This Will End Well

And if you believe that, we've got a "vaccine" for you to try:

• Chicago police officials this week said more civilian investigators will join the department’s bureau of internal affairs as the office works to finish investigations more quickly and decrease its backlog of pending cases.

  “Those investigations have to be done timely and they have to be taken seriously across the board,” Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling said during a Tuesday status hearing on the city’s ongoing federal consent decree. “When we’re doing these investigations, we want to get them done as quickly as possible because if there’s a sustained finding (of misconduct), we want to be able to apply training or discipline as quickly as possible.”

  Hastened internal affairs investigations would bolster both complainants’ and officers’ faith in the discipline process, Snelling said.

When has "hastened...investigations" ever instilled confidence in any finding? For years, all we heard coming out of the Detective Division was "continuing investigation" which (during the Crimesha years) was more a method of never appropriately charging felons. And if we ever got to Court, everything hinged on a "thorough" investigation, which wasn't accomplished in short order - it took time.

Civilian investigators lack the training, understanding and experience to properly and adequately investigate most police matters. We recall the giant stink about COPA not being authorized to investigate /officer Involved Shootings - are these civilians (A) legally authorized to investigate sworn personnel and (B) violating Contract protections?

Meters Already Re-Sold

Chicago was never really in the running:

• Chicago's parking meters have been sold to another private company. The Johnson administration considered buying the meters back, but the sale price was way too expensive.

  Parking downtown at a meter spot costs $7 an hour, up from $3 an hour when the city owned the parking meters 17 years ago. In what has been called a disastrous, lopsided 75-year deal, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley sold the meters to a private company for $1.15 billion.

  "They made about $2 billion in earnings, you know, basically a year, little over a year ago. So, they've already made their money back. For a company like this, it's easy to flip it to somebody else," Ald. Scott Waguespack said.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson says it sold to an unknown company for at least twice as much as the original price in 2008. For the past few months, the mayor's team looked into the possibility of buying the meters back. "We had our teams run the numbers and look at every variation of a potential deal. However, the more we looked into it, the more problems emerged," Johnson said.

Chicago has a spending problem more so than a revenue problem.

So how about closing under-utilized schools instead?

Hiding Criminal Records

So not only is Fata$$'s SAFE-T Act releasing criminals back onto the streets at an alarming rate, now offenders will be able to hide their criminal tendencies and past records:

• Just the other day, a man was beaten with a metal pipe in Chicago's loop by Piere Thorne, a career criminal with 57 prior arrests. The victim, an unidentified man, suffered a bleeding head wound, lost teeth, andsuffered facial and jaw fractures as well as cuts to his face.

  Thanks to Illinois' ridiculous pro-criminal policies, Thorne will not spend a day behind bars for this attack. Late last year, career criminal Lawrence Reed set a 26-year-old woman on fire on Chicago's Blue Line. Reed had anywhere from 22 to 49 prior arrests, according to various media reports. He was later charged in conjunction with an arson at Chicago City Hall that predated his attack on the woman.

  But Democrats haven't met a criminal they won't go to the mattresses for, and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is no exception.

  He's just signed the "Clean Slate Act" which would seal criminal records every six months. That way, we'll never know how many dozens of arrests criminals in Chicago have when they rob, maim, or murder more innocent citizens.

There are a couple exceptions that democrats are hanging their hats on:

• sexual violence against minors, 
• DUIs, 
• reckless driving,
• serious violent crime

But there is no mechanism for those who plead violent crimes down from higher charges. How many times have we seen particularly Aggravated Batteries pled down to Simple Battery for whatever reason? We were the victim in quite a few of those types of incidents over our careers. 

Do you think an employer would like to know if an applicant has a habit of attacking police? Or a landlord might like to know if someone with an unhealthy interest in property damage would make a good tenant?

But now, you won't know what you're hiring or who you're renting to. 

More COVID Revelations

Just in case anyone still believes the government had your best interests at heart:

• Anthony Fauci privately acknowledged “impressive data” showed stronger immunity from a COVID-19 infection than vaccination while publicly pushing mandated shots, newly released documents show.

  Former President Joe Biden’s top pandemic response officials discussed a thorough study from Israel showing the superiority of natural infection in August 2021, simultaneous with the initiation of federal vaccine mandates via an Aug. 24 Pentagon memo, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Protect the Public’s Trust, indicating officials who helped compel COVID shots had contemporaneous scientific evidence they were unjustifiable for millions of Americans. The officials distorted the evidence in public statements, repeatedly saying vaccination is necessary for immunity.

They wanted to see how easily the populace could be coerced into giving up everything for a "vaccine" that provided less protection and more long term damage than the virus itself. 

Unfortunately, society failed. Never forget what they did. 

Conehead Corpses Trifecta!

Not a good look for an already ugly individual:

• Three shooting victims in Chicago lay undiscovered for extended periods Sunday — one for nearly 10 hours — after gunfire struck them without any accurate 911 calls being made. All three victims were shot on streets previously monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network before Mayor Brandon Johnson deactivated the system in September 2023. All three died.

  The delayed discoveries highlight growing concerns about shooting victims who go undetected due to a lack of 911 calls. According to HeyJackass.com, a website that independently tracks Chicago crime data, 18.5% of people shot in Chicago last year died. But among victims who received delayed first responder responses due to a lack of 911 calls, the fatality rate is nearly three times higher at 53%.

It's that final stat (the 53%) that is probably going to drive a concerted effort to re-instate ShotSpotter in some form or another. 

Chicago being broke is going to play a big part in it, too. For the most part, people getting shot aren't typically innocent bystanders.

An Opportunity!

Unfortunately, due to efforts of Conehead, Groot and the 9.5-digit-midget, there isn't any money to rectify this issue:

• Nearly two decades after a $1.15 billion deal privatized Chicago’s parking meters, a window has opened to seize the valuable asset back from private investors. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is at least exploring the idea. But the mere discussion of the multi-billion acquisition raises more questions than it answers.

  Chief among them is whether a city already saddled with more debt per capita than any big city in the nation should borrow billions more to buy out the 57 years that remain on the parking meter deal that Chicagoans love to hate.

  “The original deal was a disaster for taxpayers, and we have to make sure that we don’t compound that disaster,” said Ald. Bill Conway (34th), vice-chair of the City Council’s Finance Committee.

  A former investment banker who still teaches finance at DePaul University, Conway said the leveraged buyout would use meter revenues as collateral on the loan.

First of all, this would (probably) involve hiring massive numbers of parking enforcement people, which if we know government employees (and we do), would be a massive drain, even if they got the Police Department to pitch in.

Second, there would be quotas....and quotas lead directly to corruption on a massive scale. Which means you'd need body cameras or some sort of oversight for the enforcement people - meaning another massive expenditure.

