MAGA Country Baby!

(we inadvertently reversed the order of the top two posts - this is the correct order)

The new national narrative is that everything is to be blamed on "right wing extremism." Hell, it's the new international narrative as the governments of France and Ireland are spouting this nonsense after "religion of peace" adherents are stabbing teenagers and six-year-old children.

And mayor Blowie is right there with them:

• Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed “right-wing extremism” for some of the ills facing his crime-ridden city.

  Johnson issued his statement about the “far right” during a press conference on Tuesday.

  “What we’ve seen is a very raggedy form of right-wing extremism”‘ the mayor said. “Everyone knows that the right-wing extremism in this country has targeted democratically run cities, and quite frankly, they have been quite intentional about going after democratically ran cities that are led by people of color.”

  The mayor even said that such “right-wing extremists” aim to create “division and chaos because that is what that particular political party has been about.”

The last time a republican was in charge of Chicago was 1931. The last "republican" aldercreature was that guy up north in the 41st Ward we think. The last county-wide office held by a republican was probably O'Malley in the States Attorneys Office. We might be mistaken, but not by much.

Then Blowie gets nasty:

• “It is the same party that wouldn’t accept that President Obama was actually an American. It’s the same Republican right-wing extremism that stormed the capital, it’s the same right-wing extremism that refuses to accept the results of the civil war. It’s raggedy. It’s disrespectful. It’s mean-spirited,” he said.

  “It is abysmal and it is an affront to everything that is good about this country for the extremism in this country to use people as political tools to settle political scores for something that happened over 400 years ago. They’re still mad that a black man is free in this country,” he added.

All sane persons, including Trump, abandoned that canard long ago. No one "stormed" the Capitol as the now released videos show Capitol Police opening doors and escorting people inside. those not accepting the results of the Civil War were democrats with their white-robed antifa supporters and a Republican president had to send the US Army to desegregate (corrected) schools when the Dixiecrats blockaded the doors.

Blowie isn't just a weak-minded tool on the verge of another nervous breakdown, he's an ignorant asshole stoking racial divisions in a desperate attempt to regain an approval rating that is alreadey lower than Groot.

MAGA Shooting

(we inadvertently reversed the order of the top two posts - this is the correct order) 

In mayor Brandon "Blowie" Johnson's Chicago, we have this on Tuesday:

• Police on Wednesday are questioning a suspect after a baby was shot in the head late Tuesday night in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.

  The 9-month-old child was in the first block of East Garfield Boulevard about 11 p.m. Tuesday when she was shot in the head, according to police.

  The child was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition and a person of interest was being questioned, according to police, who have not announced charges.

Damn all these re-thug-licans running around shooting 9-month-old babies. 

Why does it always fall on Blowie, who is married to a black woman and raising black children on the west side, to have to clean up this right wing trash ruining Chicago neighborhoods and making it impossible to run a business or raise a family?

You all need to start voting for more progressives, more communists and more democrats!

Heroes Honored

An event that hasn't taken place in a few years:

• Most people would call it heroism when police officers don’t let the threat of being shot stop them from trying to protect others, or firefighters crawl through a burning home to save a toddler.

  But the men and women honored Wednesday with the city’s top awards for police and fire department bravery modestly pinned it on good training.

  Still, one firefighter acknowledged that saving a child was “awesome. I’ll carry that with me forever.”

  After a four-year hiatus begun during COVID-19, Mayor Brandon Johnson presented the Carter Harrison and Lambert Tree awards to six police officers and firefighters. It’s unclear why the ceremony hasn’t resumed until now, but Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling thanked the mayor for reviving it.

It wasn't held because (A) none of the heroes wanted to be seen with Groot, who hated them anyway and (B) City Hall is full of gutless politicians who were required to follow the narrative that COVID was a killer disease (with a 99% survival rate....unless you had comorbidities) and everyone had to stay home without jobs (unless you were an aldercreature with a fancy restaurant).

In any event, a number of awards were handed out and much applause was given to cops and firefighters. Congratulations to all.

Low 80s All Week

Not here of course, but down in Venezuela. 

Here, the illegals are "battling" near freezing temps:

• The Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District remains one of the few stations where migrants are being placed as the city finds housing for them.

  The Harrison District has a warming bus from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m., but the conditions even during the day are very difficult.

  Migrants told WGN-TV that they’re experiencing freezing water, ice covering tents inside and out, and are not being allowed inside the station.

Good news though! Canvas tents are going up at Toxic Waste Dump City!

That's a sizable fixture, endorsed by the aldercreature, who then backtracked once the community got wind of how big this monstrosity was going to be and her constituents ended up chasing her out of the neighborhood.

NYPD Hiring

The massive shortages across the country are most easily seen on the east coast:

• New York City Mayor Eric Adams was elected largely because he ran as a moderate who would be tough on crime.

  Now the embattled Mayor is facing challenge after challenge, not the least of which is that his NYC Police Department is imploding, and he doesn’t even have the funds to run and hire from his own police academy due to the expenses stemming from the migrant crisis. He is slashing $4 billion from city services in order to pay for taking care of the illegal migrants who have flooded New York due to its sanctuary policies.

The losses?

• 2,500 cops have quit this year
• 10,000 have left since 2020

And of those 2,500 this year....around 1,000 left without being eligible for any sort of pension. And there aren't any solutions on the horizon.

Math Time!

CWB spent a bit of time in the weeds and come up with this humorous article about the obscurities in the City budget filings:

• Are missing women falling prey to a serial killer in Chicago? How many shell casings do Chicago police officers pick up in a year? If someone calls 311 but only speaks Yoruba, does the city have a translator to help them?

  Those are just a few of the intriguing questions that Chicago aldermen have asked city department heads during annual budget hearings in recent years. And all the answers can be found in memos the department leaders sent back to the City Council after doing their research.

  Many of the questions and answers are real yawners. Every once in a while, though, there are some gems. Here are a few of our favorites.

And they go through a couple of the amusing trivial BS that politicians then use in campaign ads and to show their voters that they're "keeping an eye on the details!" when they run for reelection.

But this was our favorite, and unfortunately, it happened during The Hiatus:

• As of October 2021, Chicago police officers had picked up 69,290 shell casings that year, an increase from 59,183 in 2020, the department said. For 2021, that breaks down to 303 shell casings per square mile or about 4.74 per block.

We want to have fun with this!

• If we project the 69,290 over 10 months in 2021, we can estimate that for the year, there were 80,835 shell casings recovered by CPD;
• That works out to 6,736 per month;
• 221 shell casings per day
• meaning that in Chicago, there are about 9 shots per hour, all year long

And that's just the RECOVERED shell casings. there have to be thousands more that get lost in the dirt, overgrown lots, sewers, etc. We have many follow-up questions:

• what's the breakdown by caliber?
  
• how do these recovered numbers compare to pre-Shotspotter years?
• what does this work out to in pounds of brass? nickel? aluminum?
• compare these recovered numbers to the numbers of gunshot woulds showing up in hospitals - what's the hit percentage? how many shots does it take to get a single fatality in Chicago?

