Where's the Monitor?

Remember that Consent Decree thing? 

The big push for "span of control" where a sergeant could only supervise ten officers at a time? This would provide more direct supervision so Officers wouldn't be doing naughty things and supervision could more easily direct missions, strategies and emerging crime trends.

So how is this allowed? (we cropped out the extraneous information):

Murder Central....a Desk Sergeant....and zero field supervision. What exactly are the officers supposed to do if they need a sergeant to sign a tow? Advise them through a particularly sticky domestic? Handle a squad car accident? Run a homicide scene?

It doesn't get better:

 

The very next day....a Desk Sergeant....and the one field supervisor working is going downtown for the business sector detail. So once again, no one watching a District that has had ninety-five murders and three-or-four-hundred shootings.

Someone want to get hold of Ms. Hickey?

Shortages Continue

Is this ever going to be addressed?

017 midnights the other Friday:

 

No Desk Sergeant, no early sergeants.

1711, 1713, 1731 down on the early side; 1722, 1772 down on the late side. No wagon unless a beat car is doing both jobs. 50% unmanned.

But 1740 is headed downtown with three cars.

Coming Soon

We'll just leave this here:

Side effects? What side effects?

This is XiNN

XiNN laying the groundwork for the next "pandemic":

• Authorities in Kazakhstan have denied a report published by Chinese officials that the country is experiencing an outbreak of "unknown pneumonia" potentially deadlier than the novel coronavirus.

  On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan issued a warning to citizens living in the Central Asian country that the pneumonia had killed more than 1,700 people.

  "Kazakhstani Health Department and other agencies are conducting comparative research and have not defined the nature of the pneumonia virus," the statement said.
  

So China - long known for telling the truth every time they're asked about anything - releases this "statement."

XiNN - a wholly owned Chinese media subsidiary long known for telling the truth every time they report something - runs with it, even though:

• CNN has been unable to independently verify the Chinese Embassy report and has reached out to Kazakhstan's Ministry of Healthcare for further details.

Figure this one will "arrive" just in time for summer, resulting in all sorts of lockdowns, shutdowns, mask mandates, cancellations and censorship.

Are you seeing a pattern yet?

UPDATE: We're aware it's from July. Do you recall when the media started with their "red wave mirage" reporting before hundreds of thousands of ballots appeared in the wee hours election night? It's called "prepping the narrative."

What the Absolute Fuck? (UPDATES)

Is this fucker even in town?

And if he isn't why isn't the First Deputy taking his place?

• ABSOLUTELY UNFORGIVABLE!!!

  For the first time EVER neither the Superintendent [n]or the First Deputy bothered to attend Operation Santa today. Apparently they both had more important things to do than to visit with the widows and children of our fellow police officers who were murdered serving this city.

  Brown and Carter can never atone for not supporting the families of people like Bauer, Jimenez, Gary, Marmelejo,Smetana, Gordon and more... These men were all killed in the line of duty and left young children behind. It’s not too much to ask that when we lose one of our own that the Superintendent and First Deputy visit their families at Christmas.

  WE NEVER FORGET.... BUT THEY DID!

There are certain things you have to do when you're in charge of one of the largest municipal police departments in the nation. A department that has given approximately five-hundred-fifty lives in service to Chicago.

Brownie might not have a historical attachment to the Department, but Carter's sin is the far bigger slap in the face to the men and women of the Department, living and dead. 

What fucking assholes.

Here's the media coverage.

UPDATE: DAMAGE CONTROL!!!

Brownie is telling people he was there, he just chose not to get out of the car.

• THIS IS A LIE

How do we know it's a lie? Figure it out. 

UPDATE: So this is a two day event. You'd think that the top brass would show up for the entire thing, as every family that suffered a loss deserved to see the top people offering them comfort.

Brown and Carter were shamed into making a photo-op with Santa at the start of Day Two....and then?

• SCC, I was a couple of houses ahead on the route. "Santa's Helpers" arrive shortly before the Brass and Santa to make sure everyone is ready. After the first photo-op, which was posted on the CPD Twitter page, Brown and Carter DUCKED OUT! Neither one appeared at a single family's house after the first one. These two assholes couldn't even make it through a couple of hours on a weekend while the families have to live 24/7/365 without their Fallen Officer. I am totally disgusted by the antics of these idiots.

But hey, don't forget - eight-for-eight on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve regardless of the plans you might have had for your RDO.

This is a Training Slide?

Someone needs to be fired:

Encouraging cannibalism is the height of unprofessional behavior.

Command Changes (UPDATE)

What we've been able to track down:

• Captains:
  
  Parham
  
  Perez
  
  Mullinex
  
  Ramirez
  
  Dunnem
  
  Lamb
  
  
  
  Commander:
  
  Lt. Brown to Commander Narcotics/OCD
  
  Lt. S. Carter to 006
  
  Cpt. McKenzie to 007
  
  
  
  Deputy Chief:
  
  Mohammad from 006 to DC A/South *
  
  Larry Snelling from 007  to DC Academy (was sgt 2 years ago) *
  
  Godsell from Academy to Compstat (replacing Khan & Lemmer)

Good Lord. 

UPDATE: Seems we made City Hall angry by posting the changes before they were official? Or someone read the comments at City Hall and decided a couple of these promos were too controversial?

• Snelling to A/S
  
  Muhammad to D Unit

Nice to know we're living rent free in Groot's head.

Four Thousand Shot

Friday milestone:

 Congratulations to Brownie and Groot. 

The buck stops with you two.

Just Fire the Teachers

Last we checked, the employees don't get to dictate policy - the bosses do, and that's the City:

• As the fight continues over the safe reopening of Chicago Public Schools in the midst of a raging public health crisis, the Chicago Teachers Union has released for the first time a list of demands it wants met before members return to schools, including lower COVID-19 test positivity rates, testing and vaccination protocols and changes to both hybrid and remote learning.

