Chalkie, Take 2

Remember this lil guy?

The chalk outline that inspired hats, t-shirts, a Kass column and an entire anti-2016 Olympic movement. Fun times indeed.

We were thinking there ought to be a new set of images for the DNC. Something to inspire, to really capture the spirit of the potential disaster headed this way in August. Chalkie's Olympic Torch needs to be re-imagined. 

Chalkie might need a Conehead hair-do or a bottle of anti-anxiety meds or a Venezuelan flag. 

If you send it and we post it though, expect some enterprising individuals to put it on t-shits, caps, and posters. We don't pretend to know copyright law and unless you've registered your design, you'd probably be out of luck. We will be more than happy to attribute any contributions to the artist, but anything using the Chalkie logo itself....well....

We never claimed copyright over Chalkie - we intended it to be a sarcastic jab at Shortshanks and put it out there for anyone to use, and some people did. We don't begrudge them that. We weren't in a position to run a website for financial gain and still aren't interested in having to worry about sales, mailings, banking regulations and tax filings. We'll link to it if someone does come up with something for sale, and perhaps they could toss a few bucks at the Chaplains as we always request, but again, that's of their own volition.

Traffic Enforcement to End

Probably the dumbest and most dangerous piece of legislation proposed in Springfield in quite a while:

• Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that no law enforcement officer shall stop a motor vehicle for: (i) failing to display registration plates or stickers; (ii) being operated with an expired registration sticker; (iii) violating general speed restrictions (unless that violation is a misdemeanor or felony offense); (iv) improper lane usage (unless that violation is a misdemeanor or felony offense); (v) failing to comply with certain requirements concerning vehicle lamps; (vi) excessive tint; (vii) defective mirrors; (viii) an obstructed windshield or defective windshield wipers; (ix) defective bumpers; (x) excessive exhaust; and (xi) failure of the vehicle operator to wear a safety belt. Provides that no evidence discovered or obtained as the result of a stop in violation of these provisions, including, but not limited to, evidence discovered or obtained with the operator's consent, shall be admissible in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding. Preempts home rule powers.

The lib-tards call this "pretextual enforcement" whereby a sharp eyed copper notices someone breaking an actual law, then expounds on that stop to develop reasonable suspicion or probable cause. 

You and we would call it good police work - and it's all COMPLETELY LEGAL, backed up by years of case law, legal precedent and US Supreme Court decisions.

Which means that cops can't be allowed to do it. Ever.

Which also means that no one has to obey any traffic regulations, no one has to maintain their vehicle in any semblance of working order, no one even has to follow signs, signals or licensing requirements upon passage of this law (which isn't passed yet, but give it a few weeks). 

We're going to assume this means that we don't have to buy city stickers any more....or state plates....and the Inspection Division has to pound sand, too.

CWB has more this link.

Terror Warning

Combine three years and countless million illegals of all nationalities streaming over the border - including hundreds, perhaps thousands, from terrorist supporting countries, with the powder keg that is the Middle East and you have a recipe for disaster.

We may be on the verge of something:

• We’re written about the not to well-kept secret of thousands of Hamas and Hezbollah sleep cell agents in America, thanks to our porous border.  Everyone agrees that if the US gets into a shooting match with Iran, that the cells are likely to activate.

  Right now, American forces are likely identifying strike targets in Iran or of Iranian assets following the Iranian-linked attack that killed three US servicemen and wounded plenty more. In other words, the US will be shooting at Iran within days if they haven’t already started as we’re writing this.

  Estimates from public sources put the numbers of Hamas/Hez agents at between 3800 and 38000. Public school math time…  If just ten percent of those agents decide to carry out their activation, how many 4-man cells does this make to kill innocent people at soft targets and to break undefended infrastructure targets?

This isn't just conspiracy theorists seeing black helicopters everywhere. Even the feebs are taking time from investigating Christians and school boards to warn Americans. Of course, the feeb director wants to increase warrantless investigations during this time, which he "pinkie swears" won't be misused like every other time the feebs are granted unconstitutional powers.

Regardless, everyone would be well served to read up on how nearly two dozen terrorists brought the city of Mumbai to its knees for almost a week in 2008.

DUI Charges

That Christmas Party crash has now resulted in charges:

• A Chicago police officer is facing drunk driving charges after jumping a curb and hitting and killing a woman while off-duty last month in the River North neighborhood.

Expect a lawsuit to go along with the DUI and maybe a ban on all Christmas parties. The article actually says this was "a non-sponsored work holiday party" so who knows.

Systemic Failure

See if you can spot the coincidences here (all links from CWB blog):

• Man charged with punching, robbing CTA passenger is released after prosecutors fail to ask judge to keep him in jail
• Serial burglar targeted UIC offices while on bail for burglarizing UIC offices, prosecutors say

And this one takes the cake:

• Chicago man had 4 guns in his bedroom while on electronic monitoring for murder and gun cases: prosecutors
• At least three men have recently been arrested across Chicago, accused of possessing firearms while on electronic monitoring for pending felony cases, according to court records.

A battery offender, out on bail for battery, commits another battery.

A burglar, out on bail for burglary, commits more burglaries. 

A murderer, out on bail for murder AND gun charges, is caught with four more guns.

Anyone seeing an issue here?

Crimesha? Toni? Tommy? Timmy? Fata$$? Bueller?

A Good Idea?

This is probably a better fit than Nascar:

• Could Formula One come to Chicago?

  The racing franchise has filed for trademarks that indicate it could be planning a race in Chicago, less than a year after NASCAR held its first street race in Grant Park.

  F1 applied for variations of the trademark “ Formula 1 Chicago Grand Prix ” and “ Grand Prix Chicago ” on Jan. 19, according to U.S. patent office records.

  Filing trademarks could be a protective measure. But it could also show the franchise is considering a Chicago race.

From what we know of F1 racing, it's more suited for city street courses as opposed to oval track racing with banked turns. Conehead could erase the errors of Groot's disastrously negotiated money giveaway that generated little interest and even less money.

So It Was a Joke

A joke which pointed out lib-tarded hypocrisy:

• Naperville is no longer looking into the possibility of a city-curated sign-up sheet for local residents willing to host migrant families.

  City staff, at the suggestion of Naperville City Councilman Josh McBroom at a council meeting last week, had been researching the idea and found other agencies are pursuing similar work and therefore it was “not necessary for further city consideration,” City Manager Doug Krieger said this week in a memorandum to council members.

  Consequently, the matter will not appear on a future city council agenda, the memo said.

As the councilman pointed out:

• “There’s people that maybe (thought) I was pulling a stunt. Or I’ve been accused of making a joke. I’m proposing a solution. Not with tax dollars. Not with anything publicly funded. But if people aren’t going to pressure their congressmen and congresswomen to get a hold of the border and secure it, then here’s a sign-up sheet.

