Prepare for Failure!

 Chicago on track (again) to lose money on something everyone else manages to make a profit on:

• Deep inside a nearly 250+ page regulatory filing, the owner of Chicago’s still-unbuilt casino warns investors that crime could have a material impact on its operations here.

  Bally’s Chicago filed the dense “registration statement” on December 27 as it prepared to sell $250 million in stock and included the warning that “business interruptions in Chicago due to crime or civil unrest could adversely affect us.” It was among dozens of downside risks itemized in the filing.

  “Our business and our assets are planned to be primarily located in Chicago, Illinois, a city which has recently experienced very high levels of criminality and civil unrest,” Bally’s said on page 54 of its filing. The company stated that “heightened criminality or the perception of danger among our customers” could impact the Chicago property’s bottom line.

  Another round of civil unrest could be a real problem, the company said, because “we currently do not have business interruption insurance in place.” Even “if and when” the company gets such insurance, the policy may not cover its losses.

You can bet that the "investors" will all get paid long before a single dime goes to the pension funds this entire enterprise was supposed to shore up.

Timely Notification?

Call us cynical, but this community alert couldn't have gone out a little sooner?

• Armed crews have been going on robbery sprees across a stretch of neighborhoods from the West Loop to East Garfield Park for at least six weeks. On Sunday, the Chicago Police Department issued its first community alert about the growing problem.

  The alert only mentions five robberies, all occurring between 5:40 a.m. and 7:14 a.m. on Friday. CWBChicago told you about the spree on Saturday morning.

  The alert said two or three robbers, all wearing dark clothing and wearing black ski masks, jumped out of a stolen car to rob victims at gunpoint on the street. They pistol-whipped some of the victims, according to CPD.

The CPD notice just came out in the past few days. This string of robberies has been going on for six weeks. If you're a regular reader of the CWB blog (which you should be) or a subscriber (which we might be), you'd have heard about the multiple robberies occurring over the last few weeks, always five or seven at a time, all with the same basic description, all within minutes of each other in the same general area.

As Predicted....Just Last Week

How long until we hear about "fifteen days to slow the spread"?

• The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms.

  Louisiana health officials announced the death on Monday.

Note the language in this paragraph:

• Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock. They also said a genetic analysis had suggested the bird flu virus had mutated inside the patient, which could have led to the more severe illness.

A whole lot of qualifiers there.

• Since March, 66 confirmed bird flu infections have been reported in the United States, but previous illnesses have been mild, and most have been detected among farm workers exposed to sick poultry or dairy cows. In two cases — an adult in Missouri and a child in California — health officials haven’t determined how they caught it.

Any even more there.

Seven cases a month, farm workers, working with sick/dead birds and cows, most of whom recovered in short order. Almost like the Monkey-pox "scare" - if you weren't having unprotected anal sex with infected gay sex workers, your chances of catching "MPox" were essentially zero.

What Could Go Wrong?

Illinois dems embracing criminals again:

• BREAKING: Illinois Senate Democrats just passed HB 5164 which allows illegal aliens and trans people to legally hide their name change.
  
  
  The Republican Senate Minority Leader raised concerns that this would allow them to hide any past criminal behavior.
  
  
  Why are Illinois Democrats protecting criminals?

Anything to prevent identifying criminals and law breakers.

Coming Soon

You just know that somewhere, the CTU is pushing for this here:

• Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible for public schools, according to a new law.

  Act 1669, which was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy, D., in June, went into effect on Wednesday at the start of the new year. The law aims to tackle teacher shortages in the state by removing what the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), a teachers’ union, called a "barrier"

Being able to perform the basic functions of "reading, writing and 'rithmatic" is a "barrier" in New Jersey, and pretty much any democratic $hithole city/state.

Students in CPS are already unable to perform at grade level, so why should the teachers be expected to be proficient at their subject?

Remember When....

