Monday, June 20, 2011

Guess What?

  • Police shot a man and three officers suffered minor injuries Sunday near Father’s Day celebrations at a South Side park, officials said.

    The man was critically wounded after he allegedly shot at police in the Grand Crossing Park at 76th and Ingleside, police said. The officers, who were not shot, were taken to a local hospital in good condition, fire officials said. It is unclear how they were injured.

Good witnesses, all saying the gunman was armed, shooting in the air and at the police without regard for anyone before being shot. Three officers were also injured in the ensuing chaos.

But guess what else?

No comments open. Even when the police do good work, have the support of numerous witnesses quoted in the article, and are injured in the performance of their duties, the Tribune Company can't find it in their liberal makeup to open the comment sections to a tiny bit of praise from the citizenry. But you can bet they'll have them open the instant there's even a tiny question about police actions. You can bet the house on it.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep cancelling those Trib subscriptions.

6/20/2011 05:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guess What? Who is the LT. in 014 that's always talking Shit about the Commander and BRAGGING about how she can't go to a meeting without the Lt. by her side to answer questions Because She don't know Shit? Who is this Ass Kissing FOOL?

6/20/2011 05:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off topic: Check out the latest column on the 16 year old attempted robber who was killed by an off-duty officer victim with his own gun. His older brother knew the 16 year old had a gun and was 'gonna go out and rob someone,' and never attempted to stop his kid brother or take the weapon from him. One of the dead robber's friends asks the reporter 'why did the cop have to shoot his friend 5 times?' It's publishing nonsense like this in the newspapers and NOT asking the hard questions of these 'friends & family:'
1) WHY would an older sibling allow a younger one to leave the house with a loaded (or even an unloaded) gun after stating that he/she was 'gonna go rob someone?'
2) WHY does it matter how many times an innocent person fired a gun to protect themselves when confronted by an armed assailant who makes his violent intentions known?1 shot or 5, doesn't matter.
You put yourself in harm's way, you reap what you sow. Period.
It's time for more intelligent reporting from both of the major daily papers here. What I read in that Sun-Times article once again insulted me. I hope all of you feel the same way.

6/20/2011 06:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm just guessing our guys got hurt when they ran TOWARD the gunman at the same time the crowd was stampeding AWAY from him.

(Take a lesson, Jody) Glad our guys are okay.

6/20/2011 06:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Dat Donut said...

The comments were open for about an hour last night SCC, right after they first posted it, but they were closed soon after.

Cannot blame then on closing it because the first 5 comments that I saw, up to around 2300ish, they were beginning to turn into a DSLC type of theme (racist).

However, there were three of the comments who did praise the officers involved, as we all should.

6/20/2011 07:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The liberal Scum Times also ran and editiorial on how Governor Quinn needs to stop allowing the State Police to conduct consent searches. It claimed a racial disparity, surprise surprise.
The Scum Times and Tribune are not afraid to champion leading the way in this piece of shit town as far as handcuffing and stomping on the police and our powers.
The liberal media in this town is getting what they wanted, How's that working for you guys by the way? You should be ashamed of your profession and what you have helped make Chicago.

6/20/2011 07:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't this the park that the Tribune bragged about how the citizens were not going to allow gangbangine last year?

6/20/2011 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They're still operating under the daley news bureau system. Wouldn't want to offend anyone in the "MOPE" lifestyle. They're very sensitive about their public image don't ya know !!!!

Rahm says "all is ok, move on please" !!

6/20/2011 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's a tiny bit of praise from the citizenry---Thank you for doing what you do. When my children and parents are out on the streets my first thought is I hope nothing happens to them and then my second thought is if something does happen they all have cell phones to call the police.

---not a cop

6/20/2011 07:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was the dickhead retired cop calling on the 3100 block of Oketo demanding a Lt. because he didn't want a sgt?

6/20/2011 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery for the Officers.

6/20/2011 07:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seen the same for other articles where the comment section is not open. And seen it open for others where the article IS actually paining a positive light on police. So, I guess it can be skewed either way, depending on your political views of the media.

6/20/2011 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the Tribune, fuck you censoring nazis. You're supposed to report the news without bias. Obviously the many commenters upset your version of how things ought to be.

6/20/2011 08:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

no concience reporting. shame come to that company 10 fold for misrepresentation to the people.

6/20/2011 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Greg said...

