Beware of Inspectors

And perhaps refresh your passing knowledge of Medical Roll procedures should you be unfortunate enough to be ill during the DNC:

• SCC, just so you know, the Inspection Division has been told that all personnel will be conducting Medical Checks on everyone who is on the Medical Roll during the DNC with house visits a regular occurrence, not just phone check-ins. Please remind everyone, any time they leave their residence, they have to check-in with their District of Assignment, notify the DSS and be properly logged. Also, trips out of the City are forbidden without prior approval of the Medical Section, and they aren't going to be authorizing any travel whatsoever.

Failure to follow procedures is an automatic day to start. Multiple violations and you're looking at five days minimum.

Deputy Killed, Suspect Arrested

South side tragedy:

• A person of interest is in custody after an off duty Cook County sheriff's deputy was killed in a shootout in the Woodlawn neighborhood Tuesday morning, Chicago police said.

  The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the fallen deputy as 31-year-old Rafael Wordlaw.

  [...] Chicago police said the deputy was at the Clark Gas Station with his cousin in the 500-block of East 67th Street around 1:26 a.m. in Woodlawn when a gunman approached and tried to rob him. The two exchanged gunfire, and then, the suspect ran away. Wordlaw was shot in the chest. It is not clear how may gunshots were fired, but the gunfire exchange left its mark from the gas station's convenience store to a resident's vehicle across the street.

  Police said Wordlaw got back into his car after the shootout to get help, but his car crashed into a pole a few blocks away in the 6700-block of South Indiana Avenue.

Deepest sympathies to his friends, co-workers and family.

Shut Up Peasants!

Remember, this is a Union Town and Conehead is a union mayor!

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration has denied a permit that would have allowed Chicago firefighters and paramedics to hold a two-hour march near the United Center on day two of the Democratic National Convention to press their three-year-long demand for a new contract that would include adding 20 ambulances.

  “They said it was too close to the United Center, but it’s not. That’s b.s. They have a perimeter and it’s outside the perimeter,” Pat Cleary, president of the Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2, said Tuesday of his request for a permit.

  The real reason, he said? “They don’t want the embarrassment.”

The embarrassment of being unable to settle a union contract for three plus years with an organization that (like the police) is forbidden to actually strike to force the city's hand.

Great Job! NOT

The city certainly isn't hiring the best nor the brightest spokespeople....probably DEI hires:

• The city of Chicago now says a man killed in a police shooting was pulled over for tinted windows, contradicting an earlier explanation.

  An officer shot and killed Dexter Reed back in March during a traffic stop in Humboldt Park.

  The city originally said officers pulled Reed over because he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

Um....Channel 7 dickheads? Are you missing something?

• He was shot and killed because HE SHOT A CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER during said traffic stop, you assholes. NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF THE WOUNDED OFFICER IN THE ARTICLE.
  

And whoever was speaking for the City really stepped in the shit, changing the story from "seat belt violation" to "tinted window violation" because someone figured that would be easier to defend, and thereby tossing all the Officers under the bus if their Probable Cause is in any way in conflict with the already written reports.

The family has surfaced looking for their ghetto lottery ticket to be cashed:

• Dexter Reed's family attorneys Sheila Bedi and Andrew Stroth issued a statement, saying, Dexter Reed's family filed a lawsuit focusing on CPD's indisputable and longstanding policies and practices of racial profiling-including unlawful, and racially discriminatory traffic stops all of which led to Dexter Reed's death.

Nothing about how Dexter's own uncle shot Dexter a number of months ago because Dexter was born an asshole. And nothing about how Dexter shot a cop, therefore earning each and every bullet returned his direction.

We Need a Hobby

So we were at the bar the other evening, discussing retirement options with a bunch of contemporaries, figuring out what - if any - post CPD employment would be needed, how far the pension and deferred comp might go, what might occupy our time in our golden years.

And the subject of politics came up. There are certainly a large number of vacancies at the local level what with Burke being convicted and the usual turnover that happens in a large patronage driven organization like that. And then there's the state level disaster with Madigan getting indicted and Fat$$ looking to Washington DC. Lots of opportunities there. Serving nationally though, well....Durbin isn't getting any younger. But if we wanted to go that route, we're looking right at the top spot. 

El Numero Uno - the Presidency.

Biden's gone. No one with a brain is voting for the DEI vice Kackler Harris. RFK Jr isn't a real candidate. And Trump is probably going to win. 

But we can do our part to mess up Illinois politics and give The Donald a shot at winning Illinois by picking off the disgruntled habitual democratic voter who is irritated with democrats, but doesn't know any better than to vote the way their fathers, mothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles and ward bosses tell them to vote. Hell, their great-great-grandparents are probably still voting for democrats despite being dead for forty years.

Therefore we are announcing our candidacy before the DNC hits town in an effort to toss a wrench into the machination of Sparklefarts and Porky. We're even going to short-circuit the obvious machinations by the "power brokers" by choosing a running mate already - and we're sure it's a demographic winner:

 

We'll be accepting platform suggestions for our run. If we do well enough, perhaps we'll land a cabinet spot.

Florida Craziness

This is in Florida, a purportedly red state:

• A Florida police union leader blasted prosecutors Monday for bringing a criminal case against four officers over a 2019 shootout with two robbers that left a UPS driver and a passerby dead, saying they had no choice but to return fire on the busy suburban street.

  Steadman Stahl, president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, said that by bringing the case, Broward County prosecutors are sending the message that officers could face charges if they fire at shooters while hostages or other innocent people are nearby. That “could have a chilling effect” on how they respond, he said.

  “Those officers didn’t pick that location to have that shootout in. It’s the bad guys,” Stahl said after a hearing where the officers’ trial was scheduled to begin Feb. 17. “Unfortunately, two (innocent) people lost their lives out there. Our hearts go out to them. Nobody wanted that to happen.”

The SFPBA president is correct - the cops didn't choose where the shootout would happen. And, like it or not, civil litigation would have been a given in any jurisdiction in the nation. But criminal charges? There seems to be a lack of intent for starters.

And reading further into the article, the prosecutor is the same one who charged and tried the Broward County deputy for NOT pursuing the shooter in the Parkland shooting. Now he's charging officers for actually pursuing?

Any bets on whether Crimesha wanted to institute this here, but just never had an opportunity?

Another Crimesha Failure

Her office is just full of DEI hires who can't win a case:

• A man who got into a shootout with Chicago police officers on Christmas Eve 2021 has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for gun possession after a jury found him not guilty of trying to kill the cops. With good behavior, 32-year-old Nokomis Jefferson will serve only seven years and should be home in time to celebrate Christmas 2028.

