WEP Passes....On to the White House

Finally undoing the damage of four decades:

• The Senate passed the Social Security Fairness Act to deliver higher Social Security benefits to millions of public sector retirees.

  The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for a signature after the Senate cleared the legislation just after midnight on Saturday by a vote of 70-26.

  The legislation to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset has been reintroduced each Congress for decades but had not received a vote in either chamber until just this year. The House previously passed the bill in November.

There's scheduled to be an impromptu parade over in Niles later, into St. Adelbert's Cemetery, where retirees will drink, sing, and relieve themselves on the grave of Rostenkowski....so much so that grass won't grow there for at least a decade.

Nice Contributions Conehead

The media, which never holds a democrat to account for corruption, continues to (A) make a single mention of an incident and then (B) never follows up on it:

• The top executive of a food and beverage concessionaire at O’Hare and Midway airports — whose business operations there are regulated by City Hall — contributed $1,000 to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign fund, elections records show.

  Mayoral aides won’t discuss whether the contribution from Hyde Park Hospitality CEO Marc Brooks to Friends of Brandon Johnson in August 2023 — months after the mayor was sworn in to office — violates an executive order that bans city contractors from giving to a mayor’s campaign and, if so, what consequences the Chicago company might face.

  Signed in 2011 as then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office, the ethics order, which remains in effect, prohibits “city contractors, owners of city contractors, spouses or domestic partners of owners of city contractors, subcontractors to a city contractor on a city contract, owners of subcontractors to a city contractor on a city contract, and spouses or domestic partners of owners of subcontractors to a city contractor on a city contract from making contributions of any amount to the mayor.”

Why would they face consequences? They got their contract, they made the required "kickback" in the form of a campaign contribution, they'll make others and get more contracts. It's not like they're Madigan or Burke steering legal work to their connected law firms, who then make sure the guy whose name is on the door (the rainmaker) gets his usual partnership bonus due to all the money walking in the side door.

Another One

Maybe Conehead was on to something? No one cares....so why spend the money on ShotSpotter when he could just give it to the CTU?

• A 24-year-old man was found shot in a South Side alley on Thursday afternoon, police said, but CPD dispatchers did not receive any calls about gunfire in the area before he was discovered. The shooting occurred on a block that was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson terminated the city’s relationship with the company on September 23.

  In a media statement, CPD said someone in a vehicle fired shots toward the victim in the 400 block of East 109th Street around 2:34 p.m. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to his chest and was listed in critical condition at Christ Hospital, police said.
  

Of course, the argument could also be made that the hood doesn't care about educating their kids either, so why give the money away to the CTU? Better to just buy Mrs Stacie Conehead more office furniture or light the cash on fire.

CTU Scrooge

Along with not actually teaching kids to read, write or do arithmetic, one teacher is actively ruining Christmas for students:

• Don't know if this qualifies for your blog but since alot of cops and firemen live in Edison Park, it affects alot of your readers. There is a teacher of 6th grade at Edison Park Elementary who took it upon themselves to tell the children that there is no Santa Clause and that any parent telling them that there was is a liar. Now, I agree that 6th grade is a little advanced to believe but how the holy fuck does this CPS jerkoff get off doing that to kids? Taking that duty from the parents and making them look like lying assholes? Allegedly, there were many bewildered children and some were brought to tears. I don't have the pricks name but sure you could easily find out and make him famous!

$5 says this goof lists pronouns and voted for the Kackler.

Juicy Gets Another Win

He won't have to give any of that OnlyFans money to his co-conspirators:

• Two brothers who helped stage a hate crime attack against actor Jussie Smollett won’t be able to collect damages from Smollett’s lawyers for defamation, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.

  Since shortly after Smollett reported he had been attacked by two men near his downtown apartment in 2019, brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo have claimed they were hired to pretend to beat up the former “Empire” star while shouting racist, homophobic slurs at the gay, Black actor.

  That led to criminal charges against Smollett for lying to police, and to a trial where the brothers became star witnesses – and stars of a documentary about the hoax.

  But that meant the pair could not claim they were defamed by Smollett’s attorney, Tina Glandian, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland wrote in an order dismissing the case.

  “The ways in which plaintiffs voluntarily injected themselves into this public controversy are myriad,” Rowland wrote, listing among other things the Osundairos hiring a publicist to field media requests immediately after their arrest and negotiating a deal for a documentary within weeks of Smollett’s arrest.

"...voluntarily injected...."

Paging the Keesing Bandit.

Can this entire episode finally disappear now?

Berwyn Shooting

A quick response by Berwyn PD results in a shootout with a wanted subject:

• A man who was wanted for a triple homicide in downstate Illinois was killed during a shootout Wednesday night with Berwyn police, the suburban police department said.

  The suspect has been identified as John R. Lyons, 24, of Westchester, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Lyons was shot and killed in a shootout with officers about two hours later Berwyn.

  Officers responded to a call of a man with a gun in the 1800 block of Home Avenue in Berwyn just before midnight, then trailed Lyons as he forced his way into a home in the 1800 block of Wenonah Avenue, according to a news release from Berwyn police.

  Lyons allegedly fatally shot two dogs at the residence on Wenonah before fleeing back to Home Avenue.

Strangely (and allegedly) this triple murderer showed up at the home of someone else in the news these past few weeks, who just made an appearance in court for Battery after being doxxed and a goofy Karen showing up at his front door:

• Nick Fuentes, a far-right streamer known for his racist, sexist and antisemitic views, claimed Thursday that he was the target of a “would-be assassin” who was fatally shot by police near his home in Berwyn after allegedly killing three people downstate.

  Fuentes made the jarring claim shortly after his first hearing on a battery charge that stems from a bizarre confrontation last month outside the home, which had become a target for his critics after his address was leaked online in response to a controversial social media post he made.

So all of this "conditioning" by the media that violence is an appropriate response to offensive speech and conduct (think the insurance CEO) has introduced a new and disturbing trend of doxxing and hunting down those with whom you disagree. This isn't go to turn out well when someone on the other side decides media types are fair game, too.

Don't Demonize

Remember back when Conehead said that?

These are CWB articles from just the past few days:

• A 16-year-old boy is charged with committing four robberies on CTA trains and platforms earlier this year, police say. Chicago police arrested the boy yesterday in the 1100 block of South Hamilton, which is where the county’s juvenile justice center is located, suggesting he may have other matters pending.
• Prosecutors have filed charges in connection with three carjackings and robberies that occurred over two days in June, Chicago police said. The accused is a 14-year-old boy.
• A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday to face charges in seven recent robberies of CTA passengers along the Red Line.

Sure seems like a little bit of demonization isn't out of line.

Tick Tock....Tick Tock

The clock is running out:

• The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a bill that could restore Social Security benefits to more than three million Americans, including hardworking folks here in Western Pennsylvania.

  The Senate has until Friday to vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, before the clock resets and the process begins all over again. If passed, it would eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).

We're writing this Thursday evening and all the press is about the failed Continuing Resolution disaster that turned into a gigantic pork-filled mess of censorship funding, congressional pay raises and a new NFL stadium fund for Washington DC before collective outrage derailed it.

So now the focus is on preventing a government "shutdown" and we're wondering if the WEP vote is going to be tanked as collateral damage.