Since I have discovered this site I will no longer depend on the Trib for any crime news. It's too bad for the policemen and women that have to deal with this sub-human garbage on a daily basis. The Trib acts like if they limit comments on these stories they will go away! This is a war and it should be reported like that! This gang bullshit has gone on for decades but Daley has turned a deaf ear to it. Just let the gangs deal drugs and kill each other, as long as it's "In da hood" its OK but now it's spreading to down town it makes Chicago look worse than in the 20s. I commend the police but the real criminals are the corrupt judges that keep letting this trash back on the streets. Everytime one of these misfits goes to the morgue it's one less we have to worry about and after many arrests some of this scum actualy ends up in the prison system to be fed and taken care of for the rest of their lives at huge expense to the tax payers, Maybe after "Big Ears" brings some of our National Guard home from his latest illeagal war he might send them to Chicago with shoot to kill orders and "take out the trash" Ad oh yes where is the "Master of the Shake down??"
Jesse Jackson and the rest of the "Blame whitey first" crowd???

Clint Eastwood said "There's nothing wrong with a little shooting...As long as the right people get shot" Be safe Men and Women of the CPD..

6/20/2011 08:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the course of 50 years I have been to plenty of fathers day event, but NEVER have I been to one that same asswipes shooting a gun in the air with kids around, let alone turning it on the police when they get there. Bur I guess in some area that is very normal for people to do. The good things are none of the police or citizens were seriously hurt & the gunman was caught. The bad thing is this asshat is still steeling air & some liberal lawwyer with the help of the crook county justice system will prevent him from being properly put away for a very long time.

6/20/2011 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Sup is trying to get his own reality show after his co-star appearance in the documentary "BRICK CITY". He's caught the acting bug. Check out how the critic descibe the show.

Description

Newark: the hardest, most ghetto city in America, possibly the world. If you think your city is ghetto, come here and prepare to be blown away. -UrbanDictionary.com

Brick City is a provocative and eye-opening documentary series that fans out around the city of Newark, New Jersey to capture the daily drama of a community striving to become a better, safer, stronger place to live.

Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory Booker, fight to raise the city out of a half century of violence, poverty and corruption. Booker, an outspoken and charismatic mayor who many compare to Barack Obama, works with Police Director Garry McCarthy, youth mentors, Blood and Crip gang members and other citizens on the front line to bring peace and prosperity to their once-proud city.

Bringing to life the true challenges and adventures of social transformation and urban renewal, Brick City goes from City Hall to the street to create a vivid portrait of a city at a critical moment in history.



http://www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/video/

6/20/2011 09:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another reason i cancelled the fibune,the only thing good in it is JOHN KASS otherwise it sucks. I read Kass online free fuck paying for that rag,they changed the paper totally but they will go under soon watch!

6/20/2011 10:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great job CPD happy they are all safe! The savages are really out of control,on another note will mcnoclue dump the extremely incompetent exempt idiots? We are so top heavy with clueless morons another reason BOSS all I will do is answer my calls,write paper back up coppers and help their families otherwise get gas-2 personals-lunch-paper-coffee. Another thing no complaints no crime no arrest. Sorry want me pension and freedom!

6/20/2011 10:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There was one comment that was supportive of the police when the article first went up. Awhile later it was gone and comments disabled.

6/20/2011 10:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Effed up ain't it!

6/20/2011 10:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a shame, people are trying ot celebrate good fathers and an idiot ruins it for all. Good job police.

6/20/2011 11:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The comment section is opened up on the Sun Times page for this story.

6/20/2011 11:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT --

JACKASS KILLED IN WRECK

"Ryan Dunn, star of the reality show "Jackass," has died in a car accident in Pennsylvania...

"Sources say [Dunn]was one of two people killed in a single car crash in Chester County early Monday morning.

"...the 2007 Porsche Dunn was driving crashed into a wooded area off the road and burst into flames. Both Dunn and his unidentified passenger died as a result of injuries they sustained in the crash. Police believe speed may have played a role in the accident..."

What epitaph can there be but --

Jackass.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localphi/20110620/ts_yblog_localphi/actor-ryan-dunn-of-jackass-killed-in-car-accident-in-chester-county

6/20/2011 12:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT --

You know there's a depression when planted stories like this start appearing consistently, two or three a week on Yahoo alone. "Discarded painting auctioned for millions," "Man finds thousands in attic of house he bought," "Vast medieval treasure dug up in backyard," etc. It's flagpole-sitting, marathon-dancing kind of stuff.

Like the carny or the flea-market guy who keeps riffling through his wad right in front of you, it's hypnosis - a distraction while they go through your pockets, as it were.

Psychologists would say they're encouraging "magical thinking," en masse -- as more and more houses are boarded up and more and more banks are constructed on every corner.

Private eye tells homeless man of inheritance

– Sat Jun 18, 8:33 pm ET

"SALT LAKE CITY – A private investigator says he has tracked down a homeless Utah man and delivered some good news: He's inherited a lot of money.

"David Lundberg said he found Max Melitzer pushing a shopping cart filled with personal possessions in a Salt Lake City park Saturday afternoon.

"Lundberg declined to disclose how much money Melitzer will be receiving, but said the man's brother who died of cancer last year left him a "significant" amount in his will.