  “There’s thousands of homeless people. It is a humanitarian crisis. If you’re not going to demand that your government secure the border, and you support these policies, then maybe you can open up your house. And I say that sincerely. It sounds like we don’t have anyone that wants to.”

Well played sir, pointing out the useless virtue signalling of the left.

Of course, with Fata$$ refusing Conehead's requests to build some shelters anywhere except in Chicago, guess where ALL the migrants are still headed to?

Do Tell

From the comments:

• OT: anyone hear of Exempt moves - demotions - promotions coming February 10th?

Post the rumors if you got them. That's one of the reasons this place exists.

Someone already has a scorecard ready:

• So the word is there will be a complete enema done in BIA.
  Buh Bye Ya’ll! Talley, Walker, Denham & Moore. I’m hearing that they haven’t forgotten about all the rule 14’s committed regarding the Wolverine Watchmen and Three Percenters investigation that they covered up and publicly lied about both verbally and in writing! Moore retired and then they brought him right back as a civilian double dipping.
  
  Also hearing the first heads to roll will be Harris, Hein, Barz, Mullenix, Hill, Foster, Wallace, Kinnane, O’connor, Branch, Lamb, Pendarvis, Spreyne, Gutierrez, Vanna, Morse, Ward. Oh and Fred Waller’s days are numbered too.
  
  Most of them have some pretty serious baggage and I’m hearing the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of public safety ain’t too happy.
  Just google search most of those names and you’ll see their checkered backgrounds.
  They want anyone with any previous or upcoming major scandals gone or at least out of a command spot.
  The issue is, there is slim pickings because the bench is beyond short so don’t be surprised if you see most of your promotions coming from Lt. spots.
  
  Oh, and supposedly Nakia’s heading to Midway!

Might be a fun February shaping up!

Welcome DNC!

Maybe Conehead can have this posted at the airports to welcome delegates in August?

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Be Careful

Progress by the detectives:

• Chicago cops are on the hunt for the gunmen who killed two students outside Innovations High School in the Loop on Friday afternoon. And, CWBChicago has learned, investigators have determined that there is an odd “nexus” between the murders and the raid on the Chicago Prada store that left a cop and a suspect shot in the Gold Coast.

  Cops across the city are on the lookout for a dark blue 2022 Infiniti QX50 that was used by the murderers on Friday afternoon, according to a CPD bulletin. There’s a stolen license plate on the vehicle.

  A law enforcement source confirmed to CWBChicago that license plate reader data shows the Infiniti has recently traveled with or near another vehicle that police believe was involved in the Prada smash-and-grab on January 8. Whether there is a connection between the cases—or if the cars being near each other was a coincidence—is not yet known.

Good, solid, efficient police work. Of course, if a District officer comes across the car, Department policy guarantees they won't be permitted to actually chase them to make an arrest. Certainly a supervisor will terminate any pursuit due to not knowing if the actual shooters (and guns) are in the vehicle. And even if Officers did chase and did apprehend offenders, there's no promise that Crimesha will even ask the judge to keep the offenders in custody:

• CWB report on battery offender who beat a man into unconsciousness on the CTA, skipped court, had a warrant issued, got caught robbing another CTA passenger, appeared before a judge and Crimesha's office didn't ask for EM, or even a custodial order.
  

So be aware that good, solid, efficient police work will likely just lead to more prosecutorial neglect / malfeasance.

Registered Accessory? (UPDATE)

This is one of the non-demonized capones shot downtown Friday in broad daylight (thank goodness for social media and the readers who grab screen caps):

 

Can someone check with Porky if that Glock extended magazine was properly registered with the ISP via the PICA requirements? Any bets on if the pistol had a "switch"? 

And how about that handful of unlabeled pharmaceuticals? We're pretty sure we recognize a couple of those pills after a relative of ours underwent some heavy-duty surgery. 

The media hasn't mentioned he had a Pharm-D.

UPDATE: Sharp eyed readers with younger eyes point out that there appears to be a switch visible on the back of the slide. So a seventeen-year-old with a lengthy criminal record of felonies, in possession of unlabeled narcotics, a Glock pistol he couldn't possibly own under any circumstances, illegally adapted to fire fully auto....

But hey! Cease fire in the mideast and be sure you register your semi-auto modern sporting rifle!

Nice Poll Numbers Conehead

Not even in office for a year and his polling numbers are even worse than Biden:

• After eight months in office, only 21% of registered Chicago voters approve of Brandon Johnson’s performance as mayor, according to a recent poll conducted for an education reform group that advocates for school choice.

  The question that provides the first known measure of Johnson’s early performance was piggybacked onto a poll of 500 registered voters bankrolled by Stand for Children, a group Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates derisively called “Stand On Children” and dismissed as “right wing.”

  Voters were asked “how you feel each of the following is performing.” The list included “Brandon Johnson as Chicago Mayor.”

  The results were staggering, even for a mayor who has spent his first eight months struggling to get a handle on Chicago’s burgeoning migrant crisis amid mounting tensions with Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

We wouldn't put too much stock in what the CTU president says - has she paid her taxes yet? Declared her primary residence for the next election? Checked which state she's voting in?

#1 Again

Four years running:

• Bedbugs are a traveler's fear and homeowner's nightmare. You're not likely to escape them completely in most states across the U.S. but you may be more likely to encounter them in some cities than others.

  In its yearly list of the 50 worst American cities for bedbugs, pest control company Orkin once again ranked Chicago at the top, securing the first-place spot for the fourth year in a row.

We tried to think of a way to congratulate Conehead continuing Groot's reign at the top of the bedbug list, but this isn't like the rat problem where you can blame poor garbage pick-up and the cuts to the baiting programs.

However, the great unwashed masses of illegals being scattered among shelters, hotels and police stations certainly didn't help anything.

Taste the Irony Part II

The 16th and 17th District Chicago Police Scanner twitter feed has some video from the brazen downtown daylight shooting aftermath:

• Not really safe for work link here

We don't know if/when the tech censors will take it down, but we watched it and we couldn't help thinking:

• DAMN, this new iPhone is so good that crime victims can tweet their ascent into heaven! In 4K!

We're going to have to do a couple dozen Hail Mary's for that one.

Taste the Irony

A few days ago, big controversy at the City Council meeting:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson backed calls for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza Wednesday ahead of a hotly contested vote on a City Council cease-fire resolution set for next week.

A few wise-acres noted that Conehead isn't calling for a cease fire in Chicago for some reason.

And then, Friday afternoon:

• Two teenagers leaving their Loop high school were fatally wounded in a midday shooting Friday that startled onlookers under a busy “L” station in the center of the city.

  Around 12:25 p.m., the teens — 16- and 17-year-old boys — were leaving Innovations High School with about four other people, Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Jon Hein said Friday. As the group was in the first block of North Wabash Avenue, two vehicles pulled up and several people exited before opening fire.

  Each boy was shot in the chest, and the older boy was also shot in the hip. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the 17-year-old as Monterio Williams and the 16-year-old as Robert Boston. Both lived on the Near West Side.

