Officer Injured at Street Takeover

Another one of those incidents where tens of dozens of cars along with hundreds of morons "take over" an intersection by sheer force of numbers and break all sorts of traffic and public safety laws....with zero consequences:

• A Chicago police officer conducting traffic control was hit by a car in a hit-and-run early Friday in South Shore on the South Side.

  Around 1:30 a.m., the officer was conducting traffic control for a large gathering in the 7500 block of South Phillips Avenue when they were struck in the leg by a white sedan that fled the scene, police said.

  The officer was treated at the scene and released, officials said. No one was in custody.
  

Our sources say he wasn't treated at the scene - Beat 421 drove him to the hospital. But why are we conducting "traffic control" for an illegal display of assholery?

Remember when the city bought all those spike strips and told everyone they'd put a stop to this unlawful and dangerous behavior? They even started a "special unit" and sent them to training. And....nothing. Not even a hint of a plan. 

Is there a way to stop it all that doesn't rely on a massive and instant deployment of manpower and equipment? Something that deters future behavior? Do we need to return to the hydrant key method?

Well, Something is True

A few people sent us this (click for larger versions):

Interesting to say the least.

Is This Panic Porn?

Regular visitors know we supported Vallas in the last election. We weren't shy about it, knowing what we did about Conehead's true masters. But how much of this social media post is reality and how much is making mountains out of molehills?

First up, there's no way Conehead could get a cut that massive through even the "progressive" caucus.

Secondly, before a single cop gets laid off, every civilian has to be removed....and then those jobs have to be filled by....police officers, so already short watches and Districts would be even shorter, crime would run rampant, and we'd finally get to see the vigilante squads we've been hoping for.

Crime is Down

Down nearly negative-three-hundred-percent!

• A woman was shot in an Edgewater alley this afternoon, Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) said in an email. Shootings in the neighborhood are now up 300% compared to last year.

  Chicago police responded to calls of shots fired in the 5900 block of North Kenmore around 3:20 p.m. and found the woman with a gunshot wound to the leg, Manaa-Hoppenworth stated. She said the shooting occurred in the alley between Kenmore and Winthrop.

  [...] The shooting occurred just a few hours after Manaa-Hoppenworth said she was “outraged and disheartened” by “recent gun violence incidents” in her ward. So far this year, 20 people have been shot in Edgewater, up from five in all of last year and ten during 2022.

If you're remembering aldercreature Manaa-Hoppenworth's name as someone whose been roasted before, here's why:

• Just five months after announcing she would no longer talk about crime in her constituent newsletters because doing so is racist and fuels an “inaccurate public perception about crime rates,” Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) reversed course this morning.

  Calling her office “outraged and disheartened by recent gun violence incidents that have taken place in the ward,” Manaa-Hoppenworth laid out her “Safe48 Health & Safety Plan.”

  When she banned crime topics from her newsletter in May, the first-term alderman tried to drape her decision in a scholarly cloak by linking to a couple of studies that she said supported her thinking, including one from the University of Tehran. Anyone who wants to know about crime in the ward has to opt-in to receive separate emails. Presumably, they’re the racists who live in her corner of Edgewater and Uptown.

So by her own definition, Manaa-Hoppenworth is now a racist and is fueling an "inaccurate public perception about crime rates."

No word if she is one of the fourteen aldercreatures demanding a return of ShotSpotter and a return to fully funding the CPD, along with re-funding those 400 spots Conehead eliminated.

 

Haha....This is Priceless

When things appear to be going well, there's money to burn on all sorts of pet projects:

• tens of thousands of illegal aliens
• reparation "task forces"
• refurbishing the mayor's wife's office
• massive redundant oversight of police

But when things get ugly:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to cut 456 police vacancies would decimate spending and staff within the office leading the Chicago Police Department’s court-ordered reform push, raising renewed questions about his commitment to getting out from under a slow-moving federal consent decree.

  Johnson’s $17.3 billion 2025 budget increased CPD’s annual budget slightly, to $2.1 billion, but only to cover the 5% raises Johnson gave rank-and-file officers when he extended and sweetened the deal negotiated by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot.

  The vacant CPD positions proposed for elimination are more than half of the 743 vacant positions Johnson wants to cut citywide to chip away at a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall next year. It’s the second straight year Johnson has eliminated hundreds of police vacancies. The mayor’s budget also includes a $300 million property tax increase facing stiff headwinds in an emboldened City Council.

