Response is 50-50?

This isn't a good look:

• In Chicago in 2023, more than 1,800 calls were made to 911 of a person being shot. Only about 800 – fewer than half – were responded to immediately by police officers. The other 1,000 callers were victims of 911 backlogs, where no police were available at the time of the call. Those victims had to wait half an hour, an hour, or even several hours for the 911 call backlog to end and for police to finally arrive.

  It was the same for the 32,000 911 calls of an assault in progress, where police were only immediately available for 50% of those calls. And it was the same for 54% of the city’s 911 calls of 35,000 batteries in progress. 

  In all, there were 783,000 high-priority 911 calls in 2023. For 437,000 of those calls, or 56%, long periods of backlogs meant there were no police immediately available. Wirepoints obtained the 911 call and response data directly from the Chicago Police Department via FOIA.

We were warning about this what....a decade ago? Certainly more than a few years at the very least. 

But hey, manpower is fine or something. All beat cars are manned.

Pinkie promise!

Crimesha Supresses the Truth?

Crimsha IS playing games....and it looks like she's leaning on the Flossmoor PD to help with the cover-up:

• (CWB Twitter/X feed) - The Flossmoor Police Department, which provided reports about Kim Foxx's domestic battery allegations in record time, is dragging its heels on our request for the "Big Gulp" guy's arrest report. A 30 day extension request for a document that is clearly not exempt from FOIA.

Here's the link.

It's a simple battery report that got upgraded to a double-felony, in a county where gang bangers can beat a pregnant woman into an un-pregnant state and barely face a misdemeanor charge, but Crimesha gets a sugary soft drink in a paper cup tossed at her and all bets are off.

Shame on Flossmoor PD for delaying the FOIA request. Did she threaten your boss with a beating akin to the one she (allegedly) laid out on her husband?

Another ShotSpotter Success

Good thing Conehead is getting rid of this thing:

• ShotSpotter technology helped Chicago police locate valuable evidence after an armed man tried to rob a CTA bus passenger and then opened fire on the fleeing victim, officials said.

  Shawndale Hardy, 23, was detained pending trial by Judge Antara Rivera after prosecutors detailed their allegations in court.

  Prosecutors said Hardy tried to rob the victim of a backpack while riding a CTA bus near 77th and Halsted at about 11 a.m. on June 17. The victim ran from the bus and Hardy, along with an unnamed accomplice, chased after him, police said.

  Moments after receiving a 911 call about two men chasing another man, a CPD sergeant reported hearing gunfire near the Gresham (6th) District police station at 7808 South Halsted.

  Citizens flagged down responding officers and helped them locate Hardy and a second man. On the side of a nearby house, the cops found a backpack containing a face mask, two guns with extended magazines, and Hardy’s wallet and identification, according to a CPD arrest report.

  Hardy was arrested after being identified as the person who fired shots while chasing the victim, according to court records. Using ShotSpotter, investigators were able to pinpoint the address where the shots were fired as 7741 South Halsted, the police report said. They recovered shell casings at that location.

So it's just a matter of the lab connecting the shell casings to the gun recovered and ::voila!:: another gun crime that Crimesha can avoid, undercharge or dismiss.

And not that it prevented this, but the shots that killed retired Officer Neuman were pinpointed by ShotSpotter after the fact. The technology works far more often than it doesn't and it does lead to solving crimes....and Conehead can't have that.

Second Arrest Made

The wake was today, so hopefully, this is a bit of closure for the family:

• The second suspect in the deadly shooting of retired CPD officer Larry Neuman has been arrested and charged.

  The 17-year-old teen, who has not been identified, was apprehended Thursday, according to Chicago police. He has been charged with first-degree murder, murder and armed robbery.

  The teen was arrested in the 2400 block of East 75th Street and the armed robbery charge is connected to a November robbery of a 21-year-old last year.

Gee, another repeat felon before eighteen. How surprising.

Crimesha Abusing the System?

Abusing her authority the way she (allegedly) abused her husband? (from a commenter):

• Kimmy is complaining Swetz drive by her home afterward and it's on her home surveillance camera.
  
  #1: It took me all òf 2 minutes to find each of their addresses in Flossmoor online and they live ONE minute by car away from each other or 0.3 miles away.
  
  #2: How she know he doesn't travel this route on a normal basis?
  
  #3: Plennty of our town's criminals have been caught red-handed on video and her office refuses to charge them.
  
  #4: Foxx tossing up her middle at Swetz while jaywalking is missing in most of the media report on the incident.
  
  #5: I'm hearing the police report is hilarious as Foxx is said to have feared for her life after the Big Gulp beaned off her head.
  
  #6: Has anyone pulled her tinecard for the day to see why she was fit walking at 10:30am on a Friday workday?

Of course, Cuck Goudie and other "investigative reporters" aren't looking at any of this.

Conflict of Interest?

Chicago is set to have an "elected school board" ....and the CTU is endorsing candidates? Candidates that - if elected - will be nominally in charge of the schools? Not only endorsing, but backing the candidates financially AND making 30,000 "volunteers" available for electioneering work?

• The Chicago Teachers Union is announcing its endorsements for Chicago’s first elected school board — a major step for the powerful political force that helped to elect the city’s mayor.

  The CTU is not publicly saying how much it will devote to support these candidates, and so far, none of the candidates have reported contributions from the CTU to the Illinois Board of Elections. In addition to money, the union has about 30,000 members who have been key in knocking on doors and getting out the vote.

They already own the mayor (and have the receipts to prove it), so why not buy the other part of the equation and own it all?

Indiana tax cheater Stacy Davis Gates isn't shy about who's running things and for whom:

• “Here in Chicago, Black people, Brown people, working-class people who send their children to the Chicago Public Schools get an opportunity to engage in actual debate about school policy,” she said. “I, for sure, was skeptical more than once that this would ever happen, and I’m just very proud of it, honestly, that people get to do this.”

Hmmmm. Stacy seems to be missing a portion of the CPS community.....

It'll come to us.

Trump Indicted for Murder

From the most reputable source of modern reporting:

• LAS VEGAS — Tonight's presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN.

  "Hey, I didn't do anything!" Trump told authorities. "He was like that when I got here!"

  Trump, who had planned to debate President Joe Biden, argued that the strange old man keeled over all on his own.

  "The very idea..." the old man said before slumping over onto a nearby podium. It was also at this point that Trump discovered the man had been propped up by an apparatus and could not stand on his own.

We don't care which way you lean politically, but Trump destroyed Biden on every count tonight.

Now the question becomes, "What next?"

Concerns?

Not just concerns. "Serious concerns:"

• With the Democratic National Convention less than two months away, a coalition of community organizations voiced “serious concerns” Thursday about the Chicago Police Department’s newly revised mass arrest policy.

  The overhaul stems from closed-door meetings authorized by the federal judge presiding over the department’s court-ordered reform push after the so-called consent decree coalition warned that an earlier version of the policy “eviscerates protections” that are otherwise granted to protesters.

  In a court filing, the coalition acknowledges the latest draft policy contains various “improvements,” including changes that ban the controversial containment tactic known as “kettling” and prohibit officers from arresting protesters for minor offenses unless they pose a public safety threat, damage property or disobey a dispersal order.

