Clout Rules the Day

That Glen Brooks goof....the one who says the community is going to "need to heal from the “trauma” of the shooting" of 15 people the other day....despite the community shooting each other by the tens of thousands for the past sixty or seventy years? Is it this guy?

• [10 Feb 2005] A senior civilian employee of Chicago's community policing program was charged with drunken driving and driving on a suspended license early Wednesday after crashing a city-leased sport-utility vehicle into three parked cars on the North Side, police said.

  It is the second time in less than six months that a high-ranking official of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy program has been involved in wrecking a city vehicle while driving without a valid license.

  Belmont Area CAPS coordinator Glen Brooks, 34, was arrested after plowing a city-leased Chevy Tahoe into three parked cars in the 6100 block of North Kenmore Avenue at 3 a.m., Rogers Park District Commander Wayne Wiberg said.

We thought his name was familiar, but who would believe someone drunk in a city car would still have a job? Thanks to the commentator who pointed it out.

Did all those parked cars "heal from the trauma" of the collision?

Is it Hot Out Here?

Golly, it seems like summer time!

• At least 35 people have been shot, four fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said Monday morning.

  Two people were also fatally stabbed, police said.

HeyJackass.com - the only legit source for statistics - has the numbers at 7 dead, 33 wounded, so there's a minor discrepancy somewhere in the tracking. But October is really finishing strong this year.

Useless Law / Racist Law

Now what?

• Back in May 2017, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson traveled to Springfield and promised a House committee that passing a criminal penalty enhancement bill he favored would drastically reduce gun crimes in his city.

  The bill, SB 1722, was sponsored by then-Sen. Kwame Raoul, who would run successfully for attorney general the following year. It sought to establish higher minimum prison terms for people convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon if they’d previously been convicted of various crimes. The bill would also increase penalties for unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.

  Johnson was asked by committee member then-Rep. Christian Mitchell, D-Chicago, to estimate how many shootings, whether fatal or not, the legislature might prevent by passing the bill.

  “I think over time, we will probably, we will cut it, cut it down in half, to half,” Johnson replied.

No word if Johnson was drunk for this statement or having his johnson serviced by one or more of his concubines, but suffice it to say his numbers sucked. (heh heh.....sucked)

• Mitchell pressed further: “Okay. So in less than a year. But certainly, it’s safe to say in three years, if we pass this bill, we should see about a half reduction in the shootings and crime in Chicago?”

  Johnson: “The gun violence. Correct.”

  The logic behind this claim, Johnson explained, was that his data showed about 1,400 people were “driving most of the violence in Chicago.” And those 1,400 people were very likely to qualify for the enhanced penalties. Get them off the street for longer periods and crime would plummet.

Too bad the elimination of the gang database means the CPD can't keep track of those 1,400 or their associates any longer.

Guess what did happen though?

• In other words, while more people have clearly been sentenced to more time in prison because of this law (particularly Black men from Cook County), gun crimes have just as clearly not been reduced by half, or even close to half.

We bring this up why?

• I’m telling you this because the Senate is set to take up a bill (SB 853) that would extend several statutory sunset provisions, including those UUW changes made in 2017. The law had been set to expire in January 2024, but the proposal would extend that deadline for another year.

  This could be an interesting debate and a political temperature check on the General Assembly. Illinois politicians have taken a lot of public heat over crime and the criminal justice reform bills they’ve passed. Allowing penalty enhancements to expire on repeat felony offenders, essentially letting them out of prison earlier than before, regardless of its impact on actual crime statistics would certainly be a bold move.

A useless law passed by democrats who want to see everyone disarmed versus a law that is obviously racist as black men from Cook County are getting heavy sentences....if Crimesha charges and convicts them, which is doubtful to say the least.

The democrats will be twisting themselves into pretzels over this one.

Is it Cold Out Here?

The Bidenville / Brandonville / tent city hasn't materialized yet and we're due for our first freeze overnight. Here's how the City is addressing this manufactured "crisis:"

• As the weather takes a cooler turn, there's a growing sense of urgency at Chicago's City Hall to move thousands of migrants from police stations into shelters. While officials eye the iconic Marina City in River North for a new migrant shelter, another winterized encampment is one step closer to becoming a reality.

  On Monday, Chicagoans – who know what to expect – bundled up amid chilly temperatures, but many new arrivals will be experiencing the cold for the very first time.

  The CTA is now providing warming buses during certain hours at the migrant bus landing zone near Clinton and Vernon Park Place and 16 police districts across the city, but long-term solutions are desperately needed.

  "We have minors in police stations and in the streets, this is an emergency response," said Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez who represents the 25th Ward.

Again, do you know where it's currently in the upper 70's and low 80's And will be that this week into the next.....and beyond?

• Venezuela

And aside from the "warming buses" being parked in front of all of the  police stations, take a look at this here:

• Monday morning, the Committee on Housing and Real Estate, which Ald. Sigcho-Lopez chairs, signed off on the city's plan to purchase land at the corner of 115th and Halsted.

  The former Jewel parking lot could become a migrant base camp built by GardaWorld Federal Services, but South Side community members are pushing back.

And that's not the only "repurposed" land:

• An old department store near Ford City Mall on the Southwest Side could soon become a shelter as the city works to accommodate the recent influx of migrants who are being bused to Chicago, changing course on earlier opposition to the plan.

This one just got cancelled for some reason:

• Some of Chicago’s newest residents may soon live in a posh hotel with the House of Blues and the landmark Marina City “corncob” towers just steps from their front door.

  That’s because city officials are thinking about converting the Hotel Chicago Downtown, 333 North Dearborn, into a migrant housing facility, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) revealed in an email Monday. More than 1,000 migrants could be housed in the 350+-room operation, which used to be called the House of Blues Hotel and, later, the Hotel Sax, according to Reilly.

But given all this info pouring in, our rumor about those closed CVS stores doesn't look too far out there all of the sudden, does it?

New Idea

Sounds interesting:

• One week on call, followed by five weeks to work cases. Ten-hour days and take-home cars. And perhaps most importantly, total ownership of an investigation from start to finish.

  Starting next year, the Chicago Police Department will roll out a new pilot program for detectives, altering how and when investigators respond to murder scenes across the city in an effort to boost CPD’s clearance rate.

  The new “homicide teams” were born out of the tentative contract agreement made public last week between the city and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the union that represents rank-and-file CPD officers and detectives.

  “The objective of the pilot program is to enable each team to focus on solving homicide cases by removing distractions, providing a work schedule geared to the operational needs of the team, and with additional resources,” the arbitrator overseeing negotiations, Edwin Benn, wrote in an opinion made public last week.

Ok, working backwards from these first few paragraphs:

• what does a 90+ year old non-police arbitrator know about investigating homicides? This isn't a critique....we're genuinely curious;
• are homicide teams "new"? Didn't we have shooting teams in the not-so-distant past? Wouldn't this be like a step up?
• ten hour days on call for overnight homicides with a take home car, then five weeks to work any homicides that occur. Sounds like a not-so-subtle effort to cut down on 3rd watch Detective OT. 
• "total ownership"? That's just a fancy way of having someone to blame when a homicide doesn't get solved. And although its been decades since a Detective got dumped for cause....never discount the City's intent to do harm

It's an interesting proposal and deserves consideration. Our four points aren't criticisms, but requests for clarification.  After all, an informed workforce is more willing to get behind a program that works when they know it isn't being used politically to screw them.