Maybe it all changes in the dead of night - that's when these things seem to be resolved lately.

Dart said What Now?

If Tommy Dart recognizes failure, something is up:

• Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart wants to get out of the electronic monitoring business. He says because of a provision of the Illinois SAFE-T Act, he is unable to properly ensure public safety.

  There is some pushback on the move, and it's coming from the Chief Judge in Cook County.

  The Cook County Sheriff is charged with locking up pre-trial defendants who judges deem too dangerous to release. But, there are another 1,500 who are sent home with electronic monitoring bracelets that allow the sheriff's department to track their movements 24 hours a day. Those defendants are often allowed to leave their homes for school, work or other activities. The sheriff uses geofencing to make sure those individuals stay within their allowed areas.

Here's the kicker:

• However, Sheriff Dart says defendants, who are allowed two days a week to move freely under the SAFE-T Act, are using that freedom to commit crimes.

  "And sure enough, we've had over 200 people charged, mind you, with new crimes, gun offenses, you know, shootings, you name it, and those are just the ones we know of how many other ones we don't know," Dart said. "The devices are off."

  Technically, defendants' movements on their "free" days are still monitored as the sheriff's department, but the alerts to the sheriff's department are silenced.

If you needed any more proof that democrats are morons, this should seal the deal for you. The rest of us caught on years ago, but even you short-bus riders should be able to see that granting habitual criminals a 48-hour open pass on EVERYTHING....well, it certainly amazing that the "media" didn't blast this loophole all over the place and make dems pay a price at the polls.

Oh wait.....

Is Dart on the way out? Failing upwards or running afoul of the Prickwrinkle Machine?

Indiana Executes Scumbag

At least there's still a state in the Midwest that executes their criminals. Too bad it took fifteen years:

• An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister's fiancé decades ago was put to death early Wednesday, marking the state's first execution in 15 years.

  Joseph Corcoran, 49, was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. CST at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, the Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement. Corcoran was scheduled to be executed with the powerful sedative pentobarbital, but the state agency's statement did not mention that drug. Corcoran's execution was the 24th in the U.S. this year.

Those four weren't his first victims though:

• While jailed for those killings, Corcoran reportedly bragged about fatally shooting his parents in 1992 in northern Indiana's Steuben County. He was charged in their killings but acquitted.
  

The usual bleeding hearts objected:

• Religious groups, disability rights advocates and others have opposed his execution. About a dozen people, some holding candles, held a vigil late Tuesday to pray outside the prison, which is surrounded by barbed wire fences in a residential area about 60 miles (90 kilometers) east of Chicago.

  "We can build a society without giving governmental authorities the right to execute their own citizens," said Bishop Robert McClory of the Diocese of Gary, who led the prayers.

  Other death penalty opponents also demonstrated outside the prison Tuesday night, some holding signs that read "Execution Is Not The Solution" and "Remember The Victims But Not With More Killing."

It's not a "killing" when you put down a rabid dog. It's a mercy to the dog, and society as a whole. 

It needs to return here.

Bad Omen?

They're tearing down the old Tribune printing plant to make way for the casino, so no permanent harm done, but this isn't how a typical demolition is supposed to go:

• Construction debris from the ongoing demolition of the former Chicago Tribune Freedom Center fell into the North Branch of the Chicago River last weekend. The work began in late August to pave the way for the $1.7 billion Bally’s Chicago Casino on the 30-acre River West site.

  Videos shared on social media showed a crane bring down a wall, causing white granular material to spill into the river and bring protective netting down with it. As it hit the water’s surface, the debris produced a dusty cloud and then settled, floating on the river as cranes ground to a halt.

  Operations were halted immediately Saturday afternoon and cleanup efforts started that evening. Bally’s identified the debris as non-hazardous perlite, a volcanic glass used in construction. Using row boats and skimmers, a cleanup crew collected the floating bits and removed the big chunks of debris by Sunday evening.

Slow news day.....sergeant results came in the email today though. Let's hear some scores!

Use Your Eyes

A couple of commentators took issue with our contention yesterday that the Wisconsin shooter wasn't actually a female as the media reported. The pearl-clutchers were offended that we would dare to make such an accusation in the face of media reports to the contrary. Well, let's take a look at it:

1. we were trained observers for nearly three decades and we recognize patterns;
2. we don't trust a word the media says;
3. we have photos and the manifesto from "her" social media sites via third parties and while we won't post them (because Google would shut us down if we did), they're enough to make us question any story being pushed by the media - "her" online handle was "crossixir" which might be a clue - if "she" wasn't full on trans, "she" was a cross dresser on the verge;
   
4. we recognize that Madison, Wisconsin is a hotbed of lib-tarded alphabet person advocacy and they'd never left the truth get in the way of a narrative....or concealing the truth;

And finally, how do you tell everyone the shooter is trans without telling everyone the shooter is trans? You let the chief of police have a press conference:

• The police chief investigating Monday’s deadly Wisconsin Christian school shooting is adamant that the 15-year-old killer’s gender identity isn’t “important at all.”

  Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes dismissed concerns about Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow’s identity when asked about early rumors that she was possibly transgender.

  “I don’t know whether Natalie was transgender or not. And, quite frankly, I don’t think that’s important at all,” Barnes said of Rupnow, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a teacher and a student.

  “I don’t think whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may want to identify,” he stated.

Except that it has a massive bearing on any legit investigation, including if any drugs, hormone blockers, anti-depressants, etc might have influenced the murderous behavior seen in so many recent shootings.

 By the way, was anyone else amazed at the stupidity coming out of the White House today? Where Biden called for an "assault weapons ban" in a shooting where the killer used a pistol? And then (this really gets us) demands people face the full penalty of law when violating weapon laws, after he just pardoned his own son for not following weapon laws?

CFD No Confidence Vote

Trouble brewing on the fire side of things:

• Ring Camera Marital Affair Melt Down Aficionado Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt got a No Confidence Vote against her by Local 2 for her agenda of DEI hiring and promoting instead of sealing a new contract and getting spare apparatus up to par and eliminating the constant need to downgrade ALS companies to running emergency medical services to the ground. Let us all be reminded she doesn’t live in the city and the footage of her fit of passion over an extra marital affair exists. Now she’s been sued personally for holding off on promoting qualified and seasoned Lieutenants to rank of Captain because they don’t have the proper amount melanin in their skin.

The ring doorbell camera we wrote about back in January. The legacy media refused to report on it, as they will refuse to report on this continuing train wreck of a commissioner.

The Contrarian will though:

This is why the media can't die off fast enough.

Nice Law License Crimesha

So since Crimesha couldn't be bothered to take the minimum effort to maintain her law license (barely an hour a month AND it could have been done by a subordinate (wink wink) with no one ever finding out), are actual convictions in jeopardy?

• Former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is no longer authorized to practice law because she failed to keep her license current by providing proof of completing mandatory continuing education requirements, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

  Foxx is “unauthorized to practice law as [the] attorney has not demonstrated required MCLE compliance,” according to the former top prosecutor’s entry on the ARDC website. MCLE stands for Minimum Continuing Legal Education.

  “This means she couldn’t be bothered to spend a little more than an hour a month watching videos that her own office provided,” said a veteran attorney and former assistant state’s attorney.

