VRI Done?

Once again, the rumor appears:

• Anonymous said...
  
  VRI gone tomorrow along with other changes. Press conference at 35th tomorrow.

A lot of other rumbling in the shadows, too. Rumors of connected people searching for landing spots, so the VRI rumor has a bit of credibility behind it. Might be an interesting day ahead.

Well Done Pfleger!

pfather pfleger led a march the other day. And an impressive march it was:

• More than 770 crosses — one for each person killed in Chicago in 2016 — were carried along the Magnificent Mile late Saturday morning as part of a march organized by Father Michael Pfleger to decry the violence that has claimed the most lives in a year since the mid-1990s.

It was so moving and impressive, that not a single person has been killed on Michigan Avenue for three whole days now. Of course, that could be because the people who populate and shop on Michigan Avenue (without the assistance of stolen motor vehicles crashing through front doors in the dead of night) know that killing people over drugs, girls, boys, money, territory, social media disses, etc is wrong.

Meanwhile, on the west side:

• Two teenage boys were killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according to Chicago Police.

Amazing. The populace that might benefit most from pfleger's message is the one most neglected by his presence. 011 has already had 3 murders among nearly 10 shot in just three days. None of the shooters are even rumored to have come from North Michigan Avenue.

But remember, the police are the problem and rich white people are to be reminded at every opportunity that their streets are safer to protest on than the 3400 block of West Fulton.

Another Asshat

They must have released a whole bunch of these goofs in honor of the new year. This from the comments:

• Look, I'm a supporter of this blog and understand your predisposition for what is going on these days, but yikes, this story appears very, very ugly. At some point, for really messy stuff like this, for any organization or company the boss needs to get involved...that's just the way of the world. I think you unnecessarily discredit yourself with these 100% one-sided reactions, because there are times (arguably this is one of them) when man, it doesn't look so good.

Um, what "100% one-sided reaction" there Sparky? Ripping the Supe? We've been doing that for ten-plus years now. Saying we "have no information," "we...have...questions," and "investigation progresses"? It only makes sense to await answers, whether or not the shooting is good or bad. "Foxx is all over" it? Statement of fact.

Now your statements of "very, very ugly" and "really messy" and "doesn't look so good" appear to be leaps to conclusions, which makes you a hypocrite and an asshat. Unless you're one of the investigators, which makes you a hypocrite, an asshat, and guilty of ethical lapses bordering on misconduct.

Special Ed is a prop. The sooner you realize it, the better. And he's there to sow doubt and mistrust of the rank-and-file. How difficult would it be to say, "inquiries are proceeding," or "the investigation continues," or even "we have no information at this time."? To stand up there and denigrate your detectives and say "I have a lot more questions than answer" is to belittle your entire organization.

Start looking at the big picture. And by "big picture" we don't just mean locally, though that is our immediate concern most days.

Asshole Says What?

This job is so finished:

• The brilliant inspiring new Commander of 019 has something much more important on his mind.All were informed at Roll Calls that the next officer that parks in the Commander,s parking spot in the garage will face disciplinary action! Now go out there and work for this stroke.

Um, asshole? It's his fucking spot. It probably has a sign on it. Why the fuck would you park in his spot? We don't care if he has two spots - one at Belmont/Western and another on Addison Street - it's his fucking spot. If we were commander (and thank God we never will be), the first time, we'd park our car crosswise across your bumper and leave it there for a day, seeing as how we had important shit to catch up on in the station for the next eight-to-twelve hours. The next time it happened, we'd have your car dragged out to the nearest hydrant by the fender, dump it there and make sure it got a ticket every two hours while you walked your foot route somewhere in a Boystown alley. Then we'd start to get nasty.

Who the fuck even thinks like this? In the old days, the less a commander saw of us (and we of them) the better for everyone. But some of these snowflakes today......

