Another $100 Million Appears!
From the "business community:"
In a show of political and private force after a horrifically violent extended holiday weekend in Chicago, civic leaders joined Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and state legislative leaders to announce progress in their commitment to funding community-level violence prevention programs.
The Chicago business community has raised $100 million to support on-the-ground programs, which typically take the form of nonpolice interventions in communities at risk of violence, in a first-of-its-kind effort from the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. In addition, $175 million in state funding for those programs has begun to be distributed, Pritzker said.
The gathering of CEOs, philanthropic leaders, police and violence interrupters came after more than 100 people were shot in Chicago over the extended Fourth of July weekend.
It would have been nice if this $100 million was available prior to the one-hundred-plus being perforated, wouldn't it?
So what happens when the business community doesn't see any return on this investment? What pressure was brought to bear to garner these "donations"? Are they buying access to a presidential hopeful?
And what tax benefit was granted to these corporate and private entities that will deny tax revenues to Illinoisans as a whole, rather than a subdivision of society that has refused to live by the law, constantly claims to be victims of a institution that ended tens of decades before any of them were born, all while victimizing thousands of honest citizens to the tune of billions of dollars?
Labels: money questions, state politics
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
93 Comments:
$100M is a drop in the bucket compared to the $500M in CPS Budget Cuts Mayor Shit4Brains rejected on Thursday.
Time for more property taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/07/11/mayor-johnson-rejects-cuts-in-cps-proposed-budget-meant-to-fill-a-half-billion-deficit
Nothing makes a liberal feel better then to contribute millions of dollars that can be taken as a tax deduction for a worthy cause to save the lives of miscreants from killing each other. Oh I forgot election year for state house and senate besides presidential.
Fat Fredo must have raided his doughnut budget.
So these people involved in these programs are gonna be different from the “violence interrupters” how? I can tell you how they’ll be the same-you’ll never see them. I have yet to see any “violence interrupters” out in any community. Sure they don’t mind the millions of dollars they are getting for doing zero work though.
legislative leaders to announce progress in their commitment to funding community-level violence prevention programs...
Gosh...I hope midnight basketball gets a few of those dollars...
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If I've learned one thing in my time living in Illinois, it's that you can just throw money at the black violence problem, and everything just fixes itself. Never make any effort to actually stop the violence. Just create an organization with a catchy name about stopping violence, collect millions of dollars, and watch the violence disappear. It works every time.
why not waste more money on them
They had the same satisfaction as they get when throwing money away or burning it. It must be nice to be rich and squander money away.
Tell it like it is! Blatant money laundering! Majority of those funds will be used for administrative costs (salaries, benefits and pensions) for the well connected.
Well...you know Gov. Lardass,...maybe he just shitted it ;)
City hall Monet tree again.
You know that was some hidden under the pillows Covid cash stashed away.
Who cares about funding the pensions 🤔
AS Henry Hill said in "Goodfellas", .... "Fuck you, pay me"
"violence interrupter" Hah, that's a good one
Waste of good money to pass around to Arne and his cronies in the name of progressive bullshit that doesn’t solve shit
The criminal justice reform grift continues. Uncle Sam is dead and replaced with Uncle Sugar.
If you want a safe society, then only the police can provide safety. To all of you stupid liberals; go call a social worker if dude is robbing a liquor store.
How many days is the department going to cancel for Lollapalooza? How many days for the DNC?
All of this money thrown away on violence reduction has had pretty much ZERO effect. The solution apparently is to throw more money down the drain and fill the pockets of some connected groups or individuals who, one would assume, have the proper contacts or bloodline. Midnight basketball anyone? Violence interrupters anyone? Safe Passage plan anyone? The solution, fill up the prisons with those who are violent criminals but then again read the next posting on SCC. The only thing to say about the justice system in Illinois is that it’s a scam unless you’re a Slurpee thrower.
How do I get part of this money ? I can start a b-ball league, softball or kickball league at a park or even lease out and old building for a “ teen hangout/getaway.” Hmmm
The Democrats are clueless. No fucks given then about taking this job for everything its worth. Pay me $1.50 a minute NET OT for playing on my phone, handing out robbery report after robbery report and acting as an adult babysitter to the community. And I just have to say it...bring back midnight basketball. LMAO
How can I get me one of dem violence interrupter jobs?
Such a waste.