  However, the coalition notes that “serious deficiencies remain.”

Anyone noticing anything unusual?

• these "restrictions" are on the police - not the "protestors"
  

Our tactics, our actions, our arrest powers - all limited. And you can bet that the paid agitators will be butting up against the limits and then gleefully leaping over the line into law breaking before retreating and hiding among the people who think they're actually protesting.

We've seen it before, again and again. It comes out in the after-action reports, but in the meantime, the media paints a certain picture, the lawyers file endless lawsuits, cops get stripped and run through the wringer (for years afterwards), and the City pays out to the guilty parties for being better actors.

Name Them All

So this was published....someone sent it to a social media site who forwarded it to us (click for larger version):

And right there on the left side, the name of the ASA who denied felony charges. All the elements were there, and yet, nothing. 

We used to have something called "constructive possession" and it was used to charge everyone in the car with the felony, especially if someone got shot or killed (derived from the Felony Murder Statute). For some reason, an elected official ::cough cough Crimesha cough:: decided to disregard the Law as written and refuses to charge anyone despite the Legislature dictating it to be so.

So all you have to do to avoid charges and a conviction when committing a crime is have someone along for the ride and all of you deny anything ever happened. You'll be home in time for dinner.

In the meantime, here's to hoping to embarrass a few of these useless ASA's into doing their jobs instead of doing Crimesha's bidding.

You Settled THIS?

Seriously? 

The City Council is full of morons.

Some background:

• More than seven years after a racially charged melee and police shooting left a man dead in Mount Greenwood, a proposed settlement was reached last week between the city and the man’s family, court records show.

  The settlement agreement between the city and the estate of Joshua Beal was announced last Friday, just days before the civil trial was set to commence at the Richard J. Daley Center. The terms were not known Monday, and a spokesperson for the city’s Law Department declined to comment. An attorney for Beal’s estate could not be reached.

  The shooting occurred on West 111th Street on an unseasonably warm weekend afternoon in early November 2016 — just days before the presidential election — after Beal, of Indianapolis, and members of his family had left a funeral nearby.

He had a gun in his hand. 

He was pointing it at people.

In fact, this wasn't the first time he had been caught doing this - he had a history of pointing guns at people and we cited it at the time.

And get this - COPA found the shooting to be completely JUSTIFIED.

But the aldercreatures just can't wait to give taxpayer money away to a repeat felon for getting dead while performing another felony!

Fuck Joshua Beal and fuck the aldercreatures who voted for this crap. You want to see why every cop who can leave is getting the Hell out of Dodge?

Paramedic Shortages Worsening

Our readers have been warning about this for a while:

• The Chicago Fire Department celebrated new paramedics at a graduation last week, but some officials inside the department say it's not enough.

  Matt Clohessy is a Paramedic in Charge for Ambulance 10 on Chicago's West Side. He said he and other PICs are often asked to work on their days off.

  "We need more ambulances. We need more help out there," Clohessy said. "Although we have great jobs, we are super lucky to work here... some days in the summer I'll have 37-39 runs under my belt by the time it's time to go home."

Whatever they're paying the guys and gals on Ambulance 10, they ought to double it.

The article says the paramedics have gone three years without a contract and a comment here a few days ago said that numerous paramedics are dropping paper to be reassigned to regular firefighter duties because the burnout rate is so high on the ambulances.

There will be informational picketing at NASCAR, but the shortages are real. Ambulances are unavailable to transport people in need on a daily basis. If you have an elderly relative, you might want to make sure there's an alternate to a CFD response available. In fact, you might want to make plans for yourself in the event of an emergency....some sort of neighborhood watch for medical issues.

Look at Me!!!

After democrats under Gov. Quinn got rid of the death penalty in Illinois, there was (and remains) absolutely no deterrent to murder. Sentences are ridiculously inadequate, effective prosecution is a pipe dream, and the Parole Board is completely corrupt. You're lucky to see killers get twenty years (out in ten) regularly.

And you end up with something exactly like what happened in Lake County:

• His hands and legs shackled, Robert Crimo III sat in a wheelchair that sheriff’s police said he had requested because he was nervous and worried he would be unable to walk in the crowded Lake County courtroom.

  When Judge Victoria Rossetti asked Crimo Wednesday if he accepted a deal to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life in prison, Crimo paused. He looked over his left shoulder at a courtroom packed with those affected by one of the worst mass shootings in Illinois history.

  It’s unclear who he was looking at, his family or the victims and their relatives in the gallery behind him, but a lawyer who represents several victims in an ongoing civil case is convinced Crimo was looking at the survivors to taunt them.

  “He wasn’t looking at his family,” said lawyer Antonio Romanucci. “He was looking to see who was there to observe, so he knew that he had an audience.”

  After a brief recess, Rossetti asked Crimo again if he wanted to continue with the plea deal.

  “No,” Crimo replied.

So without the State's ability to even bargain away the death penalty, this tranny mass murderer got what he's been bucking for since the beginning - an audience. A captive audience, who had to show up to see him, to hope for a modicum of justice. And he played them exactly as he wanted to, becoming the center of attention that he couldn't get as mentally ill role playing shitlib.

And he'll keep doing it.

UPDATE: Learn to google people. Ryan emptied Death Row in an attempt to deflect outrage at his indictment. It didn't work. Quinn signed the democrat passed bill ending the Death Penalty. Rauner tried to bring it back, but ran into the "progressive" buzzsaw.

Of Course He Was

You have to assume this nowadays, and you'll seldom be disappointed. In fact, CWB exposed an equally horrendous finding in their report:

• A 16-year-old boy was supposed to be on house arrest for a pending gun case when he helped murder retired Chicago Police Officer Larry Neuman last Thursday morning, prosecutors said. Lazarious Watt is also suspected of carjacking a family in March. He may soon be charged with that crime in juvenile court.

  Watt is the 15th person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while on pretrial release. The cases involve 27 victims, five of whom died.

There is an actual body count attached to these "bail reform" efforts or "Protect Illinois Community Acts" or whatever the f#$% they're calling it, and this time it cost the community and CPD an outstanding human being.

(Graphic courtesy of CWB blog. Click for larger view)

It's far past time for leftist and "progressive" politicians to be paying a price for their horseshit policies.

Good Headline at CWB

Good....but not great:

• Migrant carjacked by migrants outside migrant shelter - A group of migrants attacked, robbed, and carjacked another migrant outside the city’s shelter at 1358 North Elston, across from the Salt Shed, on Monday evening. Police said the victim refused to pursue felony charges, but two men were charged with misdemeanors.

It would have been better as:

• Illegal carjacked by illegals outside illegal shelter
  

But CWB has to play nice because they have paying subscribers and we understand. 

In the meantime, it's amusing to see the illegals turning on each other. How very Chicago of them.

Gas Tax Going Up

Remember, 01 July, Fata$$'s new gas tax goes into effect.

Is this in addition to the "summer blend" price hike?

Someone has to pay for that extra billion or more that the illegals need.

This Sounds Like Fun

We only hope a bunch of it is true:

• Right after the DNC, CPS OIG is going to be announcing they found 100's of principals, assistant principals, teachers, & staffers were involved in PPP loan fraud.
  