Skidmarks McCarthy

After his little ranting on "60 Minutes," Garry realized that his (or his wife's)  future employment prospects might be in jeopardy in the form of a 9.5 digit midget. He therefore attempted to make immediate amends:

• Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy says there needs to be more emphasis on stopping criminals than criticizing police.McCarthy spoke on the WGN-TV Morning News Monday. He wanted to clarify statements made in a "60 minutes" interview about Chicago street violence.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Even a dog from New York.

Walking Guns

An amusing bit of information coming in from the scene of 019's double fatal shooting:

• Despite there being spent brass all over the place from  extensive use of both weapons, no gun was located on or near either individual. It seems a concerned citizen walked up on the carnage, pocketed both guns, and disappeared into the night.

That is typical Chicago. And it points to the fact that "guns walk" away from crime scenes by means of other offenders, accomplices or someone just out looking for an opportunity for something to steal.

And this happens at shootings where someone points a gun at the police and then passes the gun along when he ducks out of sight. Or it gets picked up by some third party when pitched by an offender. Opportunities abound for mischief....we're just saying.

Number Games

2017, starting with the same games of 2016, 2015, 2014, etc:

• Following a deadly 2016, the Chicago Police Department announced plans Sunday to reduce the city’s violence in the new year.
  
  [...]
  
  Some of the 2017 initiatives focus on hiring additional officers, funding economic growth and providing support for young men in violent neighborhoods, police said. By the end of the year, nearly 1,000 more beat officers, detectives, lieutenants, sergeants, field training officers and more will be working for the police department. The mayor will invest in mentoring programs for men in the 20 most violent neighborhoods and offer incentives for commercial retail and industrial developers. The mayor will also financially support the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund and the Community Catalyst Fund, police said.

"1,000 more beat officers, detectives, lieutenants, sergeants, field training officers and more will be working for the police department" Does the media even ask the obvious questions?

• Question: Where do Detectives come from?
  Answer: From the ranks of Patrol Officers.
• Question: Where do FTO's come from?
  Answer: From the ranks of Patrol Officers.
• Question: Where do Sergeants come from?
  Answer: From the ranks of Patrol Officers and Detectives and FTO's.

Do you see the problem? Of course, you do, because you and we work in the system and we know exactly where the shuffling happens. To make 100 FTO's and 130 Detectives and 150 Sergeants, you have to remove 380 people from Patrol. So unless the Department has suddenly graduated 380 people, we are short 380 bodies. Oh, and then this:

• Question: Where do Lieutenants come from?
  Answer: From the ranks of Sergeants.

Again, the Department shorts one rank to promote to another. The Department doesn't just go out on the street and hire someone to fill a spot....well, in most cases. The city will hire aging police failures from either coast to fill exempt spots along with irrelevant washed-up news anchors, but those are usually political payoffs to someone for covering up some of Rahm's malfeasance or heading off a frivolous hiring lawsuit due to Rahm's incompetence.

And speaking of incompetence, we aren't going to say much about that "60 Minutes" hit piece Sunday night. It was summarized pretty well by a few of our readers, namely that:

• the Department is racist;
• if you do street stops, you must be racist;
• if you don't prevent murders, you're racist
• if you engage in any sort of proactive police work, it's only because you're racist;
• any "self preservation" instinct that kicks in to prevent accusations of racism, is in fact racist;
• racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist racist;
• and don't you dare point out that 95% of the killings of minorities were perpetrated by minorities you racist;

Thank goodness we had our first "post racial" president to heal the divisions.

Another "No Gun" Headline

That's the first thing the media is putting in the headlines:

• Unarmed man fatally shot by off-duty police officer: officials

And Special Ed is showing up to strip every one in person now:

• An off-duty Chicago Police officer fatally shot another man on the Northwest Side after an argument Monday morning, officials said.
  
  The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the slain man as 38-year-old Jose Nieves. He was shot several times and did not have a weapon, police spokesman [...] said.
  
  “I have a lot more questions than I do answers at this time,” Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said during a briefing with reporters. “I came out because I wanted to make sure that the investigation was done properly.”

He doesn't even trust IAD to strip officers now - he wants to be in at the feeding frenzy himself.

