Thursday, December 15, 2011

Unholy Alliance

Linked below is the entire Chicago Magazine article outlining the rather cozy and completely corrupt partnership between numerous aldercreatures and Chicago street gangs.

It opens thusly:

  • A few months before last February’s citywide elections, Hal Baskin’s phone started ringing. And ringing. Most of the callers were candidates for Chicago City Council, seeking the kind of help Baskin was uniquely qualified to provide.

    Baskin isn’t a slick campaign strategist. He’s a former gang leader and, for several decades, a community activist who now operates a neighborhood center that aims to keep kids off the streets. Baskin has deep contacts inside the South Side’s complex network of politicians, community organizations, and street gangs. as he recalls, the inquiring candidates wanted to know: “Who do I need to be talking to so I can get the gangs on board?”

    Baskin—who was himself a candidate in the 16th Ward aldermanic race, which he would lose—was happy to oblige. In all, he says, he helped broker meetings between roughly 30 politicians (ten sitting aldermen and 20 candidates for City Council) and at least six gang representatives. That claim is backed up by two other community activists, Harold Davis Jr. and Kublai K. M. Toure, who worked with Baskin to arrange the meetings, and a third participant, also a community activist, who requested anonymity. The gang representatives were former chiefs who had walked away from day-to-day thug life, but they were still respected on the streets and wielded enough influence to mobilize active gang members.

It names names and pulls few punches. Taxpayer funded venues were used for recruitment and organization. Favors were solicited and promised. In other words, everything Chicago is covered. A good read. We'd even call it a must read.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Off subject, you Called it SCC,

Tribune is reporting that the p.o.s. Blagojevich is actually trying to get drug treatment in prison . . . no surprise. Here's the link for it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-blagojevich-seeks-drug-treatment-in-prison-20111214,0,4388112.story?track=rss

12/15/2011 12:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If people don't wake up after reading this they are in a coma. F this department and the scum that control this city.Protect your homefront wether it's North or South. Save your $, hope for the pension we paid and negotiated for.Then get the F out of this city.
In the mean time don't risk your life rushing to jobs of one beast shooting at another despite the pressure from the white shirts.

12/15/2011 12:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

very eye opening...hope us atty fitzgeralds eyes are open

12/15/2011 01:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why, in Chicago, would this suprise anyone ???

12/15/2011 01:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this shit has been going on since old man daley. how do you think he got ellected? It wasnt on his good looks and speaking ability.

12/15/2011 02:15:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The gang representatives were former chiefs who had walked away from day-to-day thug life, … "

Translation: They had made enough money from drugs, protection rackets, gun running and other street level crime enterprises.

In classic mob tradition they now had that money in seemingly legit storefronts and other businesses.

Gangs vote, lock up one on Election Day and you will likely find several voter receipts in his pockets. Sadly, cops don't vote and the politicians know this and act accordingly.

12/15/2011 02:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alderman Brookins side job as a lawyer is to defend the criminals at 26th and California. He defends the very people who terrorize the good people in the neighborhood. The good people need to get out and vote more.

Coincidentally, Brookins used to share his law office with another attorney whose source of income was suing the City and the police department. But there was no conflict of interest there. Said attorney was nominated by the Democrats and is now a sitting criminal court judge at 26 Cal.

12/15/2011 03:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a coincidence, as crime rates plummetted in the late 1990s and 2000s, those with the power to make decisions have decided not to hire the budgeted amount of police officers in the city budget, more lawsuits (most frivolous) were filed, and outsiders were brought in to "reorganize" the police department.

This sounds like "divide and conquer" at its best by the upper echelons of local government. Doesn't it seem like many of the policies implemented over the past few years have done more to hamper the police than to help them fight crime?

Newest trend now is to "consolidate" the police areas and move detectives and gang units to different areas of the city where they are unfamiliar with the local gang populations and have to start over with discovering who is who.

You get what you vote for? Or rather, if you don't vote, you leave the hen house open for the foxes.

12/15/2011 03:43:00 AM  
Blogger Was that a SPEEDBUMP?! said...

Hal Baskin is a thug and that's a fact. He got into a face to face with me and started playing the race card, wanting to know where the "Black Police was". He would shut down construction sights, trying to muscle jobs, again playing the race card. His wife works in the States Attorneys office at 26th and Cal, probably running interference with search warrant cases. I still have a pic of his smiling face from 59th and halsted. It looks like a Ho Chi Minh cartoon.

