Three of the Forty-Four

From half-a-dozen emailers, we've been informed of three applicants for supernintendo:

• Angel Novalez
• Antoinette Ursitti
• Chris Papaioannou

Should be a fun process.

UPDATE: CWB has another name:

• Shon Barnes, the former chief in Madison, Wisconsin, and Seattle

They also have a quick summary of the drama the CCPSA was undergoing with the progressive commies trying to oust Sandra Wortham for being a highly qualified black woman who actually likes the police and America.

Stupid Question

Lies, damn lies and statistics. 

Guess which one this article covers:

• HEADLINE: How many white individuals were arrested in Chicago during Q2?

Yup, there's an entire article about this from two weeks ago:

• Less than 10% Chicago Police Department arrests were of white individuals during the second quarter of 2026, totaling 224 cases, according to data published by the City of Chicago Police Department, in its Data Portal.

  During this period, white individuals accounted for the third highest number of arrests in Chicago, making up 9.3% of the total occurrences. Blacks represented the largest share at 65.2%, with White Hispanics following at 22.2%. All remaining ethnicities collectively accounted for 3.3% of arrests.

  According to the 2020 U.S. Census, Chicago is 32.7% white, 28.8% black, 29% Hispanic and 7% Asian.

Who gives a rat's ass what the population breakdown is? What's important - and what the media refuses to publish - is WHO IS COMMITTING THE CRIMES.

This is where HeyJackass.com earned boatloads of trust - because they kept track of what actually happened and didn't try to pass off this "proportional numbers" bullshit. If 90% of the homicide victims are black and 90% of the shooters are black, then why should anyone care how many white people got arrested?

What they should be bitching and complaining about is the clearance rate - why 100% of the murderers aren't being arrested....but they wouldn't do that while Crimesha was in charge. Now they're going to complain that CPD isn't arresting nearly enough white people and they'll soon be whining that O'Neill Burke isn't prosecuting enough Caucasians either, even though they aren't committing crimes at the same rate.

You don't hate the media nearly enough. 

Tick Tock Crimesha

So are the walls closing in on the Soros-funded subversion of numerous prosecutor offices in blue-state / blue-city shitholes? Crooked City thinks what's happening in Philadelphia might spread here:

• As finger-pointing among Philadelphia prosecutors now moves into a federal criminal investigation, anxiety may be growing for prosecutors who served under former Chicago state’s attorney Kimberly Foxx.

  U.S. Federal Judge Paul Diamond has referred criminal investigation against Philadelphia prosecutor Larry Krasner and possibly some attorneys serving under him. In the wake of this referral, tensions are high among prosecutors, according to Big Trial journalist Ralph Cipriano.

  “Over at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, people are on edge because any day now, they expect to either get a call from the FBI, or get served with a summons to appear before a federal grand jury,” Cipriano wrote.

  Is it time for Chicago prosecutors serving under former top prosecutor Kim Foxx to start getting nervous, as well?

Prosecutors in Philly, along with Cook County, Baltimore, Philadelphia and St. Louis, and urban counties such as Alameda (Oakland), Fairfax (Virginia) and Hillsborough (Tampa) subverted the law by unilaterally altering or completely doisregarding what was passed by the respective state legislatures, dramatically undercharging serious crimes and freeing repeat felons to offend again and again and again. This was called "progressive."

Go read it all - it's a good take on an issue that needs to be addressed, namely how democrats love criminals at the expense of all decent people. 

Forty-Four Applicants

Seems about average:

• Forty-four people applied to lead the Chicago Police Department, the president of the commission charged with picking CPD’s next top cop said Monday.

  In 2023, the last time Chicago needed a new chief law enforcement officer, 53 people applied for the job. In 2020, 23 people applied to lead the police department, records show.

  Applicants include current and former members of the Chicago Police Department, as well as candidates from outside of CPD, according to a statement from the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability.

Further info:

• The commission has until Nov. 12 to recommend three finalists to Johnson, who is running for reelection. Election Day is Feb. 23.The mayor will then have 30 days to choose a superintendent or ask for another slate of options before asking the Chicago City Council to confirm his choice.

So Conehead will have some say in the future Supe....who may only serve a few months before being fired by a new mayor? Makes perfect sense.

If we hear anything about the actual applicants, by name or by qualification, we'll let you know. Unknown if JCat actually put his name in or he just removed the FOP from having any sort of input into the process. 

In Case You Missed Them

Here's the latest two Instagram reels featuring you-know-who:

• reel #1
• reel #2

Keep them coming.

Um....What? Why?

This story is....unusual to say the least:

• The man who shot and gravely wounded a 1-year-old girl inside a Chicago Lawn home over the weekend intended to pull the trigger on an electric drill but accidentally pulled the trigger on a machine gun in his other hand, unleashing a burst of bullets that struck the child in the back of the head, prosecutors said Monday.

  Davaris Washington, 38, is now detained pending trial in connection with Saturday morning’s shooting that left his girlfriend’s young daughter intubated and in critical condition.