  Some of the demands are likely to face strong and immediate rejection by city officials who have been adamant that it’s up to them to decide how and when the nation’s third-largest school district will return to classrooms for the first time since March.

Gutless Groot won't actually stand up for taxpayers though. 

One of our commentators claims teachers are demanding $5,000 in "hazard pay." That's probably what they saved in gas and dry cleaning bills already this year.

Glimmer of Intelligence

From Groot, believe it or not. Anyone here ever worked the lockup?

• Backers of a proposed ordinance that would guarantee arrested people prompt access to an attorney say a counterproposal from Mayor Lori Lightfoot could undermine the effort.

  Sponsored by Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), the proposal would require Chicago police to allow detained people to use a phone within one hour of their arrest to contact family and an attorney.

  The ordinance is backed by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office; legal groups, including the National Lawyers Guild; civil rights advocates like First Defense Legal Aid; and more than 200,000 other individuals and organizations that signed an open letter asking for Lightfoot’s support.

The dozens of times we helped out in the lockup, there hasn't been a single instance of anyone being denied a phone call, usually within forty-five minutes of arrest, depending on the speed of the officer typing the arrest report. It just doesn't happen anymore. Someone actually got Groot to listen to reality.

Guess who the politicians are trotting out for this?

• Hairston invoked the example of former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, whose notorious crew of officers tortured hundreds of Black men into giving false confessions between the ’70s and ’90s. Many of those confessions were later overturned.

Eeeeek! Jon Burge! By the way, many more of those confessions stood up to multiple reviews and recantations were proven to be manufactured. Burge was suspended in 1991 - twenty-nine years ago, and fired in 1993. There pretty much isn't an officer or detective around that even crossed paths with Burge any more, let alone worked for him - under one hundred for sure.

This is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist in any meaningful numbers.

Perspective Again

From our comments:

• Of the 11,481,848 tests performed (thru Thursday) 881,032 were done in THREE ZIP codes! That's 7.67%. ZIP code 61820 (Champaign) had 524,856 tests. 3,868 positives. 0.74% positivity rate.

  The Top 3 testing ZIP codes are from Champaign/Urbana??? Not Chicago?

  Could it be that University of Illinois MANDATES their students get tested 2x a week (On-campus living) and 3x a week (For off-campus living). Athletes 4x a week (off-season) and 7x a week (in-season)

Massive testing of a captive population that is the least susceptible doesn't give any sort of realistic picture.

They Did Hit Him

The "Shots Fired At / By Police" post the other day did result in the assailant catching lead:

• A Rogers Park man was ordered held without bail Thursday after allegedly shooting at police, who fired back and wounded the man earlier this week, authorities said. The shootout occurred Tuesday afternoon near the Metra station at Ravenswood and Lunt avenues.

  Chicago officers were trying to arrest Kenneth Olugbode, 25, for allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend and stealing and threatening to kill her dog, Cook County prosecutors said in court Thursday. Officers pulled over Olugbode about 5 p.m. Tuesday in the 6900 block of North Ravenswood Avenue in Rogers Park. After being boxed in by an unmarked police car on Ravenswood, Olugbode allegedly got out of his car and fired two shots at three officers, prosecutors said.

  The officers returned gunfire, hitting Olugbode in his shoulders, his right hip and right hand, prosecutors said. Olugbode was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston in serious condition, but his condition has since stabilized, prosecutors said.

We have no idea why Crimesha wouldn't have I-bonded him out already. This injustice must not stand!

In the meantime, good shooting by the Officers.

Now the Media Reports It?

We guess since the feebs are involved, it's okay now?

• The FBI and Metra Police Department are asking for help identifying the gunman who opened fire with a collapsible rifle on the McCormick Place platform last week.

  As CBS 2 [....] reported Wednesday, the FBI released startling video Wednesday of the man, who had just stepped off a train when he fired the rifle.

  Around 10:20 a.m. on Dec. 1, a man got off a northbound Metra Electric District train at the McCormick Place station, pulled out a collapsible rifle from his backpack, and fired a single shot while standing on the platform, according to the FBI and Metra Police.

That "CBS 2 reported Wednesday [09 December]" is hilarious as we told everyone about this on 04 December....and the CWB blog got it on 01 December. We were so far behind the curve on this one we can't even pretend to charge SeeBS $50 for stealing it.

Contrarian Articles

Florian and Marty have been busy. 

First, Sohnke takes a look at our own Chicago socialists:

• If the Chicago City Council had a Mount Rushmore for sheer stupidity, the likenesses of its six-member Socialist Caucus would certainly feature prominently.

  A group of cranks with crackpot ideas, these six ideological extremists include: Daniel La Spata, the delicate flower of the 1st Ward; 20th Ward militant Jeanette Taylor; Byron Sigcho-Lopez, the revolutionary who represents the 25th Ward; the 33rd Ward’s flighty Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez; 35th Ward blowhard Carlos Ramirez-Rosa; and the 40th Ward’s hip-hop artist-turned-officeholder, Andre Vasquez. The Chicago City Council’s version of “The Squad,” all but one was elected in 2019, and all six have backgrounds in community organizing.

  A cult of action, community organizing is best defined as the practice of activists identifying a specific aggrieved population, and inflaming passions over their presumed plight. When a base is roused over the [supposedly] lamentable conditions in which they exist, activist leaders take collective action to apply pressure to local officials to redress their grievances, mainly by insisting the affected group receive money.

The Preib conducts an in-depth analysis of some Cook County judges tossing some sand in the gears of the "wrongful conviction" movement:

• Have judges in Chicago had enough of Cook County prosecutor Kimberly Foxx and her media enablers? It appears they have.

