Well Done Officers

We still like to see some of these awards. First, most of them are well deserved, and second, good news is hard to find because the media and politicians work so hard to hide it:

• Wednesday the Chicago Police Department honored officers for exceptional performance at the 63rd annual Chicago Police Recognition Ceremony.

  "I know most of these awardees, if not all, will be the first to tell you they were just doing their jobs. They didn't do this for the recognition," said CPD Supt. Larry Snelling.

  Officer Andre Balseca and his partners earned the superintendent's award for tactical excellence for an incident in July 2023 in which they stopped a gang shooting in a West Side neighborhood, taking fire themselves, and confiscated several weapons. "I would say it's nice to be recognized but we don't do it for this. You do it for your brothers and sisters," Balesca said.

  The memory of fallen public servants was front and center. There were tributes to Officers Andres Vasquez-Lasso and Areanah Preston, who both lost their lives last year.

Again, jobs well done.

"It Looks Bad"

So the aldercreature won't keep her constituents in the loop:

• In a North Side ward where four people have been shot in the past week, and robberies and sex crimes are at their highest level in over a decade, the local alderman announced on Wednesday that she would no longer post crime alerts on social media or send crime alerts to her constituent email list.

  Why?

  Something about racism and her belief that “over-reporting of crime leads to an inaccurate public perception about crime rates.” Do you know what else leads to a perception of high crime rates? High crime.

  Which alderman with a skyrocketing crime problem is going to start playing “hide the football” with the people who elected her? Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th), whose ward includes much of Edgewater and parts of Uptown.

Instead, she is telling her voters to call the police station for info. How about we save the voters some time and just post the standard answers here:

• We have no information to share
• First we're hearing about that
• You better talk to the Commander's office....here's the number
• Maybe the detectives know? Here's their number
• Ongoing investigation, that's all we can say

Hell, it would probably be better if we just kept doing that from years ago.

Brilliant

Denver taking the next "logical" step in policing:

• The Denver Police Department is planning to deploy aerial drones as 911 first responders, The Denver Post reports.

  Like other police units in the US, Denver law enforcement uses a fleet of drones for certain tasks, like mapping crime scenes and trailing suspects on the run. But now, the police force has its sights set on a new use case: responding to emergency calls.

  The plan paints a dystopian picture of the future of policing, raising plenty of privacy and resource allotment concerns. Besides, is a tiny drone really the first thing you want to show up at the site of an accident?

  But according to the cops, this is the way of the future.

Nobody wants the police. If the police do show up, no one wants them to do anything.

Might as well send a drone to hover about, film something, and do nothing.

FBI Taking Direction from Who?

Remember when the FBI used to fight crime?

Now they meet with terrorists and their sympathizers:

• Islamic pro-terror groups reacted to the Hamas terror attacks of Oct 7 not only with riots and public pressure campaigns aimed at politicians, but also by privately meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to demand that they lock up Jewish political opponents.

  The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s investigative arm exclusively reported last month that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamist group whose leader had celebrated Oct 7, had been meeting with attorney generals around the country trying to convince them to arrest journalists and activists who had been investigating and exposing Hamas supporters.

  Based on our past history with CAIR, the Freedom Center could be one of their targets.

  Now, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), has been caught meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland and senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including FBI Director Christopher Wray and Associate Attorney General Lisa Monaco, to also discuss targeting Jews.

Remember, the hamas-holes still hold over a hundred hostages (or their deceased remains) including six or seven Americans. And CAIR is a known money laundering operation for terror funding, but we believe isn't named on the SPLC's "hate groups" listing.

Disband these Stasi-wannabes already.

Um.....What Now?

The city is moving the Air and Water Show because of the DNC:

• The Chicago Air and Water Show will once again put on incredible displays in the skies and waters of Lake Michigan, but the dates were moved due to one of the biggest political events on the calendar.

  With Chicago hosting the Democratic National Convention for the first time since 1996, the Air and Water Show will take place one week earlier than normal, according to city officials.

  Typically the show takes place on the third weekend of August, but this year the Air and Water Show will take place Aug. 10 and 11, according to the city.

Great idea! Manpower is going to be stretched incredibly thinly, almost to the breaking point, and moving this event make sense....until you go to the Bud Billiken website:

What brain-trust did this? And who's going to tell Larritorious?

Hiring by Address

Remember yesterday's post about the Inspector General hiring people with criminal records?

The Department of Human Resources - essentially the hiring body for the entire city - is revamping practices across the entire city, evaluating applicants....by Zip Code:

Persons who fall into the "Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Areas" or something like that, will receive hiring preferences over everyone, even military veterans.

The so-called "SEDA" areas cover 006, 007, 011 and 015 and your address takes priority over all other hiring considerations.

Detroit Part II is here.

38% Looking Good?

Part II of the sergeant exam is when?

And who has gotten their Part I results?

So how do we know who is eligible to take Part II?

Might the Department be hiding the results because the pass/fail score is going to be ridiculously low? 

It was a scan-tron test. You should have had results walking out the door.

Snowflake Gotta Snowflake

We thought this was a well thought out attempt at humor in the comment section about the home invasion in Lakeview. It hit all the right notes and was just unbelievable enough to make us chuckle:

• Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Strangers,
  
  My name is Chris Murphy, and I am reaching out for your support following a life-altering event. On May 13, my home, and my entire world along with it, was violently invaded by an armed felon. During the ordeal, I was hogtied and left to fear for my life with a gun pressed against my head. I was convinced I was going to die. Miraculously, I managed to escape, but the trauma and injuries I sustained have left me struggling to rebuild my life.
  
  The primary assailant was shockingly out on parole for good behavior after a previous home invasion. This incident has not only shattered my sense of security but also highlighted the urgent need for better parole system management.
  The Impact:
  Emotional Trauma: The psychological toll of the event has been immense, especially since I was already in a vulnerable state due to the tragic death of my brother just last. This has lead to ongoing therapy sessions to cope with PTSD and anxiety.
  Financial Strain: Due to the incident, I am unable to work and am facing mounting medical bills, therapy costs, and the need for enhanced home security measures.
  

The comment went on begging for money therapy, mental health support, security upgrades and possible moving expenses. Hilarious, right?

Nope. 100% true. 

And here's the link to the GoFundMe site.

We're speechless.

Guess Who's Loaded?

Brother, can you spare a dime?

• WLS-Channel 7 chief investigative reporter Chuck Goudie on Friday sold his six-bedroom, 6,204-square-foot French chateau-style mansion in Hinsdale for $4.05 million — slightly above his $3.995 million asking price.

  A Michigan native, Goudie, 68, joined ABC 7 in 1980 and has been ABC 7’s lead investigative reporter since 1990.

  Goudie first moved to Hinsdale in 1987 and with his late wife Teri, who died in 2022, owned three other houses in the DuPage County suburb before building the French chateau-style mansion.

Being a useless race-baiting tool for the Cook county dem party must pay dividends.

At least we know who's paying for drinks next time we see Cuck at the bar.

It's OK!!! She Was Nuts!