  Chicago police officers monitoring a CPD surveillance camera saw Jefferson pull out a gun and hold it in his hand as vehicles drove past him in the 1300 block of West Hastings late on December 24, 2021. The cops and other officers went to the area and moved in on Jefferson.

  COPA, the agency that investigates police-involved shootings, determined that the officers “announced their presence, saying, ‘police,'” as they moved in on Jefferson.

  Jefferson, his lawyer argued, opened fire in self-defense because he did not know the people who were closing in on him with guns were cops. A shootout ensued. Jefferson received gunshot wounds to his head and shoulder, COPA reported. No officers were injured.

Seen on camera with a gun. The approach must have been tactically sound because no officers were injured during the shootout that wounded the offender. He's a felon, so charges were extensive - two counts of attempted murder, two more of aggravated discharge at police.

He beat all those charges, getting tagged only for being a felon in possession of a firearm, which was the slam-dunk charge since he was lying next to the gun he had just fired.

Judge Ursula Walowski  wasn't amused and sentenced him to the max allowable for the single charge - fourteen years, but with time already served and day-for-day credit, he's out in 2028.

This is another one of those "out on bail, but he'll behave himself" a$$holes that the chief judge tells us never happens - the SIXTY-SECOND since 2021 according to CWB.

And just in case you were planning on sending COPA a Christmas card, they reprimanded all of the officers involved for stating, "Shots fired!" instead of "Shots fired by the police!" during what is well known as the most stressful seconds in any Officer's career.

Cops Out of Schools

Finally pulled the trigger - no pun intended:

• Chicago Public Schools officials finalized a new security plan Thursday, officially eliminating police officers from school buildings while focusing instead on holistic discipline and safety strategies.

  The Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved a new whole school safety plan, which brings to an end the use of school resource officers (SROs) inside district buildings following a yearslong review of CPS safety protocols and procedures.

  “By prioritizing and centering the voices of our students and everything we do when it comes to safety, plus the community engagement ongoing with all of our stakeholders — our parents, community members, our staff and our administrators — we believe this is how we’re going to keep schools safe,” CPS Chief of Safety and Security Jadine Chou said Thursday.

Really? "...holistic discipline..."

We'd guess more like a hologram....as in completely imaginary.

• District officials have said the new framework is built around three main pillars of holistic safety: the physical safety of students and staff, emotional safety and relational trust.

  “How our students feel welcomed every day, how they feel comfortable in the building and how they build relationships with the adults in their building,” Chou said. “We believe that the district can and will take school safety with this new policy to an entirely new level by doing all these three things together.”

  That policy will be implemented in phases through a tiered criteria based on each school’s use of exclusionary disciplinary practices such as out-of-school suspensions and police notifications, with a focus on the disproportionate application of those actions.

This is going to be interesting.

Hey Larritorious? A proposal for you.

• Come out with a policy after the convention and before school starts. CPS doesn't want cops in the schools, then CPS doesn't get cops in the schools. Ever. CPS "security" can handle each and every disturbance inside and once they make a determination about what laws they're going to follow, they will bring offenders out to the cops waiting outside, in cuffs and with an escort to go through processing in the case of juveniles.

Time to step up and make them live by their rules, thereby protecting the jobs of the men and women that you lead.

They're Going to Release Him

Sorry to be so pessimistic, but we'd bet the odds are 50-50 they cut this f#$%er loose as an "act of mercy:"

• Notorious Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover has had “virtually no contact with the outside world” for more than two decades, his lawyers have said.

  They say the co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang “spends 23 hours a day in a concrete cell no larger than a parking space” at the federal supermax prison in Colorado. And they argue he deserves a break from the life sentence handed to him in 1998.

  Their bid to secure mercy for Hoover, 73, has lingered for years at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. But now a judge has scheduled a hearing for this fall — and ordered prosecutors to “make Mr. Hoover present in person” when it happens.

  The brief order Tuesday from U.S. District Judge John Blakey sets the stage for a rare public appearance Sept. 26 by a man who’s been labeled “one of the most notorious criminals in Illinois history,” but who claims to have renounced the criminal organization he once led.

The sentencing judge is dead, the US Attorney who recommended denying any pleas for leniency isn't in office any more, and the judge - who is currently hearing pleadings and motions from the Madigan corruption trial - wants Hoover in town for a face-to-face hearing. 

Given the political state at the moment, nothing would surprise us at the moment.

Hey Crimesha?

Once again, the two-tiered justice system in full view (CWB reporting):

• A man accused of randomly attacking a woman in the Loop earlier this month, knocking her to the ground in a crosswalk, is only facing a misdemeanor battery charge, according to court records. The woman is the fourth person that Azzam Qattoum is accused of randomly attacking downtown since Christmas. He was charged with misdemeanors in all of the other cases, too.

  That’s a stark contrast to the felony charge filed against William Swetz, the Flossmoor man accused of tossing root beer in the face of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx last month.

  As we reported before, any physical attack on the public way can be charged as a felony in Illinois. The crime is called “aggravated battery in a public place.” That’s the charge Swetz faces for tossing his Big Gulp on Foxx. But the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office rarely approves the charge unless there are additional circumstances like robbery or theft involved.
  

Four separate attacks on strangers on the public way - three of them women - knocking a couple of them to the ground via brute physical force:

• misdemeanor charges

One splash of root beer on an idiot walking in the street where both parties were pretty much assholes to one another:

• two ASA's show up at a suburban PD and sit with them into the wee hours to get felony charges

Nothing to see here!

Remembering Twenty Years

Mark your calendars:

• My family would be honored if you could join us on Thursday, August 8, 2024 for a ceremony remembering my brother, Chicago Police Officer Michael Gordon, on the 20th anniversary of his End of Watch.

  P. O. Mike Gordon Memorial Ceremony

  Thursday, August 8th 10:00 AM

  CPD Education and Training Academy 1300 W. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL

  The program will be brief and should wrap before 11AM.

  Parking can be challenging at the Academy, so attendees are encouraged to carpool.

  Feel free to contact me directly with any questions.

  John Gordon

  Michael P. Gordon Memorial Foundation

We've refrained from posting the phone numbers as it appears to be a personal cell phone number, but we're sure the Academy Desk would have appropriate info to give out over a secured PAX line.

Of Course He Did

Unauthorized filming of a "music video" and you gotta have props for the actors:

• An 18-year-old man was ordered detained as a safety risk after he allegedly displayed a machine gun while filming a music video on the Chicago Riverwalk.

  Police responded to a 911 call about people with guns near City Winery, next to the Dearborn Street bridge, around 8:30 p.m. on July 15, a CPD report said. The caller told police that four men and four women were flashing guns and filming a music video near the bridge.

