Speaking of Wasting Money

Look who woke up and smelled the coffee:

• Despite spending millions of dollars on hundreds of miles of bikeways, American cities are seeing a big drop in the number of people who pedal their way to work. That's according to the latest American Community Survey (a smaller, more detailed version of the U.S. Census), which found declining bike ridership across most American cities last year.

  The drop was most pronounced in bike-friendly Seattle, home of the $12-million-a-mile bike lane. In 2015, 4 percent of Seattleites (16,300 people) biked to work. That rate fell to 3.5 percent (14,600 people) in 2016 and 2.8 percent (12,000 people) last year.

  This decrease comes as the city of Seattle is throwing a lot of money at building out its biking network. In 2015, Emerald City voters approved the Move Seattle levy, which raised some $94 million to add 110 miles of bike lanes, greenways, and associated infrastructure. Costs have since increased to a point where Seattle residents may get only about half the miles they were promised.

And that's just Seattle.

Here in Chicago, the bike lanes cost approximately $1 million per mile and you can only use them reliably about seven months of the year. Not only that, they cost commuters a full lane of traffic, drastically increasing automobile travel times (contributing to pollution increases), end up destroying delivery routes/times (contributing to economic costs), increased police/fire/ambulance response times and lord only knows how many parking spots.

But paving and concrete people got their connected contracts, and they paid off politicians along the way. And the city unions (Streets, Laborers, etc) went along with it all because, at some point in the not-to-distant future, they'll be paid to take it all out. Job security!

Keep paying those rising property taxes.

Here We Go Again

The ShotSpotter technology isn't even gone from utility poles and the lib-tards over at the Tribune have tapped one of their tame monkeys to attack the next target (paywalled article - find a proxy server to get around it):

• The police radio crackled with a report of six gunshots near a busy corner in Humboldt Park. In a city that has struggled more than most to solve serious crimes, this summer 2023 shooting offered detectives an immediate advantage. At that corner, police had long ago mounted one of thousands of sophisticated surveillance cameras, the kind that could rotate around a 360-degree view, or zoom in to see activity up to four blocks away.

  Sure enough, records show, an officer tapped into a live feed from the camera in time to see that a wounded victim had managed to get inside a restaurant. But the camera hadn’t captured images of the shooter. No video from the camera was put into evidence, and the case, like so many others, remains unsolved.

  What happened that night in July 2023 underscores the potential and, at times, futility of the city’s massive, 20-year bet on a network of cameras typically affixed to utility poles across the city. In the shadow of the 2001 terrorist attacks and in a city with persistent crime problems, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley pushed the so-called Police Observation Devices as a game changer, one that would “stop violent crime before it occurs.”

  Two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of cameras later, an Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune investigation has found that reality has fallen far short of those early promises. While installing thousands of police surveillance cameras has undoubtedly helped catch criminals and solve crimes, Chicago’s ever-growing system has yet to become the crime-fighting panacea Daley predicted.

We've railed against a lot of this for years....tens of years. All the cameras ever do is increase the chances that your victimization is preserved on video in the unlikely event of an apprehension and prosecution. More likely, it ends up being FOIAed and put on one of those ghoul websites or passed around on social media.

The two purposes of cameras (and ShotSpotter for that matter) is/was:

• to make money via a connected contract for someone who would then make a sizable donation to the appropriate political candidate, and
• to make money via electronic storage for someone who would then make a sizable donation to the appropriate political candidate.
  

Forget gigabytes. Does anyone have any idea what storage companies charge for terabytes? Petabytes? Chicago has thousands of POD cameras, all sorts of red-light and speed cameras, not to mention squad car cams, body cams, and drone/helicopter footage, all generating TONS of data on an hourly basis. And all of it gets stored for a looooooong time.

Petabytes might be a thing of the past already.

Is That a Banana?

Sometimes the headlines just make us stop for a moment:

• Man gets 6 years for distributing cocaine while dressed like a banana

And the story, too:

• A judge this week sentenced a man to 6 years in prison for distributing cocaine while dressed as a banana in River North. She gave him five more years for a second cocaine distribution charge, which he picked up after a stolen truck he was riding in crashed into the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument in Lakeview while the banana case was pending.

  [...] Rodriguez’s troubles began on October 29, 2022, when a stolen Audi crashed in the 100 block of West Hubbard, and a paramedic told police that they saw a man dressed in a banana costume run from the wreckage.

  Rodriguez, wearing a banana costume, returned to the scene while police were present. In his arrest report, officers noted he was “the only person in the area wearing a banana costume.” Police said he tossed a bag containing about $2,500 worth of cocaine shortly before they arrested him.

The radio traffic must have been one for the books. A foot chase would have been awesome, but dude returned to the scene of the crime.

And speaking of bananas, Sgt Taggart from the Beverly Hill Cop movies has passed at age 76.

FBI Erased Evidence

Guess how many days suspension you'd take if you deleted (or attempted to delete) video footage. Now imagine you're the fbi, the supposed "elite" law enforcement agency in the nation:

• Just hours ago, we published a breaking report drawing renewed attention to the significance of DNC surveillance footage that the FBI presented to the public in furtherance of its investigation of the January 6 pipe bombs. In late 2022, we published a series of damning articles definitively showing that the FBI was withholding critical DNC surveillance footage from the public, and in all overwhelming likelihood, the footage the FBI presented to the public was deliberately degraded in quality so as to prevent the public from being able to identify the bomber.

  In the piece in question from earlier today, we broke the news that we learned from a highly trusted source that a government employee (not the FBI) investigating aspects of the January 6 pipe bomb case went to the DNC and viewed its footage from the evening of the 5th. This government employee reported that he or she definitively and clearly saw on the video the pipe bomber planting the bomb. The employee also did not notice any degraded quality, as is evident in the footage the FBI presented to the public of the pipe bomber on the evening of January 5th. There are a number of critically urgent questions that arise from this explosive information.

The most critical question being "Where is the original footage?" The answer is, "It's gone":

• According to the letter from the DHS IG, the FBI attested to them in writing that it was no longer in possession of ANY of the DNC surveillance footage in March 2022.

The most surveilled city in the nation, and the clearest video of the person planting the "pipe bomb" on 06 January is "missing." Completely believable!

The obvious explanation is the footage was just too damn clear and someone would have recognized the fbi stooge planting the "device," but since they were able to ::cough cough:: certify the vote, the "device" wasn't needed, but it was accidentally discovered by someone not in on the game.

But hey, don't worry. There are delegates to Congress saying the quiet part out loud:

• Democrat delegate to the US House of Representatives accidentally says the quiet part out loud. She admits the DOJ and FBI are weaponized to go after people with opposing views. The DOJ and FBI "serve as a check against white nationalism, great replacement theorists, Christian nationalists, white fragility, fascists, and the twice impeached convicted felon, former president and would-be dictator Donald Trump."

Anyone else thinking it's time to disband the feebs and start over?

What's the Point?