Sure....because people ALWAYS wander around with a "machine gun" in one hand and a cordless drill in the other.

• A few minutes after midnight, Washington picked up a firearm with his left hand and a cordless drill with his right hand and walked into the living room.

  As he approached the couch, which he was apparently in the process of repairing, Washington intended to rev the power drill in his right hand to see if it would be too loud to use with the sleeping child. Instead, he allegedly pulled the trigger of the gun, which was equipped with an auto-fire switch that allowed it to unleash multiple rounds with one trigger pull.

You know, they really ought to outlaw these "switches" as they seem overly dangerous and prone to idiots using them improperly.

Supernintendo Who?

Sent by a couple of readers:

 

That's a helluva rumor - Supernintendo?

He denies it almost immediately, but then this appeared in our email:

 

You can see how rumors like that get started. 

Was he being sarcastic? Probably. 

Is he qualified for the spot? Certainly not. 

Would he get it? We've got a bridge to sell you, spanning some swampland.

Heavy Lifting - DONE

Many commentators have said they'd like us to compile a list of judges who should be denied retention. The trouble with that is we have advocated for the wholesale removal of ALL judges up for retention for the entire lifetime of this blog, and in fact, our entire adult voting life. That makes it simple. All judges are crooked and/or incompetent, so all deserve a "NO" vote.

But there are other elections that might benefit from someone doing actual research and weighing the pros v cons of electing certain people to certain positions. One of these elections is the upcoming School Board elections, and our friends over at the Contrarian have come up with a list of qualified candidates who are NOT beholden to the CTU, but rather (in most cases) the taxpayer and responsible spending on education.

These candidates would hamstring Prickwrinkle, Conehead and Davis-Gates from further spending increases and wasteful spending of scarce taxpayer dollars.

First, get yourself registered to vote. Second, go vote. Third, vote for these candidates listed and start getting involved. 

"Guilty as Hell....

....free as a bird"

Who knew that hippie terrorist Ayers would be so prophetic?

• A 15-time felon who has repeatedly posed as a police officer to rob people allegedly did it again on the Northwest Side last month, using a fake patrol car with flashing blue lights to stop three men, then driving off with their wallets after claiming he was going to his SUV to “run their IDs.”

  Juan Rodriguez, 43, was the front-seat passenger in a Ford Explorer driven by Nicole Carnes, 40, of Bridgeview, shortly after 12:30 a.m. on August 18, prosecutors said. Carnes allegedly pulled up behind three men walking home in the 4800 block of North Monticello Avenue and activated the SUV’s emergency lights.

  Thinking that a squad car was approaching, the men stepped aside as Rodriguez got out and identified himself as a police officer while wearing a dark vest, badge and duty belt with a handgun attached, prosecutors said. He allegedly told the men he needed to check their IDs and search them. While going through their pockets, he took a wallet containing about $1,200 from one man and another wallet containing about $300 from a second man, according to a detention filing.

He had gotten a TWELVE YEAR sentence for previous crimes back in 2020.

Last we checked, 2026 is NOT twelve years past 2020. It's not even ten years past 2020 which would have been eighty-five percent of a twelve year sentence.

But democrats love crime and their Parole Board keeps freeing recidivist criminals to enrich everyone elses lives. 

On Bail? Again?

Once again....: 

• A Chicago father and son are facing attempted murder charges over an alleged rush-hour road rage attack in Uptown that left a driver needing more than 20 stitches. One of the men, prosecutors say, was already on felony pretrial release for burglary at the time of the attack.

  Kenneth Menard, 61, and his son, Nicholas Menard, 37, are each charged with attempted first-degree murder, vehicular invasion and multiple counts of aggravated battery, according to prosecutors. Nicholas Menard was already on pretrial release in the felony burglary case when the alleged attack occurred, court records show. 

The only portion of government saving money on these pre-trial releases is the kitchen at the jail. The rest of society continues to be victimized.

SAFE-T Act Losing Popularity

A legislator actually spoke out against it?

• A suburban teacher and volleyball coach accused of secretly recording a student could not be detained under the SAFE-T Act, and that’s a problem that needs to be fixed, an Illinois state senator and former Cook County prosecutor says.

  Dagoberto Diaz, 48, a teacher at Carl Sandburg Middle School and volleyball coach at Mundelein High School, appeared in Lake County court Wednesday on a charge of unauthorized video recording of a minor. He was released under pretrial supervision after a judge determined the charge was not detainable under the SAFE-T Act.

  State Sen. Darby Hills, R-Barrington Hills, said the case is alarming to her both as a mother and a former Cook County prosecutor.

  “I believe any crime involving the abuse or exploitation of a child should be a detainable offense under the SAFE-T Act,” Hills told The Center Square. “Allowing someone that has exploited or abused a child to be let out back on the streets is just unacceptable.”

Oh, she's a Republican? And a mother? That makes sense.