  Cook County judges Timothy Joyce and Arthur Hill, for example, recently refused to reverse the convictions of gang members Wayne Antusas and Nicholas Morfin at the behest of the Foxx administration. The men were convicted for their role in the 1995 murder of two girls in a botched gang hit.

  Not only did two different judges refuse to reverse the convictions of the two men, despite Foxx prosecutors asking them to do so, but Judge Joyce also stated he now has doubts about his decision two years ago to drop the conviction of a third gang member, Matthew Sopron, convicted of ordering the gang hit gone wrong.

As usual, click over to the links and read the entire articles.

Alternative Media Strikes Again

The big media won't touch it because of all the politics involved - but BlockClubChicago did:

• Restaurants and bars across the state are banned from serving customers indoors, but there are two places in Chicago where you can still legally drink inside a bar: the city’s airports.

  Despite an emergency travel order requiring travelers from 46 states to quarantine upon landing in Chicago, people are still allowed eat and drink alcohol inside bars at Midway and O’Hare. That’s because the airports are exempt from Gov. JB Pritzker’s Tier 3 mitigation measures.

  Allowing indoor drinking at high-traffic airports is dangerous, one doctor said, calling the move “ludicrous.”

"Ludicrous" because those spots went to big name political contributors and contractors. And you can't pay the pipers if you aren't selling $19 dollar burgers and $25 beers.

Lost Perspective

The country as a whole has lost all sense of perspective, by which we mean people - mostly the media and democrats - are driving a panic to shut down the economy and control the populace.

Here's something most people don't know:

• The Illinois Department of Public Health says that they've performed 11,481,848 tests for COVID (as of Thursday afternoon). That's a lot of tests.
• The entire population of Illinois is 12.67 million, minus whoever has moved out recently. That works out to around  90% of the population.

Do you know nine-out-of-ten people who have gotten tested? We don't. We barely know four-out-of-ten and that's mostly because the Department has been ravaged by COVID. Among our non-police friends it's even lower...maybe two-out-of-ten. They aren't sick and they aren't traveling, so why get tested? ILDPH isn't telling anyone how many repeat tests they've done, but no doubt it's tens of thousands.

Do you know the fatality rates nationally? This guy does:

He's the Governor of Florida and his state is open for business based on science.

How about some actual perspective? Our Stat Guy has some numbers:

• People 20-49 - the bar hopping public - it's a 99.98% recovery rate.  In reverse, that's a .02% fatality rate.  Put that into perspective, that's 1 out of 5,000 people.
• One's odds of dying in a car crash (according to the National Safety Council) are 1 in 106.
• People 0 - 19, the recovery rate is 99.997%.  In reverse, the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) is .003%!!!  Or 1 in 33,333.

There were a bunch of headlines Thursday reported more people died of COVID Wednesday than died on 9/11 - over 3,000. First off, they don't report how many had extensive comorbidities, nor how many fell into the elderly category. Do you know how many people die in the United States every single day?

• approximately 7,100 of all causes.

You've noticed a massive uptick in funerals? Even though you can't go to the church services or the funeral homes, we haven't noticed any more than usual. What we have noticed is a massive increase in boarded-up businesses. How is it that we notice that - which doesn't affect us nearly as much as dozens more dead friends and relatives would?

Some troll, no doubt directed here by the Stan Rather scandal links, was spouting off about ICU's being at capacity, morgues utilizing refrigerated trailers and doctors/nurses freaking out:

• ICU's are not anywhere near capacity - we happen to frequent some of our finer medical facilities on a weekly basis, and there are plenty of beds;
• We also happen to frequent the Cook County Morgue semi-regularly. No reefers on standby for overflow bodies;
• We haven't seen a nurse freaking out since we forgot to take our shoes off after walking the dog in the rain the other day, but she relates no work-related freakouts either.

Perspective has been warped. Badly. It needs to stop. Sensible precautions are called for, but wholesale panic-mongering is not.

Twelve Monkeys

Now that the media is looking for tips and clues, how about this one?

• Groot and Fatass have shut down restaurants and bars, but opened up the airport bars full-throttle.  I traveled in to Midway a couple of days ago, the bars that line the aisle down Concourse B were PACKED with maskless drinkers eating and drinking. I counted 70 people, all indoors, all dining, all drinking (did I mention indoors?) and not a one with a mask on.

  This is so much Groot's "For thee! Not for me!" approach. The City needs their cut, so they open up full bars and restaurants in arguably the busiest place in Chicago right now.  There is a new restaurant/bar that opened up in the old Potbelly's space, it was full of drinkers too, but at least it wasn't in the middle of all the people and gates.

Anyone here read dystopic fiction? What's the common denominator if the bad guys want to spread a virulent disease around the world to wipe out humanity?

• an airport maybe?

Terry Gilliam's classic was the first thing we thought of. 

We didn't realize Groot thought it was an Instruction Manual.

Disparate Enforcement

So Tunney is facing two fines - one for up to $10,000 and another for up to $500. Note: "up to," meaning he could be fined considerably less....and probably will be because he's an aldercreature, he's connected, and this is Chicago.

Is everyone reading familiar with the Palace Grill on Madison Street? Anyone who has worked the west side, visited OEMC or attended a United Center event has probably stopped there for a bite. It's been there far longer than we've been alive....and we're old.

A health inspector visited there in early November after receiving an anonymous complaint that people were eating inside. We'll let our e-mailer pick up the story there:

• When she was there, there were no customers inside the restaurant. With that, she began looking around, asking for licenses, walking around outside, etc. She ended up writing him 5 tickets (each $10,000.00 fines). She wrote him tickets for the following: No permit for his outdoor tent (which is required for outside dining and in his parking lot), liquor license violation, a neon sign (which he says has been there for 82 years), flower pots (24 years), and awnings (24 years).