There's almost nothing that the Cook County courts will hold anyone for:

• A Cook County judge rejected a prosecution request to keep a man in jail as a public safety risk for allegedly shooting at an occupied car while Chicago police officers looked on. Judge William Fahy denied the state’s detention petition for Malik Williams, 23, deciding instead to send Williams home with a nighttime curfew.

  Chicago cops were on patrol when they saw Williams open fire on the car with a black rifle near 5800 South Aberdeen around 9 p.m. on September 14, according to the allegations. The officers immediately turned on their emergency equipment to pull Williams over.

  Williams bolted from his Infiniti Q50 with the rifle in his hand, according to a CPD report and the state’s detention petition. Both documents said he ignored the officers’ commands and threw the gun as he continued running. Officers arrested him nearby after he fell, and they also recovered the Stribog SP9A1 Grand Power firearm that he had ditched, according to the police report.

Someone turned up shot later, the gun was stolen, and he's home with a "curfew."

We'd tell the voters to wake up, but it ain't happening. Move out if you can.

As Predicted

The first two were merely wounded. 

This is a dead body, lying in the alley, for maybe TWO DAYS:

• A woman was found shot to death in a South Side alley on Saturday morning after a resident called 911 because her body had been in the same place for about two days.

  Chicago cops found four shell casings in the alley, which was monitored by ShotSpotter until Mayor Brandon Johnson terminated the city’s contract with the gunfire detection system earlier this week.

  Police responded to the 9500 block of South Avenue N around 9:30 a.m. after a resident called 911 to report that a woman had been lying in the same spot for two days. CPD said the woman, who remains unidentified, had suffered gunshot wounds.

  “Did we have any ShotSpotters?” an officer asked his dispatcher upon arriving at the scene. He quickly remembered the new reality for Chicagoans: “Oh, I’m sorry. We don’t even have ShotSpotter. Disregard.”

Nice dig by the responding Officer. We admit to smiling.

But this is some third-world type shit, brought to you by Conehead and the CTU "progressives" who own his ass.

Tow Truck Bumper Cars

We were just writing about tow truck operators needing to be pulled over more, and this happens (with linked video):

• Footage shared on social media of three tow trucks crashing while racing to a separate wreck as police ran for cover showed a chaotic scene Thursday afternoon on the Southwest Side.

  Around noon, three “unknown” tow trucks were responding to the crash in the 6600 block of South Cicero Avenue when they crashed into each other, Chicago police said.

  One tow truck rear-ended another and as the striking tow truck attempted to make a U-turn, it struck another tow truck, police said.

  Footage shared on social media included shocked onlookers, and police said all three tow trucks fled the scene.

The video is something else. One can see how that woman got killed over the Mexican Independence Day mayhem holiday a few weeks back with assholes like these driving and crashing into each other over a measly tow.

Crime in Wrigleyville....

....and Pennsylvania?

• When Chicago cops busted Christian Buie and Harold Wade with a van full of stolen catalytic converters on the North Side in 2015, prosecutors only charged them with misdemeanors and they eventually received probation sentences.

  Buie, Wade, and a third man received much less favorable outcomes on similar allegations this week in Pennsylvania: prison sentences of 5 to 15 years.

  Early last year, Pennsylvania authorities said Buie, 32, Wade, 30, and Antonio Johnson, 43, traveled from Chicago to Pittsburgh in December 2022 to steal more than $200,000 worth of catalytic converters from vehicles.

And they were unfortunate enough to run into a non-Soros-affiliated States Attorney who was only willing to plea it down to years in prison and not a Crimesha love fest. 

See you in a few years boys.

She Still Hates You

The solution - hate her back:

• Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubled down this week on calling half of former President Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.” 

  [...] In the article, the former secretary of state recalled a meeting she had with a former white supremacist who now works to deprogram people leaving hate groups as an entry to discuss her “deplorables” comment, and said the term is “too kind a word” for some of Trump’s most fervent followers. “In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables.’ I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature, not a bug,” Clinton wrote. 

  “It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters,” she continued....

And be sure to vote appropriately, as in "not for the party that hates you."

Sox Sux

It's all cyclical - we've been here for historic highs and lows of the Blackhawks, Bears, Cubs and Bulls. The Sox are no different, but it still looks like along way back....if they don't move to Nashville that is.

That is all

Hmmmm....Ya Think?

Media types are genuine morons:

• There are many factors that are making it hard for the downtown shopping districts to fill empty spaces, but could crime be one of the hurdles? Smash-and-grabs and retail theft have spiked in Chicago in the last several months.

  After previous I-Team reports, we heard from viewers asking if crime was keeping businesses away. So we dug into the data and spoke to experts close to the issue.

  Thieves driving vehicles right through store windows aren't rare. Retail crimes have businesses like Chicago Sports on the Mag Mile on guard, but they're resilient.

  "We don't consider leaving," said owner Tyler Reyes. "We've been open since the eighties, but I do think currently it has been a big factor, especially during since the pandemic. All the, you know, the rioting, the looting."

  But could current, persistent crime be keeping businesses from filling a record high number of empty storefronts? The Loop has a current vacancy rate of 30%, and the Mag Mile has a vacancy rate of 26% according to Stone Realty.

Once you work crime into the business equation (which includes high taxes, high rent, high parking costs, declining foot traffic, costly insurance) you can see why vacancy rates are at thirty percent....and climbing.

How could anyone do business when you're losing money?

Diversity is Our Strength!

And screening illegal aliens? That's racist!

• President Joe Biden’s administration is allowing up to 650,000 criminal migrants and suspects — including at least 13,099 migrant murderers and 222,141 migrants facing criminal charges — to roam through American communities, according to a dramatic data dump by a House Republican.

  “The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals,” reported Fox News, which got the information from Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX).

13,000 extra murderers on top of what we already have here. 

And don't believe the fbi lies about "crime is down." The numbers they're using don't count Los Angeles or New York City along with a few hundred other smaller jurisdictions.

EM on the Way Out?

We've been hearing this, too:

• Hey SCC ! Got a new Story for you. Sheriff Tom Dart is attempting to collapse his Electronic Monitoring Program. These guys who are getting put out on EM are repeat offending daily weekly monthly. All the Chicago Police on here can confirm - How many times have you recently made a new arrest and the guy had a bracelet on???? Well Sheriff Dart has had enough. He wants to wash his hands of it and put all blame on the Judges. Program currently has 1500 offenders. Can you imagine if these 1500 go unmonitored and set free in the community ????

Imagine it? We've seen it. EM does nothing to deter criminals from being criminals, And they'll commit any crime they want to while wearing the damn thing. If they want to cut the bracelet off, there's nothing stopping them and zero repercussions when caught. They just get a new bracelet from the judge and Tommy.

Maybe a County reader could let us all know.

Love Letter to Larry

Are they grooming him to run for mayor?

• Many of Chicago’s top leaders are facing strong headwinds.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson has suffered embarrassing defeats, and he’s now trying to force out his public schools chief.