But it does highlight the always present divide between the leftists who love and embrace criminals  versus the sensible sane people who think punishment should be an option instead of hugs, kisses and actually sacrificing safety to the criminal element.

We're not as outnumber as you think, but we're certainly more apathetic. Stop voting for the crime lovers.

No Red Flags?

Again, could better background checks have prevented this?

• A Chicago police officer has been recommended for termination after COPA sustained allegations that he sexually assaulted his then-18-year-old girlfriend, provided her with alcohol, and later accessed the police report identifying him as the suspect. Officer Alberto Rodriguez, 36, a Chicago police officer since 2014, is stripped of his police powers and assigned to a unit that takes police reports by phone at the city’s 311 call center, according to a police spokesperson.

The entire story reads like a bad Hollywood script that no one would have bought because for it to be believable, there has to be some element of truth in it. This one defies all of those norms....as in "how could someone hit all of these red flags without triggering some sort of overview?"

And these cases always seem to fall in that time when standards fell completely by the wayside, enabling a shit-ton of people who never should have been the police, get on the job and make everyone else look bad. 

Solved?

Technical issue might (MIGHT) be solved - we'll see shortly if everything goes up as scheduled.

Easy posting regardless. 

Who Made the Playoffs?

Both baseball teams???

• Think about all the pieces that had to fall into place for the Cubs and White Sox to clinch playoff berths within two minutes of each other Thursday. That includes the Cubs overcoming all sorts of pitching challenges and the Sox overcoming years of ineptitude.

  Yet there they were, celebrating simultaneously, the Cubs at home and the Sox in Kansas City. It was a surreal visual, marking only the fourth time in history that the teams made the playoffs in the same season.

  Think about that, too. In more than 125 years of coexistence, the Cubs and Sox have played in the same postseason only three times.

So there's an outside chance of a 1906 repeat of a Cubs v Sox World Series. Certainly unlikely, but the odds makers on all those online betting sites must be having a great time setting the bar on this one - probably a million-to-one or something. Conehead's budget people are probably losing sleep trying to figure out the OT odds, too.

We'd risk a sawbuck on that bet for the payoff. 

(still trekking through the technical side of things - this post was a test to see what's working and what isn't. apologies as we fix what we can while attempting to enjoy a busy personal weekend. when SCC says "family first" you know we aren't cancelling your days off and screwing you.) 

Technical Issues Continue

Comments appear to be fine.

Posting however, does not.

We might be taking the weekend off - we'll see.

Apologies. 

Another Instagram

Since we're pushing through some technical issues, something to entertain you....yes, another one of those A.I. trailers:

• video link here

Hopefully, we can solve this shortly - if not, it''ll be an early weekend for us. 

Changes

Moving the deck chairs on the Titanic again:

• DC Parham (Area 2) to Chief BOP
  
  DC Stevens to 1st Deputy’s office.
  
  Cmdr Mannion to DC BOP
  
  Cmdr Neckerman (Acting DC CCG) to DC of CCG
  
  Cmdr Tate to DC Area 2 (replaces Parham)

More on tap, mostly commander slots, but they're still being "vetted."

Technical Issues

Going to be a delay tonight as we're working through a technical glitch.

We might have a solution shortly, but open post for Friday.

Stay Safe. 

Conehead Corpse Count Climbs

Alliteration is fun!

Anyone know when Conehed is going to reactivate some form of ShotSpotter so people (or folks) stop dying after being made into holey-men?

• A gunshot victim lay undiscovered for nearly 30 minutes on a West Pullman bike path Monday morning before a passerby found him. The man, who remained unidentified Wednesday, was dead by the time help arrived.

  The shooting happened in the 800 block of West 117th Street, where 911 callers reported hearing gunfire near Halsted Street around 8:06 a.m., according to CPD dispatch records. None could pinpoint where the shots came from, and officers who searched the area and spoke with witnesses failed to find the shooting scene. ShotSpotter could have provided police with a precise location for the gunfire even if no 911 caller knew where the shots came from, potentially directing officers to the trail where the victim was lying.

  At 8:33 a.m., a passerby found the victim on the Major Taylor Trail. Officers said the man appeared to be in his mid- to late 20s, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Several shell casings were found nearby, confirming that the shooting occurred where his body was discovered.

Well, maybe not - he could have had a pocket full of expended shell casings that spilled out after he fell over. "Momma said he liked to collect shiny things."

Anyway, the Conehead body count (dead and wounded) climbs to ninety-four. Will it hit one-hundred before Election Day in February? 

A New Rumor

Someone is claiming on assorted social media platforms that a new set of subpoenas arrived at the Hall just this week.

We've had a comment or two about it, some emails, screen shots, etc. Someone else claims they talked to a fed who said, "Yup, ongoing and expanding investigation, yadda yadda yadda."

Is it getting warm in here? 

This is News Now?

Must be a slow news day? 

• Chicago police shot and killed a dog that attacked them while the officers were working on an investigation in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Monday, police said.