  Here's the rub..since CPS is experiencing a teacher and administrator shortage, few if any of the new fraudsters will lose their jobs. The fraudsters will have to pay back what they took in loans plus a penalty. Most will have their wages garnished with no suspensions, only a warning put in their personnel files.
  
  The CPS OIG already nailed 12 highly paid employees and sent them packing, including 4 assistant principals and a former Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO that was making $225K. This was Crysral Cooper to current CPS CEO (Pedro Martinez).
  
  Cooper is the second Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO in recent years to be dismissed and DNH'd by CPS. The other is Pedro Soto, Jr. as he worked under Janice Jackson and lied to the Feds about his dealings with a vendor in the school cleaning contract bidding war.

The schools need a couple big scandals exposed to provide impetus to any sort of "reform" movement.

Hero to the Very End

One arrest so far, and the rest of the incident details are being released:

• A 16-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the murder of a retired Chicago police officer, CPD Supt. Larry Snelling said during a press conference on Monday night.The teen boy is facing first-degree murder charges, Snelling said, and investigators are still searching for a second suspect.

  "In a brazen and senseless act of violence, Larry's life was taken from him by the very people he committed his life to helping," Snelling said.

  [...] CPD Chief of Detectives Antoinette Ursitti said retired Chicago Police Officer Larry Neuman, 73, was outside his West Garfield Park home on Thursday afternoon, paying a worker who was cutting his grass, when he saw two people with guns approach.

  Neuman, seeing that the two offenders were armed, heroically pushed the worker out of the way, Ursitti said. Neuman then took his own firearm out of his waistband, and that's when the two suspects fired, striking him. Neuman was able to fire at the suspects, who then fled on foot, Ursitti said.

Serving and Protecting to the very last. 

It sounds like they have a lead on the second offender. Hopefully apprehended soon.

Concealed Frying Pan License

A few years ago, there was a video (maybe from CWB?) of a window breaker being hit with a bongo drum as he fled the scene. It was one of the funniest video clips we recall seeing and the sound of the drum making contact with the dumbass's head made it even funnier.

This one might top it:

• The burglar who went viral after being attacked by a frying pan-wielding homeowner is a 12-time convicted felon who was paroled three months ago on burglary, forgery, theft, and stolen motor vehicle cases, according to court filings.

  Bradley Willenborg, 31, provided Chicago cops with the alias “Brandon Williams” and a fake birthdate after they arrested him in the 3400 block of West Parker around 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Judge Susana Ortiz ordered him detained yesterday afternoon because of a safety risk.

  Homeowner Jason Williams called police around 3:25 p.m. after receiving an alarm notification and seeing a video feed of a man on his property, according to police records. Williams also rushed home, getting there before the police arrived and before Willenborg left.

The homeowner got in a few hits off camera in the house and a few more in the back yard, before chasing the offender out front and getting in another smack as cops arrived. We only wish there was sound.

Here's a X/twitter video link to go with the CWB link up top.

UPDATE: Here's one slightly altered version of the "bongo bonk" from a helpful commentator. Thanks!

No One Believes This

It's like waving a red cape in front of a bull:

• As Chicago prepares for the Democratic National Convention and the protests that could come with it, concerns over popular city monuments are growing after vandals targeted the iconic Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park over the weekend.

  The concerns sparked after the famed Cloud Gate structure, also known as "The Bean," officially reopened after nearly a year of construction. At the same time, Buckingham Fountain was vandalized, forcing it to shut down for several hours. Vandals dyed the water inside the fountain red and green, leaving messages about the war in Gaza around the fountain.

  But as protests are expected to heighten in the lead-up and during the DNC in Chicago, officials with the city's police department said "vandalism and violence of any kind will not be tolerated."

  “The Chicago Police Department has been and continues to prepare for the upcoming Democratic National Convention since Chicago was announced as the host city a year ago. Our training has been heavily focused on responding to large-scale First Amendment activity," the department told NBC Chicago in a statement Monday. "As always, we will protect those exercising their constitutional rights, as well as those who are working, living, and visiting in the areas of the demonstrations. When orders to disperse are given for public safety reasons, we will seek voluntary compliance first consistent with the Department's First Amendment Rights policy. Those who continue to be in violation of dispersal orders after a reasonable amount of time will face arrest."

First up, there is almost no enforcement for these types of events. "Protestors" are given free rein to block streets, expressways, buildings, etc. 

Then phone calls are made. Many phone calls. Then a warning may be given....and another set of phone calls goes up the chain. Then, if they're lucky, another warning. The entire process takes upwards of thirty minutes before a "final warning" may be given and actual arrests undertaken.

By then, it's too late. The disruption has effectively crippled foot and vehicle traffic for hours, which is the sole purpose anyway. It's a joke....and it's not over yet. The "protestors" are cited with some paperwork before it's all dismissed by Crimesha a few days or weeks later. 

Remember how many panty-fa and #blm types faced any actual charges, fines or jail time? And how many ended up being plaintiffs against CPD? So to make a statement like this is just noise, and they'll take is as a challenge to do something.

Root Beer Battery

Hey look! You CAN get multiple felony charges approved in Cook County:

• Prosecutors have charged a suburban man with two felonies after he allegedly threw a Big Gulp on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx during an argument near her Flossmoor home.

  William Swetz “had no idea” who Kim Foxx was when he crossed paths with her as he drove in the 800 block of Sterling Avenue on Friday morning, Assistant Public Defender Catherine Stockslager said during his initial appearance this afternoon.

  Foxx was on her morning walk when Swetz, 34, encountered her while driving his GMC pickup truck around 10:30 a m., officials said.

Of course, he was released on his own recognizance in spite of multiple felony charges.  CWB helpfully reminds readers about multiple cases of Aggravated Battery (including a stabbing with a cooperative victim) that were only charged as misdemeanors.

But if you don't even know who the asshole is on the other side of the argument, you can get felony charges like ::SNAP:: that!

Big Monday on Tap

Today we find out if Anne Burke dies alone, pining for her husband while spending their ill-gotten millions....or if the Chicago Way lives on, even at the federal level:

• When it’s finally time to sentence the longest-serving Chicago City Council member in history for racketeering, bribery and attempted extortion, federal prosecutors want a judge to send “a simple, undiluted and unequivocal warning” to government officials across the state:

  If you follow in the corrupt footsteps of ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke, “You will pay dearly.”

  It’s been nearly a decade since an Illinois politician as significant as Burke (14th) faced sentencing at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Plenty of lesser Chicago pols have been sent away, though, vexing judges inside the building. They’ve mulled the cost-benefit ratio for “rational” politicians who too often choose greed, graft and power over the public good.

  Now, U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall, one of the building’s most senior jurists, has a chance to send the loudest message since U.S. District Judge James Zagel gave 14 years to ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Prosecutors want 10 years for Burke. Whatever Kendall does will add to a long-running courthouse debate about how to put a stop to corruption in Chicago — and whether that’s possible.

We wouldn't be unhappy with ten years. 

After all, Blago got fourteen.

Update: Two years. The Chicago Way strike again.