  The heads of the city’s transit and housing agencies have both faced calls to resign. And the police oversight boss is at the center of lawsuits alleging bias and whistleblower retaliation.

  Larry Snelling, meanwhile, has established himself as a steady hand over his first year as the city’s top cop, leading a historically scandal-plagued department out of a tumultuous stretch. During the Democratic National Convention — Snelling’s first big test — he emerged as the calm face of the city.

The article is extensive, covering wins, loses and somewhat even handed with criticisms, even pointing out Conehead's pathetic attempt to hitch his political wagon to the Convention success - after the fact and after all the politicians had left town. 

Go read it all, remembering that Larritorious was one of the more enthusiastic exempts stripping Officers who dared to exercise bodily autonomy. Anyone willing to deprive you of your personal Freedom can never be fully trusted in our opinion.

As to the future?

• Asked if he has any ambitions beyond policing, Snelling smiled and said, “My aspiration is to find some rest and go fishing.” “If you’re talking about politics,” he added, “absolutely not.”

Yeah, we've heard that one before.

Leave Him There

They're still trying to get Hoover out of a life sentence:

• The notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang sat with his hands shackled in his lap Thursday, listening from a thousand miles away, as a judge in Chicago asked the question that could lie at the heart of whether he grants mercy to Larry Hoover after 26 years.

  “How many murders is he responsible for?” U.S. District Judge John Blakey asked.

  The judge directed his question to Hoover’s defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, who had just argued that Hoover’s once-monolithic gang is now a “splintered, disorganized group with no hierarchy,” and that prosecutors simply feed the “mythology” of Hoover to keep him locked up.

Behind that supposed "mythology" is a charismatic SOB who could rally the splintered group into the force it was in its heyday. Even after his initial conviction and sentence of 150 years, he was running the gang from Illinois prisons before federal wiretaps got him sent to Colorado's SuperMax prison. That was the only thing that separated him from the driver's seat of his criminal network.

Society shouldn't be willing to take that risk. Hoover can leave when he's dead.

This Won't End Well

Class warfare at the ballot box never ends up the way the "elites" want it to:

• A 3% tax on individual income over $1 million would flood Illinois’ coffers with at least $4.5 billion in new revenues annually, a new state estimate shows weeks ahead of an advisory referendum on earmarking that money for property tax relief.

  The estimate, obtained by WBEZ through a state open-records request, marks the first time Gov. JB Pritzker’s Revenue Department has weighed in on the effects of imposing that new proposed tax on the state’s wealthiest citizens to ease what is a leading financial issue daunting the middle class.

  Voters are being asked this question now because lawmakers in May voted to bring it forward as part of a broader election package that Pritzker signed.

  The exact wording of the ballot question reads: “Should the Illinois Constitution be amended to create an additional 3% tax on income greater than $1,000,000 for the purpose of dedicating funds raised to property tax relief?”

"flood Illinois coffers"? Not likely.

You know what will flood? Millionaires leaving Illinois for other locations, or at least changing their primary residences. New Jersey tried this a few years ago, and more than half of all millionaires (who had already fled New York), left New Jersey for tax-friendlier locales. These are the people who can afford a second (or a third) house and can easily afford to move, even if it's just on paper. They have lawyers on retainer to do the paperwork adjusting titles, insurance, voting addresses, etc. Hell, Bruce Rauner moved himself and his company to Florida rather than stay in this rapidly devolving state.

And guess who's left behind to pay an even bigger portion Illinois' out-of-control debt?

More "Plan-demic" Revelations

The more time passes, the more the entire narrative crumbles. This is from her book:

• Deborah Birx from her memoir, explaining how "two weeks to flatten the curve" was just marketing for harsh, months-long lockdowns that she was really planning:
  
  
  "On Monday and Tuesday [March 9th and 10th, 2020]…we worked simultaneously to develop the flatten-the-curve guidance I hoped to present to the vice president at week’s end. Getting buy-in on the simple mitigation measures every American could take was just the first step leading to longer and more aggressive interventions. We had to make these palatable to the administration by avoiding the obvious appearance of a full Italian lockdown. … No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it. Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them."

They're not even hiding it.

Brandon's Bodies #2

We guess since no one is dead yet, "Brandon's Bodies" makes more sense than "Conehead's Corpses." For the second time in two days, a person was found, shot, and not a single 9-1-1 call was made to report gunfire:

• A man was found shot and critically injured on an Englewood sidewalk Tuesday night, Chicago police said.

  Nobody called 911 to report the shooting, which occurred less than 48 hours after the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that surveilled the block was deactivated at the instruction of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. At least one other victim has been discovered shot in a ShotSpotter zone since the system went dark.

  Around 10:06 p.m., Chicago police officers responded to a call from someone down in the 5200 block of South Wood. A 911 caller had reported that a man was lying in front of a house, yelling for help.

  Officers found the 45-year-old victim on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the left leg, a CPD media statement said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition.

The 9-1-1 call was for a man yelling, not about shots fired. And of course, no crime scene was located, so even if an arrest was made, there's next to zero evidence recovered.

Along with the drop in prosecutions, we're going to predict a sharp rise in revenge shootings as the gangs engage in a tit-for-tat approach.

Gang War in 33rd Ward

And the aldercreature of the 33rd is one of the more vocal anti-police turds:

• Last week, CBS Chicago reported on the gang war in the Old Irving Park neighborhood. 

  Responding to the increase in gunfire heard in the neighborhood, one local resident said: "The gunshots keep ringing out day and night."

  At a recent CAPS meeting, Chicago Police said that there is indeed a gang war in Old Irving Park, which is in the heart of the 33rd Ward. A ward that covers the Albany Park, Ravenswood Manor, Irving Park, and Avondale neighborhoods, the ward is represented in the City Council by Alderman Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez. While Ms. Rodriguez-Sanchez has declared herself an Independent, she is, in fact, firmly aligned with the City Council's Democratic Socialist Caucus.

  Rodriguez-Sanchez, along with the five other socialists in the City Council, is in favor of cutting spending for the Chicago Police Department (CPD).

The entire Contrarian article is an eye-opener, and hints at more problems on the horizon, not only for the residents who voted this "progressive" into  office, but for the Department moving forward. We're awaiting more info, but rest assured that the 33rd Ward will most likely be on the leading edge of a pilot program that will result in anyone with time on the job to bid out of the affected Districts.

Why New York?

Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka P. Diddy, aka Diddy, is facing massive charges for all sorts of depravity, but for some reason, the charges were filed in New York, even though many of the crimes occurred in California from 2008 until the present day - including a trove of blackmail tapes recording all sorts of celebs and politicians.

Anyone know why? Besides the fact that from 2010 until 2016, the State of California Attorney General was a woman named Kamala. Odds are he'll be dead by Election Day.

And speaking of national politics, you know that Tapioca Brain is still upset he got launched from the race and he's sticking the knife in deep:

• President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he delegated “everything” as commander-in-chief to Vice President Kamala Harris, including foreign policy and domestic policy.