"Lundberg said he was hired by the family's New York law firm to locate Melitzer, and some family members plan to meet Melitzer next week in Salt Lake City..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110619/ap_on_re_us/us_homeless_man_rich


P.S. This moment I saw an AARP ad on TV, "Protect Seniors, Save Our Benefits" -- as though AARP hadn't just declared itself open to the idea of cutting Social Security benefits...

6/20/2011 12:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's not that the Tribune is liberal, it's that they are anti-police. They can't bring themselves to support the police in the form of the crap they write about, and they want to reduce our pay and benefits and take away our pensions.

6/20/2011 12:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

. . . don't forget the complete arrogance of their editorial board which decided Chicagoans are too unsophisticated to handle a dialogue about race

6/20/2011 12:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ol boy just found out on fathers day... "You are NOT the father"... so he decided to pull out that pistol and take a few celebratory pops into the air... big mistake.

6/20/2011 12:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...the Tribune Company can't find it in their liberal makeup to open the comment sections..."

Who cares? This comment section is open.

Someone isn't getting all of the brave talk about "taking responsibility" and "being a man" and "being a father."

Fool opens up in all directions at a Father's Day celebration, for the love of God.

What can you say?

As I write, Channel 9 News is showing what has become the eternal, unchanging story about "ministers needing funding to provide 'safe havens' for children all year around, not just the summer."

What about the family?

This ain't no family, it's just a crowd.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

In one shooting story, the fourteen-year-old perpetrator's "pastor" came forth to speak to the TV cameras.

How the hell can a child have a "pastor" but not a father?

It's true. The revs run it. Game, set, match.

As people realize the hopelessness of ever rebuilding a normal family structure, anyone can hear the shift in emphasis from "fatherhood" to "mentoring" by external third parties.

This will "grow" further profitable NGOs which will then bill the taxpayers for "developmental services," erect office towers for themselves, hold conventions and banquets.

"National Association of Mentoring Directors Annual Conference Kansas City 2012 -- Together We Can!"

Souvenir coffee mugs, keychains, motivational calendars, etc. ["Made In China," every bit of it -- look on the bottom] given out at the end...

...while the shooting continues in the park.

Sup witchoo? We wildin', Joe!

6/20/2011 12:57:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just shagged a trib reporter from homan and monroe he was chatting up the young boys i knew he was up to no good by his cut off shorts..Lost in Filmore ..On the streets again!!

6/20/2011 12:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT --

It's not you. The world really has gone completely crazy. Been that way for some time now.

Black hole shreds star, sparking gamma ray flash

By Deborah Zabarenko – Mon Jun 20, 7:31 am ET

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A monster black hole shredded a Sun-like star, producing a strangely long-lasting flash of gamma rays that probably won't be seen again in a million years, astronomers reported on Thursday.

"That is definitely not the norm for gamma ray bursts, energetic blasts that typically flare up and end in a matter of seconds or milliseconds, often the sign of the death throes of a collapsing star..."

Immediate result --

Thousands in Portland take to bikes for naked ride

By Dan Cook – Sun Jun 19, 1:57 am ET

"PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) – It was a typical early summer evening in Portland: cloudy skies threatening rain, temperatures in the mid-60s, and thousands of naked bicyclists gathered near the city's waterfront for a clothing-free night ride..."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110620/sc_nm/us_space_blackhole

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110619/lf_nm_life/us_naked_bikes

6/20/2011 01:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SSC, not that you don't have enuff stuff to do anyway but in cases like this..maybe you can send out a little "alert" so everyone with an online account or even with email can flood their message boards and inboxes at the Trib or wherever b/c that is crap.

6/20/2011 01:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Selectively editing the public discourse is the new 'news'

I saw some of the comments on the Suntimes page:

"The cops just seem to be gunning everyone down. This has got to stop."

and

"GUN CONTROL WOULD PUT AN END TO THESE SHOOTINGS.

THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY GUNS OUT THERE!

GUN CONTROL NOW!
THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT!!"

and

"These cops should be fired! They are taught to shoot to kill. Get your a##es back to the gun range and don't let another dirtbag escape in critical condition again."

Thankfully those idiotic remarks had negative votes against them as well as replies to see the information correct on gun control and police action.

Why would the Trib NOT want such helpful remarks on their comment section too? If it is user generated that would save them the time of having to type it out themselves after all.

There are also comments on the Suntimes thread saying the cops were right and the nutty gunman who was busting caps on father's day was an animal and a loon.

Maybe it is easier for the Trib to block all comments then have readers sort out what is discussed and make up their own minds?

6/20/2011 03:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attended Polish Fest over the weekend, 300,000 in attendance, two stages with 30 bands, and NOT one arrest, Go Figure...

