FOP, We Have a Problem

This was forwarded to us by a couple of people. 

It seems the State Lodge also filed charges against their First VP (who happens to be the current president of Lodge 7) for pocketing campaign funds and threatening to withhold the State Lodge share of dues monies from the Lodge 7 collections.

John is taking a "voluntary leave of absence" from the State Lodge First VP spot and the State Lodge has withdrawn the charges temporarily....and for a very particular reason. Read it here (click for larger view):

Read that sentence at the end of the first paragraph:

• "....ongoing investigations of alleged misconduct by outside law enforcement authorities."

We don't know about you, but that screams "feds" to us.

Not only that, but we're told that State Lodge officials have been meeting with and providing statements to "outside law enforcement authorities." 

Something just went sideways.

Skynet Laughs

Big Brother is always watching:

• In a sign of things to come as law enforcement tools evolve with the times, a Chicago police drone team is being credited with tracking down a man who allegedly fired shots outside Soldier Field this month.

  It happened just after 5 p.m. on September 14 when police received reports of gunfire near 18th Street and Lake Shore Drive, according to a CPD report. Officers responded in patrol cars, as they always do. But this time they had a little high-tech backup: a police drone unit was patrolling the area from above.

  As officers searching the area heard more shots fired, the drone operators reported seeing a man holding a gun on the west side of Soldier Field, the report said.

So how long have they been operating? What are the limitations on pursuits? What is the range of the drone? Or drones?

And most importantly, what are the qualifications and necessary phone calls to get assigned to the Drone Unit? 

How Ironic

Mere days after we reminded everyone about the recently-promoted worthless piece-of-shit who changed her name to that of a convicted cop killer, guess who died in Cuba?

• Cuban officials on Friday said that Joanne Chesimard, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, has died in Havana decades after breaking out of prison and escaping to the communist island.

  Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Chesimard, who was born JoAnne Deborah Byron and was also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur, passed away after living there for years under asylum granted by the Cuban government.

So rot in piss Assata.

Rumor is that Chicago OoogaBooga will be changing her name to Georgina Floyd in an effort to stay relevant. 

Seems Like a Great Idea!

We're being sarcastic:

• The maximum age for a starting Chicago police officer or firefighter would rise from 40 to 55 under a controversial proposal to bolster hiring that was dismissed by union leaders as impractical.

  Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th), chair of the City’s Council’s Committee on Economic and Capital Development, acknowledged that policing and firefighting are, for the most part, a young person’s game.

  But in pushing the proposal, he argues there are still plenty of jobs, particularly in policing, that could be performed by rookies in their 50s.

Seriously?

• “When you talk about Lollapalooza, you’re not dealing with gangbangers and drug dealers,” Villegas said. “There’ll be occasional fights that break out, but it’s not like you’re going into a gang-infested area or trying to break up a drug deal.”

  “Crowds go there to have fun. Alcohol can be the fuel that starts something,” Villegas added. “But controlling rowdy crowds is something definitely a senior police officer could handle. That would allow younger police officers to get into these busy districts where crime is occurring and handle those.”

And a young, twenty-something (fueled by alcohol and assorted designer drugs) running up against a senior citizen (with all the usual wear-and-tear on an old body) is a recipe for disaster.

Not to mention that the kids will have a bunch more seniority on the seniors and therefore, will be bidding off the undesirable watches and out of the crappy districts far quicker than a senior citizen will be able to.

This is just dumb. 

Maybe hire senior citizens for the house mouse jobs and get able-bodied armed secretaries out on the street for the jobs they were hired to do?

What's with This Scandal?

Stupidity abounds suddenly - gun running and now this:

• 005th district officer caught switching labels at Walmart while off duty... security calls on him, confronts him. Fight breaks out and he's got a gun on him, call comes out as person with a gun. he's chased by 005 officers who get him in custody. Security says he does it often and want to sign complaints. Once they find out he's police they change their minds.

Unfortunately for him, by the time security decided to decline to sign the complaints, we're told the Lieutenant and a Captain showed up on scene.

Wonder how much farther they'll be lowering hiring standards in light of the manpower shortages. 

Border Patrol Navy Hits Town

We guess Cheeseheads swimming into town?

• The United States Border Patrol will add four marine patrol vessels to augment President Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. The addition of the patrol boats will allow the agency to access inland areas along the Chicago River from Lake Michigan.

  According to the Border Patrol, the move will bolster the effort to apprehend the “worst of the worst” by allowing Border Patrol access to key transit areas within the Chicago River waterway. The deployment will provide support to other federal agencies assisting in the Midway Blitz immigration enforcement operation. The three patrol vessels will increase border security by allowing quick access to respond as needed to multiple areas within the city.

  Breitbart Texas spoke to Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino, who is currently on the ground in Chicago, about the augmentation. Bovino, who also commands CBP’s contingent of agents involved in California’s Operation At Large Immigration Enforcement Operation, says the move will improve his agency’s ability to move swiftly along the waterways of Chicago and respond to threats as they occur.

Then they dared to report actual support for the CBP efforts:

• Bovino told Breitbart Texas he has conducted informal outreach with community members in Chicago and is pleasantly surprised by the reactions he is receiving. “I am speaking to residents in and around the downtown area, and I am receiving excellent feedback. Residents are happy to see us in the area, and many have expressed frustration that we didn’t get here sooner,” Bovino says.

Did anyone catch the interview Chuy Garcia gave after the shooting in Franklin Park? That ICE had "killed one of my constituents"? Is Chuy admitting he represents ILLEGAL ALIENS and that they voted for him? That would seem to violate any number of Federal laws.

Are Taxpayers Due a Refund?

Hahaha.....just kidding:

• After growing slightly for two years mostly due to an influx of migrant students, Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment dropped significantly this school year, continuing a long-term slide.

  As of Sept. 15, the 20th day of school, CPS had about 316,000 students, down by about 3%. The percentage of Latino students in CPS dropped, from 47.3% to 46.4%, while the percentage for other groups rose or remained the same.

  “Enrollment decreased across the majority of grade levels and most student groups, including [students] identifying as Black, Latinx, economically disadvantaged, English language learners and students in temporary living situations,” Interim CPS CEO/Supt. Macquline King said at Thursday’s board meeting.

We're also told reading and math scores dropped. 

So less students and less accomplishments.

QUICK! Better raise property taxes. Gotta keep all the underutilized schools open, wasting money.

Gun Running? Seriously?

Who thinks they can get away with this shit nowadays?

• Federal prosecutors are accusing a Chicago cop of using his status as a law enforcement officer to buy guns for an accomplice who funneled them to Mexico.

  In a newly unsealed indictment, a grand jury charges Officer Kevin Rodriguez and his co-defendant, Diego Valdez, with running an illegal gun pipeline between September and December 2024.

  Prosecutors say Rodriguez abused his position as a cop to acquire AR-style rifles and pistols not available to private citizens under Illinois law.