  Shortly before 5 p.m., the officers were in the 700 block of North Christiana Avenue when a dog approached and attacked an officer, they said. One of the officers then shot the dog.

  The dog died, and the city’s Department of Animal Care and Control was notified.

  Three officers were taken to nearby hospitals in good condition. No other injuries were reported.

  Detectives are continuing to investigate the incident. 

Which incident - the 700 N Christiana incident or the dog shooting? 

Remember when this was just a Misc-X card? If we told all the stories we heard, witnessed or were a part of, we could probably keep the Slum Times in business for a few years along with COPA.

Prepare the Lube!

Who are we kidding? There won't be any lube:

• After three years of negotiations, lawsuits and appeals, the Illinois Supreme Court this week will hear arguments from attorneys for the city of Chicago and the Fraternal Order of Police in a case that will determine the future of serious misconduct cases involving Chicago Police Department officers and the public’s right of access.

  The crux of the dispute is whether officers accused of severe wrongdoing may have their disciplinary cases heard and decided by a third-party arbitrator — as is the case for other municipal employees represented by labor unions — instead of the Chicago Police Board, which has been the city’s practice since 1961.

  Arguments are scheduled for Thursday in Springfield. A decision from the state’s high court could come before the end of the year, though it’s not yet clear how or when a new officer discipline system could be implemented.

Go read it all at the link. All we can say is we're damn glad we're gone from this crapshow.

Okay, This is Just Crazy Now

We've been pointing out for weeks and months now that after decades of under-sentencing and the complete destruction of any sort of trust in the judicial system, someone must have sent a memo out to Cook County judges to start sentencing criminals to actual prison time. All if this in an effort to instill confidence in democrats "really really hate crime - pinky promise!"

Now we have this crooked judge who is most famous for....:

• acquitting Whitney Temple for attempting to murder a Chicago Police Officer with his squad car, AND
• accusing unnamed Chicago Police Officers of threatening her after said verdict WITHOUT making a police report, WITHOUT notifying CPD Internal Affairs and WITHOUT notifying Sheriff Dart's judicial protection people AND
• slandering the blog about "doxing her" for saying she lived in Englewood - something that appeared on her campaign website.

....and guess what she did?

• Frank Burrell spent about 20 years in prison for a 1999 murder conviction that was later overturned. On Thursday, a Cook County judge rejected his bid to be declared innocent of the crime, ruling that the evidence presented during a Certificate of Innocence proceeding did not undermine her confidence in the original conviction or the 32-year sentence he received.

  “I am not at all of the position that anything presented in this C of I has undermined my confidence in the earlier rulings,” Judge Tyria Walton said. “I don’t think that, for me, the earlier findings were improper.”

There is no way this mentally deficient DEI judge came up with that on her own. Obviously, she was told by her handlers to deny this make up "certificate" so that taxpayers weren't on the hook for another outrageous settlement that only enriches the liars lawyers because that might endanger the reelection prospects of other Machine pols.

At it Again

The latest A.I. Instagram reel:

• video link here

Maybe these are the new "Friday Updates"?

More SAFE-T Failure

In spite of the effort by Cook County judges to hammer convicts with sentences that haven't been seen in decades, they're still failing to keep violent criminals in check via cash bonds or custodial restrictions:

• The system had three chances to stop Alex Cusick. Each time, he was released. On the fourth arrest, prosecutors say, he escalated from stealing restaurant tip jars and hopping a CTA turnstile to violently trying to rob a woman in the Loop. Cusick, 28, was arrested three times in five weeks before the September 5 attack. The first two arrests involved misdemeanor theft and trespassing, and the third was for fare jumping at the Lake Red Line station. He was released after each one. It wasn’t until prosecutors charged him with attempted robbery and battery that a judge ordered him detained.

  The arrests began July 19 at a restaurant in the 100 block of North Wabash Avenue. Staff told police Cusick was a “habitual trespasser” who repeatedly entered the restaurant, bought nothing, caused disturbances and refused to leave, a Chicago police report said. That afternoon, he allegedly stole the tip jar. Police arrested him outside, charged him with misdemeanor theft and trespassing, and released him from the station about six hours later.

  On August 15, it happened again. Cusick was arrested in the 300 block of North Wabash Avenue after a restaurant reported that he had repeatedly refused to leave and had stolen its tip jar, according to a separate police report. He was again charged with misdemeanor theft and trespassing.

  Neither charge is detainable, but Judge James Murphy III held him in custody for violating pretrial release in the first case. Judge Peter Gonzalez released him again two days later, according to court records.

  On August 28, Cusick was arrested a third time, this time for fare jumping at the Lake Red Line station in the Loop, CPD records show. He was released at the scene.

  Then came September 5.

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

But as we've stated numerous times, without an incentive to walk the straight and narrow - or at least to stop running up and over the curbs of a civilized society -  then your low life feels there are zero consequences for their actions and continues to act as such. At the very least, a cash bond that might be forfeited or a few nights in jail discouraged asshole-ish behavior for a short while. Anyone claiming differently is a moron....or a democrat.