Third, as the article states, there is a declining need to go where the meters are, mostly downtown. In fact, there is a concerted effort to discourage driving downtown, let alone parking there. And with businesses fleeing in massive numbers, conventions leaving for warmer, friendlier climates, tourists going to where they won't be robbed, beaten or shot, the "doom cycle" sets in. Higher pricing discourages drivers and less drivers using parking necessitating higher fees, etc, etc.

Seems like a losing proposition either way. 

Crime is Down....in DC

This is going to be inconvenient for democrats:

Almost like a visible police presence, whether local or federal, pays dividends.

The Great Hat Debate

So, which one -with the chilly temps expected this week:

Choice A - skull cap:

 Choice B - Rocky the Squirrel:

We owned both. 

Time for Some Water Cannons

A question asked quite a few years back by us, and this past summer by others, and finally by our old friend over at CrimeFileNews:

• If the goal is to reduce injuries, then we need to stop pretending that chemical agents and kinetic projectiles are “gentler” options. Tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and impact munitions put people in emergency rooms. Sometimes they put them in hospitals. Always they create lawsuits, especially in blue states where juries reward bad behavior with lottery-sized verdicts.

  There is a better tool, and it works.

  Properly used water cannon trucks drastically reduce injuries. No chemicals. No burns. No broken bones. No permanent damage. Just water. A lot of it.

This would be especially effective in the current weather conditions (especially in Minnesota) - a light spray directed in conjunction with the strong midwestern breezes and all the protests would evaporate long before the resulting ice crystals would melt. Salt trucks on standby and any disruption would be minimal.

Have you seen the videos of Minnesota pantifa rioters pulling over cars and going through them, looking for evidence of ICE involvement? Or these same terrorists accosting citizens on the street wearing anything red, white and blue, and making them remove it in order to pass safely along city streets? This is supposed to be America, but the communists are in full control as police are ordered to stand down and do nothing.

Smoke, Fire?

This was all over the comments over the weekend:

• Joseph Vecchio racked up more complaints than any other officer in his six years on the Chicago Police Department, many of them stemming from his work on a tactical team that’s developed a notorious reputation.

  Vecchio was stripped of his policing powers late last year after the city’s police oversight boss told Supt. Larry Snelling about the “concerning number of complaints” he faced.

  He had been the subject of 76 investigations since he joined the department in October 2019, wrote LaKenya White, the interim chief administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. At the time, he faced allegations of domestic abuse, civil rights violations and providing false statements about traffic stops involving guns.

And whose name is all over this budding scandal?

• Barz

Seventy-six complaints in six years. Fifteen lawsuits. Settlements already in the six digit totals.

What can we say that hasn't been said already? 

Scandal Growing?

They're certainly taking their time at this:

• Three more Chicago Police Department employees, including a sergeant, face firing for fraudulently obtaining federal Paycheck Protection loans during the pandemic.

  The new actions bring to 11 the number of sustained PPP fraud cases culminating from internal investigations conducted by retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.

  She’s accusing the sergeant of obtaining a pair of PPP loans totaling nearly $40,000, along with a separate small-business loan for $6,000. The sergeant’s former partner also obtained a PPP loan after submitting a loan application with identical information. The third employee is a police civilian.

  Three more cases are awaiting responses from city department heads. Four other “completed sustained cases” will be going out in the next few days, and Witzburg said she is “on track to close at least” a dozen additional cases over the next 60 days.

  After repeated clashes with Mayor Brandon Johnson on a host of ethics issues, Witzburg decided not to seek another term. Her four-year term expires in April.

  That means that she will leave office long before 80 additional PPP fraud cases in various stages of investigation have been brought to a close. 

Eighty more cases. We're thinking this is now being slow-walked through the media in order to paint the Department is as bad a light as possible over as long a time frame as possible running up to the election next year. 

There might even be some Contract negotiations coming up that would be adversely impacted by dragging these cases out when the FOP and PBPA ask for raises or work rule changes.

And two of the names currently under investigation - the sons of high ranking former exempt members? One has to wonder where they learned their corrupt ways, right?

Gary Bears

Indiana making their pitch: 

• The City of Gary, Indiana released renderings of what a Bears stadium in the area could look like if Chicago's football team decides to move outside of Illinois.

  On a website called "bearstadiumdistrict.com," the City of Gary, Indiana shared renderings of its "bold vision for a new Bears Stadium District" anchored by the I-80 and I-94 corridor in Northwest Indiana. 

Remember, Fata$$ and Conehead want ILLEGAL ALIENS here more than they want a stadium that would provide thousands of union jobs during construction and even more jobs over the long term associated with running a stadium, including concessions, delivery, maintenance and hospitality employment.

Not to mentions tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions in tax revenue. 

There it Is

A couple people didn't believe us:

 Seems to be true.

Baseball Hats Gone?

On one hand, it didn't look good with any of the uniform combinations currently in service.

On the other, it did cover up a lot of really bad haircuts.

Any chance Larritorious brings back shorts? Those looked great with the black socks....very Eastern European grandpa-looking.

Overdose Deaths Drop

And the media mentions every cause they can think of....except one:

• U.S. overdose deaths fell through most of last year, suggesting a lasting improvement in an epidemic that had been worsening for decades.

  Federal data released Wednesday showed that overdose deaths have been falling for more than two years — the longest drop in decades — but also that the decline was slowing. 

  [...] 

  Researchers cannot yet say with confidence why deaths have gone down. Experts have offered multiple possible explanations: increased availability of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, expanded addiction treatment, shifts in how people use drugs, and the growing impact of billions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement money.

  Some also point to research that suggests the number of people likely to overdose has been shrinking, as fewer teens take up drugs and many illicit drug users have died.

They even try to give credit to the Chinese communists for regulatory changes, as if the Chinese government wasn't one of the driving forces for destabilizing the US via cheap opioids.

But not a single mention of exploding drug boats and submarines in the Gulf. Nor anything about the southern border beings closed to business as usual. Wouldn't want to give credit to a program that works and sometimes doesn't leave any repeat offenders around for another go. 

No Riots?

And almost no mention in the local rags:

• The Maryville woman who died after being shot by an Illinois State Police trooper is being remembered by her family as a “devoted mother.” Rachel E. Tarrence, 40, died on Jan. 4 after she struck an ISP squad car in East St. Louis and then drove toward a trooper who shot her, authorities said. A spokesperson for Illinois State Police said Monday the investigation into Tarrence’s death is still ongoing.
  

Guess there isn't any political angle.

Fata$$, you going to jump om this or what? 