This isn't a difficult task - it's almost as simple as our e-learning, probably less so, because we have actual tests at the end of our sessions that have minimal passing grades established. But as with anything concerning Crimesha, unwilling, unable and unqualified was the order of the day, as long as the Soros money kept flowing and the jail stayed empty.

More Crime by Illegals

Doing the crimes that Americans won't do:

• A Venezuelan migrant, charged with murdering another migrant, is hospitalized after being shot by yet another migrant who was angered by the killing, officials say. Both shootings occurred inside the same Washington Park apartment building where a 911 call reporting that armed migrants had taken over the complex was declared unfounded and decried as racism by mainstream news outlet “experts” in September.

  Carlos Reinaldo Maribal-Carvajal, 24, robbed and murdered Peter Sangronis-Medina inside the building in the 6100 block of South Martin Luther King on November 11 and then hid the body in a trash bin, prosecutors said this weekend.

  Maribal-Carvajal robbed Sangronis-Medina of a firearm and then used the weapon to kill Sangronis-Medina inside the victim’s apartment, a felony complaint said. Maribal-Carvajal allegedly left and later returned to the apartment to confirm Sangronis-Medina was dead. He then dragged Sangronis-Medina’s body outside and hurled it over the second-floor balcony into a “deliberately placed dumpster,” hoping to keep the murder from being discovered, the complaint said.

Seems the callers were right about armed illegals taking over. Who would have thought the media lied about everything in the service of getting the Kackler elected?

Meet Me in St. Louis

An amusing thread over on Reddit where someone driving through St Louis saw a CPD squad car parked in the driveway of a run down house.

• link here

The squad car is #2013, which marked cars were never that low. The paint scheme seems slightly off and it appears to be a Tahoe (maybe?)  which haven't been used in years. Plus, any squad cars sold second hand always had the decals and markings sandblasted off.

We assume this is a movie/TV show prop, but we dodn't really care about that - the comments are funny as heck and you ought to go and read them. We don't think you need to sign up for anything - we didn't.

Good Lord

So who are we going to blame for this one (if true)?

• Speaking of lowering the standards… SCC you should look into the gun that went missing from the 006 tact office during the 006 district buy back a few months ago…that now has been recovered from a deceased gang banger who just so happens to be dating one of the tact officers sisters… how’d he get that missing gun? Weird huh

Well hey, at least the gun turned up....eventually. And no one important got killed.

 Nice hiring Conehead.

Finally, a Budget

Fees and fines through the wazoo....but spared a property tax hike for the moment:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $17.3 billion budget — minus a $68.5 million property tax increase — was finally approved by the City Council on Monday, but the political rifts it caused will linger, endangering Johnson’s future agenda.

  The co-chairs of a 19-member Progressive Caucus that usually is the bedrock of Johnson’s support delivered that message loud and clear prior to the 27-23 vote on a budget that holds the line on property taxes, but includes $165.5 million in other taxes, fines and fees.

Some of the increases:

• The mayor’s revised budget also will hit Chicagoans’ wallets in other ways, such as adding an amusement tax on streaming services; higher taxes on cloud computing, business software and equipment leases; and higher taxes on parking and downtown congestion.

  The city also hopes to generate $11.4 million from “automated speed limit enforcement,” presumably by adding more speed cameras in wards where alderpersons allow it, and $4.6 million by raising an array of license fees, transfer fees and fines, as well as the cost of residential parking permits.

  Another late change to the 2025 budget: $10 million in “cost recovery” by charging organizers of ticketed events for police and traffic services and by better scheduling those events to reduce overtime costs.

And once again, the CPS property tax assessment is going to be maxed out again, despite enrollment declining again.

"Escalation" - Ya Think?

The judge saw an issue....but didn't do much about it:

• In May 2021, as U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall sentenced Gad Hughes to five years in federal prison for tossing a stolen machine gun from a car as he sped from police on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 100 mph, she told him she was worried about “an escalation of behavior” in his criminal history, which included drug dealing and gun cases.

  Minutes before sentencing, Hughes, 29, told Kendall he was “ready to change now and be a better man for my kids and family.”

  “I’m at a point in age where if I don’t wake up now, I never will, and I refuse to let that happen for the sake of my life, my future, and my kids and their future,” Hughes said.

  Currently on parole for that machine gun case, Hughes is back in custody, accused of shooting and killing a 62-year-old man on Thanksgiving afternoon.

Project Exile is the only solution,

And a federal death penalty.

As Usual

School shooting in Wisconsin, lame stream media claiming it's a female teen shooter.

Hint: It's not.

But the anti-gun people are out in force. Instead of pointing out we protect our politicians and money in the banks with armed guards, they demand everyone give up the easiest means of self-defense.

How many schools could we protect if Conehead didn't have one-hundred-forty officers watch his dumb ass? Rahm and Shortshanks had barely twenty-five (two shifts of 12 with a sergeant in charge).

Oh wait, the CTU wanted officers out of schools.

Now There's No Tax Hike?

Expect layoffs for non-police positions and probably a full stop hiring freeze for CPD:

• When the Chicago City Council reconvenes Monday afternoon, the big question is will Mayor Brandon Johnson have enough support to call for a vote on the city's budget? And will there even be a new budget proposal to vote on in place? Political observers say not likely.

  The questions come as sources told ABC7 Sunday that Mayor Johnson's latest budget proposal will not include property tax hike.

  When Mayor Brandon Johnson abruptly adjourned Friday's City Council meeting, he did so to avoid what would have been an embarrassing defeat as his second budget proposal failed to attract the minimum 26 votes needed to pass. The mayor's $68.5 million property tax hike was still too much to stomach for too many in City Council.

We did hear one radio report that Conehead was actually thinking of eliminating a single "deputy mayor" spot, but can't seem to fin it at the moment. Someone also said Conehead is completely protecting his inner circle which is something like five times as large as Groot's or Rahm's staffing (again, this was a social media post, so we have no idea how accurate it was).

592...593...

Still sixteen days left in the year and HeyJackass.com has Chicago at 593 homicides.

Since 600 seems a given at this point, how about everyone guess what day it's actually going to occur? Add a time of occurrence as a tie-breaker.

The prize will be a fully paid subscription to the SCC blog....which is free already.

We're going to guess 22 December at 0200 hours.

Vigilante Time

Good thing this isn't New York City:

• A man who robbed a McDonald’s customer at gunpoint on the West Side was hospitalized after the restaurant’s patrons ganged up on him and beat him until Chicago police arrived, officials said. And, prosecutors claim, it was the second time in ten days that the gunman had robbed the same victim inside the same restaurant.

  The first robbery occurred on November 13 inside the McDonald’s at 5153 West Chicago Avenue. Prosecutors said Ahmod Johnson, 21, entered the restaurant and demanded a 46-year-old man’s property while showing a gun in his waistband. 

  Johnson proceeded to pistol-whip the victim and made the victim take off his pants before escaping with the man’s phone, wallet, and $500 cash, according to the state’s detention petition.

  Then, around 5:30 p.m. on November 23, Johnson returned to the restaurant, pointed a loaded handgun at the same victim, and took his cash, the petition said.

  But this robbery ended a little differently. According to a CPD report, Johnson was “tackled, held on the floor, and beaten by unknown bystanders until police arrived.”

No doubt if Crimesha was still in office, she'd be charging all those Good Samaritans for daring to .....what? West side? People  (or Folks?) 