12/15/2011 04:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sounds like some shit out of the wire.

12/15/2011 04:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sick, disgusting.

12/15/2011 06:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Notice how they pick on Schiller, Munoz and Troutman? I'm not saying they shouldn't be picked on but they are pretty careful to stay away from the truly powerful. At the peak of their power---none of these 3, ever held a candle to many other Alderfuxxs.
Not 2 mention that Schiller is retired, Munoz is getting ready 2 move, on and Troutman is in jail so they are very safe picks.
I found the article to be a bit disappointing, everyone already knew most of the Schiller stuff, and not that informative. Are they getting ready to indict Schiller?

12/15/2011 06:14:00 AM  
Anonymous The Box Chevy Phantom said...

Spot on SCC!

Can't wait until Pt. II which will hopefully connect the dots linking alderfools, gang-banging, murdering, dope dealing dogs, urban make-believe clergy, and the more than a few Gold Stars who have pledged allegiance and owe their very existence to this unholy alliance.

What about local media knowingly being complicit and looking the other way?

What about overall public policy slanted toward ensuring CPD is wholly compromised and rendered incapable of effective public safety due to powers that be doing all they can to protect and maintain the staus quo by protecting and shielding the unholy alliance?

The fuckery comes directly from City Hall!

We and many others have yelled about this for years...

The riotious example is the former CAPS director, virulent Police Hater and CVL mole who was/is very close to former mayor stuttering prick. How much inside info was traded just on THAT unholy alliance?

We wonder how many Policemen were injured and lost their lives as a result of the "UNHOLY ALLIANCE" of politicians, narco-terrorist gangbangers, make believe clergy and a compromised exempt echelon?

The Policeman has been screaming about this outrage for years!

"You Cops had better stop complaining or the public is going to hate you!"

Yeah... Whatever.

What about the current "Mean Season" Policemen are enduring?

There is NO ONE that will ever be able to convince us that that the "Mean Season" Chicago Policemen are enduring, is not part and parcel of the fuckery barely touched on in the article.

The public cheered shortshanks, 9.5, j-fled & mcmooky "taking it hard to those greedy, union member coppers who get sweet pensions & early retirement while we're eating our 401K's..."

There IS an agenda afoot to destroy CPD and any semblance of safety (real or perceived) felt by the captive taxpayer.

Shortshanks & 9.5 are catering to the noisy, riotously reproducing, loyal straight democratic voting catered to constituency.

The captive taxpayer exists only to pay the freight in stripped away Police & fire service, & speed cameras, fees, fines and other assorted kinds of "gotcha."

Being walked backwards in every way...

The exploitation of hard financial times to portray us as greedy & undeserving in order to have political cover to strip us of every good thing we were able to wrest from the political cabal of the "Unholy Alliance" over the years through collective bargaining.

The political cabal overall considers Policemen to be a liability and impediment toward gaming the system toward their totally running amok.

"You guys won't pledge allegiance to us so fuck The Police."

The Public: "Yeah! We don't need you Cops so go away!

Fuckery in furtherance is McMooky telling every microphone jammed in his jib, "we have too many cops..."

The powers that be are praying, burning candles, dancing & cutting themselves and sacrificing livestock in fervent hope that they will not be completely disrobed and unmasked for the world to see come May 2012 and beyond.

This city is destroyed beyond salvaging and only The Police know it.

The Police didn't break it....

It's way beyond The Police to fix it...

Meh... Every man for himself.

Viva Hate...

12/15/2011 06:15:00 AM  
Anonymous P/O Terry Bull said...

Terrible!


Let Buddy Lee Nutz go to THAT Christmas party!

12/15/2011 07:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congrats to Chicago magazine! If the media would only play nice with certain people (hint hint) I'm sure they could get some incredible stories. I'm SURE.

12/15/2011 08:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I could be wrong but I believe somewhere I heard that the St. Louis P.D. was going through the same thing. It got so bad that the State Legislature took over running the St. Louis P.D. The Mayor and City do not run the P.D. That means City Corruption cannot run their P.D. We need a downstate republican to introduce a simular Bill that would take control away from the Mayor and City of Chicago the authority to run the CPD and then the CPD can invesigate and arrest these Chicago Alderscum!