The Signs Were There

And the exempt staff knew it:

• The cop who fatally shot his tactical team partner during a chase on the South Side last year initially had his appointment to that unit blocked by a top Chicago Police Department official because of his disciplinary history, but that decision was reversed less than a year later even though he’d racked up more complaints, records obtained by Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Sun-Times show.

  Officer Carlos Baker applied to the Gresham District’s tactical team in March 2024 with the blessing of his commander. But Jon Hein, the department’s chief of patrol, quashed the move, citing Baker’s lengthy disciplinary history, according to an internal memo.

And the commander who backed him before Heiniken stopped it?

• Each time he applied, Baker had the backing of his district commander, Michael Tate, who worked under Supt. Larry Snelling in areas of the department where Snelling had held top command positions earlier in his career. Tate was promoted late last year to street deputy, a high-ranking position responsible for responding to and commanding the scene at major events citywide.

When unqualified political appointees appoint the next wave of incompetents.

Another Parolee?

Always the same people....or folks:

• Three men, including a recent parolee, are charged with firing guns down a West Side street Sunday afternoon before attempting to flee police in a chase that ended with a violent rollover crash on the Eisenhower Expressway, according to Chicago police reports.

  Officers monitoring a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera saw a silver Infiniti Q50 stop in the 3700 block of West Lexington Avenue shortly before 4:30 p.m., police said. Three men got out of the vehicle and began firing guns in multiple directions, including toward passing cars and an apartment building. Investigators later recovered handgun and rifle casings at the scene.

  Patrol units and surveillance camera operators tracked the Infiniti intermittently as it moved through the area. When officers located the car, the driver sped onto the Eisenhower Expressway, police said. Near the Independence Boulevard overpass, the driver tried to pass another vehicle, lost control, and crashed. The Infiniti rolled over, ejecting the driver, who was taken to Stroger Hospital. Police said he was issued traffic citations, but is not charged in the shooting investigation.

Democrats love their criminals and will do anything to keep them out of prison, from the SAFE-T Act to early parole for violent felons who shouldn't be getting day-for-day credit to ILLEGAL ALIENS who don't belong here in the first place:

 

Someone Found Some Money?

Did Rahm's money tree re-appear?

• Transit leaders could vote to create a regional transit police force next January, and new “transit ambassadors” could be monitoring the CTA, Metra and Pace by July of next year. By this November, commuters should have a regional transit app to file complaints and report crimes.

  Those are some of the new security measures required in the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act, signed last month by Gov. JB Pritzker, which will overhaul the metro’s transit system. The Regional Transportation Authority laid out an updated timeline of the measures at its Thursday board meeting.

  Nothing changes until the law goes into effect June 1. That’s when the law eliminates the RTA board and replaces it with a NITA board, which will have new powers over policy and fare setting.

So....new uniforms? Who's doing the design? Equipment? Weapons? Promotion exams? 

Are they going to staff it with some of Conehead's 150 guard detail?

So many questions. 

Narrative Destroyed Again

Our old acquaintance, Jack Dunphy, writes what is one of the better articles about the Minneapolis shooting:

• It’s been a challenge to keep up with the shifting narratives in the death of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week.

  We were first told she was just a young mom who was not involved in any organized effort to impede ICE operations, and that she was merely trying to make a U-turn when she was senselessly murdered by an ICE agent (a curious claim given that Portland Avenue, where the shooting occurred, is a one-way street). This gave way to the admission that she was indeed actively harassing ICE agents before she was killed, but the shooting was nonetheless unwarranted because Good’s Honda Pilot had not struck the agent who shot her. Then, as additional videos emerged showing the Pilot striking the agent, the narrative changed yet again. Okay, we were told, the Pilot hit him, but not that hard, and it was his own fault because he shouldn’t have been standing there in the first place.

  More information has come to light since I wrote about the case last week, the accumulation of which has served to put the lie to claims that Good was “murdered” and that the shooting was utterly without legal justification. CNN has assembled a timeline of the shooting using the videos available thus far, and though I would quibble with some of CNN reporter Kyung Lah’s narration, the videos offer a fairly complete look at how the event unfolded.

When the lib-tards have lost CNN's one-sided "reporting," you know that the narrative has been lost. And Dunphy buries it under Supreme Court case law and simple explanations that anyone (aside from a mentally deficient democrat voter) could follow.

The constantly evolving leftist narrative that....

• the Officer didn't get hit;
• maybe the car brushed against him;
• that's okay because he wasn't injured;

....was completely destroyed when it was reported that the Officer suffered internal bleeding from the vehicle strike. We don't care if the internal bleeding was a simple bruise - the vehicle was used as a deadly weapon, so deadly force is authorized under every single State and Federal Law in existence.

Defund These Idiots

Remember the Minnesota teachers who couldn't spell the word "Justice" on their signs, and we speculated that the CTU members were probably instructing them?

Looks like we were right on the money: 

That's a real CTU poster....and they can't spell "governor."

But they want all sorts of money, all the time, and more of it. 

Business Trip Failed?

Remember this from October of 2024?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson's trip to London is officially underway.

  The mayor said he is making the trip to try and woo businesses to come to Chicago.

  "I'm going to London to try to attract business to Chicago," Johnson said a press conference earlier this week.

  The trip, paid for by World Business Chicago, also includes taking in Sunday's game between the Bears and Jacksonville at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

He took how many dozens of staff and bodyguards along?

Now, remember this from our post yesterday?

• Chicago businesses reported the lowest recorded employment score since May 2009, according to the Chicago Business Barometer.

  For the second consecutive month, no survey respondents reported increased employment.

  The analysis gave Chicago an overall score of 43.5 in December 2025, the 25th consecutive month of decline. A score below 50 indicates decline.

So it's safe to say Conehead's "business trip" didn't generate a damn thing for Chicago except to spend more taxpayer money....money that doesn't exist or that has to be "raised" from increasing taxes. Again.

Thanks to the reader who left a comment about this - we had forgotten "the business trip that generated no business." 

Pension Trustee Election

Via a number of people - the relevant info regarding the election:

• In preparation for the upcoming special election, the Fund is sending this email notification to all eligible annuitant voters who have a valid email address on record with the Fund. The IEA will also be emailing credentials and instructions for casting a vote to all eligible annuitant voters who have a valid email address on record with the Fund in order to ensure eligible voters are aware of the process to cast a vote. The email from the IEA is scheduled to be sent during the day the polls open, January 29, 2026.  It will be sent from the email address noreply@directvote.net.
   
  Election materials will be sent by both email and USPS mail. Please be on the lookout for emails and notifications in the mail for the special election.
   
  Only annuitants who are eligible to vote in this special election will be receiving notice via email and USPS mail. Be on the lookout for these notices.
   