Looks like a straight up ambush, and almost without a doubt, has its origins in a neighborhood conflict among the un-demonized caponies.

But hey, cease fire halfway around the world. And latin king bitches who are shooting at cars in the dead of night are "victims." 

UPDATE: How far away was the nearest SDI fixed post? Asking for a friend.

Smart Money Getting Out

We wrote about downtown office buildings selling for fractions of their previous values.

The Chicago Contrarian has an article up about upper-middle class home values taking comparable hits as those who can afford to leave a blue-city-blue-state $hithole, finally make the move:

• The Chicago luxury housing market in many neighborhoods is dropping precipitously in value.

  ‍‍This circumstance isn't just a cooling off – it's like it took a dip in Lake Michigan this January in the sub-zero temperatures. ‍A range of high-end single-family houses, condominiums, and coops in the Gold Coast, Streeterville, and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are declining in value by the month.

  ‍‍“This is a worst-case scenario, which is currently trapping thousands of well-healed residents who took out large mortgages,” says one Chicagoland residential real estate investor. ‍“Northside condos appear to be taking the biggest hit,” he observes.

The author then cites half-a-dozen or more recent sales, all of which were made at significant loses....or at least at what we solid middle class homeowners would qualify as significant. 

As usual, go read it all. We're on the precipice of something awful.

Conehead Goes NIMBY?

Conehead trying to make friends everywhere:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ongoing calls for Gov. J.B. Pritzker to build more migrant shelters took a new turn Wednesday as he indicated additional sites should be located outside Chicago, even with state funding.

  Speaking to reporters after presiding over the City Council meeting, the mayor did not directly answer questions about the fate of the next round of migrants whose 60-day deadline to vacate city-run shelters arrives Feb. 1, with harsh winter weather expected to remain.

  Instead, he pivoted to place the onus on the state to construct more such sites — and pushed for them to be built elsewhere.

Maybe he could ask the voters of these "elsewhere" location if they want illegals dumped in their front yards....you know, the way he and his "progressive" allies WON'T permit Chicagoans to have a voice via the referendum process.

What could he be afraid of?

• It started as a rumbling in Chicago's predominantly black neighborhoods on the city's south and west sides. Black Chicagoans are watching the city spending tens of millions of dollars on newly arrived migrants after years of unmet promises from the Chicago political establishment to black people in the poorest neighborhoods.

  “All these people, I have supported every one of them,” Cata Truss, a 57-year-old mother on the West Side, says about Mayor Brandon Johnson and his progressive allies. “I was like, ‘Are you freaking kidding me,'" Truss added. She had just found out that the city was going to take over Amundsen Park — what she calls “the crown jewel of the community” — for use by migrants.

  Chicago prides itself on being a "welcoming city" — just not to black residents.

The black community "betrayed" their democrat masters by willingly voting for Trump in 2016 after Trump asked them what they had to lose? Black unemployment fell to levels never before seen and black entrepreneurship and businesses thrived like never before. The dems had to resort to scare tactics and more outright fraud to "win" in 2020, but they couldn't count on the black voting monolith to stay scared....so they started importing a new voting block.

Good to see more people waking up.

Sign the Petition

The Police Board is trying to fire the Officer involved in the Toledo shooting where known gang bangers were shooting at cars and fled with a gun. They were observed on video with a gun and by responding officers with a gun. This is not in dispute.

The "dispute" comes in when Toledo turns with the gun in his hand toward the police while simultaneously covertly attempting to toss the gun in such a way that his hand motions were partially hidden by the fence (our interpretation) . Motions that would be interpreted by a reasonable police officer (the legal standard by the way) of being a direct threat to the police officer involved.

We're not talking about tenths-of-a-second. We're talking about hundredths-of-a-second. 

In any event, there's a petition in support of the Officer at this link here. 

Go sign it please.

Property Giveaway!

Evidently, the 007 CAPS Office is having a giveaway event:

• 4th watch team in 007 brought in a few heads and a heap of bagged proceeds from a train yard robbery. The swag is inventoried as bags filled with "miscellaneous" items, pots, pans, clothing, etc... and placed in bulk storage. 
  
  
  Bulk storage is relatively underutilized these days, so the illustrious CAPS uses it to store their garbage. Think Christmas trees and party hats. So the World's Best Sergeant/Aunt sees these bags of proceeds and her natural assumption was that somebody made a donation to CAPS. The proceeds are distributed accordingly ("given" away) until a 4th watch supervisor starts asking around about his missing inventories.
  
  
  
  Because the etracks list bags filled with miscellaneous items and the contents aren't itemized (because honestly, that would be an insane amount of work) good old CAPS sergeant brings the bags back filled with random used garbage she collected from god-knows-where.

Because everyone knows that items in Bulk Storage in Heat-Sealed Department bags with RD numbers and inventory slips attached are just there for the taking!

The sad part is that the railroad probably won't claim the items, because in the case of boxcar thefts, the insurance company writes off contents of the entire trailer, and the ignorant (entitled?) behavior of the CAPS sergeant will be overlooked, excused, and covered-up.

Call Taker Jobs

We don't go looking at city job openings, but a couple readers do and they found this:

• City of Chicago job site

The second job listed (as of this writing) is Police Communications Operator I....what we're told is the call taker position....and they're trying to fill twenty spots.

This might possibly confirm that the City is still looking to fire call takers in the double digits for PPP fraud issues.

Hey Media? Follow this Money

So a reader did a bit of research....something usually done by "investigative" reporters....which are in short supply nowadays. Who owns the properties currently being used to house thousands of illegals and who are being paid with taxpayer funds totaling many millions of dollars? Here are three "shelters:"

• 344 N Ogden is 106,400 sqf- annual leasing price is $6,360,000 
• 1308 N Elston is 84,120 sqft- annual leasing price is $5,047,200 
• 2341 S Halsted is 86,000 sqft- annual lease is $5,160,000

Just for reference, industrial space in Chicago averages around $10 per square foot. One of the nicer office buildings in Chicago (Chicago River Point) goes for $53 per square foot. These buildings - all zoned industrial and all that sat empty the past five-to-seven years - are being leased to the city for $60 per square foot. Oh, and the Elston address may have recently in arrears for nearly $200K in property taxes.

And who owns these buildings? Some guy named Scott Goodman or a series of LLC's run by or in conjunction with Goodman. Where it gets interesting is when you go to OpenSecrets.org and run Goodman's name through the donor lists. Quite the "progressive" agenda being funded by this single individual whose companies are getting millions in taxpayer funds.

Legal? Probably....after all, lawyers write these grants / bills / laws and lobby for passage through the legislative process.

Ethical? Who are we to judge?

Hinkey as Hell and worthy of a deep dive by investigative reporters, who are supposed to be keeping a spotlight on taxpayer funds and a closer eye on the politicians spending that money? Yep.

But don't hold your breath.