As expected, the naked crack addict who attempted to murder a Chicago Police Officer was acquitted due to being connected to Prickwrinkle's mayoral campaign and being judged insane.

But mostly for being connected to Prickwrinkle's mayoral campaign:

• A woman accused of attacking a Chicago police officer, stealing his squad car, and dragging him with it – all while she was naked – was acquitted of all charges on Wednesday, after a judge agreed with defense arguments of mental insanity.

  Following a bench trial last month, Cook County Judge Tyria Walton found Whitley Temple not guilty of one count of attempted murder, and also found her not guilty by reason of insanity on four other charges, including two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, vehicular hijacking, and possession of a stolen vehicle.

  The verdict means Temple remains free, but must report to court for a meeting with mental health officials on a treatment plan.

This after a half-assed trial where Crimesha's office only called two officers to the stand. Crimesha, as you may be aware, received a shitload of Soros money, but also something like a quarter-million dollars from Prickwrinkle's campaign fund.

And the naked crack addict got a city job after her arrest and after being charged with attempted murder.

Almost Exactly On Target

The official weekend tally per HeyJackass.com:

• 11 Dead, 41 Maimed
  

The average over the past ten years?

• 9 Extinguished, 42 Non-Fatally Ventilated
  

So all together, within a single body of the average.

Statistics are fun.

UPDATE: Among the totals were a police shooting:

• Surveillance video shows the last moments of a street fight in Austin that ended when Chicago police opened fire as a man refused to stop stabbing another man, officials said.

  The shots hit both men, killing the attacker and wounding the person who was being stabbed, according to a statement released by Chicago police. The person was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.

That's the trouble with shooting someone who's busy stabbing his victim - collateral damage. But the only other option is to watch him stab the victim to death, then be accused of (A) doing nothing or (B) shooting the assailant after he stopped being an assailant and was just about to surrender.

Inspector General Wants YOU!

And by you, well....you wouldn't believe it without evidence.

Here ya go:

 

That's right - they WANT criminals to apply to the Inspector General's Office.

What could go wrong?

Winnetka?

A full fledged gunfight?

• Nearby residents said they mistook the gunshots for fireworks early on Memorial Day. The homeowner who fired his gun said he did what had to be done, in his own words. Although he didn't want to speak on camera late Monday afternoon, he shared haunting details of exactly what happened.

  Shortly before 5 a.m., a man woke up to hearing sounds of his car starting outside. He ran out to find three thieves trying to steal two of his cars, a Range Rover and a Maserati.

  He said he yelled to the thieves to stop, threatening to shoot, and that's when one of the suspects began firing at him from the street. The homeowner said he took cover behind a tree and returned fire. Dozens of shell casings riddled the street and sidewalk.

  Winnetka police blocked off the area near Willow and Sheridan for several hours while investigators collected evidence from the shootout. The homeowner said the thieves were able to break into his home through the front office before stealing the keys from the garage. It all happened while his five daughters were asleep inside.

Winnetka is essentially four square miles of money. Second richest suburb in Illinois, top twenty in the US. Homes average a million dollars with per capita incomes to match. And hopefully, armed to the teeth.

We're going to bet that the car thieves weren't local and may have arrived from twenty miles south.

Obstruction by CPS

Don't expect any charges from Crimesha's office though:

• For three critical hours after four students were shot, two fatally, at Benito Juarez High School, the school principal and some staffers threw up roadblocks to the police investigation and weeks later had to be threatened with grand jury subpoenas to spur their cooperation, the Illinois Answers Project has learned.

  Detectives on the scene of the mass shooting that happened just before Christmas 2022 quickly learned the four victims and the suspected shooter were all current or former CPS students and asked to view school surveillance video, to interview a student witness who’d given information to school officials and sought access to other records relating to the students involved.

  But at most every turn, according to public documents and police sources, school principal Juan Carlos Ocon and other administrators told detectives that cooperating would violate CPS policy, and they insisted on checking with their legal department. 

  The delays — which have never been previously reported — cost investigators invaluable time to interview witnesses and gather physical evidence, law enforcement sources said.

There is no legal standing or "checking with their legal department" for evidence of a crime. The statute is pretty clear.

One could be forgiven for asking what the gang affiliation of the principal is.

Illegals Rioting

More video of the Venezuelan riots:

• Link Here - Volume Up
  

The local media isn't covering it, so spread it around your social media sites and let people know what's really happening out there.

Reality Bites Hard

CWB again, doing the real reporting in Chicago:

• Chris Murphy arrived at his new home in the 1200 block of West Diversey on the evening of May 13 and encountered a woman standing in front of his door.

  “She stopped me and asked me to call her sister,” Murphy said yesterday. He obliged but didn’t get an answer. As it turned out, Murphy says, the number he called was not to the woman’s sister. It was to Kaabar Venson, a freshly-paroled violent offender who prosecutors say was inside Murphy’s home, hog-tying his roommate.”

  Unaware that he had been duped, Murphy went inside.

What followed is any victim's nightmare:

• “The first thing I noticed was my door was wide open and the light was on…. When I turned my head, there was a man in a mask pointing a revolver at me,” said Murphy, 30. “Suddenly, my whole world was flipped upside down and every decision I made was life or death. He told me not to f***ing move, not to say a f***ing word. He slowly walked over to me with gun in hand and pressed the tip of the revolver against my forehead. It was very cold.”

  As bad as things were, they were about to get much worse. Venson forced him into his roommate’s bedroom, according to Murphy. “I saw he was hogtied on the ground, but alive at least,” he said. The gunman ordered Murphy to the floor, took his wallet, and demanded his PINs.

  “Then he told me to put my arms behind my back,” Murphy continued. “With my face buried in the carpet, all I could hear was a tearing sound. Apparently, he was ripping up lengths of sheet to tie my hands, then my ankles, then tie my hands and ankles to each other.”

  “I remember several vivid instances I was sure I was going to die,” Murphy confided.

Then the real terror began:

• Responding officers found 33-year-old Irene Jackson sitting on Murphy’s front porch, according to a CPD report. Murphy identified her as an accomplice in the home invasion. But prosecutors rejected felony charges against her, the police report said. Instead, she’s charged with misdemeanor theft for allegedly possessing pieces of mail and ID cards that did not belong to her, including a man’s Kentucky identification.

Eyewitness identification, and Crimesha goes for the under-charge again:

• Cops, working in conjunction with the police district’s surveillance camera center, located Venson at the Diversey Brown Line station a few minutes later.

  “The whole ordeal was absolutely surreal. We lived in a safe neighborhood,” said Murphy.

Correct! You "lived" in a safe neighborhood (past tense). The cops did their jobs, apprehended both offenders, and the system kicked you in the teeth. But the kicking wasn't done yet:

• Venson was released from the Pontiac Correctional Center ten days earlier after serving half of a 15-year sentence he received for burglarizing a Lakeview residence in 2016, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records. He returned to the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday after officials revoked his parole.

  “I was disgusted to learn the man was out of prison on good behavior and terrorizing us in our home,” said Murphy. “I just want to know how the parole board could let a man so clearly not rehabilitated in any way back on the street.”