  Voting for the Annuitant Trustee Special Election will begin on Thursday, January 29, 2026 and will continue through 11:59 pm (Central Standard Time) on Monday, February 9, 2026.

Keep an eye out.

Garrido Replies

We took him to task on the front page, so it's only proper his reply doesn't get buried in the comments:

• Wow. I had no idea I had so many fans here. LMAO.
  
  We all know how the media operates. They take what they want and edit it to fit their narrative. This particular reporter has treated me fairly in past interviews, so I was willing to take that chance.
  
  We spoke for about 25 minutes. Roughly 30 seconds aired. That is exactly why I prefer live interviews. You can’t edit those.
  
  If you watched my Facebook post before the story aired, my position was very clear:
  
  https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1D44pnGPVs/
  
  So why do I talk to the media at all?
  
  Because it gives me an opportunity to speak up for officers when they can’t, and to hold leadership accountable when it’s warranted. Up until this interview, that’s exactly how it’s played out.
  
  I did misspeak on one factual point, and I want to correct it.
  
  She initially cut the wheels to the left while in reverse. That action repositioned the vehicle and placed the agent directly in her path. She then accelerated hard. The only reason she did not completely run him over was because her wheels spun on the ice.
  
  The comment about her “not acting in an aggressive manner” was taken out of context. I explained to them that her behavior became aggressive the moment she put the vehicle in gear.
  
  When asked why the agent would have been anywhere near the front of the vehicle, I explained that he had already made one pass around the car and that, at the moment he passed the driver’s window, she did not appear to be acting in an aggressive manner.
  
  He then moved to the passenger side and slightly toward the vehicle. She again changed the situation by putting the car in reverse and cutting the wheels, which repositioned the vehicle and placed him in front of it.
  
  And no, I am not running for anything.
  
  The "dig" at the President and the Secretary was also pulled out of context. After laying out the reasons this keeps happening and the politicians that encourage this type of behavior; the clip was reduced to a throwaway sound bite.
  
  I do believe there should be an investigation. I don't think calling this a “done deal” before the facts are fully reviewed is a good idea. That said, I have no doubt the investigation will ultimately find the agent was completely justified.
  
  I appreciate all the "love" you all have for me, but my purpose in speaking to the media has never changed. It is to say what officers often cannot and to shine a light on the incompetence of our elected leadership. It has worked out more times than not over the last few years.
  
  In my opinion, it's better than saying nothing at all and never getting our side out there. Sometimes they get me, which is why I need to avoid the recorded interviews.
  
  My social media presence is what allows me to do that and it has also helped build an incredible animal rescue that saves lives every day.
  
  I’m not responding again. So haters, have at it.
  
  Happy New Year.

All well and good that he recognizes what the media does, but if he had realized that BEFORE the interview along with slanted editing the media always does, he could have avoided being used as a cudgel to smack law enforcement around.

At least he replied. Hopefully, he doesn't do it again. 

Stick with Rescuing Dogs

Sometimes retirement makes you stupider:

• Retired Chicago Police Lieutenant John Garrido told the ABC7 Chicago I-Team that Good did not appear to be acting in an aggressive manner. "She first cuts her wheels to the right, and when she backs up, it actually repositions her car. Now facing him. He doesn't move that much," Garrido said.

  Her moving the other way then is what brings him dead center on the driver's side of the vehicle. And when that happens, it's all a split second."

  The I-Team asked if it is best practice to position yourself in front of a vehicle.

  "Well, no, so normally you wouldn't want to be standing in front of a vehicle," Garrido said. "The vehicle backs up and the front of her car realigns and repositions, and that's how he ends up where he is... "

The clowns at ABC created a straw man out of whole cloth and Garrido walked right into it:

• the ICE Officer didn't "position [him]self." He was moving to assist the Officer at the driver side window.

But there goes Garrido, interpreting the media created narrative as the "truth" when we've seen at least four other videos that show completely different perspectives and fall well within Federal Use of Force guidelines AND Supreme Court decisions where "a reasonable police officer's" interpretation of unfolding events must be given proper weight and consideration.

Under Garrido's wording, he could be seen as supporting the "victimization" of Lil Homicide being unarmed - a confrontation that took about as much time as the ICE Officer's interpretation of a 3,000 pound vehicle coming at him in tenths-of-seconds....after he had been hit and dragged six months prior.

This is why you don't talk to the press regarding active investigations, especially when trying to pass yourself off as some sort of "expert" like that other retired lieutenant (B.A.). Both of these idiots seem to be trying to secure future appearances in the media by throwing Officers under the leftist narrative. 

Garrido must still have electoral ambitions seeing as how he takes a dig at the President and the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Interesting Development

So why does this guy get held over?

• DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - A judge has ordered a suburban Chicago man to remain in custody after police reportedly found a loaded gun during a traffic stop in Naperville over the weekend.

  Prosecutors said 30-year-old Deion Kidd, a convicted felon from Plainfield, appeared in court Monday morning and a judge granted the state's request to deny him pretrial release.

  He is charged with aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon with a previous felony conviction, another count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, and several misdemeanor and petty offenses, including resisting a police officer and having open alcohol in a vehicle.

Are DuPage judges more intelligent than Cook County judges?

We all know that answer. 

Or did DuPage get tipped off by Porkulous that being tough on crime was now the "in" thing and this is the beginning of a new trend?

Seeing DuPage voting patterns the past few elections, a distinct possibility. 

Look Conehead - Money!

Tens of millions of dollars!

• Over half of Chicago Public Schools are underutilized, but the 10 emptiest schools cost nearly double per student the district average.

  At least 255 school buildings are underutilized, according to recent data from CPS for the current 2025-2026 school year. That means those schools’ enrollments decreased below 70% of their ideal capacity and “classroom spaces are unused and/or inefficiently programmed.”

  Empty schools mean high costs.

And Illinois Policy helpfully includes a table showing the most obvious places to make cuts:

The savings based simply on per-student spending at these ten schools?

• just over $36 million

We don't know exactly what the per-student totals include (salaries of teachers and staff, running the physical building itself, maintenance and upkeep, capital improvements) but that $36 million is obviously on the low side. Stretch it out over a five-or-ten-year span and the savings really start to add up. 

But expecting a democrat not to raise taxes might be a bridge too far. 

Tax Base Shrinking

Someone discovered a 2022 video of the McDonald's CEO saying he couldn't get execs to agree to move to Chicago because of crime concerns. Here's the article:

• In a recently unearthed 2022 video, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski warned Chicago business leaders about the city’s escalating crime crisis, calling it “increasingly difficult” to operate globally from there. In a viral clip, he noted executives’ reluctance to relocate to Chicago, emphasizing the company’s commitment is not “open-ended” or “unconditional” due to shareholder obligations.