$68,000 per Student?

And not a single one could pass the SAT test:

• Only 35 students enrolled in Douglass Academy High School for the 2023-2024 school year, but the building can hold over 900 students.

  Logic would say it should be closed, but the Chicago Teachers Union prohibits closing it and other underused schools. In fact, CTU sees the 23 staffers at Douglass as inadequate.

  CTU’s new contract demands would put at least eight additional staff members in the school. That would mean 31 staff members for 35 students.

  Douglass already spends over $68,000 per student. All that money and all that potential staff attention, yet it failed to produce even a single student who was proficient in either reading or math on a recent SAT.

There are half-a-dozen other schools with enrollment in the low double-digits, all fully staffed so the Staff-to-student ratio is almost 1:1. 

That's insane when other schools are staffed at something like 30 or 35 to 1. Time for some fiscal responsibility to be introduced to the broken (but far from broke) schools.

No Punishment

Even the feds aren't prosecuting crime:

• Chicago and other big cities have seen the number of new federal prosecutions drop steadily in recent years, likely because of a hangover from the partial shutdown of the government during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data provided by a Syracuse University research group.

  In the current fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Chicago is expected to have a more than 37% decrease in prosecutions of cases from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives compared with fiscal year 2023.

  A 45% drop in prosecutions of cases from the Drug Enforcement Administration is expected — along with an 8% fall in prosecutions of cases investigated by the FBI....

Understandable, as the feebs have redirected resources to investigating parents attending School Board meetings, assorted Christian denominations, home schoolers, persons driving over gay flags painted on the streets, and social media users with an emphasis on those who didn't buy into the COVIDiocy.

Crime is up because there is no prosecution - locally, statewide or federal.

Keesing Bandit NOT Involved

We should say "allegedly," but who knows?

• Behind the blacked-out windows of a Near West Side storefront building, 10 dominatrixes offer clients a variety of services at what’s billed as “Chicago’s premier dungeon,” catering to people with sexual fetishes.

  For 32 years, Chicago Illusions has been in business there.

  For the past two decades, the property owner has taken advantage of a Cook County program to give tax breaks to owners of small storefront buildings that also have apartments. He’s used that program to cut his real estate taxes by 60% a year — for a tax savings totaling nearly $300,000.

We'll bet if you get a look at this establishment's client list, there would be more than a few "connected" names that keep the property taxes "discounted."

The names that the Sun Times did publish reveal quite a bit anyway:

• Anthony Vaughan, the dungeon’s operator, says he doesn’t use the apartments for his sex business, which he says is limited to the 1,450-square-foot ground floor retail space at 1210 W. Grand Ave.

• If the apartments were deemed to be part of the business, Cook County officials could end the lucrative tax breaks for the building owner, Frank P. Cangelosi, who paid $15,274 in real taxes last year. Without the tax break, the tax bill would have been $40,075.

  Cangelosi didn’t return messages.

• Chicago Illusions opened in the Grand Avenue building in August 1992, according to Vaughan, shortly after he finished serving probation for a conviction of using violence to collect debts owed to a Fulton Market meat distributor. According to a court filing that described him as tall and burly, Vaughan would hand out business cards bearing a drawing of a funeral wreath and the words: “We guarantee results.”

Grand Avenue? A guy convicted of violence collecting debts? Fulton Market?

No wonder they got tax breaks out the wazoo.

Who's Watching the Cameras?

Say what you want about ShotSpotter. When the alarms go off, there are dozens of eyes and cameras trained on the area - wherever ShotSpotter is based (they and their systems determine if the sound is an actual gunshot) and then cameras all over the SDSC rooms.

So who is watching the hundreds of cameras trained on Chicago landmarks and potential terror targets?

• Buckingham Fountain is closed “until further notice” after vandals dyed the Grant Park landmark’s pool water red and spray-painted messages opposing the war in Gaza overnight.

  Chicago Park District officials announced the closure Saturday morning, saying the city agency will perform maintenance to restore the fountain to its previous condition.

The amount of dye needed to color the 1.5 million gallons of water that circulate through Chicago's most recognizable landmark doesn't just come in one gallon containers. Not even close. So who's watching to see maybe half-a-dozen people hauling two gallons each or on the outside, two of three five-gallon buckets?

We're going to guess, "No one." 

And guess what that means in August? Gauge the breeze, meet up a few blocks from the United Center, dump buckets of ammonia and bleach in a few dumpsters and let Mother Nature drift those clouds into the Near West Side. Or something worse.

Great Work Detectives

One murder solved:

• A teen boy accused in the fatal shooting of a child on the Near West Side made his first court appearance on Saturday.

  16-year-old Raysean Comer, who has been charged as an adult, is facing one felony count of first-degree murder, and one felony count of personally discharging a firearm that proximately caused the death of the victim.

  The teen was ordered to stay in custody and the Judge said that it went without saying that he acted recklessly when he allegedly took the life of 7-year-old Jai’Mani Amir Rivera.

And get a load of this:

• In court on Saturday, prosecutors described how an acquaintance of the teen was with him playing cards after the murder.

  “During that card game another person who was playing told the defendant he will have nightmares about what he did. Referring to killing people,” Rodgers said. “In response, the defendant said ‘I didn’t mean to do that.'”

  The defense argued that the teen shouldn’t be tried as an adult. They said he is going to be a high school senior in the fall, gets A’s and B’s, and is on the football team.

  But in response, prosecutors said the teen has a record of escalating criminal behavior.

"Escalating" means two pending felony cases.

And the card playing a few days later? Someone at the card game knew he had done the shooting and the only excuse given was, "I didn't mean to do that." Seems he was just firing the rifle in random directions to amuse himself and one of the rifle rounds managed to find it's way into the chest cavity of a seven-year-old.

But don't demonize him - he gets A's and B's in CPS and plays football.

Persons of Interest

Probable killers:

• Chicago police are asking for help identifying two people possibly involved in the fatal shooting of a retired Chicago Police officer this week on the West Side.

  The police department released video footage of two people walking through an alley near where Larry Neuman, the retired officer, was shot multiple times Thursday in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street.

Video and stills are at the link up top. 

A whole bunch of people know who these two are and where they're hiding.

Four Years Later?

Facing a Disciplinary Hearing for shooting a fleeing felon, with a gun, who had just attempted to murder some other people (or folks), in broad daylight?

What the actual f#$%#?

• A Chicago police officer who fatally shot an apparently armed man in Little Village faces dismissal nearly four years after the encounter.

  On Oct. 23, 2020, Marc Nevarez, 25, crashed a silver Ford Focus near West 26th Street and South Ridgeway Avenue and ran from officers who suspected him and his passengers of being involved in a shooting in the area, authorities have said.

  Officer [RG] fired three times at Nevarez as he ran down 26th Street with a revolver in his hand, striking him two times, according to authorities. Nevarez was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability had recommended [RG] be fired for use of deadly force without justification and failing to turn on his body-worn camera.

  But interim police Supt. Fred Waller did not agree that the officer used force without justification and proposed a three-day suspension instead for the body camera violation.

  On Thursday, police board member Andreas Safakas sided with COPA, ruling to allow a disciplinary hearing on the case “that provides due process to all parties.”