We have no information on this shooting, and we probably have as many questions as Special Ed has. We're sure they'll be answered as the investigation progresses. What we do know is that Foxx is all over this one at the moment.

Meeting Scheduled/Canceled for New Program?

So Navarro put out an Admin Fax on 30 December, ordering 3-two-man cars to HQ for a mandatory meeting from every district in the city at 1630 hours on 03 January. The order was promptly amended becausem as you all know, HQ can't do anything properly the first time.

Then the order was canceled within 58 minutes, because at 1630 hours, during a weekday rush hour, getting 66 squad cars to HQ along with 132 coppers was a pretty stupid idea to begin with. Especially when those 132 coppers are most likely the ones the Watch Lieutenant didn't want to deal with, so they sent them far away.

Then we heard a report on NewsRadio 780 that might pertain to this meeting. It's about some new initiative that's going to save everyone! It's called (and we're going by memory here) the SDSC...Strategic District something something....

Trust us - it sounds GREAT!

Somehow, Special Ed is going to take cops off the street in every district, stick them in a room with a computer and a telephone, and they're going  to determine, every minute of every hour of every day, how and where to deploy District assets to combat the gang/gun problems of the day! It's foolproof!

Now, you know they can't take workers off the street - that would be counterproductive for getting the numbers that every boss is whining for. So they're going to use CAPS and District Intelligence Officers and a few more of the commander's "favorites" who can't make the day or desk bids and have them shopping on-line, making weekend plans, ducking out early, etc, until someone gets shot. Then they'll swing into action with a speed that rivals a hungry lion chasing dinner on the Serengeti, crowding around the single phone line, tying up radio traffic with nonsense, demanding more calls, e-mailing at a frantic pace, bothering sergeants and lieutenants for instantaneous information that can't be determined in the heat of a shooting, and gather around a map of the District with the pretty colors denoting gang boundaries and deciding:

• HERE IS WHERE WE SHALL RUN A MISSION!!!

Then they'll slap each other on the ass, hug, Facebook the moment, and wait for the next poor asshole to get shot.

We're so old we remember when this used to be done by the drunken Tact Lieutenant with a push pin, which the Tact secretary would fix later because the Tact Lieutenant had the DT's pretty bad some nights.

So can we assume that CPIC is going to be disbanded? Since all information is localized, we could use those bodies in the Districts again.

First Homicide - 019

Looks like a sleeper District got it:

• Two men shot to death Sunday morning in the North Side Uptown neighborhood were the first two reported homicides of 2017 in Chicago, after a bloody 2016 saw 780 homicides in the city.
  
  The two men were shooting at each other about 4:25 a.m. inside of a business in the 4600 block of North Broadway, according to Chicago Police.

That doesn't sound like two homicides at all. That sounds like one killed and one self-defense killing. We imagine that the D-unit will classify it as such to avoid a double on the books the first night. An e-mailer relates that 011 might have had the first, except no one called in the dead guy lying on the sidewalk for two hours until after sunrise, so 019 gets the credit.

On a side note, HeyJackass has the totals at 795, just short of 800, but that is with nearly three dozen open "death investigations."

The Sun Times says 780, but who knows from where Mope-rah pulls her numbers.

The Department claims around 760, but they lie constantly.

In any event, at 3-a-day, Chicago is on pace to tally 1,095 homicides this year, meaning Special Ed should be unemployed by April at the latest.

Shooting

Car as a weapon again:

• Chicago police shot a man who fled a traffic stop early Sunday in an incident that also sent three officers in the hospital, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
  
  The man was in critical but stable condition Sunday, according to police. No gun was found at the scene of the shooting. Supt. Eddie Johnson said the hospitalized officers were in good condition and had perhaps already been released. The officer who fired at the suspect has been placed on administrative duty for 30 days, which is routine, he said.
  
  [...] Police noticed a white Hyundai SUV speeding and running a stop sign at 2:20 a.m. near the 1200 block of South State Street, Johnson said. The driver initially stopped the car when officers tried to pull it over, but he drove south after officers left their car. Police followed the car for about five blocks and saw it drive up on the sidewalk, Johnson said.
  
