Perfect Storm

A comment a day or so ago pointed out another hiring wave that we knew of, but hadn't really put together with other info we had. Bear with us.

We think we can identify three major hiring waves preceding and occurring within our careers:

• 1991-1994....upwards of 3,500 officers
  
• 1995-1998....between 4,500 and 5,500 officers (the Clinton money)
  
• 2004-2006....+/- 2,500 officers

There are other smaller ones, but these are approximately the big ones.

Now work through the career milestones: 

• 1991 + 20 years = 2011 (not many were doing 20-and-out)
• 1991 + 29 years = 2020 (COVID times)
• 1995 + 20 years = 2015
• 1995 + 29 years = 2024 (today's max)
• 2004 + 20 years = 2024 (today's max)

Those 1991 people might have stuck around past 29, but as the job stands now as to what it was when they came on, they're leaving fast.

The 1995 people are maxing out as we speak.

The 2004 crew has hit their 20 years. They aren't wedded to the job like many were. They believe they're old enough to leave with 50% pensions and start a second career somewhere else....and they're probably right.

That's THREE classes amounting to thousands, all hitting an inflection point that makes the exit door look even better with nothing currently keeping them interested in a job that actively hates them and that they've grown to dislike.

Anyone else seeing this? We might be off a bit on the years, but we're pretty close on the numbers. We heard a friend describe these as "bubbles moving along a timeline" a long time ago and it certainly looks like the bubble is about ready to explode.

County to Screw Blue States

Who needs to follow Court orders? Not Cook County it seems:

• Cook County, Illinois, home of the nation’s largest open-air shooting gallery, otherwise known as Chicago, has a long and storied history of crime, corruption, and Second Amendment infringement. And today, between the gang members and the politicians who support them in an unholy alliance, that disregard for the rule of law and enumerated civil rights continues.

  The latest involves Cook County’s ordinance establishing targeted taxes on the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms – specifically guns and ammo. Guns Save Life, an aggressive gun rights organization in Illinois known for its “in your face” activism, filed a lawsuit challenging the gun and ammo tax shortly after it was enacted in 2015. That case went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court which ruled in 2021 that the tax ordinance was unconstitutional. The Illinois Supremes ordered the trial court to enter a summary judgement in favor of Guns Save Life.

  Cook County then amended their ordinance and has been slow-walking the legal process with endless filings ever since. At long last, about a week ago, a Cook County trial court judge struck down the ordinance, again at the direction of the Illinois Supreme Court. It was a simple two-page order.

  Even after losing in the state’s highest court, Cook County has made it clear to the plaintiffs of the case, Guns Save Life, that they have no intention of ending its illegal collection of taxes on every gun sold in the county along with the ammo to feed them.
  

The lawyers over at Guns Save Life aren't morons though, and they've devised a brilliant strategy that will end up with Cook County taxpayers financing their lawsuits against dozens of other jurisdictions:

• Ultimately, if Cook County wants to continue to act like petulant children as a result of their loss, this case could end up in front of the US Supreme Court. If that happens and SCOTUS rules our way on the Second Amendment count within the suit, that could mean an end of gun and ammo surtaxes nationwide.

And court costs will then be assessed against the losing side, similar to how Shortshanks ended up cutting a check to the NRA for hundreds of thousands of dollars many years ago.

Hypocrites Still

How big of a collection of saps and cucks is the fbi?

• Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

  Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the killings during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.

Peltier, the so-called "activist" was a violent communist "revolutionary" who was part of the murder of two fbi agents via contact shots to the head following an extensive gun battle.

And today's fbi, for the past eight years or more (dating back to the Sparklefarts administration), have been actively restructuring their agency to more closely align with the Stasi of East Germany, violating Americans' Civil Rights, conducting illegal investigations, interfering in governments processes, entrapping and (allegedly) assassinating persons who political beliefs run contrary to the democrats. And their thanks is to have a commie murderer of two of their own running around his final days, free as a bird. 

It's like the fbi was thanking Biden and Company for f#$%ing their wives, all while they were toweling off Biden's genitals. Every time you see an fbi agent, you should point and laugh.

(A side note, whomever wrote that comment about "if scc held the cpd to fbi standards, blah blah blah...." We don't and didn't. It was the fbi running around proclaiming themselves the nations preeminent law agency....or don't you remember the TV shows and Hollywood worshiping them? F#$% them, one and all.)

Hypocrites Again

Way back in 2018, Congressasshole Adam Schiff (CA) discussed to possibility of pre-emptive pardons being issued by Trump. No surprise, he thought it was a bad idea:

• What Schiff said next is even further relevant to today's current events. "The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know."

This was in regard to the Scooter Libby conviction in 2017. 

In their first joint press conference in 2020, Biden/Harris addressed the issue of preemptive pardons. They thought it was a really bad idea:

• “President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. … Does this concern you?” Tapper asked.

  “Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden said.

  “Now in terms of the pardons, you’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons,” he added. “Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it’s going to be a totally different way to which we approach the justice system.”

Trump didn't preemptively pardon anyone. Meanwhile, the drooling vegetable pardoned not only his son, but pardoned him for any crimes, known or undiscovered, dating all the way back to 2014.

That was back in December. Guess what happened yesterday morning?

