Mope-rah Again?

Sources say Mope-rah has a front page article in the Sunday Sun Times about some incident or another involving 14 police officers and an allegedly illegal search of some poor altar boy's home. According to the source, she addresses the article to J-Fed.

Without even reading the article, let's just say that 14 cops aren't going to show up at someones house, even if there are free donuts involved. If 14 cops show up anywhere, it's because someone somewhere has screwed up. And not one of those "little" screw ups. It's got to be a big screw up to get 14 cops anywhere.

Anyway, we're going to leave this posting up top until we can get a look at Mope-rah's article on line later this morning as we refuse to spend a dime on either one of the local papers.

UPDATE: We're still not linking to Mope-rah. We'll link to Sun Times articles just to save you the trouble of giving them more page hits than are absolutely necessary, but we aren't linking to the hack.

Well, where to start? We have one single side of the story. And Mope-rah has convicted everybody. The most telling line of the article?

• Jordan suspects that her 14-year-old son had been targeted by one of the Hispanic officers who had once confronted him in a mix-up over a bike. She now worries that her two sons -- one a 19-year-old college student -- will be harassed by police.

That line alone tells us this kid has a record of dealing with the police. "Mix up" is a cute way of saying the kid stole the bike, got caught, and to spare his mother the hassle of actually having to come down to the station and pick up her kid (not to mention the "hassle" to the coppers of actually having to lock up her kid), an "arrangement" was arrived at - namely "no-harm-no-foul." And now, months later, a completely separate investigation of a shooting where something might have happened is blown completely out of proportion by someone with an agenda and a media hack. But of course, IPRA's failures as an investigatory body are the failures of the Police Department (even though IPRA is now "independent").

It's not really amazing that all white and hispanic officers are found guilty by Mope-rah and her ilk without an investigation of any sort while she completely ignores four black officers in Englewood who got something like 80 years between them all. Or spends weeks defending the murderer of a successful black woman while lamenting the fact that Drew Peterson is walking around free because of a little missing thing called evidence. Evidence only matters if it gets in the way of Mope-rah's fairy tale.

What should be truly revealing to readers of the article is that Mope-rah can never seem to find a "victim" who doesn't have a record of run-ins with the police. Seems like the Slum Times laid off the wrong members of the Editorial Board. Keep canceling those subscriptions.