Another FOP Win

Conehead in full retreat:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson dodged what might have been an embarrassing defeat by opting Wednesday not to ask his City Council allies to reaffirm their symbolic commitment to police reform and accountability. At issue was an arbitrator’s ruling allowing police officers recommended for firings or suspensions over one year to bypass the Police Board and take their cases to arbitration.

  The Council voted 33-16 in December to reject that ruling, and arbitrator Edwin Benn on Jan. 4 decision reaffirmed it. That sent the matter back to the Council for a second vote, but the Police Committee never held a meeting on it.

  Johnson wanted the Council to reject that ruling again. His allies filed notice of their intention to seek that vote with the city clerk’s office. The city’s longtime labor negotiator Jim Franczek even told a Circuit Court judge hearing a lawsuit already filed by the Fraternal Order of Police that the second vote would be held at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.

  But Johnson had a problem. He needed two-thirds of the Council — 34 members — to vote to immediately consider the matter because it had not been before a committee.

The FOP president made sure that Conehead's next trip to the hospital is right around the corner:

• “He knew there were defectors out of the first group and he didn’t want to risk it ... so he pulled a parliamentary move and lied to the judge,” Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara told the Sun-Times. “He’s a coward,” Catanzara said of Johnson. “You had your attorney tell the judge you’re calling the vote. Call the vote. But he didn’t do it.”

  Another court hearing is next week, and “I would hope the judge issues a temporary restraining order on all Police Board cases and a summary judgment right on the spot,” Catanzara said.

  The fiery FOP president advised city officials to “get your checkbooks ready.” “We’re gonna sue the s--t out of ’em civilly for damages for not allowing due process for these members since 2019. That’s a lot of officers. That’s a lot of money,” the FOP president said.

Keep the pressure on, because a win here is going to be very important after all of the CRs that will be filed during the DNC in August.

Popsicles On Tap

The recent cold snap showed the vulnerabilities of electric cars in a sub-zero environment:

• Thermometers have been showing temperatures as low as 2 degrees Fahrenheit (-19 degrees Celsius) in the Chicago area, with a real feel of -20F (-29C). Such weather is a harsh foe for electric cars, regardless of the badge they were or the price the owners paid for them. The brutal cold converted many of them into a bunch of dead machines. The frost has a serious impact on range and charging speeds.
  
  The cold wave turned the charging stations into car graveyards over the past couple of days. People push their vehicles around to get them plugged in. "They are a bunch of dead robots," a Tesla owner said

Not a good time to announce Conehead's latest genuflection to the "climate cultists":

• An ordinance that would all but ban natural gas in new Chicago buildings has gained the key support of Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is hoping the proposed overhaul on emissions standards will deliver his next progressive victory.

  Aldermen who support the legislation touted it at a Tuesday City Hall news conference as an essential way to fight climate change. At a dueling appearance this week, opponents delivered their own arguments against the measure, saying it will make power less reliable and more costly. The mayor will introduce the plan to the City Council Wednesday,

  [...] “Too many Chicagoans are having trouble paying their gas bills, and too many families are exposed to chemicals that cause cancer and asthma when burning gas in their kitchens,” the mayor added in a statement earlier Tuesday morning. “That is why we are taking the first step toward making how we heat our homes more affordable, and making indoor air safer for every Chicagoan.”

Conehead thinks the environmental mentals have discovered an "electricity tree" the way 9.5 discovered a money tree that provided all the cash Rahm needed for pie-in-the-sky spending habits. 

If the grid can't handle the amount of EV charging lefties want, how is it going to handle a cold snap like last week? Or a serious deep-freeze that runs past a week or two? We've had a few of those in recent memory, and we don't think Conehead (or Fata$$) are going to be parking warming buses in the residential neighborhoods, running 24/7 diesel engines.

Another 311 Theft?

Rumors that a Captain, assigned to Alternate Response, had his car stolen from the lot.

No idea why 311 has a captain, but does he still have his assigned city vehicle?

Which was taken - city SUV or personal car?

This is almost as bad as a member of the Hijacking Task Force having their personal car stolen from the OEMC parking lot where the gates aren't working.

Helmet Policy

What's the actual policy now?

• [from the comments] O.T. I attended the new riot training the last 2 days. I Was told my gas mask is expired (this is the 4th one I have been issued, was told may or may not get a new one before August). The helmet I was issued in 1996 is falling apart. I was told our helmets are our now our property, not Department issued, and I have pay out of pocket to fix or buy a new one. Does anyone know what G.O. covers this? The Dept said it was too much money to buy replacement helmets for all the old ones. Good looking out for the CPD Mayor. Where is all that Democrat Convention money being spend on? Not public safety.

If they're switching to a new style helmet (kevlar armored) we're pretty sure that's "first issue" and will be paid for by the city.

If your old D.O.T. helmet - essentially a motorcycle helmet with zero ballistic protection - is in poor condition, we would assume the city has to have replacement parts on hand (i.e. a replacement shield for cracked plastic, etc). Who bears the cost is up for discussion, but this would be a perfect opportunity for a commissary exchange type experiment.

In our case, the internal webbing and foam pads have degraded to the point where they're crumbling after all those summers in and out of trunks or being stored in lockers in poor temperature controlled buildings. Not only that, our face shield has zero protection against laser pointers, which we hear will be in high concentration at this fall's DNC. Fortunately, we won't be in high concentration by convention time, so the taxpayers will be spared the cost of our eye protection.

Another Stress Hospitalization

Conehead was back in the hospital last week according to all sorts of sources and media reports. Seems they are finally noticing what an incompetent jackass was fronted by Prickwrinkle and and the CTU.

Maybe part of it is weather related?

 

Lizards can't regulate body temperatures in extreme cold.

Name the creature on the right and what show he's from.

Yeti or Igloo?

You can bet Crimesha wishes this had happened here:

• An NYPD sergeant was charged Tuesday with second-degree manslaughter in the August death of a scooter-riding drug suspect who crashed after the cop threw a cooler at him.

  Sgt. Erik Duran, 36, pleaded not guilty to that charge — which carries a potential maximum sentence of 25 years in prison — as well as assault in the first and second degrees and criminally negligent homicide for the death of Eric Duprey, 30, on Aug. 23, 2023, in The Bronx.

  Duran was conducting a buy-and-bust operation on Aqueduct Avenue near West 190th Street around 5 p.m. in Kingsbridge Heights when Duprey took off on a motorized scooter, said New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office, which is handling the prosecution.

  As Duprey made his escape, Duran grabbed someone’s cooler off a nearby table and threw it at the fleeing suspect, hitting him in the head and throwing him off balance, James’ office said in a statement.

  Duprey sideswiped a tree before he was hurled from the scooter and banged his head on the curb, ultimately landing under a parked vehicle, the attorney general said.

And the NY Post has video up of the incident. Aside from the charges the sergeant is facing, it's kind of amusing. Dude is flying down the sidewalk on the motorized scooter fast enough to kill someone....and instead ends up under a parked car.