Oops....Again

Golly:

• Older adults who received last year’s COVID booster and a high-dose version of the flu vaccine in the same visit may have a potential increased risk of stroke, according to a new FDA-funded study.

But don't worry!

• Experts urged that the results were preliminary and may be explained by other factors such as the fact that older adults are already at a higher risk for stroke due to their age.

Any other unknown side effects from an under-tested non-vaccine created for a virus that ended up being (minimally) 98.2% survivable? We'll be finding out for decades.

On the bright side, if you got the jab (or any "boosters") you are now part of the largest unsanctioned medical experiment in human history!

15 Shot

Almost a year ago, 14 persons got shot at a Halloween party in 011.

010, which shares a radio zone with 011, had their own almost a year later:

• At least 15 people were injured, two critically, in a mass shooting at a Halloween party early Sunday morning in North Lawndale, according to Chicago police.

  The attack represented the highest number of victims wounded in a Chicago shooting since March 2021 when 15 people were shot at a party in Park Manor, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

  A man fired into the Halloween party with around 100 attendees inside a building in the 1200 block of South Pulaski Road shortly after 1 a.m., police said. The gunman fled, but officers quickly arrested him nearby with help from partygoers and found a gun in his possession. He has not yet been charged, police said.

Partygoers helped ID the shooter? We're certainly living in strange times!

The Slum Times had this quote from a Department member:

• Glen Brooks, the director of community policing for the Chicago Police Department, said the entire neighborhood will need to heal from the “trauma” of the shooting.

Hey, um....Glen? Hate to break it to ya buddy....but North Lawndale (along with Garfield Park and Austin) has been in a constant state of "trauma" for....fifty or sixty years? The area has led the city in homicides for at least ten years. You might want to brush up on Chicago history before making a stupid comment like that. The media might not notice it, but every copper with the slightest bit of historical knowledge does.

Libtards Awakening?

Expect more stories like this as election season approaches:

• Kudos to Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser for pushing to roll back criminal justice reforms she once backed. Too bad President Joe Biden passed on the chance to block them.

  The background: In the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020, Bowser the next year signed onto a sweeping temporary package of laws that limited police use of force, reduced union representation in disciplinary hearings, mandated anti-racism and anti-white-supremacy training and more.

  In 2022, the radical City Council passed a permanent version; Bowser criticized but did not veto it. Then bipartisan majorities in the US House and Senate voted to override (Congress has that right for all DC statutes) — but Biden refused to go along, as he was still pandering to the left on crime.

  This year, he did agree to override another extreme DC “reform” — plainly because soaring crime has voters in an uproar nationwide. The issue’s big in DC, too: Homicides are up 33% year over year; robberies, 70% and overall violent crime, 41%. The town’s also plagued by shoplifting rings and open-air drug markets.

  And morale in the city’s police force has plummeted. Hence Bowser’s call to repeal the 2022 law, which she says was “well-intentioned” but made communities “less safe,” as local thugs now believe “you can commit a brazen crime and get away with it.”

We love the "anti-racism and anti-white-supremacy training" the media throws in there, because we all know who was were shooting minority yutes. This year, too, as homicides climbed by 33%.

And the "local thugs" don't have to "believe" they can be brazen - they can see it with their own eyes. States Attorneys and District Attorneys refuse charges, release arrestees without bail, and parole hardened criminals by waiting until victims or detectives are too old, moved away or deceased to contest it.

Voters aren't exactly fed up, because they'll still vote for democrats in lockstep. But it won't be the same democrats and that scares the ones in office who might have to apply for college professorships at Harvard with Groot.

Where's the Plan???

This didn't age well:

• It’s been three months since Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) told his constituents that Chicago police had “a concrete and collaborative plan” to combat surging robbery reports in the area.

  How are things going? Not so good. Robberies in La Spata’s ward are up 140% since his announcement.

  “While I cannot share their specific strategies publicly – and consequently jeopardize their chance of success – please know that the 12th, 14th, and 25th districts have a concrete and collaborative plan for addressing this issue,” La Spata wrote in a July 21 newsletter after his ward experienced 57 robberies in three months.

  Since then, the ward has seen another 137 robberies, according to the city’s data portal, a pace even worse than before he announced the “plan.”

To be fair, it's LaSpata....and he's a moron. One of the loudest advocates for illegals, but somehow without a single shelter in place. The illegals must have heard that crime is out of control in the 1st Ward and decided not to camp there.

Don't Worry Tourists

You're completely safe! We swear!

• Separate shootings left people injured on Navy Pier and in River North overnight, Chicago police said Saturday morning. No arrests have been made.

  The Navy Pier shooting occurred as dinner cruise guests debarked near the Ferris wheel around 12:20 a.m.

  Chicago police said security guards escorted a man from the ship after he got into an argument with a woman while the boat was docked on the south side of the pier. He returned a few minutes later and fired shots toward the ship, striking a 31-year-old woman in the left knee, according to CPD.

What a story this woman is going to have when she returns home.

Apologies to CWB for linking all their stories this weekend. You guys are the only people reporting on crimes lately.

More Crime by Illegals

Doing the stabbings that American's won't do:

• A man found stabbed at the Addison Red Line station last night told Chicago cops that he was attacked by a migrant who emerged from a tent erected in front of the nearby Town Hall (19th) District police station.

  Officers responding to calls of a person stabbed at the CTA station found a 32-year-old man with puncture wounds to his arm around 11:55 p.m. Thursday, according to CPD.

  He told cops that he was outside the police station at 850 West Addison when a man who came out of one of the migrant tents began arguing with him, according to a police report.

CWB also reports on a largish fight involving 15 illegals in front of 017.

Dissent Will NOT be Tolerated

The politicians don't want to hear voters. They want you quiet. They don't even want to see you:

• A massive crowd of concerned Chicago citizens — the majority of them, reportedly of Asian and Hispanic descent — were prevented from attending a community meeting about a proposed neighborhood “basecamp” for migrants, despite empty seats in the Kelly High School auditorium.

  “While it has been noted that there were unoccupied seats within the auditorium, and CTU [Chicago Teachers Union] members were inside, more than 5,000 individuals found themselves unable to access tonight’s gathering at Kelly High School concerning the migrant camps in Brighton Park, where construction is presently underway,” reported the Neighborhood Journal: Bridgeport-Chinatown-McKinley Park, live from the scene.

  “Although the majority of these attendees outside were of Hispanic and Asian descent and were not afforded the opportunity to express their views from within the venue,” the outlet continued, “the sheer magnitude of the assembled crowd made a resounding statement that could not be ignored.”

Dozens upon dozens of empty seats inside the high school.....and FIVE-THOUSAND people denied entry. Even if only a fraction were allowed in to fill the seats, that would have been far too many dissenting voices for the politicians to face.

And who got blamed?

• On X, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and 12th Ward Alderwoman Julia Martinez have been accused of using “police brutality” to keep the angry residents out.

  “Migrant camp protesters lied to, confronted and pushed back by the police tonight …” SubX.News reported. “Brandon Johnson and 12th Ward Alderwoman Julia Martinez are using police brutality and police tactics against their own constituents to harm them and cause trauma to their neighborhood here are the videos … they told protesters they should go to a meeting then they kept them out of the meeting and then when they went back to the protest site at 38th and California the cops started removing them and touching them.”

