Sunday, August 26, 2018

One Arrest

In our defense, we aren't seeing a lot of cooperation from the "community." Not much at all:
  • An hour after allegedly opening fire and wounding a man at a bustling West Side intersection earlier this month, a one-time reputed shooter for one of the city’s more dangerous street gangs was in custody.

    It was Saturday, Aug. 4 — the midway point of the most violent weekend this year in Chicago.

    It was impressive, lightning-fast police work that led to gun charges against 27-year-old Rick Franklin.

    But nearly three weeks later, Franklin remains the only alleged shooter charged in connection with the carnage from a weekend during which 75 people were shot, a dozen of those fatally. So far, department officials have reported progress on about five shootings that weekend — ranging from Franklin’s arrest to investigative alerts issued for people they want to interview.
And once again, who's to blame?
  • Scores of other victims or their family members still await justice. The damage done by Chicago police’s failure to solve the cases ripples beyond those left bandaged, recovering in hospitals or grieving lost loved ones. Residents and crime experts alike say that consistently failing to hold those who commit violence accountable casts a shadow on the entire city.
Not a peep about the "code of silence" that exists across the ghetto. Nope, just the police department's failure to solve cases after taking away every decent investigatory tool at our disposal, electing the most anti-police politicians in existence and the constant drumbeat of "Abuse Abuse Abuse!!!" at the remaining nationally accepted investigatory norms:
  • .... all the [media] whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
Enjoy the world you've created.

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67 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who gives a fuck lol let them cry and whine all they want .... were still getting paid! Joke is on them

8/26/2018 12:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That underlined part should read "The damage done by Chicago Police Command Staff and city and county politicians".

8/26/2018 12:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank the community for their non cooperation.

Yes, thank them profusely.

What, ya don't think them funeral homes gonna make a buck without all this community non participation?

8/26/2018 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Again, the asshole with rahm in the picture was observed with multiple handguns by over 400 people (or folks) and not one call to the police.

Nice "community."

8/26/2018 12:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is what happens when you make it impossible to police in the ghettos....no stops= no arrests. = nobody to flip....this is the chiraq you have created, now let me sit back retired in AZ and watch the city engulf in flames of liberal tears

8/26/2018 12:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Jiminy Cricket said...

Love the Watchmen quote. But hey, this is the city they wanted and the city they have now. No accountability. Always looking to blame someone else rather than look inwards for a solution. I’ll hand it to Rahm (AKA Lil’ Digit after his picture with a gang banger) about being right for one thing. That these thugs and bangers just have no community values or appreciation for life. They’re terrible trash that deserve to be locked away forever. They’re a virus spreading to young kids and their families. But hey, let’s just blame someone else.

8/26/2018 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We must break the black code of silence that includes black politicians, community leaders, religious leaders and businesses owners.

8/26/2018 12:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why would you risk yourself as a Detective to solve these incidents?

8/26/2018 12:50:00 AM  
Blogger Sir Donkey, esq said...

Well said, Rorschach.

8/26/2018 12:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You all don't get it. These people believe that if only the police were respectful and nice all the time, no one would ever resist arrest or really even commit crime at all because how could they disappoint such nice people? In their world, once they stop the police from being murdering scum the actual murdering scum will magically disappear. (maybe because there won't be any police anymore to catch them, so the beans won't exist for the bean counters to count.

8/26/2018 01:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck tha comunerty.
Let them eat their own.
I'm buying stock in ARLeak.

8/26/2018 01:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So Rahm has been stealing police resources from quiet taxpaying areas to give to the non tax paying ghettos, YET the violence still remains much higher ???

So basically stealing police resources does nothing to stop the violence?

8/26/2018 02:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC how are these poor people and folks supposed to help the police, when these Hamish from out of the community keep coming into the people and folks territory & killing these "innocents"???