That's a lot of math, but we'll take a guess that the hit percentage is measured in fractions of a single percentile and the number of bullets it takes to get a single murder is many many hundreds.

Our Favorite Time of Year

Regardless of snowfall or lack thereof, one-hundred-seven miles of Streets will be off limits for overnight parking until April:

• Chicago’s winter overnight parking ban will go into effect Friday morning, meaning cars parked on bus routes and main roads will be towed regardless of snow.

  The citywide ban affects 107 miles of streets and will be in effect nightly from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m.  until April 1. Drivers can visit chicagoshovels.org to check which routes are affected.

  Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Cole Stallard said the ban is a safety issue. He said it keeps routes clear for emergency vehicles, public transportation and snowplows, which are unable to fully plow and salt roads when cars are left parked.

We haven't really kept track, but hundreds of miles of streets have been rendered un-parkable for bike lanes that aren't plowed all winter. Also, what used to be two lanes in each direction are now one. It's made parts of the city undrivable and other parts very truck unfriendly, hindering economic development.

But the part that makes it our favorite is the betting - the over/under on how many vehicles get towed on the first night. We're a little out of practice, so this will probably be off a bit:

• we'll set the over/under at 135 vehicles

Place your bets.

Fata$$ Lies Again

And CWB is there to call him out:

• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker unloaded a whopper of a lie on Monday that would make even the Chicago Police Department’s boldest press relations executive blush.

  “Violent crime has been coming down [in Chicago], actually for three years, but in particular over the last year,” Pritzker said during an afternoon Q&A with Crain’s Chicago Business, according to The Center Square.

  “Shootings and murders have come down significantly,” Pritzker continued. “Again, it doesn’t make anyone feel safer to just hear a statistic; it will take some time, but that is something people should know.”

  “[The Chicago Police Department] publishes statistics where you can see where the problem areas are with car thefts and robberies and so on, but shootings and murders have come down significantly,” Pritzker said.

And CWB goes over the actual stats:

• While the citywide numbers are bad — and definitely not down — some police districts are in even worse shape than Chicago overall.

  The Grand Central (25th) District is struggling with a 128% increase in robberies this year. Robberies are up 125% there compared to 2019. Murders in the district are up 50% from last year and up 60% compared to 2019.

  Robberies in the Shakespeare (14th) District are up 57% from last year. Compared to 2019, they’re up by 128%, that’s 198 cases, more than offsetting the five fewer homicides, 16 fewer sexual assaults, and one fewer aggravated battery.

  The Near West (12th) District has seen six fewer murders this year than in 2019. Unfortunately, it has experienced two more sexual assaults, 32 more aggravated batteries, and 453 more robberies.

Fatass is leaving out portions of the numbers to manipulate the numbers. CWB links directly to the CompStat numbers and breaks down where the increases are worst.

Porky's numbers are twisted so badly, they're screaming...screaming like the toilet seats in the governor's mansion.

The Future Looks Good

Not if you work in media though:

• There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human.

  "Drew has spent much of his life outdoors, and is excited to guide you through his never-ending list of the best products to keep you from falling to the perils of nature," it read. "Nowadays, there is rarely a weekend that goes by where Drew isn't out camping, hiking, or just back on his parents' farm."

  The only problem? Outside of Sports Illustrated, Drew Ortiz doesn't seem to exist. He has no social media presence and no publishing history. And even more strangely, his profile photo on Sports Illustrated is for sale on a website that sells AI-generated headshots, where he's described as "neutral white young-adult male with short brown hair and blue eyes."

The article goes on to explain how SI has allegedly used AI photos of non-existent authors on AI generated articles and when confronted, deleted everything the computers are writing.

Long time readers will know that there are very few "reporters" we would give the time of day to, mostly because there aren't actually many reporters in existence any more. They've become propagandists for "the message" and exist solely to squash and suppress actual facts. And let's face it - sports reporters are pretty far down the food chain in the news business:

• A beat B and here's some video highlights that don't really need a narrative.

So easy, they've had near-cavemen do it for years. They're the easiest to replace.

Now, with "investigative reporting" all but vanished, the media merely repeats press releases and calls it "news." Hell, the national media is mostly ex-spokesweasels that served in various administrations as a stepping stone to national prominence. 

They'll be the next to be replaced by some Max Headroom character, proving once again that the 80's were far ahead of the curve in cynicism.

What's This?

It's the lobby of 017. Empty for the first time in recent memory.

We're told is still smells like hobo ass though. 

Ain't enough incense or air freshener available to clear that out for a while yet.

20 January 1901

This article appeared  in the Tribune over one-hundred-twenty years ago:

• Computations made by Chief of Police Kipley have convinced him he has the largest aggregation of fat policemen in the world. Though the Civil Service commission in passing on "eligibles" for the force attempts to regulate the corpulence of policemen, many of them have found their jobs so conducive to good health that they have become excessively obese, and the Chief has begun to wonder if the prevalence of crime has something to do with that fact. He thinks perhaps the growing bulkiness of the Officers may interfere with their agility in getting after holdup men.
  

The article is text protected, so we can't copy/paste the interesting and entertaining paragraphs, but included in the link up top is a breakdown of ranks - by total sworn officers AND estimated poundage of the ranks. 

Just to let you know, 2,843 total policemen are estimated to weigh in at 596,991 pounds and would require 298 one-ton coal wagons to transport the entire force around town.

Fourteen Robberies

Robbers have free rein of city streets:

• Chicago police are investigating a string of armed robberies that occurred in less than three hours on the North, West, South, and Southwest sides Sunday morning.

  In each case, a black Audi G5 with Illinois license plate #BW72037 pulled up and the suspects got out and put guns against the victim's heads and demanded their personal property, police said in an alert.

  In four of the incidents, the victims were beaten by the suspects, and a person was shot in one of the robberies.

  The suspects were described as three Hispanic males and one Black male wearing dark-colored hoodies, black pants, and black ski masks, Chicago police said.

And this is on top of last weekend's dozen in two hours.

Unfortunately, we don't think this trend is going to slow down until citizens start shooting a few of these non-demonized criminals. 

Kind words and de-escalation just don't seem to be working.

Illinois Shrinking?

Not just population if voters ever get this on the ballot:

• Some say the southern Illinois boundary line should be changed so that eight downstate counties can become part of Missouri. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul disagrees. 

  People in downstate Illinois have always felt more of a kinship with neighboring red states like Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana than they do with Chicago. In 2021, the idea of dividing Illinois into two states got some traction from supporters in 27 of Illinois’ 102 counties. 

  The New Illinois movement was inspired by West Virginia’s break from Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War. When Virginia seceded to form the Confederacy, West Virginia broke off to remain with the Union as a separate state.

  Eric Ivers of Jerseyville, a Jersey County Board member, sympathizes with the Illinois counties that want to become a new state. However, he thinks it is more feasible to move the boundary between Jersey County and a handful of like-minded downstate counties so that they can be part of Missouri.