Someone mentioned this was one of the only good things from the tenure of J-Fledgar, patrol rifles being the other one. We tend to agree:

• In 2009, Chicago’s court system was hopelessly clogged by cases alleging police misconduct. For years, the city’s Department of Law had watched as the number of misconduct allegations crept upward. With the increasing strain on municipal resources, Chicago’s attorneys were forced to settle many cases out of court, which reflected poorly on the city’s bottom line and police force.
  
  But Chicago found a somewhat counterintuitive way to save money and save face -- by taking every single police misconduct case to court.
  
  In July 2009, Chicago Superintendent of Police Jody Weis wrote to James F. Holderman, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to notify him that the city would be changing its strategy for dealing with lawsuits filed against police officers. Rather than settling these cases out of court, the city would take them to trial.

Instead of quick payouts amounting to tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, law firms would have to actually practice law, depose officers, interview witnesses, pay experts, etc which would cut into the river of cash.

In fact, the only reason that this practice was stopped was that after the plaintiff lawyers started losing business, they had a meeting with the 9.5 fingered dwarf and told him that due to Chicago not paying out millions of dollars, their political contributions to democrats across Chicago, Cook County, Illinois would be severely curtailed. 

Rahm got the message loud and clear because he's a bought-and-paid-for tool, all the way back to the Clinton's.

Remember, when you reward bad behavior, you get more of it....and in these cases, the reward can be as simple as paying off someone to go away.

Thanks to the reader who remembered and posted the link.

Fundraiser

A truly tragic event over the holidays (click for larger version):

This has been verified as a legitimate fundraiser, so no worries about someone trying to exploit it. 

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Dems Love Crime....Again

Especially crimes against women and children. How do we know?

These aren't difficult decisions, yet there's the vote.

And here's the dems who love rapists:

All the usual suspects there, including Illinois's Quigley and Schakowsky. Not surprised at all that they'd be protecting pedos.

UPDATE: yes, the vote was this past September, but do any of the readers remember hearing about it? We don't.

Vegetable Signs WEP Bill

 A day early?

• President Joe Biden on Sunday signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and in other public service jobs.

  Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put strain on Social Security Trust Funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis.

  The bill rescinds two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset — that limit Social Security benefits for recipients if they get retirement payments from other sources, including public retirement programs from a state or local government.

For those keeping track, it doesn't effect anyone who only paid into the pension. But for those of us who had jobs prior to CPD and paid into Social Security AND/OR worked side jobs that paid into Social Security, it restores what we had earned. 

It ain't going to be much, maybe a few tanks of gas. But every nickel counts after the ruined economy of the past four years.

NYPD Applications

This is indicative of a nationwide trend, even if no one is covering it much:

• The number of candidates testing to become New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers has reportedly dwindled in recent years, leaving the Democrat-run city scrambling to fill those positions.

  The number of candidates has shrunk over the past eight years, the New York Post reported on Saturday. In 2017, the number of prospective officers was 18,000 but has decreased to 8,000.

  That is a 55 percent drop, according to data from the union known as the Police Benevolent Association.

  A seasoned Brooklyn officer told the outlet that officers are telling people not to take the job because “You’ll be worked to the bone, attacked by perps and politicians and hammered with nonsense complaints and ticky-tack discipline.”

For some odd reason though, this isn't as big a problem in the reddish portion of the nation. In fact, sizable percentages of those leaving blue state / blue city $hitholes are ending up in right-leaning jurisdictions where they aren't going to be indicted, fired or jailed for doing the job they were hired to do.

It's so very odd.

How Much Was Crime Down?

Not nearly as much as Conehead would have you believe and considerably LESS than the national averages:

• Violent crime and theft continued virtually unabated in 2024

  As 2024 ends, Mayor Brandon Johnson is trumpeting the city’s decline in murders and falsely claiming record homicide clearance rates as he tries to gull the public into believing that great strides have been made on the public safety front. Nevertheless, accurate statistics tell a far different story. The fact remains that the violent crime pandemic is not abating and the policies of degrading police strength, penalizing proactive policing, pre-trial release, and the failure to protect witnesses and victims are debilitating factors.
  