  In the same clip, posted to social media, journalists highlighted it as a “stark warning,” suggesting the headquarters might leave after decades. Conservatives on social media blasted the woke city, pointing to the reality of societal decay from deficits, homelessness, violence, and fraud.

  In any case, the clip of the CEO began with a journalist introducing the leader of the fast-food giant’s comments. “The CEO of McDonald’s is making a stunning revelation to other corporate CEOs: Chicago, crime is making it very hard to do business,” a reporter noted.

Here's a link to the video.

For those keeping track, Chicago lost another three of the Fortune 500 Corporate HQs in the intervening three years, dropping Chicago down to only twenty-five of the top companies.

If you really really want to get into the weeds, check out this article from Illinois Policy showing job growth hasn't just ground to a halt in Illinois, it's shrinking:

• Chicago businesses reported the lowest recorded employment score since May 2009, according to the Chicago Business Barometer.

  For the second consecutive month, no survey respondents reported increased employment.

  The analysis gave Chicago an overall score of 43.5 in December 2025, the 25th consecutive month of decline. A score below 50 indicates decline.

Not a single Illinois company reported employment growth for the second consecutive month and the state-wide unemployment rate climbed from 4.1% to 4.5% (nationally it's 4.3%). The only growth sector was :::surprise!!!::: in government, meaning more taxes from a shrinking tax base. That is NOT a good model. 

Deadbeat Groot

Anyone actually surprised that someone who was a disaster of a mayor is a disaster throughout life?

• [paywalled Tribune article] Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot was sued late last year for unpaid credit card debt, records show.

  Lightfoot was served in October at her Chicago home with a lawsuit from JPMorgan Chase Bank for allegedly failing to pay about $11,078 in bills, according to a copy of the complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court.

  The suit says that Lightfoot did not object to the bank’s last statement issued before it declared her debt a charge-off in March. Her last payment on the card was in August 2025, amounting to $5,000, and her next court hearing in the case is in December, according to the complaint.

  Through a spokesperson, Lightfoot declined comment on Monday.

Funny how this happened in October, but it didn't hit the media until yesterday. Almost like they're covering for Groot in case she decided to run again. She shouldn't be hurting for cash:

• [Groot has been] serving as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy as well as teaching at Harvard University and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

• She reported taking out $210,000 in early distributions from retirement accounts that year to supplement her mayoral salary.

  While working as a partner at law firm Mayer Brown before becoming mayor, Lightfoot reported an average adjusted gross income of $971,626 from 2014 through 2017.

And speaking of loser mayors, anyone want to call in to this disaster?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson returns to WBEZ 91.5 on Tuesday to answer listener questions live on the morning talk show “In the Loop” with host Sasha-Ann Simons. Listeners can call in at 866-915-WBEZ to present their concerns directly starting at 9 a.m.

A couple ideas for questions:

• have you paid that water bill yet or is does the position of mayor absolve you of pending debt....like Groot?
• is your actual residence in Lombard as rumor has it and not the 015 District pretend address?
• who does your hair?

Additional suggestions in the comments. 

Strike Fifty-Seven?

Again, why is someone like this wandering the streets? Oh yeah....democrats:

• A man with a long history of randomly attacking people in the Loop has pleaded guilty to viciously, randomly attacking a man with a pipe in the heart of downtown, but despite that history, the resolution of the case will not require him to spend any time in prison.

You can read the entire story at the CWB link up top.

But seriously, fifty-seven arrests while Porkulous and Kwame are suing regarding ILLEGAL ALIENS who shouldn't be here and the legislature sits on their thumbs as voters are victimized over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Still Entertaining

Must be our dark sense of humor:

• The decision by Mayor Brandon Johnson to remove gunfire detection technology from Chicago streets led to delayed emergency responses for three more shooting victims on Sunday night and Monday morning. No one called 911 to report the gunfire in either case, leaving one victim to flag down a passing patrol car for help while another waited more than eight minutes for the police to find her.

  Johnson ended the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter in September 2024 despite opposition from a supermajority of the City Council and the desires of CPD Supt. Larry Snelling. Since then, at least 71 shooting victims have experienced longer waits than necessary for first responders to locate them. About half of those victims have died.

Again, this was always the World's Most Expensive Shell Casing Finder although it did have the added "benefit" of getting police to shooting locations faster. 

But that came with the extreme downside risk of actually confronting a shooter, meaning that 95% of the time (stats via HeyJackass.com), an oppressed individual was in danger of going to jail, or worse, being shot by the police, and Conehead couldn't have that.

Isolated, Targeted or Random?

We still like many medical persons:

• A Rush University Medical Center employee was critically wounded in a shooting near the hospital Monday morning.

  The employee, 23, was parked outside in the 600 block of South Paulina Street about 5:25 a.m. when a dark-colored car pulled up and someone inside opened fire, hitting her multiple times, Chicago police said.

  The employee, who was in the driver’s seat of a black Jeep SUV, was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in critical condition, police said.

We always liked to think that certain areas and people were "off limits" to certain sorts of misbehavior. Doctors, nurses, firefighters, teachers, nuns and clergy, even a lot of social workers - they're stuck where they are because they're helping others. Unfortunately, the last few years of our careers disabused us of much of that sentiment, so we were forced to decide on a case-by-case basis who was deserving of sympathy or concern. 

That list got awfully small awfully quickly.

Minnesota Morons

It seems the Minneapolis Teachers have forced the closure of all schools until mid-February after the shooting of the ICE assailant.

It also seems that the Chicago Teachers Union is instructing them on how to make signs:

And this is an intersection in Minneapolis where immigration enforcement was to be undertaken:

Funny, we thought they didn't like fences or border walls.

Things change. 

 

Nice Pinch

We have to wonder though, how much of this goes undetected?

• Two California women have been charged after authorities say they were caught transporting large quantities of suspected cocaine through Chicago O’Hare International Airport this week.

  According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the investigation began with an intelligence lead that prompted agents to monitor incoming flights from Los Angeles.

  On January 5, 2026, DEA personnel identified Nancy Ramos, 20, of Huntington Park, California, after she arrived at O’Hare.

  Investigators said Ramos agreed to a search of her checked luggage after a narcotics detection dog alerted to possible drugs inside. During the search, officers allegedly discovered about 13 kilograms — nearly 29 pounds — of suspected cocaine concealed in her bags.

  Agents later located Vanessa Perez, 27, of Los Angeles, after she arrived at O’Hare. A consensual search of her checked luggage allegedly revealed an additional nine kilograms — almost 20 pounds — of suspected cocaine, authorities said.