12/15/2011 09:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rahm??

Feds??

12/15/2011 09:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you read this and still live in Shitago, you are a fool. Oh, forgot, WE HAVE TO LIVE HERE

12/15/2011 09:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ya? And so what? Who are you going to complain to? You're Alderman? Your congressman? The Feds? Get bent and keep paying

12/15/2011 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Any Uptown coppers remember CopWatch? Funny how they are gone once Shiller loses. I'd bet they were getting some of her $1,000,000 slush fund.

12/15/2011 09:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hal is a total A HOLE. Racist police hating thug. Dirty as they come and so are his sons who are still on the streets doing what GD's do, committing crimes. He's showed up on so many scenes when a criminal was going to jail, trying to run any kind of interference he could come up with. He's even battered police officers in the past. I never knew about his wife. I would love her more details about her. If its true that she works with the asa office, isn't that just great, Wow

12/15/2011 10:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Somebody email this story to that idiot Chuck Goudy at Channel 7 and he will copy it and have....

AN EXCLUSIVE HARD HITTING INVESTIGATIVE NO HOLDS BARRRED TELL-ALL EMMY AWARD WINNING GET EVERYBODY INFRONT OF THE TV report....

...that will be another complete whitewash or blame only the police.

12/15/2011 10:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This article should make every taxpayer sick but people are lemmings and will continue to vote for "Their Guy" to keep jobs etc..

12/15/2011 10:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wake up boys & girls,all these seemingly bone headed actions have something in common..They are causing the demoralization & disintegration of the CPD.The majority of the Chicago politicians are tied up with the street gangs and organized crime(Outfit & Russian Mafia,Mexican Cartels)We do not have the resources to conduct investigations or gather intelligence.The Cook County judicial system is totally corrupt. We have police bosses who are corrupt and whose loyalties are with the politicians and criminals.

12/15/2011 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The only agency that can get these scum bad chicago politicians is the FEDS. Never ever has chicago investigated the corrupt politicians and will never be allowed. Just look at the battery turned homicide that daley's nephew committed. The whole thing was covered up from the CPD to the state's attorneys office. everyone knows it, but it only matters if the feds know it or care. God forbid a loved one is hurt by someone related to clout in chicago. If the feds dont get involved then nothing will happen.

12/15/2011 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pretty disturbing, although not surprising. Although it doesn't look like Shiller really able to protect Ali given that he is dead from ingesting drugs while being arrested.

12/15/2011 12:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would like to use this site to congratulate CHICAGO MAGAZINE on a excellent article. I always felt the magazine was for lake shore liberals.
Mostly advertisements for restaurants,theaters,and high end clothing stores. Who would have thought? Good Show Chicago Magazine !

12/15/2011 01:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Back in the day said...

I remember when they tried that stuff back in Little Italy with politicos. It was Sgt Balzonya from the old gang crimes south who put an end to it.
Harry was awesome with old gangs.

12/15/2011 01:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, we now have an former alderman ( Lyle) who negotiated with the gangs and protected them as a judge, an alderman who claims former gang membership whose family has been arrested for manufacturing and selling counterfeit immigration papers ( father was also illegal immigrant) who is not sponsored by the organization for cook county clerkk. What next??

12/15/2011 03:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

very eye opening...hope us atty fitzgeralds eyes are open

12/15/2011 01:33:00 AM

But Eric Holders eyes are wide shut...

12/15/2011 03:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the exact same thing that happened in Mexico. The politicians thought they could use them, their muscle and their money and thought that the cartels would lay down when told to do, but they were wrong weren't they. Look at how Mexico is now, and guess what, in some parts of the city, its exactly the same way. All thughs with the alderman in their pockets. A few more years we will be seeking asylum in Detroit, just like the undocumented are from Mexico. WAKE UP PEOPLE, BEFORE IT GETS TO BE A RUDE AWAKENING.

12/15/2011 03:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is no Baskin working for the State's Attorneys Office....unless she has a different last name.

12/15/2011 03:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama won't stop it, Holder won't do it. Fitzgerald won't do it. Lisa and anita definately wont do it. TaxPayers have been left with no other options. Time to gather the torches. Alpha Mike Foxtrot. Maybe the next batch will think twice, if not repeat.