• Biden’s comments from four years ago directly contradict his last-minute action on Monday morning to issue preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of the Democrat-run January 6 Committee.

Fauci's pardon dates back to 2014 when he approved funding for some unknown biological  lab located in Wuhan, China, that was doing gain-of-function research, which was forbidden by law in the US.

Milley was communicating directly with Red China during the Trump-to-Biden transition about the country's national defense posture. He admitted as much since then and was rightfully accused of treason.

The J6 committee people have been destroying documents and reports since November in violation of Federal Law.

But it didn't end there:

• Later in the day — just before Trump was sworn in — Biden also pardoned his brother, James B. Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Valerie Owens’ husband, John T. Owens; and his brother, Francis W. Biden.

People who haven't even been investigated, but who are credibly known to have committed numerous crimes. The Biden family banking records show upwards of $20 million moving through their hands.

We'll see if any of this is read into the record over the next few years.

Hypocrites

Remember all the democrats screaming since 06 January 2020 about that makeshift hangman's platform protestors set up in DC objecting to the election? We were told it was insurrection, treason and all sorts of crimes for four years.

So what was this in DC yesterday?

It appears to be some sort of tranny-penile-amputation device. 

It couldn't possibly be a guillotine that was used extensively during the French Revolution to behead politicians and royalty, right? Because that would be insurrection, treason and all sorts of other crimes as we've been reminded for four years.

Retiree Wave Growing

One of our old contacts from the source-of-all-evil (HQ) mentioned to us at the drinking establishment church service the other day that on 15 January, almost one-hundred-twenty-five Officers left the job. 

Combine that with our recent post about no job openings listed for actual Police and the manpower issue takes on a serious note....again.

Conehead already proposed (succeeded?) in the old 9.5 Dwarf trick of eliminating vacancies in the budget, then claiming CPD is "up to strength." Rahm got rid of nearly 2,000 spots that way, and Conehead was looking at another thousand, minimum.

Now, all the people hired with Clinton anti-crime money started maxing out last year and even more will continue maxing out for another two years - probably around 3,000-to-4,000 cops total with this summer probably being the biggest retiree numbers in thirty or forty years.

Anyone hear the Conehead Plan for weathering this storm?

What Changed?

Someone pointed out that Cuck Goudie made his name chasing down mob bosses and asking them questions about their illicit businesses. A lot of these were old men, but dangerous men, who had people killed for various reasons and probably would do it again given the correct set of circumstances.

But for some reason, Cuck wouldn't do that with Chicago or Cook County or Illinois politicians....at least not in the recent decades.

Were those politicians scarier than actual Outfit guys?

Don't Get Middled

If you are called to or happen to be at the scene of an ICE enforcement action, Federal Law takes precedent over any state or local law, rules, policies or ordinances. 

Border Czar Tom Homan said that Chicago is going to be Ground Zero for enforcement starting Tuesday with two-hundred agents scheduled to be conducting raids in the Windy City alone.

We are well aware that a lot of this is just hype and bluster to make illegals self-deport, and reports from Texas say more people are headed south this weekend than are headed north, so it's working. Sub freezing temps might also encourage the illegal warm weather visitors to leave.

Anyone with Park District buildings looking empty? How about that giant "shelter" over on Cermak?

The last ditch effort by the City Council to allow CPD to work with ICE and support American Law fell flat:

• A proposal to modify Chicago’s sanctuary city ordinance to allow coordination between Chicago police and federal immigration officials was struck down by City Council Wednesday.

  The amendment, filed by Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th) and Silvana Tabares (23rd), would have allowed police and officials to work with federal agents when they’ve arrested or convicted undocumented immigrants of certain crimes including “gang-related activities,” selling and buying drugs, prostitution, human trafficking and “sexual crimes involving minors.” 

  The measure was blocked from moving forward Wednesday through a parliamentary process that passed 39-11 before any discussion took place — but not without passionate public comment from Chicago residents.

Heaven forbid human traffickers and pedo-rapists be deported to deny democrats their victims, and corporations and government exploit illegals to the detriment of actual Americans.

Weekly Reminder - Vote Again

Keep voting Chicago-style on the flags:

• Vote here once a day, every day! (link corrected)

The tax money you save might be your own.

Win Some, Lose Some

Should have been "Win Two," but it wasn't:

• As the Illinois Appellate Court weighs arguments over the future of police discipline in Chicago, two rulings by the Chicago Police Board have been bolstered by Cook County judges.

  In one case, decided last month, Cook County Judge Michael Mullen denied an effort by Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling to impose discipline on an officer, [...], whom the board cleared of wrongdoing in 2023. [The officer] had faced administrative charges for his role in a chaotic arrest during the riots and unrest of summer 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer.

  It was the first time since 2015 that the city’s top cop filed a complaint for administrative review against the police board. Snelling said the board’s findings “are not supported by the record, are clearly erroneous, and/or are against the manifest weight of the evidence.”

  In the other case, ruled on in late October, Cook County Judge David Atkins upheld the police board’s decision to fire a sergeant who was involved in the February 2019 raid at the home of social worker Anjanette Young. Court records show the sergeant, [...], is now appealing the Circuit Court decision.