  Meanwhile, there has been a concerted effort by political leaders and criminal justice reform advocates to deliberately deceive the public on the real impact of their reforms by withholding data or slow releasing it, such as SAFE-T Act data. They contract with researchers to deliberately misrepresent the data or outright lie, while supporters trumpet flawed reports, using false findings to attack opponents. A close look at the facts reveals the level of deception. Consider the following:
  

  Chicago remains the murder capital of the nation
  

  Let’s be clear, the downward trend in murders reported (7.3%) is less than the national trend (11.6%), as Chicago once again led the nation with 609 murders. Based on research from AH Datalytics, Chicago is tied for the second-lowest percentage drop in homicides in the country among cities with a population greater than 250,000.

There's plenty more that Vallas points out in his latest offering at The Contrarian. As usual, go read it all at the link.

Mystery Shooter

Perhaps a....vigilante?

• An armed suspect was shot during a robbery Saturday morning at a business on the city's South Side. The shooting and armed robbery happened around 9 a.m. in the 100 block of West 87th Street in West Chatham, Chicago police said.

  Three armed offenders entered the business and demanded property, police said. After taking money, they fled through a back door of the business. One of the offenders, a 27-year-old man, was shot in the right leg and arrested at the scene. He was taken to a hospital in good condition.

  The Chicago Police Department confirmed to ABC7 the incident was not an officer-involved shooting. It was not immediately known who shot the offender.

A hopefully, no one looks too hard for the shooter. It isn't going to change the crime count and perhaps the shot asshole learns a lesson from it.

What's "Beyond Useless"?

Because it now seems the fbi isn't just f#$%ing up what passes for "investigations," they're actively assisting in undermining their own declining reputation:

• ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show.

  Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making.

  His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”

The media - in this case, the New York Post - gained entry into the bomb-makers apartment and found leftover bomb making material and tools, a copy of the koran - opened to a specific passage about slaughtering infidels, and a computer with god knows what on the hard drive....the fbi doesn't know because they didn't take it.

Compare this to the tranny shooter in Tennessee where the feebs took every electronic devices possible, all manuscripts (which they they hid from the police and public) and anything else that wasn't nailed down.

Why leave this stuff behind? What narrative are they attempting to create?

Anyone remember serial killer John Wayne Gacy? In a warehouse on the southwest side, not too far from 26/Cal, a large portion of the Gacy home floor that covered the crawl space - with the trap door still in the frame - was in storage for decades after Gacy's conviction and still there years after his execution. It might be there still for all we know, but our contacts have long since retired. 

That was an investigation by Des Plaines PD, a suburban department with far less resources than the fbi, and they actually inventoried and preserved a portion of the house. But here's the fbi, in 2025, leaving behind enough material that, in the hands of a school board parent or a conservative Christian, would somehow land them in federal prison for life.

UPDATE: This was all after the New York Post actually beat the fbi to the house by a few hours. The Babylon Bee had some fun with it:

• In a formal statement, the FBI has called on Internet sleuths, particularly X users, to please stop solving crimes before they have a chance to do so.

  The statement comes just hours after X users discovered all suspects and motives related to the recent terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.

The fbi has forgotten how to investigate terrorism.

010 Shooting

By all accounts, a perfectly legal, lawful and justified shooting:

• Officers responded to a domestic call and fatally shot a knife-wielding man early Friday inside a Little Village senior building, according to Chicago police.

  The man was identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as 57-year-old Timothy Glaze.

  Ogden District officers came in contact with Glaze when they responded to a call of a person with a knife about 2 a.m. inside a sixth-floor apartment of the Albany Terrace Apartments, 3030 W. 21st Place, police said in a preliminary statement.