12/15/2011 04:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Bud E. Lee Nutz said...

Back in the day said...
I remember when they tried that stuff back in Little Italy with politicos. It was Sgt Balzonya from the old gang crimes south who put an end to it.
Harry was awesome with old gangs.

12/15/2011 01:35:00 PM


Harry Balzonya was an awesome boss!


Sorely missed...

12/15/2011 06:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: LT MB.

Heard in the halls of the new Public Safety HQ Building.

Any truth?

Allegedly, LT. MB has been quietly promoted to the rank of Captain in a class of 1.

And newly-promoted CPT. MB will supposedly, once again, command the News Affairs unit to replace Sarah Hamilton, who is leaving CPD to replace Chris Mather as Mayor Emanuel's Communications Director.

Mather's unexpectedly resigned her post, effective 31 December 2011, but is not "expected" to return to City Hall after today. The City Hall welcome/admit list no longer contains her name.

People jumping the City Hall ship after only 7 months? Hmmmmm?

12/15/2011 06:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mentioned the " FEDS" again. Do you really think they are going to do anything? Wake up , they are part of the problem

12/15/2011 08:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doing business with the gangs has been a staple in ghetto politics. Many aldermen have been financed and supported by the gangs. Some have even been chosen by the gangs to run for election. This is not new and it will not change, neither will aldermen going to prison. It is the Chicago way. Can't wait to retire and get out of this toilet of a city.

12/15/2011 08:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Any Uptown coppers remember CopWatch? Funny how they are gone once Shiller loses. I'd bet they were getting some of her $1,000,000 slush fund.

12/15/2011 09:40:00 AM

Cop Watch and Andy Thayer are still very much around.

12/15/2011 09:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: LT MB.

Heard in the halls of the new Public Safety HQ Building.

Any truth?

Allegedly, LT. MB has been quietly promoted to the rank of Captain in a class of 1.

And newly-promoted CPT. MB will supposedly, once again, command the News Affairs unit to replace Sarah Hamilton, who is leaving CPD to replace Chris Mather as Mayor Emanuel's Communications Director.

Mather's unexpectedly resigned her post, effective 31 December 2011, but is not "expected" to return to City Hall after today. The City Hall welcome/admit list no longer contains her name.

People jumping the City Hall ship after only 7 months? Hmmmmm?

12/15/2011 06:43:00 PM

Wow, a class of one. Must have been really deserving of that promotion.

12/16/2011 12:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Alderman Munoz, I saw you in Mexico on Vacacion and who you meet with.

12/16/2011 12:58:00 AM  
Blogger Was that a SPEEDBUMP?! said...

If I recall correctly, W. Clement Stone donated a sizeable amount to the Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples to help provide education and job training near 66th and Halsted around the late 60's/early 70's. Yep, here it is:

http://gangresearch.net/ChicagoGangs/BGD/bgdnhistory.html

12/16/2011 04:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

City Corruption cannot run their [St. Louis] P.D. We need a downstate republican to introduce a simular Bill that would take control away from the Mayor and City of Chicago the authority to run the CPD and then the CPD can invesigate and arrest these Chicago Alderscum!

12/15/2011 09:10:00 AM


Um did you forget that this whole STATE is so fucked up (you've read about it for the last few years, right?) because it's run by Chicago (and disgustingly Irish) Democrats?

Quinn & Madigan, to start. You think Madigan's not going to kill a bill that touches his homefront's power?

You think Quinn wouldn't veto it if Madigan didn't get rid of it?

12/16/2011 05:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hal Baskin is a thug and that's a fact. He got into a face to face with me and started playing the race card, wanting to know where the "Black Police was". He would shut down construction sights, trying to muscle jobs, again playing the race card. His wife works in the States Attorneys office at 26th and Cal, probably running interference with search warrant cases. I still have a pic of his smiling face from 59th and halsted. It looks like a Ho Chi Minh cartoon.

12/15/2011 04:08:00 AM


More dedicated employees of Anita:

http://www.suntimes.com/9469721-418/drug-kingpin-says-investigator-tipped-him-off-about-probe.html

12/16/2011 06:38:00 AM  

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