$50,000 in potential fines, all while:

• no one is in the restaurant....and no evidence anyone was;
• a tent in his lot to comply with outdoor requirements;
• a sign that's been up eighty-two years;
• flower pots and awnings that have been there decades.

We can't opine on the liquor license violation, but $40,000 of the "fines" are absolute bullshit, and probably more than enough to put the restaurant out of business. You think this is political? Someone wants the land the Palace Grill sits on?

Tunney kept Ann Sather open for weeks. He admitted it, even while lying that it was "regulars." You think the inspectors pulled the register tapes and fined him for every day he was open? Of course not - he's an aldercreature. 

But this unconnected (less connected?) joint might very well be bankrupted while trying to play a rigged game.

Civilian Boss Shakeup?

Don't keep us in suspense anonymous commentator:

• SCC-OT civilian Deputy Chief Khan didn’t get his gun and badge so he quit and went to join the private sector. Guess who is taking over?!

This was actually one of the past First Deputy's brighter moves. This softball demanded a badge and gun without any sort of training or qualifications (like Masters Masters Masters) based solely on the fact that he was working for a police department and held the civilian equivalent of Deputy Chief designation. 

We were told he complained almost weekly about not having a gun.

So who's taking over? We already know that Seattle reject Maurice "Pickles" Claussen is making all the major decisions for Brownie (via Groot).

San Fran Cop Indicted

After shooting a subject who beat him with a bottle, resulting in skull fracture(s), the cop gets indicted - and no, we aren't joking:

• A San Francisco grand jury indicted a police officer whose actions led to a leg amputation for a burglary suspect after the man allegedly attacked officers with a liquor bottle last year, authorities said Monday.

  The suspect, Jamaica Hampton, 25, was also indicted, though San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin did not say what charges the men face over the Dec. 7 incident in the city’s Mission district.

  In a brief statement, Boudin said the indictment was returned Friday. He said he would provide more information when an arraignment is scheduled, and he encouraged Hampton and the officer, Christopher Flores, to turn themselves in.

You have to read in TWELVE PARAGRAPHS to find the officer's injury:

• The president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Tony Montoya, criticized the decision, noting that Flores’ skull had been fractured and saying it amounted to declaring “open season” on police
  

And it's spreading across California to LA:

• In his first day on the job, Los Angeles County’s new District Attorney has announced that he’s lost his mind his office will decline to prosecute a whole spate of misdemeanors, damning a city already struggling with high levels of violence to accept even more crime in the name of “social justice.”

  According to a new statement from the DA’s Office and detailed by FOX LA’s Bill Melugin, L.A. County DA George Gascon, who previously worked as San Francisco's DA (and we see how well that turned out) says his office will no longer prosecute, with some exceptions for repeat offenses, misdemeanor crimes for: Trespassing, Disturbing the peace, Driving on a suspended license, Driving with no license at all, Prostitution, Resisting arrest, Criminal threats, Drug and paraphernalia possession, Being a minor in possession of alcohol, Drinking in public, Under the influence of a controlled substance, Public intoxication, Loitering.
  

Amazingly, this is the same asshole who turned San Francisco into a shit-strewn sewer and he got elected in Los Angeles after being chased out of San Fran by the smell. 

Some of the listed crimes can obviously be diverted to alternate routes of punishment - we support that. But driving offenses need to be dealt with harshly for repeat offenders, resisting arrest is a no-no (that's why there are civil courts and remedies), and attempting to legalize hard drugs has never worked out anywhere it was tried.

Legalizing bad behavior has always led to more bad behavior. Look it up.

Odd Twist

The dead armed robber from a few days ago that we were hoping might be connected to the Frank Castle / Paul Kersey storyline:

• A West Town man who was reportedly killed after he shot his friend during a robbery attempt near Goose Island early Sunday died almost exactly three years after he robbed another man while claiming to have a gun in the same area, according to court records.

  Police found Adan Delgado, 27, with multiple gunshot wounds and a handgun lying nearby in the 1200 block of West Fry around 4:30 a.m. on December 6. Another man who lives about a block away reportedly told police that his friend, Delgado, shot him in the leg during a robbery attempt moments earlier. The man, 28, said he ran away after Delgado shot him and he then heard more gunfire behind him.

This sounds like a fun one - accomplice gets shot by the guy carrying the heater, who has a hunting ground he likes to hang around, and then the shooter gets whacked by....the accomplice? The victim? The vigilante (which is what we were hoping for)? 

And is there a list of unsolved robberies or patterns in this area that might be X-Cleared Closed now?

Business Exodus Continues

Another one bites the dust:

• The Gap is closing its two-decade home on the Magnificent Mile, leaving a big space to fill on Chicago’s best-known retail street.

  Signs in the North Michigan Avenue flagship’s windows announce the upcoming closure, but the store remained open for business Tuesday.

  The clothing chain has occupied the postmodern, Stanley Tigerman-designed building since 2000.

  Gap representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Oddly enough, guess who else wasn't available for comment? Groot and Fatass.

And this isn't the only business related news - we got this from a tradesman who loops us into things:

• ...the massive Pro Mat Trade show scheduled for April 12-16 at McCormick Place, has been canceled due to “local regulations.” Pro Mat brought in over 50,000 visitors to Chicago for the week. That is 1000’s of hotel rooms, 100,000’s of restaurant meals and other services all gone.

  Not to mention the taxes this event brought into the city.

  Lighthead has told the Trade organizations that she does not anticipate any events to be held at McCormick Place in 2021.

This sounds great for next year's budget.

Corrupt COPA!

Remember, this is who Groot wants investigating police:

• Chicago’s civilian police investigative agency was reviewing a “personnel matter” of an employee who was arrested Tuesday, but later released without charges, on accusations he was involved in the looting of a downtown department store over the summer, officials said.

  The employee of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability was arrested shortly before 8 a.m. near 29th Street and Michigan Avenue by members for the Chicago police fugitive apprehension section, police said. Sources familiar with the situation said the person arrested is not an investigator for COPA.