  Arriving officers saw Armani Gilbert leaving the scene with a speaker box and stopped him for a chat. According to police, the officers saw a handgun inside the box next to the speaker. The weapon was equipped with a “Glock switch, an after-market modification that could make the gun fire automatically, prosecutors said. A 50-round drum magazine containing an unknown number of bullets was also found inside the box, according to police.

And why waste money on plastic look-alike pieces when you can just borrow a switch-equipped semi-auto pistol with a drum magazine and use that?

Lucky He's Alive

One of the more notorious breakdowns in facility security where this guy was able to scale an exterior fire escape over at Homan Square, access a propped open door (ventilation you know) and enter an unlocked classroom full of duty weapons, stealing three along with a bullet proof vest.  Then the fun began:

• You may remember that Donald Patrick, 49, went to CPD’s Homan Square facility in September 2022 to retrieve some property from the Evidence and Recovered Property Section. After speaking with a sergeant and a security guard about the property, Patrick climbed an exterior fire escape and entered a room where SWAT team members were training, officials said.

  Patrick allegedly took three unloaded guns from a table in the training area and climbed onto a catwalk that was part of the training scenario. Only then did an officer realize that Patrick had a gun.

  Officials said the SWAT class was initially confused, thinking that Patrick may have been part of the training exercise. But they soon realized that he was an armed intruder. During the training exercise, one officer, who was unarmed, jumped from the catwalk and broke his foot. Other cops declared an “active shooter” incident.

  Patrick donned a bulletproof vest he found in the facility and walked around while displaying two of the guns he took from the training area, prosecutors said. He placed the third firearm in his pocket.

  Officers ordered Patrick to drop the guns and one cop shot Patrick. SWAT medical personnel treated him until a fire department ambulance arrived.

Only eight years, so he'll be out in 2026 after serving four.

Charges in Arson Death

A thorough investigation yields charges that ought to stick:

• Three men have been charged with various crimes in connection to a fire that claimed the life of Chicago firefighter Jermaine Pelt last year.

  Prosecutors allege the fire was set intentionally by two suspects who used scented hand sanitizer as an accelerant.

  Pelt, 49, an 18-year veteran of the department, responded to the area of 120^th and South Wallace in West Pullman on the early morning of April 4, 2023. While responding to the blaze that spread to two neighboring homes, he was critically injured, and later died at Advocate Christ Medical Center from fire-related injuries.

  Investigators determined the manner of Pelt’s death was homicide.

The entire investigation took over a year and undoubtedly tested the patience of all involved. But they made it to the finish line and provided some closure to the family and co-workers of Firefighter Pelt.

Now hopefully, justice awaits at the end.

Blago/Pritzker Transcript

In case you've forgotten:

• Pritzker: I got a great idea for you though.

  Blagojevich: ‘Kay.

  Pritkzer: I’m sure you, I’m sure you thought of this one, but: Jesse White.  Even though I know you guys aren’t like, you know, bosom buddies or anything. It covers you on the African American thing.

  Blagojevich: Correct.

  Pritzker: He’s totally, he’s totally, you know … he’s Senate material in a way that Emil Jones isn’t, if I may say.

  Blagojevich: Okay.

  Pritzker: I mean, you know, he’s just, I don’t know how to say it exactly. But Emil’s a little more crass.

  Blagojevich: Right.

  Pritzker: Um, and, it opens up the Secretary of State spot, which is the key spot that controls jobs, etc. And it would be a lot less pressure on you. You don’t have to put an African American in that spot.

  Blagojevich: Correct.

  Later in the call:

  Pritzker: Of all the African Americans I can think that are sort of like, qualified, and vetted, and people will say ‘Oh, that’s, you know, that’s a pretty good pick.’ The one I, you know, that’s least offensive and maybe gets you the most cause it gets you that Secretary of State appointment, is Jesse White. 

  Blagojevich: You can argue, he’s, you know,  he’s got a lot in common with Obama. He’s black and white. Ha.

  Pritzker: Heh, heh.

  Blagojevich: Huh. How stupid is that?

  Pritzker: That’s good, that’s good.

  Blagojevich: Hey um, no, he’s a good, he’d be a legitimate pick. 

  Pritzker: I’m not pushing  anybody.

  Blagojevich: No I understand. What you’re saying there makes perfect sense. He has said he doesn’t want it.
  

Thanks goodness two white guys were around to "vet" the pick.

What?

Crimesha dropped all charges?

• Video recorded by a Chicago police officer’s body camera shows tense moments as he confronts a man who refused to comply with orders to put down a handgun he was holding. At one point during the April 24 encounter, the man even slapped away one of the officer’s outstretched hands while the cop’s other hand was pointing a pistol at him.

  Prosecutors initially charged the man, Maurice Merritt, with multiple felonies. But, one month later, they dropped the entire case, records show.

  A CWBChicago reporter came across Merritt’s arrest report during a routine check of recent court filings. Because the details sounded interesting. Everybody has seen horrible videos of people getting shot in similar situations, but the public doesn’t often see the countless times that armed confrontations end without injury. So, we requested the body camera records from CPD through a Freedom of Information request in May. CPD provided the videos on Tuesday.

So he:

• performed an Armed Robbery and was identified by the victim
  
• caught and resisted, committing a Battery to PO
• claimed to have a "fake" gun for protection while selling weed
• with numerous bullets
  
• had felony weight of weed
• was on felony probation for PCS

And Crimesha dropped all charges and her office is refusing to answer CWB inquiries.

Unless the case went Federal, what the actual f#$%?

Another No Bail Release....

....another preventable murder:

• A 31-year-old Chicago man named Cleophus Polk is accused of brutally killing a man three days after he was placed on felony pretrial release.

  Officials had an arrest warrant for the suspect for several months because he quit going to his court dates regarding a stolen motor vehicle case, CWB Chicago reported on Friday.

  However, he was set loose again on July 12 after being caught and brought before Judge Michael Clancy.

And then he was videotaped beating a man with his fists, a board and a bag full of heavy objects - probably cans or bottles.

But don't worry - Judge Evans says no one has been harmed by the no-bail provisions of the law. 

Ever!

(see CWB blog for an extensive list of heinous crimes committed by the non-demonized who were out on no-bail release.)

City Prosecutions?

If you thought Crimesha was the only authorized party able to charge criminals, you might be mistaken:

• For years, Chicago politicians, police officers, and residents have complained about Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx’s “catch-and-release” policy. Serial shoplifters and carjackers routinely get turned loose after booking and have roamed the streets without apparent consequences. Since October 8, “peaceful protesters” against Israel have joined the chaos. Their ongoing protests throughout the city have led the Democratic National Committee to prepare for disruption both inside and outside of the arena. Concern among Democratic leaders is so great that even Foxx got the message, promising that her office would hold protesters accountable—but only during the DNC.