Yep, those damn police. Again.

Leave the politicians to face the mob boys and girls. Don't get hurt for these people that refuse to even listen to their actual constituents.

More Money Stolen

Yesterday, we asked how do we get some of these $234 an hour jobs.

Here's a better one:

• Illinois taxpayers have been paying $28,000 to $48,000 a month for the executive assistant to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency’s director. Between February and August, the assistant accounted for $240,761.30 in billings — double the salary of her boss, Alicia Tate-Nadeau, during that period.

  Tate-Nadeau — appointed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2019 to lead the emergency agency overseeing pandemics, natural disasters and an influx of migrants — wouldn’t agree to an interview.

  In response to questions about the costs, the state emergency agency’s spokesman, Kevin Sur, said the contractor, Amy Gentry, resigned effective Thursday and that a state employee hired as the director’s assistant but “temporarily assigned” elsewhere would return to her former $84,000-a-year post Friday.

  Gentry has recently been paid $156 an hour through a set of massive contracts earmarked for Illinois’ COVID-19 response. Her total billings to the state emergency agency in other contracting roles through August top $1.03 million.

  Time sheets show Gentry billed her time — as many as 350 hours a month — as “director support, Springfield/Remote, or Executive Assistant to the Director (Springfield/Remote), though invoices to the state define her pay rate and position as “Planner-IDPH” to “assist Illinois Department of Public Health on planning efforts.”

350 hours a month. Quarter-million dollars in 7 months.

And....:

• The state official who approved paying Gentry and the other contractors billing the state emergency agency by the hour is one of four staffers ousted earlier this year for reasons state leaders have repeatedly refused to explain, instead insisting that everyone resigned “for personal reasons.”

  All four — forced to step down for “misconduct,” “conduct unbecoming” and “poor performance” — are barred from ever working for the state emergency agency again, their personnel files show. Public records show they’ve worked closely with Tate-Nadeau at the state emergency agency and previously, too.
  

So Porky picks people who are "supervising" people ripping off taxpayers and no one is going to prison? But hey, Class 3 Felony if you don't hit your camera button!

Retirements Down?

Not in the NYPD:

We had a friend who retired just before the Covid nonsense and he described a seminar of perhaps one-and-fifty cops at the Multipurpose room at HQ. Our recent experience within the past few years was an on-line experience with no attendance figures forthcoming.

This video is over 800 NYPD in Queens. Given the size of New York City and the NYPD, we assume they hold multiple seminars in different boroughs during a given year.  

Their hiring classes are huge, so it makes sense that their retirement are similar.

"Organized Retail Crime"

The other day, we opined that SanFran was maybe a year or two ahead of where Chicago is, based solely on economic indicators. Maybe we were a bit hasty in our generous estimate:

• The National Retail Federation put Sacramento and other California cities on the top 10 list of metropolitan areas in the United States most affected by organized retail crime.

  [...] Every year, for the past 32 years, NRF has generated studies on sales, thefts, and other retail-related topics.

  NRF ranked Sacramento at number seven out of 10, which is tied with Chicago for areas most affected by organized crime.

Perhaps it's twelve to eighteen months?

Can I Call You Back?

This one has been brewing in assorted comment sections for a day or two after the body camera footage was released. Here's the CWB report on the incident from 02 September:

• Prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old woman with attempted murder of a Chicago police officer who tried to talk to her while investigating reports of a person with a gun on a South Side street.

  Lynn Resendez, 41, is also charged with aggravated assault of a peace officer with a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Judge David Kelly ordered her detained as a public safety threat.

  Both COPA, the city agency that investigates the use of force by CPD officers, and the police department’s press release announcing Resendez’s arrest stopped short of saying that she fired the gun at police during the September 2 incident, which was recorded by two cops’ body cameras and a city surveillance camera.

  COPA said two officers tried to engage with an individual in the 9900 block of South Ewing while investigating reports of a person with a gun.

Suspect raised a gun, pointed it in their direction, and pulled the trigger. Good shoot....if it had ended there.

But the video shows one cop's gun jamming and being unable to clear the jam in a timely manner. Then a bunch of difficult to interpret cross talk about the radio. Then checking a personal phone that was ringing.

Seriously?

We get the "tactical retreat." We get the "time, distance, shielding." We get the "tactical reassessment" before going to arrest someone who just attempted to kill you. 

But being unable to make your primary weapon usable AND poor radio discipline AND checking a phone?

F#$%ing seriously?

CVS Shelters?

Latest rumor:

• The city is looking for any usable structure that can be adapted to house illegals. Might be for hundreds like the Armory or USMC facility up north. Might be a largish stretch of vacant land like the 12th Ward is learning about. Maybe a few hundred at various closed schools or churches. Might be a small storefront that can be scaled-up to house twenty or thirty persons, like the abandoned CVS Pharmacies at 103/Kedzie or 111th/Western that might be being outfitted as shelters. Rumor is the aldercreature gave BJ those addresses when BJ demanded everyone give him an option or two in their Wards.
  

Any reports from the ground over that way?

How Do We Get These Jobs?

So.....no local companies qualified for this contract?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration quietly signed a new $40 million agreement this week with Kansas-based Favorite Healthcare Staffing to continue to staff the city’s migrant shelters through October of next year.

  The Johnson administration has faced growing criticism over the increasing costs of caring for and sheltering migrants, 19,000 of whom have arrived in Chicago over the past year.

  The latest census from the city shows more than 11,000 asylum seekers were staying in the shelters this week with more than 3,000 living at Chicago police stations.

NBC comes up with some eye-popping numbers:

• An NBC 5 Investigates’ review of invoices for 400 Favorite Healthcare Staffing employees showed that Favorite routinely billed for 84 hours of work per week for most of their employees and that those rates ranged from nearly $50 to $156 an hour for regular pay and from $75 to $234 an hour for overtime during the four-week period we examined.

  For employees assigned to housekeeping, according to the invoices, Favorite Healthcare Staffing billed the city of Chicago for four weeks at a median pay rate of $17,000 for each of their housekeepers. At that rate, taxpayers could have potentially paid a median rate of approximately $221,039 annually for each housekeeper supplied by Favorite.

Begging your f#$%#ing pardon?

• 84 hours a week? 
• $234 per hour?
• $221K annually for housekeeping? 

Do you know how many investigations would be opened up if a copper tried to claim eighty-four hours in a single week? And it wouldn't just be the guy submitting the slips.

And it gets better (or worse):

• When it came to employees assigned to security, the invoices show that Favorite charged Chicago taxpayers a median payrate of $24,000 apiece for each security guard, for four weeks’ worth of work. That translates to an annual charge, for each security guard, of $312,000.

  The invoices also show that for one registered nurse at the shelters, Favorite billed Chicago a total of more than $64,272 for four weeks’ worth of work. At that rate, taxpayers could’ve potentially paid more than $830,000 in a year for this single nurse.

Someone somewhere is getting a huge kickback. That should be the follow-up story.

Phone Call Backstabbing?

We certainly hope this isn't true:

• Speaking of unhinged bullies, JCat and his cult have been contacting the units of members who dare question them to see if the bosses are sure that these members are "still welcome," in these units. So now the people we pay to protect us are actively trying to get us dumped!? Good thing these wannabe mafioso's aren't as powerful as they think they are. 