So in Case #1, Larritorious went against the recommendation of the Police Board, who called the effort "not supported ...erroneous ....unsupported by evidence." Who the f#$% would ever trust an asshole who was not just wrong, but wholly wrong? No wonder he was at the front of the line stripping officers for refusing the poison jab - Larritorious is a f#$%ing tool.

In Case #2, remember who the informant was who fed the team the info that was presented to AND approved by a Cook County judge? He was in a car owned by Yolanda Talley, driven by her niece, transporting heroin on the west side....and the sergeant is to blame? Aren't there supposed to be lieutenants, captains, commanders, deputy chiefs and a representative from the Chaplains Ministry on the scene of search warrants to make sure everything is properly punctuated, grammatically correct and righteous in the eyes of God?

Many ask why any cop would do a street stop in this atmosphere.

Add to that, why would anyone do a search warrant under these circumstances either?

See Ya Cuck!

After not being on the air for weeks, Cuck Goudie and Channel 7 have parted ways:

• Chuck Goudie, Chicago media's dean of investigations, is no longer on the air at ABC7.

  Why it matters: Goudie has been a larger-than-life media personality for over 40 years in Chicago.

  The latest: The award-winning broadcast journalist hasn't been seen on the station's newscasts this year, and the station has confirmed they have parted ways.

  What they're saying: "Chuck Goudie was a valued member of our ABC7 team for many years and we thank him for his groundbreaking contributions," spokesperson Jayme Nicholas tells Axios.

Good thing he sold his Hinsdale house for $4 million - he might be needing that cash. Word is he wanted $500K and ABC offered $200K. 

The Chicago media at large has given up on actual investigative reporting. We've pointed out dozens of stories that were worthy of at least a sound bite or three, but if it reflected badly on Machine democrats, it never got past step one. 

But that's the media everywhere nowadays, and why the legacy media in general might be dead within a few years:

• ABC is paying Trump's future presidential library $15 million for George Snuffleupagus' defamatory statements during the run-up to the 2024 election;
• CNN just lost a defamation suit - a near impossibility for broadcast and print media. A jury awarded the plaintiff $4 million in real damages, $1 million in pain/suffering, before CNN waved the while flag and negotiated a private punitive damage settlement. The plaintiff was asking for $1 BILLION dollars;
• CBS is discussing the possibility of settling the $10 BILLION lawsuit Trump filed against the netword for election interference. The fact that they're even entertaining a settlement is unheard of.

No one likes the legacy media and when presented with an opportunity to stick it to them in courtrooms, the public is embracing the chance.

All sorts of big name TV anchors are taking massive pay cuts, newspapers are laying of 20% and upwards of newsrooms, websites are shutting down. John Kass is looking like one of the the smarter guys in the room by embracing his departure from the dying Tribune and starting his own website. He'll have captured a larger part of the disillusioned public as an early bird as opposed to latecomers who will fight over crumbs. 

Learn to code bitches.

UPDATE: from the comments - ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 isn't just Chicago's top-rated television station. With employees related to three prominent Democrats, it also may have the most politically connected newsroom in town. Morning news anchor Tanja Babich is the daughter-in-law of U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, recently hired per-diem reporter Meghan Kluth is the daughter of Congressman Mike Quigley, and per-diem reporter Alexis McAdams is the niece of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. It's strictly a coincidence, according to John Idler, president and general manager of ABC 7. "These are all talented people who were hired on their own merit," Idler said.  

People are sick and tired of the media be just being a post-political job for the connected.

No Shame, No Accountability

Regular readers are aware of the disgrace that is the 006 District commander. He skipped the wake and funeral of an Officer who died under his command. He offered no support to Officers at Roll Calls, not even gracing them with his presence. After Officers dared to complain, that's when he bothered to show up and threaten everyone with frequent Inspector visits. And to top it off, he had his staff and cowed supervisors start keeping track of who was and wasn't buying tickets to the Christmas Party.

But don't believe us - believe the letters they wrote to Larritorious  and others:

You can tell how much Larritorious (and his puppet masters) didn't care as Tate is still in 006, inflicting untold damage to the personnel unlucky enough to have to work there.

Judge Reassigned and other Quick Hits

That judge who kept releasing domestic offenders on no bail finally got taken out of Domestic Court:

• The Cook County judge who refused to detain a man charged with a violent domestic attack in October, about a month before the man went on to kill his wife, has been permanently removed from domestic violence cases. That’s one of the announcements made Thursday night by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans. Evans’ press release came just hours after Chicago’s police oversight investigators released video and other evidence related to the November 19 stabbing in Portage Park, which was witnessed by an off-duty Chicago police officer.

He's now in Traffic Court, which as we remember, is where they put new judges, judges under various punishments, and morons.

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In addition to the questions everyone was posting about the FOP spending 80K for a new truck, we're now getting a couple emails about a Field Rep who got her own PPP loan for $2,000 for a sole proprietorship of a "performing art company." By the way, there is no record of this company ever existing. The "loan" was forgiven, meaning the $2,000 was essentially a gift from taxpayers.

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John Kass, among others, have opined that the California wildfires and subsequent revelations of the utter incompetency of democrat governance there for the past forty years, might actually swing the state toward the Red side of things.