  The acknowledgment is significant because it contradicts Harris’s talking points. Harris has tried multiple times to distance herself from the Biden-Harris record.

He tied all of his policies to her like a twenty-ton anchor.

Feds Investigating....democrats?

New York City mayor indicted:

• Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe, sources told The Post — as the defiant mayor claimed he was being persecuted by the federal government for speaking about the city’s migrant crisis.

  The historic indictment — the first for a sitting New York City mayor — is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources. The news was first reported by The New York Times.

  Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.

But other reporting says this is about bribe money from Turkey about a Manhattan consulate building, and the investigation has resulted in numerous other officials - including the police chief - to resign.

Conehead appears safe though, as no nation with an ounce of sense would pay to open a consulate here. They'd be the ones getting envelopes from Chicago attempting to fill the massive vacancies downtown.

Brandon's Bodies?

Personally, we'd vote for "Conehead's Corpses" but it isn't our call:

• Less than 24 hours after Chicago ended its relationship with ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer found a woman shot and critically injured on a South Side street previously served by the gunfire detection system.

  Nobody called 911 to report hearing gunshots in the area, and no one called to report a shooting victim.

  A CPD sergeant came upon the 30-year-old woman on the sidewalk in the 7700 block of South Dobson around 9:15 p.m. on Monday. She had suffered two gunshot wounds to her leg and was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, CPD said.

Hopefully, CWB keeps this going the way that have with the running count of aggravated batteries and homicides committed by persons out on no-cash bail.

But this explains Larritorious's email the other day telling Officers to encourage citizens to call 9-1-1:

The only important part of this email is the "situational awareness" portion - you won't have an address to head toward, so you'll have to pay very close attention as you approach the general area of a call.

Who's Running the Show?

We're pretty sure that the government is supposed to run things on behalf of the people - "consent of the governed" and all that. So how is CPS dictating how the schools are run as money pits?

(yes, we're aware that the CTU runs large portions of the government and Conehead is the union's bitch)

• In an extraordinary set of comments Tuesday that brought the leadership tussle at the top of the school system further into public view, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said he would not resign at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s direction.

  He argued his departure would leave a “leadership vacuum and instability” in his wake and decried “outright lies” about his administration.

  Martinez also proposed a self-imposed school closings moratorium until 2027 as a way to fend off what he called a “misinformation campaign” from the Chicago Teachers Union about plans to close schools, a union effort aimed at heightening scrutiny around Martinez’s job status.

  And he received a letter of support from a group of leaders that include two former CPS CEOs and a couple dozen city and state elected officials.

There are (at minimum) one hundred schools being under-utilized every single day. And each of these schools are wasting million of dollars on an annual basis in facility and staffing costs. Here are a few:

Sixty-four students in a school built to house almost thirteen-hundred? That should be first on the list, and we don't really care what gang borders are being accommodated. 

Taxpayers deserve to have their money spend appropriately and properly. Yes, that's a tall order in corrupt Chicago, but accountability has to start somewhere, so why not at the biggest money drain on the budget.

Qualified Immunity Gone in This Case

These cops and their supervisor from Normal, IL appear to have pretty much forfeited any sort of qualified immunity they think they might have been entitled to:

The Legislature wrote that qualified immunity doesn't cover willful and wanton disregard for the law....and the Court found that there is enough willfull-ness and wanton-ness within the accusations to allow this to proceed to trial. There will be a "listing of assets" very shortly.

Don't get trick-bagged by ignorance of the law, nor by supervisory ignorance of the law.

Ed is Nearby

The Federal Bureau of Prisons seems to have kept Burke in Illinois:

• Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, the longest-serving alderman in city history, was booked into prison on Monday and subsequently began serving a two-year sentence on corruption charges.

  Burke, 80, was expected to report to the minimum security camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, but those plans appeared to change at the last minute.

  The former alderman was instead lodged at a federal minimum security camp in Thomson, Illinois, a village of around 500 residents in the far northeast corner of the state. A village in Carroll County, Thomson is 48 miles northwest of Moline.

If anyone is interested in sending Ed some fan mail, there's an entire page on how to do so at this link here. But the basic info is:

• Edward Burke No. 53-698-424

  FCI Thomson

  FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION SATELLITE CAMP 

  P.O. BOX 1002
  THOMSON, IL 61285

There's even instructions on how to send Ed money at his commissary account in case you still have to finish paying for that "merit" promotion or that airport slot from years ago. Visiting might be a bit more complicated, but the website seems very thorough.

 

(UPDATE: yes, we saw the "northeast" description in the  NBC "reporting" and unlike the incompetent media, we looked at a map with an actual compass rose on it and saw Thomson is northwest. Chalk it up as another example of how useless and untrustworthy any legacy media actually is)

Stolen Radios

There used to be a number of Officers on CPD who knew tow truck regulations down to the tiniest detail, especially required equipment (shovel, bucket of sand, etc), and they were ruthless in enforcing it to the point that many of these fly-by-night tow operators wouldn't even respond to certain Districts because they were tired of getting locked up.

Might be time to start teaching this stuff again and filtering out these scumbags:

• A private tow truck driver is accused of possessing a stolen high-tech Chicago Police Department radio capable of listening to secured radio transmissions from the city’s police and fire departments.CPD encrypted most of its radio channels beginning in late 2022, a move then-mayor Lori Lightfoot said was necessary to prevent criminals from hearing police activities in real-time.

  Officers patrolling the Humboldt Park neighborhood around 6:15 p.m. on September 15 saw the tow truck heading west on North Avenue without a front plate, with no company identifiers on the vehicle, and with a heavily tinted windshield, a CPD report said.

  As they began following the truck, the driver pulled into an alley behind the 3400 block of West Potomac. The officers said they saw the driver get out, put something under a blue garbage bin, and drive away. Curious, they looked under the bin and discovered a high-tech CPD radio labeled “Property of City of Chicago” and bearing a city inventory number, according to the report. The $2,500 radio operated on the police department’s encrypted radio channels, allowing its users to hear police radio activities in real-time.

Wasn't there a rumor at some point that these "advanced radios" would be able to be turned-off in the event of loss/theft? 

Or is this another one of those cases similar to where CPS buys million of dollars worth of computers, installs track-able software to prevent loss/theft, and then neglects to activate it when $77 million worth of computers goes missing?

In any event, all tow operators ought to be looked at with an eye toward probable cause when they beat responding officers to the scene of any accident.

Just Curious

Anyone know why the public had to fight the Department of "Justice" tooth-and-nail to even get a glimpse of the Tennessee trans-shooter's manifesto of hate and yet they release the 2nd Trump would-be assassin's letter apologizing for failure....and the bounty of $150,000 he'll pay out to a successful shooter?

It's almost like they're provoking another brain-damaged libtard into an attempt.

ShotSpotter Last Hurrah

And what a night it was:

• ShotSpotter gunfire detectors earned their keep on Saturday night, pinpointing the location of a mass shooting in Little Village before any 911 calls were received and sending cops to a second “shots fired” incident that ended with a suspect in custody.