Phone call units are just that - you serve at the pleasure of whomever has the biggest whack/juice/clout. It's a political game, and the FOP ought not be wasting any political leverage they possess on petty revenge high school popularity contest bullshit.

People like that get voted out of office.

BJ Plays Politics....Badly

Still the enemy of the Police:

• In a move that could lead to his first labor dispute since taking office, Mayor Brandon Johnson will seek to split up a proposed new contract with the Chicago police union into two City Council votes, an unusual bid to quash a ruling allowing private disciplinary hearings for officers.

It's not "private." It's what every other union in the City has in their contracts.

• Johnson, a progressive who clashed with FOP leadership during the mayoral race, announced a pending contract last Friday that would provide a roughly 20% raise for officers. But he also said he was “deeply disappointed” with a decision reached by a labor arbitrator to grant officers the option to have some of the most serious disciplinary cases heard by an independent third party behind closed doors rather than publicly before the Chicago Police Board.

Gee....an independent arbitrator versus a board hand-picked by the mayor and beholden to the politics of the mayor in a political town.

The City wants the Police held to an impossible standard that no one could possibly meet day-in-and-day-out, 100% of the time, expecting perfection from human beings. We agree that there should be standards, but also that Police should be granted the same Rights as any other city worker. The "oversight" coming out of four or more boards, bureaus and "accountability" groups has hamstrung the Department to the point we cannot even take the enforcement actions we did from just a decade ago without risking lawsuits, suspensions, continued employment and even prison time.

This is going to end up in court.

Retirements Slow?

Still playing number games with the media:

• The “mass exodus” that has left Chicago with 1,627 fewer police officers than it had in January 2019 is slowing, newly appointed Supt. Larry Snelling said Tuesday, insisting that his department can keep pace with attrition and promotions in 2024.

  Defending the Chicago Police Department’s proposed $2 billion spending plan at his first budget hearing, Snelling sought to reassure City Council members the shortage of officers won’t get worse and might even get better, even after Mayor Brandon Johnson fulfills his promise to promote 100 more detectives and increase the number of sergeants.

"...might even get better..."? You got syrup to go with those waffles Larry?

• “We will not deplete patrol to make promotions to detectives or sergeants,” Snelling told Council members. “As we move bodies in from the academy and we get new officers ... trained, then and only then will we know that we can make those incremental promotions so that we don’t deplete patrol.”

So it all depends on....hiring? Imagine that. We all know how that's going, right?

• The police department has 11,726 sworn officers. That’s 1,627 fewer officers than it had in January 2019.

  In addition, 891 officers are over age 55, and 200 of them have already declared their intention to retire in 2024. Another 1,146 officers are 49 with 20 years of service, which means they’re fast approaching retirement eligibility.

  But Bob Landowski, the police department’s director of human resources, said the rate of resignations is slowing. It’s expected to reach 700 this year, compared with 1,078 in 2022 and 973 the year before.

  Snelling said there has been a “mass exodus” of officers over the last two or three years, with many officers fleeing Chicago to work for police departments in the suburbs and out of state. But those days are over, he said.

No, we're pretty sure it's still going on. Has anyone surveyed those 1,146 about to hit age 50? Twenty-and-out is a way of life on the CPD now. You're actually young enough to start a second career for ten or fifteen years. Plus all those cops over 60? They don't have to declare a thing.

• Snelling said he is confident the police department can and will keep pace with the rate of attrition, given that 450 candidates are at the police academy right now, with another class starting in November and plans to churn out 75 recruits a month through 2024.

  “To fill the vacancies, we really have to … revamp the way that we’re recruiting right now. Part of that is to start to recruit from communities. This is part of rebuilding the trust and regaining the trust of the community,” Snelling said.

And lowering standards....at least admit that Larry. There are no vehicle chases, foot chases are all but banned, using any sort of Force means you're off the street for the entire tour and will be answering questions with an FOP lawyer shortly thereafter. All that teaches cops to do is disengage even more, so burglaries go up, carjackings skyrocket, robberies galore and street "takeovers" / weekend "wildings" make tourists decide to spend their money somewhere else.

Filming Public Servants

Aldercreatures don't want to be filmed?

• A man recording a TikTok video was arrested for allegedly shoving South Side Ald. Gregory Mitchell on Monday morning in the lobby at City Hall, authorities said, in the second altercation involving a City Council member this past week.

  The 47-year-old pushed another man, later identified by sources as Mitchell, 54, in the neck area and was taken into custody, Chicago police said.

  Charges were still pending as of Tuesday afternoon. But the 47-year-old’s wife identified him as the man who had been arrested, and said the 7th Ward alderman reached for her husband first because he was filming Mitchell for a TikTok video and Mitchell wanted him to stop.

  [...]

  Mitchell declined to comment on the interaction to a reporter Tuesday, but before walking away he complained about people recording him without asking.
  

Wait....an aldercreature (a public servant) objected to being filmed (in a public building) and "reached" for the individual filming? This was the lobby, not City Council chambers.

• “You’ve got to ask me to do that kind of stuff,” Mitchell said, blocking the camera with his arm. A male voice, purportedly the man’s, said that Mitchell is a “public servant,” to which Mitchell responded, “Nah, I’m a man too, brother. You will respect me as one.” Then Mitchell is seen grabbing the phone before the video cuts off.
  

Since this guy was live-streaming his phone, there's got to be some contemporaneous footage of the entire incident, right? The aldercreature wouldn't be lying, would he? And he wouldn't be trick-bagging the police to suppress a citizen's right to film politicians speaking in public settings, would he? We recall dozens of hours of training on this stuff.

If we had our way, aldercreatures would be wearing cameras every time they were conducting city business and it would be posted live every day on a YouTube channel.

We're #1!

Nine years running now:

• Chicago has been ranked the “rattiest” city in America for the ninth consecutive year.

  Los Angeles and New York took second and third, respectively, according to the Top 50 Rattiest Cities List released by Orkin, a pest control company.

  The ranking represents the number of residential and commercial rodent treatments the company performed in the last year, and does not directly correlate to an approximate count of the rat population in each city.

We've also been ranked as the Number One Bed-Buggiest City in the First World (there are still third world shitholes that rank higher in per capita bed bugs). Los Angeles has the Bestest Tent Cities.

San Francisco has us beat on the Poopiest Streets so far though.

Training Being Filmed?

Um, what now?

• Just recently attended the 2 Day Use of Force Training. Is everyone aware that your scenarios are recorded and attached to your Personnel File? When asked why officers aren’t expressly informed at the onset of the class the instructor replied, you should assume you are always being filmed. When you get into the scenarios look around at all the cameras.

Federal Court is going to be so....so....EXCITING from this point forward!!!

Can anyone verify this? Was this negotiated?

Budget Hassle

Larry hasn't even named a First Deputy yet, but he's getting tongue baths from the Tribune, having to re-live adjudicated scandals from the Slum Times and now, SeeBS Channel 2 is looking to hassle mayor BJ over the police budget, possibly hamstringing Larry before he gets started:

• When Brandon Johnson was running for mayor, much of the campaign focused on what changes he would make to the police department which has been operating under a consent decree since 2019, and has lost more than 1,000 officers during the pandemic.

  As mayor, Johnson's proposed $16.6 billion budget did not reduce the police department "by one penny," as he promised in March. The overall police budget actually increases from $1.9 to $1.99 billion. 