Seriously? In the middle of a hot pursuit after on-viewing the offenders fleeing from a shots fired incident, COPA want to hang its hat on a body-camera violation? When the partner Officer has the camera on and you can see the felon fleeing with the gun in his hand? 

You ever try to turn on a camera in a speeding squad car when your heart is racing and you're trying to keep an eye on a guy you're sure is armed while drawing your own firearm with the other hand? We're 100% sure it wasn't intentional, but you know COPA - they're assholes.

At least Fred Waller made the correct decision in downgrading the camera violation and instead focused on the outstanding response by Officers. There better be a certain Use of Force "expert" at this hearing giving testimony in the Officer's case.

Waste of Time

This is what the dem super-majority wastes time on:

• A new Illinois bill would make it a felony for government officials to knowingly fly an American flag upside down on government property.

  Illinois State Rep. Harry Benton (D-Plainfield) formally introduced HB 5860 on June 11.

  The bill would amend Illinois’ Flag Display Act and prohibit officials from knowingly displaying or causing to display “the United States national flag with the union down on government property.”

  Under the bill, a violation would lead to a Class 4 felony, which is punishable by Illinois law for anywhere from 1-3 years in prison.

Meanwhile, Porky add another few dozen billion to Illinois' out-of-control debt.

Singling out opposition party members when they publicly disagree with you. How very democrat-like. We guess freedom of opinion only applies when the left approves of the message being espoused. 

UPDATE: someone pointed out this appears to have been a government official flying the flag upside down on government property. 

Okay - naughty naughty. But a Class 4 Felony? But leftist bureaucrats are always flying assorted freak flags, espousing discredited, divisive and even terrorist causes on company time....and we're all just supposed to smile and take it?

Hey, You Wanted This

Amusing to see the Hollywood class getting tired of what they advocated for, supported financially, and voted for:

• Hollywood's bright lights are fading fast for Goldie Hawn, and she's ready to get the heck out of Dodge. The actress, 78, admitted her home in Los Angeles was "robbed once" recently while she was out to dinner for a few hours with Kurt Russell, her partner of over 40 years.

  "What if we couldn't live in LA, where would we live? We both decided, I think it's Palm Desert. … It's so safe," Hawn reminisced about her dream location to plant new roots while appearing on the SiriusXM podcast "Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa." 

  "It's just 'cause L.A. is terrible. I mean, we were robbed once."

Now imagine you're not rich enough to have a tall fence, a burglar alarm, possibly some armed security nearby.

Retiree Killed

This article (and others) does not do justice to the man:

• A retired Chicago police officer and Transportation Security Administration officer was shot to death Thursday morning in West Garfield Park, authorities said. The 73-year-old was found about 11:30 a.m. with multiple gunshot wounds in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street, Chicago police said.

  He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was identified as Larry Neuman of West Garfield Park by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

  A person was arrested at the scene of the shooting and was being questioned by detectives, police said.

  Neuman was a bomb technician who retired in 2010. He worked at the police department for 28 years.

A US Marine, veteran of the Vietnam War, we believe the first African American bomb tech in Chicago, Color Guard Sergeant for the Pipes and Drums, and after retiring continued teaching bomb techs at both airports. He was also an ordained minister at the church located in the 011th District near where he lived and was accosted.

We met Larry many times and a kinder gentleman you'd be lucky to run across. His contact number is still in our cell phone. That he remained in the community long after retiring is a testament to his dedication to service - in the military, in the police department and in his church.

God bless you and your family Larry. You will be missed.

National Mayoral Recognition

But not the good kind:

• Chicago is ranked as one of the worst-run cities in the United States, according to a new study, while one of its suburbs is positioned near the top of the list.

  To determine the best and worst, WalletHub compared 148 of the most populated cities across six key categories: financial stability, education, health, safety, economy, and infrastructure and pollution.

  The study also evaluated the effectiveness of local leadership by calculating a "Quality of City Services" score – aiming to show how well city leaders manage and spend public funds by comparing the quality of the services residents receive against the city's total budget.

  San Francisco ranked 148th – the bottom of the list. Chicago came in at 137th, while Aurora ranked 28th.

Well golly:

• financial stability - non-existent
• education - look at Stacy the other day...she represents all that is ignorant
  
• health - after the COVID debacle and illegal disease carriers....
• safety - read HeyJackass.com and our extensive archives
• economy - left or is leaving as we speak
• infrastructure - we raise potholes for export here

We're surprised the ranking was so high.

Pension Shenanigans

Someone posted in the comments section that there's a bill in Springfield trying to create a Tier 3 pension.

Not only that, but the bill is attempting to back date the Tier 2 pension to 2011 so as to screw a bunch of people with years already on the job.

Here's the link to the bill. We haven't read it yet, but it sounds like state legislators should be inundated with phone calls.

Good For You Kid

Wounded in Chicago, cop makes his way to the 'burbs:

• “I am God!” the big man screamed out the window of an apartment in the 1300 block of South Lawndale Avenue. “I am the man!” Then, he started singing. What the Chicago Police Department calls a “domestic disturbance.” A particularly dangerous situation for police to walk into, accounting for nearly a quarter of the murders in Chicago.

  Officer Angelo Wells Jr. and his partner had just come off a call and were leaving the 10th District station. They headed to the scene. Four more officers arrived. It was just after 3 a.m. Aug. 5, 2020.

  “Why don’t you come down and talk to us?” Wells called up, framing the 33-year-old man in his flashlight beam. The man, on PCP, stopped singing, and started spitting at them.

  “Are you guys going to come up and help me?” a woman yelled from somewhere inside the apartment. A Chicago Fire Department ambulance arrived. Wells walked over to brief the paramedics on the situation.

  Five shots, in quick succession. Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta. Wells took cover behind the ambulance.

The second set of shots shattered the Officer's femur, resulting in an extensive hospital stay, months of rehab and most likely a lifetime of discomfort.

And then he got a call from Northbrook, a suburb where out of a force of sixty-five, eight are from Chicago including the chief. The citizens seem to appreciate their police (they wave using all five fingers) and if anyone got shot up that direction, it would be the first time in years - not hours.

That cops are retiring in massive numbers isn't a surprise. What is surprising are the number leaving in the middle of their careers, walking away from Chicago politics and anti-police agendas. It's a phenomenon that hasn't been seen before, and this article gives a bunch of insight into why.

Stacy, You Ignorant @#$%

That she says this with a straight face is amazing. That people believe it is appalling:

• The president of the Chicago Teachers Union claimed during a radio interview that aired Sunday that conservatives don’t want black children to learn how to read.

  Stacy Davis Gates made an appearance on WBBM 780 AM to defend the union’s contract demands. Gates claimed that conservatives who expressed criticism of the demands “don’t even want black children to be able to read."

  “Remember, these same conservatives are the conservatives who probably would have been championing black codes, you know, during reconstruction or thereafter,” she said. “So, forgive me again if conservatives pushing back on educating immigrant children, black children, children who live in poverty, doesn’t make my anxiety go up. That’s what they’re supposed to say. That is literally a part of the oath that they take to be right wing.”

