Thursday, December 31, 2020

Firefighter Mayday

Here's a guy with a spotless disciplinary record...AND who won the Lambert Tree Medal, the highest City Award for heroism at great personal risk. 

That and $3 will get you a cup of coffee in Groot's Chicago (click for larger versions):



For removing a "Defund the Police" banner on the public way, 30 days?

We took out the phone numbers because there are still plenty of assholes trolling for personal info here. If you are of a mind to make a donation, stop by any firehouse. These posters will be up citywide.

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Thanks Groot!

We suppose this is one way of looking at the Nashville bombing:

Thanks?

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Step Right Up Lab Rat!

Anyone know where this guy got his medical degree?

Rich doesn't mean smart at everything. Just so everyone is clear:

  • [N]ormally the FDA wants 10 years of data to approve something like this, or 3 years with expedited approval. But this vaccine was only researched for 8 months and they trust all of us to "just take it", no questions asked. Not to mention, Pfizer and Moderna got blanket protection from the federal govt that they CANNOT be sued by someone or a family forliability if the vaccine kills someone or makes the sick.

Paraphrasing some guy we heard about once, we have far more questions than answers here.

We've had a Flu Vaccine for how many years now? Extensive trial and error....and it has to be changed every single year because the flu virus mutates. How effective is the flu vaccine?

  • 2004 - 10% effective - lowest recorded
  • 2010 - 60% effective - highest recorded

The last three years, it's been 38%, 29% and 45% (estimated). That doesn't instill confidence in an entirely new type of vaccine that was developed over 6-to-8 months.

Get informed.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Only Third?

Well, she had big name competition from both coasts:

  • In celebration of a 2020 that desperately needs to come to an end, here is a list of the Top 10 Worst Mayors in the nation. These mayors most definitely use Orwell’s 1984 as their policies and procedures manual, if not their Bible.

    It comes as no surprise that all 10 of the mayors on the list are Democrat (something about that political party), and that five of the 10 are mayors of West Coast cities (something about the Pacific Ocean).

    Several of the mayors have overseen a mass exodus of people from their cities, and even their state in a 10-month period. But most of all, every one of these mayors stand out as abject failures of governance, with constituents that literally despise them.

Groot came in third, behind DeBlasio (NY) and Garcetti (LA).

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Start Firing Teachers Groot

Abandonment of employment is a good starting point:

  • Most of the Chicago Public Schools teachers and staffers who are scheduled to return to classrooms next week for the first time in nine months have tacitly agreed to do so — but almost a third of them requested to work from home or take a leave of absence.

    The district ended up rejecting most of those requests, according to CPS data released Tuesday on the 7,002 pre-kindergarten and special education cluster program employees who were told to return to work Jan. 4 following the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic closure.

    Two-thirds of those employees — 4,684 of them — didn’t ask for leave or accommodations.

    Another 2,010 employees applied to stay home or take leave. The district granted 861 of those requests and rejected 1,149 others, or about 16% of all returning workers. An additional 308 requests are pending, according to CPS.

For all those that don't show up - post 1,149 job openings and they'll be 2,000 applicants the next day. 

All non-tenured and all at the low end of the pay scale.

Win-Win Gorot.

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Hubris

Anyone remember electing this guy to any office whatsoever?

  • In an interview last week with The New York Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted something that many of us have suspected for some time: The media-anointed, all-knowing guru of COVID has been fudging the truth in order to encourage what he views as better behavior from the American people. Put simply, Fauci has been acting less like a public official and more like a parent keeping certain truths from his children.

    This quote, which has been rightfully making the rounds, really tells the whole tale. Asked why he changed his mind about how much vaccination would result in herd immunity, Fauci said, “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent … Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.

This isn't some tin-foil hat conspiracy. This is a bureaucrat lying to achieve a political end. Combine that with the over-counting we linked to yesterday. Then look at the political football being played with the flu numbers and the Hydroxychloroquine info changing on a daily basis.

There's way too much info out there that people aren't seeing because they keep watching XiNN and other lame-stream media outlets.

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Hotlanta Disaster

Desperate times call for desperate measures:

  • The shooting death of a 7-year-old girl has prompted an alliance between police, politicians and businesses who are ramping up calls to establish a private security force to supplement the Atlanta Police Department.

    The $1.62 million plan will address crime in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. 

    City Council members Howard Shook, J.P. Matzigkeit and Matt Westmoreland plan to allocate $125,000 of their municipal funds to the Buckhead Security Plan, a proposal for a private police force in the business district.

This sounds somewhat like what Groot was trying to force through where the Michigan Avenue merchants would "voluntarily" raise taxes on themselves to hire private security - probably that HLSA outfit run by retired Captain Robards-Dillon.

So it's not so much of a "defunding" as it is an additional cost of doing business.....but the connected get the money directly.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

More Courts?

Has Evans been paying attention? No one is getting arrested, Crimesha is refusing to prosecute, Dart empties the jail every night, and even the cops aren't arresting people (or folks):

  • Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans wants to establish a new court branch for adults who are accused of criminal activity between the ages of 18 and 26, according to a column by Evans in the latest Illinois Supreme Court newsletter.

    “The time has come for the establishment of a third branch of courts,” Evans writes, “a court that recognizes the intermediate stage of biological and social development between children and mature adults. The court would be known as ‘Young Adult Court.’”

    Evans said his proposed court branch would “give specific consideration to the mental and physical characteristics of this age group.”

He should be talking about layoffs amongst the public defenders, states attorneys, jail guards and court personnel.

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Unforeseen Scandal (UPDATE)

Remember, this is Groot's Command Staff  (Brownie is a figurehead with no actual power).

Groot's staff vetted these people, allowed the test scandal to fester, and continues to allow incompetent "merit" promotees to "recommend" other "merit," and then Groot signed off on the bump up:

  • What's with the a certain female commander getting her son out of lockup or RWOC with two pistols in the car he was in or driving. Didn't she get in trouble for doing the same thing when working in Fugitive Apprehension several years ago. Oh I get it, you're a female with multiple meritorious bumps, you're kid\relative gets arrested and you make calls to get everything go away! This is the Chicago way on this job. Great job

Hasn't even been commander for a week and this happens. Great picks there Groot.

Didn't some commander get demoted a few years back for appearing at the desk and demanding his son be released and his car un-impounded following a UUW arrest? Franklin? Matthews?

UPDATE: Some charges approved. Multiple guns, and the driver certainly wasn't going to be shooting with both hands. Someone got RWOC somehow - no Constructive Possession? - but having high ranking members raising UUW offenders. This isn't an issue somehow?

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0.32 BAC

Four times the legal limit. That's what we used to call a "professional drinker:"

  • Former Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno was charged with DUI and reckless driving after his Audi rammed and sideswiped at least eight cars along four blocks of a street in the Gold Coast before smashing into a tree Sunday night.

    Moreno, 48, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition after the string of crashes around 9:30 p.m. in the 1200, 1300 and 1500 blocks of North Astor Street, according to police. The charges, all misdemeanors, were filed against him after he was released, according to Chicago police.