How Far Society has Fallen

Is there nothing these demons won't do?

• A veteran Chicago police dispatcher was pinned inside her wrecked car, with nine broken ribs and two fractured vertebrae, when a man climbed into the back seat and stole her driver’s license and credit cards, prosecutors say. The man’s girlfriend then got into the front seat and began patting the injured victim’s waistline, apparently looking for more valuables.

  Victoria Mesarina, a dispatcher with the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications for 26 years, was driving home in uniform when another vehicle slammed into the driver’s side of her car in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard around 2:30 p.m. July 3. The other driver ran away, leaving Mesarina trapped in the damaged vehicle. A bystander let her use his phone to call 911, but the wreckage and her injuries kept her from getting out, according to court records.

  While Mesarina remained trapped, waiting for first responders, prosecutors said, 25-year-old James Nelson climbed into the back seat, opened her purse and took a black coin purse containing her driver’s license and various debit, credit and gift cards. When Mesarina asked what he was doing, Nelson’s girlfriend, Mahogany Vann, 24, allegedly got into the front passenger seat and began feeling around Mesarina’s waistline as if searching for something.

Then guess what happened?

• Judge Luciano Panici Jr. denied prosecutors’ request to detain Nelson while the case proceeds and instead released him on electronic monitoring. Prosecutors did not file a detention petition in Vann’s case. 

Of course, because robbing a completely helpless woman isn't indicative of complete inability to live within the bounds of civilization. We'll bet they loot corpses at funeral homes, too.

We need street executions for scum like this. 

Interesting Read

CWB does a decent job outlining the ongoing problem of railroad thefts, something that doesn't get much coverage with crime being down:

• Freight trains passing through Chicago have increasingly become moving targets for thieves who board railcars, sometimes while they are moving, force open shipping containers and haul away cargo ranging from large-screen televisions and laptops to air conditioners and laundry detergent.

  Railroad investigators say organized groups target rail freight, while drones have become an increasingly important tool for law enforcement trying to catch suspects in the act.

  Over the past two years, the thefts have led to a steady stream of arrests on Chicago’s South and West sides, where some of the city’s major railyards are located. Meanwhile, a recent national analysis found that freight train theft has grown into a multimillion-dollar problem.

Nationwide, 75,000 thefts accounting for a couple hundred million dollars, concentrated in LA, Dallas, Memphis and of course, Chicago, specifically the west and south sides. 

Since Conehead and Dart have fixed downtown and the CTA, maybe he could move some assets over to the railroads?

A.I. is Crazy

Someone has been posting these in the comment section and we gotta say, we smiled a bit. As usual, you don't need a social media account to watch them:

• Instagram AI video #1
• Instagram AI video #2  

The Board member in the second video eating the chicken leg really cracked us up.

Hotel / Motel Rule

Saving Conehead an uncomfortable spike in crime numbers:

• A group of suspects broke into at least 41 vehicles in a South Side parking lot early Saturday morning, Chicago police said. At least 28 more vehicles were also broken into at another parking lot nearby shortly after.

  Police said the first crime happened in the Bronzeville neighborhood near East 33rd and South State streets just before 2:15 a.m. Four people in a black SUV approached the lot, where they broke 41 vehicles' windows. Police said it was not immediately clear whether any property was taken. The suspects fled the scene in their SUV.

  [...]  Then, around 3:10 a.m., a group of three suspects in a dark-colored Jeep SUV caused damage to at least 28 vehicles at a nearby parking lot in the 3200 block of South King Drive, CPD said. It was also not known if any property was taken from these vehicles, but some break-in victims also reported to ABC7 that no items were taken from their vehicles.

So almost seventy incidents of Criminal Damage, no reports of any Thefts at the moment, all summarized as two incidents. That's it. 

Two is way better than seventy for Conehead. 

This Again?

We suppose if it works - and by all accounts, it works too well - why change the methodology?

• Chicago police are investigating after burglars crashed into a Northwest Side business on Sunday morning.

  It happened at about 3:53 a.m. in the 800-block of N. Western Avenue, Chicago police said.

  CPD said dark-colored SUV crashed into the front entrance and multiple people then took an ATM.

Um, Chicago and Western isn't the "...Northwest Side..." by a long shot. Just because it's north and west of State and Madison doesn't make it "northwest."

In the meantime, if businesses aren't reinforcing their storefronts, putting up bollards, roll-down shutters, along with pointy-steel spears at windshield level, we suppose this will keep happening. The manpower situation isn't helping things either. 

Fundraiser Coverage

The photos included in the coverage are heartbreaking:

• Nearly five months after Chicago police officer Nelson Crespo was critically wounded in a shooting that took the life of his partner John Bartholomew, he made his first public appearance at a fundraiser.