While it might be an interesting theoretical exercise and in the short term could result in a right-leaning law maker or two sent to DC, the fact of the matter is that the mental illness that pervades California politics and voters is probably too far gone to produce any real change.

Anyone doubting it, just take a look at Minnesota and how red they voted after St. George of Fentanyl and the following months of riots and looting and burning.

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The Contrarian has a deeper look at the 007 Pilot Program allowing felony gun charges to be approved by the Watch Operations Lieutenant, bypassing Felony Review. This is going to have to be studied over the long term to see if any impact can be made on what is wisely recognized as the second crappiest neighborhood in Chicago after the Austin/North Lawdale area.

More Springfield BS

Washington Gun Law covers another crooked Illinois effort to further restrict gun rights and it follows the same pattern as a few other f@#$ed up legislative actions:

This is another one of those instances (like the "Protect Illinois Communities Act) where a bill about something else (for PICA, it was insurance regulations....for this it's fire hydrants) goes through committee, and in the dead of night, all language is stripped from the bill leaving a shell in name only, which is then filled with anti-gun legislation and passed out of committee without public input or debate. 

Lawmakers then pass the "insurance" or "hydrant" bill overnight or over the weekend in the lame-duck session and ::poof!:: your Constitutional Rights disappear. The gerrymandered dem super-majority then doesn't have to answer to anyone, ever.

Washington Gun Law explains it far better than we do, so go watch the nine-minute video.

DEI Hire Moved

fbi Agent Nosering, who said New Orleans wasn't a terror attack, despite the mayor and others saying it was just thirty seconds before, further degrading the diminishing reputation of the feebs, has been reassigned.

Hopefully, after Monday, she's further reassigned to Alaska or something.

Federal Indictments Coming?

That federal lawsuit against Dart and the sheriff's office might be getting legs. Here's a little deeper dive into the brewing scandal over at the Cook County Record site:

• Sheriff's Office staff were allegedly "committing theft of" Covid relief funds;

  - "Three months of schedules had been falsified" for members of an "emergency response team" to receive hazard pay through the Federal Cares Act;

  - Sheriff's Office employees' "personal dogs" were being trained "with Cook County Sheriff's Office staff and County resources;" 

  - A Sheriff's Office executive "had an electronic signature for (Dart) that could be used to forge his signature on any documents," allegedly including payroll records;

  - "... Employees doing political work for (Dart's) re-election campaign in 2022," including time-off requests allegedly approved after the fact and cell phone and computer records showing county devices and paid time were used to work on Dart's campaign;

  - Executives within the Sheriff's Office were allegedly "manipulating job postings" and taking other actions to ensure their relatives and friends were hired for certain positions within the Sheriff's Office, among other allegations.

We can't post the entire lawsuit - it's over fifty pages - but there are a couple free sites that will allow you to download it if you register an email address with them. Here's one of them. There might be more if you search for Case Number 24 CV 13320.

As the plaintiff brought progress reports to Crimesha's office (who expressed no interest in rocking the Prickwrinkle boat that employed her and Dart) this scandal might spread farther than intended, especially if the new Administration wants to shake up things.

Beep Beep!! BEEEEEEP!!

"Why is this a$$hole parked in the middle of the street???"

• For more than two hours, a gunshot victim sat dead or dying inside an SUV on a Gage Park street Tuesday evening. His body was only discovered after a resident called 911 to complain because the vehicle had been running, double-parked, and occupied for so long.

  Nobody called 911 to report gunshots in the area or another nearby police district, according to dispatch records. Had Mayor Brandon Johnson not disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network in September, the gunfire detection system would have been active on the block, and first responders could have learned about the shooting without waiting for someone to complain about the victim’s double-parked car.

For more than two-and-one-half hours.

According to CWB blog, this is the 27th dead or maimed gunshot victim that wasn't discovered or reported since Conehead decided the wrong gunshot detection system was being utilized.

Welcome to Indiana!

At least that's the hope:

• The Indiana House Republican Caucus announced its intent on Tuesday to redraw state lines and welcome dozens of Illinois counties that want to secede from their state.

  ”To all of our neighbors to the west, we hear your frustrations,” Indiana Speaker Todd Huston said.

  According to Speaker Huston, more than 30 Illinois counties have voted to secede from the Prairie State since 2020, with many expressing frustrations with high taxes.

  ”Instead of seceding and creating a 51st state, they should just join us,” Speaker Huston said.

  If HB 1008 passes, the Indiana General Assembly would create an “Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission” tasked with helping those Illinois counties become part of the Hoosier State.

Unfortunately, it will probably remain just a hope as we can't really see the Illinois legislature assisting this in any way. Even though it would undoubtedly be a good thing in their eyes to get rid of thirty or more red-voting counties, there's just no way they give up the land to Indiana. 

They might fund buses and U-Hauls to move the citizens out as long as they abandoned their property to resettle illegals.