    A police report indicated Moreno’s blood alcohol level was 0.32%, or four times the legal limit. Neither Moreno nor his attorney could immediately be reached for comment.

Not Proco Joe's first brush with infamy:

  • Moreno is still fighting charges of insurance fraud and obstruction of justice from an incident in early 2019 when prosecutors say Moreno falsely claimed his 2016 Audi A6 had been stolen from his garage. Moreno allegedly had turned the car and its keys over willingly only hours earlier to a woman he had dated.

"...dated..." Pardon our laughter.

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Shots Fired At / By Police

This one slipped under the radar - no one hit overnight Sunday:

  • Chicago police were searching for two men after gunfire was exchanged with officers in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side late Sunday, authorities said.

    An officer drew his weapon and shot at least once toward one of the men who had shot at him and his partner, according to a preliminary statement from the department. No one was injured.

Be careful out there.

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Fake Stats

The government is...lying?

  • Washington State's COVID death numbers could be inflated as much as twenty percent according to a new study by the Freedom Foundation, based on an analysis of death certificates.

    In May, The Freedom Foundation, an Olympia based think tank, released a report which revealed that the Washington Department of Health was recording every death in which the deceased previously tested positive for the virus as a COVID death. At the time, the Freedom Foundation estimated that COVID deaths in the state were being inflated by as much as thirteen percent by deaths from other causes including even gun shots victims. After a review of the death certificates, that number could now be as high as twenty percent of all COVID deaths in Washington through September.

Washington is hardly unique in this deliberate miscounting.

And Fauci is a bald-faced liar, too

Do a little research.

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Monday, December 28, 2020

Another Moron Heard From

Tammy, vying to unseat Sparklefarts as the most useless and insulting senator in Illinois history:


 

She seems to be missing one crucial profession there. One that's been showing up every single day, working excess hours, days off and holidays cancelled with astonishing regularity all while being threatened with blanket defunding and whose families have been targeted merely for what they do.

And she includes teachers, who (on the Public School side) haven't shown up for work since March, have held helpless children hostage for political ends and who are astonishingly over-represented in the ranks of domestic terrorist organization who have been burning blue cities all year.

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Really Corwin?

Some retirees really need to lock down their social media accounts:


Golly Corky.....maybe they get it from a different relative

Like an aunt....or an uncle.

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Groot Success Story

Another Groot-tacular weekend:

  • 6:30p Peaceful Tally: 10 killed, 20 wounded

And what's this total?? (found only on HeyJackass.com):

  • Year to Date
    Shot and Killed: 710
    Shot and Wounded: 3440
    Total Shot: 4150
    Total Homicides: 783

Seven-Hundred-Eighty-Three....A memory stirs from 30 April:

  • Chicago Police Supt. David Brown has an historically high goal for 2020: Keeping Chicago’s annual murder total under 300 for the first time in more than 60 years.

    Brown posed the challenge to department brass earlier this week, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

    Police records show the city hasn’t seen fewer than 300 murders in a single year since 1957. As of April 26, the department had opened 149 murder cases in 2020, a slight uptick from 2019, with the traditionally violent summer months just around the corner.

Which means that Brownie has Six-Hundred-Thirty-Four murders that he can call his very own - TWICE what he set as a target.

Of course, since we all know that Brownie doesn't run the Department, these are better described as Groot-icides.

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Ghoul Pool Time

Everyone remember what this is for?


Purchase a random square for a set number of toothpicks.

Twenty-two Districts and three blank cards. 

Shuffle and draw cards to determine who gets what District - the three blanks are out (or just don't sell the last three)

Winner gets a shitload of toothpicks.

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Here a Scandal, There a Scandal

Anyone know about a missing checkbook at HQ?

Because we're told it goes all the way to the top.

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Sunday, December 27, 2020

Targets

Someone is seeing what we're seeing:

  • The NYPD has been on the alert for weeks for possible attacks similar to Friday’s deliberate RV explosion in Nashville, The Post has learned.

    An internal NYPD memo issued earlier this month warned that law enforcement were the "priority targets" for terror attacks involving homemade bombs and vehicle arson.

    The Dec. 14 memo, obtained by The Post, said violent extremists and "malicious criminal actors" might go after cops to exacerbate tensions, "exploit civil unrest" and incite further violence.

    The document referenced Al-Qaeda propaganda released on Nov. 26 that urged radical jihadists to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to attack "priority targets."

    Those targets included retired officers, business leaders, intelligence personnel and "soldiers and police of every brand."

Be extra careful, especially downtown.
 
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Another Groot Scandal Brewing?

Keep making Groot uncomfortable:

  • The talk at HQ is that a former very big boss poorly treated by the vile midget has provided the media with the whole Search Warrant package with a bow and is sitting on something even worse that ties Groot to this and something even more terrible. Her miserable treatment of anyone she encounters is about to cost her big time, and you’d think she would realize there are cameras and sound everywhere.

We can say this:

  • In fifteen years of the blog, we can't remember having more leaks and insiders stabbing the mayor in the back than we do with Groot.

Some ends up true. Some might be wishful thinking. Some could even be disinformation trolls sent by Groot. But we can point to all sorts of instances of decisions being made or delayed or altered merely because we got info before it was released to the public.

Groot can't even fall back on blaming Brownie because we all know (and the FOP president pointed out) she is running the Department at a microscopic level. 

Whomever this "very big boss" is -and we're pretty sure we have a clue - it almost has to be someone with experience in covering up connected political scandals. That's a very short list indeed.

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Illinois Humor

Seen on I-57 near Manteno:


Now if they'd just drive it around Chicago, Cook County and remind voters why everything in the northeastern portion of the state sucks ass.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Nashville Bombing

The country seems to be descending into brutal internal strife:

  • A recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, causing widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded holiday travel at the city’s airport. Authorities said they believe the blast was intentional.

    Police were responding to a report of shots fired Friday when they encountered the RV blaring a recorded warning that a bomb would detonate in 15 minutes, Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake said. Police evacuated nearby buildings and called in the bomb squad. The RV exploded shortly afterward, Drake said at a midday news conference. Police did not immediately indicate a possible motive or the target.

A few points:

  • shots fired prior to the explosion
  • a taped warning of an impeding explosion
  • Christmas morning on what would otherwise be a street teeming with people

The only obvious human target here would be First Responders. Who else is running toward gunfire or a bomb warning?

It's possible some infrastructure might also have been a target (a telecommunication substation of some sort), but regardless, cops would be responding to any explosion or threat of an explosion.

Be alert.

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Contract in ..... 2023?

From an e-mailer of ours:

  • LL had a high level meeting this week. The topics of discussion on the sheets were:
    - CPD contract cost
    - Covid-19 relief Bill/no local assistance

    Biden promised basically every big city mayor, governor and large county executive big money to shore up pensions, ward off layoffs and the like. As of the meeting, that isn’t happening any longer. That money was to be used in conjunction with shifting allocated budget money to pay for contract raises, retro, hiring, etc.

    The money given to the firefighters for retro was $95 million. CPD retro would be easily twice that, somewhere between $250-$280 million. Several people including LL discussed the very real possibility of negotiating smaller letters of agreement and memorandums of understanding with the FOP and pushing off the contract entirely until AFTER the Mayoral election. Meaning no contract until summer 2023... 6 full years at the earliest.