Out ten days after serving 50% of his fifteen years sentence - we're guessing he didn't learn much in prison after his previous triple felony conviction.

So now the questions are:

• Who did he vote for in 2020? 2022?
  
• Who will he vote for in 2024?

You can see right now that democrat Crimesha (Cook County) and democrat Pritzker (appointer of Parole Board) and democrat Conehead (mayor of chronically understaffed CPD) have failed this guy in particular and Lakeview as a whole. 

But they're brainwashed to continue their voting patterns.

Quantifying Numbers

You know when police work started it's long and winding road into near-irrelevance? We can't pinpoint it exactly, but it happened in the first third of our careers, so just before the turn of the century.

Someone got it in their head that you could "quantify" police work the way you could quantify factory work or office work or sales work.

• Factory worker A produces "X" number of units;
• Office worker B answered this many calls for service;
  
• Sales guy C moved "Y" resulting in "Z" amount of revenue.

Police work isn't that easily evaluated. There have been past efforts - Hazardous Movers, Rush Hour Parkers, School Absentees, Curfews, Misdemeanor arrests - "Index Numbers" in the parlance of the day. 

The trouble was that the numbers never went down - you were always expected to outperform the previous monthly or quarterly totals, usually by 3%-to-5%. After a year or two, it just wasn't possible to keep up without really resorting to hammering the citizenry, which didn't make you very popular. Sometimes, the only relief was if your commander got moved, everyone would back off, and you could begin the 3%-to-5% increases from a lower starting point.

Later, it was guns, and we all know where that went with deals being made on the street for "turn-ins" and cops getting caught up in IAD stings, not to mention the team scandals of the 2000's where drugs and outright robberies ended up being tangled in the street-dealing.

Then it was street stops, then community interactions, then blue cards. We probably missed a few, but we all used to joke about "preventing" ten or twenty homicides a day just driving through the ghetto shitholes and being seen.

Police work doesn't lend itself to proper evaluation except in crime numbers, and crime numbers are near impossible to control or predict, depending mostly on sentencing and society's acceptance of being a victim how many times a year.

Opinions? How do we get away from numbers-based policing?

Tickets All Around

Someone in the comment section suggested that the only way to completely do away with the over-wrought hysteria on traffic stops being used "pre-textually."

• Ticket everyone - all stops are tickets
  

No more blue TSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS cards that are only used to hammer cops for documenting their jobs - done at the insistence of half-a-dozen different government agencies. You get stopped violating the law or because your vehicle isn't in compliance with existing state or city law, you get a ticket. You can pay it or you can go to court. It's all sign-and-drive anyway. No one is getting their licenses taken any more. 

And yes, we understand the attraction of the blue card - you fill it out with the pertinent info, then you have to go into the station and re-enter everything in the system because the mobile PDTs are down or unreliable, so it's time away from answering paper jobs and maybe in-progress events. And god forbid you might actually have to go to court one day a month.

Choose your poison.

Memorial Day

While you're barbecuing or working or whatever, remember:

(apologies for late post - this was supposed to go up at 12:04 AM, but we typed 12:04 PM and had to fix it this morning...it's fixed now)

That Warmed Up in a Hurry

 From two and ten....

....to six and twenty-five.

And still a day to go.

The rain has been removed from the forecast and temps will remain steady.

Too bad about this poor kid:

• A 5-year-old girl was shot and killed on the Near West Side Sunday morning, police said.

  The girl was in a parked vehicle in the 200 block of South Campbell Avenue around 3:30 a.m. when someone fired shots, according to Chicago police.

  She was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and pronounced dead.

Has Conehead or the "progressive" caucus scheduled a march or anything yet? Or would that distract from the Illegal Alien Fight Club at Pritzker Park?

Splitting Up 008?

Why is this a Springfield issue though?

• State Senator Mike Porfirio (D-11^th) and State Rep. Angelica “Angie” Guerrero-Cuellar (D-22^nd) recently passed legislation in the General Assembly to acquire a new police district facility representing their districts on the Southwest Side.

  The bill passed both chambers with veto-proof margins. The legislation now heads to Gov. Pritzker’s desk for his signature.

  House Bill 478 would transfer the Midway Flight Facility, 5400 W. 63rd St., to the City of Chicago for one dollar, for the express purpose of a police district. The payment would be made to the Department of Military Affairs, which currently owns the property.

We guess  because it's a military property? 

We and a lot of other people have said for years that 008 is just too big to be patrolled effectively. So is 016. 

The only trouble is even if they open this repurposed building, where would the staffing be coming from? Surrounding Districts? That's not going to go over well.

COVID Lawsuit in NJ

COVID Civil Rights Violations cases are still wending their way through the courts....and citizens are winning, even in deep-blue New Jersey:

• Ian Smith, co-owner of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey, has achieved a monumental victory. A New Jersey court has dismissed all 80 charges against him, charges that stemmed from his bold decision to reopen his gym in direct defiance of Democrat Governor Phil Murphy’s tyrannical COVID-19 lockdown orders.

  The saga began in May 2020, when Smith reopened Atilis Gym, challenging the Murphy administration’s mandates, which he and his supporters argue are unconstitutional and detrimental to small businesses.

  The confrontation escalated in July 2020 when police officers forcefully arrested Smith after he continually violated the state’s shutdown orders. A swarm of police officers burst through the door of Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey arrested the owners for violating Governor Murphy’s authoritarian shutdown order.

The governor even seized (stole) $165,000 from a legal defense fund for the gym raised via online solicitations, the same way Trudeau froze bank accounts of Canadian truckers protesting the lockdowns in allegedly "free" Canada.

But Smith won a massive victory in court:

• On Saturday, Smith announced that the court dropped all charges with prejudice. This means the state is utterly barred from refiling these charges against Smith and Atilis Gym, signaling a definitive victory for the small business owner and a stinging rebuke of Gov. Murphy’s authoritarian tactics.

  Smith did not mince words, directly challenging Governor Murphy with a phrase that has since gone viral: “Suck my d—k Phil Murphy.”

Now hopefully, he sues for damages and wins. It would be a great precedent.

Two and Nine....So Far

We've been reminded that we used to have "over/under prediction" posts before a long holiday weekend, and we forgot this one.

We can't say that we're "predicting" after the clock has already started - it wouldn't be fair, and we certainly wouldn't want to bet any toothpicks on it. But we'll toss out a number for those interested:

• five dead, twenty-one maimed (all official numbers will be from HeyJackass.com)
  

The weather might dampen it down a bit, but we've got all summer to play with.

These Clowns

Like a bad penny, Drunk-Oral-Sex-Underwear-Burner Johnson keeps turning up:

• One day before the long-awaited vote on a proposal to give the Chicago City Council more control over the city's controversial contract with ShotSpotter, members of the Save ShotSpotter Campaign gathered at City Hall to voice their support.

  They were joined by a familiar face—former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, who was leading the department when it first began using the gunshot detection technology in 2017.

  Johnson was adamant that he is not being paid by the company behind ShotSpotter, SoundThinking, to promote it. He said he just thinks it works.