  Foxx has long followed a noll pross policy for protests that her office deems “peaceful.” Since the George Floyd demonstrations convulsed the city in 2020, Foxx has declined to pursue charges for criminal violations committed during left-wing events. She reinforced that policy in November 2023, when she issued a memo reiterating that anti-Israel protesters should not be prosecuted. Last month, she drew criticism from progressive activists after she told the Chicago Tribune that her office would drop this policy during the DNC.

And then this came out of the woodwork:

• As of last month, Foxx’s years-long amnesty approach was apparently still in effect: the state’s attorney dropped misdemeanor charges against the self-styled “O’Hare 40” on June 4. The nom de guerre refers to 40 anti-Israel protesters arrested for blocking Interstate 90 at O’Hare International Airport on April 14. Predictably, they were released soon after booking. (Meanwhile, Foxx pursued felony assault charges against a man who threw a Big Gulp at her.)

  But now the City of Chicago has thrown a curveball. The city’s law department has pressed misdemeanor charges against the 40 arrestees. It turns out that obstructing traffic violates a city ordinance and can carry jail time. It turns out that the city has its own prosecutors on staff. And it turns out, too, that the citizens of Chicago have not been solely at the mercy of Foxx, their progressive Cook County prosecutor, but city leaders more broadly, who have at their disposal a municipal code that authorizes the city’s law department to bring charges for sundry offenses, several of which carry the possible consequence of imprisonment. Instead of using these tools, Johnson has chosen to allow petty crime to proliferate, degrading the city’s safety and quality of life—all the while allowing the public to believe that Foxx holds sole prosecutorial discretion.

Honestly, it's been years since we saw the city prosecutors at court. We figured they had just turned over all the charging to Crimesha, laid off a bunch of lawyers, with the rest hanging out in "no-work" spots at Corp Counsel. Who knew they still existed (except at Traffic Court)?

Kind of a bad look for Conehead and previous mayors who constantly declined to prosecute petty offenses for years now.

Burglar Photographed

CWB has pics up - this guy is bold as brass:

It's currently suspected that the offender hid inside the Courthouse, then left later. 

We're amazed that there aren't any deputies anywhere in the lobby after hours. We'll bet Dart is revamping procedures as we speak.

And speaking of the County Court, how come there isn't a single case report or notification from the Chief Judge about "threats" being made against Englewood resident judge Tyria Walton? Not a single scintilla of evidence aside from a set of lies from the bench. 

Certainly makes you wonder.

Cracks in the Wall

You know how can tell the feebs are pretty much completely corrupt?

Whistleblowers - active and retired - starting to come forward:

• As FBI Director Chris Wray performed his usual smarmy stonewalling in Congress Wednesday, a damning report on his $10 billion agency’s “cult of narcissism” was delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts.

  The same group gave us the scathing DEI report last year about the FBI’s degraded recruitment standards and coddling of physically unfit, mentally ill, drug-taking or generally useless agents to satisfy diversity requirements at the expense of merit and experience.

  This time they have assessed the entire bureau and drawn several worrying conclusions, including that local law enforcement partners have developed a “disturbing loss of trust in the FBI” and are therefore reluctant to share information, with alarming consequences for national security and public safety.

  [...] The whistleblower report draws on testimony from more than 30 “independent, highly credible law enforcement sources and sub-sources” across the country who “do not trust the FBI because they believe the FBI in recent years has been operating as a partisan federal agency motivated by a political agenda.

  “They are not only reluctant to work with the FBI but reportedly have decided to no longer share actionable, substantive information on criminal and other intelligence-related activity with the FBI.” Most concerning is what the alliance of whistleblowers calls a “crisis of confidence” in FBI-led task forces where relationships with local cops have deteriorated to the point of “imploding” in some cases because of “poor management and ineffective leadership by the FBI.”
  

Intelligent cops all know the feebs would let twenty dope dealers go to nail one cop on a procedural or good-faith error. They'll even roll up a long-term wiretap that caught Blago and Fata$$ chatting up the sale of a Senate seat just before the logical conclusion of the conversation would have mentioned the role of a certain president-elect. 

It hasn't gotten any better over the years as they selectively prosecute....or worse.

B.O.H.I.C.A.

Increased spending for a shrinking enrollment and failing students:

• The Chicago Board of Education unanimously approved a controversial $9.9 billion budget Thursday amid concerns from Mayor Brandon Johnson, the Chicago Teachers Union, a fiscal watchdog group and some board members themselves.

  The budget filled a $505 million deficit by cutting administrative costs, laying off central office staff and assuming hundreds of vacancies will go unfilled. Chicago Public School leaders said that the measures won’t cut classroom resources, but the budget was sharply criticized by the teachers union, which said hundreds of aides were laid off to the detriment of students.

  Johnson, who had vowed he would not accept cuts to critical support staff, said the approved budget would need to change to his liking.

And correct us if we're mistaken, but this doesn't take into consideration the raises demanded by the CTU in upcoming negotiations where Conehead is expected to give away the store.

Fata$$ Downplays?

Even this moron doesn't want to hitch his oversized wagon to the Border Czar:

• Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday denied reports that he’s been directly contacted by Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign to gauge his interest in potentially running for vice president with her at the top of the Democratic ticket.

  The Sun-Times first reported that the Harris campaign called Pritzker Wednesday about the possibility of serving as her running mate, but the Illinois governor told reporters on Thursday that Harris’ campaign “did not call me yesterday.”

  [...] A source with knowledge of the discussion confirmed the governor’s conversation with the Harris campaign to the Sun-Times, and the paper stands by the story it published.

We're waiting for the Blago tapes to be resurrected - remember, he was the voice on the other end of the phone as Rod tried to sell the Obama seat for a sizable contribution.

That and the wreck he's made of Illinois should torpedo any hopes of a 2024 run. 

Now, talk to Porky about 2028....

More Migrant Buses

Just in time for the convention, a reminder of what Border Czarina Kamala Harris has wrought:

• Chicago will be on the global stage for the Democratic National Convention and volunteers who’ve been working with migrants in the city are on high alert.

  Service providers and city officials worry that Republican governors will reignite their strategy to send busloads of asylum seekers to Chicago in attempts to embarrass Democrats over failed immigration policy. They anticipate needing upwards of 25,000 beds in the lead up to the August convention.

  “The city is maintaining sufficient bed capacity in our existing temporary shelters and preparing sites in the event that new temporary emergency shelters need to be activated on short notice,” said a city spokesperson.

Hopefully, not back to police station lobbies.

The media has started with the "She was never officially named the Border Czar" and they've begun stealth editing previously published articles where they called her "Biden's border czar" to cover their tracks and sell her as a moderate.