Hopefully, the sergeant ends up cleared, but NYC is a blue state shithole with a Soros-DA and actual intelligent taxpayers fleeing at a faster rate than Chicago, so we'll see.

Hiring Standards?

First we're hearing of this one:

• Hey SCC,
  I’m surprised the media or the blog haven’t caught wind of the homicide that took [place] in 009. Two female POs did a terrible job on viewing a shooting, m/1 pops a few rounds in his ladies head and they run out the store like cowards. Not only did they run out of the store, it took them approx. two minutes post shooting for them to even unholster their weapons. BWC is a complete shit show. This is the BS that some of these officers are bringing to the table. Watch who you work with! If it wasn’t for the sat team who showed up, that offender would be in the wind. They ended up getting charges approved for murder with the help of A1 dicks. Great job all around, minus the two POs. Heard COPA already filed a CR against them for cowardice and failure to intervene.

Is this the pawn shop shooting or something else?

The Department has fired people for this in the past, but those might have been PPO's.

Nasty Habit

Refuse charges for one case....but finally charge him for another two years ago:

• Many eyebrows were raised when Cook County prosecutors refused to file murder and attempted murder charges against Juan Ferba last January, claiming he acted in “self-defense” when he shot and killed a man outside a South Side liquor store and also shot a woman who was sitting on a nearby CTA bus.

  But now Ferba, 27, has another problem: Prosecutors have decided to charge him with murdering two other people and shooting a third in February 2022, about a year before the liquor store shooting that they gave him a pass on.

How about an "armed habitual" charge? This jag has three killings (that we know of) under his belt.

Ghost Towns

Another explanation for the rapid influx of illegals:

• A new study using existing trends from over the past 20 years predicted population decline in thousands of American cities over the next 80 years.

  Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago used population projections to find that, by the year 2100, almost half of nearly 30,000 cities in the US will experience a population decline.

  The population decline would represent 12%–23% of the population of these cities, the study states. The aftermath of such a decline will bring “unprecedented challenges,” the study explains further.

  These cities could face a loss in basic services like transit, clean water, electricity and internet access.

Population models already predict a large collapse by the end of this century. That's not counting an engineered plandemic or a supposed "vaccine"  skewing death rates among young, healthy people. 

And you wouldn't need transit and internet for a mostly illiterate city of sterile drones being bused around to do menial labor.

What the Actual F@#$??

This country is doomed:

• Three of the five former Presidents of the United States have started a new non-governmental organization (NGO) with the explicit purpose of chartering flights to import illegal aliens into the United States.

  As reported by Just The News, the NGO Miles4Migrants, founded by former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, is teaming up with two other organizations, American Express Global Business Travel and Welcome.US, to expand upon a previous effort that focused solely on Afghan refugees following the disastrous withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

  Welcome.US was originally launched for the purpose of bringing in at least 85,000 Afghan refugees, and also has ties to the far-left billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundation. The new coalition between Welcome.US, Miles4Migrants, and American Express Global Business Travel will seek to raise money to import illegals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ukraine.

What Kass calls the "combine" here in Illinois is merely an offshoot of what national pundits call the "uni-party" with its own secret police arm(s) and controlled opposition.

Dark days ahead.

The Quiet Collapse

(Cops are people, and people have wide interests...especially as we approach retirement. This post gets into the weeds a little, but it's on our mind and the minds of 1,000 near-retirees right about now)

If you do the shopping for yourself or your family, you know things are off. Paychecks aren't going as far, you're might be actively seeking out sales and coupons, maybe eating out a bit less and bringing your lunch to work....all while the media is singing about the "best economy" in years and Bidenomics working miracles.

But away from the media spotlight and your bank statements, this is happening:

• A Loop office building is headed to the auction block, roughly a year after former owner Marc Realty was hit with a foreclosure lawsuit.

  The vintage 10-story office building at 216 West Jackson Boulevard will be up for grabs starting Feb. 20, with an opening bid of $1 million, Crain’s reported. Farbman Group brokers Bill Bubniak and Todd Szymczak are marketing the property, and Ten-X will handle the auction.

  The opening bid equates to a little over $5 per square foot. Marc bought the 185,000-square-foot building in 2013 for over $22 million, about $120 per square foot.

That's a 95% drop in value.

And nearby:

• One stark example of the lost value just one block from 216 W. Jackson came late last month, when a local investor paid just $4 million for the leasehold interest in a 20-story building at 300 W. Adams St. — 89% less than it was worth just more than a decade ago.

Sure looks like downtown is hurting what with the looting, continually boarded up building fronts, restaurants going out of business and retail shops fleeing.

Here's one explanation of the coming storm....from the United Kingdom, since the US "press" can't be bothered to disrupt the narrative:

• In the US, vast swathes of office space are empty. The landlords have some brutal decisions to make as $117billion is due in financial payments this year for commercial property. If the landlords cannot re-negotiate their loans, they go bankrupt, dumping property on the banks, which in turn will have to face their loan portfolios going delinquent. Which could of course cause them bankruptcy.

  Banks are already tightening up on their lending as hard times come. They know full well which clients are a lost cause, which are liabilities and which will be able to re-negotiate. It is thought some 30 per cent of bank loans in America are already delinquent and in arrears. No one knows, as the banks are not telling anyone yet.

  Meantime banks are queueing up for central bank loans and help. Which indicates that the banks have a problem.

J. Paul Getty stealing a famous John M Keynes quote:

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
  

The banks are currently owed Hundreds of Billions. BIG problems.

Good News

A favorable ruling from a judge in Cook County:

• Police attending the upcoming trial of the man charged with killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French can wear their full uniforms in the courtroom, despite concerns from the defense, a judge ruled Friday.

  Defense attorneys had asked the judge to bar officers from wearing their uniforms and creating a “a sea of blue” that would intimidate jurors in Emonte Morgan’s trial.

The trial is scheduled for the end of February and anyone in the building ought to stop by when time permits.

Still Importing Crime

More crime by illegals:

• A Venezuelan migrant has been detained to await trial after Chicago police accused him of shooting another migrant he used to be friends with in South America.

  Tony Briceno Vizcaya, 23, grabbed a gun and went to his former friend’s home in the 7900 block of South Marshfield around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, prosecutors said. Several migrants lived in the apartment, including four adults and two young children.

And rumors of downtown continuing to disintegrate (from the comments section): 

• OT: I see a group of 20 or so "new arrivals" stormed the brand new Whole Foods on State and dang near cleaned it out. Six smashed windows by my count. Libs, how’s that "sanctuary city" policy looking? Still feel safe going for your morning avocados and latte?

Nice look.

Why This Increase?

Is the Illinois State Police about to be drafted into gun confiscation?

The truly interesting part is around the 2:26 mark where Kirk notes that the State Police Revocation Enforcement Arm is getting increased funding. Not doubled. Not tripled or quadrupled.