  The indictment alleges Rodriguez used his CPD credentials to buy restricted weapons in Illinois and Indiana, then falsely claimed on federal paperwork that he was the “actual buyer.” Investigators say Valdez was the real customer.

  He allegedly transferred thousands of dollars to Rodriguez via Zelle for the purchases, then smuggled the guns to Mexico.

Well, that'll be multiple federal charges all backed up by electronic money transfer records, probably twenty years minimum, maybe thirty.

According to his base salary, he's at Step 6, meaning over fifty-four months but under ten years. Old enough to know better.

 Hope it was worth it, asshat. 

About Damn Time

Former fbi director James Comey is going to be indicted shortly. 

Finally.

Years after lying to Congress, and without the shield of an auto-pen pardon. 

Hopefully the first of many. 

More Leftist Violence

We suppose this is one way to get rid of ILLEGAL ALIENS:

• A sniper who killed two migrants and wounded several others in a shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility has been identified as Joshua Jahn, 29, the Daily Mail can reveal. 

  The bloodbath unfolded at the facility in the Texas city shortly after 7am CT Wednesday morning, when the gunman targeted migrants on an unmarked transport van before killing himself. Multiple law enforcement sources named Jahn as the shooter who opened fire from the rooftop of a building adjacent to the ICE detention center. 

  Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN that the death toll stood at two as of Wednesday afternoon. A third victim was in serious condition. The victims were ICE detainees, and no law enforcement were injured in the shooting.

  Officials said at a press conference on Wednesday morning that bullets found by the shooter's body were engraved with 'anti-ICE messages', and FBI Director Kash Patel shared an image of the bullets reading: 'Anti-ICE.' 

As usual, the initial reporting by the lame stream propaganda outlets claimed that since ILLEGAL ALIENS got shot, it must be a right winger - until photographs of the messages etched on the bullets were released AND the shooters brother told everyone his murderer brother had almost no rifle skills and was a horrible shot.

Just more examples of leftie, progressive, commie, tranny violence.

Other Fallout

We missed this part of the "sickness" story:

• Members of Chicago's law enforcement community are taking offense with a comment made by Mayor Brandon Johnson, after he said this week, in part, "jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness."

  The comment sparked outrage online and in the Cook County State's Attorney's office.

  Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said she was deeply offended by the statement.

That was unusual to say the least:

• The "law enforcement is a sickness" comment drew outrage in some conservative and pro-police circles on social media — even prompting O'Neill Burke to voice her own outrage during an interview on a different topic.

  "The statement was disappointing and disheartening. We are part of law enforcement. The State's Attorney's office is the prosecution arm, and that is clearly law enforcement," she said. "I have 1,300 people who work in this office, who are dedicated public servants, who get up every single day to make sure that they keep women safe from domestic violence, to make sure that we are doing our jobs in protecting children from being sex trafficked, to make sure that we are prosecuting murder cases. What we do every day does not call for our eradication."

Wow. We thought that type of support from the States Attorney's Office was a thing of the past. And every time we're reminded that someone other than that talent-less, root-beer-smelling, husband-beating, DEI, crooked witch isn't in office, it's a welcome surprise.

Massive Scandal Admitted

Remember how the blog disappeared a while back after one of our regular informants alerted us to the fact that Google (which runs Blogspot) was going to circumvent our security efforts as part of a coordinated effort to deplatform conservative voices?

Turns out to have been 100% true:

• Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company’s terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

  “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan.

Funny how all the threats of fascism and censorship are claimed to be right-wing ideas, but always end up being launched and landed by the left. Unfortunately, we don't see any sort of remedy from the inevitable class-action lawsuits forthcoming.

And when they can't win via open dialogue, they always turns to violence. 

Hey Look, Promotions....Wait, Who?

Arriving in an email this morning, a lieutenant class on tap:

 

Among the ones who made it by "score," you'll see Sgt Ooogabooga who was infamous a while back for changing her name to that of a cop killer who murdered a New Jersey State Trooper, escaped prison and at last report is hiding in Cuba, still on the fbi Top Ten list.

This is what Larritorious wants in the upper ranks? One step away from a command spot? What in the actual fuck - they should have torn down the entire list rather than let her get promoted. They've done that before when a particular undesirable individual got too close to a promotion.

Shameful that anyone has to be on the same sheet of paper as this scumbag. 

UPDATE: Someone says that all five "merit" lieutenant promotions were also "merit" sergeant promotions. That means that not a single one of them ever passed a test high enough to get promoted on job knowledge....only on their knowledge of their clout's anatomy.

Immediate Explanation

Transparencyusa.org is a site that tracks political donations - kind of a "reveal the network" type site, and it was brought to our attention that there appears to be a strange donation made a few months ago (click for larger view):

 

That appears (APPEARS) to be a $10,000 donation to the Illinois Governor's Mansion Association ....from what is listed as "Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge."

Just so everyone is aware, there are six Lodges with the word Chicago in their title:

• Chicago John Dineen Lodge of course (Lodge 7);
• Chicago Revenue Investigators (Lodge 279);
• Chicago Ridge Police (Lodge 12)
• Chicago State University Police (Lodge 277);
• Eugene Stack West Chicago (Lodge 85)
• University of Chicago Police (Lodge 225) 

 There are also thirteen FOP lodges with the word "Chicago" in their address (eleven "Chicago," one as "West Chicago" and one as "Chicago Ridge").

While we would hope that this is merely sloppy record keeping and documentation on the part of Transparency.org, we can state with near certainty that at least four of those six lodges don't have anywhere near the resources to be tossing $10K at someone who has repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard for American citizens, public safety and the rule of law.

UPDATE: The contribution was May of 2025 according to this page....just four months ago. 

Well Well Well

Remember, Fata$$ doesn't want the feds here in any capacity:

• A 13-year-old girl who was reported missing in New York was found in a Chicago suburb, the U.S. Marshals said.

  The girl was reported missing in Rochester, New York on Sept. 11. Police said video shows she left her family's home and met up with three people. Police said she was seen getting into a light-colored SUV near the home.

  On Sept. 20, the girl was found at an apartment complex in the 2300-block of West 119th Street in Blue Island.

That's a violation of the Mann Act at the very least - but why wouldn't Porkulous want the feds involved?

• She was with an 18-year-old man and his father, U.S. Marshals said.

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement said both men were in the U.S. illegally.

This is who Fata$$ is eager to protect and hide from ICE.

This is who Conehead spent nearly a half-a-billion dollars on the past few years.

This is why your taxes are about to skyrocket. Again. 

Welcome to "Suddenly"

In Ernest Hemingway 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises," the character Mike Campbell was asked about his money troubles and responded with....:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Is Illinois finally approaching "suddenly"?

• Gov. JB Pritzker is directing state agencies to identify 4% spending cuts in next year’s budget, citing what he called "disastrous economic policies" by President Donald Trump.

  Pritzker signed an executive order requiring agencies to outline reductions within 30 days. 

  The cuts could include nonessential purchases, operational expenses and nonessential travel.