Of course, the chances of this actually happening are next-to-zero. but it hints at the disconnect downstate has from Chicago's dominance of state politics.

Poll Numbers? Pffffft

We know politicians are morons,but it's difficult to remember any embracing such an unpopular position:

• Illinois Policy Institute’s Dylan Sharkey doesn’t appear surprised by the results of a recent poll showing that Chicago voters are opposed to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s tent city plan by a more than 2-to-1 margin. 

  “We’ve seen reaction from residents in the city, for example Brighton Park was selected for one of the sites for tents and it faced blowback from residents, some protested showing how polarizing the issue is,” Sharkey told The Center Square. “On top of protests, there’s also been a lawsuit filed to halt construction. More money from the city for the solution can help in the short term, but it’s not a permanent plan.”

  With the Lincoln Poll survey of 800 voters conducted over a five-day period in late October, researchers found that 63% of residents are at least somewhat against the plan, 46% of them strongly, compared to just 28% who support it and 9% who are unsure.

  Among different ethnic groups, Hispanic residents were most strongly opposed to the plan at 53%.

Two-thirds against. But mayor Blowie is full-speed ahead and construction on Tent-City-EPA Superfund Site is scheduled to begin today like he doesn't care about poll numbers or electoral blow back....which probably won't materialize. 

Blowie (and Blowie's handlers) are probably hoping for someone to try to start a tent on fire so they can pull a Juicy Smollet stunt and blame Hispanic republicans.

La La La La La La La

Anyone notice what isn't very prevalent in the media lately?

• Ukraine, which is about to lose, badly, meaning hundreds of billions of taxpayer money has gone up in smoke....and shrapnel.

Just pointing it out the media's insidious power to ignore something, taking it out of the public eye.

Like the riots in Ireland. Or the murder in France

Oh, you didn't hear about Ireland? Seems someone in Ireland stabbed three children under age of 6 along with two adults who tried to intervene. The BBC and NYT all emphasized the stabber was an "Irish citizen" of twenty years, completely ignoring the twenty-plus previous years he was raised in Algeria. Downtown Dublin burned the past two nights, including some hotels housing "migrants."

And in France? A small rural town (Crépol, Drôme) was hosting a dance and thirty or so "youths" showed up, declared, "We're here to stab white people" and proceeded to do so, cutting up dozens and killing a 16-year old boy. The "religion of peace" strikes again.

And here? Well, they're telling you that if you don't believe Bidenomics is working, you're stupid and they aren't about to remind you the Las Vegas shooter investigation is still secret. 

Hell, they're still outraged that the Tennessee trans-shooter manifesto got leaked and that Capitol Hill video is showing the DC Police probably provoked the J6 riots.

But don't worry about that new Chinese virus sweeping the Orient. It's not new at all.

A Better Example

From 016/017 District Chicago Police Scanner site, this example of a female copper taking care of business:

This video went viral after the officers were criticized for being females.

A reminder that it's very much more likely a lack of experience, fear of being the next social media video and potential lawsuits/discipline in the current political climate that deterred these officers… https://t.co/l6WiGvsPSR pic.twitter.com/EUhRRP2KZG

— 16th & 17th District Chicago Police Scanner (@CPD1617Scanner) November 26, 2023

Grappling, attempted leg sweep and then she goes full NHL Enforcer on the resistor, pulling his sweatshirt over his head and grabbing, pushing, knocking him over, while getting in at least two radio calls for assistance.

That's from a while ago, but a much better example of someone who knows what's expected when the shit hits the fan.

Embracing the Criminals Again

Democrats - once again - putting criminals ahead of actual citizens:

• A 2018 state law holding repeat gun offenders behind bars longer will be repealed on January 1. Senators tried to extend the law for another year, but House Democrats never called the plan for a vote before the fall veto session ended.

  Anyone convicted of unlawful use or possession of a firearm multiple times currently faces 7-14 years behind bars. The 2018 law also states that people convicted of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon several times could serve 6-7 years in jail.

  [...]

  The proposal gained strong bipartisan support and passed out of the Senate on a 42-12 vote Wednesday. Yet, House Bill 1440 quickly came to a halt in the House where most Democratic members are strongly opposed to penalty enhancements.

The original sponsor of this "enhanced penalties for repeat gun offenders" law? Former legislator and current Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who is suddenly embracing repeat felony UUW offenders.

Remember, this is all going on while Fatass is attempting to (A) create a gun registry and (B) making two million Illinoisans into felons when they decide not to comply with an obviously infringement on Constitutionally Protected Rights.

As a side note, is the FOID Card in trouble? Washington Gun Law cites two cases recently heard on the east (Maryland Shall Issue Inc v Moore in the 4th Circuit) and left coasts (Arnold v Kotek in the 24th Judicial District Circuit Court of Oregon) that both found a Right delayed is a Right denied. The parallels are striking.

States Attorney Race

Time to start thinking of Crimesha's replacement says the media:

• Of all the names that might be on the ballot next year running for Cook County state’s attorney, one that will assuredly not be is Kim Foxx.

  Yet the political shadow of the outgoing state’s attorney will loom large over the March primary election as potential successors will be measured up against Foxx’s roles as both an unabashed leader in the national progressive prosecution movement and a frequent focus of barbs about Chicago crime.

  So far, three candidates have announced campaigns to replace Foxx, though that list might grow throughout the next week as hopefuls must begin turning in petitions to be placed on the ballot.

After years of failing to actually prosecute crime, acting more like a defense attorney, and domesticating at her home in Flossmoor, Crimesha is headed out to greener pastures....maybe a judgeship or something. the candidates currently vying to replace her:

• After spending nearly her entire career in and around the courtroom as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney and judge, Eileen O’Neill Burke argues her breadth of experience makes her the right fit to oversee an office of more than 1,400.

  Clayton Harris III, who is backed by Preckwinkle and the Cook County Democratic Party, argues his management skills from multiple stints across Illinois government and his time in policing policy and in academia make him the best choice.

  The race also has attracted one declared Republican, former Chicago alderman and attorney Bob Fioretti, who has described Foxx’s tenure as a “disaster” that turned the office “into a social service agency instead of the prosecuting arm of the people.”

Fioretti is there to make sure O'Neill-Burke doesn't win even though she's probably the most qualified of the three.

More telling is neither O'Neill-Burke nor Harris are seeking any sort of endorsement from the FOP, meaning the demonization of the police is at such a point that anyone cozying up to cops will be painted as the extremist regardless of history.

So expect four more years of getting the shit end of the stick.

Forty-Nine...Do We Hear Fifty?

Criminal "justice"....Illinois style:

• Ronald Browning, accused of scamming Chicago businesses by posing as a city inspector while he was on parole for his 44th, 45th, and 46th felony convictions, is heading back to prison after pleading guilty to his 47th, 48th, and 49th felonies.

  He has another case pending that, if he is found guilty, will be his 50th felony conviction.