Nice to be Connected

This was a comment, but it was so extensively footnoted, we felt it needed it's own post. It's about that guy who was caught with the fake bombs:

• The man placed in custody and taken to Area 1 after this incident is called Kameron Younger. Hopefully, this will be the last time the city ignores the many red flags Mr. Kameron Younger has been waving. In March of 2022, hours into his first day at the Chicago Fire Academy, Kameron Younger decided he had enough. Younger related to the Fire Academy administration; he was being targeted by a CFD academy instructor for extra push-ups and squats because he was African American. It should be noted that the instructor who Younger alleged targeted him was also African American. After signing paperwork documenting his intent to quit the Chicago Fire Department, Kameron Younger returned home and sent a text message containing a photo of himself drinking from a bottle of rum chata while holding an AR-15-style assault weapon to his fellow CFD recruits. Younger then told a relative that he had loaded up his car with two bags of guns, ammo, and a ballistic vest. Younger further related to his relative that he was driving to the Chicago Fire Academy to kill CFD recruits and Instructors.

  The relative called 911 and reported that Kameron Younger intended to and had taken several substantial steps to commit a mass shooting at the Chicago Fire academy. CPD responded with a heavy police presence and established a defensive parameter around the CFD academy. The CFD academy class of 115 recruits was locked down in a large interior room for the entire day and had CPD officers stationed right outside the room. Kameron Younger’s vehicle was spotted, and the PO’s called for backup; an armored swat vehicle responded. Kameron Younger was subsequently taken into custody by SWAT without incident. During the traffic stop, he sent another text to his CFD classmates before Younger was ordered to exit his vehicle. This time, he texted a photo of a pistol in his vehicle's cup holder and a picture of an armored swat vehicle 50 feet behind his car.

  Younger was never formally charged with any criminal offenses. Even though Younger 1) expressed his intent to commit a mass shooting to a relative and his CFD classmates. 2) took several substantial steps in furtherance of completing the mass shooting. 3) Was detained by Swat a few minutes south of the Fire Academy, heavily armed with enough ammunition and body armor to give CPD a run for their money.

  However, this wasn’t the first time CFD employees had threatened to shoot up the Fire academy, and their threats fell on deaf ears. In 2013, CFD recruit Juan Lopez was terminated from CFD and threatened to return to the academy to carry out a mass shooting that targeted his fellow classmates and CFD academy instructors. The city viewed Juan Lopez's threats as empty and meritless. On November 19th, 2018, Juan Lopez carried out a mass shooting at Mercy Hospital, where he Murdered P.O Samuel Jimenez and two other hospital employees.

  Two former city officials used their heavy political clout to ensure Kameron Younger was never charged with the attempted crime. The former city officials also got Kameron Younger a job as an instructor/ bartender at the Black Fire Brigade. Further flexing their clout, these former city officials pulled off the impossible and got Kameron Younger a Job with the City of Chicago Department of Public Health - Crisis Assistance and Response Team as an EMT. Shortly after being hired by the Chicago Department of Public Health, Mayor Brandon Johnson shared a photo of Kameron Younger on his Facebook page. The image is of Younger dressed in his black fire brigade uniform and holding a fire hose at a CTU back-to-school event.

  Sources: Google search- Kameron Younger, the first linked story is the second search result.

  https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/police-stop-fired-cfd-candidate-who-threatened-to-shoot-up-academy/

  https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/bomb-squad-responds-after-contractors-spot-real-looking-gun-and-explosives/

  https://x.com/ChicagoContrar1/status/1878975904950681994

Seems like all of the warning signs are there, and have been for quite a while. So what's being done about it? Besides getting him connected jobs, not unlike the naked crack whore who tried to kill an Officer with his own squad car.

Voter Fraud Footage?

Cameras are so ubiquitous nowadays that people forget that they're there.

Like this vote counter in California. Seems she forgot and ran the same pile of ballots through the counting machine THREE times, all on video:

• Link Here
  

One has to wonder how much closer elections might be if all the fraud was eliminated, even though democrats tell us it never happens.

More Millions Gone

Remember during COVID how Chicago Public Schools bought crap-tacular chrome books for every student to "learn" remotely? Tens of millions on sub-par computers with network connections that were worse than anything in existence at the time. They even had tracking software installed at tremendous expense, but refused to activate it when thousands (tens of thousands?) of devices were reported "lost."

The computers have started turning up:

• Thousands of electronic devices belonging to the Chicago Public Schools ended up overseas after being lost and stolen, according to a new report from the CPS Office of the Inspector General.

  At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when kids were learning from home, lost and stolen device numbers skyrocketed. But nearly five years later, lost and stolen electronic devices remain an issue that is costing CPS a lot of money when the school district is facing major budget issues.

  Altogether, tens of thousands of laptops, iPads, and cellphone hot spots were lost or stolen during the 2023-2024 school year.

  Thousands of those devices—bought and paid for with Chicagoans' tax dollars—have ended up in other countries.

  A total of 8,346 devices were detected outside of Illinois. A majority of them ended up overseas in 140 countries—including Azerbaijan, Barbados, China, Ethiopia, Jordan and Nicaragua.

No idea how all of these computers ended up in foreign countries without passports. Of course, we could say the same thing a couple years later when tens of thousands of illegals ended up here without passports.

But that seems to be a theme with democrats - support everyone else except Americans with tax dollars. Conehead will just raise taxes again to cover it.

It Was Always Poison

The more time goes on and the more information that becomes available, the "vaccinations" appear to have been a crime against humanity.

So when are we going to hold these politicians - including Groot - responsible for this f#$%ing disastrous policy?