  "There are hundreds of millions of dollars that are going to have to be made up for as a result of the cuts the federal government is making, including in healthcare and nutritional assistance but also across the economy with the tariffs that are impacting businesses in Illinois," Pritzker said.

  The governor said the 4% figure is only a starting point and warned that the state may face more severe budget challenges in the coming year.

"disastrous economic policies" that have led to all time stock market highs?

Health care and nutritional assistance that are rife with corruption and grift?

Tariffs that most experts agree aren't having nearly the downside that the panic peddlers on the left were hoping for, and are actually properly re-balancing world trade?

While Porky jacks up taxes by another few billion, maintaining gas taxes at levels where truckers won't even fill up in Illinois, businesses flee to surrounding lower tax states and U-Haul rates Illinois as one of the top three states homeowners are fleeing?

No More Horses?

A rumor popping up here and there that Conehead wants to get rid of the Mounted Unit.

Does this have something to do with the real estate around the South Shore Cultural Center? Is someone from the Sparklefart Library looking to open a hotel in the area? 

Or yet another shortsighted penny-pinching effort to "balance the budget" via defunding?

Another Way to Keep Crime Down

HeyJackass.com, the only source for actual crime stats, tell readers that an anniversary weekend just passed:

• This weekend marks the first anniversary of those racist walkie-talkies (i.e., ShotSpotter) being deactivated. In that timeframe, 56 (known) victims have become “Brandon’s Bodies” with 26 proving fatal.

  Those numbers do not include the 1000s and 1000s of shooting incidents where no one catches a round that are no longer reported. See how that works?

  And with shootings “down”, Mayor Panic Attack feels it’s a good time to say the quiet part out loud with his proclamation that “law enforcement is a sickness” to be “eradicated”.

Because crimes unreported are crimes being "down." And we've all seen the apathy of citizens who have lost all hope that criminals might be chased, arrested, and held responsible for the misery they inflict on neighborhoods citywide.

And Conehead can still f#$% himself sideways with his commie propaganda "sickness" bullshit.  

UPDATE: And like clockwork, CWB reports on another one of Brandon's Bodies (number 57):

• A 53-year-old man was found shot to death on a West Pullman street Sunday afternoon, a murder committed without any 911 calls reporting gunfire in the area.

  Exactly when the man was shot remains unclear, a detail missing in part because Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the city’s gunfire detection system almost exactly one year ago.

There's certainly is a sickness in Chicago, but it starts over at City Hall.

Just a Reminder

Got this in an email:

• In 2019, Pritzker said he wanted to "grow the economy" and it is his job to make us "hugely successful."

  Under @JBPritzker, only public sector jobs have grown, economic growth has stagnated, and he has raised taxes $6.3 billion.

  This is a record of failure. Pritzker's only success as governor is driving residents from Illinois.

We were passing through Indiana the other day and decided to fill up the car before crossing back into Fata$$-Land. the price of Gas in Indiana?

•  $2.99 a gallon

We haven't seen it in Porky's Illinois for anything under $3.35 in months thanks to the recent tax increases. No wonder all our old southside friends are doing their shopping over the border for everything from groceries to gas to ammunition.

Back to the Basics

Suddenly, the head of the FOP remembers what made him so popular amongst the rank-and-file a few years ago, and decides to do what he should have been doing all along instead of picking fights with the people he actually works for:

• The head of the union representing Chicago’s front line police officers is blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson for calling law enforcement a “sickness” that he plans to “eradicate.” Also speaking out about the mayor’s comments, albeit in a more measured tone, is Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke.

  As CWBChicago first reported last Wednesday, Johnson erupted at a press conference, calling “jails and incarceration and law enforcement” a sickness that “has not led to safe communities,” and vowing to “eradicate” it.

  Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara released a spicy YouTube video of his own on Friday, a video he recorded while standing in front of the mayor’s home, which is protected 24/7 by multiple CPD units.

  “Three squad cars blocking it, patrolling it, protecting it for him and his family,” Catanzara said. “Yet, he calls law enforcement a sickness. What a hypocrite. Piece of garbage.”

Careful....when someone was live blogging in front of the governor's mansion, the media was all a flutter that Porkulous was nervous, getting sweatier than usual, and stress eating. We're surprised there weren't reports of his security detail firing shots at innocent citizens walking by.

After this, Conehead is going to be on the verge of another nervous breakdown. 

Terror Warnings on the Upswing

Glossed over by most media outlets, so you have to look to the international reports:

• The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said on Friday that recent calls by al Qaeda for attacks against the United States showed the group's enduring threat to the country.

  Al Qaeda and its Yemen-based affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) "are likely seeking to leverage their media publications and global conflicts, particularly where there is U.S. support or military involvement, to inspire potential attackers," it said in a memo to law enforcement.

Pretty standard stuff, part of the regularly schedule reminders surrounding 9/11. They issue warnings regularly every year under all administrations.

With some differences though (a little less reliable site here):

• ...terrorists are preparing to impersonate first responders by purchasing police and EMT uniforms from surplus stores and online vendors.

  She said the aim is to blend in during attacks, redirect panicked crowds, and launch secondary strikes.

  More chillingly, Loomer reported that hospitals and medical facilities in major cities — including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Miami — have been scouted. 

  Terrorists allegedly intend to cripple trauma centers and emergency rooms, preventing treatment of the wounded and compounding casualties, she said.

That's at the far end of the spectrum there, but that doesn't mean it can't happen.

Stay alert. 

More Stops! More Stops!

It's what the bosses demanded.

And now they're all stripped and the bosses are nowhere to be found:

• Three officers assigned to a controversial tactical team accused of unlawfully stopping and searching drivers along Chicago's Michigan Avenue have had their police powers stripped, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department confirmed to the ABC7 I-Team.

The entire article is a bare bones bit of "reporting" and doesn't even touch on the demands of the command staff who used the carrot of plain clothes and avoiding midnight shifts to generate Constitutionally questionable numbers for to make them look good in the eyes of fellow gold stars.

How long has "Stay Fetal" been a refrain here? How many warnings were related to everyone from readers who had been through the meat grinder? And how many times does history have to repeat before a lesson is learned? 

SCC is Leaving the Country

To an non-extraditable country where.....just kidding.  

Next month, we're going to be taking a short vacation. It's someplace where we need a passport to travel and where we wouldn't feel secure bringing a laptop along and attempting to access the internet.

So for a short period of time, we'll be locking down the blog comments so we don't come back to a few thousand comments that went un-moderated for the duration. Unlike our previous absence, we'll leave the lights on so you can peruse the archives and entertain yourself.

Just so no one is surprised when they can't comment and we aren't answering emails. 

Juicy Smollet 2?

The Contrarian has a post up, supposing that the recent incident involving a dead rat and attached note referencing ICE enforcement of Federal Laws regarding ILLEGAL ALIENS in front of an aldercreature's office could be....fake?

The aldermoron involved is the usual progressive turd always looking to agitate for the destruction of law and order and correctly point out that the stretch of Western Avenue this occurred is one of the more heavily "camera-ed" stretches in the city.