  Chicago police issued a community alert last December about a phony city inspector, a few months after Browning, 75, was paroled for running a similar scam. Cops in suburban Oak Lawn issued a similar bulletin.

  Sporting a reflective vest, Browning entered a smoothie store in the 6400 block of North Sheridan on December 13, 2022, and identified himself as a city worker. He demanded payment for replacing three carbon monoxide detectors on the building’s roof, officials said.

  He pretended to call the store’s manager on his phone, then told a store employee that the manager told him to get payment from the register. After the clerk handed over $80, he walked out the back door.

For all of you persons unfamiliar with legal terminology, a felony is a charge that is punishable by a sentence of 365 days or more in prison. Misdemeanors are punishable by anything up to 364 days.

So forty-nine felony convictions should have meant forty-nine years (of his seventy-five years of age) in the penitentiary. 

And it's highly doubtful that every single one of his felony convictions was only for a single year.

Not only that, but with sentencing enhancements, some convictions should have triggered additional years behind bars, not to mention parole violations whereby he was required to serve the remainder of any uncompleted sentences.

CWB has him down for 178 years or so in conviction time.

But there he is on the street. Contributing exactly what to society?

Sad Video

This one went viral:

• Four overweight female police officers were unable to arrest one male shoplifter in Chicago.

  The undated video of the four female officers attempting to make a retail theft arrest at 95th and Ashland was posted to X by crime news blogger 16th &17th District Chicago Police Scanner.

  The suspect, Patrick Johnson-Henry, 32, resisted the officers for about 2 minutes before escaping on foot.

  Patrick Johnson-Henry was finally taken into custody on the 9400 block of S. Justine and was charged with 4 counts of resisting police, 1 count of possession of a replica firearm, and 1 count of retail theft.

Even a retired Riverside Chief chimed in along with everyone else on the internet:

• Retired Riverside police chief criticized the Chicago police department.

  RT-This is what you get when police officers are fearful of being the next YouTube video, prosecuted, disciplined, and having the media doing an exposé on how they abused a citizen – which would be complete BS — Chief Thomas Weitzel-Retired

The radio traffic is also....sad. The sergeant calls off the foot chase, as CPD aren't allowed to chase for misdemeanor retail thefts anymore. Then someone mentions that the suspect is wearing one handcuff already, meaning all the compliance techniques taught at the Academy didn't actually gain any compliance. And based on current TRR policy, everyone involved is getting (A) a CL/CR number, (B) sent to extra refresher training, and (C) probably some suspension time.

Supernintendo Larritorius was unavailable for comment.

Look Who Woke Up

What happens when The People just ignore the law?

• Illinois residents who owned guns covered by the state’s sweeping firearms ban before it took effect last January have a little more than one month to register those weapons with the Illinois State Police before facing the possibility of criminal penalties.

  Registration began Oct. 1, and through Nov. 21, 3,439 owners had registered nearly 6,600 guns they owned before those firearms became illegal to possess or sell in Illinois, according to state records.

  While the degree of compliance is impossible to determine, the number of people who had registered through Nov. 21 represented just 0.1% of the 2.4 million people holding Illinois firearm owner’s identification cards, the state-mandated permits that authorize residents to own guns. FOID card owners might not own guns not covered by the ban, or have any guns at all.

We've written about this at least twice, and there are sites, like Washington Gun Law that cover other states and let everyone know what's going on across the country - especially in communist controlled blue states. And sites like GunsSaveLife.com have advised against any registration scheme due to Illinois commi-crats having a follow-up confiscation law waiting in the wings.

Tribune commie propagandist and police hater Gorner finally get around to covering the massive non-compliance, but couch in in "the sheep are slooowly complying" terms, neglecting to tell anyone about how the law was passed:

• an innocuous piece of insurance legislation
• stripped of all language, leaving the skin intact and "passed" thru committee
• anti gun language inserted into the carcass 
• and passed within 72-hours, bypassing all public input
• and upheld by the Illinois Supreme court 4-to-3, with two justices accepting $1 million in campaign contributions from Fatass

Typical Illinois pay-to-play corruption.

No Crowds?

Whatever could be the reason?

• Only a few dozen people lined up outside the various entrances to Water Tower Place when it opened at 9 a.m.

  Stanley Ellis-Roberts, visiting with a friend from Minnesota, felt like the shopping was easy-going as he rummaged through some shirts at Marshalls a few blocks away.

  Hailing from an area near the Mall of America, the largest shopping center in the country, Ellis-Roberts said he’s used to a more hectic shopping experience.

  The bustling shopping crowds on the day after Thanksgiving have been dwindling in recent years, especially after the pandemic, as some retailers offer discounts throughout the month and with many shoppers turning to the comfort of their own homes for online shopping.
  

And the non-demonized yutes?

And the countless illegals begging for money?

And the looming recession?

So many reasons.

Uninvestigated Scandal?

Here's a rumor that investigative reporters would have killed for back in the day:

• That piece of land is owned by Former Chicago Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez under Sanchez trucking. The City is paying 90K a month to rent the piece of land, and that's not including the cost to build the camp and management company to run the shelter.
  
  Oh so now the City is going to replace the soil for the land, which is extra cost on top of the enormous spending.
  
  Al Sanchez no only winning on getting rent payment but getting soil replaced for free by the city. How about that for under the table deal?

True? All it would take for a reporter to get major headlines would be maybe three phone calls and one trip to a County government office, if that.

But none will, because they're not actually reporters.

Call the Lawyers

So the city is emptying out a few District stations?

• There were new questions and some concerns on Wednesday over Chicago's movement of migrants out of police stations.

  The city has cleared people away from five stations as of Wednesday afternoon.

  More than 1,400 remain outside several other districts. As for those who were moved, the city still hasn't made it clear exactly where the migrants were going and how they were prioritizing each case.

Rumor and report has 001, 002, 003, 004 and 008 being emptied. We'll trust the readers to verify any of this reporting, but there are unverified reports of discontent among the illegals....as in there might be fighting shortly.

What we can confirm is that ZERO illegals have been relocated to the Soylent Green Factories.

So far.

But they are being located to an EPA Superfund site?

• Heavy metal contamination has been found at the site of a proposed migrant tent camp in Brighton Park that’s drawn neighborhood protests, according to Ald. Julia Ramirez (12th).

  Ramirez said Wednesday that City Hall plans to clean up the pollution.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson is moving forward with a planned winterized shelter for as many as 2,000 asylum-seekers despite protests from nearby residents that they don’t want the camp.

  The 11-acre site has a long history of industrial use....

We can see the commercials already - they write themselves:

• "So remember, if you were/are an illegal alien, forced into a tent city in 2023, you might be eligible for payment from Chicago taxpayers in the not-to-distant-future."
• (from a comment): "Were you or a loved one housed at a City of Chicago migrant facility? If so, you may be entitled to damages. The law firm of Chucho Rosenfeld and Associates is here to help."

Real brain trust you got there Blowie.

Mogadishu, USA

What else do you call it?

• A group armed with rifles and handguns conducted 12 robberies in an hour on Thanksgiving morning throughout the Southwest Side.