Why anyone would seek out - and print - the opinion of this idiot is amazing. the rest of the article is a bunch of fluff parroting the "progressive" narrative that the technology doesn't work....except when it directs police to the scene of Lil Homicide shooting at people in cars, then it's just racist.

And it finishes with this statement:

• The Cook County State's Attorney's office has also said the system has "minimal return on investment" when it comes to holding shooters accountable.

Accountable???

This from the office of Crimesha, shooter's best friend, hugger of convicted murderers, utter failure in prosecuting gun crimes, releaser of shoplifters, battery offenders, burglars, and lover of rapists.

When she isn't beating her own husband.

Pritzker Park?

Is this ironic? Or appropriate?

• Chicago police declared a “10-1” police emergency in the Loop on Friday evening as two large groups of people clashed in Pritzker Park.

  A migrant living at a nearby shelter was stabbed, a Chicago police officer suffered a broken finger, and at least three people were arrested in the melee.

  It all began around 9:08 p.m. when a CPD unit posted outside the Standard Club migrant shelter asked for more cars. They said a large group broke up as they approached, and they saw someone wrapping their arm as if it had been injured. But nobody wanted to talk with them, and the crowd all returned to Plymouth Court, said one officer.

  Just three minutes later, cops again called for more units, saying migrants were fighting inside Pritzker Park. An officer in the Central (1st) District police district’s surveillance room estimated that 70 to 80 people were involved.

CWB has photos and video at the link. 

Did everyone see president tapioca-for-brains lead in New York State has fallen to single digits? Our guess that Illinois might be in play might not be too far off the mark if things like this keep happening....and if the convention turns out to be the disaster current thinking is predicting.

UPDATE: We say "in play" based solely on the non-enthusiasm being displayed by the dems. If they can't get significant voter turn-out, all the polling models go out the window. Overly optimistic? Sure, but what else do we have in this corrupt sewer?

Clouted Assailant's Clout Revealed

You know that case where the crazy and high on drugs naked female stole a squad car, ran over a police officer and then wrecked the squad after an extensive chase that we've been covering on and off?

• The case taking nearly three years to go to trial
• the inept Crimesha's office calling only two witnesses
• the crooked judge dragging out trial dates, granting innumerable continuances, then taking a month off before she'll announce the verdict on 29 May

We and others wondered who the offender's phone call was that got her a city job even after being arrested, charged with attempted murder, after testing positive for assorted illegal substances, especially after it was revealed in court that she had worked on a recent mayoral campaign.

It has been revealed whom her clout is:

Toni Prickwrinkle paid Whitney Temple over $12,300 as an employee during her failed mayoral campaign. And it can be safely assumed that after she attempted to kill a Chicago Police Officer with his own squad car, Prickwrinkle got her a job (at over $80K) in City government after a positive drug test and the attempted murder charges.

Anyone want to guess if Prickwrinkle (or her campaign office) also contributed to the judge's election coffers?

The crookedness runs deep, and we doubt that the Officer will see anything resembling justice unless he sues his assailant personally....and maybe not even then.

Contrarian Article

Our old friends over at The Chicago Contrarian had their own take on the recent BS in Springfield renaming offenders into "justice-impacted individuals" and ran with some even goofier re-namings:

• Carjack: "Unplanned Vehicle Redistributor" (UVR)

  Murder: "Permanent Conflict Resolver" (PCR)

  Assault: "Personal Space Violator" (PSV)

  Rape: "Non-Consensual Intimacy Exchanger" (NCIE)

  Theft: "Unilateral Asset Reallocator" (UAR)

  Kidnap: "Involuntary Relocation Specialist" (IRS)

  Arson: "Unplanned Property Renovator" (UPR)

There are even more over there, so swing by and read it all.

Gutless Wonder Caves

This is what happens when you spend over half your career at the Academy banging recruits - you become a useless tool for the politicians:

• Critics have said for years that the city needs long overdue oversight of the Chicago police department's use of everyday traffic stops to sometimes conduct driver and vehicle searches.

  Now, for the first time, Chicago's police superintendent agrees.

  This week, CPD Supt. Larry Snelling agreed to federal oversight through a years-old court supervised consent decree aimed at reforming department practices; a welcome move to many but some civil rights groups have said it's a step in the wrong direction.

  The ABC 7 I-Team has been reporting on the contentious traffic stop strategy used by Chicago police, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of drivers pulled over for minor traffic infractions.

Just to summarize:

• "...driver's pulled over for minor traffic infractions."

So we're agreeing that these drivers BROKE THE F@#$ING LAW, even if it was in a minor way?

And police are authorized BY LAW to curb those persons who are BREAKING THE LAW?

So no one - except the drivers BREAKING THE LAW - actually broke any laws?

Just so we're clear.

And then Larritorious does what he does best - folds like a wet blanket:

• In a statement to the I-Team, a spokesperson for CPD said, "Supt. Snelling is committed to ensuring traffic stops are being used effectively to stop violent crime. As part of this commitment, CPD has agreed to include traffic stops in the consent decree."

Anyone know how weapons get transported from neighborhood to neighborhood? Pony express? Carrier pigeon? Magic?

Or is it by vehicle, usually being driven by someone who probably failed Drivers Ed, doesn't spend money on maintaining a car (that isn't theirs and might be borrowed from the Chief of IAD), who is already disregarding BIG laws about transporting contraband so disregarding LITTLE traffic laws isn't a big deal, and he knows that he won't be prosecuted by Crimesha even if he's caught with a gun?

And now, instead of telling the media that the Department will continue to properly follow the law regarding traffic stops as a US Supreme Court approved method of interdicting potential violent criminal acts until such time as the elected Legislature changes said laws, Larry abandons the field to the "progressives" selling a bull$hit narrative.

Rules Reminder

Now might be a good time for everyone to review the Rules posted in the right hand margin. They're pretty simple and easy to follow, but it seems a lot of commenters are running afoul of what makes our job easier to bring you entertainment. 

Like stuff typed in ALL CAPS - it's considered yelling and we don't post any of it. Same with "straw man" arguments, "wall of text" posts, etc. Also, putting multiple "hard returns" at the end of a comment, leaving a giant space of dead air, messes with the moderation screen, so we're just deleting them all.

We would also remind readers that if you put the same comment in multiple times OR you copy/paste the same comment in multiple threads, the eBlogger program thinks you're an Ad-Bot and marks everything you post from your IP address as spam - and we do mean everything from that point forward. We never see it unless we go to the spam folder. Just so you know, we do that once a year....maybe. So if you aren't seeing your comment, the AI probably banned you, not us.

Open Post for now.

Media Dying....Again?

Faster please:

• Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis “told Post staffers today that the newspaper will be looking for ways to use AI in its reporting as it seeks to recoup some of the $77 million it lost last year,” reports Futurism.

  “To speak candidly: We are in a hole, and we have been for some time,” the CEO added. “This is all repairable, all doable, particularly if we do it together.”

  The far-left Post’s technology officer told everyone to expect “AI everywhere in our newsroom.” In other words, the Post is about to replace a bunch of overpaid assholes with bots.

We've been pulling for media outlets to fail for years....decades even. We thought we had a win when the Slum Times almost got buried, but they managed yet another reincarnation via some deep pocketed liberals.