  Company officials have said that Chicago’s ShotSpotter network will be deactivated when the city’s contract expires at midnight tonight, barring a sharp reversal from Mayor Brandon Johnson.

  In Little Village, a gunman stepped out of a black Jeep and shot seven mourners at a prayer vigil in the front yard of a home in the 2500 block of South Spaulding around 10:08 p.m., according to Chicago police.

  A 31-year-old man died from multiple gunshot wounds. The other six victims, all men between 31 and 48, were in fair condition. Most had gunshot wounds to their lower bodies, but one suffered a graze wound to the top of his head, according to CPD.

The "mass shooting" at 2500 S. Spaulding is an interesting location. A hotbed of latino gang activity, it is situated squarely within the boundaries of the 25th Ward whose aldercreature ("progressive" anti-police activist Byron Sigcho-Lopez) has been one of the most outspoken opponents of ShotSpotter.

He must not be interested in catching shooters, nor gathering evidence that might put them behind bars.

Delinquent What Now?

We just assume they're all following Conehead's lead in not paying bills:

• Workers for the city of Chicago and its sister agencies owe more than $18 million in unpaid parking tickets, utility bills and other fees as Mayor Brandon Johnson has a nearly $1 billion budget gap looming next year.

  Among the deadbeat city workers are a tree-trimmer with about $13,000 in old parking tickets; a building inspector for the public health department with more than $20,000 in administrative hearing fees; and a police detective with more than $23,000 in outstanding water bills.

  Most of the scofflaws on public payrolls don’t work directly for City Hall. About $16.5 million of the worker debt is owed by employees of sister agencies like the Chicago Transit Authority, where roughly one in four workers is carrying an outstanding debt — by far the highest rate of any of the agencies.

And as always, the CPD has a prominent place in the Slum Times story:

• The police department employs the most city workers and has accrued the most city worker debt. Police employees were behind on more than $655,000 in payments, including $328,000 in delinquent water bills and $250,000 in parking tickets. More than 650 officers, detectives and other workers were late to pay — about 6% of the department.

  An officer making a $110,178 yearly salary was behind on $27,159 in administrative hearing debt. Another, making $106,482, owed more than $7,000 in unpaid parking tickets. There’s also a detective with $23,054 in unpaid water bills, $1,210 in parking tickets and $1,746 in administrative hearing costs.

CPD also seems to be the only agency that suspends and garnishes wages to pay outstanding debts owed to the City. At least the only one we ever heard about.

Read These

A couple of posts everyone might want to read.

First up, The Contrarian shines a small light on some of the potential voter fraud that the Chicago Machine is infamous for, still going on to this very day:

• According to the Chicago Board of Elections’ database, as of early August there were 2,115,542 registered voters in Chicago. Of those, 1,570,753 were in active status.

  Two addresses share the title of having the greatest number of active voters. The first is 2700 S. California; that’s right, Cook County Jail. The second is in the 3700 block of South Indiana. Each has 1,019 registered active voters.

  All told, there are 18 properties in Chicago with 100 or more active voters. Seventy-four properties have 50 or more active voters and 757 addresses have 10 or more individuals “living” there representing 19,823 active voters.

  How can this be?

If you want the answer, check out the Contrarian link up top. They get into the nitty-gritty of it all in their usual thorough manner. They don't say it outright, but you can bet tens-of-thousands of votes are generated each and every election here.

Second, check out the latest John Kass article, amplifying the warnings we were giving almost two decades ago:

• No wonder that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson continues to suffer those crippling panic attacks of his.

  Chicago is falling apart. He’s completely out of his depth. He was unequipped for the job and his campaign was all about slogans, Marxist rhetoric from his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union, and race. Now those who can are in a rush to leave. He’s falling apart. His administration is falling apart. And the city is falling apart rapidly.

  Forget the fake news “joy” of the Democratic National Convention that oozed out to promote Kamala Harris.  She won’t help the city. And forget the corporate media cheerleaders who’ve tried to paper-over the city’s infected wounds to promote Democrat power. I spent 40 years covering the city’s politics.

  Throughout all those years, the joke in Chicago was that any time things looked bad, at least we weren’t Detroit. But now that’s an insult to Detroit which is on the ascent. And the people of both cities know it. The city’s self-inflicted wounds are septic now.

Again, go read it all. Detroit still has along way to go to return, but Chicago hasn't even hit rock bottom yet. By the time we get there, Detroit just might be a vacation destination of some sort.

Gang War On Tap?

Don't take our word for it - take it from this guy:

• After serving 20 years in state prison for murder, former gangbanger Tyrone Muhammad never expected to return to the city’s tough South Side and find Venezuelan migrants and the criminal Tren de Aragua gang moving in.

  But Muhammad, 53, who’s gone straight and runs a street patrol and violence prevention program called Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change says Venezuelan criminal gangs flooding shelters and taking over apartment buildings are the last straw for the struggling African-American community. He says they are furious at seeing government money going to what they call “non-citizens.”

  “It is impossible to release gang members and criminals into our country through the borders and broken walls and infiltrate them in our community that’s already impoverished and broken,” Muhammad told The Post last week on the O Block, a stretch along South King Drive that’s considered the most dangerous in the city.

  “When the black gangs here get fed up with the illegalities and criminal activities of these migrants or non-citizens, the city of Chicago is going to go up in flames and there will be nothing the National Guard or the government can do about it when the bloodshed hits the streets. It’ll be blacks against migrants.”

Making the city even more unlivable than Conehead is already doing.

Stay alert, stay safe.

Herbie Pinched....Again

Long time readers might remember ol' Herbie the city sticker designer that was outed as a covert tribute to the "m.l.d." gang via symbol in the artwork. The heart design, the hands throwing up crudely drawn forks, not to mention Herb's own social media posts of him throwing up the same signs, wearing the same colors, etc.

Remember the media's fawning denials that these symbols meant anything at all and that other blog with the naughty genitalia reference was the true evil, while Herb managed to rack up numerous arrests mostly for stealing cars.

Good times.

A comment say Herb is still up to his old tricks, and may have found a new one:

• Li’l Herbie got pinched. Tried to kill himself in 025’s lock up. Allegedly.

No one stays in lockups any more thanks to Crimesha, so whatever he was being held for must have been pretty good. 

Here's to hoping Herb gets the treatment he needs so that he can spend the entirety of any future sentence in general population.

More Info, Better Story

We had noted a story from a few days ago was poorly written - cringe-worthy in fact - and actually made us long for the days of Pat Camdem's capable narrations.

Now it's making more sense thanks to CWB's actual reporting:

• Prosecutors say a man repeatedly pointed a gun at Chicago police officers while trying to run away from the cops—just six days after being given “first-time weapon offense probation” in another gun case.

  The first-time probation program, which allows cases to be expunged upon successful completion, used to be available only to adults under 21 who met the criteria. But Illinois legislators changed the law this year, making it available to all adults who meet the requirements.