There is certainly a case to be made that the publicity generated by such an action only benefits an aldercreature who represents what is arguably the most lib-tarded ward in the city. And a similar argument can be made that any "perpetrator" wouldn't know where the aldercreature's office was and wouldn't want to risk a stint in jail.

And we all know that the demand for racism/sexism/progressive outrage far outstrips the supply, especially in Chicago.

ISP Chase, CPD Injured

Hurt trying to assist ISP:

• An officer is recovering in the hospital and a suspect is in custody following a crash involving a stolen vehicle and a CPD squad car on the West Side early Saturday morning.

  According to Illinois State Police troopers, it all began around 1:15 a.m. after troopers spotted a vehicle that had just been hijacked near West Ogden Avenue and West Polk Avenue, on the Near West Side.

  Troopers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle, but the driver allegedly fled. Amid the flee attempt, troopers said three people allegedly got out of the car and ran away on foot.

CPD has a very limited chase policy along with a very limited foot chase policy:

 But helping ISP for a foot chase of fleeing suspects? Hell yeah:

• Shortly after the passengers fled, troopers said the driver of the vehicle allegedly crashed head-on into a CPD squad car near West Madison Street and North Pulaski Road in West Garfield Park.

Ouch.

Seems like everyone ended up in custody, although the Officer ended up in the hospital. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. 

ABC Thieves at it Again

Just like the old days:

1. SCC is handed a rumor....posts it looking for more info;
2. a bunch of people claim the rumor is false and SCC has lost it;
3. ABC steals "finds" a story and writes about it twenty-two hours later

Life goes on:

• The second-in-command at the Chicago Police Department is retiring. Yolanda Talley became the first woman to ever hold the position of first deputy superintendent when she was sworn into the post this past March.
  
  It's Talley's job to oversee much of the department's day-to-day operations. A reason for her retirement was not given. It is effective October 15.

Sure, because incompetency and corruption is never given as a "reason" for retiring after six months in the position.

Supposedly, there might be a story brewing in the background and this is an effort to head it off to get her a cushy suburban spot before the shit hits the fan.

Nice Shot Lady

We just like posting these when they occur:

• A man was fatally shot after attempting to break into an apartment Saturday morning in East Garfield Park.

  The man, 33, attempted to break into an apartment with multiple people inside around 7 a.m. in the 3400 block of West Monroe Street when a woman opened fire, according to Chicago police.

  The woman, 28, shot the man twice, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name hasn’t been released.

  Police said the woman has a valid conceal and carry license and was being questioned.

Nothing like a "feel-good" story during the weekend.

This is an Issue Why?

Sometimes we think politicians write laws simply to provide plaintiff attorneys with reasons to sue:

• Two fans have filed nearly identical federal lawsuits accusing the Chicago Cubs and their security contractors of secretly collecting facial recognition data from visitors at Wrigley Field without consent. The cases are expected to be consolidated.

  In complaints filed days apart in Chicago, plaintiffs Gabriel Berta and Jill Lichte allege that the Cubs, Rosemont-based Blue Star Security, and Blue Star’s parent company, Connecticut-based Protos Security, violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Both suits claim the organizations installed a sweeping surveillance network at Wrigley Field that generates and stores “faceprints” of fans and employees without disclosing the practice or obtaining the written consent that Illinois law requires.

  [...] The lawsuits cite Blue Star’s own public claims that it uses biometric scanners and facial recognition tools for “crowd control” and access restrictions at Wrigley Field. They also note that Major League Baseball’s privacy policy references biometric collection but is not shared with fans at the ballpark.

  Neither the Cubs nor their contractors provided game attendees with notice, written consent opportunities, or policies for how long biometric data would be stored or when it would be destroyed, the suits say.

Remember, the government (state, county, local) can record you without consent on the public way doing public things pretty much 24/7/365. Speed cameras, POD cameras, red light cameras, body cams, dash cams, etc. There was even an effort during the Groot years to get private cameras on businesses looped into the data gathering. 

If we were an aldercreature's niece or nephew, we wouldn't want the paper contract for government printing - we'd want the data storage contract.

But there's actually a law on the books telling a private company they can't record people who voluntarily pay money to access and see entertainment? A simple work around would seem to be to print something on the back of the tickets saying you may be recorded and then post signs at the entrances saying the same thing. Then post a public policy about the data being wiped after a few days.

Geez, next thing you know people will be complaining they got filmed at a concert being all lovey-dovey with someone who they weren't married to. 

Or worse, we'd actually see a CPS employee tucking a handgun into her fat flaps before wounding a fellow baseball aficionado with a negligent discharge.

Seriously?

We spent a bit of our career telling drunks and entitled morons that our squad car wasn't a taxi. That liability factors for the city taxpayers didn't allow us to be transporting people who were able to bus, taxi or walk to their destination. That we didn't give rides to anyone unless they were in handcuffs.

Now this is in the parking lot at HQ?

 

This is what they're wasting money on?

Exactly What We Voted For

We love the smell of tear gas in the morning:

• Tensions escalated at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview Friday where, during a morning demonstration, an ICE agent shoved a congressional candidate to the ground. Later, immigration agents fired tear gas and pepper balls into the crowd, and two protesters were arrested.

  The demonstration, which began about 5 a.m., drew dozens to the facility to protest the detention of people rounded up in President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign targeting the Chicago area.

  In a video circulating on social media, Kat Abughazaleh, a Democratic primary candidate running for the 9th Congressional District seat, was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent in fully camouflaged uniform.

  Abughazaleh told the Chicago Sun-Times she was thrown to the ground twice by ICE agents and was helping another protester when an agent lifted her by her chest, carried her and threw her onto the asphalt.

  “I wasn’t surprised, and that’s part of why we’re here,” Abughazaleh said. “Everyone here is at least a little bit scared, but mostly I’m angry and we need to get the facility shut down.”

  ICE agents used tear gas and shot pepper balls, she said — some of which hit her legs — around 6 a.m., while shouting “your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Um, that's true actually. You protest on the public way. You don't get to trespass, which is what occurred according to every video we saw....the ones from actual unbiased news sources, not the Chicago media.

In the meantime, keep supporting the criminals who are rapidly bankrupting shithole blue cities and states and pretty much securing electoral victories for the next few cycles. 

By the way, does anyone know if it was actual CS gas or just pepper aerosols?  

Strange Bedfellow

Fata$$ loves criminals so much, he poses for photos with them before they're charged with murder:

• Less than a week before a crash-and-grab burglary crew killed an innocent man on the Magnificent Mile last Thursday, one of the men now charged with that murder donned a “peacekeeper” uniform and posed for a one-on-one picture with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

  While that’s troubling, some law enforcement experts are more concerned that the accused man was able to stand directly next to the state’s most powerful executive despite having outstanding warrants in four states.

So where are all those police Porkulous claims to have hired? 

Obviously, they aren't screening people who show up for photos.

The photo was just scrubbed from the state's on-line press release, but CWB grabbed a copy and we feel obligated to share it here:

Someone said they were comparing pants sizes. 