We've been hoping for deep pocketed liberals to go under, too. So them spending tens of millions on a failing enterprise is a two-fer in our opinions.

Reminder

This is the car-loaning-to-heroin-dealer by the head of IAD case being referenced over the past few days - and she "runs" the bureau in charge of investigating everyone else on the Department:

• (October 2022) - The man accused of tossing $6,300 worth of packaged heroin out of a Lexus that belonged to the Chicago Police Department’s Chief of Internal Affairs has been sentenced to two years in prison following a bench trial.

  Kenneth Miles was also sentenced to a consecutive two-year prison term for another drug distribution case that he had pending at the time of the incident, court records show.

  Following Miles’ arrest on February 1, CWBChicago reported that public records revealed he is the “John Doe” tipster who provided Chicago cops with information that resulted in the humiliating botched raid on Anjanette Young’s home in 2019.

  On February 1, cops saw Miles pick up a colorful bag next to a parked car and then get into the passenger seat of a silver Lexus sedan—the car that belonged to CPD Chief of Internal Affairs Yolanda Talley.

  As officers followed the car, Miles threw a large Ziploc bag containing 84 smaller pink baggies of suspected heroin out of the passenger window as Talley’s niece drove, officials said.

And the comments from the other day also say she's been in contact with Google to track us down ....again. You'd think with her work history and multiple pending lawsuits, she'd crawl into a hole and pull it in after her to stay under the radar.

Better hurry Yoyo....time is running out. You might not be able to file charges in time to deny us retirement credentials. Maybe ask Dave Harris how far his "investigation" got before all his baggage hit the proverbial fan.

Conehead? Larritorious? Your move.

Two Faced Politicians

Of course, that's redundant, especially here in Illinois. Representatives don't actually represent citizens - they represent corporations, the affluent, their political party, but seldom (if ever) the people who put them in their spots.

Case in point - that "justice impacted individuals" renaming money-pit bull$hit:

• Once again (for Northwest siders) Martwick and La Pointe voted yes for this nonsense. They talk like they support us but are in the progressive defund and demonize the police crowd.

They run as centrist democrats, but once out of sight, they revert to "progressive" commies.

Disenfranchisement Halted

Sangamon County injects some sanity into Illinois' corrupt politics:

• A judge in Springfield this week sided with a group of Republican office seekers who say they are blocked from November’s ballot under a controversial new law that’s been derided as a “dictator-style tactic of stealing an election.”

  Gov. J.B. Pritzker on May 2 quickly signed into law a measure that eliminated the long standing practice of allowing party leaders to choose general election candidates if no one has run for a legislative seat in the primary.

  Under the new law, state House and Senate candidates must run in the primary in order to appear on the November general election ballot — a move that left prospective candidates in the lurch and was viewed as a political power grab by the Democrat-led legislature.

  Democrats framed it as an ethics measure that would take “backroom deals” out of the equation — but it would give the party an automatic win in races in which Republicans did not slate a candidate in the primary.

For a party that claims to fight the "disenfranchisement" of voters, Illinois democrats sure want to disenfranchise thousands of citizens by changing the law retroactively.

This Deserves an Investigation

So who is going to do it?

• Talley dont know what she's doing at IAD. She was put there by lack of competent exempt staff. Melean wanted it but him, barz and the now stripped blau fucked it up. Talley never did a cr investigation and couldn't show you how to do one.

  I'm glad I got out of there because I hear from a good friend still there that whenever micromanaged and wont let the other bosses there make any decisions. She tries to run the office but butts heads with her staff when they try to tell her she can't do what shes trying to do. She trys to unfounded her friends cases without an investigation but when her staff finds out and tell her she cant, she gets upset and tells them shes the chief and can do whatever the fuck she wants.

  my current Commander and lt, both black, think she has no idea what shes doing and wont listen to her staff because she trying to prove to snelling that she should be the 1st. Her sgts say she only talks to them when shes mad about some case involving one of her friends didnt get fast tracked and constantly on them for a large caseload they inherited because IAD does not just do IAD projects.

  The icing on the cake, talley retaliated on POs that couldn't make st Jude by bringing in an inspector cronies and make her officers and sergeants stand a fully dressed inspection. They're tired of her shit too. Guess what talley, some people do have babysitting issues. Nice wellness move. Stay in your office and let the other bosses run iad, they actually know what they're doing.

Those HQ IP addresses we occasionally comment about? We assume that some of them are from her computer conducting unauthorized and illegal First Amendment investigations on the blog and it's readers. Hi Yoyo!

The allegations of interference of ongoing investigations is something the media really ought to be more interested in. The IAD Confidential Section is a hotbed of scandal and intrigue, deciding what cases to bury and what cases to "investigate." The Civil Rights violations (of cops and citizens) that take place there on a daily basis would probably result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a truly fair system, but the chance of it seeing the light of day is slim. You'd probably need the feds in there, and they're already bought and paid for.

Balance the Budget Instead?

This is what the a$$holes in Springfield think is important nowadays:

• Illinois legislators are working to change the term "offender" to "justice impacted individual" in state law, a move Republicans say disrespects victims of violent crime. 

  House Bill 4409 would add Illinois Department of Corrections representation to the Adult Redeploy Illinois oversight board, but it also changes the word "offender" to "justice-impacted individuals." Republicans on the Senate floor said the name change could cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.

  State Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, urged lawmakers to vote no. 

  “Over and over again, we keep changing the name of how we are referring to those who have entered into criminal activity and each time we make that change, each agency has to make that change on every one of their documents. Right now in the Department of Corrections, there's multiple changes that have been made and it’s costing thousands and thousands of dollars just to do a name change. Why is it necessary to make the name change?” Bryant said Tuesday.
  

Illinois is how many tens of billions in debt? And the "progressives" in the legislature want to change the wording in hundreds of thousands of documents, legal books and assorted paperwork that will cost millions (don't believe Bryant, it ain't anywhere near "thousands.")

Government always seems to want to spend money they don't have for god knows what obscene reasons.

A few years ago, we started seeing 1/4 and 3/4 mile markers on all the state highways. What was the matter with 1/2 mile and regular mile markers? It was double the spending on something that was working just fine. No one cared about 1/4 and 3/4 differences, but it cost millions to manufacture the signs and pay the workers to place them.

Who's bitching about the word "offender" aside from a bunch of criminal supporting "progressive" anti-police, anti-law-and-order types? 

Here's a few other ideas for these idiots:

• assault offenders can be "angry without borders"
  
• burglary offenders can be "property relievers"
  
• murderers can be "life extinguishers"

Hell, rapists can be "forcibly generous penile sharers" if you want to really want to be "progressive."

Don't Invest Here

People send links to our email. Sometimes they post links in the comment section. And sometimes, they're quite eye-opening:

• Historically speaking, investing in real estate has seen significant returns. The S and P 500 Index found that the average annual return on commercial properties is about 9.6% a year, only about 0.7% less than residential properties.

  But investing in anything, real estate included, does come with some inherent risks. Market timing, location, demand and how well the property appreciates over time — among other things — can all affect your returns.