"not an investigator"? So an administrator then?

UPDATE: A paralegal. Someone at least passingly familiar with the law and who assists lawyers in many cases, writing briefs, conducting research, doing filings. A pretty big deal.

Interesting Statistic

You really have wonder what's the purpose of the media nowadays:

• Chicago youth are at far higher risk of dying from gun violence than they are from COVID-19. That’s been the case since the start of the pandemic.

  As of December 1, four Chicago youth have died from COVID but over 90 have died from gun violence. That’s 23 children dead from gun violence for every COVID death.

  The numbers are far worse than they were five months ago when Wirepoints laid out the facts about reopening Chicago Public Schools to in-class learning. One of the more revealing points we covered was that the virus was far less a threat to Chicago children than gun violence.
  

But gun violence deaths are "acceptable losses" to Groot as long as she gets to hammer the CPD. 

And whomever is pulling Groot's strings at the national level doesn't really care about dead minorities either. They'll get to preach about the "evil guns" and attack right-thinking people and businesses.

You Thought We Were Joking?

Here it comes, as we predicted last week:

• CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen on Monday advised the American public to cancel their Christmas and New Year plans as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

  During an appearance on “New Day,” Wen voiced her concern that COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations are still rising after Thanksgiving. Because of the “Thanksgiving surge,” she called on everyone to “absolutely not gather indoors with anyone who is not in their immediate family” for the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays.

Here come the fearmongers:

• Dr. Anthony Fauci made a virtual appearance at New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) Monday briefing, where the men discouraged small gatherings during the holiday season, prompting Fauci to warn that the U.S. could be in for a “dark time” in January.

  “We estimate that 70 percent of the spread is coming from small gatherings, and that’s a problem,” Cuomo, who has prohibited gatherings of over ten in his state, said.

Fuck this guy, a guy who murdered via executive order tens-of-thousands of elderly by forcing New York nursing homes to take back sick patients.

You know what isn't rising? The death rate. 

Recovery rate still 99.6%.

Sensible precautions for the at-risk categories.

COVID is Racist!

Of course, the virus is abetted by democrat leaders who reinforce the inherent racist present in the disease. How else do you explain this?

• Nearly half of Black small businesses had been wiped out by the end of April as the pandemic ravaged minority communities disproportionately, according to a report from the New York Fed.

  Black-owned businesses were more than twice as likely to shutter as their white counterparts, the report found.

  "Nationally representative data on small businesses indicate that the number of active business owners fell by 22% from February to April 2020—the largest drop on record," the report said.

  "Black businesses experienced the most acute decline, with a 41% drop. Latinx business owners fell by 32% and Asian business owners dropped by 26%."

So why do democrat "leaders" want to put so many black-owned businesses out of business? Why do black entrepreneurs succeeding in business frighten democrats?

Asking for a friend....who lost his business.

Shots Fired At / By Police

This would be incident #72 or so this year:

• Gunfire was exchanged between police and a suspect Tuesday in Rogers Park.

  The shooting happened about 5 p.m. in the 1800 block of West Lunt Avenue, Chicago police spokesman [...] said. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone had been struck.

  [...] officers recovered a gun from the scene.

Heads on a swivel boys and girls.

SCC Rant

Local news:

• Tribune
• Sun Times 
• Channel 2
• Channel 5
• Channel 7
• Channel 32
  

Local blogs:

• CWB blog
• BlockClubChicago
  

Local reporter - who corrected himself when he discovered the SCC blog has nothing to do with the SCC Twitter account that's out there:

• WGNs Ben Bradley
  

Even some national coverage:

• Zero Hedge
• Washington Times
  

Now for the rant part:

There were a bunch of comments that irritated us yesterday. People saying that we were attacking an aldercreature who supported police, who gave a fired cop a job when he got out of prison, who voted against Groot's tax hike and the 600 Officer "defunding" a few weeks ago, and we were now putting people out of work and by golly, what if the City Inspectors start hitting all the other joints flouting the rules?

What short memories you have. Tunney has always been about Tunney and what was politically expedient for Tunney. Have you forgotten?

• He supported Crimesha Foxx?
• The hideous Parking Meter fiasco?
• Traded his vote for a tax hike just a few years back over a promised increase in cops for his ward alone - which fell apart after the tax hike passed? His constituents got what exactly?
  
• Called the 023 District Commander to circumvent a moving violation he received for a cell phone violation - an ordinance that he voted for?
• As far as we can tell, he's still a Vice Mayor and Chairman of the Zoning Committee -  both appointed spots by Groot....and Zoning is the second most powerful spot after Finance. He does what he's told to keep his spots.
  

That's lukewarm support. Opportunistic. What are his thoughts on Officers' fourth year without a contract? As for putting people out of work, how many people has Groot and the City Council put out of work by not opening up the economy in the face of a virus that has a 99.7% recovery rate?  Tens of thousands? What makes his employees more important than any of those other people?

Tunney had an opportunity here to go against Groot and break the Groot embargo. To point out that her (and Fatass's) restrictions aren't based on science. That restaurant patrons aren't super-spreaders, just like church services aren't infecting people. He could have led an association of like-minded business owners who are being killed by this shutdown and pointed out that Groot isn't a dictator and she doesn't rule by fiat. Has there been a single Ordinance passed through the City Council regarding shutdowns, because the science doesn't back up any of the overreach currently going on.

Tunney doesn't get to back Groot on shutting down all of his competition and then act surprised when someone gets righteously outraged that he isn't following the rules because he's part of the so-called Ruling Class. Either the Rules apply across the board or they don't - no in-between.

UPDATE: By the way, Tunney is a bald-faced liar. He wasn't just "serving some regulars." We can prove that one, too, with more pictures. But we don't need to drag in a bunch of people who just wanted to get some food in a reasonably nice atmosphere. Tunney could have been a leader of the business community instead of just another Machine hack.