8/26/2018 03:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Case dismissed— the Poleec tortured a confession out of the man who was on his way be becoming a Revrun or alderscum

8/26/2018 03:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You want to stop the BULLSHIT then there has to be consequences for the people & folks,
"TERRIBLY POOR BEHAVIOR" that is the constant causing the problems!!! Start canceling some of the perks that the democ"RATS" give away day in and day out!!! MAY HELP, what have we got to lose??? STOP LISTENING TO TERRORISTS LIKE BLM AND THE INTERNET REVRENDS!!!
We don't need police to solve the problem...WE need fucking COWBOYS, like on Michigan Avenue a few weeks back to round up the herd and wrangle them on the blu, red or what ever color line to get them the fuck out of DODGE!!! What's the problem??? There is no problem!!! The people and folks are doing what they have "ALWAYS" done only now there is "NO RISK OR CONSEQUENCE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!!
CHICAGO IS THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY!!! THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CHARGE ALLOW THE CARNAGE!!!

8/26/2018 03:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't beautiful as it burns.

8/26/2018 04:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What you got is teenagers running neighborhoods,
enslaved by THEIR OWN youngsters. Hence, "the
code." Police serve as clean up crew, then get blamed
for everything.

8/26/2018 04:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come on people other big cities have the same gang problems and codes but are doing a much better job in solving homicides. Something is wrong and it starts why management and accountability. Three consecutive years of the clearance rate hovering at less than 15% and no change at the top jobs. Something has got to change. Hire an outsider with proven results to shake up the Detectives. You have proven that internal merit promotions are a complete failure across the board. Time for some out of the box thinking if that is even possible with the bloated incompetent merit CPD leadership.

8/26/2018 05:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sshhh Its easier ans sells more papers and viewers to blame the police. if we blame the public, they wont buy or listen to us. God knows the police are not buying the paper or viewing the media on tv.

8/26/2018 06:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't forget to mention the Cook County States Atty's office failure to charge crimes.With both witness and victim cooperation CCSAO fails to approve charges based on witness/victims background(s).

8/26/2018 06:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But when the police shoot someone . . . they (witnesses in the community) crawl out like cockroaches spewing to the media what they saw without one of them ACTUALLY seeing anything!

8/26/2018 06:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck the assholes, You go to a call and no one wants to cooperate, get back in your car and drive off!

8/26/2018 07:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the community doesn't want to cooperate, then try a new approach: Project Exile (google it).

8/26/2018 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


They made their bed...fuck’em. I know it’s not the way that saying ends but I prefer this ending.

8/26/2018 08:01:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hahaha, I love it. Makes the job easier when nobody din seen nuffin.

8/26/2018 08:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ricky Franklin isn’t even a good arrest. When he was a kid you knew he had something cause he would mumble when we talked to him. Ricky wanted to go to jail cause he knows he’ll get food and a decent place to sleep.

8/26/2018 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But even when cases are solved, criminals still get off lightly by a justice system whose mandate is to empty the jails.

8/26/2018 08:32:00 AM  
Blogger Jack Trumpblood said...

You need the old school detectives, the ones whose cheap sports coats never matched their pants.

8/26/2018 08:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With all the shootings it is hard to believe some officer(s) weren't in the right place at the right time to make more arrests.

8/26/2018 09:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re detectives: Lets start with asa felony review. They don’t want any trials, only plea deals. They won’t approve anything without the smell of a plea deal, then they will move forward often with lowering charges so felon gets time served or probation. You don’t see this in other counties where the asa takes crime seriously and follows the IL statutes. Foxx lady makes up yer own rules and disregards the written law and no one challenges this, like the attny General, another useless democrat.

8/26/2018 09:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can’t wait until we at the CPD clean up our act are deemed “trustworthy” by the community. Then and only then will all of this violence stop.
Who’s going to going announce this great feat Phleger? Kinda like Moses parting the Red Sea. It surely will be something to see. Let’s get that consent decree signed sealed and delivered and let the healing begin.