Pouring more dollars into a wasteland that doesn’t care. There will always be violence in those troubled communities. Been like that for years. It’s just part of the ethnic culture.
Will it help the 68yo white guy that got attacked on the el by a group of yutes? I'm guessing no....
This is one of the biggest scams I have seen. What groups get the money? What paperwork or results must they report back to the City? What can we FOIA? No news outlets asked one question relevant to this. The idiot Gov referenced a 2023 Northwestern Report, all that did was sample 300 people between 2016-2019. I have been out there in scenes when these clowns show up, they do absolutely nothing at all. This makes me sick like the rest of the Socialist party.
And who is getting the money. Like all other Dims ideas, it will be one big money laundering scheme that doesn’t work but will enrich a certain few.
Follow the Benjamins.
So much time and money wasted. Tens of millions are thrown at the same problems for decades. How about trying something new like teach the culture about moral values, God, love, respect, finish at least highschool, don't become pregnant as a teen and lastly, get a job and work. Problem solved!
Just stop all handouts. Make property taxes a flat rate of 5000 for every city standard size house. Englewood and Norwood park need to pay the same.
All of the problems and some of the good would leave Chicago.
What’s left are solid productive law abiding citizens.
Show of force with zero competence
What i want to see with this 100 million dollar project and everyone before it is an evaluation of the outcome from it. What benefits did the money produce? Other than the preacher from the Make Believe west side church getting a new Cadillac. Money is constantly being poured into black neighborhoods to fix the many issues in that community, trillions in fact. But not one study to see if it accomplished a single thing, except enrich the political players involved.
With obamanation bidenflation having reduced the spending value of a dollar to less than 70¢ per, if that, the scions of business as usual pony up their pittances.
These phony orgs spouting their determinations to solve the 'root causes' problems are merely the vehicles of said ponying up briberies.
No charity is truly, authentically a charity when less than 99% of all donated funds are directly spent on the claimed purpose of same.
And there are no valid claimed purposes in many of these phony charities, only delusional as(in)sertions.
Briberies moistly coated in fake frostings.
The lovely pay to play of our feral feudlism fiefdoms, aka, democrat party ruled regions.
Slickly, stickly and slimy smoothly slipped into every business player's orifices.
And all performed in plain sight.
More money being thrown away by the business community again. It remains unclear if they are just stupid, sock puppets for the city administration or both. Mayhem, chaos and mob rule will continue in the downtown area and on the Maligned Mile (AKA Mag Mile). You allowed this to happen so enjoy the fruits of your stupidity.
They should buy a SA that will prosecute Amish ...
Nothing but payola to the current crop of connected do nothings, who eventually kick back money to the campaigns and or pockets of the enablers. Namely the Cone Head gang.
Gosh...I hope midnight basketball gets a few of those dollars...
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7/12/2024 12:59:00 AM
Them special midnight basketballs are pricy.
Have to bounce AND deflect bullets.
Tricky engineering.
Just in time for another mass shooting last night on Lawndale. Keep it going !!! After all, Cancelling days off is really helping fight violence, Ba Hahahaha. So, another week cancelled for Air/Water Show/Bud Billiken, Then not too far after that will be Labor Day weekend, So don't expect much time off, including getting your RDO's back until mid September. Until then, enjoy the OT money !!! Stay Safe.
Geez all African American dominated politicians and police hierarchy forced integration in news media, and violence murders car jacking has only gotten out of control.The socialist democrat peoples party answers is always more taxes and more freebies and programs for the criminals of society.
Win-Win-Win for J.B. Pigster
1) Proves he can raise big money at a critical time for the democrat party
2) Placates the black vote with expensive useless social programs to keep them on the government cheese program even though they are no longer the "favored minority"
3) Puts Illinois business owners "on tap" so more money can be raised in the near future if necessary.
Liberal democrats just love to spend other people's money, don't they?
Fighting against "white supremacy" is very expensive!
Call takers and dispatchers cannot pass LEADS. A cheat packet is left out for them.
You can engage politicians, reporters and media types on X (twitter) through their pages and direct messages.
For years now I've challenged them to identify one single act of violence or shooting that was prevented by any violence prevention program or violence "interrupter", just ONE.
They cannot.
Where can I learn more to become a “violence interrupter”. I have a GED and play bball.
I like that Pritker tried to blame Republicans for the shootings. Democrats run the city county and state yet it’s the Republicans fault. Right…. Now they magically come up with $100M to throw at the violence and none of it goes toward law enforcement. Instead it will be handed out with no paper work because that would be racist. And guess what, they’ll still be killing each other in double digits every weekend.
