staff assistant to a City Council member who’s pushing Mayor Brandon Johnson to collect money from deadbeats.

  They are among 12,761 people who work for the city or its sister agencies despite collectively owing City Hall more than $19.5 million for delinquent water bills, parking violations, speeding tickets, building-code violations and other infractions, according to data the city’s finance department provided to the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a public records request.

  Nearly 80% of those scofflaws have jobs with the Chicago Board of Education or the Chicago Transit Authority, owing nearly $15.7 million to the city, records show.

We even know of someone who was delinquent on his water bill and he had the nerve to run for mayor!