Never mind. Well done unknown citizens.

Sgt Test Results Fixed

According to the FOP's Friday update, the old promotional list is dead and the new one is finalized. Results will be arriving in the mail next week with a sergeants' promotional class in February.

It turns out the only thing slower than California vote "counting" is Chicago "grading" a scantron test.

Air Chase

This still doesn't seem like a good idea:

• Two men are sitting in the Cook County jail, accused of carjacking an Uber Eats driver near Goose Island. And they can thank one of Chicago’s most effective apprehension partnerships: a CPD helicopter and Illinois State Police ground units.

  Prosecutors said the 25-year-old delivery driver was targeted while sitting in his 2016 Toyota sedan in the 800 block of West Blackhawk around 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, December 8.

  According to a Chicago police report, Tayvon Andrews and David Brantley, both 18 years old, approached the car and ordered the driver out while Andrews was displaying a gun. The victim complied, and the hijackers, Brantley behind the wheel and Andrews in the passenger seat, sped away.

  It wasn’t long before CPD’s helicopter located the freshly stolen Toyota. Joined by two ISP troopers, the air and ground team pursued the hijackers until the Toyota crashed at 87th and State streets around 9:45 p.m., the police report said. The troopers arrested Andrews and Brantley at the scene and handed them over to CPD.

They still crashed, all while the helicopter was tracking/chasing them. 

And you can bet that ISP didn't just happen to be in the neighborhood - we're forbidden by General Order to parallel pursue, but is ISP? And what if ISP wrecked into an innocent passerby? The payout would come from Illinois taxpayers instead of Chicago, at least at ground level. We don't know if the chopper crew has been sued for anything like this yet, but give a lawyer a chance and they'll sue their own grandmothers.

Exchange of Gunfire

Nothing good happens after midnight:

• A man was injured after a shooting in Austin early Saturday morning, according to Chicago police.

  The man, 26, was getting out of a parked vehicle that had four others inside, including two off-duty Chicago police officers, in the 100 block of South Mayfield Avenue at 1:28 a.m. when he was shot, police said. One of the occupants of the vehicle he was getting out of shot back as the person who shot the 26-year-old fled.

  The man was taken to a nearby hospital by the off-duty officers and the two other passengers, and he is in serious condition, police said. No other injuries were reported.

Mistaken identity is what we're told. 

Stay alert.

Conehead Failure Theater

This is some raggedy-ass governing:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson called off the vote planned for Friday on his $17.3 billion 2025 spending plan, raising the odds of an unprecedented shutdown of city government in just 18 days. 

  Johnson’s decision to delay the budget vote is an acknowledgment that the spending plan that would hike property taxes by $68.5 million and increase a host of other taxes and fees by an additional $165.5 million does not have enough votes to pass the Chicago City Council, even if Johnson cast a tie-breaking vote.

  The City Council voted 32-17 to recess the meeting, causing members of the public who had planned to speak during the public comment portion of the meeting to erupt in anger.
  

And now they're talking about a government shut-down, something we don't recall ever happening in nearly six decades of residency.

But Conehead has a plan!

• However, there are more than 1,000 vacant positions in the Chicago Police Department, which accounts for nearly 46% of Chicago’s discretionary spending, that could be eliminated to save approximately $170 million, according to budget documents.

Sure! Failing to fill police vacancies while property crime is skyrocketing can only be a good idea, combined with the couple thousand cops who are maxing out over the next two years, what could possibly go wrong?

Also notice how there isn't even a whisper of a suggestion that twenty or thirty under-utilized schools could be closed and the staff redistributed (or eliminated) from consideration. Schools built in the early 20th century for 1,200 students, currently occupied by 100 students....or less.

Raggedy Ass Schooling

Don't worry, that manpower shortage isn't anything to worry about:

• There was a huge police response after a brawl at a South Side high school on Friday.

  The fight broke out before noon at the Englewood STEM High School, located at 68th and Normal.

  At least four officers were injured while responding to the fight, Chicago police said.

One hundred or more students on three different floors with pepper spray being part of the initial disturbance and pretty much the entire watch held down at the school. 

Good times.

Hopefully, all the injuries are minor and everyone is back at work before Christmas.

Biden Loves Criminals

After all he gave his son a full pardon, not just for tax evasion and weapon violations, but for eleven years worth of unknown, unconvicted and undiscovered crimes including influence peddling, acting as a foreign agent, banking violations, drug use and child porn.

So the recent issuance of nearly 40 pardons and 1,500 clemency certificates wasn't a big surprise even though it was FIVE TIMES as many as Sparklefarts did on the way out the door. Some of the crimes were surprises though:

• President Joe Biden commuted the federal prison sentence Thursday of Mofid Abdel Kader Meshal (or Mufid Abdulqader), the half-brother of billionaire Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who had served 16 of his 20 years.

After Sparklefarts sent pallets of cash to Iran, dems will do anything for a terror organization.

• A disgraced ex-municipal comptroller who embezzled nearly $54 million from her northwest Illinois city received a commutation from President Joe Biden on Thursday, wiping out about four years in a residential reentry program remaining on her sentence for the staggering financial crime.

  Former Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell was among a record-high 1,499 people to receive commutations in a single day from the outgoing president, a list that also included another infamous Illinois fraudster: Eric Bloom, who bilked investors out of more than $665 million in the biggest financial fraud case ever tried in Chicago.

Crundwell bought four mansions and over 400 horses with the $54 million she stole. We don't know if political contributions records exist for back then, but it would be interesting to see whom these to donated portions of their ill-gotten gains to buy a clemency.

• Several social media users, [...] have expressed discontent with President Joe Biden's decision to grant clemency to a Chinese national who pleaded guilty to possession of thousands of child pornography images in 2022.

Not just "thousands" of child porn images.....forty-seven-thousand. And his family is heavily connected in the Chinese communist party. 

So democrats are the party of criminals, communists and kiddie porn while the child sniffing, inappropriate showering, Secret Service flasher is their hero.

Five Times

So this guy is on the news whining about getting pulled over by CPD:

• Chicago police officers have pulled over Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability President Anthony Driver, Jr., five times in less than a year, even as he works to craft new rules that would limit the ability of officers to make certain kinds of stops.

Turns out he's the head of one of the forty "oversight" agencies that are looking to jam up cops. Why would officers pick on this guy of all people?

• Driver told WTTW News officers stopped him twice for having an expired license registration sticker and once on suspicion of making an unsafe lane change. Driver said officers refused to give him a reason for the other two stops. Driver was not ticketed during any of the stops, he said.

Oh. So in 60% of the stops, Driver was driving unsafely or driving an improperly licensed vehicle - all legit reasons. And using their discretion as authorized by State Law, they didn't ticket him for that 60%. The other 40% of the time, they didn't ticket him either, but he claims that they didn't tell him why he got pulled over.

Seems ungrateful that he's batting 100%, but this is exactly why we've been suggesting tickets get written 100% of the time - let a judge sort it out.

Good thing they didn't run his name through the PPP fraud site though:

That might have been embarrassing.

Windfall Vote Coming?

Only a week left to push this through:

• Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday he’s “doing everything” he can to try to pass legislation that would enact some Social Security reforms before Congress ushers in a new class next month.