  Finally, the SUV sideswiped several cars and crashed into a police squad car, injuring the officers. Police approached the car and found the man in the driver’s seat. Johnson said the man struggled as officers tried to restrain him, and that’s when an officer shot him two times. He was taken to Christ Medical Center, Johnson said.

Notice the media placement of the "No gun was found at the scene" statement, completely disregarding the fact that the assailant deliberately drove up on the sidewalk (endangering pedestrians), crashed into a squad car (aggravated battery injuring officers) and continued to fight after his means of escape had been disabled (breaking numerous other laws.)

But "no gun" will be the media narrative along with the inevitable protestors.

2016 Final Numbers - Pending

As the gunfire dies down, HeyJackass will finalize the numbers for 2016, the Department will lie about the other numbers, death investigations will be scheduled for reclassification, Rahm will pretend that 600 black people weren't murdered in his city by other black people, another 3,600 weren't maimed and that 25 police shootings are the real problem.

Has Chicago experienced it's first of many homicides yet this year

2017 Crime Reduction Underway

Another one of those "happy endings:"

• A man fatally shot a teenager who attempted to rob him Friday afternoon in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
  
  The 33-year-old man went to the 4800 block of West Ferdinand to purchase something he saw for sale online and was confronted by a 19-year-old man who announced a robbery and showed a gun, police said. A struggle ensued, and the 19-year-old was shot in the chest about 12:25 p.m.
  
  The teen, identified as Carlos James, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He lived in the same block as the shooting.

Countless robberies, aggravated batteries and homicides were prevented next year by this justified shooting. One report has the victim as a Concealed Carrier, though we can't confirm this at the moment. Regardless, it'll go down as a justified.

Cops Injured

Squad on squad accident:

• Two Chicago police officers were injured while making an arrest in the South Shore neighborhood and four others were injured after two unmarked police vehicles crashed Saturday morning, police said.
  
  Two officers were injured while trying to arrest a person in the 7400-block of South Kingston Avenue at about 12:45 a.m., police said. The suspect was eventually taken into custody after officers used a Taser.
  
  After responding to a call for back up, two unmarked police vehicles on their way to assist the officers crashed near 71st Street and Stony Island Avenue. Four officers were hospitalized as a result of the crash. Police said their injuries are non-life threatening.

A speedy recovery wished to all.

Happy New Year!

We aren't home yet.

Soon perhaps.

Stay safe. More posts coming shortly.

800 on Tap?

HeyJackass.com has the total at 791 as of this writing. It might be higher shortly.

The Department it at around 750, but they don't count:

• highway homicides
• police shootings
• death investigations

By the way, the Department has 36 open "death investigations" as of a day or two ago, which will all be reclassified as "murders" sometime in the spring after all the bosses get done patting each other on the asses for keeping the surge to only 300 bodies over last year's total.

Unless something really disrupts the curve, Chicago (police department by Johnson) will just miss 800.

The 011 District (commanded by another Johnson) will win the homicide crown for the third year running.

The 007 District (commanded by another Johnson, unrelated to the first Johnson, but the twin brother of the other Johnson) will come in second place.

In any case, be safe and smart tonight. Posting may be delayed depending on how soon we get home.

UPS to Hired Armed Escorts

Nice to see they're moving quickly on this issue:

Thanks to the e-mailer who updated us.

This is Certainly True

Remember when the Department installed GPS in the cars? They told everyone over and over that it was an "officer safety" issue and it would never EVER be used for disciplinary purposes. We predicted this was a lie more ways than we could count. In the past week, we've received e-mails telling us how:

• GPS printouts of a pursuit were used to "prove" a squad car was going far faster than the officers put down on paper, and the officers are facing discipline;
• GPS was used to track all the cars near a different pursuit, and everyone who didn't upload a functional camera is looking at taking suspension time;
• Command staff and inspectors have had their GPS disabled because some enterprising officers were checking on their status from the desks - the way the Command staff and Inspectors were checking on everyone else;

In other words, GPS was used in an adversarial manner far more often than anyone in charge admitted to.