  On April 25, Crespo and Bartholomew were with 26-year-old Alphanso Talley while he prepared for a CT scan at Swedish Hospital when Talley reached for a gun underneath a blanket after his handcuffs were taken off and shot the officers.

  Bartholomew was killed in the shooting. Crespo has been paralyzed from the shoulders down and has spent months recovering.

  Crespo was greeted by family, friends, and Chicago first responders during a fundraiser Friday in his honor at Old Crow Smokehouse in Wrigleyville.

Continue to keep Officer Crespo in your thoughts and prayers and if you are able, help out via any means possible. 

Off Duty Sheriff Wounded

Again, nothing good ever happens after midnight, and certainly not outside of nightclubs:

• Three men were shot during an altercation outside of a downtown nightclub early Saturday morning, Chicago police said.

  Police said the shooting happened near North Clark and West Erie streets in the city's River North neighborhood around 3:40 a.m.

  An off-duty Cook County Sheriff's correctional officer was among the people injured, officials said.

Quite a few of these shootings seem to involve multiple shooters, something everyone should keep in mind if they're caught in the middle of these shitshows.

Best wishes to the Sheriff's Officer for a speedy recovery. 

No Surprise Here

They're not in the business of educating students:

• Blue states with strong teachers’ unions overwhelmingly have worse student literacy scores than Republican states where educators don’t have as much say over policy, a shocking new analysis found.

  At least eight of the ten states where students had the worst literacy scores were liberal strongholds with politically powerful teachers’ unions, while just five were Republican and one was a swing state, a recent assessment from the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) found.

  New York — where more than half of third- to fifth grade students failed their reading proficiency exams this year — was among the worst-performing states, and also had some of the strongest teachers’ unions.

They're in the business of raising money for left-wing causes, electing radical socialists and fracturing the family structure. Kids aren't there to be educated - the kids are there to be exploited and used as a cudgel to beat parents and taxpayers into submission.

They're succeeding, too, or have succeeded in blue state shitholes.

Don't Stop Ugly People

You'll get a ten-day suspension:

• A Chicago police officer unlawfully stopped and searched a student walking home from the bus, telling him and the person he was with that they were targeted because they were “ugly as f---,” according to findings released by a watchdog group.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) reviewed and analyzed body-camera video of the incident that unfolded after three officers stopped a male and a female around 1:50 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2024.

Now, granted, it looks like they didn't properly stop the pedestrians, failed to document any sort of Reasonable Articulable Suspicion and didn't provide a "stop receipt" after concluding the encounter. But is was the "ugly as fuck" comment that landed the officer ten days off....and certainly a bunch of re-training modules.

But the important questions is....did they get the Blue Cards? 

Red Line BBQ

No, someone wasn't lit on fire....at least not this time:

• video link here

Don't worry, you don't need  social media account to see it. 

No Guns Allowed, but damn, BBQ chicken is all good. 

Dems Hate Crime?

Since when? If there were any actual investigative reporters still left in Chicago, you think they'd be looking at the sudden sentencing discrepancies in Cook County just prior to an election. It happened again:

• A registered sex offender who was out of compliance with registration requirements has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after he was caught viewing child sexual abuse material on a tablet at a Chicago Public Library branch in Bucktown last year, according to court records.

  David Rideout, 51, was taken into custody around 6 p.m. on September 15, 2025, after a woman called 911 to report that a man was viewing child pornography inside the Bucktown-Wicker Park Branch, 1701 North Milwaukee Avenue.

  Responding officers found Rideout seated with a black tablet displaying an image of a naked underage girl in a graphic sexual position, according to a CPD police report. A library employee told investigators that surveillance footage showed Rideout holding the tablet and viewing images of naked underage girls, the report said.

When we become Rulers of the Universe, Officers will be allowed to take this turd into the alley behind the library and shoot him in the f#$%ing head because that's how you solve this type of problem.

After decades of democrat rule though - where they're inventing terms like "minor attracted persons" - a twenty year sentence for looking at pictures isn't in line with decades of excusing perverted behaviors. 

What a Scumbag

This actually happened at the FOP meeting?

• Things got considerably uglier when a member questioned why Lodge dues should be paying for John's personal legal defense. Instead of simply answering the financial question, John turned it into a personal attack and brought up the member's deceased husband and her children. Catanzara told Beth Svec “ you should be thanking me for getting your ex- husbands full duty death benefits for Covid !” You could feel the air get sucked out of the room.

FOP has expelled people for far less than this.

Speaking of expulsions, a question for any lawyers reading: 

• should the current ruling junta lose their positions in the Lodge and the new administration opens an investigation into the questionable spending habits of the previous crowd (i.e. trips to New York, paintings, expensive steak dinners on the membership dime, etc);
• AND the investigation determines that these expenditures were not proper as they didn't benefit the membership in any way, shape or form;
• can (or will) the guilty parties be compelled to reimburse the Lodge for the improper spending on meals, plane tickets, hotel stays, etc?