  Schumer said at a rally the Senate “is going to take action on the Social Security,” telling union members, “you’re going to find out which senators are with you and which are [against] you.”

It's a lame duck session, a bunch of senators have been absent from the December business and it's still something that might benefit the police, whom democrats hate. We still have our doubts.

What the...?!?

This is one way to avoid chases:

• New video was released on Wednesday showing a police officer firing shots at a vehicle in Old Town during an October incident.

  The shooting occurred around 6:50 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the 300 block of West Division Street, according to Chicago police. 

  Officers had attempted a traffic stop after receiving a report of a person with a gun. During the stop, the occupants of the vehicle ignored police commands and fled, striking a police vehicle, police said.
  

The Officer just fires a shot at a fleeing vehicle. Maybe some one-on-one training with the Department's Use of Force "expert" is called for?

Crap like this is going to continue to fuel massive lawsuits and payouts in the future.

More Disbanding Ammo

So the head of the fbi is going to quit before the new administration comes in and fires him. This comes the day before it was revealed that the fbi was routinely spying and reading the emails of members of the oversight committee to see what evidence the committee had against the thoroughly corrupt and compromised fbi.

And the day before it was revealed that the J6 "insurrection" was partly an fbi op:

• Twenty-six FBI [confidential human sources] were in Washington, D.C. on January 6 in connection with the events of January 6.

  The OIG determined that three of those CHSs had been tasked by FBI field offices to report on specific domestic terrorism case subjects who were possibly attending the events of January 6. One of these three CHSs entered the Capitol during the riot. The other two entered the restricted area around the Capitol.

  Twenty-three additional FBI CHSs were in Washington, D.C., and attended January 6 events, but we determined that these CHSs did so on their own initiative and were not tasked by FBI field offices to attend the events. Of these 23 CHSs, three CHSs entered the Capitol during the riot and an additional 11 entered the restricted area around the Capitol.

These are only twenty-six identified individuals. The actual number is thought to be almost twice that. The media is claiming this proves there were no fbi agents around, but if the government solicits or compels the actions of a third party, then the government is technically and legally "on site."

Stop Chasing

This was a chase, until Groot claimed it wasn't a chase, and then after Groot was gone, the City admitted it was probably a chase and accepted liability. Now taxpayers are out nearly $80 million:

• A Cook County jury awarded $79.89 million to a South Shore family whose 10-year-old girl was killed in a car crash caused by a Chicago police chase in 2020.

  The city of Chicago has admitted responsibility for the fatal crash in Auburn Gresham that killed Da’Karia Spicer on Sept. 2, 2020. Her father, Kevin Spicer, and her little brother, Dhaamir Spicer, were also in the car. They suffered injuries but survived.

  The five-day trial was to determine the amount of damages the city owes her family. Last month, the city admitted responsibility for the fatal wreck after initially denying any fault.

The City and Department has said for over a decade now, stop chasing. In this case, a ten-year-old died and we have no answers for any of it. 

We have in-car cameras, car GPS, intersection cameras, PODs and body cameras that will prove - beyond any shadow of a doubt - that you didn't chase when the subject fled the traffic stop, thereby absolving you and taxpayers of any liability for whatever happens afterward.

Until politicians are willing to pass laws and delegate responsibility for what criminals inflict on innocent citizens, pursuits are a losing proposition.

Fata$$ Starts to Fold

And that takes some effort since we all know he can't even tie his own shoes:

• Gov JB Pritzker on Wednesday said he would be willing to speak with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar to discuss his mass deportation plan, but questioned whether Tom Homan has the legal “authority” to execute Trump’s broad initiative.

  The Democratic governor’s comments at an unrelated Chicago news conference came two days after Homan ripped into Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson at a Northwest Side political fundraiser, declaring Chicago would be ground zero for his plan.

  “ At some point, he’s going to become a part of the Trump administration and so, I’m open to dialogue with him,” Pritzker said. “I will say that he … does not have the authority to do the things that he’s talked about. Being a border czar is not an official position in the government and will be up to the President of the United States and up to the leaders of the Customs and Border patrol to make decisions about how we’ll manage the border.”

Amazing. This human dirigible had no problem issuing all sorts of "executive orders" restricting all of our freedoms and Rights during the COVID times, but now he's claiming another executive, this time of the entire country, can't tell the people who report directly to him what the policy is and what is to be done.

Oh, and now that the Kackler lost, Fata$$ feels comfortable claiming that "border czar" isn't an official position, even though his party's drooling vegetable named her border czar....until it was noted that she didn't do shit about the border aside from facilitating the biggest influx of illegal aliens in history.

Here's to hoping Conehead is too ignorant to see that the governor is distancing himself from any responsibility for fighting the feds and leaving him to either face the music alone or collapse like he just did.

Another Bad Budget Idea

Among the many ways Conehead is trying to raise revenue is by taxing things that previously hadn't been taxed....or previously hadn't existed to be taxed. This might backfire:

• Chicago’s bid to become the Silicon Valley of the Midwest has registered some major wins in recent years: Google bought a huge downtown building, PsiQuantum Corp. announced a $1 billion investment in the city, and local startups raised a record $19 billion in 2022.

  Now a move to increase an unusual tax on cloud computing risks adding to a broader technology industry downturn to derail progress in the third-largest U.S. city.

The trouble with excessively taxing this type of company is that it has almost no physical structure. You push a few buttons and ::poof:: it's somewhere else with a lower tax rate. This was proven a few years ago when (we think) the Mercantile Exchange ran a weekend test with a "shadow trading floor" somewhere else (Texas maybe?) and it worked. One of the single biggest money generating enterprises temporarily disappeared from Chicago over a weekend while the City Council debated instituting a tax on every individual trade made on the "floor."

Needless to say, that idea disappeared instantly when the Council realized the "floor" was nothing but a collection of electrons that could be re-constituted anywhere else....except Chicago. The only limit to any of this was (A) electrical power and (B) imagination. Power is fungible, crosses state lines and Illinois is rapidly running out of electricity for things here even without adding in data centers and such.

Overreach by Conehead could be disastrous to what remains of the corporate tax base.

Another Undiscovered Body

This winter - if there's a bit of snow - is going to be interesting.

It's going to be more interesting in the spring when the snow melts:

• A man found unresponsive at the mouth of an alley in South Chicago overnight had been fatally shot, Chicago police said. The man, who suffered a gunshot wound to his head, was pronounced dead at the scene.

  A woman found him in the 2500 block of East 80th Street around 1:30 a.m., but exactly when and where he was shot is unclear. The woman reported hearing gunfire earlier, and cops at the scene suspected the shooting may have happened about an hour before the victim was found, when 911 callers in the 7800 block of South Phillips and near 79th Street and Yates reported gunfire.

  Police did not find any shell casings during an initial search of the area.

  The neighborhood where the man was found used to be monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network.

He was laying in the alley for (probably) over an hour. A bit of snow and he's laying in that alley for a few weeks. If he's partially in the street, no doubt Streets and San will snowplow him to the curb and he'll get buried for months.

Suspension on Tap?

It's always the same assholes:

• Investigators have found that a high-ranking Chicago police official should be suspended in two separate disciplinary cases — one focusing on inflammatory comments he made about Palestinians’ treatment of gay people and another hinging on the improper disclosure of juvenile criminal records to a top mayoral aide.