  Rakim Kendall, 31, received the first-time weapon offense probation sentence from Judge Tiana Blakely on September 10 after he pleaded guilty to having a gun in a car in suburban Lansing last year. Just six days later, around 10:50 p.m., Chicago police officers tried to stop Kendall because he matched the description of a masked man who had a gun outside some businesses in the 7100 block of South Jeffery, a CPD report said.

  Kendall ran from the cops and promptly got struck by an SUV, which knocked him to the ground, according to the report. It said he got back up, pointed a gun toward the officers, and continued running with the gun in his hand.

  Prosecutors told Judge Susana Ortiz that he pointed the gun at the cops several times with his finger on the trigger, according to a detention order. The officers repeatedly told him to drop the gun, but he refused, leading the officers to shoot at him. They missed.

That is a far better narrative, demonstrating the Officers' credible restraint in the face of numerous attempts to threaten their lives.

Why Did the Chicken.....

The chicken is a narc?

• This cop is working around the cluck.

  A San Francisco cop ditched his peaked cap and badge in favor of a rainbow-hued, inflatable chicken costume for his traffic safety patrol at a busy intersection.

  Lt. Jonathan Ozol donned the flamboyant suit — made to look like he was riding the giant bird’s back — Monday to demonstrate just how many drivers failed to yield to pedestrians, even those as obvious and bright as the officer.

The pictures are something to behold - he dresses as dude riding a chicken, wanders into a crosswalk, then has assist unit pull over motorists who fail to yield to the tune of $400 per conviction.

We're all for traffic enforcement, but this is a bit much. And a lieutenant is the one dressing up? 

We'd propose that every single "merit" pick has to don the chicken suit, play in traffic for a week, and make every court appearance in costume so the judge can see what's going on before they get promoted. At least they could say they went to Traffic Court once or twice.

Record Tying Effort

119 loses tied the AL record (Detroit 2003).

If they hit 120 today, that's a new AL record and ties the Major League record (NY Mets 1962).

121 would set a new all-time record.

Seven games to go.

Sergeants List

Congrats to the deserving:

Eight-two? That's an unusual class size.

And eighty-two works out to 24 "merit" picks, but there's only fourteen names?

Something fishy going on?

Welcome to Prison Ed

See you in twenty-to-twenty-four months:

• Legendary Chicago City Councilman Ed Burke is just days from his surrender to federal prison.

  Burke served as a Chicago alderman from 1969 to 2023: a total of 54 years and more than anyone in city history.

  On Monday, the once-powerful chairman of the City Council Finance Committee will become prisoner No. 53-698-424.

He was hoping to serve his time in Wisconsin near his family's lake house, but that portion of Oxford closed a while back, so he's hoping for (and was recommended by the judge) for Terra Haute, Indiana. 

We'll see on Monday where to send the Christmas cards.

"The Nose Knows" no Longer

Everywhere you go, you smell weed. It's stomach turning. 

And now, it's not even Probable Cause:

• The scent of cannabis smoke alone is not enough to justify a police search of a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

  In a 6-0 ruling, the court found that cannabis laws in Illinois had evolved to the point that just catching a whiff of burnt weed is no longer enough probable cause for police to search a vehicle.

  Thursday’s opinion upholds two lower court rulings that threw out evidence — an ounce of marijuana — found in the car of a Chicago man who was pulled over for driving 3 miles over the speed limit on Interstate 80 in September 2020, nine months after cannabis was legalized in Illinois.

  “Since January 1, 2020, the use and possession of cannabis is presumptively lawful, subject to certain restrictions,” Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. wrote for the majority. “We hold that the odor of burnt cannabis, alone, is insufficient to provide probable cause for police officers to perform a warrantless search of a vehicle.”

Isn't it still illegal to operate a motor vehicle while high? You see someone all over the road, you pull them over, and when they roll the window down, all you smell is recently smoked blunt. You have to build on that, too?

• But Officer, this isn't my car....and these aren't my pants

We used to opine that 85% of weekend traffic crashes involved alcohol. Now we'd say 95% of weekend crashes involve either alcohol or weed.

Or both.

Circular Expenditure

Isn't this a city run program?

It's like a city wide police explorers program, but without the police. They got a nice van, all tricked out, and they either don't park legally or they're getting red-light camera tickets faster than Conehead.

WEP Gains 218th Sponsor

Late yesterday afternoon, the 218th sponsor signed on to the Windfall Elimination Provision Bill, meaning it can head to the House floor for a vote:

• House lawmakers in Washington have the signatures they need to force a vote on a bill to eliminate rules that reduce Social Security benefits for certain retirees who also receive pension income.

  On Thursday morning, Reps. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., and Garret Graves, R-La., marked the 206 signatures a discharge petition had thus far collected with a press conference outside the Capitol building alongside organizations representing police, firefighters, postal workers, teachers and other government employees often affected by those rules.

  By Thursday afternoon, the number of signatures had climbed to 218, enough to force a vote on the bill.

There seems to be enough support in both houses of Congress to move this through, and the drooling vegetable has said (or was told) that he'll be signing it.

The biggest hurdle now is the election and Congress leaving before anything gets passed. We'll see.

Will Conehead Listen?

An almost intelligent suggestion - combining redundant systems:

• Community leaders are expected to outline recommendations Thursday to combine the city's homeless shelter system with the system for migrants.The move is expected to boost the city's effort to keep unhoused citizens off the streets.

  Deborah's Place, which helps women experiencing homeless with permanent housing and other services, is hosting the meeting where city and state officials along with stakeholders will unveil their plans to combine Chicago's legacy homeless shelter system wit h the system for migrants.

  The One System Initiative is the newest effort by the city to help both the unhoused and asylum-seekers here in Chicago. The effort comes after a months-long discussion between city and state officials and homeless and service advocates about how to turn the two systems into a unified shelter structure.

Of course, combining systems reduces the opportunity for graft and stealing. Some aldercratures and Conehead might object to their campaign kickbacks getting shorted the money.

Just keep them the Hell out of District stations.

Lawsuit File

CWB has the entire lawsuit we mentioned yesterday posted up on their site.

As to numerous claims that Crimesha has total immunity, if it can be proven she acted with wanton and willful malice - which, knowing how much Crimesha hates the police and her habit of charging persons differently based on certain..."factors" - then she needs to be dragged before a federal court and made to defend her decisions.

ShotSpotter Follies Continue

If nothing else, this is entertaining politics:

• The Chicago City Council made a significant break with Mayor Brandon Johnson, voting to give the deciding vote over ShotSpotter technology to the city’s police superintendent. The ordinance passed 33-14 in City Council chambers on Wednesday, with Johnson immediately vowing to veto the measure.

  The measure passed during a special session of the City Council, and was aimed at taking the decision on whether to retain the controversial technology in place out of the mayor’s hands.