Help Wanted

Hilarious:

• A slick TV commercial created by ICE that is currently airing on NBC Chicago and other local television stations is controversial for several reasons. The ad tries to attract disgruntled Chicago and suburban police officers to work at the federal agency that has ramped up immigration arrests since President Donald Trump took office. The blunt recruiting ad comes as ICE teams are marching through the city and suburbs making arrests.

  Also, the commercial takes dead aim at Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is not a fan of the agency or it’s tactics. 

  The ICE TV spot begins: “Attention Chicago law enforcement. You took an oath to protect and serve, to keep your family, your city safe. But in sanctuary cities, you’re ordered to stand down,” referring to a no-cooperation policy that Chicago has in place. The TV ad offers a solution: “Join ICE, and help us catch the worst of the worst.”

  The commercial is a blatant attempt at poaching officers from already dwindling ranks at the Chicago Police Department and puts a bull’s eye on City Hall and Mayor Brandon Johnson.

  "Can I just say that it's a horrible way to recruit?" Johnson said on Tuesday.

Um, we don't see the national administration telling people that "law enforcement is a sickness." That's a step up from your failed administration already.

They don't wear cameras. They don't have four or five different oversight agencies looking to put you in prison. They're actually encouraged to enforce the Law. Their pension is system is unlikely to go bankrupt.

Sure, there are downsides, but if you're a young copper with less ties to this blue city blue state shithole and less family tying you down, it's worth a look. 

On a side note, has everyone been watching Conehead? We mean really watching him lately. Dude is literally breaking down in slow motion. It would almost be sad if he was a human being, but he's a worthless commie puppet for the CTU and Prickwrinkle.  (our insults are slightly more creative than Conehead's) 

The Failed Ambush

And it was clearly an ambush:

• Chicago’s police oversight agency has released dramatic surveillance footage and case materials from last month’s armed ambush of an off-duty Chicago police officer in Back of the Yards. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability made the release Thursday, and while its statement did not include any new details, the video left little doubt about what happened: It was a cold-blooded murder attempt.

  According to officials, the attack occurred at 6:13 a.m. on August 3, as a 30-year-old officer backed her black SUV into her garage in the 4800 block of South Bishop Street. As she finished parking, a white sedan rolled down the alley. The sedan’s front passenger door cracked open while the vehicle was still rolling past the garage, as if someone inside was eager to spring out. Once the vehicle pulled to a stop, three masked men poured out, ran toward the officer’s garage, and opened fire.

  Another camera angle captured the officer lowering her garage door during the barrage, which may have hastened the attackers’ retreat. CPD said the crew fled north in the alley with a fourth person driving the getaway car.

There was no robbery attempt - it was a murder attempt.

CWB has the initial video.

The rest of the videos are over at the COPA site. 

No one has been arrested or charged. 

UPDATE: A bunch of people point out what appears to be a puff of smoke in the right hand side of the video, possibly the first shot by the Officer. It very well might be. 

In that case, this is exceptional situational awareness by the Officer that she was about to be the victim of a robbery and a perfect example of, "You don't have to wait to be shot at before taking action." 

More disturbing is how quickly the carjackers switched from robbery to blazing away with multiple weapons. 

Yoyo Retiring

From numerous sources:

The papers are in.

She just became too much of an embarrassment. 

No word on how west side dope deliveries will be completed.

Who's up for First Deputy now? The serial sexual deviant? 

Shooting(s) Overnight

 Someone brought a knife to a gun fight:

• A man who “advanced” toward Chicago police officers with a large knife was shot and seriously injured by police late Wednesday in Austin.

  Officers noticed a man brandishing a large knife in the street and walking toward people around 11 p.m. in the 5200 block of West Madison Street and told him multiple times to drop the weapon, Chicago police said. The man then advanced toward officers, who tried to use their tasers to no effect, police said.

  As the armed man continued to approach, one officer fired their weapon and struck the man, officials said. He was taken to an area hospital in serious condition, authorities said.

Notice how the Slum Times slants their "reporting" and says, "advanced" as if it's in question.

And a suburban cop ran into another knife-wielding offender:

• Charges are pending for a knife-wielding man who was shot by an off-duty Broadview police officer Wednesday night in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.

  The officer, a 64-year-old man, was leaving his vehicle around just after 9 p.m. in an alley in the 7300 block of South Langley Avenue when the armed man moved toward him, Chicago police said.

  The officer shot the man multiple times in the legs, police said. The man fled the scene but was found a short time later by responding officers.

Now the Slum times says, "advanced toward him" and doesn't use the "quotes" to make implications. Almost like the hate is reserved solely for CPD.  Their demise can't come soon enough.

Lean Times Getting Leaner

Back in the 1990's the Department used to print (yes, actually print) a seniority list of ALL Department employees. It was the size of a small telephone book. It was made up of two lists actually - one by seniority and one alphabetical. We know this because we saw it, paged through it, and "acquired" a few pages out of it at the time. Our seniority in that book was twelve thousand and some change. We probably still have it somewhere.

When we left, that number had dwindled to under one-thousand and was an electronic .pdf document. But the cops at the back of the list were only in the high nine-thousands. That means the Department itself had shrunk by at least three thousand from our rookie days to our dinosaur days.

It's about to get worse:

• Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling vowed Wednesday to resist any attempt to eliminate altogether 984 police vacancies — even as Mayor Brandon Johnson struggles to erase a $1.15 billion shortfall after two straight years of deficit spending.

  Johnson has ordered all of his department heads to cut 3 to 5% from their 2025 budgets.

  Instead of cutting vacancies, Snelling said he plans to meet that $92 million mandate through a hiring slowdown. He plans to hold open those 984 police positions, but budget less money for those vacancies he knows the city won’t be able to fill.

If we remember - it was either the 9.5 digit midget or Groot - actually cut 1,200 vacancies and then declared the Department was "fully staffed." This was on top of a previous cut of 800 under Shortshanks. We made much fun of their "accounting" back then and started posting the worksheets from assorted Districts. Where we were, we used to have a dozen-to-fifteen beat cars, almost as many rapids, two wagons and a traffic car. After being "fully staffed" we had zero-to-two rapids, one wagon and a traffic car four days a week. Fun times indeed.

• “We do understand… that there’s a budget crisis and everybody is going to have to take a haircut,” Snelling told the City Council’s Budget Committee Wednesday during mid-year budget hearings. “I just want to be careful that we don’t just eliminate positions. But if those positions can sit there funded at a much lower rate and we know that we’re not going to be able to hire those people, that would be an effective way of saving dollars.”

  Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28th) asked Snelling how he could possibly absorb a $92 million hit without impacting police service.

  “We don’t,” the superintendent said.

There are only a few ways forward here:

• disbanding of CAPS, Consent Decree / Constitutional Policing units;
• trimming the bloated Academy staff;
• a true gutting of HQ and office house mice;
• Homan Square units and re-imagining tact teams;
• a new schedule - ten or twelve hour days;
• a complete remapping of the Districts and Areas. 