We're just wondering. 

Giving Away Money Again

And this time, to people (or folks) that CRIMESHA HERSELF said were probably guilty of the crimes they went to prison for:

• Two Mexican men who were convicted of the brutal stabbing deaths of a Chicago couple, allegedly to help a woman steal their baby, are poised to get nearly $14 million from the city of Chicago over their claims they were coerced by cops into confessing to the murders, even though Cook County's former top prosecutor has testified she and other prosecutors never stopped believing the men were guilty of the crime.

  On Sept. 14, the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee voted overwhelmingly to recommend the full council approve the settlements with Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes.

  [...] Reyes and Solache were eventually exonerated and freed when then-Cook County State's Attorney Foxx declined in 2017 to pursue new trials against either man.

  The men swiftly filed lawsuits against the city and the police officers involved.

  They were later presented with so-called “certificates of innocence” by Cook County judges in 2022 and 2023, respectively, after Foxx's office again conspicuously declined to contest their innocence claims.

  [...] And in her testimony, Foxx revealed her office decided to not oppose the innocence petitions, even though she and other prosecutors believed both Solache and DeLeon-Reyes were guilty of the crimes for which they had been convicted. 

Crimesha has never adequately explained why she declined to actually do her fucking job and prosecute people that she believed, her staff believed and the evidence showed beyond a Reasonable Doubt that these two participated in the murders. Someone with half-a-brain would come to the completely logical conclusion that she was somehow compromised into acquiescing to the political winds of the time, likely financed by plaintiff lawyers. 

How about Crimesha sell her house and pitch in to the taxpayers she's screwing over?

One Hundred Years???

This is getting ridiculous:

• A man who got into a shootout with Chicago police officers during a hostage standoff in South Shore has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 10 felony counts. But Steven Wade, 46, may face even more prison time. Prosecutors say he killed a woman in the hours before the standoff began, and that case remains pending.

  On February 27, 2023, Wade showed up unannounced at his ex-girlfriend’s home in the 12900 block of South Peoria Street after not seeing her for several years, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying multiple bags. The pair spoke at the kitchen table, but the woman became uncomfortable when Wade began discussing his newfound religious beliefs, according to prosecutors. As a precaution, she called a friend and asked the friend to listen in on the conversation.

  While the friend was listening, Wade placed a gun on the table, claiming he had killed a security guard to obtain the firearm and the bulletproof vest, prosecutors said. The friend heard those remarks and immediately called 911, sending Chicago police to the home.

Is one-hundred years in line with ten felony convictions? Sure. Stack em up.

But....

There are multiple decades of precedent written into Cook County history. No one gets one-hundred years, even for multiple homicides. And if they happen to get multiple felony convictions, they end up serving sentences concurrently instead of consecutively.

These wildly inconsistent sentences are going to be an issue when the appeals go up the process. Hopefully, no one gets freed immediately, but reductions are a real possibility and you can bet the media won't cover those if / when they occur.

Just Saying

Guess who has COVID?

• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently has COVID — and the way the news got out feels like a dispatch from a very different era.

  Reporter Pablo Manríquez posted Tuesday that Ocasio-Cortez had told a colleague on the House steps that she had COVID. Video of the exchange circulated Wednesday, showing the New York Democrat having the conversation outside the Capitol.

  That quickly produced a second question online: If she knew she had COVID, why was she hanging around the Capitol?

Why? Because without the associated comorbidities, it isn't dangerous to 99.9% of people.

For those keeping track at home, AOC was vaccinated in 2020, 2021, boosted in late 2021 and may have gotten a further three shots, none of which actually vaccinated her. 

Don't fall for it again - it's an election year. 

Integrity Check?

Remember back in the day, the rumors that IAD used to put cash or look-alike "substances" in the backs of squad cars to attempt to "uncover" corruption?

This one looks like it went just a little too far:

• A body was found inside a new Chicago police vehicle on Thursday morning, CPD said.

  CPD said a man was found dead at about 9:15 a.m. in the 700 block of E. 112th Street.

  The body as found in the backseat of a new and unused police vehicle, CPD said.

  Chicago police said the vehicle has never been in service.

  A death investigation is underway.

We're going to start a rumor that the subject of this "death investigation" was placed into the brand new squad car with $1,000 in non-sequential unmarked bills. If any are missing.....

Someone is going to have a lot of explaining to do! 

Food Truck Given Away?

The General Meeting was yesterday - what happened and what the Hell is this?

• The FOP meeting today was a shitshow. JCAT said he and the FOP board gave away the food trailer to a charity controlled by his minions. This is a sad state of affairs. Will they take the FOP decals off the sides of the cart? We were told that the issue was lawsuit liability and that's why the cart was given away. So why the F did we buy it in the first place, if it's such a high risk?

Is this true or is this some proposal to give the truck to the non-existent unapproved charity that is supposed to be funded with $50K of Dues money? What is this Lodge liability for exactly? Accusations of food poisoning? Or shielding the current admin from an audit of cash purchases? 