8/26/2018 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You think it’s bad now? Just wait until the consent decree is shoved down our throats. Or is it in our ears?

8/26/2018 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Start by firing mr. fennel, follow up by charging mrs. Fat Head.

8/26/2018 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think more clouted never did anything merit bosses is what we need to turn this department around.

8/26/2018 10:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

why clear them when that guy has another one in him?

8/26/2018 10:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey this isn't NYC where there are 3x the population on 1.5x the land mass - meaning there's always someone somewhere. Chgo has vast amounts of open space and a population that is till leaning on the lame excuse that they "distrust the police." Come on now.

8/26/2018 10:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah the code of silence.

Not a peep about the code of silence apparatchik ordering CPD to not co-operate with ICE on illegal alien criminals and CPD following the order.

That's gonna build some trust eh?

The code of silence where the media is unwilling to describe ANY of the offenders involved in the violence. It's always described as "someone" or a "gunman"

The code of silence on bail reform. Bail must be affordable. Parking fines and traffic tickets for speed trap and red light cameras are another story.

You can fine and fee people for city sticker and city ordinance violations into poverty.

That's gonna build trust in the community eh?

How ironic that Rahm Emanuel has a campaign slogan similar to Hillary's and a web site to boot named Chicago Together.

Chicago Together as CPD orders dispersal of any summer gathering tagging them as undocumented block parties. Where's your permit? That's Rahm Emanuel's "Chicago Together"

Chicago Together where noted gang members, leaders are given the politically correct name of community organizers for photo op's with the mayor while the community organizer people and/or folks wave fist fulls of cash. Look at that money, it's enough to give a Chicago politician an orgasm.

The fish rots from the head down. As long as Chicago's political corruption is allowed to continue CPD will never have the trust of the communities as CPD is seen as the praetorian guards protectors for the corruption.

The CPD code of silence internally on various department promotions as to not ruin your own careers and advancement opportunities. It's just like the street gangs coherence and intimidation.

There's plenty of silence to go around

8/26/2018 11:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That’s why we need a mayor to support us! And the only clear choice is Paul Vallas!

8/26/2018 11:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They don't go to reverends with their information do they.

8/26/2018 11:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The cpd should have these pussies come out for a ride along w the det after a shooting. Go door to door try and try to get folks to cooperate etc. I belueve even these pussies would agree its impossible. Its fear of death not distrust of police that hampers investigations.

8/26/2018 11:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nobody saw, or hear nutn.

8/26/2018 01:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What you got is teenagers running neighborhoods,
enslaved by THEIR OWN youngsters. Hence, "the
code." Police serve as clean up crew, then get blamed
for everything.

8/26/2018 04:52:00 AM

Your comment reminded of a story from Daveyton, South Africa. A group of black vigilantes beat and necklaced a black 17 year old gang member. A resident that witnessed the attack said the gang had been a nuisance for almost two years.
“People are tired. They have lost confidence in the police. We can’t walk in the streets freely any more. The boys own the streets.” Pity the local community doesn't take some action themselves instead of just whining it's all someone else's fault and we need more money to fix it. Funny too people of all colors are wanting SA to reinstate the death penalty.

8/26/2018 01:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just one look at that Hobmob guys FB and you will really understand why absolutely no amount of programs will help. These mf make more money slinging dope than any job they could possibly be given. Its never going to change.

8/26/2018 01:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IF any of the clowns at HQ actually read any shooting cases after follow up was completed by the DICKs a mystery could be solved.

You see many of the UNKNOWN offenders are named.
And if you actually were a district commander you would find out that shooters love to shoot all the time.
A certain district has a shooter with 3 cases from this year. NO video NO witness NO DNA! But it is known even the victims families know but don't want to be involved.

Those reports are about 15 pages long do you thinks special ED or the CHIEF of dick reads these and comes up with a plan?