Time we hold politicians responsible for all these liberal policies they pushed through and ask why they’re not working???
Safety Act my ass. No bail great idea. Electric monitoring what a joke. Even Dart who’s in charge of EM said it doesn’t work.
Vote Democratic! We’ll save you!
I am going to start a faction out here in Mt. Greenwood. We will go from bar to bar and make drunk suburbanites don't start fights. At least my bar bill will paid for
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-fails-to-turn-68k-per-student-into-even-1-academic-win/
Yet another shining example of our illustrious unified union of exemplary instruction experts' glowing achievements.... for the children....
I love how these groups claim how effective their programs are, as long as you don't pay attention to the 120 people shot last weekend.
Redistribution of wealth, camouflaged as a worthy cause. Reparations for the connected.
FU Chicago!
Satan now rules Chicago. Beware.
Just pissing more taxpayers money into a bottomless fucking pit !
The fat fucking tub of shit , want to be presidential candidate really thinks wasting more tax payers money on fixing stupid is go to fucking fly ? He is a total fucking corrupt lying A typical socialist democrat that are the direct cause of all this lawlessness in America today !
Just another way to fund cronies and garner votes. Sickening and laughable. Not one media moron asks questions.
And right on Que, one of these “violence interrupters” was arrested and charged with Aggravated Battery and UUW. They arrested may have even taken place while all these blow hards were having their press conference. The funniest part of this whole situation was when the offender asked if he will be fired as a peace keeper due to his arrest….. probably not busy, you’ll be back to work this afternoon after your release from bond court.
Spend the money on concrete barriers in front of stores the smash and grabs are out of control.
The black community has had the benefit of tens of millions of private money pumped into programs and much more then that of government money, with no tangible results and real change in the memory of anyone alive today. It seems most of the money goes to the connected when they start their job programs and social agencies, but it goes for pay and benefits for the connected. The job training is just plain old useless. Then we have the " violence interrupters" who usually are gangbangers. After all of this influx of cash, pinheads like the mayor still call the black areas " marginalized " . Nothing will ever change unless and untill black people want it to change
Looks like old St. Sabina is gonna get new A/C and a furnace after all.
"Anti-violence programs" = commit a murder, get a check.
Down here in SE North Carolina they had a violence interruption program that lasted 2 years. In the two years the PD and Sheriff's offices arrested 5 interrupters for various shootings. Last month the county shut down funding these programs. All it takes is balls.
Just in time....
More peacekeepers this year. Two were shot and one participated in beating and robbing a motorist last year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/chicago-s-summer-jobs-initiative-now-includes-peacekeepers-pilot-program/ar-BB1pPEXV?ocid=BingNewsSerp
If you are in a Westside or Southside District starting next week with Republican Convention and our Democratic Shitshow pay attention to any suspicious men or packages at Black Churches. The Dems have no chance to win and need “False Flag Attacks” that look like it was Trump Supporters to trigger a race war.
What they seriously need is procreation interupters.
"State Funded Programs", Tax $ , My $. What is my return on investment? A 100 + shooting weekend does not bode well for the existing violence prevention efforts. Time to change my investment counselors.
Took my pension and moved out of shitcago over 2 years ago.
Never been happier.
Do your time and get out.
There are never any studies into the results of these programs.
Spend 10 million on dart guns and pass them out in hood? Violence should go down for a week or two?
OT
Political hack and DEI favorite cost the city again.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/12/last-minute-settlement-in-lawsuit-against-corrupt-cpd-sgt-ronald-watts-could-be-a-key-test-for-175-more/
What are the numbers since 1970? Like 60,000 murdered in chicago. More than Vietnam.
The biggest telling sign is the military sends rookie medical teams to chicago to learn how to treat GSW’s.
With the abortions and murders it’s a little democratic Holocaust.
What does 30% voter turnout get you? Genocide.
And no one seems to care.
FYI, 50% voter turnout gets you Texas style government and laws and judicial system.
Elections have consequences.
Anonymous said...
Down here in SE North Carolina they had a violence interruption program that lasted 2 years. In the two years the PD and Sheriff's offices arrested 5 interrupters for various shootings. Last month the county shut down funding these programs. All it takes is balls.