Quintupled. From $2 million to $10 million. 

That is disturbing, because there aren't five-times the amount of gun crimes nor five-times the amount of FOID revocations that we've noticed anywhere. As far as we can tell, FOID applications are at all time highs and renewals so intense that the ISP delays are running afoul of statutory requirements.

So why five-times the amount of money?

We like troopers. We like assisting troopers. We like when troopers helped us out, imparted knowledge, answered questions we had regarding vehicle code. We liked exchanging stories and bullshitting with them.

We don't like what the politicians are seemingly preparing to use them for.

As an aside, if you like to follow 2A issues, a couple sites we recommend, all fighting behind enemy lines:

• Washington Gun Law - based out of Washington State, a lawyer who keeps abreast of everything nationwide;
• Bishop on Air - closer to home in Central Illinois, interviews people from all over the state and keeps viewers in the loop;
• Freedom's Steel - our old friend Todd Vandermyde, former NRA lobbyist and one of the most knowledgeable gun law persons around today;

Check them out.

Casino Woes Continue

They're never going to build this thing, are they?

• Due to a logistical problem, Bally's has been forced to change plans for its permanent River West casino.

  Driving the news: The company has submitted an alternative plan to the city for its proposed 500-room hotel tower after learning the original configuration could damage city water lines.

  The project is still expected to open in 2026, a Bally's spokesperson confirmed.

We're going to go out on a limb and opine that 2026 is a pipe dream, especially if the predicted economic downturn on tap for this summer / fall hits as hard as expected. 

The "temp" casino generated almost $3 million of an expected $12 million, so Bally's has got to be wondering if the interest is actually there.

That didn't stop politicians from spending the non-existent $9 million in fantasy dollars though.

Well Boo Hoo....Again

So they're just going to "report" this every week or what?

• As migrants continue to arrive in Chicago, some city officials say the shelters are overcrowded and "bursting at the seams."

  More equipment, including cots, were dropped off at the Loop migrant shelter at the shuttered Standard Club. When that shelter first opened it housed over 760 new arrivals; now there are more than 1,200. When the Gage Park Field House was converted into a shelter, residents were told it could hold up to 250 people; it currently houses almost 400.

  "That shelter is bursting at the seams. We have the two original sides of the fieldhouse that were designated for men and women and then we had to open up additional space in the basement and in the cafeteria area to put more beds in," said 15th Ward Alderman Ray Lopez.

  The city's largest shelter at a Pilsen warehouse was originally planned to house 1,000 new arrivals. It now holds 2,500.

2,500....in violation of building codes, fire codes and health codes. Combined with he low levels of assorted diseases we've been seeing / hearing about are literally a half-step away from some truly scary outbreaks.

And almost no democrat will utter the words "close," "border," or "Biden" in a single sentence.

Get the Popcorn!

Last year, Fred Waller laid a smackdown on Brownie:

• [22 May 2023] Chicago’s acting top cop is ending the department’s relationship with a Texas firm that has been paid more than $1.3 million to train officers and is owned by a colleague of the city’s former police superintendent. The firm, Professional Law Enforcement Training, is led by Byron Boston, who served in the Dallas Police Department with Fred Waller’s predecessor, David Brown.

  “I have been made aware of CPD’s training agreement with PLET and the significant cost associated with it,” Waller wrote in a terse email Friday to Tina Skahill, the police department’s executive director of constitutional policing and reform, who played an influential role in Brown’s administration.

  “Today, please send a letter to PLET notifying them that CPD will no longer need their services as of June 1, 2023,” Waller added in the message obtained by the Sun-Times through a public records request.

This resulted in tens of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of active CPD being pulled off the streets to fill the now vacant instructor positions.

Friday, the Slum Times reported:

• A Texas firm with ties to former Supt. David Brown is back training officers at the police academy after being dumped by the Chicago Police Department over cost concerns after Brown left the department. Last May 19, then-interim police Supt. Fred Waller told police reform chief Tina Skahill to notify Professional Law Enforcement Training that “CPD will no longer need their services as of June 1,” citing the “significant cost.”

  But PLET was brought back late last year. The department says it’s fulfilling the agreement the company had been handed, without competitive bidding, by Brown when he was the city’s top cop.

The excuses are flying fast and furious:

• After Waller told her in an email to notify PLET that it was out, Skahill said that email was “crafted to falsely appear that someone else informed him of PLET costs when I recommended cancelling the night before and he approved cancellation.” Skahill soon retired, saying Waller was retaliating against her for overseeing an internal investigation that led to his suspension. She said her role had been significantly diminished and that Waller had told her she was being demoted on the same day the email was sent.

A lot of connections to unravel in the Slum times article:

• Skahill v Waller for disciplinary actions taken and retaliation after Waller rose to the top;
• the Inspector General is refusing comment on investigating connections between PLET and Brownie, with everyone knowing PLET was run by Brownie's Dallas buddies;
• no one seems to be able to produce an actual Contract signed off on by the City agreeing to using this company for training;

And we'll just note that all of this appears to be paid for with 1505 Funds - narcotics seizure money - meaning the City council oversight pretty much doesn't exist. We would question whether superintendents - past, present and future - use this account to steer money to connected underlings as Brownie appears to have done with PLET without oversight. And while questioning that, what connections did Waller disrupt, what connections did Skahill want to reinstate, what favors did/does Snelling owe to bring back PLET....

A largish pool of unaccountable money? Maybe this was why the feebs were at HQ the other day?

Leftie vs Leftie

Illinois Policy reporting that one of Conehead's staffers committed a Battery against a reporter:

• Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy @ChicagosMayor ’s administration is falling apart at a record pace. This morning a member of Brandon Johnson’s staff assaulted a reporter. His brilliant PR strategy? Accusing the journalist of assaulting the staffer. 🤦‍♂️ Are there *any* adults on the 5th floor of City Hall?

Here's the involved Washington DC reporter:

On one hand, we're greatly amused. A lefty reporter shoved by a lefty staffer who works for a lefty mayor installed by a lefty teacher's union. It's the ultimate blue vs blue bitch fight.

On the other hand, we're also amused, because if the commie teachers and lefties ever take over, the first people that they send to prison or execute are almost always the media types. 

So a win-win from our perspective. If the reporter doesn't sign a complaint to hold someone responsible for a criminal act, then they deserve whatever comes their way.

UPDATE: it's made the news all over Washoington DC in a number of outlets.

Correct Again

Rumor confirmed by the most observant readers in town:

• 16th and 17th District Chicago Police Scanner @CPD1617Scanner

  Per a source, the mayor's office has instructed CPD administration to cut overtime for the time being as a cost saving measure in preparation for anticipated spikes in the summer and more specifically, the Democratic National Convention (in August).

This has been a semi-regular occurrence the past few years where OT cuts happen in the dead of winter before coming back with a vengeance when the weather breaks and the non-demonizable yutes are out of their CPS holding tanks. 