Um, "black codes" were created by the Southern democrats who had just lost the Civil War where Republicans had freed their slaves. Jim Crow laws? Drafted by democrats. Keeping and enforcing segregation? Dems. Founders of the klan? Democrats again.

And just in case Stacy missed the Chicago news the past few years while living in South Bend - democrat mayor, democrat Cook County Board president, democrat chief judge, democrat states attorney, forty-seven of fifty dem aldercreatures. There's even a democrat super majority in Springfield meaning they don't even need a Republican defector to pass their entire agenda and get it signed by....a democrat governor.

So the fact that black children can't read (or do math) wouldn't have anything at all to do with conservatives, and hasn't for decades now. It's far more likely that democrats don't want black kids knowing how to read lest they find out that democrats have been oppressing them since before the Civil War and lying ever since. In that, they're doing a bang-up job.

Torturing the Numbers Again

As we pointed out a little while ago, the manipulation of crime statistics continues:

• For more than 100 years, the FBI has been collecting crime data from local police departments across the country through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which has been the gold standard of national crime statistics.

  By 2020, almost every law enforcement agency was included in the FBI’s database. Some agencies reported topline numbers, such as the total number of murders or car thefts, through the Summary Reporting System. Others reported granular incident data with details about each reported crime through the newer National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

  Then it all changed in 2021. In an effort to fully modernize the system, the FBI stopped taking data from the old summary system and only accepted data through the new system. Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time.

The article by the Marshall Project is your typical lib-tarded "progressives" taking stats and accusing red states of using incomplete data to claim crime rates are down. At the same time, they ignore the Potato-Brain/Heels Up campaign claiming national numbers are down even though New York and LA didn't report any numbers at all for the years being cited.

Just so you're aware of how the numbers are being twisted.

Closed for the Holiday?

Doesn't this make "cooling centers" pretty much a waste of money?

• The city cited the Juneteenth holiday for closing all but one cooling center for vulnerable residents Wednesday even as temperatures are expected to exceed 90 degrees for the fourth straight day.

  “It’s extremely alarming that we are shrinking our cooling centers in the middle of a heat wave,” said state Rep. Lindsey LaPointe, who represents Chicago’s Northwest Side and advocates for the homeless and other vulnerable populations.

  This week, the city established six cooling centers for those who need to escape the dangerous temperatures because they don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to heat-induced illness. On Wednesday, only one of those centers, the Garfield Community Service Center at 10 S. Kedzie Ave., will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. despite another forecast for an extremely hot day.

  City officials have also advised people to seek shelter at Chicago’s more than 80 public libraries this week, but all those locations will be closed for the day as well.

Typical Chicago government. Hope no one died.

Not as Bad as Cicadas

Someone has a twisted sense of humor:

• Advocates say the owners of a building across from a Pilsen migrant shelter have installed a loud noisemaker to deter shelter residents from gathering outside. The high-pitched ringing noise emanates day and night from a small box on the roof of 2380 S. Halsted St., a building that once housed a construction business across from the shelter.

  Ryan Hurley, a former volunteer who helped migrants when they were housed at the Near West District Police Station, said he believes the device is new because he didn’t hear the noise when he was outside the shelter about two months ago.

  “I think that it was probably put there to [mess] with the migrants,” Hurley said. “It’s terrible that people have to hear that all day long.”

Yeah, and it's terrible that people and businesses have to deal with the thousands of illegals dumped in their neighborhood, crowding out the sidewalks, restricting business traffic, leaving garbage and all manner of pollution on the sidewalks, in the alleys, etc. 

You know where it's quieter? Venezuela.

Random Murder

A valiant effort by....the police of all people:

• A 7-year-old boy was shot and killed on Chicago’s Near West Side Tuesday, a victim of what police called “random gunfire.”

  [...] SkyCam9 flew above the scene in the 2300 block of W. Jackson following reports of shots fired just after 3 p.m. Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling said Tuesday evening during a press conference that the boy was walking out of his home to visit a neighbor next door when shots rang out.

  “This child was walking out of their residence and was struck by gunfire,” Snelling said.

  The boy received aid from arriving officers. Officers ultimately put the child in the back of the squad car and rushed him to the hospital, but despite life-saving efforts, the child was later pronounced dead.

  Snelling called gun violence in the city “unbearable and unacceptable.”

  “We are losing our children and we really need to think about the gun violence that is going on in this city,” he added. “We all need to step up to try and fight this gun violence to try and save our children.”
  

Truly a tragedy, and everyone claims to be outraged, but they aren't even camping on street corners like the aldercreature by St. Sabina. 

A noble effort by the responding Officers though. A pity it didn't work out.

Feebs at it Again

So Texas outlawed gender transitioning kids, forbidding hospitals from chopping off genitalia and administering puberty blocking drugs. A nurse became aware that Texas Children's Hospital was circumventing the law and continuing these procedures, hiding it from regulators by falsely billing Medicaid under different classification.

In other words, committing fraud for federal dollars. A huge no-no. So she reported it to the proper authorities and the FBI arrived to interview the nurse at her home.

• The FBI had sent two special agents, [Agent 1 and Agent 2], to her home. The agents knocked on the door, asked her about "some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately," and then asked to enter her home. She was terrified. (The FBI declined to comment.)

  The agents told Sivadge that she was a "person of interest" in an investigation targeting the whistleblower who had exposed the child sex-change program. They told her that the whistleblower had broken federal privacy laws. "They threatened me," Sivadge said. "They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was 'not safe' at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI."

The link up top has the agents names and this link here has Ring Doorbell cam video of them arriving to intimidate the nurse who was reporting the fraud. Maybe they'll end up on that dangerous website we wrote about a few days ago with their pictures.

But here's the feebs ignoring provable Medicaid fraud and going to citizens' homes to warn them that they're the ones in trouble for possible HIPAA violations,  not the hospital defrauding taxpayers of millions of dollars. And Merrick Garland wants to outlaw criticism of the DOJ and federal agents for acting like commie secret police behind the Iron Curtain. Fuck him and fuck them.

This agency cannot be rehabilitated and must be disbanded.

More Imaginary Money to Spend

And exactly where is this money going to be coming from?

• [paywalled article] Chicago elections could soon be rewired by a new bucket of cash: taxpayer-funded matching money that multiplies small-dollar campaign contributions.

  City Council candidates would get as much as $200,000 in public funds linked to small contributions if a new ordinance proposed by Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, passes. The legislation aims to dampen the oversized influence of wealthy donors, he said at a news conference Tuesday.

  “Our current campaign finance system is broken,” said Martin, chair of the council’s Ethics Committee. “Too often it forces candidates to rely heavily on a few big special interest donors to fund their campaigns.”

  The public campaign financing plan would cost the city an estimated $9.5 million in every four-year election cycle, Martin said. Candidates would need to qualify and opt into the program and abide by a series of fundraising-restricting rules to receive the public money.

Chicago can't fund pensions, tree trimming, pothole repair, rodent control and a myriad of other projects, but they're going to find $9.5 million for politicians too inept to raise their own election money?

Bad Idea L.A.