    Some spoke openly against it, knowing that changes to discipline would be pushed out, but it would save a quarter of a billion in retro costs (assuming the Union doesn’t shrink retro levels in exchange for other benefits like increased furlough days). But the theory goes, if Biden can get more democrats elected to Congress, a democrat can stay governor here in IL and LL can be re-elected, she will have all the leverage.

    Also brought up was the fact that the FF contract would need to be negotiated again soon, that’s been pushed out until after the election.
The supervisors' contract will be up then, too, along with a bunch of other unions. In fact, CTU is up in 2024, and they'll threaten to strike a year early if they think they can get Groot to kiss their asses again.

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COVID Theater

What was this goof promised?

  • Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich is now vaccinated against COVID-19.

    Cameras were there when he got his shot just Wednesday morning. The cardinal said he was surprised at how it felt. Cardinal Cupich said it wasn’t painful at all.

    In fact he said it felt just like any other shot he’d ever gotten.

    Cardinal Cupich and other members of the Catholic clergy got their vaccinations at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood.

Anyone remember the last time there was a regular full house Mass in Chicago? Perhaps a wedding or a funeral? So one could make the argument that priests - and especially the cardinal - aren't really in any danger of being exposed or doing the exposing of COVID-19. 

Wouldn't "men of God" better serve and fulfill their earthly mission to perhaps sacrifice their place in line for one less fortunate? A nurse or doctor? A paramedic or cop? A parent or an elderly grandparent? Someone actually in danger?

Wouldn't that be the better example instead of being used as political pawns?

Friday, December 25, 2020

Merry Christmas


 

From everyone here to all of you and yours, Merry Christmas, stay safe and be careful.

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Groot's Newest Tax Plan

If only there was something that Groot could do to make herself even more unpopular....unpopular to the point that aldercreatures would actually start to vote against her, her policies and exercise a little self-preservation:

  • They are planning on that tax on incomes above individual $70k per yearly combined 140k. Arguing over 4 or 6% off the [...] top before any deductions. Groot wants it in place by 2/1/2021. City is bleeding cash and she is desperate. Also planning a 20 % hike in water and sewer fees. Of course will not apply to Link card folks. In fact planning on giving certain zip codes a 50% reduction in those fees.

    Great to have an inside link these days. Predict she will go ballistic if she reads this.

Yeah. That might finally do it. 

And every aldercreature that votes with her needs to be removed also.

Where are the cuts?

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Christmas Blogging

As Christmas approaches, family obligations move to the forefront along with the desire to actively disobey Fatass's and Groot's travel restrictions. 

Posting will be lighter than usual as is the case every holiday. We'll be checking in, but if there's a delay or two (or three), we'll try to keep it to a minimum.

In the meantime, a couple photo creations from readers:



Stay Safe.

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Carjackings Continue

And in case you thought maybe carjackings were slacking off:

  • Four people were arrested early Wednesday after officers spotted them in a BMW that had been stolen hours earlier just south of Grant Park, according to Chicago police.

    The four ran from the car when it was stopped near Augusta Boulevard and Lamon Avenue about 2:30 a.m. but were quickly taken into custody, police said.

    Three guns were recovered from the car, police said, adding that two of the suspects were taken to West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park “for what appeared to be shortness of breath.”

Don't expect high bails or long stays in the jail though.

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A Gun a Day

From a few days ago - the CWB blog:

  • Prosecutors have filed felony charges against two men who allegedly carried guns during a brawl that stretched between a pair of Mag Mile department stores on Friday afternoon.

    The charges come as 18th District cops seize an average of one gun per day on or near the landmark retail strip during December — including three firearms recovered on Sunday afternoon.

    Around 2:20 p.m. Friday, police responded to multiple calls of two large groups brawling on the fourth floor of Neiman Marcus, 737 North Michigan. Some of the 911 callers reported seeing a handgun displayed, and people yelling, “he has a gun.”

    Before police arrived, one of the groups ran out of the store and entered Saks Fifth Avenue across the street.

    Cops arrested two men inside Saks for allegedly possessing illegal firearms. And one of the men is also charged with identity theft for allegedly carrying Illinois unemployment debit cards and bank debit cards bearing other people’s names.

Guns and financial crimes. Pretty soon he'll be wearing a suit and running a bank.

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

CBS Does Reporting

Looks like Groot's Command Staff was - once again - trying to cover up bad behavior of another connected person:

  • A Chicago Police sergeant has been relieved of her duties after an incident in the fall where she was arrested on charges of striking an Indiana Gaming Commission officer at the Horseshoe Hammond Casino in Northwest Indiana.

    Lori Cooper was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct in the Oct. 30 incident.

    A police report obtained by CBS 2 said around 4 a.m. Oct. 30, the casino contacted Hammond police saying two women were in the restroom intoxicated and one of them, Cooper, had battered a casino worker. The casino worker told a Hammond police officer she did not want to seek charges, the police report said.

    Cooper and the woman who was with her were then ordered to leave the casino, the police report said. They began walking toward the exit after being told multiple times that they had to leave, and started fighting with each other while doing so, the police report said.

She then slugged a Gaming Commission Officer in the presence of - and on the body cam of - a Hammond Police Officer.

In October. 

Over 50 days ago. 

SeeBS "discovered" this story after our readers did and after Ben Bradley of WGN broke the media embargo on Groot's "transparent" governance appeared as clear as Mississippi river mud.

Are there any connected people that Groot won't cover for?

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Christmas Miracle

Ben Bradley of WGN posted this on his Twitter feed:


He helpfully included the Hammond PD mugshot.

And then a Christmas Miracle happened. 

A fan of ours reminded Bradley taking stories from the blog means making a simple contribution of $50 to the Chaplains Fund as an expression of thanks for making their job easier. Guess what Ben Bradley of WGN did?

Well. We're pretty much speechless. For years, the media has been trolling the blog for stories, but refusing to link back to us and properly credit the source. We almost always link back to the source of our stories - see the highlighted blue text up top - except in the case of Mope-rah or the Sun Times wife beater. It's common courtesy. The $50 donation was a dig at the media who couldn't be bothered to do actual investigative work any more.

A few weeks ago, almost every media outlet credited us for the Tunney story - a rarity for certain.

But Bradley actually contributing to a cause that ought to be near-and-dear to every Chicago cop? That isn't a rarity - that has just never happened. 

So we are forced to do something equally rare in return - Thank You Ben Bradley of WGN and a Merry Christmas in return.

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"Historic" Population Loss

The only thing getting smaller around Illinois government is the citizen population:

  • Illinois recorded a seventh straight year of population loss, but the drop was historic – 79,487 residents from July 2019 to July 2020, the most since World War II and the second largest of any state in raw numbers or percentage of population.

    Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Dec. 22 shows only New York lost a greater number or share of residents during the year.

The linked article up top has all sorts of graphs demonstrated the sad state of affairs.

It can all be summed up in this cartoon:


Death Spiral.

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No West Side Casino?

