Charges Announced
This is going to be another SAFE-T Act disaster:
A wanted felon was charged and detained Sunday in connection with the death of Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner last week after the man allegedly pointed an AR-style pistol at officers.
Adrian A. Rucker, 25, of Freeport, faces felony counts of armed violence and illegal possession of a gun, drugs and a fake ID, Chicago police said in a statement Sunday morning.
A Cook County judge ordered him held until trial during his detention hearing Sunday afternoon. Officers and Rivera’s family filled the courtroom.
Guess where this asshole was supposed to be already?
CPD reported that Rucker had six active warrants at the time of his arrest, including one from suburban Cook County that had been active for nearly a year.
Court records indicate Rucker failed to appear in court on an identity theft charge on June 5, 2024, exactly one year before Rivera’s shooting. Judge Ellen Mandeltort ordered her clerk to send Rucker a postcard reminder of his court obligations, but he did not comply. Mandeltort issued a failure-to-appear warrant a month later, which remained active until Chicago police arrested him on Thursday night.
A postcard?!?! That'll show him!
Paul Vallas points out:
- According to the Chicago Tribune, the person arrested in the tragic death of Officer Krystal Rivera allegedly pointed a rifle at Officer Rivera and other officers during a pursuit, which led to the incident that tragically led to her death.Rucker had 6 WARRANTS and a revoked FOID card due to domestic battery charges. He had an arrest warrant with Cook County since July of 2024. Why didn’t the Sheriff make this arrest?This is the public safety crisis former Clerk of the Courts Iris Martinez warned county leaders like Toni Preckwinkle about as Sheriff Tom Dart has let almost 40,000 warrants go unserved!These warrants put CPD officers lives in grave danger, who come across these individuals at traffic or investigatory stops and do not know the person they are approaching has an arrest warrant.CBS Chicago reports that the Sheriffs office has let 75% of orders of protection go unserved. Has any reporter asked why he does not serve the warrants and orders of protection?How many lives of victims of violence and first responders do we have to lose before the leaders at Cook County will do their jobs?
Dart has never been held accountable for any poor decisions he's made - from jail deaths, to hiring media slobs or their wives for six-figure jobs, cutting manpower to dangerous levels.
Why start now?
Labels: officer down, un-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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BUT.....
If one democrat gets elected....Is it not worth it ?
This is a leftist plan to put the country into a death spiral. When do the trials begin?
“No retention for all Cook County Judges!” Police Officers are doing their job however the legal system in County is a failure.
Can we get a legitimate, pro law enforcement, former cop to run for Sheriff next election cycle? Insane that this ass never has any real competition. Would love to have someone like Ron Haine run for office
(Dominick Izzo doesn’t count).
Whatever happened in this guy's case? Has he even gone to trial yet? How's P.O. Moreno doing?
This is a perfect example of the State "having to" knock the charge down to a misdemeanor so the offender will come back to court to plea after being released on an i-bond or electronic monitoring. This guy did that and then was able to get the felony charge that was reduced to a misdemeanor, expunged so he was able to obtain or keep his FOID and CCL. Straight from the mouth of an ASA, they have to knock them down to a misdemeanor because the defendant would never come back in to plea to a felony that they know they are going to do time for, AND the court doesn't have the court space or personnel to have to put all these cases on for a full trial especially within the term date. So in order to be able to get the defendant back in and to be able to close the case, they offer to reduce their felony down to a misdemeanor and time considered served if they come in and plea.
The media should do a FOIA request on all the felony cases that have been "closed out" since "Bail reform" started.
• How did Jerome Halsey, now charged with shooting a CPD officer, have a FOID and CCL despite gun conviction?
But we've learned his record was never actually expunged or sealed - and when it comes to his FOID card, he slipped through a loophole designed by the state.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/how-did-jerome-halsey-charged-with-shooting-cpd-officer-have-a-foid-ccl-despite-gun-conviction/
Dart whines jail population is back to 1/3 of previous Sheriff's. Blaming the new State's Attorney.