• The largest COVID-19 'vaccine' safety study ever conducted, involving 99 million 'vaccinated' individuals, confirmed that the injections are NOT SAFE. They dramatically increased the risks of:
  
  1. Up to a 610% increased risk of myocarditis following mRNA platform injection.
  2. 378% increased risk of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) following mRNA injection.
  3. 323% increased risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) following viral-vector injection.
  4. 249% increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following viral-vector injection.
   
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38350768/

Trials and prison are the only cure to this particular disease.

Keep Voting

Remember, you can vote ONCE a day, EVERY day. Multiple times a day from multiple devices if you have a home computer, a laptop, even a phone. It's almost like voting!

• State Flag Voting Link

Remember, Illinois is broke and doesn't have the money to waste on this crap. Remind the politicians of that fact.

Another $4 Million Gone

Conehead's new School Board needed a new meeting room for some reason....kind of like Mrs Conehead needed 80K in new furniture for an office she wasn't elected to and uses maybe a couple times a month. So they spent $4 million on redecorating this:

We're pretty sure when our kids were in school, the local school board met in the gymnasium or the cafeteria on a monthly basis. 

No word about why the board couldn't (A) meet where they always met or (B) met at one of hte underutilized schools that are at 10% capacity of less. Plenty of seating and parking at those locations for anyone who wanted to attend.

Great Job Conehead

Just making it worse as he goes along - another downgrade:

• Ratings agency S&P downgraded the city of Chicago’s general obligation debt late Monday, citing structural imbalance in the just-passed 2025 budget, limited options for new revenue down the line, and a lack of willingness among city leadership to cut spending.

  S&P analyst Scott Nees said in a release that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget left a “sizable structural budgetary imbalance that we expect will make balancing the budget in 2026 and outyears more challenging.”

  A downgrade isn’t only a reputational hit; It could also increase the city’s cost to borrow money for long-term projects like Johnson’s $1.25 billion housing and development bond, which is slated to go to market early this year.

The First Rule of Holes is when you're in one, stop digging. But here's Conehead readying a $1.25 billion bond to be sold via connected banks so that his people can get "their share" of the bribes, kickbacks and percentages that always accompany deals like these.

But don't worry - there's still one more step to go before total insolvency:

• The BBB rating means the city has “adequate capacity to meet financial commitments,” according to S&P, but that the agency views the city as more susceptible to “adverse economic conditions.”

  BBB is a step above the lowest investment-grade, BBB-, which is still a notch above junk.

That just means selling the last few items in the cupboard, like O'Hare and Midway, maybe even emptying the museums of artwork and displays.

As Expected

We and many others predicted this after they legalized weed:

• State lawmakers plan to introduce legislation this week that would make Illinois the first state to fully decriminalize sex work.

  Equality Illinois and the Sex Worker Advisory Group, a coalition of Black and Brown current and former sex workers, have spent more than three years advocating for this bill, which aims to reduce threats of violence and create safer conditions for sex workers.

  “For over 20 years, I worked as a sex worker here in the city of Chicago, and for over 20 years lived under the fear and threat of violence,” said Reyna Ortiz, chair of the Sex Worker Advisory Group. “By passing this legislation, we will make Illinois a safer place for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.”

So the political whores will make it easier for the other ::ahem:: sex workers to be licensed, regulated and of course, taxed.

Weed was supposed to save Illinois, except the political whores merely diverted weed money into the general funds and took a not-quite-equal amount out to spend on other pet projects instead of actually paying down outstanding bills, furthering the deficit and debt that taxpayers will be shafted with.

More Fines!

If weed and whores won't save Chicago, Illinois (see above posts), along with Conehead borrowing another billion dollars for "housing" in a shrinking city, then fines are going to be increased:

• No vote is a sure thing in a City Council that stared down Mayor Brandon Johnson during the marathon budget stalemate. Wednesday’s meeting could feature more of the same.

  Stalled proposals to reduce the default speed limit on Chicago streets to 25 mph and restore exceptions to the city’s Welcoming City ordinance face potentially close votes after parliamentary maneuvers to revive both.

The usual aldercreatures are on the usual sides of the fence:

• The Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety approved it, 8 to 5, over objections from Black and Hispanic alderpersons fearing the lower speed limit could cause an avalanche of speeding tickets and provide a pretext for traffic stops targeting minority motorists.

  [...] During a hearing Tuesday on the Chicago Department of Transportation’s 2023 crash report, Carney acknowledged Chicago’s “traffic-calming” investments in pedestrian refuge islands, raised crosswalks, curb extensions and speed humps is paying off. Traffic fatalities were down 27% “from the 2021 peak,” compared to a 5% drop nationwide, Carney said.

  But, he added, “changing the speed limit has to be part of the overall tool box.”

  Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) estimated the lower speed limit could save the lives of more than 300 Chicagoans over the next decade, and “I can’t put a price on that.”

You don't have to moron - insurance companies do that with the help of actuaries. They'll tell you exactly how much a human life is worth....and unless City of Chicago vehicles are the ones running over those three-hundred pedestrians, we don't see how it's any concern of the government, especially the $3-to-5 million to reprint all the signs city wide.

New ShotSpotter?