  In each case, the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs has recommended that Area 1 Deputy Chief Don Jerome should be suspended for 28 days.

No idea why he'd take fourteen days for saying that "palestinians" would cut the heads off of gay people - they do it all the time and post pictures on social media....if they aren't throwing them off of buildings that is. Just because the truth is uncomfortable doesn't make it not the truth.

The other fourteen days are more deserved - handing off juvenile records to one of the eight "deputy mayors" - but that's what political animals do when told to by other political animals. When told to jump, they ask, "How high...and should I whistle while I do it?" If Don didn't provide the demanded material, they'd find someone who would provide it and put them in Don's spot.

Don was hired in 1994, so he's maxed out - odds are that he leaves before missing two paychecks.

Stop Wasting Money

Remember, Illinois is currently $159 BILLION (with a B) in debt.

But the politicians find time for this:

• Starting in January, people will be able to vote online at www.ilsos.gov/stateflag on whether to keep the current design, go with one of the 10 finalists or go back to one of two past versions: the 1918 Centennial Flag or the 1968 Sesquicentennial Flag.

This time and money waster will result in untold millions of dollars spent for:

• state flag purchases for state buildings
• signage all over the place
• decals and such on state vehicles
• stationary reprinting for all official correspondence and documentation

And you can bet some politician has their cousins or son-in-law starting up a printing business right now for the contracts. 

If we remember in January, we'll remind everyone to "vote early and vote often" to just keep the old flag and tell the idiots in Springfield to get serious about the debt instead of spending money on this crap.

Tax Hike Upcoming

As predicted, the wheeling-and-dealing bought enough votes to head toward passage. This was a committee vote - full Council comes shortly:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $17.3 billion budget and the tax and fee increases to support it squeaked through a pair of City Council committees on Tuesday, but not before the mayor’s fragile coalition nearly fell apart.

  By a 14-12 vote, the Finance Committee approved a revised revenue package that includes a $68.5 million property tax increase and ramped-up taxes on everything from cloud computing, streaming services and parking to downtown congestion and plastic bags. The Budget Committee vote on the spending plan itself was 17-16.

  That only happened after top mayoral aides agreed after a lengthy recess to strike more than $80,000 worth of amendments that would have increased the budgets of two members of Johnson’s leadership team — Housing Chair Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) and Police Committee Chair Chris Taliaferro (29th) — in an apparent attempt to lock down their votes. Both men denied having traded the increases in exchange for their votes.

Lots of nickel-and-diming stuff in there - increased bag tax, water bottle tax, ride sharing tax, parking garage tax, cable/streaming tax. Good thing we shop in the 'burbs and whenever possible, outside of Cook County, too. 

Watch for the pols to claim they "saved" taxpayers $230 million by only passing a $68 million screwing of Chicagoans.

Ground Zero for Enforcement

The soon-to-be Border Czar appeared in Chicago the other day and put Conehead and Fata$$ on notice:

• President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan came to Chicago on Monday to implore Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to “come to the table” and negotiate with him over a mass deportation plan that he declared would start right here.

  Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, began a 20-minute address at a Northwest Side GOP holiday party with some light ribbing before detailing his plan, which includes verifying the status of asylum-seekers and arresting people who are found harboring criminals.

  “Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” Homan said to cheers. Later, he called both “terrible” while also telling them to “come to the table.”

Obviously, this guy is well informed. 

And in making Chicago the focus of enforcement, we're hoping this means handcuffs, charges and a perp walk for Conehead, Fata$$ and perhaps a few more Illinois pols.

The Slum Times, as usual, tells their readers one slanted side:

• Of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., just 425,000 live in Illinois. But consider Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott got so worked up about the southern border crisis that he spent more than $148 million busing tens of thousands of migrants to Chicago and other cities, in a political stunt to make Democratic-led cities look bad — 1.7 million undocumented immigrants live there.

  Florida, another Republican-led state where Gov. Ron DeSantis has also spent millions sending migrants elsewhere, has 772,000.

Um, yeah....because the drooling vegetable dumped hundreds of thousands into Red states to collapse their systems. It was a deliberate effort to sabotage future elections. That's why they started shipping them to Illinois and Colorado and other blue state shitholes.

They also whine about Homan not having a solution, conveniently leaving out it isn't Homan's job to have a solution. His job is to execute the policies of the Executive Branch. He's not Crimesha, inventing laws and selectively prosecuting cases.

Along with a few politicians going to jail, we'd love to see some more media bankruptcies.

Guess Who's Back?

The 9.5 fingered dwarf is supposedly back in town:

• Off topic- but another Chicago EX mayor playing sport again. Old Rahmie is “offering” to head up the DNC, and to “help” that new DOGE department find government waste in the Fed Budget. That snake needs to be kept away from anything remotely concerning government “waste”. He is a two-faced liar with ulterior motives. Just saying.

Someone said maybe he's running for mayor again, which would be....interesting.

We're guessing he has bigger ambitions than going back to being mayor, so the DNC thing is a possibility, but so is Turban Durbin's senate seat. Rahm wants to be in DC, closer to the levers of power, so he may have left the "wife's" wedding dress back in the Chicago basement.

Money Train Getting Empty

It's amazing how much money government has to spend when times are good. No one looks too closely at the outflow because there's so much coming in. Scandals are minimal, too, because no one is going to snitch during the good times.

But what about the lean times - like the past decade or more here:

• Calling it “the nightmare before Christmas,” a coalition of residents and advocates decried Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to cut Chicago’s guaranteed income program to help fill a budget hole.

  As the mayor’s administration works toward a budget deal, about $30 million in COVID-19 relief funds set aside for the Chicago Empowerment Fund is on the chopping block. A coalition of formerly incarcerated residents, immigrants and advocates urged the mayor and City Council members to keep the guaranteed income program in the budget at a City Hall news conference late last week.

  “Shame, shame, shame on the City Council; shame on our mayor,” said Richard Wallace, executive director of Equity and Transformation, a group that helps citizens returning from prison on the West Side. “We got commitment from the city that this pilot was going to be in the budget in 2025, and for us to find out that this program is slowly but surely getting pushed out, it was something that we could not sleep with.”

Oh, it's the formerly incarcerated crowd...the ones who are likely getting our Peoples Gas extortion money.

All we heard during the Biden years was how great the economy was doing, how unemployment was down and inflation was all imaginary. Meanwhile fifteen million (or more) illegals came over the border, got bussed in and flown all over the country, and drove down real wages, destroying the housing market by taking entire buildings out of circulation.

And the lefties want their "guaranteed income" programs - which are funded by people with jobs - to keep funneling money down a bottomless rat hole.

When we wanted a new car or had to replace a furnace, you know what we did? Worked Special. Found OT opportunities. Cut back on certain expenditures. Even found a part time job for a little while.

Hunger or cold should be a motivator for the formerly incarcerated.

Why?

We know Deputy Chiefs don't go to court much. But how does a Deputy Chief get promoted to running Area Two while being on the Giglio list, banning her from testifying in court - any court at all, even Civil Court where a Deputy Chief might be called in any of a half-a-dozen scenarios we can think of without breaking a sweat.

And why do we have something like twenty-plus Deputy Chiefs? When we came on the job, there were six total.