6/20/2011 04:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

to the tac/gang guy in cd that can be seen on the news at the shooting wearing a red baseball hat with white brim and black tee shirt with a white verticle stripe on the sleeve please stop wearing your hat backwards when working. You look like a tool and not to mention completly unprofessional. Do you think you are "blending in" because you are wearing your hat backwards? I also wear my baseball hat backwards too when not working, but never when working. Look the part please, turn it around when you are working and especially when you are in the public eye and on camera for everyone to see... you dont look cool, you just look like another frat kid from the suburbs who got a job being "the real police".

6/20/2011 04:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT--

WBBM Radio reporting that the CTA is going to be "saturated with 3000 cameras" -- or was it 30,000?

300,000?

No matter. They claim that "this will give a 98% probability of catching any incident that occurs."

Not quite the same as "catching the offenders" -- but, then, you can't have everything.

Right?

6/20/2011 04:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is it with the media and the blanket condemnation of all things Police ?

6/20/2011 04:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep cancelling those Trib subscriptions.

6/20/2011 05:12:00 AM

Coppers need to quit buying them too!

Internet at the station is free. Get it off of the web!

6/20/2011 04:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't waste a nickel on any Trib garbage!

Da Pelon

6/20/2011 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

GET INVOLVED IN THIS RIGHT NOW!!

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chi-quinn-defends-push-to-limit-unionizing-of-state-workers-20110620,0,5636379.story


The bills were already sent downstate in silent fashion in an attempt to cripple the bargaining process already.

This is the last straw put forth by Quinn himself.

READ THIS LEGISLATION!!

THIS IS QUINN'S ATTEMPT TO LIMIT AND DESTROY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROTECTION AGAINST STATE/MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES!!

Start minding this issue DAILY!

Be prepared to undertake a MASSIVE rally against Quinn and keep the dates open to ensure you attend.

This is THE LAST FIGHT you will ever be able to endure against the collective efforts to steal what you've obtained through decades of bargaining.

What happens in the next 2 years will set the entire work standard for generations to come!

MAKE SURE THE LAWS PERMANENTLY SEAL THE STATE AND CITY'S ABILITY TO DESTROY YOUR PROTECTIONS!!!

6/20/2011 05:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The death knell has sounded for both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

It's not just the ascension of the Internet and the misleading, even deceitful "politically correct" skewing of facts by left-wing editors.

Check out the new book by former Tribune and Los Angeles Times Editor James O'Shea:
"THE DEAL FROM HELL: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers"

6/20/2011 05:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Against great odds, Newark’s citizens and its Mayor, Cory Booker, fight to raise the city out of a half century of violence, poverty and corruption. Booker, an outspoken and charismatic mayor who many compare to Barack Obama, works with Police Director Garry McCarthy, youth mentors, Blood and Crip gang members and other citizens on the front line to bring peace and prosperity to their once-proud city."

--6/20/2011 09:53:00 AM

At first glance I thought this was satire.

They're serious.

Holy God.

The Crips and Bloods are "citizens on the front line?"

*

The people who talk this talk have two legs and two arms and a head -- just like you and me.

Deceptive, isn't it?

6/20/2011 05:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Kim Janssen said...

Re: 6/20/2011 06:31:00 AM

Rush to shoot the messenger much?

1. I did ask him why. His reply is in the story. He said he didn't think his kid brother would go through with it. Don't blame me or the Sun-Times if you don't like his answer!

2. His family think it matters because they loved him and they want to know if he could have been saved. You don't think it matters because "you reap what you sow." I'm staying out of it — I just report the facts. The facts include what his family feels about it.

3. If the clown-cop himself or any of his buddies are reading, I'd love to tell his side of the story.

kjanssen@suntimes.com

6/20/2011 06:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Who was the dickhead retired cop calling on the 3100 block of Oketo demanding a Lt. because he didn't want a sgt?

6/20/2011 07:53:00 AM

...................................

He must know that lieutenant's don't do a damn thing.....

6/20/2011 06:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT - Read this article from Chicago Magazine that talks about the 1993 unsolved murder of Tricia Pacaccio in Glenview.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2011/Did-Alleged-Hollywood-Ripper-Michael-Gargiulo-Kill-Tricia-Pacaccio/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc

Its a long article but the article talks about how in 2003 then SA chief of special prosecutions, Scott Cassidy refused to charge alleged serial killer Michael Gargiulo even with DNA evidence. LAPD Detectives even said it was bull shit the SA let this go walk in 2003. The POS ended killing two more women after SA let him walk.

Read the story and you will agree it un-fucking-believable!

6/20/2011 06:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

". . . don't forget the complete arrogance of their editorial board which decided Chicagoans are too unsophisticated to handle a dialogue about race"

--6/20/2011 12:53:00 PM

Unsophisticated?

Why, Attorney General Eric Holder says we're outright cowards.

...as they proscribe even a hint of such dialogue, and do their damnedest to simply hide the race of offenders, and to jigger the crime statistics into incomprehensibility with government-invented categories like "Hispanic..."