  The group was driving a light or dark blue Toyota or Hyundai sedan.

  No injuries were reported, but property was taken before the group fled in the sedan.

WGN lists all twelve addresses.....and exactly ZERO descriptions of offenders.

CWB (which also didn't list an offender description for some reason) was refused video footage by the Department until they called the Attorney General's office, but they did point out pretty much what is the issue with the massive upswing in robberies:

• A Chicago police sergeant spotted the robbers’ getaway car as they drove through the West Loop. He mentioned it on the radio but did not pursue it.

  [...] The increase is primarily due to incessant armed robbery sprees like the one that popped up on September 23: Small groups of young men, usually traveling in stolen cars, sometimes committing more than a dozen robberies at a time. But the Chicago Police Department has become so risk-averse that its supervisors almost always order patrol officers to terminate pursuits of violent offenders, even if the cops see an armed robbery committed firsthand.

  Chicago has paid out tens of millions of dollars for lives lost and injuries caused by pursuits that ended with crashes. The police department’s written policy explicitly states that no officer will ever be punished for not chasing a suspect. And CPD supervisors have become so skittish about the possibility of something going wrong they’ve even ordered cops to stop pursuing a car suspected of carrying wanted murderers.

  Of course, there’s a trade-off when the city discourages pursuits to save money and reduce the possibility of injury to third parties. That trade-off is that armed, violent people are not apprehended, and they continue to commit crimes.

When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. 

And not being pursued is a "reward."

One and the Same

The media is just an extension of the democratic party. You can see it with all the former Clinton and Sparklefart employees in high-profile media jobs, spouting the party line for the sheeple.

But have you looked locally? (from the comments):

• ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 isnt just Chicagos top-rated television station. With employees related to three prominent Democrats, it also may have the most politically connected newsroom in town.
  
  Morning news anchor Tanja Babich is the daughter-in-law of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, recently hired per-diem reporter Meghan Kluth is the daughter of congressman Mike Quigley, and per-diem reporter Alexis McAdams is the niece of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.
  
  Its strictly a coincidence, according to John Idler, president and general manager of ABC 7. "These are all talented people who were hired on their own merit," Idler said. "No other considerations were involved in their hiring."

“Once is [coincidence]. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”

Some may have changed spots or moved, but they're out there if you keep digging. Roe Conn is in someone's media office.

Dart was buying good coverage from the Slum Times for years hiring the wives of reporters for six-figure made-up spots that had never existed before. Now it's just policy.

Mass Shooting Outrage!

Just kidding. No one cares at these events:

• Five people were shot when a drive-by gunman opened fire on them as they left a concert at the United Center early Thursday. All of the victims are in good condition, according to Chicago police.

  The victims were on a sidewalk in the 2000 block of West Monroe when the shooter fired at them from a car around 12:14 a.m., according to CPD.

  Two of the victims ran back to the United Center to get help. Others got into a car and drove a short distance to get help. Yet another was found in the 100 block of North Oakley.

And the concert? Rod Wave (rapper) with Ari Lennox (R&B singer), Toosii (rapper), and Eelmatic (rapper).

CFD would probably be better off stationing three ambulances in the UC parking lot these nights.

Happy Thanksgiving

It's been a few Thanksgivings since we posted the above graphic....one of the longest running bits we've done here.

In any event, we hope everyone is enjoying, has enjoyed or will be enjoying a decent meal today. If you're working, stay safe. If you're home, be thankful for that.

We are thankful to be back here with you, providing some much needed humor and whatever insight you may or may not need. It's free, so don't be too resentful.

Open post for now. Comments may be delayed depending on L-tryptophan levels.

Border Security? (UPDATE)

You think you need a secure border? Why would you think that?

 

The dems will justify this by claiming, "They were headed out of the country! We don't need a secure border!" 

Maybe people will wake up now?

UPDATE: Now, after hours of breathless "Terrorism" reporting, it's just an asshole with a full tank of gas?

Remember, trust the media....and get your vaccination!

Big Number

CWB putting every other media outlet to shame....with a fucking calculator:

• The number of Venzuelan-born people arrested by Chicago police this year is up 2,538% compared to 2022, according to data provided by the police department. It’s up 11,333% compared to 2021.

  As of November 12, CPD arrested 686 people this year who listed Venezuela as their birthplace, according to data provided by the department in response to our Freedom of Information Act request. That compares to 26 for all of last year and just six in 2021.

  Since this year’s tally only includes arrests through November 12, while 2022 and 2021 are full-year numbers, the disparities will increase through December.

Up Eleven-thousand-three-hundred-thirty-three percent.

So we're importing not just economic illegals, we're welcoming countless criminals hidden amongst the unwashed, not unlike the Mariel boatlift of the 1980's. And that made Florida a shithole for over a decade.

Courts Are Broken

The"self defense" claim seems a stretch:

• It’s not every day that a guy walks up to Chicago cops at a shooting scene and openly admits he did it. But Chicago cops say that’s exactly what happened in Rogers Park last week. Prosecutors refused to charge the man with murder, though, and a judge declined the state’s request to keep him in jail to await trial.

  The shooting occurred just before 2 p.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of West Howard, steps from the Howard CTA station. Chicago police said Kenneth Sandy, 30, got into an argument with another man, and the confrontation turned physical. The other man pulled out a gun and shot Sandy dead. A nearby surveillance camera recorded the shooting, officials said.

Note that nowhere in the article does anyone mention a weapon being used against the shooter - it just says the confrontation turned physical.

• An officer noted in the report that prosecutors “rejected” murder charges “due to self defense.” Robinson is only charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.

  Prosecutors asked Judge Kelly McCarthy to keep Robinson in jail during a detention hearing over the weekend. They noted that Robinson was convicted of aggravated battery and a hate crime in 2016, so he’s not allowed to possess a gun.

And he was released on Electronic Monitoring per the judge.

So now, under Crimesha, shooting someone when a confrontation gets pyhsical - even absent a weapon - self defense is a legit claim. We would certainly like to see that standard applied to the next police shooting, let alone any one else wanting to defend themselves. We have an idea it might not fly though, based on something something something.

No-Show at Funeral

The Fire Department buried one of their own this past Monday:

• On Monday morning, hundreds gathered at Navy Pier to express gratitude for the time they had with Price, who grew up in Indiana. His wife, Lara Price, stood alongside his mother, Rochelle, and his four siblings — a tight-knit crew known among friends as “The Fabulous Five.” 

  Before the service, members of the Chicago Fire Department, Chicago Police Department and suburban police and fire agencies gave Price his final salute.

But why do we see this?

Blowie having another nervous breakdown?

What's This?

More migrants arriving at Districts, with helpful city workers to point the way:

But what's this?  Let's zoom in on the helpful city worker:

Did he find that lanyard? Or was it issued?

And if it was issued, why is he assisting illegals?