NOPE...

8/26/2018 01:36:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sorry, “community organizers” - crimes don’t get solved by CSI. 99% of the time, it’s witnesses coming forth to testify against the criminals. And it’s not fear of the police that’s silencing witnesses, it’s fear of the gangs.

Until the “community” decides they are going to start testifying against the criminals who terrorize them, there is NOTHING the police, National Guard or an air-dropped ton of money from the federal government can do to change the situation.

You want to reduce “gun violence”? Take the handcuffs off the police and help put them on the criminals. Its in the hands of the “community” now.

8/26/2018 01:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the West Side, the mantra is, "You're the police, figure it out." That's from the victms' by the way, the witnesses still use the gold standard of, "Fuck you or I didn't see shit." Yep, police are the problem.

8/26/2018 01:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And Amazon is looking at this ShitHole!

8/26/2018 02:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Pink uniform patches will help with this issue.

8/26/2018 03:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I suggest a guerilla documentary be made.
Consider this - make it the last case a retiring detective runs so as to avoid reprisal entirely.
Document (with blurred faces of course) all the attempts to talk to all those in the area of a particular shooting/murder. Gotta h ave body cams right? Why would one suspect no camera or claim it is wrong to record a "officer on the job"? Ahem.

SHOW everyone how it is dead end after dead end after dead end simply and only because those who KNOW withhold the FACTS that they clearly DO KNOW, which sets up the entire police force for failure.

Mix in the shotspotter and even private video camera footage that shows these same people right there when things went down.

Lay out the life of a CPD detective and what they face in other than "Cops", "48 Hours" or LivePD scripted and tightly controlled "reality TV. Indeed, produce a feature film of ACTUAL Reality to show the public.

Mix in all the racial epithets thrown at cops who are doing their jobs, the very jobs these same fools are saying they can't do because it is "racist" to do so.

Understand this -today is the "video or it didn't happen" culture. Written word, heck even spoken word means absolutely nothing when compared to feeeeeeelings. The only thing the rubes today rely upon to belive is VIDEO in front of their faces, oh and don't forget the 'LINK". Ya just gotta have a "link" to it online or these fools think it is not real. Nothing every happened before the internet in their minds I suppose.

This is part of why SCC is so important and why it is developing a large and growing following. Yes, Thank Mike V in part for that, rest his soul. Him sharing the reality of what you guys and gals are doing here is more meaningful than some realize and others forget.

One day, and I think I speak for many here about this tidbit, we will get to see who has been running this show around here so that you all can be recognized for doing what HAS to be done, the telling of the REAL truth.

As for the Consent Decree, well, the Declaration tells ya what to do about that. DENY your CONSENT. Yes, it is that cut and dry, it is that simple, which is why it is openly declared as not only a right but a DUTY, one that rests on an OATH taken.
Yall have more support than you realize sometimes, imho.

8/26/2018 04:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

Come on people other big cities have the same gang problems and codes but are doing a much better job in solving homicides. Something is wrong and it starts why management and accountability. Three consecutive years of the clearance rate hovering at less than 15% and no change at the top jobs. Something has got to change. Hire an outsider with proven results to shake up the Detectives. You have proven that internal merit promotions are a complete failure across the board. Time for some out of the box thinking if that is even possible with the bloated incompetent merit CPD leadership.

I don't know. My read on this is if that were true - if the low clearance rate was mostly due to bad work by incompetent detectives being poorly supervised - then that would be an easy fix. Especially for Rahm. I imagine he'd love to clean house and hire an outside consultant. But my fear is that the low clearance rate is due mostly to the "No-Snitch" rule of the 'hood and he knows it. Hard to find a consultant to fix that.

8/26/2018 05:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rest easy, Rick Franklin is off the streets.
His scam to do oil changes on Teslas was
a real crime against humanity.