  “The experts seem to think it’s a useful tool,” Ald. Bill Conway said. “Our constituents want that. Clearly a lot of my colleagues want to make sure we can keep it and find a way to do that.”

  According to the measure, Supt. Larry Snelling would ultimately have the final say over whether to keep the technology in place, with a contract set to expire this month with SoundThinking, the company who maintains the network.

Conehead's allies are spouting provable lies in their effort to kill this thing:

• While the company claims a  97% accuracy rate across all customers, but Chicago officials have argued that the technology’s alerts “rarely produce evidence of a gun-related crime, rarely give rise to investigatory stops, and even less frequently lead to the recovery of gun crime-related evidence,” according to a report from the Chicago Office of Inspector General.

The joke among the CPD, especially Districts with high incidents of gunfire, is that ShotSpotter is the "most expensive shell-casing finder in existence." We've personally been on the scene of dozens of shootings where the camera room (assisted by ShotSpotter maps) literally walked officers over to shell casings in alleys, on street corners, in vacant lots covered in tall grass, even snow banks.

If you want to argue that the tens of millions of dollars spent to save the lives of around 100 people a year would be better spent elsewhere, you aren't going to get much of an argument from us - those 100 people are usually useless gangbangers, dope dealers and assorted fiends that wouldn't be missed. But making up stories doesn't do your credibility nay favors.

Speaking of favors, do yourself one and head over to the HeyJackass.com merchandise site to check out the new "Walkie-Talkie on a Stick" t-shirts. It helps defray their operating costs.

Who You Gonna Believe?

The politicians who have a vested interest in not seeing their program fail? Or the lady who runs the system and has access to most of the actual numbers?

• Ahead of the first anniversary of the end of cash bail in Illinois, Cook County’s clerk of court released a statistic that mystified other stakeholders in the county justice system: She warned that three out of four unconfined defendants have failed to show up for court dates over the past year.

  In a letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Clerk Iris Martinez wrote, “Together, we need to ensure that victims, witnesses, lawyers, judges, and police officers are not attending tens of thousands of hearings without the defendants being present.”

  Martinez said defendants have failed to appear in court for hearings in roughly 67,000 of 90,000 cases from last September — when cash bail was eliminated in Illinois — until early this month. She called for an independent analysis of what she described as a “disconcerting” trend.

Martinez lost a highly contested primary to a Prickwrinkle sycophant, so this could be a parting shot at the county machine, but the spinning by other politicians leads us to believe there might be something to her numbers. After all, we know Prickwrinkle, Dart and Evans are notorious liars.

Teamsters Fading

Remember when the Teamsters used to be the union everyone feared? 

The Outfit ran entire chapters. If you weren't negotiating contracts in an appropriately "generous" manner, they'd strangle your job site. Crossing a Teamster picket line was an open invitation to broken limbs and skulls. If you didn't join their ranks, your equipment might catch fire. And if your former president tried to stage a comeback against their wishes.....they still haven't found Jimmy Hoffa.

But now?

• For the first time in nearly three decades, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters won’t endorse a candidate in the presidential race — a blow to the Democratic Party, which has reliably received the union’s approval for years.

  The Teamsters confirmed the decision not to endorse Wednesday, as the union’s executive board met in Washington and voted on the endorsement.

See, what happened was that the Teamsters promised everyone that they were going to do top-to-bottom survey of their membership and make the endorsement based upon the outcome. The result?

• Trump 60%, Kackler 35%, other/undecided 5%

That was kind of embarrassing, so they ran an extensive phone survey instead, calling union stewards, union halls, the reliable political class ever-present in a union. That result?

• Trump 60%, Kackler 35%, other/undecided 5%

Knowing that if they endorsed Trump based on their members' votes, the blue state governors would start making life difficult for them, they took the cowards way out and endorsed no one, claiming neither side represented their members' interests....which is a lie. 

But they did release the results of the survey. It's all over the place. And they'll probably pay a price for that at the next union election.

But in the meantime:

• Why is the Horse on the logo for the Teamsters? Only animal that can sleep standing up
• How may Teamsters does it take to change a light bulb? Three, you got a problem with that?
• What do you call a Teamster in a 3 piece suit? The Defendant.  

Crimesha Sued

This was nearly a year ago:

• Two Chicago police officers accused of shooting an unarmed man and then lying about it were acquitted by a judge Thursday.

  Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso were within their rights to protect themselves when they opened fire, wounding 23-year-old Miguel Medina twice on July 22, 2022, Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood ruled.

  “The officers were not the aggressors,” Flood said, stating it was Medina and a juvenile who approached the their vehicle.

  “I find both officers acted within reason in firing their weapons under these particular circumstances,” the judge said following a two-day bench trial.

Now, a lawsuit has been filed against Crimesha and her toadies for Civil Rights violations and attempting to railroad two cops for being shot at:

• Lawsuit link here

We're trying to see if there's a live link to the entire suit - it's about twenty pages long, so we can't post it as photos - but it's interesting reading to see how Crimesha's office lied in front of the Grand Jury to secure an indictment that was bound to fail at trial.

Kommie Kackler

Don't be caught on the wrong side of this bull$hit:

• As San Francisco's district attorney, Kamala Harris told legal gun owners in her community that authorities could "walk into" their homes to inspect whether they were storing their firearms properly under a new law she helped draft.

  "We're going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs," Harris told a group of reporters in May 2007.

  The remarks came during a press conference introducing legislation that Harris helped draft, which sought to impose penalties for gun owners who fail to store their firearms properly at home.

  The bill, which at the time had just been introduced to the city's board of supervisors, was ultimately signed into law a few months later by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing.

This is still the law in San Francisco, and Newsom is waiting in the wings for (A) a spot in the Kackler's administration or (B) his shot to run in four-to-eight years.

He Needs the Money

The Slum Times asking the important question:

• Elected city officials are slated to receive a 4.1% raise next year, though Mayor Brandon Johnson has so far declined to say whether he plans to take the pay bump as the city stares down a nearly $1 billion budget gap.

  A spokesman for Johnson said he has “nothing to share at this time.” Spokespersons for City Clerk Anna Valencia and City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin did not respond to requests for comment on whether they’re taking the raise, as they did last year. The raise is tied to the rate of inflation, and each year city officials are given the opportunity to opt out of the automatic increase.

  At least two City Council members — progressive Alds. Byron Sigcho-Lopez and Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez — told WBEZ they are foregoing the raise. They were the lone alderpersons to decline it last year.

After all, Conehead has (had?) overdue water bills not too long ago, and someone has to pay all those red light camera tickets his motorcade racks up. And lord knows maintaining two residences (city and suburbs) can get expensive....and maybe two families.

Proven Cat BBQ Video

The legacy media did what the legacy media always does:

• calls a government official
• gets a statement that nothing has been reported to them
• runs with their "fake news" saying "no proof" and "no knowledge"

Meanwhile, we posted a police report stating there were ducks and geese being hunted, killed and eaten. Granted, that isn't proof, but it's certainly not "no proof." It's the starting point for an investigation.