7/12/2024 12:02:00 PM
Balls? The people the employee in this city don’t know if you’re a man or woman boy or a girl. We are so screwed up absolutely no testicular fortitude here.
The great thing about root causes is that you never get to the bottom of them. It's the grift that keeps on grifting.
Wonder if it’s the same business community that is continuously looted, ransacked, get stolen cars robbed n through their front windows by a careless collection of ‘youths’ who need some prevention therapy.
This has Jeff Fort copycats written all over it.
Youth or Crime Interventionalist by day, drug trafficker at night.
Good afternoon scc. On my phones news feed today popped up some outfit called timeout.com. they ranked chicago number 2 bestest city in murika for like everything. Number one was nueva yorka,and numero 3 was Los angles. I'm in my 70s and have never seen such in your face propaganda since Pravda reports in the 1960s. The ctu has done magnificently dumbing down the Yates of America, the only educational goal is to be able to loudly repeat what your kommie masters have told you. Good boy, you get an A in socialized studies. Accordingly I will look for a left wing list of the worst cities in America and move to one. Guaranteed it will be some Mayberry in a red state. My generation read 1984 20 years before that date. We understood how that could happen, but it could never happen here with the millions of brave kids that fought ww2 raising us. They're all in the cemetery now and we are being ruled by Pol pots insane uneducated red brigades.hard to believe. Thank you scc for giving us this outlet and asking nothing in return. You are in my prayers.
TO: Anyone who will listen
FROM: A retired old school cop
SUBJECT: 86 & 12
That was the score 4th of July (2013) weekend in Chicago. 86 shot (actually puncture wounds) twelve dead, Chicago stopped counting graze wounds and only counts actual bullet holes now, you don't count if you get your nose or ear shot off. Chicago is also a city three quarters of which is unsafe to walk in. The thug and gang infested South, West and East sides are expanding like a cancer, while the few remaining safe neighborhoods are shrinking annually due, largely in part, to scattered site housing.
This is the crowning achievement of our politicians and the social engineers, who long ago decided that big, bad, brutish policemen were no longer needed. So, it came to pass that, in the '70s, they started allowing females onto the department. That did away with height and strength requirements. They then decided that the correct rainbow of colors was needed. To accomplish this, they lowered the aptitude tests and created quotas. That did away with intelligence and integrity requirements. Of course, gays could not be excluded, either. The ideal candidate for promotion became a black transvestite with a Spanish surname.
Our weapons were next on their agenda. Blackjacks, sap gloves and the like were banned. Our shotguns were moved from the front seat to the trunk, from the trunk to the radio room and, from there, just disappeared. New ammunition was issued, which was so inadequate it would ricochet off of car windshields. And God help you if you hit someone with your flashlight.
Finally, the politicians got rid of the real Policemen. The old dinosaurs were lured into early retirements and replaced with internal affairs weenies and gays with a decent sprinkling of color. The brutish "Old Clancy" stereotype was laid to rest and replaced by "Officers Ken & Barbie." The end result is a department that is befuddled, cow towed, hamstrung, weak and totally not feared by the thugs and gang-bangers, but oh so politically correct.
The City has succeeded in ridding itself of the brutish dinosaur cops of old and has replaced them with little girls and college yuppies who wouldn't know a bad guy if he shit in their face. They have invented new politically correct terms like Wilding and Flash Mobs to describe black Mob Violence, which is rapidly spreading into the once "Safe Zones" of Michigan Avenue, River North and Wrigleyville.
After you have been shot, raped or robbed, Officers Ken & Barbie will arrive and write a most excellent report with perfect grammar and punctuation, which will be fed into a state of the art computer, which will crunch and manipulate the numbers precisely. Me, I long for the old days when Clancy crunched and manipulated the thugs before I became the next victim.
All of this in the most corrupt city, most corrupt county, most corrupt state in the country, whose political leaders zealously and vehemently fight to impose the most restrictive gun control legislation in the nation. If you believe Officers Ken & Barbie are going to protect you and yours, you had better get your head out of your butt and smell the coffee. Old Clancy is retired. It's now up to you to protect yourself.
Rejoice, oh liberals. You have gotten exactly what you wanted. Hope you enjoy it!
Sincerely,
a retired old school cop (from O'Brien Street)
Is that greasy haired Pfather Pfleger gonna to get a cut of the money for preaching to his criminal yutes?
and why is the european union demanding my name?