Now someone commented the following:

• My favorite lie related to the cameras is:" The cameras will be good for da coppers!"
  
  Really?
  
  So let me get this straight: If some local Democrat attacks you, in a fit of Righteous Rage, because "Da Man bin keeping me down", and the camera records the attack: Ms. Foxx is going Prosecute?
  
  NO WAY!
  
  However, if a cop strikes one blow more than what the armchair quarterbacks thinks is excessive; you can be sure that there will be a prosecution of that Officer. And the Mayor himself will hold a news conference, apologize and promise punishment for that officer. Nobody should believe for a second, that these cameras are for any other purpose than to nail officers. The Camera is an extension of the Democrat Party Agenda, that Rahm wants to ride to a Third Term; and that is that THE COPS ARE THE PROBLEM.

In this day and age right now, an Officer is assumed to be guilty. If you have an in-car camera or a body camera, you may luck out. But if it doesn't show 100% clear and convincing evidence of following procedure TO THE LETTER, you will be subject to a media witch hunt, assorted activist protests, a rectal exam courtesy of the States Attorney and a lawsuit to go along with your Department suspension.

Don't bet against it.

He Blames Whom?

We still don't understand how this guy gets a platform as a "community activist," but the media gives him air time to spot bullshit like this:

• A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with three felonies in the Wednesday morning carjacking of a FedEx truck on Chicago's South Side.
  
  Police said the teen held a 46-year-old female FedEx driver at gunpoint near West 75th and South Green streets in the city's Englewood neighborhood around 9:15 a.m. and stole her truck.
  
  [...]
  
  Andrew Holmes, a city crisis responder, said asked delivery companies to require all trucks to have two-man crews to deter thieves.
  
  "I am pleading with FedEx and UPS. Put some helpers on the trucks. These packages are not worth them losing their life for," Holmes said.

Um, what now? Because certain people (or folks) can't control their baser instincts, parent(s) can't be bothered to teach their spawn that stealing is illegal and the community refuses to call out their own for behavior frowned upon by a civilized society, FedEx and UPS should have to put a second helper on the trucks to deter thieves?

How about Fed Ex spring for a few armed guards to blow these armed offenders away? That would be a deterrent we could get behind. Plus, the recidivism rate approaches zero in short order, so it's a win-win.

UPDATE: We amended our description of Holmes to a more generic "guy" seeing as how a number of readers have had halfway decent experiences with him on scenes and investigating crimes. We don't know about that "city crisis responder" thing though - sounds like a political angle, and we've never been shy about our feeling where politicians are concerned.

Cameras Coming Faster

Good news!

• The Chicago Police Department will be equipping every patrol officer in the city with body cameras a year ahead of schedule.
  
  Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Supt. Eddie Johnson have decided to step up the deployment of body cameras, and have every patrol officer in all 22 districts wearing one by the end of 2017. Originally, the city planned to complete the rollout by the end of 2018.
  
  Police officials outlined the new plan Wednesday morning. Officials said the cameras support the safety of officers while improving transparency.

Do these two goofs think that policing stopped because not everyone had cameras?

We're sensing that the "slowdown of 2016" will be the "grind to a halt 2017" in short order, and shootings will rise again.

On a brighter note, the CPD will save millions in the cost of paper.

The War on Cops Continues

Author Heather MacDonald hits a home run here:

• Chicago’s yearlong shooting rampage picked up steam over Christmas weekend, leaving 61 people shot, 11 fatally. Seven were killed on Christmas Day alone, more than on the three previous Christmases combined, according to the Chicago Tribune.
  
  Gangbangers targeted each other’s holiday gatherings as if in deliberate mockery of the season. Two young girls were shot while sitting in a van at 11:30 p.m. Monday by a presumed gang rival of the younger one’s father.
  