Instead of turning down what was obviously the worst location for a casino, the Cubs provide a way for Groot to back out:

  • The Chicago Cubs are stepping to the plate with a development plan for a long-vacant site in Lawndale that was the centerpiece of a political scandal in the 1990s.

    The team’s charitable arm is interested in putting a baseball-oriented training center for youths on a roughly 21-acre site at Roosevelt Road and Kostner Avenue. Team spokesman Julian Green said the Cubs this week will submit a proposal to the city, which owns the property.

We recall this being described as a dumping ground for the Dan Ryan reconstruction debris in the 1990's. A few 011 District cops we met described it as a fifty foot high mountain of concrete boulders the size of refrigerators covering a few full city blocks. The EPA may even have declared it a Superfund site at one point.

Perhaps now, Groot can give proper consideration to either a McCormick Place casino or something on Northerly Island.

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Groot Taking Fire

The media has fully turned on the Groot, with both the Slum Times and Tribune editorial boards taking shots at her. Here's the Tribune:

  • Lightfoot and police Superintendent David Brown say they are changing search warrant policies, allowing more access to cases for crime victims, and disciplining officers involved in the raid by assigning them to desk duty. Lightfoot on Tuesday assigned an outside investigator to look into the case. The city’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, resigned over the weekend. Lightfoot is demanding answers from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which was supposed to be investigating police conduct from that night. She has apologized and is seeking a meeting with Young. She called the entire incident “a colossal failure.”

    But Chicago — the nation — is tired of apologies from politicians when things go wrong and only because they got caught. Tough talk from behind a podium is pretty meaningless when it comes two years too late, driven by CYA (look it up) and not from a standing of good moral judgment. These lectures from Lightfoot are tiresome when she and her legal team should have been decidedly proactive and transparent months ago. A year ago. More than that.

Does Prickwrinkle go for the rematch or does she put a stalking horse in her place, running Chicago and Cook County from her County office?

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Final Weekend Numbers

The Slum Times miscounts again:

  • Six people were killed and at least 32 others wounded in shootings across Chicago this weekend.

    The period was twice as deadly as last weekend when 18 people were shot — three of them fatally — between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.

The real numbers from HeyJackass.com:

  • Mostly Peaceful Tally: 8 killed, 35 wounded

Easily outpacing 2016 in terms of people being shot.

769 dead and ten more days to go.

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Which Scandal is This?

So is this all some sort of distraction operation?

  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday announced that the Chicago police officers involved in the botched 2019 raid on Anjanette Young’s home have all been assigned to desk duty as the CPD’s watchdog agency investigates.

We told everyone a few days ago - Groot is going to lash out and everyone is going to be stripped.

Now we have to wonder if it's to distract from this:

  • ....did you know that a certain Sergeant who is the Commanding Officer of the following: Civil Rights / Hate Crimes Unit, Special Activities Section, School Visitation Unit and is the face of the CPD at funerals (CO of Honor Guard Unit) was arrested at Hammond Indiana Horseshoe Casino? Apparently under the influence she engaged a casino employee using racial slurs and then punched a Black Casino Security Guard? She was promptly arrested by the Hammond Police. Food for thought, did she take her Company Car with her? There’s also a mug shot of her from Hammond Police Department
Get your score cards ready.

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Why the Silence?

As an astute e-mailer writes:

  • The departments silence on the current Captains and Director (of GEU) promotions is deafening!!! It’s no mistake or oversight...Carter and Brownie don’t want the promotion of Sadiaa and the political hack,Jimmy Sanchez, being derailed by the media or some at City Hall.

    Why are they rushing Jimmy through the process...could they be violating a long standing rule about hiring a retired exempt back as a civilian, to perform the same task as they performed prior to retiring???

We remember that provision about grabbing a pension AND another salary, but we don't recall the exact restrictions on it.

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Again, You're Being Played

Anyone know how many people died of COVID in San Francisco?

  • 173

How many died of drug overdoses?

  • Fifty-eight more people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month [November], bringing the yearly total to at least 621. That compares to 441 deaths in all of 2019.

    The latest numbers put San Francisco on track to losing nearly two people a day by the end of the year and dwarf the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen so far this year.

    The drug crisis has been exacerbated by fentanyl, a powerful opioid that can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.

If there was a virus spreading, killing four times as many people as are currently dying of COVID, would there be some sort of panic driven response? 

But if it's only dead junkies, there is no real political purpose in panicking the citizenry, closing restaurants, gyms, wrecking the economy and scaring people to think mail-in voting is "secure."

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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Proficiency

It's getting long past time to dynamite the CPS system. This was sent to us by an outraged former academician:

  • Juarez Familia,

    The purpose of this message is to communicate an important next phase in our CBE journey. As we become more acutely aware of the ways in which the pandemic continues to exacerbate inequities, we must take a bold stance that aligns with our BJCA aim and reflects the urgency that equity work requires. CBE is founded in the belief that equity is a moral imperative and we can no longer ignore policy and structures that perpetuate educational inequities.

    We continue to have an opportunity through CBE, to rethink, recreate and reimagine teaching and learning. For us, this means not only dismantling inequitable practices but dismantling the system in which these practices live and thrive. There is no more inequitable practice than academic tracking. Tracking is perpetuated by white supremacy culture and only serves to sort and rank students. It is a practice that is doing harm to students. Here at Juarez, we sort students into IB, Regular, AP, Honors, CTE. Whatever name we give it, it all comes down to the fact that students are labeled as above average, average and below average, all labels that reinforce perceived worth and potential. The academic level of the student then determines his /her classes which has implications on rigor, teacher planning and expectations, assessment, pacing, opportunity, mindset, the list goes on and on. We, therefore, are moving away from tracking as a school and explicitly calling it out as anti-racist policy decision. Our plan is to engage staff in a de-tracking conversation and to define concrete next steps for our school community. .[...]

    Juan Carlos Ocon 

    Principal - Benito Juarez Community Academy

So in essence, grading students is.....you guessed it.....racist!

God forbid you demonstrate any sort of proficiency in reading, writing or arithmetic. After all, it's not like there's going to be a job waiting for you at the end of your educational career. 

Maybe that's why the Slum Times is turning on the CTU?

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Monday, December 21, 2020

Quota Lieutenant

The Deuce is a few square miles of former housing projects. It was and remains a blighted area and not a really desirable place to work. And then someone decides to make it even worse (click for larger versions):


And he counseled the Officer for daring to complain about an illegal order, a violation of General Orders, not to mention a Administrative Directive via the past two administrations. Does he want to write the check right now for Hostile Workplace?

Anyone know if this guy was another "merit" promotion?

Conduct Unbecoming

Here's some interesting reading we had never heard about before:

  • United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

    IN RE: Attorney Lori E. LIGHTFOOT.

    No. D-00-0002. Decided: May 19, 2000

    Before:  POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

    At the end of our opinion in Lindstrom v. Graber, 203 F.3d 470 (7th Cir.2000), we directed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lori Lightfoot to show cause why she should not be disciplined for conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of this court.  Fed.R.App.P. 46(c).  She responded by submitting a brief and a number of supporting documents, including testimonials to her character from lawyers whom she has appeared opposite to in court, and the Department of Justice submitted an amicus curiae brief in her support.   At her request we held an oral hearing at which she, her lawyer, and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois presented argument to us and answered our questions.