Redistribution of Wealth

So if you won't get a job and support yourself, don't worry - Illinois pols will find you some money:

• GAS BILL new charge: "Low income discount adjustment" $5.27
  
  The Illinois reparations politician scumbags are stealing money from honest working people to pay for the hood's gas supply and delivery. This new charge is state law, essentially forced reparations and People Gas cannot remove this charge.

We don't feel like adjusting our thermostat down any further in these trying times, and globsal "warming" isn't arriving fast enough. We were thinking of shorting our bill the "discount" amount, but then they'd come to shut off OUR gas for non-payment....ironic in the extreme.

So now we're looking into claiming a "low income" family as a dependent on our tax forms to recoup the theft of funds.

Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Sounds about right for this Karen:

• When thieves made off with Darcie Bell’s rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X: “If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.”

  The post went viral, but not for the reason she hoped for. Bell spent years posting left-wing “Defund the police” views — and users across the site blasted and mocked the activist.

  “Anti Police activist begs the police to help,” jeered the X account Bay State of Mind, which comments on San Francisco Bay Area politics.

And when the harassment got to be too much, she doubled down:

• “I haven’t found my s—! The cops didn’t do s—! U-Haul made me file a f—ing police report!” she told The Post.

  “There’s cameras all over this city. They haven’t done s—! … I just want my stuff back!”

If it isn't reported stolen, it isn't stolen as far as the cops are concerned.

If the report isn't filed, insurance won't pay anything.

But hey, defund defund defund.

We're laughing.

Right On Schedule

HeyJackass.com shows Chicago right on pace to hit 600:

• 578 homicides so far
  
• 23 days left in the year
• A person is murdered every 14 hours and 12 minutes

Does this one count toward Chicago's totals?

• One person is dead and at least six other people are injured after a west suburban car chase ended in a shooting and crash in Chicago.

  Cicero and Chicago first responders went to the scene of the crash at West Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue in Lawndale just before 12:30 p.m.

  Witnesses said a white car was chasing down a black car from Cicero when the black car crashed into two other vehicles at the border in Chicago.

Cicero PD was giving statements, while CFD was doing transports. It makes us think Cicero is eating this one.

Or how about this one?

• An armed robber is dead, apparently shot by his own firearm as the would-be victim tried to gain control of the weapon on Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said.

  Police initially responded to calls of three men beating a man on the ground in the 1500 block of West Garfield around 2:51 p.m. First responders soon learned that the subject of the beating was also the robber, who had been mortally wounded by a gunshot, too.

Obviously, not an intended homicide, but more like a FAFO killing.

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Farewell ShotSpotter

A (mostly) satirical take by the good folks over at The Contrarian. From the middle of the article:

• We all know the real reasons behind the myriad of stabs inflicted upon our all hearing, all knowing friend and ally. It was not because he was inadequate, but because he was effective. The trigger for ShotSpotter’s unfortunate decline and fall was the tragic death of one Adam Toledo. Adam, who we are sure was a fine young man who would have eventually gone on to be a doctor or a teacher or a humanitarian along the lines of Mother Teresa, was, as all too many young men in Chicago are, engaged in the initiation rituals of one of our myriad local street gangs, also referred to as youths, who were in their precocious adolescent exuberance firing shots at passing cars as part of the initiation ritual, much like some sort of a heavily armed fraternity.

  ShotSpotter dutifully spotted the shots, evoking a very rapid police response. From that point in our story, opinions tend to diverge.

The entire piece is peppered with these bits of sarcasm and silliness, very much similar to how we write. 

They get in a sideways dig at Conehead:

• The perpetrators of the untimely demise of ShotSpotter, in a misguided attempt to pursue equity, diversity, inclusion, and other somewhat raggedy virtue words of the day, have hopefully inadvertently and unknowingly inflicted a world of hurt upon the very people who they claim to represent. This my friends is what constitutes a progressive, or did at least, until the fall of 2024.

And a full on dig at the race-mongers:

• No, alas poor ShotSpotter wasn't perfect — nothing and nobody is. But CWB estimates that over 30 people have died as a result of ShotSpotter’s untimely demise. Say $500,000 was saved per month divided by 30 lives lost equals about $17,000. Is that how much black lives matter in this town?

As usual, go read it all.

Stop Already

You know it's bad optics when ISP has to release at statement saying, "Wasn't us!"

• The driver of a stolen car ran a red light and crashed on the Magnificent Mile on Wednesday night, sending seven people, including three young children, to hospitals, according to Chicago police.

  Shortly before 9 p.m., police spotted the stolen Jeep Cherokee on northbound Lake Shore Drive near the Chicago River, according to an individual familiar with the matter.

  Units pursued the Jeep, which fled north, exited at Belmont, and then headed back south on the drive. The Jeep’s 16-year-old male driver exited at Michigan Avenue, ran a red light at Chicago Avenue, and crashed into a van, according to the source and a CPD statement. A Jeep Compass and a Honda SUV were also struck, police said.

And CWB had to clarify later:

• Editor’s note: A previous version of this story stated that the stolen vehicle was being pursued by the Illinois State Police. A spokesperson for the agency denies that. This story has been updated to reflect the spokesperson’s statement.

Chasing a car through downtown at night is a recipe for disaster....as this proves again. Someone said this was a "task force" and not CPD. Small comfort.

 It's long past time for someone with a technical brain to figure out a way to disable cars without pursuits....like a Taser for cars that fries the electrical systems or something.

Look! An Investigative Report!

This article on the CWB site:

• The truck driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old boy on a city street earlier this year was driving with a THC level more than three times the legal limit, prosecutors said this week. James Bernstein, 53, also had cocaine metabolite in his system at the time of the crash, according to the allegations.

  Bernstein, driving a 2021 dual-wheeled Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck, made a right-hand turn from 82nd Street onto Harper Avenue around 4:30 p.m. on June 2, officials said. He allegedly struck four-year-old Xyaire Askew, who had run into Harper Avenue while playing with friends.

  After striking the boy, Bernstein “drove over the victim’s chest and head” when he “went to pull over” at the scene, prosecutors said in a detention petition. Xyaire was pronounced dead at Comer Children’s Hospital about 30 minutes later.

  Bernstein consented to chemical testing, a Chicago police report said, and the Illinois State Police laboratory determined that his blood contained cocaine metabolite and a THC level of 18.4 nanograms per milliliter, officials said in court filings.

The testing was done by the ISP laboratory and not contracted out (hopefully).

This was on the ABC site the same day:

• There is fallout following an ABC7 I-Team report exposing suspect lab tests in marijuana driving-under-the-influence cases.

  Metro Chicago-area prosecutors are in the weeds trying to figure out what to do, how many cases are damaged, which defendants are wrongly locked up and who may have to be released.

  Former McHuouslyenry County States Attorney Patrick Kenneally is echoing what undoubtedly happened all day Friday in prosecutors' offices across metro Chicago: lawyers going through files from old cases, checking whether blood tests were conducted for marijuana at the University of Illinois Chicago Analytical Forensic Testing Laboratory.

So obviously, there are at least some investigative reporters out there - where they've been hiding we have no idea. But now, thousands of cases involving impaired drivers are in jeopardy of having convictions vacated, all while we can't even drive with our windows down any more due to the near constant smell of weed wafting through the air.