Plan Ahead!

If you missed the wilding riots last weekend, don't worry - it's happening again this weekend! 

We've also heard that Groot will be making an appearance as Grand Marshall or something, as long as she gets dibs on the Walgreens stuff.

Another Groot-tacular Weekend

Again with the summer-type numbers:

• At least 40 people were wounded and six killed in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.

The Official Count from HeyJacvkass.com (the ONLY source for legit numbers) is as follows:

• Mostly Peaceful Tally: 7 killed, 36 wounded

We think we've figured out where part of the discrepancy always appears in these reports. 

HeyJackass.com posts killed AND wounded, while the media says 40 got shot, but doesn't really specify that of those 40, 6 died and 34 remained as a burden to society.

This is why HeyJackass.com is doing the media's job far better than the media.

Copper Injured

Dragged downtown:

• Chicago police said an officer is in fair condition after being dragged along by a driver attempting to leave a traffic stop downtown Monday evening. According to the Chicago Police Department, officers pulled a car over on the 700 block of N. State Street for a registration violation around 4 p.m. Monday.

  After officers asked the 28-year-old female driver to exit the vehicle, police say she attempted to drive away, dragging an officer who was near the passenger side of the vehicle in the process. Police said the vehicle stopped after a “short distance” and the officer who was dragged was taken to the hospital in fair condition for a knee injury. The driver was arrested.

Speedy recovery Officer.

Administrative Sergeants?

Didn't we lose Administrative Sergeants back during the McCarthy era? Weren't these positions supposed to be out on the street alleviating sergeant shortages? (click for larger version)

Threatening authorized overtime? There's something decidedly improper about this. Maybe even illegal.

Studying for the upcoming Sergeant Exam, we discovered there's actually a disciplinary track in place for other supervisors not doing their jobs - it begins with a Counseling Form and moves up to a SPAR. Stop being a giant pussy and enforce it.

You know you would if it was a blue shirt skipping out on required work.

Operating in Plain Sight

So we got some a tip that a certain aldercreature was running a speakeasy. We'll call it "Stan Rather" to keep it on the down-low. We had a contributor check it out and this is we discovered with zero effort:

• You enter the restaurant and ask the staff on the sly, "Can we dine in?" They'll look around and whisper, "Yes" and take you to the "VIP Room." Chances improve dramatically if they know you, and they knew our contributor.
  

  This particular "Stan Rather" has three seating areas for those unfamiliar - the main seating area along the windows and two overflow rooms. There are empty chairs and tables stacked in the main seating area so it looks like they aren't serving people. The overflow room to the southwest has no exterior windows and the one window looking into the room not line-of-site so people can't see in.

  The wait staff admits this isn't legit, but "Tom" told them it's okay as long as they call it a "private party."A quick headcount the day in question revealed far more than ten persons.

  It is certainly surprising this was going on in a law abiding town like Chicago, especially when the mayor and governor have both said there is no indoor seating allowed in any restaurants, but two sets of rules you know.
  

Pictures - we promised some pictures (click for larger versions): The 03 December newspaper and menu for "Stan Rather"

Dining in - the decor is well known

No mention of dining in....but there were over a dozen people there.

Our contributor asked a few patrons what they thought of an aldercreature disobeying a mayoral decree and gubernatorial mandate, but many scurried away, probably ashamed to have been caught exercising their democrat privilege while lesser restaurants remain shuttered and dying. Others were happy someone was finally working against Groot's onerous orders. At least the aldercreature has a six-figure part time job to fall back on.

Maybe someone could ask if the aldercreature is submitting Sales Tax receipts to do his little part keeping the city economy stumbling along. Perhaps he knows (as more people are discovering daily) that the lock down is political bullshit, healthy people aren't dying, restaurants and bars are not super spreader locations and the damage this is doing to the long term economy is incalculable.

This "Investigative Journalism" thing is pretty easy - we can't imagine needing an actual degree or talent to do it. All you need is a set of balls and a don't-give-a-fuck attitude. A taste for cinnamon rolls is also recommended.

Mystery Vigilante?

We're surprised this hasn't happened before (that we know of):

• An unidentified gunman who shot and wounded a man during an attempted robbery in the Goose Island neighborhood Sunday morning was himself shot and killed moments later, Chicago police said.

  The 28-year-old victim of the attempted robbery told police the assailant approached him and announced a robbery around 4:30 a.m. in the 1200 block of West Frye Street just east of the Kennedy Expressway, police said in a news notification. The robber then shot the victim in the leg.

  The victim managed to run away after being wounded but told police he heard multiple gunshots fired as he fled, police said. Police officers responding to the scene found the suspected gunman suffering from numerous gunshot wounds to his body. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. The victim of the attempted robbery was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.

  It remains unclear who shot the suspected gunman, who remained unidentified Sunday. Authorities said he didn’t appear to have a prior criminal history with Chicago police.

Frank Castle has arrived in Chicago? 

Could this be the first of many? And how is CPD or HeyJackass.com going to count it?

Damn Elves

So who are the guilty parties here?

 

Here's to hoping a supervisor didn't waste time or manpower on this crap.

CTU Insanity

So the Teachers are in full support of this stand?

The CTU deleted this tweet as backlash was swift:

• The Chicago Teachers Union is facing swift criticism on social media Sunday after claiming in a now deleted tweet that the push to reopen schools is "rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny."

  One user replied to the tweet, saying "some people really don't like doing their jobs."

  Another user responded: "Then why are minority parents suing in California saying virtual learning has left their children behind? You say you care about your students, but you clearly don't."

  Meanwhile, another Twitter user called to "end public school unions", arguing that they are "destructive and are undermining the education of our children."