She's not. Try not to fall for their BS.

Not a Good Look

So the hamas-holes and their supporters just trashed Washington DC, burning flags, chanting "death to America" and spray painting graffiti on every single memorial structure. 

We are thinking that our hope for a toned-down protest presence at the DNC was a bit too hopeful and the pessimists that showed up in our comment section may have been closer in their estimation of events.

Remember in the fall, if you want more of that behavior, vote for democrats.

Interesting?

Theft from Building, right?

• Thieves targeted the Cook County State's Attorney's Office on Tuesday, authorities said.

  A spokesperson confirmed some items were taken from the office inside the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago.

  Several computers were stolen from the administrative offices, according to the spokesperson.

  The Cook County Sheriff's Office is handling the investigation.

Who would want a bunch of computers? Unless you have the main log-in password, they're just about useless. And if you do, with a little effort, the IP address can be traced when it's logged into the internet.

Isn't that building covered with cameras? Chambers, hallways, elevator banks, etc. Someone took a dolly with multiple computers on it out to the camera covered parking lot?

This Guy Again?

Honest to God, he's almost as bad a Jesse Jackson and a TV camera:

• Vice President Kamala Harris once called infamous hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett a victim of an attempted "modern day lynching."

  Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris to this day has not deleted her 2019 social media post that repeats the false claim, even after the "Empire" actor's criminal conviction in Illinois for the faked attack.

  [...]

  Weeks later, after it became clear police were investigating Smollett for filing a false report, Harris said she was "sad, frustrated and disappointed" by news the actor made "false claims to police."

  But her initial comments were a "rush to judgment" that showed a "hasty decision before all the facts are known," said Eugene Roy, a retired Chicago Police Department chief of detectives with more than 30 years experience on the force.

Now he's what? The elder statesman, voice-of-reason of the CPD? He was a politically connected hack playing the same game as every other clouted individual - self-promotion....and the promotion of other unqualified "meri-clout-orious" persons.

We seem to recall some other things that Gene was famous for back in the day, too. Was it in Wisconsin or Michigan?

Off Duty Exchanges Gunfire

Sounds like he's okay:

• An off-duty Chicago police officer was involved in a South Side shootout during a robbery attempt Tuesday morning, according to authorities. The shooting happened around 5:34 a.m. in the 10800-block of Campbell Avenue in Morgan Park. It was just starting to get light outside.

  The officer - who has not been identified- was getting in his car near 109th Street and Campbell to head to work when a group of suspects approached with guns, blocking him, according to Alderman Matt O'Shea.

  More than a dozen shots were fired in the ensuing shootout.

  "Luckily the off-duty police officer, a neighbor and a friend, is OK," O'Shea said. "But this is just another reminder - I don't care what neighborhood you live in. We are in a very safe neighborhood. This type of crime is becoming more and more prevalent."

Um....not really a "safe neighborhood" if this sort of thing is becoming "more and more prevalent" aldercreature. It would be a neighborhood "in transition" or perhaps even "decline."

Glad you're okay Officer. Stay alert. Stay safe.

Wienermobile Wrecks

CPD names Keesing Bandit as the primary suspect:

• An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile got into a pickle on a Chicago highway.

  The hot-dog shaped Wienermobile hit a car Monday morning along Interstate 294 and its driver lost control and overcorrected, causing it to roll onto its side near the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois State Police said.

  No injuries were reported after the crash, which prompted the closure of the right lane of northbound I-294 for more than an hour, officials said.

  A spokesperson for the Oscar Mayer brand, which has several Wienermobiles, told the Chicago Sun-Times it’s “grateful that everybody involved is safe and there were no injuries.”

A possibly made-up APB was distributed by Larritorious:

• An unknown, possibly male identifying subject, dressed in a shockingly purple spangly jumpsuit and black suede knee-high boots, topped with a feather boa and pirate hat tilted at a very rakish angle, carrying an armful of Oscar Mayer wieners was seen fleeing the scene. A nearby thermos that was dropped by the fleeing individual contained what appeared to be a very tasty concoction of white wine and seltzer water. Consider the subject to be armed and fabulous.
  

Approach with caution.

At Least it's Privately Funded

This is an interesting endeavor for sure:

• The area around the United Center could be transformed into a sprawling campus with housing, a music hall and more, owners announced Tuesday.

  Dubbed The 1901 Project after the United Center’s Madison Street address, the $7 billion development is expected to take a decade to complete. The owners of the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks would convert 55 acres of land surrounding the arena — much of which is now blacktop parking lots — into housing, retail, entertainment and public space.

  The plan has been five years in the making, first under the leadership of Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf and late Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz.
  

As long time readers know, we were always impressed with old Dollar Bill Wirtz keeping the Blackhawks on the west side when everything pointed to moving away from what often looked like downtown Beirut. and we were even more impressed when in the midst of a national stadium boom, financed by taxpayer money and enriching the connected, Wirtz paid for his own building over the course of a few years. 

Now another privately funded venture:

• At a press conference Tuesday, the center’s leaders said they would fund the massive project through private investment instead of seeking city or state funds. 

  This year, the White Sox — also owned by Reinsdorf — and the Bears have appealed to state legislators for support in building new stadiums in Chicago. Asked about that, United Center CEO Terry Savarise insisted that would not be the strategy at the United Center.

  “We are not going to Springfield to ask for money as the White Sox have done,” Savarise said. “Or the [Chicago] Bears, by the way.”

The potential payoff is huge.

So are the potential downfalls, especially when the local aldercreatures begin claiming long time residents are being priced out of their own neighborhood.

This Means Something

We aren't sure what though:

• Sharks off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, scientists say.

  Marine biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks taken from the shores near Rio de Janeiro and found they tested for high levels of cocaine in their muscles and livers.

  The concentrations were as much as 100 times higher than previously reported for other aquatic creatures.

  The research, carried out by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, is the first to find the presence of cocaine in sharks.

How are the sharks paying for it? Are they snorting it? Off of Colombian hookers?

So many questions.

Glock Lawsuit Dropped?

This guy appears to have the info.

• YouTube link

Haven't heard anything in the major media outlets, and a google search reveals no press stories anywhere.

Close Another Beach!

Might as well shut down the beaches until autumn or winter:

• Four people were stabbed during two altercations at Montrose Beach on Sunday evening, Chicago police said. Witnesses said shots were fired during one of the incidents, but no injuries were reported from gunfire. So far, no arrests have been announced.

  The first altercation occurred when two men argued with a third man in the 4400 block of North Simonds around 7:47 p.m. Police said the third man produced a sharp object and struck both of the other men before leaving the scene.