Back-to-back pinches like that indicate at least one thing to us - that this is just scrapping the surface of a massive problem. No one transports almost fifty pounds of blow through O'Hare airport as a first-time effort....you work up to it over an extended period of time.

By the way, neither one is being held in custody:

• Judge Shauna Boliker denied a detention petition for Ramos and ordered her released on electronic monitoring, according to court records. Prosecutors did not seek detention for Perez. Judge Antara Rivera released her pending trial.

Let's see if they show up at the next court hearing....or if they "disappear" after losing fifty pounds of cocaine.

Another "Isolated" Stabbing

And on the CTA....again:

• A man was stabbed and seriously injured during an argument aboard a Red Line train on the South Side overnight, marking at least the second stabbing reported on the city’s train lines this weekend.

  Officers responded to reports of a person stabbed on the 69th Street platform around 2:52 a.m. and found a 34-year-old man with stab wounds to his neck and chest, an officer at the scene said.

  The Chicago Fire Department transported him to the University of Chicago Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition. 

There are already thousands of "No Guns" signs on the CTA, stations, platforms and train. How long until Conehead proposes banning knives like England?

Somebody commented that the Park District OT was cancelled to redirect extra bodies to the trains in an attempt to stave off the threatened Federal cuts to money. True? 

UPDATE: Four stabbings on the CTA in under a week:

• Chicago police are investigating a string of stabbings on CTA property after a man was seriously wounded early Sunday on the Red Line, marking the fourth such attack in five days.

When the federal funding disappears before summer and Porkulous refuses to direct any state funds to Conehead, how much is he going to attempt to raise taxes overnight? 

These Idiots

They're multiplying across all avenues.

We're still boycotting pro sports, right?

• NBA coach Steve Kerr spoke to reporters Friday, telling them, “It’s shameful…we can have law enforcement officers who commit murder” and a government that will “come out and lie about what happened.”

At first, we thought Kerr had finally pulled his head out of his ass and was going to condemn the Capitol Police for shooting an unarmed female who committed at most Criminal Trespass, but no. Kerr chooses to ignore dozens of video recordings showing a woman using a two-ton vehicle as a battering ram against law enforcement.

Kerr was always a moron, but as a head coach instead of being part of MJs supporting cast, he has a bigger platform via which to display his ignorance

And after yesterday's so-called male police chief crying over a different assailant using (surprise!) a car as a deadly weapon again, there's this DEI moron:

• Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal — employing hipster slang and evoking a call-and-response chant — on Friday called federal immigration agents “fake, wannabe” law enforcement and claimed their actions violate both “legal law” and “moral law.”

  The sheriff, elected and sworn into office in 2020, echoed a threat from Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner who warned that federal law enforcement officials who commit crimes in Philadelphia will be arrested and prosecuted.

  “So, I’m with the DA,” Bilal said. “You don’t want this smoke. Cuz we will bring it to you,” adding in a dig at President Donald Trump that “the criminal in the White House would not be able to keep” federal agents from going to jail.

One, we'll bet pretty much every single immigration officer could outperform this idiot physically and mentally across the board.

Second, Federal Supremacy would rule out 99% of what she claims would be done. The other 1% would be tied up in Federal Courts for longer than her term of office.

But between her and the Portland shemale chief, the open hostility directed toward front line officers makes us glad we left, because when the shit hit the fan, we know exactly who we'll be backing.

Back to the Old Way?

Everything old is new again:

• SCC I know your retired but shockingly snelling opened up a second round for merit picks for the current Sgt list from 2024

Back when "merit" started, the request for names went out prior to every promotional class, and once the class was named, they started over. This continuous "meri-clout-orious" list lasting for the duration of the list is a relatively recent invention, mostly because as the exempt ranks got stupider and stupider, they couldn't be relied on to make deadlines. 

Besides, as the political winds shift on a near-monthly basis and the "consent decree" rules screw up everything with insane requirements, whomever might be "in" today could be "out" tomorrow.

What the Actual F@#$?

Is this what passes for a police chief nowadays? Or a man for that matter?

• Portland Police Chief Bob Day wiped away tears Friday as he addressed new information showing that two illegal immigrants shot during a federal immigration enforcement encounter had ties to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA).

  Day confirmed a Department of Homeland Security statement identifying the two individuals — Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras — as Venezuelan criminal illegal aliens with suspected ties to TdA.

  Both were shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent after Moncada, the driver of the vehicle, allegedly "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to run over agents, prompting an agent to fire in self-defense, according to DHS.

  "They do have some nexus to involvement with TDA. We can confirm that," Day said, pausing and choking up.

Just so we have this straight - he's crying because the government intelligence was correct about two ILLEGAL ALIEN GANGBANGERS who attempted to MURDER a Federal agent performing a legal and lawful action?

Has he been weeping like this for the other murder, rape, battery and robbery victims of these imported criminals?

Another "Isolated" CTA Murder

So very very isolated:

• A 37-year-old man was found stabbed to death aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop early Saturday morning.

  CPD and the fire department responded to the Clark-Lake station after the man was found unresponsive and bleeding on a train around 2:27 a.m. Investigators determined the man had suffered two stab wounds, one to the chest and one to the abdomen. He was taken to Northwestern Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

This keeps Chicago on track for under three-hundred homicides (seven every ten days).

Yes, we're being sarcastic. 

Sounds Familiar

Didn't Larritorious say this same thing a few months ago?

• Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling has issued a blistering warning to radical activists and anti-border enforcement agitators.

  His message was clear: If you play stupid games with law enforcement, you will win stupid prizes.

  At a press conference on Monday, Snelling forcefully rejected social media posts alleging that Chicago police refused to help federal agents responding to violent situations last weekend.

  Instead, he defended the role of federal law enforcement and clarified that attacks against them, whether local, state, or federal, constitute deadly force and can legitimately trigger an armed defensive response.

It gets better:

• Snelling, who has not spoken about federal deployments in the city or across Illinois, said he has sought to “stay out of the politics of this,” but after hearing claims his officers did not respond to the calls for service, he felt it was necessary to “put all of that to rest.”

  “My leadership team are not political pawns. Their lives are too important to play politics with these men and women who face danger every single day,” he said. “This is not a game, this is not a joke. This is still our city and we still have a responsibility to maintain safety and calm in our city.”

  Snelling said none of his officers were seriously injured by the tear gas. He added that he’s spoken with federal leadership about the incidents, and that the feds were “extremely concerned” about the officers.

  Despite those discussions, the superintendent maintained that his department abides by the Illinois TRUST Act — which restricts local law enforcement, including sheriffs, from cooperating with federal immigration agents — and does not collect or share residents’ immigration status.