(Thanks to 16th and 17th District Chicago Police Scanner for this)

F#$% Fatass (UPDATE)

Good advice to keep the government out of your business:

• Dear Illinois residents:  Do NOT register your “banned” firearms with the Illinois State Police.  Do not register your “banned” firearm accessories, .50 caliber firearms and ammunition, or anything else.

  The registration period opened Sunday, October 1st and runs until December 31, 2023.

  There’s ZERO benefit to registering your guns at this time and lots of reasons not to.

Fatass and the democrats already have Step #2 in the works:

• Repeat, do NOT register your stuff and here’s why:  There are already plans to move new legislation to “close the existing owner loophole” next year.  Pritzker & crew are keeping it under wraps until the registration window closes.  That proposed legislation would give those who registered their guns, ammo, and accessories 90 or 120 days to surrender those items to law enforcement, to destroy them or to move them out of the state.

Registration is the biggest self-own, and merely a step on the road to confiscation....or forcing you to become a felon by your own hand.

And then there's something like 98 or 102 county sheriffs who have signaled their intent to ignore this law fully, prompting Porky to say something along the lines of "They swore an oath, they don't get to pick and choose which laws to enforce." 

The oath was to the Constitution, not a political party. And Porky would be better off directing his comments to Crimesha who picks and chooses all the time, along with making up Law as she goes along.

UPDATE: smartest readers in the world have reminded us that Fatass (and other dem politicians) have forbidden police from assisting Feds in the past over numerous other laws when Trump was in office....specifically immigration.

Blame Everyone Else

Democrat governance is merely an extortion game:

• One of largest and most successful companies based in New York State is now in the crosshairs of its Attorney General, Letitia James.

  James was in Buffalo Wednesday to announce the state has filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo Inc., which she claims is an effort to protect the environment and public health. 

  The Attorney General's lawsuit claims that single-use plastics used as packaging by PepsiCo, one of the largest and most successful companies headquartered in New York State, have allegedly contributed to high levels of plastic pollution along the Buffalo River, which they say contaminates drinking water and harms wildlife. 

  The language of the complaint largely mirrors the language used by environmental groups in California, which filed a similar suit against PepsiCo and several other companies on the same grounds over a year ago.

This is completely legal packaging, used for decades, on a completely legal product. PepsiCo has nothing to do with the packaging or the product once it's sold....it's yours. Whether or not you recycle it or throw it out the car window as your drive is not PepsiCo's responsibility. They got their product to market safely, freshly and available for sale.

But if leftists can extort companies like this for money via nuisance suits, what else can they use it on?

Oh yeah....gasoline powered cars, gas stoves, gas water heaters, air conditioners......and guns.

UPDATE: Or when the dems sued Kia for making cars too easy to steal....all the while refusing to adequately prosecute car thieves and carjackers.

FAFO - Vigilante Edition!

Not exactly WHERE we expected it, but exactly HOW we expected it:

• Two 14-year-old boys were seen trying to steal a car moments before someone shot them dead on the South Side yesterday afternoon.

  Chicago police said the boys were found with gunshot wounds in an alley behind the 800 block of East 89th Place around 2:27 p.m. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

  Moments earlier, someone called 911 to report that four people were trying to steal a car in an alley behind the same block, according to CPD dispatch records. That call was followed by reports of shots fired and a person lying unconscious in the alley. First responders found the second boy lying under a vehicle. Both had suffered gunshot wounds to their heads.

  Witnesses told police that four young males had been trying to steal a gray Hyundai, the two who were killed and two others who ran away.

Given the ethnic make-up of the area and the ethnic make-up of the deceased, non-demonized, as-yet-un-convicted-and-potentially-acquitted-of-all-charges, former altar boy, ne'er-do-wells, we going to go out on a limb here and just blame white supremacy before the media, the politicians and the "revruns" sweep this one under the rug. And next Monday, the students, teachers and staff and the local elementary school will note at least two empty chairs in class...and then completely forget about it.

There are a few lessons to be learned here, and we're not talking about the dead car thieves. They're dead....they can't learn anything.

Coming Soon!

Fatass has to be so jealous, being behind on a stupid idea like this:

• NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed into law a plan to seal the criminal records of more than 2 million New Yorkers who have served their time, hailing the measure as a “victory for common sense and moral decency.”

  The final approval of the Clean Slate Act, which was endorsed by criminal justice advocates and business interests but opposed by Republicans, came after a yearslong legislative effort that culminated in the bill’s passage in June.

  Hochul suggested the measure would accomplish twin goals: making New York safer by taking people off the streets, and addressing a worker shortage by clearing away a roadblock to New Yorkers’ employment prospects.

There were a few correct thinking additions to this Law:

• Under the act’s provisions, murder convictions and most other Class A felonies are not eligible to be sealed, and felons will need to be at least eight years removed from the end of their sentences to have their records shielded.

  Misdemeanor convictions are to be eligible to be sealed three years after the end of a sentence. Records would generally be sealed from the view of potential employers, but not law enforcement.

But once again, the democrats willingness to prioritize the criminal over the law abiding is front and center. You can bet Illinois dems will look to seal even those felonies from public knowledge.

Back Taxes for CTU Prez

Indiana didn't waste any time:

• County officials in Indiana wasted no time billing Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates after determining she received an “unlawful deduction” on a home she owns in South Bend. 

  The St. Joseph County auditor has now sent the union leader a letter assessing her $1,393 for three years’ worth of back taxes, the maximum allowable by law,  plus a $139 penalty. 

  WGN Investigates reported Stacy Davis Gates filed paperwork affirming the South Bend home was her primary residence in 2007 and seeking a homestead tax exemption.  It was granted and remained in effect for the past 16 years, until reporters raised the issue in early November. 
  

"Unlawful deduction" would appear to....violate the law. Is anyone looking at charges?

Or is this another one of those laws that don't apply to certain people if it's politically inconvenient?

And since this was her primary residence, where has she voted from the past sixteen years?

Under-Staffing TRED?

Whose fault is this?

• A key Chicago Police Department unit that reviews cops’ use of force is woefully understaffed and has a backlog of unfinished reports, an assistant Illinois attorney general told a judge Thursday.

  [...] Attorney General Samuel Kennedy said Thursday that one unit, the Tactical Review and Evaluation Division, is “a critical component of the consent decree.”

  The unit had a backlog of 2,702 cases in July, which has nearly doubled to 5,116, Kennedy said. In February, the unit had 54 police officers and now has 47. The department is adding four part-time employees to the unit, but that isn’t going to be enough to address the three-month backlog, Kennedy said.

Wait....doubling of the caseload? In four months? Doesn't seem possible, but okay.

• [Judge] Pallmeyer said she’s concerned that cops aren’t getting quick feedback from the reviews of their use-of-force incidents. “I think it’s a lot more meaningful when you hear feedback immediately, rather than months down the road, when you maybe don’t even remember the episode all that well,” the judge said.

  Cmdr. Sean Joyce, who runs the unit, said he’d like to see the unit complete its reports in 30 to 60 days. In addition to uses of force, the unit reviews incidents in which officers point their firearms and when officers get involved in foot chases.