  Given how important location is, GOBankingRates asked two real estate investors — Christian Gore and Itay Simchi — where they’d never buy property. Here’s what they said.

Anyone want to guess what their Number One answer was? Go ahead....take a guess:

• Chicago, Illinois

  The average home value in Chicago is $296,901, a 4.4% increase over the past year. But liquidity is important when it comes to ensuring you’ll see solid returns on your real estate investment, but this city just doesn’t have that.

  “The state is fiscally irresponsible and in a bad position,” said Christian Gore, the founder and managing partner of G1 Capital Partners, a private capital firm specializing in multifamily and industrial real estate investments. “There are scenarios in Cook County where property taxes have increased four to six times virtually, making it an illiquid market.”

You can't really blame Conehead for this one....at least not entirely. It started one or two mayors ago and one or two governors ago. But between them and Prickwrinkle's disastrous reign of massive tax increases at County, it all contributes to the ongoing death spiral and may be dooming the housing market for the next ten or twenty years....if you were thinking of retiring, selling and moving that is.

Hey, see if you can spot the commonality among the other nine cities these guys say NOT to invest in:

• Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, New Orleans, New York, St Louis, Memphis, Washington DC and Cleveland.

It rhymes with "split-vole."

This Explains a Lot

We knew this at some level, mostly because of the smell....it's everywhere!

• A growing portion of Americans are reporting daily and near-daily marijuana use, in numbers now higher than the share of daily and near-daily alcohol drinkers, according to a new analysis.

  About 17.7 million people in 2022 recorded daily or nearly daily use of marijuana, compared to the 14.7 million who reported the same habits for alcohol, marking the first time in the past 30 years that daily marijuana use exceeded alcohol use, according to an analysis published Wednesday that looks at data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

  “A good 40% of current cannabis users are using it daily or near daily, a pattern that is more associated with tobacco use than typical alcohol use,” the study’s author, Jonathan Caulkins, a cannabis policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, told The Associated Press.

All those weed taxes....have they paid for a single thing yet?

We remember some study, years ago, that said weed smokers eventually made themselves sterile. We've been hoping that was true for almost three decades now.

Good Point

ShotSpotter still wants to be in Chicago, so it's got to be a lucrative contract:

• The “very small but loud” movement to get rid of ShotSpotter is the “first cousin of defund the police,” the company CEO said Tuesday.

  On the eve of a Chicago City Council showdown, Ralph Clark argued that “people will die” if Mayor Brandon Johnson is allowed to follow through on his promise to cancel the controversial gunshot detection technology contract on Nov. 22.

  “If you have ongoing, chronic gunfire where there are gunshot wound victims and 80 to 90 percent of the time there’s not a 911 call, police and first responders aren’t gonna be able to get to those victims,” Clark, CEO of SoundThinking, formerly known as ShotSpotter, told the Sun-Times.

  “Sometimes you have gunshot victims that are bleeding out. ... We know that time is literally tissue. It’s really important that you get first-responders there very quickly to be able to save lives.”

  A proposal scheduled for a Council vote Wednesday would give Council members power over ShotSpotter in their wards by requiring the mayor to obtain approval from the full Council before eliminating the technology in a ward where the local alderperson wants to keep it.

Of course, the usual "progressives" fall back on their tired old saw - racism:

• Freddy Martinez, executive director of the Lucy Parsons Project, is a leader of the movement to get rid of ShotSpotter on grounds that it is too costly, ineffective and contributes to overpolicing in Black and Brown communities where the majority of gun violence occurs.

  Martinez on Tuesday accused Clark of “attempting to discredit reasonable conclusions drawn by many groups and trying to pin that on ‘defund the police.’”

  Martinez dismissed as “scaremongering” Clark’s claim that people will die if his company’s contract is canceled.

  “We have seen people falsely arrested and killed because of ShotSpotter alerts,” Martinez said, apparently referring to the police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in March 2021.

You mean "lil Homicide"? who had a gun, who had just been shooting at passing cars, who can be seen on video running with a gun and whose corpse tested positive for gunshot residue. That seems like a ShotSpotter Success Story.

And hey Fred, could you tell us exactly where something like 95% of the "shots fired" calls come from? And what percentage of the people actually shot are of a minority persuasion? 

That's not "over-policing." That's going where the crime is. Moron.

Is This Still a Thing?

We thought the fentanyl-heroin epidemic had ended:

• Four men and a woman overdosed at a Near West Side apartment building Monday night, officials said.

  Officers were called to the 1300 block of South Throop Street about 9:30 p.m. for a “possible overdose,” police said.

  The five, four of whom were listed in serious condition and one in fair condition at the time, were taken to Rush Hospital and University of Illinois Hospital, according to Chicago fire department spokesperson Larry Langford.

  At the hospital, the patients underwent “detoxification,” police said.

Since the media isn't covering the border issue and the tons of Chinese made fentanyl coiming over, we figured the ghetto had moved on from selling poison.

Live and learn.

Media Lies Continue

Marty Preib takes the media to task again, this time for trying to paint cops as "extremists:"

• Sun-Times reporter Tom Schuba shills for the radical left as Democratic Convention approaches

  As the Democratic convention draws closer, Chicago media outlets like the Sun-Times and WBEZ have intensified another monumental campaign of deceit.

  This latest campaign is aimed at transforming Chicago police officers into political radicals while protecting the truly extremists the Chicago media has faithfully served for decades. Toward that effort, Tom Schuba and the Sun-Times have taken a break from pushing bogus exoneration stories to devoting a collection of articles about cops being right-wing zealots, ominously entitled “Extremism in the Ranks.”

The Slum Times and WBEZ are merely left-wing rags and Schuba is just another media moron doing the bidding of the radical left, and Preib does a very good job pointing out how and when they traveled down that sinkhole.

Someone else did some explaining from a scientific starting point a few years ago and we happened to run across it again:

• Journalists' brains show a lower-than-average level of executive functioning, according to a new study, which means they have a below-average ability to regulate their emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems, switch between tasks, and show creative and flexible thinking.

  The study, led by Tara Swart, a neuroscientist and leadership coach, analysed 40 journalists from newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and online platforms over seven months. The participants took part in tests related to their lifestyle, health, and behaviour.

  It was launched in association with the London Press Club, and the objective was to determine how journalists can thrive under stress. It is not yet peer reviewed, and the sample size is small, so the results should not be taken necessarily as fact.

  Each subject completed a blood test, wore a heart-rate monitor for three days, kept a food and drink diary for a week, and completed a brain profile questionnaire.

And they discovered that on the whole, journalists pretty much registered "borderline" at birth, ran past "moron" and cratered somewhere around "imbecile' before they went to J-school. Upon graduation, they became "idiots" and pretty much stayed there before applying to the Sun Times and WBEZ.

But go read Preib's article up top - you'll be smarter than Schuba at the very least.

One Way to Stop Crime

Simple remove the "temptation" from the dregs of society:

• Officials in Oakland, California, removed traffic lights from an intersection and replaced them with stop signs amid rampant thefts some attribute to a homeless encampment.