Anything to avoid actually returning to schools and educating children - sounds like it's far past time to defund teachers and disband their union. 

 

UPDATE: trouble with the link - not sure if it's us or them. If you highlight the first paragraph and do an internet search, the article pops up immediately. We'll work on it.

Winter Wonderland Wilding

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these little assholes from destroying downtown:

• SCC, cops running around downtown, closing off streets, blocking intersections as a few hundred yutes are tearing it up, beating pedestrians, and breaking windows of cars and any store dumb enough not to have plywood up

Was the CST team deployed? 

Stand by for non-reporting from the media.

UPDATE: A Christmas Miracle! 

Media coverage:

• SeeBS - with video
• NBC with video

"...large crowds of teens and young adults..." "...several hundred youths..."

Lots of property damage.....and no mention of actual arrests.

SCC Investigates

So John Kass writes a column about politicians being hypocrites:

• Austin Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat, offered a thoughtful and politically correct coronavirus warning to the people of his Texas city. He told them to stay vigilant and stay home. And he threatened to shut the town down if people didn’t follow the rules.

  “We need to stay home if you can,” Adler said on a video in November reported by the Austin American-Statesman. “This is not the time to relax. We are going to be looking really closely. … We may have to close things down if we are not careful.”

  Only one tiny problem. According to the newspaper, Mayor Adler wasn’t at home following his own rules. He was hanging out in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on vacation with others.

John lists a bunch of politicians who have been caught dirty as far as abiding by their own restrictions goes. He even mentions Groot by name, but he reaches all the back to Groot's haircut, carefully avoiding numerous other incidents by her and our part-time resident Illinois governor, making us think that poor John is trying to be seen as mostly harmless by local pols so that he can get invited back to their cocktail parties.

Maybe we're wrong.

But we decided to do a little investigating on our own about local pols flouting and avoiding COVID restrictions. And boy oh boy, did we find one. We'll be putting it all together for tomorrow's top post. You aren't going to want to miss this one - it has photographs and everything.

District OT

This may alleviate some of the manpower shortages....and pay some bills:

• TIME OFF INITIATIVE

  The Lodge reached agreement with the Department on a time off initiative this morning. It increases the maximum percent off allowed from 15% to 30%. This is for District Law Enforcement only. It will work in the following way;

  Officers will submit time off requests 14 days or more prior to the date(s)

  They will be granted or denied time no less than 7 days prior to the day requested.

  Manpower will be augmented by a vri- like initiative according to the 5 police areas. Officers can sign up to work their RDO’s and/or Furlough segments. As long as there are enough volunteers up to 30% would get their time off. Volunteers would come from in district first (district of assignment) and then patrol area secondly if needed and strictly by seniority. Time off requests CANNOT be denied as long as their is manpower available. Volunteer list must be exhausted before days off can be cancelled.

  This is a Memorandum of Understanding that is protected by the grievance and arbitration procedures. It has a guarantee of 2 years through the end of 2022. After that it will be subject to negotiations.

  There are details still being addressed. The FOP will maintain a copy of the volunteer lists to monitor proper enactment of the program. Any questions, please call the Lodge during normal business hours.

  Overtime paid at time and a half.

  M-T 8-8; Fri 8-7

This is precisely how it was sent to us, so any questions should be directed to the Lodge. Our main question is are those the hours every day at the bottom, meaning NOT on weekends and minimum 12 hours, 11 on Fridays? And this looks like a day shift only? That doesn't make sense at all.

UPDATE: Hey, remember when Groot budgeted $95 million for OT and then they eliminated VRI? And then she spent $200 million on OT already in 2020?

Lost in Translation

So this came out from Patrol Division (click for larger versions):

This is how it was interpreted by the 003 Commander:

Our grade school English teacher - who recognized our writing years ago - e-mailed us and asked what the Hell we thought we were doing allowing this to see the light of day. She's old and not all there, and this actually made her cry.

Pure Evil

Our spies relate that Catanzara was correct again - 100%:

• For those who are wondering why "Squad Policing" is dead except for 011 and possibly 004, it was all part of the "plan." Shortly after LL took office, she began to put her minions in spots at HQ. (Daley and Rahm did also, but it was usually the CPD budget director and the Supt's Chief of Staff, plus a handful of other hacks). She flooded the place when EJ was bounced a year ago. They now dictate policy, not CPD brass. First she stalled on the contract, then the FOP election took place and all bets were off because JCat is a real opponent. He knows this and so does she and she doesn't want to look weak or appear beaten by a white policeman.
  
  
  
  Nothing and I mean nothing gets signed off on without Maurice Classen's approval (LL's Chief of Staff). Brownie and LL realized early on that the contract, for as many glaring gaps in protection that exist, is still solid and needed a go-around. This is EXACTLY why LL/Kwame/Pritzker are pushing for licensing downstate- to fire officers more easily and going around the contract.
  
  
  First, they created the CST/CIRT- stripping districts of manpower and creating a nearly 1,000-officer mobilized go-anywhere/do-anything/go-to team chock full of newbies and swole bearded tough guys from tac who will follow orders in exchange for long lunches, early ducks and not having to answer domestics or traffic crashes. Second, the RDO cancellations during George Floyd was a deliberate attempt to push the limits of what people were prepared to tolerate. This was on LL's direct order, not Brownie or Patrol. Her mouthpieces in the media (ie Fran, etc) harped about discipline/affidavit/licensing/contracts/etc to drive public opinion in the face of a race riot that burned the city and destroyed downtown. Her PR advance people did this and constantly monitor perceptions about police on social media and deliver reports to her weekly.
  
  
  And now is squad policing. The dirty little secret? This was never intended to go into effect in all those districts as planned. This was a signal sent to officers as follows: you are entitled to nothing. No day off group, no partner, no specific squad car, no beat or post, nothing. Contractually, it's weak also. LL, her labor attorneys and her negotiation lead also know this.
  