This would mean new contracts to new connected people, right?

• As Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration conducts pilot testing on first-responder technologies to replace the ShotSpotter system he discontinued, one skeptical alderman wants to move ahead on a technology tryout he set up himself.

  Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, announced his plans Monday to test a technology that helps police identify and respond to gunshots with tools like acoustic detectors, infrared cameras and even drones. The pilot program would cover half a square mile in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and cost the city nothing, but it can start only with Johnson’s approval, Lopez said.

  “Last time I checked, the mayor said he was open to all pilots and possibilities, so now he will have an opportunity to act on his words,” said Lopez, who often harshly criticizes the mayor.

In the meantime, Conehead's people are testing a different version of ShotSpotter:

• As that process moves forward, the city has already begun piloting new first-responder technology of its own, Gatewood said.  “We have a couple running now, and honestly the plan is to see if there’s interest to run more,” he said. Gatewood declined to share details on what specific technologies are being tested, where the tests are occurring and what the results have shown. One aim is to more directly target high-crime areas, he said.

  The goal for Johnson’s administration is to have a “full-fledged product out on the streets” by this summer, Gatewood said. “We’re not going to rush this process. We’re going to make sure this process is done right,” he said.

  To help prepare for new technology, the city checked its surveillance system in December to see what cameras were blocked by trees, leading to over 300 trimmings, Gatewood said. Johnson’s administration has also hosted gunshot wound care workshops and events targeting high-violence blocks with government resources, he said.

Um...."targeting high-violence blocks." Isn't that what Conehead railed against? ShotSpotter being racist-ly deployed to minority neighborhoods? You know, they ones with near constant gunfire, night and day along with dead bodies laying in alleys for hours on end?

And a "wound care workshop"? Is this an admission that CFD is undermanned, under-equipped and unable to respond to twenty-five-hundred or more shootings per year? Sure seems like it.

Also seems like the entire reason for getting rid of the original ShotSpotter was that Conehead's people weren't the ones getting the contract money.

County Corruption?

A story from nearly two years ago gets new life courtesy of a federal lawsuit:

• A Cook County Sheriff’s Office investigator is suing the agency, Sheriff Tom Dart, and the county, claiming that she was transferred to a less prestigious unit after discovering possible misconduct within the sheriff’s office, including ghost payrolling and misuse of resources. Sgt. Nicole Pagani alleges sex discrimination, retaliation, and violation of the state Whistleblower Act.

  In a federal complaint, Pagani says she spent a decade as a senior investigator working on internal affairs cases in the sheriff’s “Criminal and Confidential Unit,” known as Squad 4. Her lawsuit says she received top secret FBI clearance and joined a federal task force, which brought perks like an FBI take-home car and up to 778 hours of overtime per year as she investigated “cases deemed confidential in nature involving high-ranking members” of the office and sworn officers.

  But Pagani claims that all ended a year ago when her boss retaliated by angrily “demoting” her to Squad 3, transferring her to a new office, and ending her federal collaborations. Pagani seeks compensation in excess of $2 million and reinstatement to Squad 4 and the federal task force, including all associated benefits.

We're just shocked (not) that it took how many years of investigation to discover ghost payrolling and illegal secondary employment at County. The entire organization is riddled with political hacks, payoffs, crooked contracting and over-salaried hiring to people related to the media so Dart gets good coverage in case he aspires to higher office.

Phantom Calls to 911?

A reader sent us an e-mail:

• Is it true that old landlines are degrading and generating phantom 911 calls, resulting in needless visits by PO's? Reason I ask is, after months of problems with my landline, yesterday we had a very concerned police officer pounding on our door, asking if we were ok. And no, we had NOT placed a 911 call. In fact, there was no dial tone on that line so we couldn't have made that call, or any call, from that line.
  
  
  
  Officer asked if we had landlines and seemed relieved all was well. We were mortified and apologized for the problem. Later that day we got a call on another line, different number, from 911 saying this glitch had continued to make calls to 911.
  
  
  
  My phone service problems are annoying, but it is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE for this issue to add to the burden of 911 and the PO's who respond to these calls. Is there anything that can be/is being done about this?

The reason we even bring it up is that on Sunday, the fbi director had this to say:

• Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during an interview on Sunday, a week before he steps down, that China has penetrated America’s water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying “in wait” for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing.

  Asked on CBS’s 60 Minutes about Chinese penetration of U.S. cyber and infrastructure, Wray said China’s cyber program is the largest in the world and has stolen more of Americans’ personal and corporate data than every nation combined.

Gee, isn't anti-terrorism and anti-espionage stuff part of the fbi responsibility? 

While the fbi was busy investigating School Board meetings, abortion protestors daring to pray, fans of the traditional Latin Mass, and senior citizens who were in Washington DC last inauguration, Red China was making inroads into unprotected computer systems AND THE fbi WAS 100% AWARE OF IT and is dumping the news on the eve of a new administration.

Just when you think the fbi couldn't sink any lower, they bring in a shovel and start digging a new basement. Disband these fools.

Next Media "Narrative"

With a new administration on the way next week, be prepared for all sorts of new narratives being pushed by the media in an effort to hamstring policies and directives.

The first big one?