Good thing we only steal policing ideas from New York, because the left coast ideas are just goofy insane:

• This week, the [Los Angeles] City Council authorized a study to figure out how to do just that [taking sworn officers out of traffic enforcement.]  — while adding more speed bumps, roundabouts and other street modifications to reduce speeding and unsafe driving.

  "I think the city of Los Angeles can lead the nation," said Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, one of the proposal's early champions.

  In a 13-0 vote, the council directed city transportation staff and other departments to come back within 90 days with feasibility reports about the cost and logistics of a series of proposals including: creating unarmed civilian teams to respond to certain traffic issues and investigate accidents; limiting fines in poorer communities; and ending the use of stops for minor infractions such as having expired tags or air fresheners hanging from the rear-view mirror.

If we recall correctly, the most dangerous police activity after domestic disturbances, is anything involving a traffic stop/crash/enforcement. Not where you want to be sending unarmed unprepared teams....unless it's like two or three days later.

And we've been seeing the results of not enforcing traffic laws for the past few years and it ain't pretty with pedestrian deaths skyrocketing and insurance rates rising faster than Bidenflation.

Big Fire

Not a good day to be dressed in turnout gear fighting a giant bonfire:

• What began as a two-alarm fire in the city’s West Town neighborhood Tuesday evening grew to four alarms and a hazardous materials response.

  Two firefighters suffered minor injuries but are expected to be OK.

  At 7:45 p.m., firefighters reported that progress was being made in putting out the fire that began raging near West Hubbard Street and North Damen Avenue at about 6:30 p.m.

Stacks of wood pallets, fifteen feet high, dry as can be, a 90 degree day and fifteen MPH breezes.

We'll take the traffic control two blocks away, thank you very much.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to the two injured firefighters.

Heat Builds

A hot stretch of days is probably going to shine another unwanted spotlight on crime after a particularly bloody weekend. 

Yeah yeah, we know McCompStat told us all that weather doesn't have anything to do with crime. We also know McCompStat was (and remains) an idiot. Weather has quite a bit to do with crime, and this string of days with overnight temps remaining in the upper 70s is going to shorten a lot of tempers.

The other thing this "heat dome" reminds us of is 1995 where hundreds of dead bodies were undiscovered for days and then the Morgue got inundated with bodies. That was one of our first experiences with an actual crisis as the police and long before the "body snatchers" existed. It was not a fun time.

Stay cool if you can. Check on your neighbors.

Pandering Again

Before we cite the article we'd just like to make an announcement to all the black people in Chicago:

• You aren't getting reparations. Ever. It's a political ploy to "buy" your vote....except you'll never see a dime. Reparations are paid to survivors of an atrocity, not six or ten generation out. Any effort to dish out taxpayer money will be met by massive lawsuits, which will delay and diminish any expected cash. Not to mention that Illinois was never a slave holding state and in fact sent tens of thousands of troops to put an end to the entire thing.

That being said, here's another dumb idea by Conehead to attempt to shore up his dwindling voter base:

• The city on Monday issued a formal apology to Black Chicagoans for the harm that slavery, Jim Crow laws and present-day policies have had on them and their descendants.

  The acknowledgement is included in Executive Order 2024-1, signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, creating a “Reparations Task Force to develop a Black Reparations Agenda” that will ultimately offer recommendations on remedies to the polices that have harmed African Americans in Chicago for generations. He previously earmarked $500,000 in the city budget to study the issues.

  “Today’s Executive Order is not just a public declaration; it is a pledge to shape the future of our city by confronting the legacy of inequity that has plagued Chicago for far too long,” Johnson, the city’s third Black mayor, said in a statement.

We're all for apologies. Sorry about what happened to your ancestors as perpetrated by someone else's ancestors way back in the history books. Our personal ancestors were busy making love, war and business a few thousand miles away on another continent.

Moving on, this is a money grab for an unaccountable, unelected "task force" to read history books and tell the "aggrieved" that "By golly, you deserve a boatload of money you never earned! Vote for us and we'll make some vague promises to pay you somewhere down the road with money we don't have and/or doesn't exist."

Note that WGN points out how racist Chicago is by having three black mayors, when it's actually four of last seven - they always forget Eugene Sawyer's year-and-a-half - along with sixty or eighty black aldercreatures since the turn of the last century.

What a Weekend

It was a bloody weekend all around the country it seems:

• At least two bystanders were fatally shot at a Juneteenth celebration in Texas on Saturday night — one of multiple incidents of gun violence around the country that marred Father’s Day weekend.

The article goes on to cite the following:

• Seven people were shot in an [...] incident in Methuen, Massachusetts
• [a shooting] at a Michigan park that injured nine people.
• Two people were killed and two others were injured at a nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, early Friday
• A shooting in Chicago early Monday morning left five people with gunshot wounds
• A man died in a shootout with police in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday night after he barricaded himself inside a home and killed his parents
• six people were shot in Lathrup Village, Michigan
• Five people were wounded Saturday evening in a shooting at Bramble Park in Cincinnati

They missed the other mass shooting here in Chicago's Englehood that accounted for seven more maimed. 

Must be something in the air.

Manpower Crisis Intensifies

How shorthanded are the "low crime" Districts?

This short:

This is all over social media, so don't be blaming us for noticing.

This isn't only a service issue to a District that pays quite a bit in taxes and receives little in the way of police presence. It's a safety issue that FOP ought to be addressing along with whatever aldercreatures represent the various neighborhoods up north.

Imagine it's August, the DNC is in full swing, and some ne'er-do-wells from panty-fa decide to do a march in front of 016 because they're assholes. Fifty or eighty show up and discover that there's a single officer working the desk. 

What now? 

We're thinking of the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis in 2020:

That's 2023 and we aren't sure if it's still there or they finally tore it down.

Inflated Pensions

After reading this chart, it should be quite obvious to those that don't know any better, that the inflated pensions of the politically connected need to be reformed gutted:

The most obvious change that needs to take place is the highest pension must be capped at the highest promotable rank. You shouldn't be getting extra tens of thousands because you are connected to some crooked politician.

The second reform that should be passed (but never will be) is that if you didn't pass an exam to get the higher position in rank order, then you get only the pension to which you would otherwise be entitled.

• for example, if you spent most of your career at the Academy chasing tail, and never once passed a promotional exam high enough to get promoted, then you retire at the Patrolman's rate.

But that would be completely out of the realm of possibility, right? Who would promote someone like that?

Feeb Cover Up in Nashville

The feebs are supposed to solve crimes....not hide the reasons behind the crimes. So it's good to see this finally leaking out, even if the main stream media is assisting in the cover-up:

• The 2023 Nashville Covenant School murders understandably received massive news coverage when they occurred. The fight over obtaining the murderer’s diary also received news attention. But when “nearly four dozen pages” of the murderer’s diary were finally released last week, the mainstream media completely ignored it. It turns out that behind the scenes, the FBI had fought hard against the diary’s release. Some Covenant School parents also opposed releasing the diary because it would force families to re-live the nightmare. The Tennessee Star’s parent company, Star News Digital Media, successfully filed two lawsuits to obtain the diary.

  Five days after the release of the diary, with the exception of the New York Post, which is a national news outlet, the news coverage was limited to seven other conservative outlets such as The Daily Wire and Newsbusters.