  The purpose of the unit, formed in 2017, is to recommend training for officers instead of investigating whether discipline is necessary as the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability does, Joyce said.

Joyce is lying here. The TRED Unit seems to exist solely to fuck coppers for nonsense violations observed on body camera footage. We have a few dozen emails of cops bitching about being on the scene of a Use of Force incident - who DID NOT USE OR OBSERVE any force whatsoever - and they're getting tagged for uniform violations, foul language out of earshot of civilians, even "unauthorized equipment" observed on camera.

TRED should probably be called the Junior Inspector Unit.

Debate....Politely

Numerous persons have posted this in regard to the Saturday post about the downtown mass arrest:

• Direct for the mandatory e-learning just posted
  
  First amendment rights Refresher e-learning training uploaded 4 days ago
  
  First amendment rights G02-02
  
  Members will not:
  
  Arrest any persons engaged in First Amendment conduct for minor or petty offenses, including traffic or business offenses, or those that pose no immediate threat to the safety of the community, or others, or of causing property damage

See what we mean about the Department being unable to create an airtight comprehensive order that protects the Rights of protestors, the Rights of society to operate and the Rights of coppers not having to sit in Federal Court?

See what we mean about lawyers playing in these gray areas?

You will.

And Again....

The Cook County Courts strike again:

• Marcus Brewer has the rare honor of being mentioned in two Cook County sheriff’s office press releases in under a month. The first announced that he had been swept up in a human trafficking and prostitution sting. The second announced that deputies and a U.S. Marshal’s task force tracked him down after he failed to appear in court.

  So what happened after the task force hauled him before a judge for failing to appear in court last week? The judge released him again.

Good to see that Deart's office, along with the Federal Marshal's Task Force, are on the receiving end of Cook count incompetence, too.

Which is It?

This is from waaaaay back in April, before we returned from The Hiatus. It's the other commies over at NPR, but it makes one wonder about the sudden resurgence of Slum Times/WBEZ reporting on racial profiling:

• American roads are deadlier than they were before the pandemic and many are looking at changes in police traffic enforcement as a cause.

  Deaths spiked during 2020, and the fatality rate — deaths per million miles traveled — is still about 18% higher now than in 2019.

  "It is, unfortunately, an American phenomenon," says Jonathan Adkins, CEO of the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Other Western countries did not see the same sustained increase in traffic deaths, and he thinks one important difference is a pullback in policing, following the George Floyd protests of 2020.

  "Why do many of us drive dangerously on the roads? Because we think we can get away with it. And guess what — we probably can right now in many places in the country," says Adkins. "There's not enforcement out there, they're hesitant to write tickets. And we're seeing the results of that."

And yet somehow, the commies and "progressives" here would have you think the police are out there pulling over all sorts of minorities, going through their cars and turning their lives upside-down.

The number of notifications we see for Traffic Court on a daily basis at Roll Call is a fraction of years ago. Part of it is the traffic cameras. Another part is the "officers will be responsible for their own automated notifications."  

But the other part is so many Officers getting their TSSSSSSSSS cards and who cares about the actual violation? Most cops would rather avoid ever having to use a pen, paper and press through four carbon copies if they can just do a two-sided 4-by-6 card with check boxes on it.

Narcan Vending Machines

We can hardly wait:

• Chicago is trying to make it easier for people to get a lifesaving drug — for free.

  Five vending machines have been strategically placed throughout the city and will carry Narcan, the drug that can reverse an opioid overdose.

  The pilot program was funded by the CDC with a $17 million dollar grant to distribute vending machines across the city. The machines will hold more than just Narcan including hygienic products including socks and undergarments.

  People will need access to a private pin and can get whatever they want for free. However, the pin to receive Narcan is only ‘1234’ because of the short window to receive medication for someone who has overdosed.

  The machines are located in five areas, the Garfield Community Center, Uptown and Harold Washington Libraries, the 95th Red line station and the Roseland Community Center.

We certainly hope this isn't $17 million for just five machines.

And if the fentanyl seizures at the border are any indication of what's actually coming over, you're going to need a bigger boat lot more machines.

Memphis Crime

This is quite an admission:

• Crime is so out of control in Memphis that police chief CJ Davis doesn’t think the Army can save the day.

  OutKick readers know the situation in Memphis is far past bad. It’s downright appalling, and a stain on the entire country that criminals seem to run roughshod in a major American.

  Below are a few recent examples of the carnage and chaos:

• Doctor gunned down in front of his family
• Eliza Fletcher brutally murdered
• Brawls at Topgolf
• Gunman who killed four people had been cut loose early from prison
• Interview derailed by drive-by shooting
• Nine-year-old child shot

We think the chief should have added a footnote or two:

1. First, it depends on which era's army he's talking about. Up until about three or four years ago, we're pretty sure the regular army could have kicked ass
2. Second, what are the Rules of Engagement? The last significant deployment of troops on US soil was the Rodney King riot. Army troops with a free hand would calm Memphis down in a couple days with significant casualties and infrastructure damage.

We're thinking there might be some sizable background deployment of troops for the political conventions here and in Milwaukee.

Closing on 600

HeyJackass.com has the totals:

• Year To Date

  Shot & Killed: 522

  Shot & Wounded: 2274

  Total Shot: 2796

  Total Homicides: 580
  

Another banner year for the Windy City.

CPD Brass F#$%ed Up? (UPDATES)

Protests the other day resulted in SDI and Special Employment cars being called downtown to assist in clearing the streets and sidewalks:

• More than 100 people were arrested Monday morning during a protest at the Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago, where hundreds of Jews from across the Midwest gathered to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

The trouble is (or might be) that this was the first mass arrest situation under the brand new Illinois Safety Act auspices and the CPD brain trust leaders may have gotten it.....slightly wrong - according to a commentator:

• Funny, I was just thinking about this too as the hot topic at my sisters law firm is about the impending lawsuits against the arresting officers after the hundred-plus arrests of protesters in 001 this week. None of the protesters were charged with anything detainable, yet they were all long formed instead of receiving a pre trial notice and sent on their way. I strongly suggest anyone given an unlawful order by a stupidvisor to lock someone up when they clearly qualify for the SAFETY ACT release, document this illegal order by putting it on the air and obtaining an event number. Remember… It’s going to be YOU listing your assets when the lawsuits for unlawful arrest, civil rights violations etc. start coming down the pike.

One would think that perhaps a high ranking exempt:

• who spent the majority of his career at the Police Academy, 
• who was teaching Use of Force between chasing tail, 
• who was presented for years as THE Department's Use of Force expert at numerous trials,
• who was so smart, he didn't have to pass a single promotional exam,

...might want to make sure that his staff is correctly following the dictates of State Law in high profile, high visibility, high potential downside and high liability for the Officers and City taxpayers.

And the FOP might want to see if a large number of their members are now on the hook for bad Department decisions.

UPDATE: We're aware of the Orders.