"Arrogant" isn't the word. "Insane" is closer.

Holder is like the guy standing in front of your busted window with a rock in his hand, screaming, "LOOK WHAT YOU DID!"

...and everyone s__ts their pants, comes running to placate him...

6/20/2011 06:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Gov. Dufus made a great deal with motorola, they can cut jobs AND still receive the state money Duf gave them for staying.

6/20/2011 06:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Fool opens up in all directions at a Father's Day celebration, for the love of God."

--6/20/2011 12:57:00 PM

Wha Cease Fire at?

6/20/2011 06:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Champaign PD said...

Feder has a blog today in which a new book on Randy Michaels and his rein at the Trib will be on sale. it does not put the trib and sam zell in a good light.

6/20/2011 06:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Blago didnt like the Trib either.
I like the Brick City reference. What does that say about the City of Chicago? We're the new NJ - 75% ghetto...???
All this bs about changing the culture o the inner city thuggery through mediation. Sounds like OB.
Alvarez won't prosecute, Evans won't convict, Dart won't jail the criminals. Jackson wants more hugs, Quinn wants more sanctuary and Holder wants more forgiveness.
Will every 3 years bring a fresh new superintendent and a whole new plan to embrace and tolerate the thug element?
Man entered civil society to protect himself and his property, thus laws were created.
Politicians seemed to forget this simple matter of fact.
The scope of reality has diminished and all too often the law breakers invoke their birth right ignorance clause.
What are they teaching kids in school today, and so, how many School Superintendents will we go through before someone figures it out.

6/20/2011 07:26:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attended Polish Fest over the weekend, 300,000 in attendance, two stages with 30 bands, and NOT one arrest, Go Figure...

6/20/2011 04:01:00 PM

Can someone smarter than I help me figure out what is different between this event and say Bud Biliken or PR fest?

6/20/2011 07:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

comment section now open

6/20/2011 07:48:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thats why i got my father and uncle to cancel the subscription

6/20/2011 08:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was the dickhead retired cop calling on the 3100 block of Oketo demanding a Lt. because he didn't want a sgt?

6/20/2011 07:53:00 AM

Hey! That's Captain Dickhead to you, soldier! Ten-hut!

But, why be pissed at him? He knows the sergeant rank has been reduced to eunuch status within the CPD.

6/20/2011 08:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

question did all the wilding attacks in Chicago suddenly stop, are the trains buses and the beach safe again or did Tiny Dancer pull a Daley and told the media to cut the shit? need to know seems all the attacks just stopped thanks

6/20/2011 08:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Guess What? Who is the LT. in 014 that's always talking Shit about the Commander and BRAGGING about how she can't go to a meeting without the Lt. by her side to answer questions Because She don't know Shit? Who is this Ass Kissing FOOL?

6/20/2011 05:59:00 AM

Well, obviously you know the answer, so what's the problem with spilling it?

6/20/2011 09:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I was pottytraining my puppy, I thought she was constipated. Then I started putting the Tribune down for her to use.

Problem solved.

6/20/2011 09:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was the dickhead retired cop calling on the 3100 block of Oketo demanding a Lt. because he didn't want a sgt?

6/20/2011 07:53:00 AM

What's the matter, Sarge? Hurt your feelings?

6/20/2011 09:13:00 PM  
Anonymous 016 Days said...

The credo of the Chicago news media: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

'Nuff said.

6/20/2011 09:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bringing to life the true challenges and adventures of social transformation and urban renewal, Brick City goes from City Hall to the street to create a vivid portrait of a city at a critical moment in history.



http://www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/video/

6/20/2011 09:53:00 AM

So, basically, McCathy BAILED on Newark, rather than show some dedication and finish the effort?

6/20/2011 09:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

heard some very disturbing accounts of what happened between on duty police. I hope its not true, ill wait till i read more comments to see if anything comes up

6/20/2011 09:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep cancelling those Trib subscriptions.

6/20/2011 05:12:00 AM

Coppers need to quit buying them too!

Internet at the station is free. Get it off of the web!

6/20/2011 04:52:00 PM

Keep bragging how you 'get it for free' and it will disappear entirely. Ours are among the last few papers that don't charge for online content. Obviously, you value Kass, or a few columns or items, so shut up about getting it free. You are STILL USING THE PRODUCT.
A true boycott means you completely divorce yourself from the product.

6/20/2011 09:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: watch very minor parking infractions in 22 in Beverly and MG. Midnight officers are writing parkers on off duty officer's cars. Also issuing tickets for block party tent violations even if you have a permit. They are assigned to 30 sector and target violations west of Western only.

6/20/2011 09:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad all officers are ok. Think the bigger picture here is off duty getting involved when their disrespectful family were in the face of police responding to a 10-1.