The entire opinion ends thusly (go read it all):

  • We are troubled, finally, by the U.S. Attorney's request that we “depublish” our previous decision.   Even if we agreed with him, as we do not, that attorney Lightfoot should not be disciplined, he has presented no reasons for supposing that our decision contained any error. We did not say that Lightfoot had engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the bar, but only that there was a sufficient likelihood of this to require a disciplinary proceeding;  and nothing in the U.S. Attorney's submission suggests that this “probable cause” finding was erroneous. The request to vacate our decision, which we of course deny, suggests to us that the U.S. Attorney still does not appreciate the gravity of the situation demonstrated by the uncontested facts, which reveal that the Justice Department's failure to equip its attorneys with the necessary expertise to opine on difficult issues relating to extradition precipitated the filing of a misleading motion by the Department that caused this court to lose jurisdiction over an appeal by a person who claims that he had been ordered extradited in violation of law.

Seems Groot has a somewhat shaky relationship with the truth.

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Nepotism Continues

This story is familiar to most readers of the blog:

  • A legend has circulated for several years in the halls of Chicago Police Headquarters about the origins of one of the Chicago Police Department’s worst kept secrets, the lieutenant exam cheating scandal. Readers may recall a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealed former Chief Eugene Williams had acquired a complete copy of the most recent lieutenant promotional examination and was alleged to have shared the test with a group of higher-ups' friends, wives and girlfriends. Legend has it that prior to the test being given, then-First Deputy Superintendent Al Wysinger approached then-Superintendent Garry McCarthy sometime in 2013 to ask that his wife, then a sergeant, be promoted "meritoriously" to lieutenant.

    In theory, the "meritorious" promotional process is ostensibly a way for outstanding officers who score poorly on a given promotional exam to nonetheless be promoted due to their stellar work. In practice, however, it is often abused to promote friends and family of the connected. According to lore, McCarthy turned down the idea of a promotion for the wife of his First Deputy cold, saying that when a First Deputy has the honor of serving in such a high position, he should know nepotism-based promotions are off the table. It is widely believed McCarthy’s refusal to grant the promotion to Mrs. Wysinger may have provided the impetus for the promotional exam scandal.

    As it turns out, Al Wysinger's wife didn't need the merit bump once the results of the test (conveniently acquired by friend, former Deputy Chief Superintendent Eugene Williams) were returned. After scoring well below the threshold for promotion on the previous test, Wysinger’s wife miraculously achieved the highest score on the exam in a class numbering in the hundreds. What a coincidence.

The Contrarian then goes on to explain how the latest First Deputy has promoted his wife (a lieutenant exam cheater) to Captain last week (and dumping a captain who wrote her up for misbehavior at the Academy):

So what happens to her side job now (via facebook - and yes, it's real)?

We mean, is her proper title Captain Chyna? Captain DJSC?

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Dominos Start to Tumble

Groot's latest lies claim their first victim - the head of the Law Department:

  • Chicago’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, has resigned over the Anjanette Young raid.

    Flessner sent law department employees a brief email announcing his resignation, the mayor’s office confirmed.

    In a statement issued Sunday afternoon, Lightfoot said she accepted Flessner’s resignation “effective immediately” and said she was committed to a “full review of everything that occurred surrounding this incident, will take corrective action where appropriate, and will hold people accountable.”

Don't feel to sorry for this guy though:

  • The mayor had previously worked with Flessner at the U.S. attorney’s office for Northern Illinois. Lightfoot stood by Flessner earlier in her term, when it became public that Flessner had claimed two primary residences — one in Chicago and another in Naperville — and incorrectly received homestead tax exemptions for both.

In Chicago, you're only held accountable some of the time.

Officers and sergeant will be stripped shortly.

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Take That

New York restaurant owners swinging back, but is it too late?

  • Struggling restaurant owners city-wide are permanently banning New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo from setting foot into their establishments.

    Effective immediately.

    According to bar owner Larry Baird “ He can eat at some shitty roadside diner outside of Albany but he will not be served anywhere in New York City, known universally as the world’s greatest dining destination! If he has to use the restroom he can go pee on my street-corner! That’s what he wants anyway!”

    Former life long Coney Island resident Val Torre said that he’s finally moving to Florida. “It’s 70 degrees every day. My Coney Island childhood friends have all retired to Florida now! All the restaurants and bars are open and the grannies live!”

Imagine if Illinois restaurants did the same thing to Putzger. It might be considered a health intervention.

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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Cat Fight

Groot is getting flak from an unlikely source:


  • Lightfoot, who supported Foxx’s re-election, does NOT appreciate ⁦@KimFoxxforSA criticism: “Kim Foxx has a lot to worry about on her own and I would be very careful if I were her about pointing fingers. I would make sure my house was in order.” @chicagosmayor

It certainly looks like Groot has been set up by the Prickwrinkle machine to take a hard fall in 2023 when she runs for re-election. Toni has been mysteriously silent and let her minions make the snide attacks. Groot (correctly) fires back at Crimesha's incompetence in office, but needs to turn it around onto Prickwrinkle.

Fun times.

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Another Groot-tacular Weekend

Another weekend of summer-like numbers:

  • At least three people have been killed and 14 others injured in citywide shootings so far this weekend, including a half dozen people who were wounded in a single attack at a South Side gathering.

And the screams from the media bout another "mass shooting" are.....

....strangely not there. At all.

Can someone tell us where these assholes are getting their ammo? Because we're having a hard time even getting ball ammo for practice.

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Good News

The pandemic is over - lose the masks:

  • Illinois avoided a "significant surge" following the Thanksgiving holiday, the state's top doctor said Friday.

    "I am really excited, I am really happy to say that we did not see the significant surge that we were very much concerned about in relation to all the reports that we saw of the large amount of travel for here in the state of Illinois," Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said. "I think people know that in the Midwest, generally, while others on the coasts are surging, I think we had that a little bit earlier and are on the way down and I think all the mitigations that we had in place in advance of Thanksgiving have been helpful. So no, we did not see a surge following Thanksgiving."

And since you've all gotten so good at following the rules your masters have set forth for you like good little sheep:

  • Similar to Thanksgiving, state officials are urging people to avoid holiday gatherings and travel.

    According to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the mitigations put in place ahead of Thanksgiving will remain, despite state metrics continuing on a downward trend.

Perhaps your masters will pat you on the head and give you a treat like a tax raise or something soon.

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Saturday, December 19, 2020

BOHICA

Right before a rumored drawn-down of Tact numbers, might as well ruin your holiday season:

  • All regularly scheduled tact teams will work afternoons starting the 24th of December through the new year? 1800 start and 2000 start

Everyone on afternoons.

Now what happens to RDO's? 

UPDATE: only Christmas Eve and New Years Eve?

What the heck happens on Christmas Eve that the normal manpower can't handle?