We're also aware that the Department hasn't written a completely airtight and comprehensive order in its entire history. Lawyers LIVE to play in the gray areas and margins....that's how they make "new law." 

You know how we know this? Federal Court. Not once, not twice, but counting all the authors here about a dozen times. What a lawyer won't do to get a "civil rights" case in front of a Federal Court as a "class action".....let's just say we've seen south side prostitutes with higher moral compasses than lawyers.

How many mass arrests lawsuits are still going on years later? You think this one will be any different? Arrestees getting a couple thousands of dollars and the law firms getting millions....and then dumping it right back into campaign coffers of Illinois politicos.

Be aware of history, because even if it isn't repeating, it rhymes. 

UPDATE #2: A concerted effort by a couple posters to say "Since the behavior was going to continue, they had to be arrested/removed." Good point...if you got each individual refusal on body camera. Every single time.

Remember, you have to be perfectly consistent in your arrest execution 100% of the time. One slip up and the lawyers will have you in court for years. Like we said, lawyers LIVE to play in the gray area.

Talk to a couple old timers before we all retire. We'll tell you all about it if you listen.

UPDATE #3: Did Crimesha middle the entire Police Department? (from the comments)

• 15 Nov 23 the SA's office sent out a memo to ALL ASA's reading "Declining to Prosecute Peaceful Protestors Amid Global Unrest".

So why was CPD arresting/removing anyone? Crimesha was (once again) making law in contravention of established legislative statutes.

...and Stay Out! Temporarily

Seems like one big circle jerk:

• The countdown has begun for all migrants entering city shelters to find housing within 60 days or be forced to leave under a new rule issued by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

  Migrants who entered shelters Friday will have to be out by mid-January, according to the mayor’s office. However, exceptions will be made for “medical crises or extreme cold weather.”

  The more than 12,000 migrants already in city shelters will have a little more time before they are ejected. However, all of them — with some exceptions — will have to leave by early April, under the rule.

  Migrants forced to exit shelters then will have to circle back to a new city intake center to apply to get back into the temporary housing.

Guess where the "circle back" intake centers are?

• In a statement, Johnson said that at the end of the 60-day period, migrants in shelters must leave and return to the “landing zone” to place a new shelter request. Those so-called zones have thus far been the floors and sidewalks of Chicago police stations and inside O’Hare International Airport, but the city and state are hoping to erect winterized base camps with cots soon.

Right back to the District stations to re-apply for shelter, then another 60 day stay.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

Crimesha Strikes Again

So this asshole.....:

• A flight attendant remained unresponsive at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Wednesday, suffering from significant head and brain injuries she suffered when a man randomly hit her in the head with a log on the Magnificent Mile, officials said this afternoon.

  Judge Ankur Srivastava ordered 52-year-old Bruce Diamond jailed to await trial on a charge of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm.

.....is running around with any number of other individuals (that we posted about over the past day or so, and that CWB blog has been tracking for years now) on low/no bail for assorted felonies.

But Crimesha has time to do this:

• Cook County prosecutors have barred 10 Chicago cops from testifying in their cases after the officers appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government group that played a key role in the U.S. Capitol riot in 2021.

  The move by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office came just weeks after the officers were linked to the Oath Keepers in the WBEZ, Chicago Sun-Times and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project joint investigation of “Extremism in the Ranks.”

  The series reported that 27 current and former members of the Chicago Police Department were found on the membership rolls of the Oath Keepers. Records show some have faced serious misconduct complaints, including for accusations of using excessive force and making racist comments.

Keep in mind, these officers, most of whom are retired, were investigated already and not a single one was found to have anything to do with insurrections or extremism or pretty much anything other than the run-of-the-mill CR investigations - something anyone who has done even a lick of work has experienced. In most, if not all of the cases, the officers signed up for what was presented as one thing that attracted a few extremists, and now they are "tainted" by association.

We'll also note that officer belonging to or associating with what we might refer to as leftist extremist groups, are facing zero oversight, even though again, the officers signed up for something presented as one thing, but attracted extremist viewpoints that resulted in cities burning, police attacked, and more than a few deaths.

Crimesha is a useless pandering hack.

28 Percent

When Groot got chased out of office, she was only polling at 29% and that was after four years of voters realizing what a bitter, angry, asshole of a dwarf she was....and she thought she could turn that into a second term!

Rahm saw his numbers dip below 30% and decided to take his 9.5 fingers overseas where we think he's pretending to be a member of the Yakuza.

Mayor Blowie?

• Johnson won 52.1% of the vote in the April election. His 28% approval rating is just one point above former Mayor Rahm Emanuel following the Laquan McDonald scandal or former Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the same month she placed third in the mayoral election that Johnson eventually won. Usually, a mayor early in a term is more popular with voters.

  Lightfoot, Emanuel and Johnson’s low scores were all below 30%. The only other mayor to come close to that scored 33% in 1979. That’s when a blizzard hit, many streets went unplowed and a few months later Mayor Michael Bilandic’s re-election bid failed.

  When broken down by age, Johnson’s approval rating was highest among those ages 18-29 at 32% and lowest among those ages 40-49 at 24%. His disapproval rating is highest among those ages 50-64.

52.1% of what turnout? Under 40% if we recall. The commies and "progressives" came out in force while the disillusioned middle-class and city workers didn't show up, and now they're unhappy?

Chickens Coming Home to Roost

We're going to steal a few stories from CWB tonight, but we'll only quote a little bit. Head over to the links and give them the clicks they deserve.

First up, someone got arrested for Armed Robbery:

• Chicago police were able to quickly track down an armed robber because his victim noticed that he was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, officials said. Working quickly with the Cook County sheriff’s office, Chicago cops followed the ankle monitor’s GPS signal to locate him in Evanston.

  James Potts, 23, was on electronic monitoring while awaiting trial for Class X felony armed habitual criminal and related gun charges, prosecutors said. Class X felonies are the most serious crimes in Illinois, short of murder.

Gee, we remember when a Class X charge meant a long wait for someone to mortgage a house or something to get bail money. Now, thanks to Crimesha, you just walk around and rob more people. And after an initial court appearance where Violation of Bail bond no longer exists, he'll probably be walking around on THIS charge, too.

And the other day, some non-demonized yutes stuck up a mother and child, knocked her husband over when he came out of the house and stole their car. A few days later, they returned for the other car since they had those keys, too.

Guess what???

• Two men, one on bond for a felon gun case and the other on parole for two carjackings, have been charged with robbing and carjacking a woman in the Beverly neighborhood, Chicago police said. The November 2 crime gained widespread attention when surveillance video of the hijacking went viral.

  Calling the hijacking “appalling” and “brazen,” CPD said 20-year-old Damarri Conner and Kenneth Merritt, 25, have each been charged with one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm and two counts of armed robbery with a firearm. Conner is also charged with three counts of misdemeanor resisting.

Yup, both were out on felonies thanks to Crimesha, Evans, Prickwrinkle and Fatass.

You'd think that morons who vote democrat might notice that the policies advocated for democrat politicians seem to result in them being victims of violent crime.