How many retirements on tap for 15 May? 15 June?

Not an "Accident"

A "negligent discharge":

• A veteran Chicago police officer accidentally fired a handgun across the street from former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square on Tuesday afternoon.

  The on-duty officer was outside around 1 p.m. when his weapon “unintentionally discharged into the door frame of a parked personal vehicle” in the 3400 block of West Wrightwood, a CPD spokesperson said. No injuries were reported. The incident occurred at an address almost directly across the street from Lightfoot’s home.

  Why the officer was apparently handling the firearm is not clear. According to public records, he is 52 years old and a 19-year veteran of the force. COPA, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, has been notified as CPD conducts an internal investigation, according to the police spokesperson. The officer remains on active duty because the firearm discharge was accidental.

How about a few weeks of training in firearm discipline? Modern guns don't just fire accidentally. If your booger hook is on the bang switch, you better be able to justify it.

"Merit" List Tossed?

Supposedly, the multiple "merit" supernintendo rejected a pending "merit" list. Details are sketchy, but new names have been requested.

We remember a few years back, being amazed that dead and retired commanders were still getting recommendations through the screening process.

So was there an embarrassing name on this list or as some commentators suggested, the lists weren't "diverse" enough for Conehead, the Consent Decree people or some other agency?

Feds are NOT your Friend

Especially if you're an American citizen:

• Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6,warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday.

  Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.

  The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s "receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector."
  

No warrants, no due process, just a request to banks to search for words....and the banks did it. 

We'd think that makes the banks liable for damages and reinforces our belief that the FBI needs to be disbanded since they're acting like the East German Secret Police now more than an actual law enforcement agency.

Nice Neighborhood

Bold criminals:

• Armed men committed three robberies and carjackings in about 20 minutes Tuesday evening in the Gold Coast, Chicago police said. One of the carjacking attempts occurred steps away from Gov. JB Pritzker’s mansion on Astor Street. Two suspects are in custody.

  The same two men are suspected of committing all three crimes, beginning with a violent attack on a woman as she entered her car in the 1500 block of North State around 7:30 p.m.

Those extra security details didn't dissuade them. 

Fortunately....:

• Unfortunately for them, the Chicago joint vehicular hijacking task force—comprised of CPD, state police, a high-tech federal helicopter, and other assets—was working Tuesday night.

  The task force quickly located the hijacked Nissan, and Illinois State Police troopers arrested the occupants in the 7000 block of South Wood.

So they followed these ne'er-do-wells from 1500 North to 7000 South? Impressive. Is this "high-tech federal helicopter" a camera drone?

And Once Again....

Only the lawyers are going to get rich:

• A Texas-based bus company is suing Chicago, alleging discrimination in a city ordinance that controls where buses can and can’t drop off passengers.

  Wynne Transportation, which has brought migrants from Texas to Chicago, filed lawsuit in federal court in Chicago. The company says the city’s rules interfere with interstate commerce.

  The mayor’s office said the city doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

So money that could be spent elsewhere, won't be.

Nice job Conehead.

Too Cold for This $hit

Altgeld hasn't changed:

• Chicago police officers exchanged gunfire with a suspect before taking them into custody Wednesday morning in Altgeld Gardens on the city's Far South Side.

  Officers were responding to shots fired around 1:50 a.m. in the 700 block of East 131st Street traded shots with a gunman who fled the scene on foot, according to police.

  Moments later, the suspect was arrested by responding officers and a weapon was recovered from the scene, police said. There were no reported injuries.

But thirty days off the street in winter.

Be careful out there.

Bad Idea Coming

How's it been going?

• August 2023: The state’s shelters are reaching capacity and now the governor is asking residents to help by opening their doors. That was part of Governor Maura Healey’s announcement--as she also is looking for help from the federal government.
• October 2023: Democratic Gov. Maura Healey has a message for migrants looking to come to Massachusetts: we don’t have room for you.
• January 2024: Massachusetts is facing a housing crisis due to an influx of illegal immigrants, prompting Governor Maura Healey to declare a state of emergency.As a result, the state is struggling to find places for newly arriving migrants to stay, leading to suggestions of housing them in private homes. 

Unidentified, unemployed, unvaccinated illegals with unknown backgrounds....what could go wrong?

Naperville might just find out:

• Councilman McBroom says Naperville will not use tax dollars for migrants, but suggests the city could start and keep a sign-up sheet of residents that want to help take care of migrants. At the January 16 city council meeting, Councilman McBroom took the opportunity to address the growing issue of illegal migrants coming into the country, specifically the pressures faced by Chicago suburbs as the nearby Sanctuary City struggles to keep up with the flow of migrants. 

  “So first thing I want to reassure the public, from my standpoint, the conversations I’ve had with city leadership, that in the event of a massive flux of migrants, that I do believe our city is prepared,” McBroom said. “The public should also know that taxpayer dollars are not, and will not, be used to house or aid potential migrants coming into Naperville. The public resources are in Chicago.”

  McBroom acknowledged that there were constituents on both sides of the aisle regarding this issue. He also encouraged the city and its residents to not feel burdened by the pressure of neighboring communities urging towns to do or don’t do certain things. “Let’s find out who is willing to help,” McBroom said. “We do have a very affluent community, a lot of big homes, what I’d like to do is direct staff to create a sign up sheet for individuals who would be willing to house migrant families.”

Well we all know who ISN'T willing to help - a certain pudgy politician with access to tens-of-thousands of hotel rooms. 

But as Fata$$ strips away Second Amendment Rights, who's to say he won't take a look at the Third Amendment and decide it's just a short step to quartering illegals as an obligation of the "most welcoming" state of the union? Health Care is a human right. Food, education, abortion, living wage, pretty much everything.....why not shelter?

And all those big homes in Naperville, this councilman says how could you possibly use all that space? It's selfish. It doesn't say he's volunteering, but he'll be right there volunteering someone else's house when the governor says go. Or is he playing the sarcastic game?

Isn't Naperville home to all the feebs? Maybe they should open their houses as government workers being good examples to the rest of the state.

"Required"? Have Fun With It

No idea what Unit this may be:

• OT: The boss just made us put preferred pronouns in our email signatures so instead of they/them. or he/him etc...I used She/It

What did that shitbird Alinsky say?

• "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

Okay "boss." Flip the script. Self identify as something offensive, something inappropriate, something bizarre. Then every time the boss doesn't use your pronouns, file an EEOC beef for not respecting your choices. Gum up the works.

Seriously, the only way to survive the current inanity is to be even more inane than they are.

At least you'll have some fun with it.