6/20/2011 10:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Off topic: Check out the latest column on the 16 year old attempted robber who was killed by an off-duty officer victim with his own gun. His older brother knew the 16 year old had a gun and was 'gonna go out and rob someone,' and never attempted to stop his kid brother or take the weapon from him. One of the dead robber's friends asks the reporter 'why did the cop have to shoot his friend 5 times?' It's publishing nonsense like this in the newspapers and NOT asking the hard questions of these 'friends & family:'
1) WHY would an older sibling allow a younger one to leave the house with a loaded (or even an unloaded) gun after stating that he/she was 'gonna go rob someone?'
2) WHY does it matter how many times an innocent person fired a gun to protect themselves when confronted by an armed assailant who makes his violent intentions known?1 shot or 5, doesn't matter.
You put yourself in harm's way, you reap what you sow. Period.
It's time for more intelligent reporting from both of the major daily papers here. What I read in that Sun-Times article once again insulted me. I hope all of you feel the same way.

6/20/2011 06:31:00 AM


---Same here...And the mother stated, "I'm not denying that he attempted to rob somebody, BUT WE didn't know that side of him...he never showed us that side." SHUTUP ALREADY....he had a loaded gun but the family all states he wasn't going to actually 'use' it. How can they say that when, THEY did NOT know that 'side' of him?
UNBELIEVABLE

6/20/2011 10:17:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attended Polish Fest over the weekend, 300,000 in attendance, two stages with 30 bands, and NOT one arrest, Go Figure...

If we could get some of these Pols to move into Garfield Park, Washington Park, maybe they could save this city.

6/20/2011 11:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The Tribune Company can't find it in their liberal makeup"

That's a Good One, their Editorial Board would beg to differ...

6/20/2011 11:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

(OT) Farrakhan saying "there is a murderer in the white house obama" got to love this shit for the 1 term barry!
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/video-minister-farrakhanthats-murderer-white-house

6/20/2011 11:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Boycotting the Trib and Suntimes are both great ideas, but we must take it further. We need to boycott the advertisers who spend top dollar to list their goods and services in these rags.

Everyone should drop a letter to the presidents/ CEO of the companies who do business with the Trib and Sun Times and relate to them that you can no longer purchase their products and services advertised in a newspaper that hates the police and supports anarchy in our cities.

6/21/2011 12:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He must know that lieutenant's don't do a damn thing....

Don't blame the Lt. he's just acting like the rest of the dept.

6/21/2011 12:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

kjanssen@suntimes.com

---You really think those people "loved" their little gang-banging thug kid? If they loved him they would have put him up for adoption and not raised him in their gang-banging thug household.

6/21/2011 12:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who was the dickhead retired cop calling on the 3100 block of Oketo demanding a Lt. because he didn't want a sgt?

6/20/2011 07:53:00 AM

What's the matter, Sarge? Hurt your feelings?

Hurt feelings? who cares, it's not like he's gonna get a Lt. to come out; when's the last time a district actually had a Field Lt.? and you better believe the w/c isn't coming out. It gets a code when he refuses to speak to the Sgt.. End of story.

6/21/2011 12:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Attended Polish Fest over the weekend, 300,000 in attendance, two stages with 30 bands, and NOT one arrest, Go Figure...

6/20/2011 04:01:00 PM

Can someone smarter than I help me figure out what is different between this event and say Bud Biliken or PR fest?

6/20/2011 07:47:00 PM

PIEROGI!

6/21/2011 01:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kim Janssen said...
Re: 6/20/2011 06:31:00 AM

Rush to shoot the messenger much?

1. I did ask him why. His reply is in the story. He said he didn't think his kid brother would go through with it. Don't blame me or the Sun-Times if you don't like his answer!

2. His family think it matters because they loved him and they want to know if he could have been saved. You don't think it matters because "you reap what you sow." I'm staying out of it — I just report the facts. The facts include what his family feels about it.

3. If the clown-cop himself or any of his buddies are reading, I'd love to tell his side of the story.

kjanssen@suntimes.com

Go back to Norwich. Is your "journalism" stint at the Sun-Times part of your continuing "American Studies?" You report the facts? A fact like "the youth lept [sic] with the balletic grace of Michael Jordan at his peak"?

Seriously, though, if you think your posting on this blog is the way to cultivate contacts in the police department, then there really is no future for journalism in Chicago and we should continue to import our reporters from old England. By the time you figure out what time it is over here it should be time for you to return home. Pip pip and all that.

6/21/2011 02:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jody Weis Received $76,308 for Unused Vacation When He Resigned

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 21, 2011 12:40AM

http://www.suntimes.com/6068951-417/jody-weis-received-76308-for-unused-vacation-when-he-resigned.html

And Mike Masters, too.