  Glaze’s girlfriend had called 911 to report that she was being attacked by Glaze, who she said had a knife and screwdriver, according to a recording of police dispatch audio.

  When police began knocking on the door, they were confronted by Glaze who allegedly charged at officers while holding a knife, police said. At that point, officers fired their weapons, hitting Glaze multiple times, including in the chest, according to the radio transmissions.

Anyone know how much Conehead is offering the family? That's how it goes now, right?

Good work Officers, though we don't envy you the next few years.

Maurer

Bunch of comments today that Jimmy Maurer passed, but we can't find a thing mentioning it in the usual places. We know he had retired, moved far away from here and was experiencing some age related health issues. 

We know he had his fans and detractors, and while we didn't appreciate the system he championed (as all outsiders feel), we didn't mind him as an old-style boss. He is/was far better than 99% of what's "running" the Department today.

Who's On First?

So yesterday, we posted that 006 won the ghoul pool with a victim located at 0330 hours  in the area of 94th/Harvard.

Today, it turns out that someone who got shot at 0250 hours in the 1200 block of Sawyer expired a few hours later. That's the thing with good trauma hospitals like Mt. Sinai or County....they manage to get vital signs up and running far longer than would normally be the case.

In any event, we refer back to our posting on 31 December which stated:

• Reminder - For the Ghoul Pools, be sure you define what constitutes the winner before paying out - First RD Number pulled or First by Time of Death Declared by an actual Medical Professional.

While 010 may have an earlier RD number, it looks like 006 has an earlier time of death as the victim was expired on scene. 

Argue all you want in the comment section, but we warned all players to "define what constitutes the winner" two days ago.

Contrarian Reminds Taxpayers

Conehead's people are trying to slip one past the City Council....and taxpayers:

• When a Chicago Police Department (CPD) tactical team serving in the 11^th District stopped Dexter Reed in Humboldt Park on March 21, 2024, few could have predicted a brief encounter over a traffic violation would end with a Chicago Police officer injured and Reed mortally wounded. It is even more inconceivable Chicago, considering how the incident unfolded, is nearing a financial settlement with Reed’s estate.

  If you are confused over why the City of Chicago has entered into a settlement with Dexter Reed’s estate after it was clearly established Reed attacked a police officer, you aren’t alone.

  An incident which has fallen out of the public’s consciousness since the police dashcam capturing the incident was released in April, it will probably be helpful to recall some of the basic facts of CPD’s encounter with Reed. Reed was stopped by officers at 3836 West Ferdinand for what police originally alleged was a seatbelt violation. Later, in a contradiction to the initial version, police stated the stop was prompted by illegally tinted windows.

  Despite the contradiction, officers who stopped Reed acted in full accordance with CPD use-of-force guidelines and within the guardrails of state law.

In the end, it doesn't matter why dead shithead was stopped. Dead shithead opened fire on CPD Officers and lost. You don't get a payout because you lost a gun fight that you had ZERO right to participate in. 

Is this the message that Conehead's dumb ass wants to teach the gangs? That you get money for shooting at the police when you are 100% in the wrong? 

Because as we have pointed out for years....decades even....when you reward this sort of behavior, you get more of it. Guaranteed.

Something Bad Brewing?

New Orleans - terror attack and un-detonated bombs.

Las Vegas - successful detonation of an IED.

Now, a third IED (attempted) bombing, this time in Idaho that few media outlets are covering:

• Police halted train activity for hours after footprints in the snow led officers to an explosive device on a train car on New Year’s Day.

  The Payette Police Department said it received a report “regarding a suspicious subject” who was seen “attempting to light something on fire” near a parked railroad car in the 600 Block of North 8th Street in Payette.

  Officers arriving at the scene just before 6 p.m. found fresh footprints leading to a train car that had a “suspected undetonated improvised explosive device,” also known as an IED, a Payette Police Department news release said.

In two of the cases (Vegas and Idaho), the suspects don't appear to fit the expected profile. And after four years of uncontrolled border invasion, the country and its law enforcement agencies have no idea who or what is currently roaming the country.