8/26/2018 07:47:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come on people other big cities have the same gang problems and codes but are doing a much better job in solving homicides. Something is wrong and it starts why management and accountability. Three consecutive years of the clearance rate hovering at less than 15% and no change at the top jobs. Something has got to change. Hire an outsider with proven results to shake up the Detectives. You have proven that internal merit promotions are a complete failure across the board. Time for some out of the box thinking if that is even possible with the bloated incompetent merit CPD leadership.

It’s embarrasing, Chicago is the laughingstock of the entire country.

8/26/2018 08:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In response to snitch excuse. How do other cities do much better. Think there are not violent gangs in New York or LA or Oakland. Stop making, or buying the excuses for incompetence, and start demanding accountability from the Detectives. Doubling their current 14% rate would only put them 50% behind national average of abut 60%.

8/26/2018 09:20:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ASA felony review problem? No review when you don't arrest someone is there. So much for that excuse. Just start doing the job your paid very well for Mr or Mrs Detective. At some point it becomes a matter of if you can't get the job done I will find someone who can. This goes from y to bottom of Detective division. Bye, bye, Staples,as a start,your years of incompetent leadership should cost you your job.

8/26/2018 09:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Indie Google project Exile. Wow talk about a great plan. But this is Chicago where we have too many people of color in jail. In order for Exile to work we have to get the white minority to begin commuting lots of crimes. Maybe then Exile could be implemented. Until then the one plan that would work will never be discussed. A pity.

8/26/2018 09:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Why would you risk yourself as a Detective to solve these incidents?

8/26/2018 12:50:00 AM

Because you can potentially earn over 250,000.00 in overtime and kiss only a little ass of the lame merited bosses...

8/26/2018 09:40:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

.... all the [media] whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
Enjoy the world you've created.


👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

Been saying this for a long time. Citizens sometimes seem shocked when I tell them how little I care and to enjoy the system they’ve created. This job is just a job now. Want paper? No problemo! I’ll even give you sympathy and a handshake. What I won’t be doing is risking my life to save you, blowing lights and stop signs, running after or fighting sketchy people.

8/26/2018 09:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...


We need another Russ Ewing so all these shooters can turn themselves in!

8/26/2018 10:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For some it's the fear of gangs, but how many of those that saw nothing have family or friends in a gang, have kids with or are dating a gangbanger or are themselves criminals and hate the police? What's the percentage of people on parole in some of these areas? There are some decent people stuck in the high crime hoods but what's the percentage of good folks to the feral thugs and ignorant, violent tramps with a chip on their shoulder that breed like rats? The community will continue to blame everyone else as long as they are led to believe they are special (by the BLM, fake preachers and pandering politicians) and there is money in it.

8/27/2018 01:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“What we have here is a failure to communicate “. I love cool hand Luke.

8/27/2018 05:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated by horrors.

8/27/2018 10:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
ASA felony review problem? No review when you don't arrest someone is there. So much for that excuse. Just start doing the job your paid very well for Mr or Mrs Detective. At some point it becomes a matter of if you can't get the job done I will find someone who can. This goes from y to bottom of Detective division. Bye, bye, Staples,as a start,your years of incompetent leadership should cost you your job.


Isn’t she a star. One of the chosen? She’s going nowhere except up

8/27/2018 03:25:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is because the police department is taking tips from the shooters and gang members and attacking the victims. once you file a complaint against the shooters, the police start to investigate you and ignore your complaints and the shooters double their attack on you and your family. This does not mean all of your officers are corrupt, only a few. However, those few answer all of the calls for service regarding these assaults until the victim submits to rape, robbery and then are forced to relocate out of Illinois. So, the police are partially to blame.

8/27/2018 04:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For some it's a the fear of the gangs.. North Lawndale is notorious for its youth being in trouble with the law. The police often stalk the victims of the gangs and name them as members of the gang when that is not true. Then you file fake charges on the victim and then brand them felons forever with no more rights as they are now criminals. Then the gangs win.