  And while newly appointed Supt. Larry Snelling can spool up new units and reorganize parts of the department, Johnson's proposed budget shows some modest, but noteworthy changes.

Changes? What kind of changes?

• The new budget increases the ranks of middle management, calling for 100 more sergeants, 20 more lieutenants, 10 more captains and three more commanders. The budget also makes good on the promise of adding 100 more detectives. The overall headcount of personnel actually increases slightly from about 13,976 in 2023 to a budgeted 14,072 full time positions next year.

What the media doesn't seem to realize - and the Department counts on them not realizing - is that 100 Detectives have to come from somewhere. They aren't just wished into existence. They're taken from the Officer ranks and trained up as Detectives, meaning 100 Detectives equals 100 Officers gone.

It's almost the same for Sergeants, but in a class of 100 Sergeants, about 40 come from the ranks of Detectives and 60 from Patrol Officers, meaning 100 other vacancies at those levels.

Then there's the retirements. If you wanted to retire in 2024, you have to declare by Autumn 2023 (unless you're sixty). We don't have the actual numbers in front of us, but we know a few dozen leaving in our circle and predictions were something over 400. We expect 500 or more due to the DNC.

The rest of the article is full of numbers, breakdowns of those numbers, and a surprising amount of errors, some quite large. Detectives (who have their own Bureau) are under Patrol? Typical media ignorance.

Nickname?

So we were trying out a nickname for Snelling - Ol' Uncle Lar, but it's awkward to type and isn't really catchy, like Groot or 9.5 or Shortshanks was.

But one of our regular commenters (J Backstabich) used what may be the next great nickname:

• Superintendent Breath of Fresh Air (or....BOFA)
  

If you know, you know.

No idea if it'll catch on, but we're going to roll with it for now. Leisure Suit Larry might also be acceptable.

Unit 542

So BJ has been increasing the size of his protection detail. It's seriously rivaling Secret Service details for persons in line for the presidency. For comparison purposes:

• Daley had about 20 officers and 2 sergeants acting as "commanders"
• Rahm had 16 officers and a sergeant acting as "commander"
• Lori brought over multiple actual sergeants, a lieutenant and expanded her house detail, including a 2-man car in front, a 2-man car in back, 2 roving vehicles and a SWAT heavy weapons vehicle on the corner.
  

BJ's detail is currently 32 officers, 5 sergeants, a lieutenant and a commander. We can see four 8-man teams, each led by a sergeant with a spare in case of furloughs, days off, whatever. And a lieutenant to supervise the sergeants....but a commander over a single lieutenant?

And if the rumors are to be believed, the OT bill is HUGE as of late. Unit 542 is racking up hours that would make a Detective Area blush, so if you're missing that Tiered Deployment money, you might want to apply to guard BJ and his house.

By the way, the house detail is rumored to be well over 120 officers.

Rumors

Unconfirmed reports of GardaWorld vans at the possibly-soon-to-be-Bidenville site by the Ag high School.

GardaWorld is the company not only transporting illegals to assorted destinations, but were the successful bidders for Tent City (Cities?) here in town.

Anyone have pictures? We have drone shots of the construction site:

We don't have any point of reference for these so we can't speculate as to types of systems or functions of previous machinery on site, nor do we know anything about farming.

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

And so does SCC.....

So Part II of the Slum times smear job on CPD dropped today. The Department has been singled out for some slanted reporting concerning outside associations of a tiny minority of Officers....something like nine guys still on the job.

If there was any sort of fairness in the media, there would be a bunch of articles about gang infiltration of assorted branches of city government (Hired Truck/Photo Estudio Munoz), maybe something about the Outfit (Department of Tony Transportation), assorted NOI followers and #blm adherents demonstrating in uniform.

We recall writing an article about those incels of antifa teaching our children in CPS. We were even provided with social media evidence!

This asshole is still employed at Bridge Elementary on the northside, even after naming, doxing and harassing the CPD parent of one of his students. CTU defended him of course, claiming that what a teacher did "off the clock" was protected speech.

But not what cops do according to the media.

Terror Warning

Without a doubt:

• Federal officials are warning that members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hezbollah could be crossing through the southern border, according to an internal Oct. 20 memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

  The San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sent the memo warning that due to the war between Israel and Hamas, there could be encounters of terror-tied individuals who are seeking to travel to or from the Middle East via transit across the southern border. Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah, all of which are U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, have been committing attacks on Israel in a war that began with a surprise attack on hundreds of civilians on Oct. 7.

  “San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” the memo reads.

The link up top has the "Law Enforcement Sensitive" document provided by the feebs, and we linked to a previous report about the astounding number of foreign nationals who weren't originating from South American countries.

Stay alert.

West Coast Budget Cuts

San Francisco trying desperately to stop the death spiral that lib-tards have put them in:

• San Francisco's mayor has ordered city departments including police and public health to propose budget cuts of $206 million by next week in a desperate attempt to reverse the stricken city's 'doom loop' spiral into economic collapse.

  Law enforcement budgets in the city, which is ravaged by homelessness, drugs and a downtown business exodus, face cuts of $27.6 million, while the public health department could lose a further $25.9 million, according to a DailyMail.com analysis.

  The fire department must propose reductions of around $10.5 million to meet the mayor's demand, while city's crumbling Municipal Transport Agency must find savings of $15.5 million, a review of official figures suggests.

  In a letter dated October 11, Mayor London Breed ordered departments to propose massive cuts to this year's budgets in order to prevent San Francisco reaching a $500 million deficit by 2025.

Not that we're attempting to rain on the pay-raise parade that we just won in arbitration.

Nor to wish ill on the record contract raises that BJ is going to grant his cronies at CPS in the very near future.

But SanFran is maybe a year or two ahead of where we are.

Batten Down the Hatches

A couple of stormy days on tap. The Slum Times has a couple of articles on tap about Officers associating with "extremist" groups and by golly, why haven't they  all been fired?

We'd bet a pile of toothpicks that these articles will be used to pressure other aldercreatures to vote against last week's Arbitrator decision, not to mention that it will be dug up for the next decade or so since the Burge stuff has gotten stale after thirty years.

We'll also bet that this "off-duty association" garbage will only be used one direction - to the right.

No links for the Slum Times, you can find it yourself.

Interviewing Larry

The slobbery love letter from the Tribune is subtitled "he made his own mistakes...learned from them":

• It was around 7 a.m. on Thursday, May 12, 1994. Two officers assigned to the Chicago Police Department’s Englewood District were to take two arrestees to the neighboring Chicago Lawn District station to be photographed.

  One of the men, arrested on a domestic violence charge, tried to chat with the officers during the 2 ½-mile drive west on 63rd Street. The officer in the front passenger seat wasn’t in the mood to make friends.

  “Do you take me as a joke, m----------?” he said to the handcuffed arrestee. “Do you think you know everything?”

  The other officer pulled over the van, and both cops got out and opened the vehicle’s side door. The officer from the passenger seat — 25 years old, with two years on the job — then slapped the man twice on the left side of his face.

  He would later deny that he slapped the arrestee or cursed at him, but internal affairs investigators didn’t buy that, and the officer was handed a two-day suspension. In August, Mayor Brandon Johnson selected that officer, Larry Bernard Snelling, a native of Englewood, to be the next superintendent of the Police Department.