Another True "Conspiracy"

The media ignored this for the past four years:

• AURORA, Ill. -- The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating HelloFresh over allegations that the popular meal kit service employed migrant children at a cooking and packaging facility in Illinois as recently as this summer, ABC News has learned.

  At least six teenagers, at least some of whom migrated from Guatemala, were found working night shifts at the facility, said Cristobal Cavazos, the executive director for Immigrant Solidarity, an immigrant rights advocacy group that helped report the matter to federal regulators.

  "They're minors working dangerous jobs," Cavazos told ABC News.

  The Labor Department is also investigating whether Midway Staffing, an agency that hires employees to work at the HelloFresh facility, also violated federal child labor rules, according to documents obtained by ABC News.

We were assured this wasn't happening, or it was just another right-wing conspiracy being spread by racists who hate immigrants. Democrats and the media (but we repeat ourselves) figured after the Kackler got in, she'd amnesty everyone and a new permanent underclass would be solidified into the voting numbers.

Hopefully, companies that hired these kids are fined into oblivion.

Nice Voter Fraud Conehead (UPDATE)

Or maybe it's Hiring Fraud? There's something here:

• Jason Lee, a top adviser to Mayor Brandon Johnson, voted in Texas last month despite a rule requiring city employees to live in Chicago.

  Records obtained by the Tribune show Lee cast his ballot for the November 2024 presidential election in person on Election Day in Houston, where his voter registration address was listed and where one document indicates he told Texas election officials he lived. But he has also served as Johnson’s senior adviser since the mayoral transition in May 2023 and signed an affidavit that month attesting that Chicago is his permanent home.

  Lee hasn’t been charged with wrongdoing, but the optics of a government leader who is required by law to live in one city voting in another are questionable.

Does this guy think he is Stacy Davis Gates, claiming Indiana property tax exemptions while heading the Chicago Teachers Union? 

We recall everyone asking which address she used to vote after that scandal broke. One of the aldercreatures also remembered and has already fired off a letter to the States Attorney is Texas asking to verify the voting. It would seem to be alleging fraud either here or there.

UPDATE: From the comments:

• It gets better....
  
  In September 2023, Jason Lee contributed $50 to Delia Ramirez's campaign. Jason's city is listed as Chicago **BUT**
  
  If you download the transaction detail, Jason's street address is Brandon Johnson's home.

So Conehead is part of the fraud or.....he and Jason are playing house together?

How spicy.

"Elite"

Yet another embarrassment to this out-of-control agency:

• How much lower can the FBI sink? Just when you think this disgraceful agency has hit rock bottom, they manage to dig even deeper. This time, it’s yet another DEI hire making a total mockery of the badge. Agent Nicholas Anthony Williams has been arrested and convicted for robbing people blind during home invasion raids—and yes, at least one of those raids targeted a January 6th political prisoner.

  As if it wasn’t bad enough that the regime weaponized the FBI to go after non-violent Americans, now we find out that during those raids, Agent Williams was lurking around like a common thief, helping himself to their belongings.

  Honestly, this is what the DEI agenda does: it takes our once-esteemed agencies and institutions and turns them into a colossal joke. And sadly, it’s still going strong, as this shameful story proves.

It's a long way to the bottom.

NYC Illegals Attacked

Illegals getting stabbed in New York:

• Officials say two migrant teens were victims in a New York City stabbing, one fatally, after the teens were asked if they spoke English and they responded that they didn't, ABC News reported.

  Officials say a trio of men approached the teens around 7:40 p.m. Thursday night, when one of the men asked if the teens spoke English. When the teens said they did not, they were attacked, according to police.

Great descriptions by the media:

• The three suspects fled the stabbing on foot. They are described as being in their 20s with dark complexions.

If the New York public schools are anything close to ours here, the offenders probably didn't speak anything like passable English either. 

But between self-deporting, border czar deporting and being stabbed to death, what's an illegal alien to do?

Shipping Illegals

More proof of the manufactured crisis:

• A recent FOIA request made by Terry Newsome of Behind Enemy Lines revealed that the Biden White House worked directly with the City of Chicago placing immigrants.

  Throughout an email chain of 207 pages, City of Chicago officials, FEMA representatives, and a Special Assistant to the President of the United States discuss different locations for placing immigrants across the State of Illinois.

  The Gateway Pundit previously reported that FEMA had awarded approximately $20 million to the City of Chicago for food service contractors to feed illegal immigrants.

  The award timeframe was from October 2022 to December 2024. This article also details the City of Chicago’s ‘Vendor Payments – New Arrivals Mission’ webpage detailing the $574.5 million that has been spent on the immigrant crisis thus far.

Of course, with the non-existent and shady accounting going on, that $20 million was probably pocketed by assorted criminals and connected contractors. This is the same FEMA that was skipping over hurricane ravaged houses in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina earlier this year.

Hopefully, a whole bunch of bureaucrats are going to lose their jobs and do some prison time starting next year.

Seriously?

We've been warning Officers for years now - don't seek trouble nowadays. It isn't going to end well for you in the current political atmosphere. They demanded certain things and deserve to get them, good and hard. But we've also said if something unavoidable pops up, handle it and move on. 

Like this:

• ....maybe the 1st watch desk crew from 019 can explain why they told an accused homicide offender he can't turn himself into police at 019 east. And yeah he would've been processed at Belmont and Western regardless, most desk crews are filled with do nothings, blah blah blah.....but come on now. I'm all for not doing anything proactive, but it doesn't take much to get him in handcuffs, call a car in, call the Area, etc

If the various oversight organizations (IAD, COPA, Inspector General, etc) wanted to make an issue of this, it's a slam dunk suspension or worse. You have a duty to perform a police function when presented with such a situation. 

Yes, we've seen the posts and experienced first hand, different Districts sending crashes to "the District of Occurrence"and other such nonsense. We had a sergeant back in the day who routinely got CR numbers on entire District desks that sent crashes to his people and he made sure that the barest minimum was sustained.

Someone comes in and says they are wanted for a homicide or questioning or whatever, it takes no effort to handcuff a compliant subject, then find a tact team that needs a head or an FTO that needs to train a PPO. You don't send them away.

Another $5 Million Gone

In addition to the eight "deputy mayor" spots ($189K) and seven "assistant deputy mayor" spots ($147K) costing taxpayers more than $2.5 million per year, Conehead is set to spend another $5 million on a completely separate bureaucracy dealing with convicts:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2024 spending plan earmarks $5 million to create a new department designed to help those returning to Chicago from jail or prison find jobs or other assistance as they work to rebuild their lives.

  The newly created Department of Reentry would have a budget of $5 million and four employees charged with helping formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago get what “they need to thrive in this city,” Johnson said at a news conference on Tuesday.

  “This has been a long-term demand for years,” Johnson said. “Only in this administration is this investment being made. So, when I said we could take care of everyone in Chicago, I mean it.”

This kickback scheme is the brainchild of former convict / current aldercreature Walter Burnett. A four person office with a budget of $5 million is ripe for corruption. What do you need for this Department?

• a storefront
• some furniture
• four phone lines

Even if they're making "deputy mayor" salaries and buying their furniture from wherever Stacie Conehead gets her chairs from, there's still more than $3 million on hand for what? Cars? Parties? Airfare to some bullshit government conferences? Bribes?

It's money that doesn't exist in any form except higher taxes.