• "family separation"

This one is going to be pushed heavily, especially as deportation efforts kick into high gear. Gotta tug at those heartstrings and guilt Americans into subverting the Rule of Law.

If someone committed any felony whatsoever, he'd be separated from his family via prison, correct? No one would blink an eye.

So if an illegal alien violated national law by improperly coming over the border, he'd be separated via deportation. No difference as far as we're concerned.

Keep this in mind. There will be plenty more as the media sucks the Deep State genitalia.

So...What's This?

 A lot of effort for a fake result:

• A man is in custody after a maintenance worker allegedly found a rifle, several IDs, and what appeared to be bomb-making materials inside his Near South Side apartment on Monday morning. The Chicago Police Bomb Squad joined the response and determined the scene was safe.

  Shortly before 11 a.m., a man doing heating and air conditioning maintenance in a building in the 500 block of East 33rd Place called 911 to report suspicious objects inside an apartment. Responding officers were told the man found “several different IDs…laying around” along with a rifle, explosive devices, and chemicals.

Fake IDs hints at terrorism. Chemicals, same thing. Fake explosives:

We used to assume stuff like this was built to gauge the police and/or fed response to incidents. Lord knows we'd be vacating the premises and calling the Bomb guys the minute we saw this.

Stay alert boys and girls.

100% Justified

So you get sent to a call of a "Man with a Knife/Screwdriver." 

The caller says she is being attacked.

The call taker hears the caller telling her attacker, "Put the knife down!"

This is all on the tapes and on the dispatch ticket. You go to the scene, you knock on the door. You're prepared for all Hell to break loose. The door opens, and.....

Gee, the described suspect with a knife, held in what can instantly become an overhead stabbing position or a sideways slashing movement, about what....six feet away?

But Officer - why didn't you go non-lethal, you racist bloodthirsty fiend?

Well....

Gee, looks like a baton - specifically an Asp - on the right margin of the frame. So the Officers were prepared for a non-lethal response....except the offender opened the door, with a knife, within striking distance, and refused to drop said weapon. There isn't a Law in existence that says you have to be stabbed before protecting your life, the life of your partner, or the life of the woman who is recorded saying she was being attacked with a knife. For all they knew, she was wounded or dead inside the apartment.

BANG!

Body cameras can be good things a lot of the time.

UPDATE: Bunch of people saying "radio antenna" but two/three years ago where we were at, they had gotten rid of the Motorolas with the long antenna and we had the digital radio with compact mics. If that's an antenna and it's long enough to interfere with your gun arm, then there's a whole different safety issue someone at FOP ought to address.

A New Truck?

What's all this about a special Board meeting being called and some proposal to get Catanzara a new (another?) 80K vehicle at FOP members' expense? 

While we're all for having adequate transportation for any union official on official union business, there aren't cheaper options available?  Like a leased sedan? Or even a hybrid (gotta be environmentally conscious you know!)

Spending member dues without the members knowing anything (everything) about it is usually a red flag.

Deportation Efforts

Every District had to send someone downtown to pick up this garbage (click for larger version):

These will be/are being distributed to all supervisors in an effort to keep them from assisting ICE with any deportation efforts. While a few of these things are administrative in nature, there are a few others that could run afoul of federal law and oaths of office taken by CPD, not to mention common sense.

If Conehead is going to try to get cops to take his place in the I.C.E. Deportation Train, we would be sure the Officers have appropriate union legal advice on hand....and this bit of information:

• I.C.E. Chicago
• 101 Congress Parkway Ida B Wells Drive Suite #4000
• 312-347-2400

Those guys will give you far better advice that Conehead or Corp Counsel.

Again?

We were hoping we had turned a corner with the holidays in the rear view mirror for this year:

• An off-duty Chicago police detective was found dead Friday afternoon inside his Mount Greenwood home, according to police and sources.

  The 59-year-old was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head about noon inside a home in the 3900 block of West 104th Street, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Years ago, we moved the Police Chaplains website link up to the #2 spot, just under the FOP link in the right hand margin, almost exclusively because they have the full list of EAP links there and we wanted to make it easier to find for those seeking it.

Prayers for the Detective, his family, co-workers and friends.

State Flag Voting

Illinois is beyond broke, pension debt is rapidly approaching $150 Billion (with a B), and politicians want to waste time, effort and a ton of money on a "new" state flag.

Think of every building, every exterior signage, every single sheet of paper with an Illinois flag embossed on it....and imagine replacing it all at tremendous cost.

Here's the link to voting - you can vote ONCE, EVERY SINGLE DAY until sometime in February.

UPDATE: Geez, we just remembered all the IDOC and ISP uniform shoulder patches. First issue?

No Openings....Anywhere

Someone commented:

• I do not know if anyone has noticed. But all of the links to "Apply for Police Officer Job Opportunities" on the City's website are dead links. The City also has no civilian police jobs posted. Does this mean the "hiring freeze" now applies to the CPD? Also, the lateral and rehire links take you in circles.

So we checked the Employment website for the City of Chicago, and guess what?

• No jobs match the specified criteria.

So it looks like that even if you wanted to apply for a job with CPD, there aren't any. After they burn through this already depleted hiring list and recall every single person who failed/declined the job, there's nothing on the horizon. 

Defunding via attrition it seems.