Be very very careful and situationally aware Officers.

And the Winner is....

006:

• Police are investigating after a man was found fatally shot in an alley in the Roseland neighborhood early on New Year’s Day. Dispatchers received no calls of shots fired before the man was discovered in the 9400 block of South Harvard. The city’s ShotSpotter network monitored the area before Mayor Brandon Johnson deactivated the system on September 23.

  CPD provided little information about what happened to the 29-year-old man, other than he was found with two gunshot wounds around 3:30 a.m. Bystanders tried to save the man by administering CPR, but their efforts were unsuccessful.

So Chicago is already on pace for three-hundred-sixty-five murders this year, unless something else happens:

• One person died after a shooting and robbery Wednesday at a liquor store on the South Side. The shooting happened around 12:31 p.m. in the 7500 block of South Racine in Chicago's Auburn Gresham neighborhood, police said.

  According to Chicago police, a man was inside a liquor store along 75th and Racine when two suspects walked in and attempted to rob him. One of the suspects pulled out a gun and shot him twice. The 51-year-old victim was shot in the chest and the leg, police said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but he later died.

Well, that makes the projected yearly total for 2025 seven-hundred-thirty now.

More Cameras

Not for safety though:

• Taking effect in the New Year, the City of Chicago will install $2.5 million worth of speed cameras to ticket drivers.

  The Johnson administration has yet to release details on where the cameras will go or how many exactly will be added to the more than 100 already active.

  The cameras are estimated to raise about $11 million to pay for Chicago Police Department positions related to the federal consent decree.

  The cameras will issue $35 tickets to drivers going between six and 10 mph over the speed limit and $100 tickets for drivers going even faster.

So, another reason for people to heap hate on the police department.

Media Lies Some More

The AP ought to change its name to "Alternate Reality:"

• Tesla Cybertruck catches fire and explodes outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel; 1 dead

It was parked in the traffic lane and exploded without warning. Again, plenty of video. 

The article says it was "carrying fireworks." These weren't Class C fireworks - it was packed with mortars, many of which can be seen in the video skidding across the pavement as the gun powder cooks off.

This time, the fbi is using the word "terrorism" unlike Wednesday morning when Agent Nose-stud told everyone that New Orleans wasn't terrorism after two separate government officials said it was.

It sure looks like a sleeper cell or two was activated for the New Year and we'll bet city officials across the country are in a state of worry across the country....especially cities that have a Trump hotel in them.

Keep your eyes open.

Beyond Useless (UPDATES)

Early this morning, an "individual" drove a pick-up truck at high speed into a crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least ten and maiming dozens.

The "individual" then exited the pickup truck and began shooting at people and responding officers, wounding more before being neutralized.

A number of likely IEDs were discovered and controlled detonations are ongoing.

The mayor got on television and explained New Orleans had been the subject of a terror attack and updated the citizens as to what was going on.

Within moments, AT THE EXACT SAME PRESS CONFERENCE, guess who said it wasn't a terror attack?

• the fbi

There's video everywhere, especially at the links in our right hand margin. Vehicular homicide, gunfire, homemade bombs.....and it isn't terrorism? The legacy media couldn't get the fbi dick in their mouth fast enough and started reporting that a "truck" squashed almost three dozen human beings.

One lone gunman murders an insurance executive and by golly, THAT'S terrorism, with federal charges filed to make him death penalty eligible. But a bunch of New Years Eve revelers in New Orleans? That's just a big traffic accident according to the media and NOT terrorism according to the "preeminent" law enforcement agency in the world.

UPDATE: Granny Clampett is in charge - no worries!

UPDATE: pics from the scene show a black flag (now wrapped in zip ties) flying from the back of the murder-truck.....black flags are used by panty-fa, isis and a few other terror groups.

UPDATE: fbi now claiming it's investigating this as a "terror" attack, probably after realizing what Trump was going to do to them this morning on social media. 