  Neighbors claim people have been stealing copper wires and city infrastructure, Fox News reported Sunday. Even though authorities have put cement barriers over electrical boxes to deter people from tampering with them, the problem has apparently persisted.

  Officials have since removed one intersection’s traffic lights, and drivers must make sure to halt for the red stop signs that have replaced them.

If you don't prosecute crime, you get more of it.

And if it keeps occurring, then you take down traffic lights or you sue Kia (or Glock) because you still refuse to prosecute actual crime.

Downtown Knife Fight

Imagine paying to visit Chicago, or worse, paying big money to live in downtown Chicago, and this arrives on your doorstep:

• No injuries were reported and no arrests were made after at least three men armed with large kitchen knives fought on the streets of downtown Chicago on Sunday evening. A bystander recorded part of the altercation on their phone. The @ChicagoCritter account quickly shared the footage on social media.

  Chicago police first received calls of three men chasing each other with knives northbound on the 600 block of North Michigan Avenue around 6:02 p.m. The men were seen running through the streets, armed with chef’s knives.

  Moments later, video showed several men arriving at the intersection of Ohio and Rush. At least three displayed knives and two of them confronted each other in the street. One man thrusts a knife toward the other with a forceful, full-arm swing. However, the other man, with a knife raised overhead, manages to avoid the blade.

The video is wild.

And despite all the waving and slashing, no one got cut.

Funnily enough, residents recognized the maniacs:

• A Streeterville resident who spoke with CWBChicago recognized two of the men as residents of the Inn of Chicago migrant shelter, 162 East Ohio, home of more than 1,200 new arrivals.

So the democrat manufactured "crisis" continues unabated.

Any chance Porky will pass an assault knife ban soon?

Manpower Misallocated

We (somewhat) jokingly made the case a few days ago for a return of the Summer Mobile Force. We said it didn't take a rocket scientist to see the need for it.

Lo and Behold, someone makes our case for us....again (thanks to CWB for the story):

• A man was shot during an altercation involving a large group of people near Montrose Beach on Sunday evening. Chicago police said the gunman escaped after his getaway car crashed nearby.

  People were heading home after a busy, summery day at the beach when police began to report altercations breaking out within the crowd around 8:20 p.m. As the situation continued to unfold, a gunman seated inside a silver sedan rolled through the 4400 block of North Simonds Drive.

  Police said the gunman opened fire on a 38-year-old man who was standing in the parking lot, striking him in the back.

If the Department would make sure all beat cars are filled first, then they could fill tact teams later, Area teams after that, then citywide teams, and finally, as a last resort, inside staff.

Someone quoted a statistic that claimed there are more inside people working days than manning beat cars on first watch or perhaps even second watch. That's counting the Districts, Areas, Homan Square, Academy, off-site Academy training and HQ.

We tend to believe it.

At Least They Could Chase

Not safe anywhere:

• A Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department captain who oversees the 4th District Station in the nation’s capital was shot in the head while commuting to work on Monday afternoon. The incident occurred as part of an apparent carjacking attempt around 12:10 PM in the area of 7th Street and Oneida Place Northwest, just five blocks from the police station.

  According to D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith, the officer was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, with the gunshot wound reportedly being superficial. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department engaged in a car chase of the suspects. Two individuals were taken into custody in Prince George’s County after crashing and rolling the car they occupied.

Just another blue state $hithole we suppose.

Call Your Aldercreature Lady

Great advice from an OEMC supervisor:

• A Chicago mom is raising questions about the police response after two men broke into her Wicker Park home, with four hours elapsing before officers arrived after her 911 call. The homeowner, Michelle, doesn’t want us to show her face or use her full name because the would-be robbers have not been caught.

  She says she left her door open at approximately 12:30 p.m. after letting her dog out, and that's when two men entered the home. “I saw two men wearing masks standing inside my house,” She said. “I screamed – 'I am calling the police' and they bolted.”

  Michelle and a neighbor ran after the men. Then, she says she called 911.

  “They told me dispatch was on the way and wait outside,” she said.

Newsflash to NBC - dispatch isn't coming. You probably should have asked a couple follow-up questions at this point.

• Michelle said she waited and waited and waited some more. She called 911 multiple times, and on the sixth call, she asked for a supervisor.

  “ A gentleman got on and said sorry to say we have no units to send you…then there was an awkward pause,” she said. “He also recommended I call my alderman and I said why- and he said encourage him to hire more police. The dispatcher also asked me if I would consider defending myself …if I had a weapon or considered getting one.”

Now THAT has to be the best advice we've ever heard of - and from OEMC? We've given that advice to many people over the years:

• get a gun....and learn how to use it.

But now....is this a new OEMC poilicy? Because we will back them 100% on this one. You know why?

1. It is your God given Right to be able to defend yourself
2. The paperwork is at least a HUNDRED times easier

We'll gladly clean up dead home invaders for the last parts of our career and smile every single time. 

But back to the supposed issue - during the truly busy times (and they're about to get busier with the warm weather, school being out, convention time) and the massive retirement wave approaching, wait times are about to hit crisis levels.

To the citizens - this is what your political masters demanded. 

Get used to it.

Called It!

Diseases that had been all but wiped out in the nation, back with a vengeance.

But why?

• A report from the Centers for Disease Control has linked 84 percent of Chicago’s recent cases of measles back to the wave of illegal aliens from Venezuela.

  The report found that 84 percent of the identified cases were found in illegal aliens from Venezuela who were unvaccinated and can be traced to a single migrant boy who arrived in Chicago with the communicable disease, according to the Daily Mail.

  Fifty-seven cases were found in the same migrant shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, the CDC added.

And what else?

• But Venezuela was not the only traced source of cases. The organization also noted that sixteen percent of the cases in Chicago could be traced back to people who contracted the disease in Peru and Chile.

Let's see....84% plus 16% equals.....100%.

All traceable to south of the border. And all a direct result of democrat "open borders" policy.

Be Aware

Given the unfolding situation in the Middle East:

• where the president of Iran and other government officials went down in helicopter crash 
• AND the fact that eight or ten million un-screened persons of unknown national origin have been pouring across the border these past few years 
• AND the ongoing Hamas-hole extermination efforts
  
• AND the feebs talking about "red lights flashing everywhere" as a sort of "don't blame us when we miss something" 

You might just want to be extra aware of certain situations and addresses and suspicious calls over the next few days and weeks.

Update to Below Post

As of 2000 hours Sunday, the weekend totals were:

• 3 dead, 39 wounded (per HeyJackass.com)
  

And over 60% of the carnage happened during that eight hour stretch we mentioned.

26 Shot Over 8 Hours

Maybe 9 hours - depends on how accurate your clock is - including 6 shot about eight-hundred feet from 011:

• Six people were shot and wounded Saturday night in East Garfield Park on the West Side — among at least 28 wounded in shootings overnight in Chicago.

  In the East Garfield Park incident, a group of men were standing in the street Just before 10 p.m. in the 700 block of South Albany Avenue when they were struck by gunfire from an unknown number, striking them, Chicago police said.