And every legal citizen better get a gun. Or two. 

Fuck You Conehead

He's actually saying this out loud:

• “Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson declared during a fiery press conference Tuesday, adding that he intends to “eradicate” that sickness.

  Johnson made the remarks after a reporter asked him about his administration’s public safety plan. During his diatribe, the mayor cited four years of Chicago murder data, beginning with the city’s record-setting 970 killings in 1974. He noted there were 828 murders in 1995, 778 in 2016, and 805 in 2021.

  “This has been a problem in this city for a very long time,” Johnson said, claiming the city is seeing improvement due to his initiatives. Now, the mayor claimed, President Donald Trump “wants to put his name on our paper” and take credit for the latest downtrend.

  But Johnson chose outlier years to bolster his point, including the city’s worst year on record, while overlooking the longer trend of steady decline. Between 2004 and 2013, Chicago never recorded more than 513 killings in a year, and most years stayed under 450, according to official records. In 2015, the city had 493 murders, well below the 778 he cited for 2016. And the 2021 total occurred during the pandemic crime surge.

He does know how to read statistics, right? He does know that something like 85% of these murders....and murderers....are of a single ethnic background? And 12% are from another?

And if law enforcement is "the problem," then why does this retarded asshole have over 130 assigned to protect him?

It's time for those officers detailed to Detached Services to use their phone calls to get reassigned somewhere else. 

This Seems Serious

As in VERY SERIOUS:

• In order to cover retirement checks as the city waits for property tax revenue to replenish its dwindling coffers, Chicago will lend cash to its pensions, avoiding asset sales.

  The delayed collection stems from a computer issue.

  The city advanced $28 million this month to the Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund so it wouldn’t need to dump stocks, bonds or other assets to cover retiree benefits, according to city finance officials. City of Chicago CFO Jill Jaworski told aldermen the city is monitoring the cash needs of all four pension funds — covering firefighters, police, laborers and municipal workers — and will lend as needed until Cook County’s property tax mess is resolved, Bloomberg reported.

Yeah, you don't want to be selling assets as the stock market has been setting records more than a few times this month and is potentially on the verge of more records as interest rates are (finally) trimmed.

The City has done this before, short term lending to keep the woefully underfunded funds afloat, but it isn't sustainable. We sure wish that billion dollars wasted on ILLEGAL ALIENS was still around to take care of actual obligations.

Pennsylvania Shooting

Bad news out of the northeast yesterday:

• Three officers were killed and two others wounded in York County, Pennsylvania’s, Codorus Township shortly after 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.

  NBC 10 Philadelphia reported that the officers were serving a warrant. The two wounded officers are in critical condition.

  CNN noted that the suspect who opened fire on officers was shot and killed.

  NBC News indicated the issuance of the warrant was part of “following up on a domestic investigation that began Tuesday.”

Deepest sympathies to all of the fallen and prayers for a speedy recovery to the wounded.

The Lies go All the Way Up

First, Dickhead "Turban" Durbin suddenly realizes calling people nazis is counterproductive:

• On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that Democrats have gone too far with some of their rhetoric, and “This notion that we’re going to characterize MAGA as Nazis,” is “unacceptable” and “the loss of Mr. Kirk is a good reason” to learn that lesson. Durbin also objected to some rhetoric from Republicans.

Seriously Dick? Does anyone remember 14 June 2005? That was when Dick compared US Troops to nazis. Google it. Here's the video. Here's his half-assed apology OVER A WEEK LATER. Dick follows the dem playbook to the letter - make an outrageous accusation that everyone sees. Then "apologize" a week or a month later when no one is paying attention. 

Now Sparklefarts is getting in on the act:

• Former President Barack Obama implied Tuesday that President Donald Trump was to blame for Charlie Kirk’s assassination, because of “extreme” personnel and policies that aroused violent opposition.

  Obama was interviewed onstage by Steve Scully at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania. He mourned Kirk’s death, saying it was “horrific,” but made sure to recite an (inaccurate) laundry list of Kirk’s more controversial statements, including a false claim that Kirk claimed black women were stupid.

  Obama then said that Trump wanted to use Kirk’s assassination as “a rationale for trying to silence discussion around who we are as a country and what direction we should go.” He then claimed that when he had been in the White House, “those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.”

Really?

• Sparklefarts consorted with anti-Semite Farrakhan before being elected;
• Sparklefarts' church was led by racist Jerimiah "goddamn America" Wright;
• Sparklefarts was instrumental in Crossfire Hurricane, weaponizing the fbi to spy on the first Trump campaign;
• remember "the police acted stupidly" when cops were just responding to a 9-1-1 call? 
• or “argue with them, get in their face"? That's not extremist? 
• after the Pulse Nightclub shooting (an act of islamic terror) Sparklefarts flew down to Florida and castigated republicans for not passing anti-gun laws....DIRECTLY BLAMING THEM.

And that's just off the top of our head without any effort. Have none of these morons ever heard of the Internet? 

And by the way, the lie currently being peddled about how the right is responsible for the majority of the political violence? Do you know how they came up with their numbers?

• all prison violence is attributed to aryan gangs
• all islamic violence is religious in nature, and everyone knows religion is always a right wing thing

It's all a smoke screen for the left. 

General Meeting Tonight (UPDATES)

It will likely be the best attended meeting of the past few years, and perhaps some answers to ongoing issues? We expect obfuscation and entire lines of questioning to be declared "Out of Order."  We wouldn't be surprised to see efforts to have attendees physically removed from the building. Expect more charges to be filed if that starts happening. Everything is on the table.

It would actually be beneficial if the State and National Lodges had observers there, but no idea how involved they might be at this point.

Just a reminder for attendees:

• Extra parking is available at the Plumber's Hall lot, nearly 100 spots if we remember correctly. Get there early to secure a spot because the street is going to fill up fast.

HOWEVER:

• The Plumber's lot closes at 2100 hours and the gates will be locked shortly afterward with no guard to let you out.

The Plumbers are doing the FOP membership a favor and we'd hate to see that courtesy abused. 

This meeting is probably going to run long. We're going to try to be available from 1900 hours onward to maintain the comment section as close to "live" as we can get it. 

UPDATE #1: We're attempting to keep avenues of communication open from the meeting. So far, we're told that the usual preliminary things are happening - reports from various committee chairs, except in the case of the financial report, the chair is running through each line long form instead of summarizing, possibly in an effort to drag things out and discourage people from hanging around for the fireworks.

The auditing firm is in the room. 

UPDATE #2: we're only receiving a smattering of comments and email is silent. Either things are a bit intense and our commenters are paying close attention to everything or it isn't as explosive as was expected. It's just after 2100, so the Plumber's lot should be closing, meaning perhaps we'll have some information inbound shortly from people leaving.

UPDATE #3: via email:

• It’s was a pretty good crowd, most people I’ve seen at a general meeting in a very long time.  [...]
  