Apparently, Chicago media doesn't have Grok or Chatgpt
The FBI investigation into the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, led by Sheriff Tom Dart, centers on allegations of misconduct, including potential COVID-19 relief fraud, ghost payrolling, nepotism, and forgery, with connection to inmate deaths at Cook County Jail.
Dart is terrible anything wrong he finds someone else to blame whether it’s the president , or Correctional Officers , or deputies
Despite a significant reduction in Cook County Jail's population since Sheriff Tom Dart took office in 2006, inmate deaths have not decreased due to persistent issues like inadequate supervision, poor medical care, and drug overdoses. In 2023, 18 deaths occurred, the highest since 2013, despite a lower population, with half linked to lapses in oversight and care.
Sheriff Tom Dart allegedly interfered in an FBI probe by pressuring a senior investigator to share confidential details of a federal investigation into ghost payrolling, COVID-19 relief fraud, and other misconduct within his office.
Very sad situation that absolutely could have been avoided. If you remember this Safe T Act was pushed through in the middle of the night and then Lard Ass Pritzker signed it into law against the advice of numerous law enforcement experts.
Fuck Paul Vallas and his sanctimonious shit.
Illinois Democrats have a lot of blame to share for the death and destruction caused by their legislation agenda in the safe t act.
Dart loves running his little kingdom cherry picking projects for his media profile while ignoring the dangers caused by his mentor JBP and Toni.
Every one of these Democrat weasels need to be voted out of office and held accountable for the blood on their hands.
Lock his sorry ass up for dereliction of duty and his celly should be the mutt who ran from the car
Except for Mitch Davis, Chief of Hazel Crest, one of his "law enforcement experts" who was all for the "SAFETY" act. Davis is the smartest law enforcement official in Illinois, just ask him.
Vallas would be a GREAT Mayor or Sheriff. Why the hatred?
Anybody can FOIA. Why don't you do it?
Nevermind dart & his corruption everybody knows crook County is the most corrupt place, the better question is why wasn't that POS who pointed the gun at PO Rivera charged with pointing the rifle at police? Does the bwc show something else
In Illinois, everything is for the bad guys, nothing for me normal people.
That big fat sweathog down in Springfield is equally to blame.
Paul Vallas is just using this tragedy to elevate his prospects of securing an elected position somewhere in local government. His political ambitions will not be stayed. He will claim he supports police and law enforcement, and decry how we're being treated...right up to cutting our retirement benefits and declaring our pensions as government waste. Don't be fooled.
So? What are these sheriffs officers actually doing?
If nothing, time to cut or lay them off.
Every time a Democrat gets elected, another Devil gets it's horns down in Hell...
Feds should arrest him at next fundraiser. Been Sheriff for what 25 yrs and clown is running again.... Many campaign workers allegedly ghosting in charge jail covid unit. NY Times reported jail was top covid hot spot in country and his hand pick unit was AWOL. Many died, not just inmates
The Safety Act says you cannot hold someone more than 30 days on a failure to appear warrant. A Cook County judge is challenging that by holding an offender who has skipped court half a dozen times, held for 30 days and then released only to not show up again. Hopefully this part of the law is changed.
Someone we worried about political job under Tommy Toupee.
The piece of shit should be at the ME's office being disassembled!
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Keep voting for the democrats because your candidate is one of the good guys! Keep voting for the dems and you vote yourself right out of a job!
and what's the downside to prisoners' death in prison?
I thought that the sheriff, as a team flag waver of all the poorly enacted legislation by the general assembly, agreed that PICA and SAFE-T Acts were to be society's cure-alls and was going to swoop in and confiscate FOIDs, along with the associated weapons, with all the state funding the office was to receive to do that.
There is no blame to share among democrats, that was a feature of safe-t-act, not a bug. According to dems it was mission accomplished, and they are patting themselves on the back. The act served its purpose to add to the mayhem.
toupee tommie is a political hack not a LEO
When your toilet's broke, you hire a plumber. When the Sheriff's Office is broke, democRATS hire a shady political hack lawyer.
Chill out Tommy Dart!
Don’t worry fatass Pritzker and dumbass Johnson will be at the funeral with crocodile tears pretending they care and like le. Then they will protect all the migrants and release all the criminals. It’s time for a revolution in illinois
Maybe if Channel 7 reported on shortcomings of Cook County government instead of showing us runaway Zebras in Memphis problems would be addressed. That would still give them time to shill for Disney.