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Batten Down the Hatches...Again

Anyone here ever take Phil Cline's Search Warrant class? Offered a few times a year in the 1990's and 2000's, it was so popular, that he continued to teach it even after being made Superintendent. It may have been required for everyone going to the Narcotics Section and most Tact Teams took it as a prerequisite for going to Tact. 

We don't think anything similar has been offered for over a decade now....at least not that we remember seeing.

The past few few days of media coverage shows exactly how this lack of training has been a major failing of the Department. There appears to have been little if any prep work, nothing resembling a briefing and next-to-zero surveillance to verify an uncorroborated informant. There will be Department fallout, starting with people getting stripped. 

Where it goes from there, is anyone's guess, because it has now become political. Very political. 

Because Groot got caught lying:

  • A contrite Mayor Lori Lightfoot acknowledged Thursday she was made aware more than a year ago of the botched raid on Anjanette Young’s home.

    Two days earlier Lightfoot’s office issued a statement saying the mayor only learned this week of the now-infamous police operation in which the social worker was handcuffed while naked as officers searched her Near West Side home.

    “We will do better, and we will win back the trust that we have lost this week,” Lightfoot said.

    Lightfoot said she had “come to learn that, in November 2019, the case was lifted up to me as another example” of bad searches by CPD officers. But she doesn’t have any recollection of it. And the first time she saw the video was Tuesday morning.

Gee, who else claimed to have never seen a video? Some other short asshole if we recall correctly. It's almost like lying is part of short asshole DNA.

And when caught dirty, short assholes lash out, stupidly:

  • John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, is facing possible dismissal from the Chicago Police Department for offensive posts on social media, it was disclosed at the monthly meeting of the city’s police disciplinary panel.

    The case could be decided by the full Chicago Police Board in the coming months.

This looks exactly like a  political prosecution...or persecution. It has its own danger of making the FOP president look sympathetic. Groot has spent boatloads of time demonizing the police and the Officers' most visible leader. Attacking this way, at this time, after almost four years without a contract and in the middle of a hot war of words, makes Groot look weak and it gave the FOP an opportunity:

  • On Friday, Catanzara offered to resign as a cop, under one condition. “I will resign my spot at CPD effective immediately if they give our officers the retro pay they deserve. Period. You want me gone from the police department? There’s the gauntlet. Call my bluff. I dare you,” Catanzara said.

Groot isn't in control of the narrative any more, and the only way to regain it might be to give the membership what Catanzara just demanded.

Interesting times indeed.

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NYPD Resignations

Whatever the numbers from Personnel end up being, every big city department is going to following the NYPD trend:

  • About 50 police officers resigned from the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Friday to accept positions with the Nassau County Police Department on Long Island.

    Law enforcement sources told the New York Post that most of the officers who have departed had less than five years on the police force, meaning a loss of expensively-trained young officers the department had expected to have around for a long time.

    “The city spent millions of dollars training these cops hoping that they would be around for another 20-plus years,” one NYPD officer said. “That money and experience just walked out the door, putting a further drain on the city’s budget nightmare.”

The democrats have made it so undesirable to be the police, that there is just about zero chance they will keep up with retirements. Which will mean lowering qualifications to hire, rasing entry level salaries, or pretty much doing without a Department that can keep order.

If your non-police friends and family don't have a gun and a CCL, they ought to get one.....around last year would have been a good time.

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Friday, December 18, 2020

Personnel Question (UPDATE)

The blog has been pointing out massive shortages at the District level and the theft of manpower to supply these CST teams that aren't doing a damn thing about the near-constant backlogs burning out cops citywide.

We also wrote about Groot's soft "defunding" via a budget cut of 600 unfilled positions. This was while the Department was close to 1,000 officers short of the staffing of four years ago.

Then, a few days ago:

  • Wait until Jan 16th, we will be 2,023 officers shorter on that day due to retirements. This is the single largest retirement in CPD history. You not only have the guys with the 30 years but now the numbers leaving in the 100’s are down to 10 years. I work at the Jive-ory Tower and it’s chaos. Brown is disinterested because he’s gone soon back to Texas and Carter is just to stupid to understand. At least the young kids trapped in patrol are exploring massive lateral moves or just leaving for the private sector. We could conceivably have manpower dwindle under 5,000 and no help in sight. Another summer like last year the whole city could burn.

We don't know where this "2,023" number came from and if it included the 1,000 the Department was already short. We have observed many more people leaving with 20 years rather than 25 or 29. We've also seen new officers leaving for other agencies at a record pace.

To retire with the insurance under the 55-and-out provision, you have to notify the city of your intent to retire by 01 October of the year previous. So if you intended on retiring in 2021, you should have notified the city by 01 October 2020 to get the full benefits of the 55-and-out. [corrected info]

A typical year is 400 Officers....+/- a couple dozen. We've heard three separate numbers in the past two weeks.

  • 800 - 2 times the norm
  • 1,000 - 2.5 times the norm
  • 1,200 - 3 times the norm

Any of these numbers would spell trouble beyond anything the Department has seen in living memory.

UPDATE: The 2,023 appears to be the number of officers who could go tomorrow - as in twenty years of service (pension eligible) AND 50 years of age. We've still got people tracking down this number and trying to figure out how many people have already declared their intent to leave.

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Groot Wanted More Taxes

The little dictator doesn't seem to understand that aldercreatures are supposed to work for their constituents:

  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday condemned as “aldermanic prerogative at its worst” the decision by downtown aldermen to block plans to raise commercial property taxes along North Michigan Avenue to bankroll security improvements after two rounds of looting.

    Lightfoot said commercial properties fronting the Magnificent Mile are “suffering and hurting” after a dramatic dropoff in sales and foot traffic and were willing to tax themselves to shore up their defenses and lure back shoppers.

Businesses asking for "more taxes"? We think Groot is misinterpreting the tenor of conversation going on between businesses, aldercreatures and her office.

  • Hopkins countered that Lightfoot’s efforts to “achieve dictatorial rule of Chicago have been stymied, not because of aldermanic prerogative, but because the legislative branch is a co-equal branch of government.”

    “That’s a lesson she needs to learn and needs to learn quickly,” Hopkins said.

    Reilly renewed his complaint about the “truncated, hurry-up-and-approve-it” process used to create the taxing district and about plans to spend a “significant portion” of the money generated by the three-year tax hike on “salary, contracts, personnel and other operating expenses.”

    “This proposal was unveiled just four months ago [and] was developed without any input from the local aldermen. A number of key procedural checkpoints [to gauge support] were waived. And roughly a third of the impacted property owners still do not support the application,” Reilly wrote in an email to the Sun-Times.

One-third opposition is a significant number of businesses who have an actual stake in the TIF being created. The Tribune found that Michigan Avenue has already lost one-third of the businesses. If one-third of the remaining businesses decide that this is the last straw and they shut for good if implemented, the aldercreatures are looking at a 50% reduction in viable businesses in a single year.

Sounds like aldercreatures are doing their jobs, instead of rolling over. For once.