  A 33-year-old man sustained multiple cuts to his arm, and a 32-year-old man suffered cuts to his wrist, according to a CPD spokesperson. Both men took themselves to Swedish Hospital.

  Witnesses reported that shots were fired during the incident, and an officer at the scene said they found shell casings on the same block where the men were stabbed.

  Then, around 10:10 p.m., two people were stabbed in the 4500 block of North Simonds, according to police.

Can't just be picking on the 31st Street beach-goers - that would be racist or something.

It would, quite frankly, be safer for everybody.

Win Some, Lose Some

We predicted 8 and 25.

HeyJackass.com results?

• A peculiar slowdown has been in effect ever since the two days of rains and sporadic tornadic activity earlier this week. Whatever post-storm effects may be at play here, eventually the pendulum of silly decisions will swing back towards stupidity and away from nonsense. 
• Final Demonized Tally: 2 killed, 24 wounded

We were close on the maimings at least.

No Audio Tapes?

The head of the Secret Service admitted in front of Congress that the agency doesn't not have radio communication recordings from 13 July of the assassination attempt.

This is the same agency that deleted and refused to produce any communication tapes after the J6 debacle where Capitol Police were opening doors and escorting protestors through the building.

But hey, you're all just a bunch of conspiracy nut jobs.

Did We Just Dodge a Bullet?

With the focus of all the protestors not running for office (potato brain), are the protestors even going to show up? 

The dems can just make all sorts of vague statements when they march or storm the convention floor and deflect their concerns by promising them the moon.

It doesn't seem like a viable strategy, but you can bet Conehead is hoping for it.

Oh Goody! More Probes

Now it's "activists" joining in the IG's unholy crusade:

• Residents of the 33rd Ward, social justice groups and local officials demanded an outside investigation into Chicago police officers with ties to the Oath Keepers extremist group two months after CPD officials chose not to discipline them after what the groups called an “inadequate” investigation.

  At a news conference outside Horner Park fieldhouse Saturday afternoon, local residents and members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression called on the city’s inspector general to investigate the officers named in the probe [...].

  “We need the inspector general to open an investigation into this matter to ensure the investigation is handled with integrity,” said Grace Pacino, a member of the alliance. “It’s a failure on [CPD’s] part to act in good faith. … We can’t allow this.”

And just to show how un-serious they are:

• The groups also demanded the names and complaint histories of officers working in the 17th Police District and to end pretextual stops, in which officers use minor violations to pull over a vehicle in order to find probable cause for another crime. They call for the disbanding of CPD’s tactical teams, which have come under fire after officers shot and killed Dexter Reed during a traffic stop.

Um, really nice phrasing there by Slum Times "reporter" Violet Miller. 

"...under fire..."? Seriously?

Dexter a$$hole shot a Police Officer. He put the cops "under fire" during a perfectly legal traffic stop. Anything he got in return, he had coming and then some. So f#$% off Violet.

As for the rest of these "progressive" Karens and Chads, why not take the entrance exam and show us all how it's done? Start missing some holidays and family events, enjoy your increasingly rare days off and get crapped on by the community and politicians. Start confronting the evil-doers and teach them the error of their ways. We'll send you a card in the hospital afterwards.

Asshats.

The Coup Continues

You know, for all his faults, Blago could make hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, if he'd dish on his years as governor. He had a ringside seat to all the corruption and scandal and "deal making" that enriched countless pols. He knows more about the rise of Sparklefarts than anyone gives him credit for....and that's why he's ignored.

This was Blago over the weekend on social media:

• Rod Blagojevich @realBlagojevich
  I’ve known Obama since 1995. We both come out of Chicago politics. I know how it works. He’s behind the campaign to dump 15 million Dem primary voters & replace Biden with his choice. Classic Chicago Democrat machine politics. Selection over election. The bosses over the people.

So in order to "save democracy," the dems will subvert democracy.

Did you notice who hasn't endorsed Kamala yet?

• Hakeem Jeffries - House minority leader
• Nancy Pelosi - former Speaker, party elder
• Chuck Schumer - Senate majority leader
• Sparklefarts

This ain't over yet. 

More Cops? From Where?

An aldercreature asks for more blood from a turnip:

• Ald. Timmy Knudsen is asking the mayor for more officers to patrol Lincoln Park amid a spike in robberies. The alderman wrote a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson last week asking for more cops to be assigned to the Near North (18th) police district to better staff the beats within his ward.

  The 43rd Ward saw a 17 percent increase in robberies last year, according to Chicago Police data. Since 2021, the police district has also seen a 21 percent decrease in assigned officers, resulting in a loss of 74 neighborhood cops.

  “The resultant loss of regular, reliable and predictable beat patrolling and timely response 911 calls combined with a stark rise in violent crime is of utmost concern to my constituents,” Knudsen said in his letter, citing the city’s data on robbery victimizations, which count the number of people affected by a crime.

Those shortages are city-wide aldercreature....nationwide if you want to get technical. Your party chased away hundreds and made the job so intolerable that recruitment numbers are in the $hitter.

You want more cops, stop electing democrats first of all. Then spend a few months going through our archives and comment sections for lists of everything that's wrong with the department and wrongs inflicted on members of the department.

And why do aldercreatures get to demand more cops, but if the brass does, they get removed from their positions? Not that there aren't a dozen other reasons to remove the incompetency from the upper echelons, but to pin it on something that aldercreatures want, too?

The Actual Changes (Fixed Tech Issue)

The press release (click for larger versions):

Pictures re-uploaded, not sure what happened. Should be readable now.

Hi Google-Me!

This softball was an incompetent spokesweasel for CPD years ago, and fled the city for federal employment. He hitched his wagon to the Secret Service and still hasn't lost his penchant for obeying his masters and spinning to the press:

• In the wake of Saturday's failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the US Secret Service is still unable to explain how the incident happened, but it is devoting a lot of effort to defending the Secret Service agents who appeared to be flummoxed and a lot less than competent as former President Trump was evacuated to the hospital.

• Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communication, said in the statement: “We stand united against any attempt to discredit our personnel and their invaluable contributions to our mission and are appalled by the disparaging and disgusting comments against any of our personnel.”

  “As an elite law enforcement agency, all of our agents and officers are highly trained and fully capable of performing our missions,” he said.

  “It is an insult to the women of our agency to imply that they are unqualified based on gender. Such baseless assertions undermine the professionalism, dedication and expertise of our workforce,” he added.

No one is implying the women "agents" were unqualified - it ius a straight up observationof their behavior and response that they weren't qualified to be doing what they were assigned to be doing.

The Secret Service used to be very near the top. Their snipers still seem competent as far as shooting, but they're farming out the rest of the work. It wasn't the A-Team protecting Trump the other day. It wasn't even the B-Team or C-Team. It was DHS agents, brought in for whatever reason.

