For What It's Worth

A number of trolls and tiny brains continue to accuse our writers of manufacturing the "What J-Fed Says" post. We don't stoop so low as "sock puppetry" to provoke debate. There are plenty of rumors and more than enough conspiracy theories in this Department to make a fringe militia group proud.

We reached out to a reader/contributor of ours, a very high-ranking person, who has never been anything but honest and forthright with us. A person who has the respect of a bunch of people here and all over this Department. And we asked if he thought the "What J-Fed Says" post was mostly BS. His reply? The post was "fairly accurate" and he had received confirmation from his own people as to the content and character of the tirade.

Believe what you want, but we try to keep at least most of what we post in the realm of reality. We have stated time and again that this is a minimally monitored site and we cannot, nor do we intend to, prove that each and every visitor, reader and commentator is a Chicago cop.

• Are there media types reading and questioning? Absolutely - we could be credited with writing a sizable percentage of the Sun Times articles on any given day.
  
• Are there civilian trolls here baiting coppers with bullshit and other provocateurs looking to rile up the masses? Constantly.
  
• Are there bosses checking in to see what people are saying, stealing ideas, attempting to discover identities so as to sabotage careers or even attempting to re-write history to make their legacies look better? Definitely.

We aren't going to say there aren't agendas being exploited here or axes aren't being sharpened - people throw rumors out constantly to see what happens. But we don't need to make shit up - we make no promises about whether others stretch the truth. Someone said it best in a previous comment section - all this proves is that we're never going to run out of material. And that, ladies and gentlemen, terrifies downtown more than anything.