The reasons are obvious of course. The feds have been weaponized against any information that runs counter to the "progressive" narrative, and that includes the fact that most mass shooters are (A) mentally ill, (B) on some form of medication with a side effect of inducing psychotic/suicidal tendencies, and (C) are politically left leaning.

The media abets this all because (A) they're leftist scumbags who wish nothing but ill on normal sane Americans, (B) they ARE the leftist propaganda machine, (C) they're going to try to drag tapioca brain over the finish line one way or the other.

By the way, if you read the "manifesto" thoroughly, you'll find that the mentally ill trans shooter was sane enough to scope out a number of locations and decide the "gun free zone" provided the best opportunity to commit mass murder, which of course completely undermines the anti-gun position completely.

Dangerous Website

They claim they're using it for transparency....but we all know it won't be used for that.

• Dirty Commie website link

Tens of thousands of names from dozens of departments.

Thousands of photographs.

They didn't even get our good side.

Be aware of what's out there.

Teachers Demand What Now?

Seriously, what does any of this have to do with an "organization" that can't teach kids to read or do basic mathematics?

• Teachers in Chicago are using their powerful union to fight for climate action in city schools.

  The Chicago Teachers Union opened public contract negotiations with the city today, demanding electric school buses, cuts to buildings’ planet-warming pollution and clean energy job training programs for students, among other provisions, writes Adam Aton.

  The move marks the latest in a growing trend of unions fighting for workplace improvements that go beyond the traditional scope of wages and benefits. And the worsening state of the climate — from summer heat waves to flooding in Florida to the wildfire smoke that blanketed Chicago last year — have pushed some unions to embrace the cause as a workplace issue.

How about this then:

• eliminate parking lots at schools to "encourage" teachers to ride to-and-from work on Public Transit. After all, the RTA goes out to the suburbs with two or three transfers now. And Stacy Davis-Gates can take the train and two buses in from her South Bend residence.
• eliminate the air conditioning prevalent in schools now - the amount of coal-powered electricity these appliances gobble up causes how many tons of carbon emissions? We suffered (and survived) thirteen-plus years of grade and high school without any air conditioning.

Set the example teachers....or shut the hell up and start teaching kids.

Final Weekend Number

Well, not quite final.

We're writing this a few hours before midnight (we gotta get some sleep for Monday) and the totals as of 7 PM are:

• 8 dead, 34 wounded

Five hours to go....we'll update this in the morning at some point. Don't worry Yollie - we won't use a Department computer. 

UPDATE: Okay, so there are two weekend numbers - the actual weekend and the "Don't Demonize" Monday, brought to you by the only trusted source for crime numbers, HeyJackass.com.

The Don't Demonize total is 10 dead, 63 leaking. That number was achieved by two unscheduled mass shooting events in the crime prone areas of the city.

Unless we specify a Monday carryover, we usually chart the stats from close of business Friday until midnight Sunday into Monday. In that case, the weekend total would be 8 and 40, not too far off the over/under we set at 12 and 42.

We'll leave it to the regular degenerate gamblers to put their own conditions on their betting parameters.

CWB Reporting

How's crime looking here in Chicago?

• Story #1: Late last year, we told you about Cedric Johnson, a man accused of carjacking and gun possession, after Judge William Fahy rejected the state’s detention request and sent him home on electronic monitoring.

  Last week, Johnson once again appeared before Fahy. Prosecutors said, still on electronic monitoring, he got caught with a gun while riding in an Uber. That still wasn’t enough to convince Fahy to keep him in jail on the new allegations. Although the judge did agree to detain Johnson until the judge handling the carjacking case had a chance to review the matter.

• Story #2: A Northwest Side man charged last October with shooting a 69-year-old man was detained by a judge on Friday after prosecutors accused him of shooting the same man again this week.

  John Kastanes, 64, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, and aggravated battery in connection with the latest shooting.

A guy on bail for a gun, gets another gun, and gets caught.

And another guy shoots the same guy he shot last year. In his defense, the guy he shot seems to be an asshole, but still....

Great system you got there Fata$$, Prickwrinkle, Tommy, Timmy, and Conehead.

Silly Aldercreature

On one hand, a publicity stunt.

On the other, at least he's out there:

• Starting Friday night, one alderman on the South Side is sleeping outside in the neighborhood in an effort to put an end to some bad behavior on the block.

  [...]  A few streets over, near 73rd Place and Ada, an alderman also hopes to reduce violence but in a quieter way with his presence – by sleeping in a tent in the middle of the block. 

  "I may be out here to the winter. I have no idea. Whatever it takes, this is my new address right now," said 17th Ward Alderman David Moore. Moore has set up shop where he said drug dealers routinely do their business.
  

Who knows? Maybe he can make a difference. 

Here's to hoping he has a Kevlar tent.

Officer Says Thanks

After the naked "insane" crack addict was found not guilty of attempted murder of a Chicago Police Officer, the involved Officer felt what was surely a giant kick to the gut. He writes to us:

• I wanted to take this time and thank my brothers and sisters in blue for their support the last two years while I was going to court on Whitley temple . The afternoon the verdict was announced was one of the worst days in my life . Every not guilty being read felt like a punch in the stomach and driving home I felt numb . But as the days go by , the pain lessens and you gain clarity . I put up a good fight the past two years and that is because you men and women gave me the strength to fight . My efforts fell short and I was defeated but I learned you learn more from your defeats then you do from your victories. I also know I walked away with the most important victory and that’s my life . You men and women had my back during the roughest time in my life and I will never take that fact for granted . Thank you all again ………E.P.

On a related note, a civil lawsuit has been filed against the naked "insane" crack addict for the injuries suffered by the Officer. Hopefully a civil jury will be smarter than a Cook County judge.

CPD Officer Sues Crimesha, Others

We don't think he'll make any headway against Crimesha - the Machine will pull out the stops to claim prosecutorial immunity. But he might get a decent payout from the Park Ridge police chief and their police department:

• A former Chicago police sergeant is suing Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and other officials for wrongful prosecution, saying they ignored the law and caved to public pressure by criminally charging him with detaining a teenager who was with his son’s recently stolen bike.

  Michael Vitellaro was found not guilty on all charges during a bench trial one year ago.

  [...] Ultimately, Park Ridge officials and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office caved to the pressure, even though they knew that Vitellaro acted within his authority as a law enforcement officer to detain someone suspected of committing a crime, the suit contends. The alleged crime in this case was possession of stolen property.

  Vitellaro accuses then-Park Ridge Police Chief Frank Kaminski of proceeding with criminal charges, even though he was aware of evidence that was favorable to Vitellaro.

  The suit accuses Assistant State’s Attorney Lynn McCarthy of being “deliberately indifferent” to Vitellaro’s rights by failing to terminate the criminal case when she knew he was “authorized to perform the acts for which he was criminally charged.”

Kaminski has since resigned - for this or for other reason we aren't aware of - but from everything we heard, he was a useless tool in suburb that spawned Hillary Rodham. Hopefully the CPD sergeant bankrupts him.

If he can prove that ASA McCarthy acted with "deliberate indifference," he might get a a judgement against her, too.

Best of luck!