SCC SIDE NOTE - check out that underlined paragraph. We don't know if the Slum Times is using AI to do their writing lately or if that's yet another CPS hire via DEI University or what.

We read that the ET's had to send out for extra crime scene markers and ShotSpotter gave up counting the discharges at eighty and demanded a pay raise.

Remember - if the gunman/gunmen are pulled over later tonight for failing to signal a turn on their way to the next mass shooting scene, Crimesha will refuse to prosecute them.

Another Suicide

Didn't we used to get all sorts of notifications when these incidents occurred? Emails from the Supe's office, exempts appearing at Roll Calls, reminders about help being available from various Department resources.

This one flew under our radar:

• The death of an off-duty Chicago police officer found Thursday inside a West Loop residence has been ruled a suicide.

  The 29-year-old man was found about 2:35 p.m. inside a home in the 1600 block of West Warren Boulevard with a gunshot wound to the head, Chicago police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

  Autopsy results released Friday ruled his death a suicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

  He is at least the second CPD officer to have died by suicide this year.

Usually we'd get more than a few e-mails from Officers alerting us to these unfortunate and tragic occurrences. We found out via two, maybe three comments. Granted, we're spending the last of our furlough time at the moment before making a clean break from here, but still....

Has the Department fallen so far that no one is even shocked or saddened by this any more? It's become....expected?

You Know What We Need?

A force. 

A force that operates during the warm weather.

A force, versatile enough to respond to all sorts of incidents on the lakefront, where millions go every year as the weather warms up.

• Chicago city leaders say they are increasing police and safety patrols along the lakefront since crowds have flocked to the shoreline with the stunning weather. 

  CBS 2 saw a few people turned away because they were trying to bring in alcohol. It's one result of the increased police presence as the city tries to prevent more significant problems.
  

We could call it the Warm Weather Versatile Force.

Too bad manpower shortages (and house mouse over-staffing) won't allow CPD to patrol the beaches effectively.

(yeah, we know SMF didn't usually start until Memorial Day, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know a warm stretch of weekend days means extra thousands of people in lakefront Districts)

Getting Closer

Now Cook county deputies are facing charges:

• A former Cook County Jail guard has been charged with defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program that was created to help struggling businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

So we've had ISP, a couple lowly blue shirts, a jail guard.

Now how about the two or three dozen teachers, twenty-plus dispatchers and half a dozen gold stars from CPD?

Crimesha Luvs Sex Offenders!

Some of the aldercreatures aren't happy with Crimesha saying she won't do her job:

• A Chicago alderman blasted Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx as “the biggest pro-criminal advocate in the nation” after Foxx revealed plans not to prosecute crimes based on evidence police discover during most traffic stops.

  Foxx said her office would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”

  Gun and drug charges are among the kinds of cases Foxx would not pursue under the plan.

  Ald. Silvana Tabares (23rd) is among the public officials who don’t support Foxx’s plan.

Could it have anything to do with this? 

• Beginning May 20, NBC 5 Chicago & Telemundo Chicago will deliver a new, unprecedented series – “Dismissed” / “Buscando Justicia” – uncovering the startling details behind a six-month investigation on the minimal number of sexual assault arrests and convictions in the City of Chicago over the past six years.

  The three-part series will air on NBC 5 News & Noticiero Telemundo Chicago at 10 p.m. on May 20-22.

  NBC 5 Investigates reporter Bennett Haeberle, along with Telemundo Investiga reporter Jorge DeSantiago, examined the details of every sexual assault case reported to the Chicago Police Department over the last six years

Who has been in charge of criminal prosecutions for the past seven-and-a-half years?

• Crimesha

And who has something like a 7% charging rate for rapists?

• Crimesha

And who has presided over hundreds of dismissals? And of the few dozen actual convictions, who has let 49% go without a single day served behind bars?

• Crimesha

So not only does she luv her some criminals, she actively hates women who get raped. Who, ironically, were among her biggest supporters during both her election victories.

Overreach?

Sorry, but we don't trust this asshole any farther than we can throw him:

• In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues — three-quarters of them haven’t surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook County sheriff will present Thursday.

  Sheriff Tom Dart is seeking $10 million from state lawmakers to tackle what he calls in naming the report “A Firearm Regulation Crisis.” The money would train and equip more door-knocking officers to retrieve or ensure the safe storage of weapons from those who have had their state Firearm Owners Identification cards rescinded.

  The aim would be reducing the chance potentially volatile people would exhibit the type of violence seen when a shooter who wasn’t allowed to own a firearm carried out a massacre at Henry Pratt Co. in a Chicago suburb.

The failures across all levels of government here are quite astonishing:

• gun owners who have their FOID card revoked are sent a letter to surrender or transfer their guns to a qualified individual or nearest police station;
• should the now-revoked person failure to complete the required paperwork, another stern letter is sent...again and again and again and....
  

We don't think felons or domestic abusers (looking at you Steinberg) or the mentally ill should have guns. In those cases, a lengthy and thorough investigation should have taken place and been adjudicated in a court of law....just not a court in Cook county.

But what happens if the current FOID case working its way through the courts ends with the card being declared unconstitutional? Don't worry....they'd NEVER go door-to-door trying to take guns.

Won't Do the Job?

Well there's a surprise....not:

• Under a new policy draft, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) would not prosecute gun, drug or stolen property cases if they’re the result of what’s considered a non-public safety stop, aka a traffic stop for a reason that doesn’t pose a safety threat.

  Examples of a non-public safety stop include being pulled over for an expired plate, registration or a broken light.

  The draft policy also states the CCSAO would not prosecute a case if the search was based on consent, but occurred without probable cause.

Never mind that the US Supreme Court has ruled  these stops are completely legal and justified by existing Law.

And pay no attention to someone who has never served in the Legislature single-handedly making up the law as she goes along, like the shoplifting law or the Juicy Smollet debacle or constantly failing to prosecute straw buyers, gun offenders, rapists, burglars, battery offenders, etc.

Or the fact that the exodus of actual intelligent prosecutors from her office resembles the engine room of the Titanic at 2341 hours on 14 April 1912.

Crimesha hasn't been doing her job since day one. She exists to free criminals, smear police, and contribute to the increased shitty-ness of blue state shithole cities.

Again?

Larritorious really ought to fire this Yoli-yo:

• A lawsuit has been filed by Aileen Robinson against the City of Chicago and Yolanda Talley in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The case, identified as 2024-cv-3329, was lodged on April 25, 2024. Robinson alleges that she has been a victim of harassment, intimidation, and retaliation by the Chicago Police Department where she serves as the assistant director for crime victim services.

  Robinson's complaint details a hostile work environment characterized by inappropriate behavior from high-ranking officials within the police department. The lawsuit also mentions an incident where a senior police department official aggressively grabbed Robinson after she complained about these acts. She further alleges that her complaints led to retaliation including a year-long internal affairs investigation into her conduct and a three-week unpaid suspension.

We don't even care about the merits of this particular case. 

Where there's smoke, there's fire. And where there's someone getting arrested using your car for running dope around the city, there's an even bigger scandal just waiting to embarrass Larry....and Conehead.