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World's Greatest Nitwits

This is part of what passes for a "hard hitting" interview on WGN:

  • Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has her critics, but she easily cruised to reelection. Only days into her second term, Foxx sat down with WGN’s Tahman Bradley to answer questions about violence in Chicago and other issues facing her office:

    Already this year, Chicago has seen more than 700 homicides and 3,800 shootings through November. What’s happening?

    I think there are stretches on the South Side and stretches on the West Side where we’re seeing a high concentration of violence and if we just mapped what the resources are in those communities – if we look on the West Side, it would break our hearts to find that there are neighborhoods that have no access to libraries, no access to fresh foods, no access to health care and recognize that those are all symptoms of a larger problem where violence is the ultimate outcome.

So no libraries, food deserts and limited access to health care....causes crime?

That's some ignorant bullshit right there. How about we opine that crime drives these businesses from neighborhoods, making it impossible to operate at anything but a loss. The obvious follow up questions?

  • There aren't any from this softball interview

Go read it all. You wouldn't think bullshit could be so fluffy, but WGN manages to make it so.

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Nice Job if You Can Get It

How many years without even a hint of a Contract?

  • Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson is getting a $40,000 raise, bringing her salary to $300,000 in a mid-pandemic increase that was unanimously approved by the city’s school board.

What's the graduation rate for CPS? 

What grade level are students reading, writing or doing math at?

What percentage of students aren't even attending remote learning?

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

Wait...What? How Much?

This is....insane?

  • Shawn Kimbrough told authorities he “does stupid stuff when he drinks” before he was arrested for firing a collapsible rifle on a Metra train platform at McCormick Place, Cook County prosecutors said. No one was injured in the Dec. 1 incident but the 40-year-old’s alleged actions were more than stupid, Judge Mary Marubio suggested Tuesday.

    “This was a very deliberate discharge,” Marubio said before ordering Kimbrough held on $500,000 bail for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a firearm without a FOID card and reckless discharge of a firearm.

But if we recall correctly (and CWB blog reported correctly):

  • Two different carjackers - who were sober when they made the conscious decision to commit their crimes -  had bail set at $10,000 and were able to post $1,000 to get out of county.

Someone want to investigate the disparate bails granted by Cook County judges? 

Someone like the media?

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Groot the Totalitarian

For a former federal prosecutor, Groot certainly seems like a dumbass:

  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Law Department attempted in court this week to block a local TV station from airing body camera footage of Chicago police officers raiding an innocent woman's home and handcuffing her while she was naked.

    The city also filed a request to have the woman, Anjanette Young, sanctioned for allegedly violating a confidentiality order.

    Officials for Lightfoot made the extraordinary request to prevent WBBM-TV from airing a news report in an emergency court filing Monday evening, which a federal judge rejected. The courts long have ruled against efforts to prevent news companies from publishing reports, saying it's an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.

Even Rahm was only able to suppress the JVD tape long enough to pay the family and ensure his reelection chances. These are cameras meant to shed light on police actions, paid for and maintained with taxpayer money. And in this case, they caught a whole bunch of avoidable errors.

Groot probably should have listened to an advisor before hanging her ass out for all to see:

  • Mayor Lori Lightfoot apologized to social worker Anjanette Young on Wednesday for the Chicago Police Department’s 2019 raid on her home, during which officers handcuffed her while she was naked, and disavowed her Law Department’s extraordinary attempt to block WBBM-Ch. 2 from airing body camera footage of the incident.

    [...]

    Lightfoot disavowed the move by her Law Department, saying she was “blindsided” by it. “Filing a motion against a media outlet to prevent something from being published is something that should rarely if ever happen,” Lightfoot said. “And had I been advised that this was in the works, I would have stopped it in its tracks.”

Groot is a micromanager - look what she's doing to the Police Department. For her to have the Law Department (and her allegedly being a "lawyer" herself) this was a completely avoidable misstep and can only be explained by her authoritarian tendencies. 

Scratch a progressive, find a Stalin-esque authoritarian.

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Putzker's Budget Cuts

One-sixth of what needs chopping....and guess who he blamed?

  • Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker laid out more than $700 million in cuts Tuesday to deal with a projected $3.9 billion budget deficit, contending Republicans need to offer their own plan and blaming them for playing a role in destabilizing state finances even before the pandemic sent tax revenues crashing.

    Republicans quickly countered that the budget problems were self-inflicted by Democrats who enacted what Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin called a “fantasy budget” that hinged on voter approval of Pritzker’s proposed graduated-rate income tax and a “fingers crossed hope for a federal bailout” that has not materialized.

Republicans haven't had a majority in either chamber since when? Rauner had to "compromise" with dem majorities his entire tenure and then got blamed for Madigan refusing to even pass a budget to veto for years. And it isn't the Right shutting down the State economy via Executive Orders.

And why would the republicans even attempt to put forward suggestions that Madigan and Harmon would tie up in committee or just kill outright? Better to let the dems stew in the disaster of their own making.

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Nice Downtown Groot

So these comments appeared earlier:

  • Worked the Michigan Ave detail last night and 6-7 guns were recovered. WTF.  
  • 5 handguns recovered on (2) traffic stops last night in 018 off Michigan Avenue. If you are headed downtown, arm yourself and be careful.

Anyone have the overview?

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How Childish

Brownie is NOT happy that his "administration" has more leaks than the Titanic:

  • Supposedly Brownie is big mad the promotional info leaked out via the blog the other day and then again today, before the order comes out later today. He’s allegedly making changes to whom goes where now, for the sole purpose of “proving” the blog wrong.

He can get mad about that, but can't clear the weekend for visiting the families of our fallen?

By the way, whomever had this comment in that post made us laugh out loud for nearly ten minutes:

  • "Brownie sent a robot in his place."

The kids probably would have been happier with a robot in any case. 

Anyone have the final disposition of moves and promotions? We knew there were going to be a couple, but either the Department hasn't put them all in a press release yet or Brownie is still making changes.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Demotions and Promotions

We'll just throw this out there before HQ and City Hall get around to announcing anything:

  • Retirements & Demotions:
    Saldana - retiring
    Hanna - retiring
    Williams back to Captain from Inspections (and retiring soon)
    Cmdr Quarterman to Lt. (007)

Then there are these:

  • some new Captains and some reassignments:
    Ramirez 003
    Murphy 004 (from Academy - SPARred Mrs. Carter)
    Mullinex to 009
    Sesso 014 (from HQ)
    Parham 011
    Lamb 022
    S. Carter - didn't get 006. HQ working for Boik. Only Captain left working in an inside spot.

New Commanders:

  • R. Watson to 003
    Ben to 006
    McKenzie to 007

"New" hire:

  • Retired Cmdr Jimmy Sanchez as Director of GEU at Homan

Gee, commander pension and Director salary. What's that, about $250K or more?

  • Deputy Chiefs:
    Snelling to A/S Deputy Chief
    Muhammad to D Unit as Deputy Chief
    Dep Chief Darlin to CCS from Patrol

And:

  • Chiefs:
    ODonnel to CCS (Crime Control Strategies)
    Boik as Chief of Constitutional Policing from “Interim Deputy Sup.”

As a sop to "reform" the Area XO's (a commander slot?) are going to be eliminated / redistributed in open spots.