  
  [T]hey were in full blown damage control mode.  The auditor literally had 4 pages of notes/bullet points to lay out and dumbed it down for those with no knowledge of the process of keeping them honest with the books. One [officer] asked for clarification on a point discussed and then asked for percentages regarding what’s allowable before red flags are raised when audits are conducted and irregularities are suspected/discovered.  Ms. Auditor was kinda uncomfortable and it caught her off guard.
  
  
  
  Things are getting interesting for sure.  I have no faith in the committee hearing the charges doing so without bias, but we’ll have to wait and see how things shake out.

We'll give this a few more minutes for any last second info, then call it a night

This Guy Taught Skool?

This sounds so very familiar:

• Brandon Johnson signs 'Right to Protest' executive order

  "The City of Chicago has proven time and time again that we can safeguard demonstrations of any size while protecting First Amendment rights," Johnson said. "With this Executive Order, we affirm that Chicago will remain a place where democracy and freedom reign. Today, we proclaim that all residents and visitors can peacefully assemble, petition their government, and speak freely in our city."

Wasn't there a document addressing this exact situation enacted some time ago? 

Somewhere around....1787 or thereabouts?

The United States Constitution or something? 

We could have sworn we heard about it....even though this moron obviously hasn't. He thinks he's actually creating something new. 

Tamp Down What Now?

The hypocrisy continues apace:

• Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday said he has received many more threats since last week’s killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, a symptom of escalating tensions at “a moment when Americans must come together and say clearly that threats and political violence are not the answer.”

  That’s the message that President Donald Trump should be sending, but “instead, he actively fans the flames of division,” Pritzker claimed during a Loop news conference.

  “Political violence has increased substantially against both Republicans and Democrats. Democracy is designed precisely to avoid political violence, and it’s now incumbent upon leaders of all stripes to work together to stop it.

Stopping it? You mean like this?

• video of Fata$$ calling for mass protests

And the audience cheered, and we didn't see Porkulous tamping down anything except another foot-long meatball sub.

Still Don't Hate the Media Enough

Two days after the murder in Utah, there was another incident that is getting nearly zero mentions in the US media. It seems a "device" was tossed under a news truck in Utah. The "device" failed to explode and the Salt Lake City bomb squad recovered and disposed of it.

That would seem like a big deal. Someone attacking the media. You think they'd be screaming to the rooftops about the "targeted attack" on this ::cough cough:: "sacred institution."

Well, it was a Fox News truck, so that's Strike One against any coverage. They all think Fox deserves to be blown up just like conservatives need to be shot.

And then there are the suspects:

• The pair arrested for placing a bomb under a vehicle were trying to blow up a local Fox News van, according to the outlet. 

  Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, were taken into custody in Salt Lake City on Sunday, according to a probable cause statement....

Oh, the usual bombing suspects. Can't have that mentioned on the news! Strike Two!

And since then, guess what's unique about the younger suspect?

Well, he's dressed like an animal....a "furry." Immediately after the shooter's trans-ing-boy-to-girlfriend is also a "furry" and one if the unspent rifle rounds had "furry" propaganda engraved on it. That's Strike Three for actual media coverage.

If you're really buying into the leftist lies about the shooter being right leaning, authorities released the Discord conversation today (click for larger view):

Slam dunk execution material there....if he makes it that far. 

National Hopes Evaporating

Fata$$ is desperately trying to lie his way out of a political history that paints him in a very bad light. 

Yesterday we posted about him denying democrats ever wanted to defund the police, and we disproved that in about three seconds.

Today, he's claiming he never called anyone a nazi. 

• video of Porkulous lying again 

Even if he never said, "Joe Smith is a nazi," comparing pretty much everyone on the right / conservative side of things to the nazi ideology is essentially the same thing. 

Because if nazis were the worst thing to ever happen in all of history, then any actions to stop nazis would be completely justified. That's the leftist rhetoric that led to the Kirk assassination last week by the furry-supporting, tranny-dating, panty-fa murderer.

Weekend Numbers

We had predicted:

• seven dead, twenty wounded from 1700 Friday to 0500 Monday

HeyJackass.com had:

•  five and twenty five for the entire weekend

Using our hours though, the numbers drop slightly to three and twenty three.

And once they reevaluate the unfortunate three bodies pulled from Lake Michigan:

• currently listed as a "domestic situation" which means only two things - three murders or worse, two murders and a suicide 

We're back to seven (or eight).

Cancel the Cancellation

So after ruining everyone's weekend with four straight days of cancelled days off (Friday through Monday), we're told that the Department cancelled the cancellation of Monday's twelve-hour extravaganza at around 2200 hours on Sunday night. 

Since everyone not working was likely asleep after the first three days cancelled, they didn't know their day off had been restored and went into work anyway.

We have to say, the main thing we don't miss about the job is the incompetency of just about everyone on the administrative side of things. 

Review the Rules

Someone....or a couple someones....have been posting comments and ending their tirades with half-a-dozen hard returns that leave a large blank space at the bottom of the comment. Someone even did it in the middle of their comment. 

So we're back to enforcing Rule #4 - multiple hard returns in comments will be deleted without being read by anyone, including us. Same with ALL CAPS and "wall of text" type posts that go on forever without paragraph breaks.

Just letting people know. Informational post only. Comments closed here.

Explanations Please

Don't forget, there's an FOP General Meeting this week on 17 September at 1900 hours to vote down any surviving By-Law proposals that would strip you of National representation.

In the meantime, someone - or  many someones - should be asking questions of the three-person investigative committee, along with the executive board about some of these issues: 

• Between 2020 and 2023, Lodge 7 experienced a dramatic revenue surge—but their financial surplus has almost completely collapsed. Annual revenue rose from $7.9 million in 2020 to $10.6 million in 2023. Yet their surplus (revenues minus expenses) plunged from $1.9 million to just $311,000 during the same period.

• Despite collecting millions more in dues, virtually none of that additional money remains at year end. This alone should prompt questions, but members are prevented from asking them, because they are denied access to the union’s financial records.

• At the same time, “Other Expenses” have exploded with no clear explanation. These vaguely defined costs more than doubled from $3.4 million in 2020 to $7.1 million in 2023.

• “Other” is a catch-all category that gives no breakdown of what these millions of dollars are actually spent on. This is especially concerning given that the president has repeatedly blocked members from reviewing the underlying financial documents that could explain these expenses. This pattern—vague expenses combined with secrecy—is a known hallmark of union corruption and embezzlement.

• The same risk factors are now present at Lodge 7: massive unexplained spending growth, collapsing surpluses, and leadership actively obstructing financial transparency. That combination is exactly how other unions were looted from the inside before federal intervention exposed it.

• Last week, after charges were brought against John, the 1st Vice President introduced a motion calling for a forensic audit of the Lodge’s finances. The reaction was explosive, you would have thought someone had yelled “fire.” The entire board erupted in opposition, with the retirees shouting the loudest. After heated back-and-forth and multiple concessions, the board ultimately agreed to allow only a limited audit of the credit card accounts, and even that passed with just one holdout: Duckhorn.