Never ever forget: these demonrats hate us and want us exterminated, weakening police and handcuffing them, along with edifying the criminal is part of staying civil unrest.
Don’t let them win. Prayers and research on all the demonrats should be well underway. Expose them and their pocketbooks, before they drain ours and put us on the streets for their precious criminals.
Dart has never been held accountable for any poor decisions he's made - from jail deaths, to hiring media slobs or their wives for six-figure jobs, cutting manpower to dangerous levels.
Lest we forget the pizza parties and nightly circle jerks with interns.
the sad part of this is that george soros barry eric holder , susan rice n hakeen jeffries are all laughing about this incident
What Dart in his late 70s, age limit in Sheriff office?
a big f-ckyou to those exempts that were laughing at the news conference show some respect but do not worry at your funeral i will spitting on your grave
Oh look-it’s the disgruntled jail guard again and his panties are in a bundle!
Should be charged with murder. Where’s the new SA?
Worked there for years. Yes it’s all true dart is the worst
All this talk”which I’m sure is 100% true” and his ass will be protected. He will get indicted when he is 86 years old by the fbi
He got charged with agg assault
EXACTLY ! Dump them All…
Time for the DOJ to launch a full scale investigation into Dart.
Was the sheriff's office broke? Maybe not perferct pre dart, but was nowhere near the shambles it is now. Probably why Uncle Mike Inc. Walked away, saw the writing on the wall of the future demorat party
@ 6/09/2025 07:03:25 AM
Cuz like 98% of the people on this job, most are nothing but blowhards who talk the talk but won’t walk the walk.
Most on the job are intimidated by rank and wouldn’t dare dig up dirt on a supervisor for fear of retaliation. What they fail to recognize is that this ain’t their Daddy’s Police Department anymore, and although BIA still runs the best interference in town, there are still many ways to bury it in some Stupidvisors ass if you’re even remotely intelligent and somewhat motivated.
I don’t care what little designators adorn a white shirt, because underneath it lies just another man or woman. And I can comfortably say that 98% of these people are dumber and less tenured/experienced than me. I wasn’t intimidated by rank in the service, I sure the fuck ain’t gonna be rattled by some DEI lieutenant with 12 years on the job who can’t pronounce 98% of the last names in roll call.
Respect the rank? I was always raised too - and did for most of my life. But as it means next to nothing on current day CPD, that’s getting harder to do all the time. Respect the person? Nope. That’s not an automatic understanding. When you genuinely respect ME is when you’ll get mine in return.
So put those Big Boy Pants on and get to diggin’. Here’s a convenient link to get ya started…
https://www.chicago.gov/content/city/en/progs/foia.html
Names please they should be demoted fkn asshats. No respect
Remember, Sheriff from Arizona had a handful of inmates' deaths, Obama DOJ raided the jail. Dart has hundreds, Chicago media- like whatever, more jobs please
And all the Beverly and Mt Greenwood boys will run right out and vote for him and his butt buddy O'Shea again and again.
CCSPD in general is run ridiculous. They want nothing to do with FTA warrants. Always put it on everyone else to send them to court. Barely attempt to serve OOP’s and relay on everyone else doing a short-form. Ex-Ops will always claim manpower issues and want nothing to do with hospital watches even if it’s their warrant. Cook is also the only county in that state that requires a laughable amount of paperwork for transfers and then acts like it is the end of the world if god forbid something minor is missing. Dart needs to retire already.
Dart was originally social justice warrior, now kissing MAGA ring to avoid probable indictment. Time to retire Tommy
FatAss only goes to Springfield when he has too!
Ain’t it the truth
"Anybody can FOIA. Why don't you do it?"
Because as the previous poster says, I'm one of the 98% on the job that won't put my name to anything, or make the least bit of effort to find one damn thing out. How many times have you seen "where's the FOP' on the blog. These fuckers won't even contact their own representatives on things that directly concern them.
Besides, that's a quote from a post about two years ago. I'm not the original poster.
Be safe.
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