  But he also said his officers “cannot and will not” arrest federal agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in Chicago and implored residents not to interfere with those efforts

He almost sounds like someone running for office....as a Republican. Or at least a Libertarian.

Still a Cesspool

And still the same people (or folks):

• A seven-time convicted felon on pretrial release for allegedly bringing a stolen gun onto the Red Line this summer is now accused of sexually attacking a female CTA employee at the 95th Street station Sunday afternoon.

  The attack occurred at about 4:30 p.m. while the woman was working at the 95th Street Red Line, according to a Chicago Police Department report. Officers assigned to the station as part of the department’s recent public transit security surge were already on site when the victim ran to one of them and reported the attack.

Seven times convicted - imagine if there were a "three strikes" law on the books.

Then imagine there was cash bail for multiple felonies.

Then imagine winning a million dollars. 

Now They're Concerned?

Is there an election coming up or something?

• Gov. JB Pritzker set off a chain reaction last November when he told reporters he’d be open to changes in the SAFE-T Act, which eliminated cash bail and replaced it with a new pre-trial release/retention system, among other things.

  Pritzker was asked about the case of a woman, Bethany MaGee, who was horrifically set ablaze while riding on a Chicago commuter train.

  No direct link between the crime and the SAFE-T Act actually existed, but the news media pounced on Pritzker’s statement that he’d be open to changes, and several downstate county sheriffs and others jumped up with their own suggestions (although it seemed like at least some were mostly upset about the loss of revenues from cash bail).

Granted, this is part of a subcontracted opinion column, but obviously, crime is among the concerns of voters so democrats have to pretend to address it prior to the election season.

Pension Board Special Election

The retiree representative on the Pension Board passed away last month. We heard there's going to be a special election to fill the vacancy, but we've heard next to nothing about any candidates running.

Last election, the FOP played an outsized role in who was running for the retiree spot.

Who's up his time? 

CPS = C.S.A.

Once again, install cameras EVERYWHERE government business is conducted - cops are wearing them, lockups have multiple cameras, street sweepers have them for ticketing purposes, etc.

It's time for cameras in the classrooms and on the teachers:

• Chicago Public Schools' Office of Inspector General released its annual report Wednesday, with a large portion devoted to what the inspector general called "pervasive" and widespread allegations of sexual misconduct at Little Village Lawndale High School — which NBC 5 Investigates first reported on last May during our "Lessons in Betrayal" series.

  NBC 5 Investigates found that since 2017, at least seven educators - including two administrators and five teachers - have resigned or been fired while under investigation for sexual misconduct at Little Village Lawndale High School.

  As part of our investigation, we interviewed 12 former students who shared with us their various experiences from their time at the high school. The former students raised concerns that the behavior of several teachers there went unabated for years. 

Don't look now, but CTU members and CPS employees are rapidly closing in the the Archdiocese in terms of child victims of sexual assaults. We wouldn't be surprised if in the next year or two, lawsuit payouts eclipse CPD lawsuits settlements.

The First Shot

What the media won't show you:

Yeah, she was driving at him.

You know how leftists think a police involved shooting is supposed to go down?

1. officer perceives a threat;
2. officer evaluates said threat;
3. officer must interpret the threat through a lens that includes age, race, sex, sexual orientation, social dynamics, economics, oppression, history and twenty other factors;
4. officer must double check his/her evaluation of the threat through his/her own lens of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, social dynamics, oppressive history of ancestors he/she never met and twenty other factors;
5. officer may - but is not required - to fire a single shot. (UPDATE - that single shot MUST be at the weapon held OR an extremity (leg, arm) but not to close to a vital artery or organ;
6. return to Step 2 and repeat the process.

It's ridiculous in the extreme. 

And as more video comes out and more interviews are forthcoming, it's being revealed that she was a trained agitator, was the lead car in a convoy interfering with law enforcement, and that she struck the officer with her vehicle - a vehicle weighing in excess of 3,000 pounds making it a far more dangerous weapon than most.

And to all the trolls lurking in our comment sections:

 

Hateful Rhetoric

Democrats have been calling Republicans "nazis" going back as far as Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential race. Every single Republican candidate was labeled as such as soon as their poll numbers deemed them a threat to the democrat candidate.

It hasn't gotten any better in the intervening six decades. Now it's "nazi," or "fascist," and anyone working for a Republican administration is labeled "gestapo."

The entire left wing encourages violence, supports criminals, and believes that any law they don't like is "oppressive." The democrats in charge know most of their voters are either mentally ill or morons - it is a direct (and planned) result of the failure of public schools to properly instruct children in their duties as citizens. Instead they indoctrinate them to think everyone who doesn't agree with you is racist, sexist, oppressive, etc., that they are always the victim of said system and therefore, violence is "free speech" and always justified....when it comes from their side. 

And they'll keep up with the divisive rhetoric because they get more mileage out of a dead body than they do advocating for programs and positions that any sane person would find ridiculous. 

Has anyone heard a single democrat tell their supporters to back down lately? To not show up where legal and lawful enforcement action is being taken? Nope. Instead, they've added "murderer" to their litany of complaints.

When did it become permissible to interfere with law enforcement? To obstruct legal proceedings? To break and burn courthouses? To assault officers, whether local or federal, from carrying out duly passed laws?

You don't get to pour gasoline all over the place, start playing with matches, then act surprised when it blows up in your face. 

Good News, but....

This is good to see:

• Police deaths on the job fell 25% in 2025 to 111, an 80-year low not seen since World War II.

  The number of law enforcement professionals nationwide who died in 2025 declined by a quarter compared to the same time period last year, according to preliminary data provided by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.

  The NLEOMF data shows that 111 federal, state, county, municipal, and U.S. Territories officers died in the line of duty in 2025. That's a 25% decrease compared to the 148 officers who died in 2024, according to the organization.

Part of this is undoubtedly better emergency medical treatment. It's a driving force behind less homicide fatalities over time.

Another part is less anti-police rhetoric being driven by democrats and the media. Americans generally like and appreciate safer communities and that means working with police.

But another part might be police disengagement, especially in blue-state blue-city $hitholes where homicides are down (reflecting a national trend) but property crimes and similar crimes are up. You have an entire generation of cops who have been ordered not to chase, not to confront, not to enforce wide swaths of the actual Law. 

If that's what society wants....

Discuss. 

Justified

Here is a slowed down and zoomed in video of the ICE shooting in Minnesota yesterday.

• video link here

She's driving directly at the agent, who draws and fires as the car approaches.

Federal Rules of Engagement are NOT Minneapolis rules, and certainly not Chicago rules. 

This would appear to be a justified Use of Force and all the noise from the left - including Walz claiming he's going to use the Minnesota National Guard against ICE - certainly seems to be insurrection-y.