The REALLY amazing part isn't that he made supernintendo. It's that despite a suspension for smacking a handcuffed Black arrestee, he got a number of sweet inside spots, stayed there for years, rose above a Don Juan reputation, parlayed all of that into multiple "merit" promotions (since he couldn't actually pass a test with a promotable score), and still made supernintendo.

Show of hands - how many coppers with similar job histories, would be permitted to "learn from his/her mistakes" and rise to the top?

That's not a lot of hands.

Shelter List

The Contrarian twitter account has the following graphic up:

 

It's a list of shelters, total occupants and Wards that have shelters. It is not the Districts.

Thirty-two Wards don't seem to have a single shelter. Some Wards, like the 4th, the 27th, the 39th and the 49th have two. 

And as the Contrarian points out, the 1st, 35th and 40th Wards, home to some of the loudest advocates for illegals - as well as anti-cop, anti-Columbus, pro-gangbanger shit talkers - don't have a single illegal shelter in their Wards.

Next Year Furloughs

Have we gotten a directive/order/whatever delineating which furlough segments are going to be closed next year for the DNC?

We've heard/seen rumors about 9th Period, but if there's an official letter out, we haven't seen it.

The Department would have to increase the slots in other segments, though many are making plans to retire before next summer's killing season begins.

UPDATE: Rumor?

• 9A blocked
  8B and Full 8 not permitted to extend on the end.
  Adding to 6,7,8, & 13.

More on the Contract

From the Tribune:

• The city of Chicago and the union representing rank-and-file police officers have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract that would provide a roughly 20% raise for officers and allow those accused of serious misconduct to have their disciplinary cases decided behind closed doors.

  Chicago Police Department officers and detectives would receive a 5% pay hike in both 2024 and 2025, and cost-of-living raises — likely between 3% and 5% — in 2026 and 2027. What’s more, each of the more than 10,000 active duty CPD officers in the FOP would receive a one-time $2,500 retention bonus, regardless of how long they’ve worked for the department, according to City Hall sources and an internal union email provided to the Tribune.

And here's the concern many have voiced:

• The most controversial element of the contract appears to be a provision that Benn awarded to the union allowing officers to opt to have disciplinary cases decided by an arbitrator out of public view instead of by the city’s Police Board.

  Johnson’s office said in its statement that the city was “deeply disappointed in the arbitrator’s decision to claw back transparency,” and that the administration “remains committed to moving forward with any avenue available to keep the police disciplinary process transparent” and would focus “on implementing accountability measures within the Chicago Police Department, supporting police offices and a robust community safety agenda.”

The usual anti-police progressive turds are already saying they disagree with the arbitrator's recommendations, though it's unclear if they have enough support to derail the entire package.

Cleared

The Police Board cleared a number of cops at their last meeting:

• Two officers accused of lying about the 2010 fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man were cleared of the allegations by the Chicago Police Board on Thursday. 
• Also on Thursday, the board found [an officer] not guilty of using excessive force in a case stemming from a George Floyd protest near 33 W. Kinzie St. on May 30, 2020.  

Color us amazed.

CFD Rumor

Anyone from the Fire side have info? True/False?

• Off topic: tomorrow 300 ff/paramedics are dropping out of the paramedic program resulting in a downgrade of 30 CFD rigs to BLS

Someone stirring the pot?

Finally, a Good Sentence

Well this is a welcome change from previous incidents:

• On August 9, 2020, a spark of misinformation about a man shot by Chicago police ignited a night of widespread looting along the Magnificent Mile, the Loop, and in neighborhood retail corridors across the city.

  The misinformation that the Chicago Police Department’s then-superintendent, David Brown, blamed for the uprising were inaccurate social media claims that cops had shot a 15-year-old boy.

  In a city still reeling from waves of rioting and looting that followed the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, the chatter spread quickly and widely. Soon, the rumors turned into direct calls for looting in the downtown area. By that night, a rampage was underway.

• The officers responded to calls of a man with a gun in Moran Park, and they saw Allen nearby, matching the suspect’s description. He ran, and the police chased him into an alley, where he fired at least eight shots at them, officials said.

  [...]

  A jury needed less than three hours to convict Allen on four counts of attempted murder and four counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm earlier this year. Today, Judge Thomas Byrne sentenced him to 60 years: 40 years for attempted murder plus 20 years for personally discharging a firearm during the crime, according to clerk of court records.

Sixty years. We spend a lot of time ripping Crimesha's office for their constant string of f@#$ ups - it almost seems a job requirement. But even a blind squirrel finds a nut every so often. Looks like the office found a nut.

Arbitration "Mostly Win"

This is merely a summary. The full results are probably at the FOP site, or soon will be:

The raises are almost double what had been previously negotiated? D2A for numerous testable ranks, comparable specialization stipends similar to what CFD gets. Comp Time sellbacks.

All good....even great news.

It looks like the paternity leave is a dead issue for now and the annual retention bonus has become a one-time payment in 2024. Unmentioned in this graphic, any word on oversight compromises, loses or wins. We'll have to see what the final decision reads shortly.

So far, we'd call this a "mostly win." Nice job.

Contrarian Articles

A couple of good ones hit the Contrarian website these part few days.

First up, who is really behind Crimesha's reign of error:

• Cook County prosecutor’s war on Chicago Police proves the revolution will be televised

  Despite the best efforts of Chicago media to protect the most corrupt prosecutor in the country, Kim Foxx’s malevolence and dark designs for the very system she purportedly represents occasionally sneaks out.

Marty Preib outlines numerous failed prosecutions of cops for bullshit reasons. Crimesha's record of crap cases failing at trial rival those of Mosby in Baltimore who indicted six officers and tried three for the death of Freddie Gray. After losing all three trials, she dropped the charges against the other rest. She was sued by all of the involved officers and was recently declared "indigent" and is now facing numerous charges herself.

The second article is in regard to the Gang Database being tossed: (link corrected)

• On September 7, 2023, Chicago’s interim Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) voted down a plan for the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to inaugurate a modernized gang database. A unanimous vote of the seven-member CCPSA, by casting ballots against CPD maintaining any record of gang members, the panel overseeing CPD has hamstrung police power in the fight against gang crime and made law-abiding residents considerably less safe.

  The apogee of a six-year battle waged by a coalition of community groups and Chicago’s anti-police movement, the campaign to end CPD’s gang database began in earnest in 2017 with protests alleging the gang directory was flawed and portrayed minorities as wholly responsible for the city’s stupefying violence. Following two years of obnoxious, overwrought sneering from community activists, the then-Inspector General for the City of Chicago, Joe Ferguson, completed a sweeping review of the gang database.

Florian Sohnke dives into the creation  and modifications of the database, how it was used and the "progressive" movement's drive to purge it from existence, hamstringing all sorts of investigations based on gang histories and associations.

Go read the articles at the Contrarian website - link on the right hand side.

Lead Feet Chauffeurs

This is a regular occurrence on the assorted security details:

• Brandon Johnson has only been Chicago’s mayor for five months, but he is already outperforming his predecessors by one metric: His SUVs are racking up red light and speed camera violations faster than any of them.

  Since taking the keys to City Hall, the black SUVs that Chicago cops drive him around town in have racked up an impressive 11 moving violations, according to records reviewed by CWBChicago. That’s about one ticket every two weeks. One of the SUVs picked up a parking ticket earlier this month, too.