They failed to secure an obvious elevated sniper position. Upon discovering and photographing an attendee using a range finder around the grounds, they failed to confront and interrogate the subject. Upon learning he had a rifle while outside of the secure area, they still let the speaker take the stage. And reporters have discovered the assassin had drone surveillance up hours before the speech while the Secret Service had none.

As we said last week, if your organization can't accept legitimate criticism after a fuck-up, you aren't a professional organization, you're a political employment agency. And the fact that they employ Google-me merely verifies this.

Bookkeeping Error?

The old saying goes:

• Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

But in the case of Chicago Public Schools, you can pretty much guarantee the opposite is true - they steal money hand-over-fist. And this time, Fata$$ is calling them on it becasue there is no money....anywhere:

• An oft-repeated $1.1 billion demand from Chicago’s mayor would actually wind up costing state taxpayers $5.5 billion. And Gov. J.B. Pritzker is turning a big thumbs-down.

  Chicago Public Schools made the huge mistake of putting a ton of temporary federal pandemic aid into its permanent spending base for years, and that money is just about gone.

  It also recently overestimated some state tax revenue. Mayor Brandon Johnson also dumped $170 million in pension costs onto the district from his own city budget, and the Chicago Teachers Union is asking for the moon in its contract negotiations. The end result is deficits as far as the eye can see.

  Johnson has suggested CPS borrow money in the interim, but he has said over and over again the state “owes” CPS $1.1 billion, and he wants the state to pony up.

  But does the state really owe CPS that much money? “No” is the simple answer.

The entire article is an example of shady accounting, "estimated" revenue inflow and outflow, property tax swindling and general mismanagement of funds. The more you read, the more pissed off you'll become.

Pay Your Bills

What is it with aldercreatures and the connected relatives never paying their bills? 

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration doesn’t have to look far to find homeowners with delinquent water bills owed to City Hall. Two of them are City Council members, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found.

  Two more of their colleagues paid up only after Sun-Times reporters asked about their overdue bills.

  One water bill deadbeat is the brother of Alfonzo “Randy” Conner, who heads the city Department of Water Management.
  

Does that make for awkward Thanksgiving dinner conversation? "Hey bro, you know you missed your water bill again this year?"

One might think that an investigative reporter might have dug this up years ago - like when Luis Gutierrez was paying a fraction of what his neighbors were paying in property taxes for years. Where's the effort by news interns trying to become the next Cuck Goudie?

Don't Demonize!

 Conehead said so:

• Example #1: Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the violent attack and robbery of a 63-year-old man on the Orange Line last week. At least seven more attackers remain on the loose.

Conehead really really means it - stop demonizing!

• Example #2: A 14-year-old boy has been charged with 14 felonies in connection with a violent crime spree on Sunday, as well as an attempted hijacking in June.

C'mon man, you really shouldn't demonize these little children:

• Example #3: Police have charged four more juveniles, including an 11-year-old girl, for participating in the violent attack and robbery of a 63-year-old man on the Orange Line last week.

Ah, f@#$ it.....demonize away.

Just remember, police are to blame and Trump is $hitler.

And in honor of demonizing, we're going to predict (based on weather and historical patterns) that this weekend will be around 8 deceased demonically and 25 wounded demonically.

Hippie "Justice"

We're pretty confident this will be a waste of time and a waste of money:

• A second chance is being offered for young people in south suburban Sauk Village. A court focused on restorative justice has opened. It's an expansion of a program in the city, with a goal of reducing the number of repeat offenders.

  "We let the participants see the decision they made, there can be better decision-making and that they can restore not only within their community, but everybody else's community," said Andrea Boler, a case manager with the Cook County Restorative Justice Program.

  Next month, a peace circle will include young people, ages 18-26, accused of non-violent crimes. It's part of Cook County's restorative justice program in Sauk Village.

No consequences and a "peace circle"?

Yeah, this is going to go great.

Is This True?

If the mayor can do it, why can't everyone else?

• Can anyone get a picture of the mayors motorcade license plates covered in reflective film so he doesn’t have to answer for the red light/speeding tickets he was racking up?

There used to be a way to program in the plates that weren't automatically mailed violations. There was a blanket exemption on "M" plates. The only reason we know that existed was when the Department switched to "MP" plates, we heard from the commander's office over at Motor Maintenance was buried under so many automated notifications, it took the better part of a year to clear out the backlog and non-suit the violations.

If someone can get provable photographic proof of reflective coverings on Conehead's ride, we'll add $20 to the monthly Chaplain's donation.

Reminder

If you're one of those commenters who always throws in three, four, or more hard returns at the bottom of your comment, we've been deleting them out of hand without even reading them all week now. 

Also, the persons hitting return after every single sentence - if we can't make sense out of the story, we're saving everyone time and just trashing it.

And another reminder - multiple identical comments in different posts triggers the Google program that thinks you're an ad-bot and blanket bans your IP address, so all future comments go into the spam folder. We check the spam folder once every three months or so, and there were three hundred comments that got stuffed in there automatically. We've cleared most of them out, but if your comment isn't appearing, that's one reason.

Comments closed here.

Judge Tyria Walton Lies

We've opined for years here about the various levels of incompetence on display in government - all levels of government. We've been generous spreading around our criticism - it's free and it's our Right as a citizen. Sometimes we've even provoked a response and once in a great while, a change for the better, because sunlight is the best disinfectant and misbehavior brought to the attention of the public is a great motivator.

Mind you, we've done this with a readership that - on a good day - might have been 30,000 people a day, 50,000 on a really good day. After The Hiatus, we've been hitting the 20,000 mark regularly, but we've got a way to go building back.

We might be getting some extra readers after the display from one of those incompetent and lying judges the other day:

• The Cook County judge who oversaw the bench trial of a woman who struck a Chicago cop with his own squad car says she has been receiving threats since finding Whitley Temple not guilty by reason of insanity.

Which we addressed, politely and calmly, pointing out that the allegations of threats were "without an iota of evidence." For the slower readers that means:

• without any supporting documentation or recordings

It's just the judge talking shit from the bench. We would hope that people would use their better judgement and not act like idiots, but after the past eight years of democrats raising the political temperature past boiling, to the point of provoking an assassination attempt on a former President, dissuading unknown morons from being morons is beyond our ability.

Then the outright lies and slander start:

• “Every time we are here, there is a need for me to make a record because something stupid has happened between the last court date and today’s court date,” Walton began, saying she had previously mentioned “disparaging comments and borderline threats” made toward her online and in the media.

Disparaging, sure. You deserve it.

Threats? Nope. Threats get deleted long before they're published. We tread a fine line and threats are a big no-no. Always have been. "Talking shit" gets a pass a lot of the time, because there's nothing behind it, and it's what a lot of people do - ALL people.