How Bad is the SAFE-T Act?

Results are mixed, but some of the predicted results continue to this very day:

• More than two years after Illinois eliminated cash bail under the SAFE-T Act, statewide crime data shows no increase in violent crime, but law enforcement leaders in rural parts of the state say the reform has created new public safety and addiction-treatment challenges that statistics alone do not capture.

  The Illinois SAFE-T (Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today) Act was passed in January 2021 and signed by Gov. JB Pritzker the following month. Its most controversial provision, the end of cash bail under the Pretrial Fairness Act, took effect Sept. 18, 2023, after the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law’s constitutionality.

  Supporters argued the reform would prevent low-risk defendants from being jailed simply because they could not afford bail. Opponents warned it would lead to repeat offenses, failures to appear in court and harm to victims of crime.

And if you skate over to the CWB blog, you can see weekly, sometimes daily reminders, of how repeat offenders are infesting the CTA with attacks ranging from batteries to robberies to lighting people on fire, not to mention over half of arrested shooters are either out on no-cash bail, parole or electronic monitoring.

That lone makes it a failure in terms of keeping Chicagons and Illinoians safe. 

Find the Snitches?

We're sorry (not), but don't these pricks work for us?

• The Chicago Board of Education has launched two investigations into how internal information got into the hands of the media.

  It is looking at whether a member is responsible for revealing the names of superintendent finalists to the media and how a reporter recently got an internal update that included information about plans to hold a special meeting to raise property taxes.

  The board president is so incensed by the recent leak that he is threatening to ask the guilty party to resign.

  This appears to be the first time in recent memory that the Board of Education has investigated a breach. Across the country, such investigations at the school board level are unusual, said Jeffrey Henig, professor emeritus at Columbia University’s Teachers College, who has studied the politics of school boards. More often, school boards are accused of acting in unison and doing too much business behind closed doors, he said.

There should be cameras in the schools so parents can monitor what their children are being taught, body cams on teachers to catch the constant child molesting going on, and cameras at every meeting held by the Board of Ed, especially when they're meeting in secret to raise taxes (again and always) while completely failing to do their jobs - namely EDUCATE children.

New York is Doomed

So this happened last week:

• New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that he is appointing Ramzi Kassem as the city’s chief counsel, the top legal position in the city. Mamdani is set to take office on January 1, 2026.

  Alongside Kassem, Mamdani also appointed Steven Banks, a self-described “social justice attorney,” as corporation counsel, and Helen Arteaga as deputy mayor for health and human services. While Mamdani has praised both appointments as critical for defending working people and ensuring justice in the city, the backgrounds of the attorneys have raised a few eyebrows.

"raised eyebrows" because Kassem defended an al-Qaeda murderer, and al-Qaeda as you might remember, knocked over a couple buildings in New York City a quarter century ago.

But it got worse this week:

• Communist Muslim New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed a “Tenant Advocate” who wants to “seize private property,” which she sees as a symptom of “white supremacy.”

  Cea Weaver is her name, and over the years, she has made no secret of her anti-freedom and overtly racist views.

  “We’ll transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good,” she promises. “Whites especially will be impacted.”

So being white and owning a house or apartment building is now evil in New York City. This AWFL has said she'll direct inspectors to cite and seize buildings that don't meet "standards" to further the communist agenda and fight gentrification.

Of course, it was revealed that she grew up in an affluent part of town, went to one of the "Seven Sisters" colleges, and her mother lives in Tennessee in a house that was bought for $800K but is now valued at over $1.4 MILLION. Gee, real estate is a good investment and gentrification increases net worth - who would have thunk it?  She tried to delete all her social media hypocrisy, but the links above and this one here reveal quite a few of them. (UPDATE: Daddy has his own $800K house AND is the owner of a couple of rental properties - but she's anti-landlord?)

This is the "progressive" agenda and you can bet Conehead and his communist handlers at the CTU would love to implement it here. In the meantime, farewell to NYC.

Porky by the Numbers

This is what's been happening in Illinois since Fata$$ took over:

• Pritzker’s Illinois: the numbers
  
  
  • Taxes are up $1,434 per person since Pritzker took office.
  
  
  • State spending has grown $18 billion (51%) since 2019 — nearly double inflation.
  
  
  • Illinois now has the highest property taxes in the nation.
  
  
  • State & local pension debt totals $218 billion — even $1M/day wouldn’t cover it for centuries.
  
  
  • Illinois lost 2,616 businesses to other states (1994–2023), with losses accelerating since 2017.
  
  
  • Gas tax doubled in 2019 and now stands at 48.3¢/gallon, costing drivers about $143 more per year.
  
  
  Is Illinois better off?

That answer would be, "No, not at all."

But people keep voting for this crap. 

Ninety-One Years

A good start:

• Jeffon Williams, who shot two Chicago police officers during a 2020 traffic stop, later telling an investigator, “F*** that officer, I hope he dies,” has been sentenced to 91 years in prison.

  A jury convicted Williams on August 14 of nine felony counts, including multiple charges of attempted murder, and Judge Steven Watkins on Monday handed down his punishment: two consecutive 45-year prison terms for the attempted murders and a consecutive one-year sentence for unlawful use of a weapon. Williams must serve 85% of the attempted murder sentences.

  Williams was 19 years old when he shot two CPD officers in Homan Square early on August 30, 2020. At the time of the shooting, he was on bail for pending burglary and stolen motor vehicle cases. 

Eighty-five percent works out to roughly 77 years. If they count back from the date of the shooting, he'll be ninety-six....pending a democrat governor pardoning him after everyone who remembers is retired or deceased.

Conehead the Moron....Again

So, since the threat of "curfew enforcement" on New Years Eve worked (and that no one showed up to the party) there's now no need for any curfew enforcement ever again!

• Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday that Chicago’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve celebration hosted by Chance the Rapper, which came off without a hitch, proves there is no need for a revised curfew crackdown.

  On the eve of a showdown vote by a City Council committee, Johnson declared his opposition to Public Safety Chair Brian Hopkins’ latest attempt to give police officers additional tools to combat teen takeovers.

  “New Year’s Eve was a testament that we did not need an additional tool in order to ensure that our young people were where they need to be, and that our parents and adults who are part of these young peoples’ lives — that they are also held accountable for their whereabouts,” said Johnson, who vetoed the snap curfew ordinance that Hopkins muscled through the City Council after a violent teen takeover last year.

So instead of just leaving it unmentioned as a tool that could be rolled out at a later date (because crime has never been cyclical in nature or driven by current events) Conehead just decides it isn't needed.

Aldercreature Hopkins calls out the hypocrisy and shortsightedness of Conehead, but you just know morons gotta moron.