  Over the years, we’ve told you about motorcade tickets racked up by Rahm Emanuel, Lori Lightfoot, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. But none of them accrued violations as prodigiously as Johnson.

  The mayor’s drivers went next level on September 1 by getting a red light ticket on one of his cars and, 65 minutes later, getting a speeding ticket on another.

The embedded links in the CWB story outline motorcade tickets by the past two mayor and Prickwrinkle.

We try very hard not to get red light or speeding camera tickets because we don't like giving our money away. For these guys to get one ticket every two weeks.....well, let's hope they don't get into an accident getting a politician around town. It would be hard to explain with that driving record.

Protests Getting Intense

The 12th Ward aldercreature got a taste of what voters are feeling about now:

• NOW: Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th), whose ward has the planned tent site, arrived and was immediately encompassed by screaming protesters. The situation got so tense that CPD broke up the crowd and put the Alderwoman + her staffer in a squad car and left

Here's the Twitter link - the video is a bunch of noisy protestors yelling, chanting, blocking the police and aldercreature. The one sign is amusing:

Which is exactly the problem. The aldercreatures are so beholden to the leftist/progressive narrative, they've completely failed in their duty to REPRESENT the people who elected them.

We really can't stand politicians failing to answer questions from their employers - the voters.

Take for example, the Chicago Agricultural High School in Mount Greenwood. There's been a lot of construction going on there for almost a month now. The school sits on 72 acres and has a working 40 acre farm. The voters in Mount Greenwood have concerns, so they contacted aldercreature O'Shea. His office has said that the construction is "utility work." Then later, it was a waterline for the cattle on the farm....but the cattle are only there May thru October. 

But that doesn't explain the electricians. Anyone know what a tent city needs to exist?

• water
• electricity
  

Is there a tent city going up in Mount Greenwood on CPS property? Is this going to be a rush job so no one can organize protests like aldercreature Ramirez just experienced? The shifting story line doesn't inspire confidence.

Irish Democracy Takes Hold

Irish Democracy is defined by Tennessee Law Professor Glenn H Reynolds (better known as "Instapundit" or simply "the blogfather") as:

• More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called ‘Irish Democracy,’ the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.

His site link is over on the right hand side and he is one of the leading voice of Libertarian thought, quoted as saying:

• "I'd like to live in a world in which happily married gay people have closets full of assault weapons to protect their pot."

Looks like even blue Illinois - which is blue only because of Cook County - is a little fed up with democrats overreaching:

• With Illinois’ gun and magazine ban still facing legal hurdles in federal court, a registry created in relation to the ban has been open for a week. A fraction of a percent of gun owners have complied so far. 

  As part of the Protect Illinois Communities Act that was enacted earlier this year, the registration portal for firearms owners in Illinois that own certain semi-automatic firearms, accessories and ammunition opened Oct. 1. While the law bans more than 170 semi-automatic rifles, shotguns and handguns, it also bans handgun magazines over 15 rounds and rifle magazines over 10 rounds. Magazines do not have to be registered.

  Illinois State Police published the first round of statistics Tuesday, and of more than 2.4 million Firearm Owner ID card holders, 1,050 individuals have registered a total of 3,202 firearms, .50 caliber ammunition and accessories.

  “You’re at 0.0004%. That’s a rounding error,” gun rights advocate Todd Vandermyde told The Center Square.

There's our old buddy, Todd Vandermyde, still the go-to guy for gun rights info, explaining that FOUR-TEN-THOUSANDS of one percent of Illinois gun owners are in compliance with State Law (effective January 2024). The number will probably go up slightly, but....

The video we linked a couple days back warns that the Porky administration may release some "compliance numbers" closer to 70% in an effort to scare other persons into registering weapons. A truthful analysis paints a far different picture and should (but won't) make democrats take notice that the reins are slipping.

Lead By Example

A comment in the post about Ol' Uncle Lar's "aggressive" policing demand he lead by example.

We think that's a great idea! In fact, we've even got a list of requirements for his Lead By Example Tour:

• Ol' Uncle Lar and another exempt of his choice (must be White, Hispanic or Asian - diversity you know!) will go out on patrol, preferably in 006, 015, 011. 007 is out since he lived/worked there for a while and no units. It will be 3rd or 1st Watch and they will be assigned a day off group.
  
• They will respond to in-progress calls and write their own reports. They will wear body cameras and be held to CPD policy and Illinois State Law.
  
• There will be tickets. There will be arrests, at least one every other day. And there WILL be TRR's. The TRR's will be reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved by the Watch Operations Lieutenant (yeah, we're aware of the approval process...work around it)
• They will be required to call Detectives for any felony arrests. They will answer the ASA inquiries for the denials. Should a charge actually be approved, they will make the preliminary hearing and all subsequent court appearances, regardless of sleep deprivation and upcoming shifts.
• They will answer all COPA inquiries (with appropriate representation) and should administrative charges be filed or a Federal lawsuit materialize, they'll go to court or callback for that, too.

After a full three period training cycle, the results of Ol' Uncle Lar and his partner's activity will be posted for everyone to see on in a publicly available manner. He's talked-the-talk about "aggressive policing," but we need to see if he can actually walks-the-walk. Then, and only then, can we see if "aggressive policing" is the usual bullshit or it's actually real change.

To make it really interesting, maybe thirty or forty exempts should man a watch in one of the shittier Districts for three months. Just for fun, one of their days off will be cancelled per cycle with maybe seventy-two hours notice....screwing up previously planned family events.

And after all is said and done, HeyJackass.com can sell t-shirts.

Trib and Slum Times Slanders

Goebbels had nothing on these media assholes:

• Plainfield man fatally stabbed 6-year-old Muslim boy after listening to conservative talk radio, prosecutors say

That's the Slum Times headline attempting to tie-in conservative talk radio with a nut job. Here's how tenuous that connection actually is:

• .... a Plainfield man became increasingly concerned about what he was hearing on conservative talk radio....
• Czuba’s wife told detectives that he regularly listens to conservative talk radio and was very interested in current events
  

That's it. Imagine the outrage if this same asshole wrote something like:

• The non-demonized yutes were observed in the car listening to rap music before speeding off and committing three drive by shootings.

Correlation does not imply causation. This is crap "reporting" and is actually closer to gaslighting, exactly like Clinton/Reno blaming Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

The Tribune gets into the act (remember - there is no coordination among the media!):

• Community condemns ‘hateful rhetoric’ as factor in 6-year-old Palestinian child’s death at Plainfield vigil

That's the headline. Here's the attempted tie-in:

• Will County prosecutors said in court Monday that the suspect in Wadea’s death, landlord Joseph Czuba, had grown “heavily interested” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas through conservative talk radio.

We had pizza the other night. If we had ended up in a shooting, we suppose that would be the headline?

• Cop who ate pizza shoots Knife-Wielding Maniac who community described as "lovable teddy bear" after he stabbed three
  

You know what we listen to most days? Conservative talk radio. Because they tell the truth far more often than the Tribune or the Slum Times propagandists.

No Apology Yet

We are bored.

And when we get bored, we promised to mention Jennifer Koniarski/McClendon and her threats against the blog.

We also promised to link to the judgement she threatened us over, which is PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE and posted on a GOVERNMENT WEBSITE (auto-download at the link) in accordance with Illinois State Law and Court procedures.

In case you don't know what we're talking about:

• Threats Against the Blog
• Threats Update
• Intended Consequence
  

Open post for the morning.