If we had a business and....:

• revenue was up from $7,937,923 in 2020 to $10,662,133 in 2023, (a THIRTY-FOUR percent increase over four reporting periods) but....
• net income fell from $1,938,536 in 2020 all the way down to $311,646 in 2023 (an EIGHTY-THREE percent loss)....

We'd be demanding answers across the board....or from the Board if you like.

But hey, do the math yourself - here are the publicly available financial documents with the numbers cited. Just don't post them on the FOP Bulletin Boards - you might get a letter from Jim trying to keep the lights off.

No Retro for CFD?

A couple comments late last week (rumors as of now):

• City just told cfd they have no money for retro , sorry .
• Many Chicago Fire Fighters are being told they WILL NOT be paid retroactive pay going back to 2021. The reason?   The city is saying THEY ARE BROKE.   WTF?   

Again, rumors. But a couple points:

• if the City is refusing to abide by the negotiated Contract, wouldn't that void out all sorts of stuff....like prohibitions on job actions and ::cough cough:: strikes? 
• the City is also refusing to pay a court ordered judgement in favor of the PBPA regarding VRI money owed that is racking up thousands, perhaps millions in interest and penalties....what party was it screaming about obeying court orders just a few months ago?

And we certainly hope that some people in the different unions are looking into this historical precedent from north of the border:

• Wallace Edwards' 13-year war to collect a debt from the Soviet Union is over. The Rusians have surrendered. Edwards, head of Waltham Press Ltd., won a 1973 court judgment against the Soviet government for a $26,000 printing job he performed for it during the Expo '67 World's Fair, but the Soviets refused to pay.

  Until Thursday, that is. Assailed by Edwards' seizure of a Soviet ship in Toronto harbor and his assault on the Russian Embassy's operating funds, the Soviets have agreed to settle the debt.

After attempting to stiff the Canadian printer for tens of thousands of dollars, the enterprising tradesman sued, won a judgement against the Soviet Union, and had the sheriffs seize a nearly 600-foot freighter valued in the tens of millions until the commies came up with his money.

We would be amused beyond measure should the CFD or the PBPA get a lien against some Chicago properties, like the Bean or the Picasso or maybe portions of the CTA or an entire airport, and then put it up for sale unless Conehead came up with the money owed. 

We can always hope.

Where are the Tax Bills?

This from back in July and guess what? Nothing has come out since then either.

Not that we're looking forward to the expected massive increases, but it would be nice to see what we're going to have to come up with so we can start the appeals process and then start campaigning against these thieves:

• The second installments of Cook County property tax bills are theoretically due on Thursday, Aug. 1.

  But thanks to technology problems, the bills haven't even been mailed out yet.

  What we know:

  The question FOX 32 sought to answer was when would those Cook County tax bills be ready to go?

  The consensus was, thanks to those technical problems, "we just don't know."

  Cook County public officials blame a 10-year-old contract with a Texas-based company called Tyler Technologies for the delay. The contract was inked by the county in 2015 and was supposed to modernize the property tax billing system within three to five years.

"technical problems"? But DuPage County (which uses the same company) got their bills out on time.

So the problem is probably along the lines of they are figuring out how hard they're going to have to manipulate the tax multiplier. Then they have to take into account favors from the assessor, the clerk, the treasurer and the county board, not to mention the CPS usual maxing out of their share. Then they have to figure out how much everyone else has to make up shortfalls for things like the head of the CTU living in Indiana, downtown discount deals for Madigan's and Burke's law firm clients, and the usual "exemptions" for aldercreatures who misrepresent the building they're living in.

After all that, maybe you'll get a tax bill that only goes up 20%. 

Gaslighting to a New Level

Anyone know when this interview came out?

• Link Here

Governor Porkulous is with Jon Stewart we think, and he's claiming that democrats never advocated for defunding the police, that it was all a Trump thing. and he (Fata$$) has hired more police than ever before.

Um....where exactly? CPD is short 2,000 at least. He isn't sending money to Conehead. ISP Troopers? Short as well.

And just for fun, here's almost seven minutes of democrats saying, advocating, and demanding defunding of police that we found after three seconds of searching the internet. Tie that into the SAFE-T Act and the no-bail provisions across the country....you get the picture.

But Porky is out there lying his ass off. 

Better lie harder - there's still plenty of ass to go around.

More Fraud

So the head of the CTU had an Indiana address as her primary residence for years, garnering massive tax breaks.

The District Attorney in New York who conducted unprecedented lawfare against Trump was committing mortgage fraud on a grand scale with her primary residence listed in Virginia.

One of the Federal Reserve governors had not one, not two, but three separate mortgages, snaring tax breaks for at least two of them under false pretenses. There might even be a fourth that is being looked into. (UPDATE: some morons are citing an NBC report that Cook had paperwork that the second mortgage was a "vacation home." That was PRELIMINARY paperwork with ZERO legal standing. It showed the higher mortgage rate for a second home (which she rejected) and then signed the actual legally binding UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY with the lower rate locked in - that's absolute proof of fraud. All comments citing the NBC gaslighting will be deleted - and try not to believe the lying media) 

And now, locally, more residential fraud:

• The head of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has been getting property tax breaks in Michigan that are allowed only for a primary residence for years even though he’s required to live in Cook County, an investigation by Injustice Watch has found.

  Leonard Dixon, who at $280,000 a year is among the county’s highest-paid officials, has been the superintendent of the center for a decade. It’s one of the country’s largest youth jails.

  Asked where he lives, Dixon told a reporter, “I live in Chicago.”  And a spokesman for his boss, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, says a review Evans commissioned found that Dixon lives in Illinois.

  But records show Dixon and his wife own a house in Woodhaven, Michigan, for which they receive a property tax break that Michigan law allows only for a homeowner’s principal residence — a tax break they have gotten for the past 30 years. Since 2015, when Dixon took the Cook County job, the exemption has saved them more than $13,000 in property taxes.

He also owns two other properties in Florida in some sort of a blind trust, hiding parts of the ownership details, but he listed his Michigan address as his primary residence, meaning he doesn't live here.

But don't you try anything like that to beat the onerous tax burdens here. 

Must Be Nice

Conflicts of interest out the ass, but hey....no standards for Chicago aldercreatures:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick to lead the Chicago Housing Authority, retired Ald. Walter Burnett, and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett have been paid more than $260,000 as housing voucher landlords for the agency since 2007, a Chicago Sun-Times’ analysis shows.

  Records show the Burnetts have had 10 contracts for properties rented to CHA voucher holders, including two ongoing contracts and five contracts that were active during Williams-Burnett’s time as an employee of the government agency.

  The voucher payments to Burnett and his wife appear to present conflicts of interest, according to the CHA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The business dealings could be a roadblock to his appointment to lead the nation’s third-largest public housing authority.

Burnett was just as good at armed robberies as he is at stealing from taxpayers, maybe slightly better since he hid this for a number of years and almost got away with hiding it until he was nominated by Conehead to run the CHA. Now that's in jeopardy.