  The Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform would take a major hit, with its budget shrinking by 45% — to about $3.7 million, down from about $6.7 million this year. The staff would be cut from 65 budgeted employees to 28 next year.

So it would seem:

• someone in a position to make decisions noticed the staffing at "Constitutional Policing" couldn't be justified as crime spiraled out of control, Conehead's bodyguard detail kept expanding and beat cars were going unmanned;
  
• they also noticed that "reform" is just another name for "funneling money to friends and family of connected people via crooked contracts" starting a few supernintendos ago;

The usual grifters (Robert Boik for starters) are whining that politicians aren't being serious about "reform" as they see the gravy train coming to an end:

• Robert Boik was fired as the office’s executive director in August 2022 after he criticized then-Police Supt. David Brown’s decision to reassign 46 officers under his supervision. Johnson’s cuts would be equally devastating and could slow to a crawl what has already been a painfully slow march toward police reform.

  “Reform doesn’t happen without investment,” Boik, now senior vice president of public safety for the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, warned Thursday. CPD’s overhaul, he added, hinges on technological advancements and hiring project managers and data specialists who can lead the department through the consent decree and track its compliance.

A typical tool who's made a living off of a "reform" train that never seemed destined to end. And a "reform" train that was never actually a Consent Decree....the federal government didn't authorized a dime for it and the Illinois/Chicago pols had to hunt up a retired federal judge to pretend to sign off on it. He got paid, too.

And then the money started to run out.

It Was a No Brainer

So thankfully, someone with a brain finally pulled the trigger on charges (no pun intended):

• A man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man walking to a West Ridge synagogue is now also facing terrorism and hate crime charges, Chicago law enforcement officials announced Thursday.

  New evidence indicates the 22-year-old suspect, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, “planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of Jewish faith” when he attacked the 39-year-old victim in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue Saturday morning, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters at a news conference.

Hey, and a bonus Terrorism charge!

This after a pathetic press conference in which Snelling floundered about with excuses and then passed the buck to Ursetti, who was almost as bad at a live presser as Kamala Harris. It merely reinforced the perception that CPD's exempt staff are pretty much incompetent and next-to-useless without their puppet masters puling the strings. 

Which is hilarious when you know that Conehead is himself a puppet of the CTU. Prickwrinkle is the shadow mayor.

Nice Pick Conehead

Good lord, is there anything that Conehead can touch that doesn't turn to shit?

• A week since he was sworn into the office, the Chicago school board president resigned Thursday over controversial social media posts. The now-former Chicago Board of Education President Rev. Mitchell Johnson apologized for the posts Wednesday, but more troubling information surfaced Thursday, leading to additional calls for him to step down.

  Conspiracy theories involving 9/11 and anti-women posts were enough for Mayor Brandon Johnson to ask for Rev. Johnson's resignation. The move comes after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and close to 40 alderpersons demanded Rev. Johnson's resignation, with many asking why the mayor appointed him to begin with.

  Chicago Council Members are demanding to know how Rev. Johnson was vetted to become Mayor Johnson's pick to be Chicago's school board president.

Simple - Conehead isn't doing the vetting. The CTU is, the CTU is communist, communists are historically and notoriously antisemitic.

One might also ask why the media completely failed to vet Conehead for the spot he occupies.

It also brings to the forefront the complete absence of a mechanism to recall an office-holder who is entirely incompetent and unqualified at their positions, that voters are stuck with them for an additional three years.

Election Day Preparations?

We aren't hearing about any.

Our readers are commenting that there don't appear to be any.

Even our downtown sources haven't seen anything resembling a plan in case of riots.

It appears no one is even considering the past history of 2016 when the unexpected happened.

Does that mean the unexpected isn't expected to happen again?

UPDATE: Washington DC is boarding up:

• Boards are going up in Washington, DC, less than a week from the election, at it seems some businesses are anticipating riots on election night.

  Andrew Leyden, a freelance photographer in DC, said he caught wind that some in DC were beginning the process of boarding up, so he decided to check it out himself. Indeed, he found that the back entrance of the Post Office near the White House has been covered with plywood boards, and workers are currently boarding up the front side of the office as well.

  The McDonald’s next to the White House also has plywood going up over the building, as well as the building next to it. Video shows workers actively putting up the boards.

panty-fa is getting it's marching orders from the democrats.