6/21/2011 02:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Apparently not only do we have to watch out for the savages on the streets but now we have to watch out for savages in uniform(cops) too. At the 10-1 shooting on 76th/ingleside, a shitbird punched a 006th district tact guy and when the tact guy tazed and tried to place shitbird in custody a cop in full uniform(black shitbird copper) jumped and punched the 006th district tact guy attempting to stop him from making the arrest. UNFUCKING BELEIVEABLE !!!!!!! One of many fucking coppers put on this job due the race card. This is not bullshit, I got this from someone who saw this happen but because all the shit going on they were unable to get this shitbird coppers name because he ran off.

6/21/2011 03:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OK, No comments there, BUT go to the other lead stories of the day and post what you like. I posted this at the on-line story of. "Blagojevich jury ends 6th day without verdict".

Copied a little of their story and addded and subtracted, cut and pasted and put this out.

"Great work by Chicago Police! A gun-wielding man was critically injured this evening by police after he began shooting at a Father’s Day celebration at a South Side park and then attempted to shoot the officers. The incident occurred at Grand Crossing Park on the 7600 block of South Ingleside Avenue at about 6:30 p.m., officials said. The incident also left three police officers with wounds. Thanks, stay safe and speedy recoveries."

6/21/2011 06:43:00 AM  
Anonymous noone90210 said...

Dear Kim,

Did you "rush" here to defend yourself?

2. His family think it matters because they loved him and they want to know if he could have been saved. ...

Your article states none of the above.

The facts include what his family feels about it.

Unless the family was there, all they can offer is opinions, which aren't facts.

3. If the clown-cop himself or any of his buddies are reading, I'd love to tell his side of the story.

Did you ask the cop clown's employer: "How can I get in contact with cop clown or his buddies?"

6/21/2011 08:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3. If the clown-cop himself or any of his buddies are reading, I'd love to tell his side of the story.

kjanssen@suntimes.com

6/20/2011 06:08:00 PM

I am sure you would love to tell his side of the story. It is SENSATIONAL. How about stories that are not sensational?

The Trib and Times are hemorrhaging readers because you are no longer necessary. Your owners want to shape the world, not report the news.

When you become a newspaper again (won't happen) people will read you. I don't want your masters opinion of how he wants the world to be. I want unbiased news reporting.

6/21/2011 08:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anytime there is a story about the police, the anti-police jerks come out of the woodwork and flood the comments section.Let the papers close the comments section for these stories. Nothing of any value is every posted.

6/21/2011 09:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The shitbird copper is identified. You're wrong when you say he because it is a she. She works in 3 and should be fired for her actions during the 10-1. I saw it first hand. However, its apparently being handled "in house". Yeah right.

6/21/2011 10:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Apparently not only do we have to watch out for the savages on the streets but now we have to watch out for savages in uniform(cops) too. At the 10-1 shooting on 76th/ingleside, a shitbird punched a 006th district tact guy and when the tact guy tazed and tried to place shitbird in custody a cop in full uniform(black shitbird copper) jumped and punched the 006th district tact guy attempting to stop him from making the arrest. UNFUCKING BELEIVEABLE !!!!!!! One of many fucking coppers put on this job due the race card. This is not bullshit, I got this from someone who saw this happen but because all the shit going on they were unable to get this shitbird coppers name because he ran off.

Nobody knows who the copper in uniform is? shouldn't be hard to figure out. Charge him criminally with agg batt to po and a litany of administrative charges and launch his ass off the job...

6/21/2011 10:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>>Anonymous said...
Boycotting the Trib and Suntimes are both great ideas, but we must take it further. We need to boycott the advertisers who spend top dollar to list their goods and services in these rags.

Everyone should drop a letter to the presidents/ CEO of the companies who do business with the Trib and Sun Times and relate to them that you can no longer purchase their products and services advertised in a newspaper that hates the police and supports anarchy in our cities.

6/21/2011 12:03:00 AM<<<

Why do this...

Drop a letter or email to your alderman> www.cityofchicago.org

No more flower pots and iron fences.

HIRE MORE POLICE!

6/21/2011 12:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Apparently not only do we have to watch out for the savages on the streets but now we have to watch out for savages in uniform(cops) too. At the 10-1 shooting on 76th/ingleside, a shitbird punched a 006th district tact guy and when the tact guy tazed and tried to place shitbird in custody a cop in full uniform(black shitbird copper) jumped and punched the 006th district tact guy attempting to stop him from making the arrest. UNFUCKING BELEIVEABLE !!!!!!! One of many fucking coppers put on this job due the race card. This is not bullshit, I got this from someone who saw this happen but because all the shit going on they were unable to get this shitbird coppers name because he ran off.

6/21/2011 03:54:00 AM

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

6/21/2011 12:58:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr. Janssen,

When you or any of the other gossiping whores actually report facts as they are, you might have some room to venture an opinion. The very least that any news staff could do is SIMPLE FACT CHECKING. I know, I know, why let facts get in the way of a perfectly good story, but let's face it, The National Inquirer is a more legitimate news source than any major Chicago news outlet. You've obviously learned nothing from you little adventure last week, but then I seriously doubt any of us here expected you to.....stick to writing for the school paper kid.

