Extra Reading

Articles of interest we've run across tonight.

Another useless police oversight body, bringing the total to something like eight:

• The president and vice president of Chicago’s Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability on Tuesday are among Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choices to serve on the permanent panel responsible for civilian oversight of the Chicago Police Department.

  Anthony Driver Jr. and interim vice president Remel Terry are among seven mayoral nominees to the permanent commission.

So we've got COPA, IAD, the Police Board, the Consent Decree people, this "Accountability" board, the local District Councils, Crimesha's task force....we're missing one somewhere.

Is there any comparable amount of people and boards overseeing the Fire Department? The schools? The City Council?

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Marty Preib explains the rotten media structure that abets Crimesha's corruption:

• Among the new buzzwords in Chicago’s war on the criminal justice system is the claim of “duty to intervene.”

  The phrase describes the city’s demand that officers should turn in officers who commit misconduct. That is the rhetoric. In reality, it is a phrase that will be used to cast a wider net in the war on police officers by attorneys and their media lapdogs.

Go read it all - the amount of taxpayer money being directed at these corrupt institutions is astounding.

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Our old friends at the Contrarian take a deep dive into Conehead's efforts to make Dexter into osome sort of martyr and provoke Minnesota riots here:

• ....it was Mayor Johnson who delivered the most disturbing remarks and they are worth examination. Describing the incident in front of reporters, Johnson declared the events capturing Reed firing on officers and police defending themselves on video as “deeply disturbing,” “painful,” and “traumatic.” Projecting undue calm, Johnson sulked with anguish over Reed’s death, as if Chicago had suffered a great loss with the armed gunman’s death.

  Far from a tragedy, Johnson neither mentioned Reed’s criminal history — Reed was out on bail awaiting trial on a felony gun charge — nor did the mayor explicitly state Reed fired at police. Worse, Johnson waited until near the conclusion of his remarks to address Reed’s attack on police, describing with indifference how he would never “condone” or “excuse” an attack on police. Most troubling was Johnson approximating the value of the life of Reed and his victim, Officer Gregory St. Louis. A bizarre parallel for the mayor to draw as he addressed an armed criminal who shot at and wounded a police officer, Johnson’s comments only highlighted his contradictory prioritization of violent criminals over police or unarmed citizens.

Well written and - to the uninformed - eye-popping conclusions that Conehead's sole effort was to undermine Officers doing their jobs and expose taxpayers to yet another ghetto lottery payout.

Go read it all.