There are still some last minute changes expected for slots of those who aren't going to go quietly into the night.

UPDATE: There is a Lieutenants list ready to go now, but might not be released until January. Sergeants in January. Maybe.

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Murder Leaders

From the comments:

  • TOP DISTRICTS - MURDER (thru 13 Dec)

    011: 95

    006: 71
    007: 71

    015: 61

    004: 60

    010: 59

    005: 45

    003: 42

With two weeks left, you can pretty much stick a fork in 011.

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No One Left to Tax

Tying into the Business Insurance post a few spaces down:

  • Commercial property owners along pandemic-ravaged North Michigan Avenue will not be asked to pay higher property taxes to bankroll security improvements spurred by two rounds of looting and nearly constant demonstrations.

    Not yet, at least.

    A proposal to create a special taxing district for commercial properties fronting Michigan, from Oak Street south to the Chicago River, stalled in the City Council’s Committee on Economic and Capital Development on Monday at the behest of two local aldermen.

Could it have anything to do with this?

  • On a recent walk down the Mag Mile, we counted 34 of 108 storefronts closed, most permanently and many boarded up. People we spoke to said it’s “dangerous” to stay after dark, and almost all of the shops now close by 6 p.m. After decades of investment and development in Chicago’s Streeterville, River North and Loop neighborhoods, it would be devastating — to Chicago’s economy and its image — to let Michigan Avenue and the downtown district turn into the Meh Mile.
Groot has well and truly murdered one of the larger economic engines of the City.

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COPA Scandals

Typical inept city bureaucracy embroiled in their own scandals. The Contrarian covers numerous scandals roiling the "watchdogs" since inception:

  • Though COPA is supposed to be under the prying eyes of the notoriously daft Inspector General Joe Ferguson, the agency is once again pegged to embarrassing news. On December 8, a COPA employee was arrested by officers serving with the CPD’s fugitive apprehension section. Though the employee’s name was not released, the COPA staffer is alleged to have participated in the rioting and looting which overwhelmed the Magnificent Mile on August 10. The accused, who is believed to be a paralegal with COPA, was later released without charge. Responding to the latest disgrace, COPA issued a programmatic statement declaring the agency was examining an “internal personnel matter.” COPA’s statement pointedly reminded readers of its “high accountability standards” and “strict code of conduct” for employees.
Go read it all.

We Can't Insure Your Business

Appearing in Portland, coming soon to New York, Chicago, and other shithole cities:

  • Eric Murfitt watched helplessly from a live security feed as looters trashed his downtown clothing store, Mercantile, during a riot on May 30. Murfitt said the business suffered $1 million in losses due to the break-in and had to file an insurance claim to stay afloat.

    But in November, Murfitt was informed that his insurance carrier would not be renewing the store’s policy. Nearly a dozen other insurance companies declined to even offer Mercantile a quote.

    So earlier this month, Murfitt settled for a policy that nearly quadrupled his premium, had a significantly higher deductible, included a much smaller cap on coverage related to robbery and excluded any property damage related to civil unrest.

    “We’re effectively uninsured right now,” Murfitt said. “And we’re paying four times as much for the privilege.”

Insurance Companies don't exist to lose money, and the trend for libtards, race baiters, and social justice warriors is to say, "Hey, they're insured. Loot away!" is about to meet a cold hard reality.

Everywhere is about to be Detroit 2.0.

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More Excuses

More stupid from the left coast:

  • Seattle is considering adopting a law that would excuse suspects from most misdemeanor crimes if they can be linked to poverty, mental illness, or addiction.

    The City Council is considering a proposal introduced earlier this year that would excuse suspects of crimes like theft, trespassing, and assault if the suspects are found to be suffering from poverty, a mental health crisis, or addiction.

    Seattle would be the first metropolitan area to alter its criminal code in such a way.

We have always wondered what's the attraction of making excuses for criminal behavior. We didn't grow up rich by any stretch of the imagination and we feared a beating if we even thought about stealing something. When we got on this job years ago, we met people who grew up in circumstances far worse than we did, and they never would consider taking something that wasn't theirs or living somewhere they didn't pay for..

Seattle has been trending from shithole to Third World shithole for quite some time now. They keep voting in commies and antifa sympathizers, so it's impossible to feel sorry for them at all.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

A Phone Charger?

CWB blog covering the backstories that the media won't involving Cook County judges:

  • One day after a Cook County judge ignored a recommendation to impose “maximum conditions” on Michael Riddle during a bond court hearing, Riddle was arrested again Thursday — for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend 14 times as she sat on a couch next to her young child.

    Judge David Navarro allowed Riddle to get out of jail by posting just $1,000 bond after prosecutors accused him of trying to carjack a woman this week. Navarro made the decision just minutes after the court’s pre-trial services officer advised that “maximum conditions are recommended” for Riddle’s release.

    On Thursday night, Riddle watched TV with his girlfriend, the mother of his 5-month-old child, at her home in Grand Crossing. The woman’s three-year-old daughter was also on the couch when Riddle began looking for his phone charger, according to prosecutors.

    When the woman told him where the charge was, he allegedly attacked her.

All of this over a phone charger.

This part is priceless:

  • The judge, who had been advised to set “maximum conditions” for Riddle minutes earlier, allowed Riddle to go home without electronic monitoring by posting 10% of a $10,000 bail order — $1,000 — Wednesday afternoon.

    “I better not see you in front of me on any new cases,” Navarro said as Riddle’s carjacking hearing concluded.

Good thing this will NEVER EVER happen again:

  • On Saturday, not long after hearing about how Riddle allegedly violated bail by violently stabbing a woman, Navarro heard new allegations of attempted carjacking against a different man in a new case.

    Navarro set bail for that man at $10,000, too. He’ll also need just $1,000 to get out of jail.

Well....it couldn't happen TWICE in a row, could it?

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She Knows a Guy

Remember....this is a "reform" mayor:

  • A campaign contributor to Mayor Lori Lightfoot landed a $1.6 million no-bid deal with Chicago Public Schools after the mayor personally vouched for him, then delivered computers that in some cases didn’t meet district purchasing standards or work for virtual learning.

    District officials said they bought the used computers in April to meet an “urgent need” as schools scrambled to get devices to students and the district’s traditional vendors faced backlogs. Yet more than a third are still sitting in a district warehouse as backups, a Chalkbeat/Better Government Association investigation has found.

    Mark Aistrope, the CEO of Chicago-based Meeting Tomorrow, who contributed nearly $30,000 to Lightfoot’s mayoral bid, emailed the mayor in late March, saying his company could quickly provide tens of thousands of computers to the school district when it needed them most.

    Early the next morning, Lightfoot wrote CPS CEO Janice Jackson to put in a good word.

This is the Janice Jackson whose top aide (Pedro Soto) recently pled guilty to leaking bid info on a $1 BILLION (with a B) contract to one of the bidding parties. Now you have Groot vouching for a $1.6 million contract to a campaign contributor to this same Janice Jackson?

Groot fit into the Chicago-way of doing business pretty easily, didn't she? And Jackson at the nexus of all this corruption? 

Curious and curiouser.

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