6/21/2011 02:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT:
"Ryan Dunn, star of the reality show "Jackass," has died in a car accident in Pennsylvania...

"Sources say [Dunn]was one of two people killed in a single car crash in Chester County early Monday morning.

"...the 2007 Porsche Dunn was driving crashed into a wooded area off the road and burst into flames. Both Dunn and his unidentified passenger died as a result of injuries they sustained in the crash. Police believe speed may have played a role in the accident..."

What epitaph can there be but -- Jackass.


Once a jackass, always a jackass.

6/21/2011 03:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That comment about the officer from 006 is true and there was another female from 003 involved as well. All 100% true.

6/21/2011 03:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wait...the Chicago Tribune is liberal.

6/21/2011 05:56:00 PM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

@ Kim Janssen
6/21/2011 06:08:00 PM...

You and your associates in the media have a serious problem with unbiased and unslanted reporting as in your inability to deliver such.

We anticipate seeing squatter camps of former media members popping up along the banks of the South Branch like mushrooms in the forest after a hard rain and it would be a fate richly deserved in our opinion.

The media is part and parcel of what ails this city due the years of Daley driven propaganda designed to separate the fine men and women of this Department from the good will of the decent, law abiding citizens.

The rankest 5th Avenue whores have more credibility.

Why are you even bothering to announce your presence here?

An annoying and obnoxious child horning in on the thoughts and conversation of people who have to deal with things that would have you heaving for weeks.

Go away youngster... Real adults are talking about real life or death concerns here.

Bear first-hand witness to 20 to 40+ years of death and destruction while biting your tongue and swallowing bloody tears of outrage.

Try to sleep and see the dead walking around in your dreams.

Make accquantance with hatred, spiritual and emotional pain and the pain of a body broken on these mean streets trying to serve and uphold an ideal... Then and only then, will you have any redeemable currency with us to prompt a modicum of acknowledgement.

You and yours can kiss an ass with that "humble public servant" feel good bullshit you peddle.

There is nothing humble or servant-like about what most of us have done on this job.

Now... Write one of your slanted, cleverly couched, contextually challenged articles about this.

Yes... the kid that was shot was a dead-ender who is now his family's ticket in the ghetto lottery.

If you're ever in the presence of a Policeman, you should really just stand out of the way, take your hat in your hands and humbly genuflect upon the tops of your shoes.

Oh yeah... The Police are the enemy, right?

These fools running around robbing and killing are the new heroes and true friends of the public, right?

This job and this city is destroyed beyond salvaging and local media is complicit by omission and commission.

6/21/2011 10:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Kim Janssen said...

Much as the masochist in me wants to respond to each and every message of love I've had on here, life is short and I suspect nobody is reading this thread anymore.

If you'd like to share more kind notes, put them in an email. I respond to almost every message I get, especially to the ones from grizzled old coppers who use $20 words like "genuflect."

6/22/2011 11:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kim Janssen said...

Much as the masochist in me wants to respond to each and every message of love I've had on here, life is short and I suspect nobody is reading this thread anymore.

If you'd like to share more kind notes, put them in an email. I respond to almost every message I get, especially to the ones from grizzled old coppers who use $20 words like "genuflect."

6/22/2011 11:38:00 AM



1. "....and I suspect nobody is reading this thread anymore."


this ain't your msm blog, buddy, the readership here has more than a 15 second attention span, and a 3 minute memory.


2. "If you'd like to share more kind notes, put them in an email."


shirley you jest.


3. "...especially to the ones from grizzled old coppers who use $20 words like 'genuflect'."


you bad.... you bad to da bone, dude......

6/22/2011 10:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Karma is B%tch him broke his arm! The man upstairs will deal with you and your crew!

6/23/2011 12:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kim Janssen said...
Much as the masochist in me wants to respond to each and every message of love I've had on here, life is short and I suspect nobody is reading this thread anymore.

If you'd like to share more kind notes, put them in an email. I respond to almost every message I get, especially to the ones from grizzled old coppers who use $20 words like "genuflect."

6/22/2011 11:38:00 AM

I check this thread every day hoping to gather even the slightest scintilla of insight into the human condition that you might supply.

6/23/2011 01:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"...grizzled old coppers who use $20 dollar words like 'genuflect'..."

typical smart ass, liberal in denial, head-in-the-sand response.

modern chicago school of journalism at it's best. dodge, deflect, misdirect.

little kim's mistaken notion of all coppers are dumb/uneducated if not outright stupid has been fucked up.

he's correct on the grizzled old cop thing... the benefit is a well tuned bullshit detector.

...not one bit of integrity among them.

6/23/2011 05:35:00 AM  

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