UPDATE: multiple pipe bombs and some IEDs in coolers, wired for remote detonation. Video evidence of three males and a female planting the pipe bombs at assorted locations.

UPDATE: flag is an isis flag, and there are pictures of it unfurled on the ground. 

UPDATE: home grown muslim terrorist, US Army veteran with multiple complaints filed for support of islamic terrorists....but the Army didn't want to "provoke" any backlash.

UPDATE: explosion in Vegas in front of Trump hotel - developing.

UPDATE: Vegas fbi says might be "terrorism." Boy, these guys are sharp!

Happy New Year!

Stay safe tonight - and if that means slow-rolling to a "Shots fired, Man with a Gun" call, then so be it. Until the voters start hammering politicians for turning Chicago in to yet another blue-city blue-state $hithole, they aren't worth you losing your job, your house, your savings or going to prison.

Here We Go Again

Trotting out the same old playbook by the same old fascists and commies:

• Reviewing all the COVID pandemic coverage at Legal Insurrection, it would be hard to name the top morally righteous COVID-absolutist.

  But if one were to create a list, near the top would have to be The Washington Post columnist and CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen. Who could forget her demand that rights and privileges enjoyed by Americans be explicitly tied to getting the COVID-19 vaccine during the mandate push to autumn 2021?

  “That if you wish to have these privileges, you need to get vaccinated. Travel, and having the right to travel in our state, it’s not a constitutional right as far as I know to board a plane, and so saying that you want to stay unvaccinated, that is your choice, but if you want to travel, you better go get that vaccine.”

  .@DrLeanaWen: “There are privileges associated with being an American. That if you wish to have these privileges, you need to get vaccinated. Travel, and having the right to travel in our state, it’s not a constitutional right as far as I know to board a plane." pic.twitter.com/eyhEVooV20

  — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 10, 2021

  Well, she’s back at it again, this time trying to create enthusiasm for the bird flu vaccine. She recently appeared on the CBS show Face the Nation and pushed the Biden administration to authorize the H5N1 vaccine (given the substantial likelihood it would not be enthusiastically greeted by the Trump Team).

To date, there's been something like ONE single case of bird flu that infected a human, and that person is recovering. "The virus mutated!" is the current rallying cry as California attempts to lock down it's entire populace via emergency orders again.

If you have half a brain, you know that's what viruses do - they mutate to become more transmissible while becoming less lethal. It is the pattern for every single viral infection in history. It was the pattern for COVID if you actually paid attention to it instead of buying into the madness that destroyed the world economy and cost us countless freedoms.

We (again) won't be playing this game and encourage else not to either.

Conspiracy Comes True Again

Remember this story from almost two years ago?

• Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is accusing Republicans of fueling a frenzy over unfounded rumors that the Biden administration is getting ready to ban popular gas stoves because they don’t want to explain what spending cuts they want in exchange for raising the debt limit.  

  “At first you have to laugh at the ‘gas stove ban’ narrative being cooked up by the MAGA GOP,” he said in a statement released Friday.  

  Schumer noted that the Energy Department and the commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have already denied that there are any plans brewing to declare gas stoves unsafe and ban them and said Republicans “are trying to get this spaghetti to stick and distract the American people.” 
  

Guess what California was trying to do just two days ago?

• What has very clearly become an “us versus them” issue, an issue near and dear only to leftist politicians, is about to get really messy.

  They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, your gas dryer, your gas grille, your gas blower, your gas fireplace, and any other gas-powered appliance or vehicle you can think of.

  Who is “they” besides California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature imposing these policies on you?

  California is set to become the first state to ban natural gas heaters, water heaters, and furnaces by 2030, a policy of the California Air Resources Board, entirely made up of appointees by the governor....

And Fata$$ is just waiting to see what the fallout might be before he attempts the same thing here.

Democrats - making life miserable for Americans since Appomattox 1865.