  
  The sooner most officers stop caring about retro retro retro retro and start prioritizing structural quality-of-life issues in the contract, she will be able to fuck us less. ie: Day off group changed? Pay me. Start time changed? Pay me. Cancel RDO's? Pay me. Staffing numbers go under minimum levels? Pay me. Working 99 on afternoons or midnights? Pay me.
  

As suspected, the entire name-of-the-game is demoralization. 

And if Chicago happens to end up with 700 or 800 or 900 dead minorities, even if they're children, their deaths are only to further Groot's anti-police agenda....in other words, acceptable loses.

Christmas to be Canceled

Has Groot and Fatass started with the "Christmas must not be celebrated. No Christmas Mass, no singing carols, no gatherings of more than five people, no food, exchange gifts via Amazon, etc"?

If they haven't, they will be.

And since Christmas is on a Friday this year, have the rumors that RDO's are canceled been floated by HQ yet? Cancelled Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in case the Canadians get out of control.

If not, they will be.

Count on it.

Another Morale Buster

Here comes Squad Policing with all its associated fuckery:

• Hey SCC,

  Have you heard anything about this new squad policing and how it’s ripping partners up, screwing officers with time on the job out of there park cars and beat cars?

  007 just implemented the new strategy and 3rd watch got completely shafted. You’ve got officers with no time on the job but because they’re in a specific DOG, they get the early side and beats that officers with time had previously had. The whole rumor of SGT’s get to pick there officers isn’t true at all. My secretary denied us the ability to switch DOGs in order to keep our beats, instead gave them to officers who practically just got off status. Even officers who have been partners for years are getting ripped apart because the DOG they have is stacked and obviously not the same.

  It’s making a whole lot of hell in 007 and a lot of POs are pissed. So much for keeping morale high. Any chance officers in 006 or 011, or 025 are having the same issues? From what we’ve heard we can’t even grieve it with the FOP according to the staff in 007. Apparently seniority has no bearings on DOGs, or who gets the early side, park cars or specific beats.

Unfortunately, you can be reassigned Day Off Groups every year. You only bid Watches and Furloughs.

And even more unfortunately, a whole bunch of  promises are being made - with no actual intent to keep them - in order to "sell" Squad Policing to the Districts.

We've noted here many times that everywhere Squad Policing has been tried, it has failed - New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and other places. It's even failed in 006 and 012, where it was supposed to save the massive understaffing so typical of CPD nowadays.

We have no idea what makes CPD brass think they can make it work where others have failed. There is no way to make it work without dozens of carve-outs AND a massive expenditure that isn't happening in this era of "defunding."

Convention Business Dead?

Have you ever met a "strategic thinker?" We've known a few and they always seem to be a step ahead of the curve. All we can figure is they're wired a little differently and can put together disparate information to come up with something that looks off-the-wall, but turns out to make a lot of sense.

Take this press release from Warner Brothers Thursday (sorry about the NYT link):

• In a startling move that marked the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood’s traditional way of doing business, Warner Bros. announced on Thursday that 17 movies — its entire 2021 slate — would each arrive simultaneously in theaters and on its sibling streaming service, the underperforming HBO Max.

  Rather than having to wait roughly 90 days, the period that studios have long given theaters to play films exclusively, HBO Max subscribers will receive instant access to big-budget extravaganzas like a “Suicide Squad” sequel, “Godzilla vs. Kong,” “Dune” and “The Matrix 4.” Other movies speeding to living rooms next year include Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights,” Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho,” the next “Conjuring” horror film, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” and a “Sopranos” prequel called “The Many Saints of Newark.”

  While the move amounted to 17 shots in the arm for HBO Max, which has struggled to attract subscribers since its introduction in May for $15 a month, it was also a strikingly grim comment on the future of movie theaters. Even with a widely deployed vaccine, which is expected in the coming months, WarnerMedia does not believe that moviegoing in the United States will recover until at least next fall, an assessment that stands in sharp contrast with what other major movie studios and multiplex chains have signaled.

Our friend dropped us a line a day later:

• You know what this means for convention travel and destination cities?

This is also a none-to-subtle sign that the big cineplexes are dead companies walking. There is an awful lot of prime real estate with mega-plexes downtown and in outlying suburbs that are on the verge of losing a huge anchor tenant. 

Tie that into combination operations like Water Tower Place that already have major tenants looking to move out when leases expire and....get the picture?

Now add in conventions.

Nice Judge Timmy

Once again, the CWB blog is the only one covering crimes against the police - this one slipped under our radar from last week:

• Attempted murder charges were filed Sunday against a reputed gang member who allegedly fired shots at a Chicago cop who approached him on the Far North Side this weekend. Court records show a judge found the man — who has several large gang-related tattoos on his face and neck — not guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm in July 2019.

He and the cops exchanged gunfire with no one being hit.

The judge who let him go previously?

• According to court records, on May 28, 2018, Chicago police accused Jasso of having a gun after they approached him for urinating on the street about four blocks from where Saturday’s shoot-out occurred. Prosecutors charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, and a grand jury later returned a true bill accusing him of six felony gun charges, records show.

  Jasso took the case to a bench trial before Judge Timothy Chambers in July 2019. Chambers found him not guilty on all counts, according to court documents.
  

Chambers didn't even find him guilty of pissing on the sidewalk.

Someone up north remembers this piece of shit and comments:

• Since this is a public forum I don’t say too much but if you work north it would behoove you to acquaint yourself with him and his brother who lived together at the same location. You can see by the tats who he is affiliated with. Examine the rap sheets, arrest reports, case reports for your safety and I really mean that as someone who has dealt with them in the past. It’s disheartening to read he was acquitted again. There is no justice in Cook County. Be cautious and safe.

Must be a pretty interesting rap sheet.