8/27/2018 04:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated by horrors.

8/27/2018 10:24:00 AM


Nirvana in the flesh.

Utter contradiction in natures.

Hunger, thirst, neccessity of breath, to name but a few impositions of meat, blood and bone existence.

Yet, these amongst others, seem not sufficient enough to induce the NOT making things even MORE difficult to the experiencing of temporary fleshly existence.

Entitlements of Nature number one in quantity:

You are entitled to die.

That is all.

8/27/2018 07:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For some it's a the fear of the gangs.. North Lawndale is notorious for its youth being in trouble with the law. The police often stalk the victims of the gangs and name them as members of the gang when that is not true. Then you file fake charges on the victim and then brand them felons forever with no more rights as they are now criminals. Then the gangs win.

8/27/2018 04:03:00 PM


Damn.

That's some impressive alternate facts there, in one tightly packed missive.

You bangers really believe you are invisible?

EVERYONE sees you.

Even the old blnd guy, walking his crippled dog sees you.

You are that visible.

The "gangs" are eternal losers.

LOSERS.

Why?

Because that is the most satisfaction they can get.

8/27/2018 09:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...



With social media deplatforming most Conservatives, pro law enfacement we don't have many areas left to voice simple opinions opposing the worst forms of criminality and corrupt Lib pols that let the criminals go.

One remaining place of free speech are neighborhood newspapers like our Hyde Park Herald, a former Chicago police officer who has shared these very honest "observations" - he's "noticing" Chicago's crime and corruption:

"Shocked by shootings
hph2012 / Front Page no pic, Letters To The Editor / 0 Comments

To the Editor:

I, along with many others, am shocked about the amount of violence about two weeks ago.

I believe that the police are doing all they can to prevent the violence but I also believe that the rest of the criminal justice system in Cook County is failing the public.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has publicly stated that way too many black males are incarcerated and she has made it her mission to address her concerns. She has influenced State’s Attorney [Kim] Foxx, Chief Judge Timothy Evans and Sheriff [Tom] Dart to adjust their policies to follow her beliefs.

State’s Attorney Foxx has instructed the Felony Review Unit of her office to limit the number of felony charges brought against individuals who are arrested with a firearm within Cook County. The Chicago Police Department has recovered over 5,000 firearms in 2018 but I doubt if even half of those arrested were charged with a felony. The clearance rate for murders in Chicago is under 15 percent for 2018 and if one removes the domestic related homicides and the homicides were the offender is deceased one will unfortunately discover that the actual clearance rate is under 10 percent. I have been informed that detectives have asked CCSAO, Felony Review Unit to approve charges against individuals on many other cases but have been turned down because they want additional evidence. I was really shocked when I heard that of the 66 reported homicides from July 2018 have resulted in prosecution in only one incident.

Chief Judge Evans has instructed the judges in Bond Court to release as many individuals as possible on recognizance bonds. It makes no sense, to me, that an individual already on parole or who has previous bond forfeitures should be granted a recognizance bond. I also find it troubling that when an individual who has been released on a recognizance bond fails to appear, the judge whom he was to appear in front of issues a ruling of “bond forfeited, case stricken, no warrant issued”. There are no sanctions attached to failing to appear for the hearing!

Sheriff Dart is allowing individuals already on parole or who have failed to appear in the past for a hearing to walk the streets on home monitoring. There have been credible reports that many of those released on home monitoring are not being tracked by his office and he is failing to advise the public of same.

The police are trying their best but the remainder of the criminal justice system is failing the citizens of Chicago.

Note: I am a retired police officer with 33+ years of service with the Chicago Police Department and was fortunate of having served in doing investigative work for 30+ years of my career including assignments as Commander of Vice and Narcotics, Deputy Chief of Organized Crime and Detective Division and Deputy Superintendent of Internal Affairs.

Michael Hoke

8/28/2018 10:03:00 AM  

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