"Took your pension and moved out two years ago and never happier". Good for you. Glad you are happy. Now please STFU !
Spend 10 million on dart guns and pass them out in hood? Violence should go down for a week or two?
7/12/2024 03:33:00 PM
Only if dart tipped with curare.
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What they seriously need is procreation interupters.
7/12/2024 01:07:00 PM
Bailiff!!
Whack their pee pees!!!!!!
Satan now rules Chicago. Beware.
7/12/2024 09:57:00 AM
Sooooooo.....
THAT'S what the root cause is!!!!
Well now, I'll be damned!!!
Chalkie
Funny how they (the democRATS) find all this money in election years. It seems they always find bullshit programs that have no metric by which you can judge failure or success.
That money would be far better spent on incarceration of criminals.
one only as to go back to 2022 when questions were raised about improper spending and the director of BLM step down after naming 2 individuals to manage the $60 million in the accounts.
More questions asked about the finances and both Individuals stated they never accepted the positions.$30 million later and no one held accountable.
It’s all tricky dicks fault!
So, as I read it, hundreds of millions of taxpayer and corporate dollars going toward non-law enforcement "crime prevention. Yes, roll out the never empty barrel of dough to be spread out over a portion of the city and it will do nothing but fill the pockets of the politicians and their anointed "non-profits".
This is an election year and the threat of the Orange Man securing votes from a few Blacks and Latinos has these Imbiciles fleecing money to secure the vote. The Dems have been taught over the decades that if you solve a problem, the money disappears with no accountability. Or that is the thought because they never solve any type of problem, anywhere they are in charge.
Now Conehead (apologies to Dan Akroyd) had killed the $500 million cutback to the new CPS contract. Did anyone think differently? There is an entity that never solves any problem and gets a huge increase every contract. Funding for Failure!
Credit to Dennis Farina (Get Shorty): "Give Me My Motherfucking Money! (Pension Fund)
I smell a Tito hardiman in here somewhere
How about.......when conehead finds money, he puts it into funds that he is responsible for.....like a grossly underfunded pension fund.
Tool!!!!
If you are in a Westside or Southside District starting next week with Republican Convention and our Democratic Shitshow pay attention to any suspicious men or packages at Black Churches. The Dems have no chance to win and need “False Flag Attacks” that look like it was Trump Supporters to trigger a race war.
7/12/2024 12:38:00 PM
You've gone beyond conspiracy theory and straight to fucking stupid. No one is attacking black churches, especially in a "false flag" attack. Nothing will ever trigger a race war, because white people don't sit around looking for reasons to attack black people. Black people recently spent about a year burning and looting all across the country, and no white people attacked a single one of them. The only incident that they tried to portray as racist was when Rittenhouse shot some white guys for attacking him. Racism is pretty much a one way street nowadays, against white people. There will be no suspicious men or packages. Take your meds and keep coloring your flat earth map. The reptilians are watching.
I am going to start a faction out here in Mt. Greenwood. We will go from bar to bar and make drunk suburbanites don't start fights. At least my bar bill will paid for
7/12/2024 09:18:00 AM
Sounds like you might want to put the bottle down and pick up a book.
Call takers and dispatchers cannot pass LEADS. A cheat packet is left out for them.
7/12/2024 08:33:00 AM
Grab a copy, take some pictures, tell the media, and call the IG. No? Then why even mention it?
If they had held on to the money until the winter and set it on fire it would have actually generated warmth and not gone to fund scumbags.
What they seriously need is procreation interupters.
7/12/2024 01:07:00 PM
I agree. Close the parks as soon as it gets dark.
I still say Gov. Lardass shit it out.
Anonymous said...
"Took your pension and moved out two years ago and never happier". Good for you. Glad you are happy. Now please STFU !
7/12/2024 06:18:00 PM
Notice how these idiots rub it in your face but never say the paradise they moved to?
Responding to Retired Old School Cop @ 06:12 PM...
The brutish "Old Clancy" stereotype was laid to rest and replaced by "Officers Ken & Barbie." The end result is a department that is befuddled, cow towed, hamstrung, weak and totally not feared by the thugs and gang-bangers, but oh so politically correct...
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Truth. The CPD is a third-world police department and complete joke. It's a shame what's it become. Meanwhile, the politicians, judges and activists are not only on the side of the violent criminal but willing co-conspirators and accomplices. If you are an officer actually attempting proactive police work you will get smoked...one way or another.
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