The new media (blogs, social media, start-ups like CWB) did actual footwork:

• they were sent a video
• they traveled to Ohio
• they located the exact barbecue on the back porch of the building in the video
• they interviewed the neighbors who said, "Yep, the occupants were cooking stray cats."

Here's part of the report:

• Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”

  We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. “It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.”

  We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.

And there are links to the pictures of the cats being cooked. We won't post the actual pictures, but they're out there.

This occurred in Dayton (thirty minutes from Springfield) and it was immigrants from Congo (not Haiti) but the legacy media won't even do anything aside from deliberately omitting information because it would cast a bad light on democrat illegal alien policies. 

Up until a few decades ago, the US used to export horses to France for food. In Japan, people eat all manner of raw fish, much of it still twitching. And don't even get us started on China and Southeast Asian "wet markets." They didn't stop eating cats and dogs in Haiti recently - why pretend they didn't bring those cultural habits along with them to Ohio?

Juicy Still Free, Still Lying

You think he'd be happy in a prison shower setting:

• Lawyers for Jussie Smollett asked the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn a jury’s 2021 guilty verdict that found the actor lied to Chicago police when he falsely claimed he was the victim of a hate crime.

  During the actor’s trial, special prosecutors accused Smollett of staging the attack for publicity because he was unhappy with his salary for his role on the hit television show “Empire” and was attempting to launch a music career.

  The jury found the actor guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct, and he was sentenced to 30 months of probation, with the first 150 days to be served at Cook County Jail.

  At the heart of Smollett’s argument is whether the Cook County state’s attorney’s office had earlier entered into a binding agreement not to prosecute Smollett because he voluntarily agreed to forfeit his $10,000 bond and perform community service. Defense attorney Nenye Uche told the justices Tuesday that because Smollett’s attorneys and the government reached the deal together, it should be considered a contractual non-prosecution agreement — regardless of whether that term had been used in court.

The real trial ought to have included the fact that Tina Chen (Mrs Obama's fixer) called Crimesha (worst SA ever) and conspired to get Juicy off on a plea bargain that wouldn't have flown anywhere else and conceal the entire proceeding from the public.

But that would have involved a lot of politically connected people.

Be Careful Out There

Just reading this description makes us cringe:

• A Chicago police officer discharged their weapon during the pursuit of a gunman who was arrested Monday night in the city’s South Shore neighborhood.

  Around 10:15 p.m., officers were responding to calls of a person with a gun in the 7100 block of South Jeffery Boulevard and approached a gunman who pointed their weapon at officers and began running away, according to police.

  During a pursuit, an officer discharged their weapon but didn’t strike the gunman, police said.

  The gunman was eventually taken into custody and a gun was recovered, officials said. He was taken to an area hospital for minor injuries.

At least when Camden was releasing statements (and not posting Department propaganda on that "blog" he fronted), he used decent terminology.

What Have You Done for Me Lately?

The DNC success is now a distant memory:

• A weekend of downtown revelry tied to Mexican Independence Day turned into a nightmare for downtown residents, who fought their way to designated checkpoints only to be turned away by Chicago police officers.

  Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) said his inbox was flooded with emails from angry residents. Social media and websites like “Next Door” were filled with complaints from residents who followed all ground rules outlined by Chicago police, but still couldn’t reach their homes in Streeterville, River North or the Loop.

  After last year’s gridlock, the city promised to do a better job of “screening downtown residents and medical employees trying to get to their jobs at Northwestern and Lurie Children’s Hospital” and to make it easier for those people to “get through the roadblocks and checkpoints,” Hopkins said.

  But it didn’t happen. One resident, turned away from a checkpoint on their way home, said they slept in their car.

Assorted social media showed firework mortars going off in the middle of downtown, tens of dozens of cars pulled over on I-55 by McCormick Place blocking two lanes of traffic and partying on the highway, along with the usual street "takeovers."

Whatever the plan was, it sucked and was poorly executed. Obviously, when the DNC was in town, no expense was spared and pretty much any needed authority was exercised to maintain order. But with the spotlight off, Larritorious reverted to form and backed off any real enforcement efforts in case he got called on the carpet.

A number of comments suggested that the Mexican Independence "celebration" needs to go the way of the South Side Irish Parade and take a hiatus for a few years. The trouble here is that there is no central authority controlling the impromptu parades, takeovers and firework displays downtown. The city tried to organize a downtown event to alleviate the illegal celebrants from misbehaving and it failed spectacularly. 

The only thing that gets this under control is a year or two of massive enforcement - tickets, tows, impounds and arrests.Wwhich means it won't happen for a while yet.

Feebs Blow it Again

A second assassination attempt on the former President, and the feebs knew about him again. In fact, there are dozens of questions being raised, some conspiracy-driven, but many legit that should be answered under oath:

• "known wolf" on federal radar for previous threats;
• interviews with Newsweek and the NY Times as some sort of "recruiter" for Americans and other foreign fighters to travel to Ukraine;
• ties to the Azov Brigade in the Ukraine, a hotbed of nazi-ideology;
• flew from Hawaii to Florida a few days ago and managed to obtain a rifle in that time - even as a convicted felon;
• spent 12 hours in his sniper "nest" outside of the golf course, even though the golf outing was an OTR (off the record) trip, meaning it wasn't broadcast on press releases or websites
  

All this is and was known by various federal agencies, and the special agent in charge of the investigation is now known to have posted numerous anti-Trump articles on his social media, which superiors told him to scrub so he could be promoted without someone raising a stink.

And what are the feebs busy doing instead of preventing assassination attempts?

• posting billboards in Springfield, Ohio - in Hatian Creole - asking for tips on "racists" complaining about their local schools, hospitals, government services, housing, being overrun....along with the complaints about geese and ducks and (maybe) pets being eaten.

And that's when they aren't hassling citizens for daring to exercise politically protected Free Speech - this is from New Hampshire:

• Jeremy Kauffman, an entrepreneur and Libertarian political activist, was visited at his home Monday by two men claiming to be FBI agents regarding an unspecified X post he made. When he asks them who they are, the bald person claims he’s “Donald from the FBI in New Hampshire,” which understandably does not satisfy Kauffman, who wants full identification.

  The bald man then demands Kauffman stop recording the encounter, which Kauffman refuses to do, citing his 1st Amendment right. He then asks the younger-looking and full-haired person for his name. He declines while also asking Kauffman to stop recording, which Kauffman again refuses.

  Kauffman next lays down an ultimatum: Either show me your name and ID or walk away. The full-haired alleged agent sheepishly says they want to talk to him while the bald man attempts to pass off his supposed badge as identification. After the bald guy finally states the purpose of their visit, which is to speak to Kauffman about a post he made online, Kauffman turns the tables on them and embarrasses them further.

All sorts of video and pictures of the encounter at the link.

The fbi needs to be disbanded along Homeland Security. These wanna-be Stasi should be treated as mere prostitutes and unworthy of organizational trust any longer.