Four Dead from Cold +

This is ridiculous:

• Four people died from the cold in the past five days — three on Friday and one Monday.
• [...] 81, of the 7600 block of South Phillips Avenue in Chicago, died at 10:07 a.m. Friday. His primary cause of death was hypertension and hardened arteries, but the coroner’s office listed "environmental cold exposure," as a possible secondary cause.
• [...] 62, died in the 10100 block of South Kostner Avenue in Oak Lawn at 12:52 p.m. Friday. The primary cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic disease with a probable component of environmental cold exposure.
• [...] 73, died in the 600 block of South Alpendorf Avenue in Streamwood at 11:50 p.m. on Friday. The primary cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic disease. Secondary causes included diabetes mellitus, interstitial lung disease and hypothermia due to environmental cold exposure.
• [...] 86, died in the 2200 block of North Harlem Avenue in Elmwood Park at 1:56 p.m. Monday. The cause of death was hypertensive and atherosclerotic disease with a secondary cause of environmental cold exposure.

Does anyone recall this type of detailed, in-depth reporting.....with COVID? Listing ages and comorbidities? 

Of course not, because if they listed comorbidities, the rate of COVID death would have gone down exponentially, and that wouldn't have lent itself scaring the uninformed public and stealing an election.

Re-Instatment on Tap?

Interesting news from the CTA regarding persons fired for fighting COVID mandates:

• Good news! Well, also not-so-good-but-good news. The CTA is offering to bring back the unvaccinated coworkers they brutally threw out on the street. Keep reading…

There are some conditions:

• No back-pay. 
• You keep your seniority.
• You will have 7 days to respond to the CTA after receiving the letter. 

This was 01 January 24.

Now we go back to the FOP TGIF YouTube post from 15 December 23:

You only have to watch the first 1:50 for the mandate stuff. Essentially, the Labor Board ruling affirms the Administrative Law Judge finding that yes, the City has to abide by Contractual Rules and Police actually do have rights under the Law. This is in direct opposition to some lawyer / part-time nazi at City Hall claiming that, "Police Officers have to follow orders." (our grandfathers used to hang people like this....if they weren't lining them up against the wall....hopefully, we'll be returning to those days in the near future.)

In any event, Catanzara says there's a lawsuit (?) ongoing and it may be decided in 2024. In light of the near-1,000 retirements on tap, it might be a good idea to get these people back in uniform and trained up before the DNC. 

Who's got a good update?

John Kass Podcast

Guest star Anita Padilla.

And they go after "the Chicago Way," Crimesha, Prickwrinkle, Floyd riots, etc

They even bring up Conehead's multiple hospital trips for "stress" related illnesses and his general inability to handle the job he was shoved into.

Worth a listen.

$20 Million....Going...Gone!

Oh Lord, give us a sign that CPS has far too much money for their failing business model:

• Less than three weeks after informing parents that general education students would not receive busing for the remainder of the academic year, Chicago Public Schools announced it would buy and operate up to 50 electric school buses over the next three years through a $20 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Thank you Lord....even though it's an EPA grant, it's still taxpayer money.

Wait, what's this? Lib-tarded National Public Radio?

• The Arctic air gripping much of the U.S. put Tesla drivers in Chicago into a pickle on Monday. Many of the cars sat in long lines at Supercharger stations, their owners saying the cold sapped the electric vehicles' normal ability to charge — and keep a charge.

  In some cases, tow trucks were called to move the cars, in scenes that were relayed by local TV news. The Tesla owners' plight became an emblem of the misery extreme cold is inflicting on wide sections of the U.S. (more on that below).

Is no one reading the news?

• NYC abandons electric plows;
  
• Duluth can't charge electric buses;
  
• Vermont electric buses lose 80% range in winter;
• Minnesota E-buses need charging after 75 miles;
  
• Hertz offloads one-third of EV fleet;
  

Twenty million could have educated a lot of kids....who won't be going to school next winter.

Now You're Worried?

The media (the bought and paid for mouthpiece of the democrat party) was writing endlessly about the illegals being stuck on the streets, living in police stations, camping on buses.....

Oh wait, that was us. They wrote about it only when Fata$$ and Conehead were whining about Texas sending illegals to this "most welcoming" city/state. They barely talked about the millions of dollars spent but only in passing.

Now they're worried about homeless popsicles?

• As temperatures plummeted to their lowest this season, the homeless outreach program of Thresholds, a North Side-based mental health provider, worked overtime Sunday and Monday — days they’d normally have off — to canvass the city handing out warm clothes and meals and offering shelter.

  “Unhoused folks die from weather-related injuries. We understand that now is especially the time we want to be intentional about our work,” says Christian Zamarriego, director of Thresholds’ outreach program.

No one was worried about the homeless when all the money was being spent on illegals. Now that the money is scarce, it's all changed? We guess since Texas didn't send them here, there was no political angle to play.

"Safe" CTA Conehead?

Is this why the Department is cancelling OT and making CTA "Special Enjoyment" the only option?

• A woman who was found “stomped” and robbed on a CTA Red Line train earlier this month died over the weekend.

  CTA employees found Vivian Morgan, 61, unresponsive and lying across the seats of a train car about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 4 near the Roosevelt station, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

  Morgan was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition but was pronounced dead there at 7:15 a.m. Saturday. An autopsy Sunday was inconclusive, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The actual rumor is all OT money has been redirected to paying for illegals, but you can see why there's a push to make CTA "safe".....or at least more safe than usual.

CR# 1089818

The is Larritorious's command staff....and Conehead's (click for larger versions):

 

You can download the entire investigation at the link up top (fourteen page investigation and assorted resolution letters). He moved a street barricade (that exist at every school arrival and dismissal) and when confronted, argued (Do you know who I am?) allegedly struck the school worker with his car and then drove off (because of course he did).

Eddie "Sex Fiend" Johnson tried to get it down to a reprimand, but the then-captain still took 3 days.

Note - he had this CR number before he was made commander, and he promptly embarrassed the Department so egregiously, that a Deputy Chief (JS for god's sake) was compelled to get a number on him for lying about easily verifiable numbers.

This could have been stopped after he fucked up his first "merit" promotion, his first harassment CR number, his first Civil Rights violation, his first divorce, but ....

Problem....SOLVED!!!

Fata$$ whining about Texas sending thousands of illegals to "the most welcoming state" of the union....and how many illegals has the Hyatt Corporation taken in so far? 

Pretty sure the total is still ZERO.

And that's kind of odd, seeing as how:

• Hyatt has 791 hotel properties in the USA
• 38 in Illinois
• 34 within a 30 miles radius of State / Madison

And of those 34, here's a sampling of available rooms downtown:

• Hyatt Centric, Mag Mile - 419 Guest Rooms
• Hyatt Place, River North - 212 Guest Rooms
• Park Hyatt - 146 Guest Rooms and 36 Suites
• Hyatt Place, Downtown/The Loop - 206 Guest Rooms
• Hyatt House, West Loop/Fulton Market - 200 Guest Rooms

That's over 1,200 rooms and suits in just FIVE downtown hotels.

Add in the Hyatt Regency O'Hare, and that's an additional 1,095 rooms just at O'Hare. 

Hey Porkie, looks like we just solved the shelter issue.