• “I have received phone calls from individuals who have represented that they are members of the Chicago Police Department and that I should, in essence, watch my back, and that if — that someone was going to be shot as a result of my ruling. Those phone calls were made directly to the presiding judge’s office here in this building and to the chief judge’s office. In addition to that, I have received a number of calls to call me, and I’m going to quote, a racist piece of s**t, because I’m Black, because Ms. Temple is Black, and because Officer Poppish is White,” the judge continued.

If these calls exist (again, no evidence), then shame on the caller for not being polite, but it's an opinion they're entitled to have regardless of how they express it. Quite frankly, after observing her courtroom demeanor, her obviously biased rulings and slow-walking the case, and her convoluted end result, we can see how someone might get frustrated with the entire process and ascribe certain motives to the participants.

We would then point out there's a reason we encourage everyone to vote "NO" on all judicial retention ballots.

Then, the legally actionable statement from the judge:

• “In addition, my picture has been shared on the Second City Blog, it has been shared on Second City posts, Facebook, my address at home, my contact information, and I’ve received a number of calls,” Walton stated. “So, again, you got the right one because I’m not moved by any of it, but the marshals and the other persons who are in charge of judicial security have been made aware of each and every threat and disparaging comment that I have received and those that have been made about the attorneys of record in this case.”

This is a LIE.

Repeating for the slower readers:

• THIS IS A LIE and an actionable slander

Judge Tyria Walton's picture has never appeared on this site and it is impossible for commenters to post anything but profile pictures.

Judge Tyria Walton's address in Englewood has never appeared on this site or in the comment sections.

Judge Tyria Walton's phone number and contact information have appeared nowhere on this site.

Now....someone posted a link to The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin that contains a picture, a generalized Englewood location, job and school history and other information THAT THE JUDGE VOLUNTARILY FILLED OUT for the website. 

Any office or work number is available via the Cook County Court website and it goes through a switchboard.

That's all public information. We had nothing to do with her voluntarily disclosures, just as we had nothing to do with her political appointment to the bench, nor her twisted reasoning to find a naked crack addict mentally incompetent for her near-deadly actions against a Police Officer.

In light of recent developments where a murderer was able to stand trial for chopping up her landlord, while simultaneously successfully suing the CTA for a couple million dollars under a separate name, we will be consulting with legal counsel about any action we can take against the judge while maintaining our anonymity. Cook County rules are made for being bent it would seem.

A Glimmer of Hope?

 Milwaukee turned out to be....not that bad (protest wise):

• So far, there has been a minimal presence of protesters at the RNC in Milwaukee.

  Other than a large march Monday by a leftist group, the Coalition to March on the RNC, there has only been only a smattering of small and scattered protests through the first three days of the convention.

  Heading into the convention, Milwaukee and Secret Service officials had laid plans for two “First Amendment zones” blocks from Fiserv Forum, where protesters could gather. (Protest organizers and progressive groups in Milwaukee were critical of the plan, saying the zones were too far away from the convention).

  But the two zones have been almost completely empty through the first three days of the convention. For multiple hours each day, both Zeidler Union Square Park and Haymarket Square Park have been totally barren.
  

This is after the Milwaukee mayor granted every single protest application with zero questions asked and minimal information given.

You can bet that Conehead, Larritorious and the Secret Service are hoping this is the case here in town, even with the left tearing itself apart and rumors of an "open convention" subverting the will of the democrat voters. 

It seems the biggest threat to democracy is....the democrat party.

Tickle Boots?

Is this what they wear during "pinch-and-tickle-time" at the fire house?

We heard the Keesing Bandit has an entire selection of these boots, but not all of them are Tack-Tickle in nature.

Scorecard

Ask and ye shall receive:

• Bird DC of CCG
  Joyce DC of Compstat
  Chung Street Deputy
  Ward Street Deputy
  Milmine Street Deputy
  Wallace Area 4 DC
  Blanton Area 5 DC
  Barry Area 2 Det Commander
  Fenner Commander Mass Transit
  Tate Commander Narcotics
  Wooten 004
  Yolanda Irvin 006
  Baier 009
  Junious 011
  McGovern 020
  Altamirano 025
  Stewart Captain 004

Let's see if these rumored changes actually occur as listed. Some have already taken place.

Interesting Times

So tapioca-brain says he'd drop out if a medical condition arose.

On cue, he's gotten COVID again and canceled weekend campaign events. Curiously, not a single staff member or media member accompanying him on Air Force One was seen wearing a mask. 

And this after being vaxed and boosted how many times? We're pretty sure it's at least four times, all while telling everyone that the "vaccine" prevents transmission and you won't get it after you take the clot-shot. 

Now the rumor mill has started up of late-night White House meetings, claiming poppy-pants is going to withdraw from the election, not endorse his VP, release his delegates to an Open Convention for the first time in living memory....and the subsequent denials coming from the the family and the campaign office.

Is anyone else as amazed as we are at how fast the wheels are falling off the process?

Changes?

Nothing like running up to the DNC with all sorts of vacancies in the upper echelons so that there is either: 

• no cohesive chain-of-command or
• a new exempt comes in and upends all the existing plans.

But that's Larritorious for you, the almost useless figurehead who couldn't pass a single promotional exam to get ahead....because he was too busy chasing tail with his other head. 

All we've heard so far is a few laterals (commander 020 to 009), a promotion (captain 015 to commander 020)  and a demotion (016 back down to lieutenant.)

Someone has got a list lying around, ready to be faxed out at the close of business Friday.

How to Manufacture a Felony

Crimesha pulling the strings behind the scenes - remember, this is Prickwrinkle's and Soros's girl:

• Police officers in south suburban Flossmoor intended to file a misdemeanor charge against the man accused of tossing a soft drink on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and reversing his truck toward her. Foxx, however, was unimpressed with the police department’s investigation.

  Sent packing without her signature on the misdemeanor complaint, the cops started to work the case again. Within hours, attorneys from Foxx’s office were in Flossmoor to review the case, which eventually ended with two felony charges filed.

  Those are some of the details CWBChicago has learned through conversations with people familiar with the investigation and public records requests, including newly received footage from the body cameras worn by Flossmoor cops that day.

  Foxx insists that she never asked anyone from her office to get involved in the case, which she sincerely believes involved a man’s attempt to run her over with a pickup truck, according to a high-ranking employee of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

  It is unclear exactly how prosecutors became involved in the case, but records show that the county’s felony review unit supervisor personally handled the matter.

  Here is a full accounting of what we have learned.

Head over the CWB for the reporting the Cuck Goudie only wishes he had the testicles to do. But he gave those away to the Machine years ago.