  So far this year, 4,334 people have been shot in Chicago: one person every two hours. Almost all the victims have been black. The police have shot 25 people, virtually all armed or otherwise dangerous — less than .6 percent of the total. That disparity between civilian and police shootings hasn’t stopped local Black Lives Matter activists from continuing to claim that it’s the cops who are the biggest threat facing Chicago’s young black men today.
  
  If there’s any silver lining to the violence, it will be if it acts as a wake-up call regarding the de-policing and decriminalization movements sweeping the country. Chicago is Exhibit A in what happens when the police back off from enforcing public order, having been told that maintaining control of the streets constitutes racial oppression.

Special Ed claims we're "still policing" despite all evidence to the contrary:

• street stops down from 159,000 in 2015 to 21,000 in 2016
• property crime skyrocketing in formerly "quiet" areas
• arrest down tens of thousands
• a 20% homicide clearance rate

The list is near endless, and the price is paid in bodies.

Most Dangerous Block

As you probably guessed, on the west side:

• The 4400 block of West Monroe on Chicago's West Side is a residential street of two-story buildings, senior citizens and a day care center.
  
  It's also the city's most dangerous block of 2016, a stretch plagued by heroin, shootings and murder.
  
  "I don't think it's safe here any time," said a landlord on the block, who asked that his name be withheld out of fear for this safety.

And Big Brained Special Ed has this one all figured out, too:

• While the South Side spike in shootings is because of "disrespecting on social media," on the West Side there is a "generational drug problem," Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said. "It's more about drug turf."

Glad we have that all figured out. Guess who chimes in next?

• Ald. Jason Ervin, whose 28th Ward covers Garfield Park, said those involved with drugs shouldn't get a pass from the criminal justice system.
  
  "Where you find drugs, you are going to find violence," Ervin said. "There has been a laxer attitude of possession and delivery of narcotics. It has emboldened the climbing violence."

Drugs = Violence?

You mean drugs like......Cannabis? That pesky green leafy weed that you and your ilk just made into a ticket instead of an arrest? A ticket that takes a bit longer than an actual physical arrest used to take? And Ervin is surprised that violence follows the lack of enforcement?

This Guy Again?

You'd think he was unhappy he isn't presiding over this shit-show any longer:

• Chicago’s former top cop blamed the Windy City’s rise in homicides — including 11 over the Christmas weekend — on political pushback against police stops and other proactive measures to curb the ongoing violence.
  
  Garry McCarthy, Chicago’s former police superintendent, noted Tuesday in an interview with the Daily News that the number of police stops is down by nearly 90% this year compared to last.
  
  Also, the department no longer holds CompStat meetings to focus on crime hot spots, he said.
  
  “We have completely flipped the script where we investigate police and not criminals,” said McCarthy, a Bronx native who once served as the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of operations under then-Police Commissioner Howard Safir during the early 2000s.
  
  “And as a result, we are reaching a lawless state in this country.”

Hey Garry? Why not tell everyone exactly when Rahm saw that video, when you and your command staff saw it, who was present when the shooting was ruled justified, and maybe why so many exempts were allowed to retire with pensions while blue shirt are left with the shit end of the stick? Then we'd think you actually had a set.

Ghoul Pool Time

The basic rules:

• #1 You pay your toothpicks
  #2 You write your code name
  #3 Someone picks the Districts in random order
  #4 You wait for the natural order to determine a winner

There are local variations on this theme. Some pools pick a random starting box (slips numbered 1 thru 22 to correspond to the boxes) then draw District numbers from that box forward. We've seen arguments about what constituted the first "official" homicide - First 0110 RD drawn, first doctor declaration, etc. Make sure you know the rules before you pay your toothpicks.

Brilliant Insight!

We're telling you, with this guy in charge, we've got this crime thing licked!

• The head of the Chicago Police Department is now admitting that more gun laws don’t necessarily result in less gun violence because criminals don’t “play by society’s rules.”
  
  Chicago, a city run by Mayor Rahm Emanual, former White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, reported double the number of killings throughout Christmas weekend this year than last year. [...]
  
  Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said during a news conference on Monday that most of the shootings between Friday evening and Sunday evening were “targeted attacks” by gang members going after rival gang members who were gathered for Christmas and holiday parties. The Chicago Tribune reported 90 percent of those fatally shot were involved in gang activities, had criminal histories or were previously known to police.

Criminals don't "play by society's rules." Good god, he's right!!! We never realized it before but it was right there all along! We may have expressed doubts about Special Ed in the recent past, but now.....now we realize, we are led by a man of uncommon brilliance.

And what is the solution, oh Mighty Swami Ed?

Well, someone wrote to us that he just said "tougher laws" on a Fox 32 news report. That would be slightly disappointing after his recent venture into the stratosphere of crime fighting. We did find this quote at the end of the article:

• “These gun offenders have repeatedly shown us that they’re not going to play by society’s rules,” the police superintendent told WLS-TV.
  
  As a result, Johnson is now calling for repeat offenders to face tougher penalties for crimes they commit.

Tougher penalties? With Kimesha Foxxxxx in charge? And Prickwrinkle? And Dart?

Special Ed is talking crazy now.

Mall Brawls

Social media used to coordinate a nation-wide display of ass-hattery?

• Despite large fights breaking out inside shopping malls across the country, including one at Fox Valley Mall in west suburban Aurora, Chicago area police departments say they’re not anticipating any more problems at malls here.
  
  Eight teenagers are facing misdemeanor charges stemming from the Monday night fight at Fox Valley that temporarily shut down the shopping center on the Naperville-Aurora border, Aurora police said Tuesday.
  
  Police were investigating whether that brawl was connected to the series of similar ones across the country. Fights and disturbances — possibly spurred by activity on social media — were reported at shopping centers in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Indiana and Connecticut.

What the hell?

DOJ Plowing Ahead

A big push to have the "report" done before Sparklefarts leaves office:

• NBC5 Chicago has learned a massive team of attorneys and investigators from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department is, on the eve of Christmas and Hanukkah, working feverishly to complete its probe of the Chicago Police Department.
  
  And they're planning to finish their work before the Obama administration ends and the Trump administration begins.
  
  Sources with a working knowledge of the investigation tell NBC5 that the goal, requiring unprecedented speed by DOJ standards, is to issue a detailed “Findings Letter” into the pattern and practice of CPD. And to do so whether or not Mayor Rahm Emanuel or his law and police departments have agreed to the terms of a consent decree for corrective action.

This ties in with a couple of e-mails regaling us with tales of how the DOJ Liaison was systematically shut out of working groups, e-mails, and meetings. This is turning out to be exactly what everyone suspected - a railroad job driven by numerous exaggerations, outright distortions and Rahm caving to a loud group of political terrorists.

We'll see shortly if Rahm is running out the clock before Trump takes over. Rumor is the DOJ is going to cut this sort of funding, so a lot of democrat lawyers who hitched their futures to Hillary are going to be looking for work soon.

What a Weekend

You'd think with the holidays upon us, people (or folks) would be more cheery, more in tune with the "Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Man" thing that pfather Pfleger and his ilk preach about.

You'd be wrong:

• Eleven men were killed and at least 37 other people have been wounded in shootings over Christmas weekend across Chicago.
  
  The gun violence since Friday evening has surpassed the toll over the same four-day holiday last year, when 30 people were shot across the city.

Those must have been preliminary numbers, seeing as how HeyJackass.com has the mayhem clocking in a 11 and 44.

With 4 days remaining in 2016, Chicago is 15 short of 800.

Missing Body Camera

Lost in the vicinity of the 006th District about 10 days ago.

We're interested just to see what type of discipline the Department is going to be handing out for this sort of thing. It's already half-a-day for a shield, a full day for a star, multiple days for a radio...all unless you can come up with a damn good reason for losing any of it - which isn't often the case.

What's a camera worth?

Rahm, Your Superintendent

When we see the "chain of command" pictures:

Woof!

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