Cop Killer to be Released

You keep electing democrats, this is what happens:

• A Cook County judge on Wednesday cleared the way for the release of a man who has been locked up in prison for more than four decades for the fatal shooting of a Chicago police officer.

  Associate Judge Alfredo Maldonado resentenced Ronnie Carrasquillo, 65, to time served after he spent the last 46 years behind bars for the 1976 murder of Chicago police Officer Terrence Loftus.

  An Illinois appellate court in August vacated Carrasquillo’s original sentence of 200 to 600 years and ordered the resentencing. The court ruled that while Carrasquillo was not a juvenile at the time of the killing, circumstances of his upbringing and his maturity level at the time of the crime should allow him a “meaningful” opportunity for release.

No word from the judge, the defense or the convict on what "meaningful" life Officer Loftus might have had if it wasn't taken from him by a gangbanging piece of shit.

Scumbag didn't even bother to keep his story straight over the years, changing it in an effort to play on the liberal sympathies of the parole board:

• Carrasquillo admitted to the killing but has described the shooting as accidental, the records show. He’s said that he leaned on the car because he recently had been stabbed and had limited use of his left arm, according to the records. The board has noted claims that Carrasquillo made in the past that he was firing warning shots.

And here's a real kick in the teeth:

• Before Carrasquillo’s May parole board hearing, Thomas Breen, who prosecuted the Carrasquillo case as a Cook County assistant state’s attorney, indicated to the board that Loftus’ killing wasn’t intentional, according to records from a February board meeting.

  Breen said “this was a difficult case with several witnesses that had been abused in the police station.” The records show that Breen has stated that he is “astounded” that Carrasquillo hasn’t been paroled yet.

Breen is a real piece of shit for saying this (that's an opinion counselor, so go fuck yourself if you don't like it). His even appearing on behalf of a cop killer should make decent people shun him forever.

• Carrasquillo’s lawyers have noted that over the years he has mentored and started programs for other people who were incarcerated.

Anyone know how many Little League teams Officer Loftus might have mentored? How many School Boads or Community Councils he might have sat on? How many sons he would have raised or daughters he might have walked down the aisle and how many grandchildren he might be bouncing on his knee had he lived?

Certain crimes should be unforgivable. Rape, child molestation, battery of any elderly, handicapped or mentally infirm individual, and cop killing. Two-hundred to six-hundred years is never enough.

Note: this isn't Parole Board stupidity - they rejected his release eight-to-one. This one is solely on the courts, and that means solely on the democrats.

Snelling to be Drug Tested

That's the only reason we can see for speaking this tripe out loud:

• Newly anointed Snelling takes over a depleted department – down nearly 1,500 officers from just a few years ago – and a city frustrated by frequent flashes of lawlessness. From dangerous drifting by showboats to young people taking over downtown streets, some committing crimes, and officers looking on apparently powerless to stop it does concern Snelling. 

  “There is a way to stop it and that approach is to be more aggressive and I intend to do that,” he said.

  When asked what a more aggressive approach by officers looks like, Snelling replied, “That means doing what it takes.”

Wait....they're admitting we're down 1,500? That means it's probably closer to 2,500.

But seriously Uncle Lar? (we're trying out a new nickname, based on WLS Larry Lujack and his famous "Animal Stories" radio bit). "...doing what it takes"?

• “There are onlookers who believe you can talk these people into leaving. They’re not going to leave,” Snelling added. “So it takes a little more aggressive behavior from our police officers to stop it.”

Whoa whoa whoa. What??? Now we know he's high....or drunk. We haven't talked like that in years....not without two or three whiskeys in us.

Have you seen the States Attorney's office Lar? Have you seen the malfeasance, crime coddling,  anything to avoid prosecuting an actual criminal Crimesha? Cops spit on, battered, run over with stolen squad cars fighting for a tiny measure of justice? Or how Felony Murder charges are dropped to pleas?

Or how cop killers sentenced to six-hundred years are about to be released.

And that's just the police side of it. Regular citizens know the game is rigged against the victims and they're not even bothering to make reports. All the "crime is down" bullshit should be rewritten as "reported crime is down." At least you'd be telling the truth.

• While a significant surge in carjackings is somewhat subsiding this year, car thefts are up 68% over last year and 231% higher than 2019. While several crimes captured on video may contribute to a sense of fear, Snelling admits it’s more than a perception problem. 

  “To sit here and say, ‘We don’t have a crime problem,’ I’d be lying through my teeth,” Snelling said. “I won’t do that. I believe in transparency. Let’s tell the truth. We can’t resolve any problems until we tell the truth. The truth is we have a crime problem here. Is it exacerbated through the media and social media? Absolutely.”

So....no syrup on shit pancakes? Or was that your temporary predecessor? We get so confused with the same BS being spouted by so many different tools.

You aren't impressing us Lar. And quite frankly, you're dooming us at Federal Court with this "aggressive" talk.

Liberal Awakened

World Class University, right?

• UChicago, where I'm a student, has become completely unsafe. This is one of the best universities in the world, yet at least 10 students have been mugged at gunpoint in 4 days.

  The administration is accepting it as normal. They won't even release info on what the thugs look like, despite the victims reporting they're a bunch of young black guys who have done mugging after mugging and gotten away with it.

  UChicago, arguably the most intellectually demanding school in America, has been reduced to a playing ground for black criminals. None of the students will speak up because they fear being called racist. None of the administrators will do anything because they fear being called racist.

Ten-to-one he deleted this tweet within a week.

Five-to-one he gets doxxed by his fellow students.

But hey, welcome to the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy kid!

Owed Overtime

So this judgement is out there somewhere, but the City refused to pay:

• Chicago Police Department officers and supervisors are owed about $165 million because the city miscalculated the overtime they were paid for over a decade, federal court records show from a case filed on behalf of the police .

  More than two years have passed since a federal judge ruled in favor of the two plaintiffs — a former police union officer and a CPD sergeant — in the 2015 overtime case filed in Chicago.

  But the city and the attorneys who filed the case continue to argue in federal court over how to calculate the amount owed to cops affected by the overtime issues, court filings show.

  In a recent filing in US District Court, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said the original estimate of the sum owed to the police officers was approximately $52.1 million. But they said in the Dec. 8 filing that the final bill had skyrocketed over time to $164,735,255 while “at least $862,889 a month in damages continues to accrue.”

The article is from March, which is while we were on hiatus. It quotes two of our critics (Paul Geiger Geiger Geiger who threatened us with legal action at one point and Bill Dougherty, a useless FOP blob who denigrated the blog in the newsletter and at meetings). But hey, water under the bridge, right?

Anyway, the City is dragging their feet, appealing the un-appealable, scheduling and then refusing to deliberate in good faith, etc. Geiger Geiger Geiger has asked for hard deadlines from the judge to force this issue but the article is old and hasn't been updated.

So how about liens? Could the plaintiffs file liens against the city? We recall an incident years ago in which a Canadian printer was stiffed by the old USSR for $26K. In response, he had the Toronto police seize a 120-meter Soviet cargo ship worth a few million dollars. To secure the release, the USSR had to post a bond, from which the debt was settled.

Can the plaintiffs seize a city building and put it on the market to settle the debt? Granted, finding a structure worth anything in the neighborhood of $164 million might be a stretch in these times....they might have to grab two or three. 

And then we can store illegals there instead of police stations.