The charity would be controlled by the same people currently running the Lodge so....not suspicious at all.

We did hear Catanzara claimed that since the Federal subpoenas were a year old, there's nothing to worry about. Someone then proposed that the Lodge stop paying the liar lawyer $450 bucks an hour if there's nothing to worry about. The president ruled the motion out of order and refused to allow it to come up for a vote, so....there must be something someone is worried about.

Fun times. 

Sixty Years from Whom???

Honest to Pete, we can't recall a string of massive sentences like this since the 1980s when the "crack wars" were in full swing:

• A homeless man who officials said spent nine days attacking women in downtown Chicago, culminating in the killing of a doctoral student from Maryland, was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday.

  Anat Kimchi, a 31-year-old criminal justice researcher, was visiting a friend when she was attacked in the Loop on a Saturday afternoon in June 2021. As Kimchi walked in the 400 block of South Wacker Drive, Tony L. Robinson, now 46, grabbed her from behind and stabbed her in the neck and upper back with a knife, prosecutors said.

  A witness who saw the attack from a nearby park initially thought Robinson was trying to rob Kimchi. But Robinson fled with only her sweater. The witness briefly confronted Robinson but backed off when Robinson threatened him and went to Kimchi’s side and held her until paramedics arrived.

  DNA recovered from a shirt discarded near the murder scene matched Robinson. Surveillance video showed him approaching Kimchi from behind before the attack, then running with a knife in his hand and throwing the weapon into the Chicago River.

And you'll never believe who the judge was who applied this sentence after the jury verdict:

• Robinson took the murder case to trial in May, and a jury quickly returned guilty verdicts on two counts of murder. On Tuesday, Judge John Lyke handed down the 60-year sentence. Robinson must serve 100% of the sentence under state law.

Guess he's trying to burnish his image headed into the election.

Idiot

What a great screening process CPD has:

• A Chicago man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for smuggling five firearms and more than 1,700 rounds of ammunition into Mexico. A Chicago police officer is accused of helping him buy two of the guns.

You can read the whole thing at the link up top, but seriously. Throwing away a six-figure job for a gangbanging piece of shit that was going to throw you under the bus the second they got caught dirty. Real brainiac there. 

The officer is scheduled to plead guilty shortly so he'll have a federal conviction on his record.

OEMC Update?

And some workers aren't happy about it:

• By the time the clock strikes midnight on a single Tuesday, Chicago's 911 dispatchers will have fielded nearly 10,000 calls for police, fire and ambulance services.

  Of those, some of them are life-or-death pleas for help. But now, some operators and dispatchers who answer those calls say warn 911 chaos will arrive when a new computerized dispatch program is implemented.

  Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications has been handling the city's emergency calls on West Madison Street for more than 30 years. On Sept. 22, a new computerized dispatch system is set to be rolled out under a $75 million contract with Central Square, a company that has been renovating OEMC technology for the past several years.

  But some dispatchers who have contacted NBC 5 Investigates are less than enthused about the coming change.

We were among the last Officers who handled radio calls from 11th and State before they switched to the current OEMC building, so we experienced the growing pains associated with the system alongside the dispatchers and call takers.

The biggest complaint we remember back then was how the system was cobbled together from assorted low budget bids - the police radios were Motorola, the squad car computers were Badgers (?) or some other rodent and the OEMC computers were a completely separate system that we can't remember....

....and none of them worked well with each other because each system was a separate government bid to spread out the graft and crooked contracts. We were told that Motorola offered to coordinate / sync up all the systems, but the bribe money wasn't enough to sway the City Council people.

But we survived and kind of made it work, probably because the dispatchers were awesome. No idea if that's the case any more. 

Tooting his own Horn

We're still surprised Dart isn't running for mayor:

• A three-year effort by the Cook County Sheriff's Office to help bring down crime on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago appears to be working.

  A group of 40 to 50 sheriff's officers patrol the Mag Mile every day of the week, and have made more than 100 arrests so far this year.

  It's a concerted, concentrated effort by Cook County, following years of crime plaguing Chicago's most prominent shopping district, and record vacancy rates in buildings along the Mag Mile.

  "It was happening on a massive scale. We were getting to operations that were getting $10,000, $20,000. $100,000 of stuff that was being stolen," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

  His office started running the targeted law enforcement operation on the Magnificent Mile in 2023, and has made more than 415 arrests since then.

  In one recent case, sheriff's officers arrested a man who stole about $8,000 in merchandise from the alo clothing store, and was later found to have three active warrants.

Maybe he's looking at Prickwrinkle's job? 

HeyJackass.com Back?

They seem to have updated the weekend numbers pretty close to their usual schedule.

Hopefully, their short break was just that - a short break.

Welcome back if true. 

UPDATE: from the comments:

• Hey SCC. We've been back for a couple of weeks now, but only with occasional updates. Going forward, we'll be looking at posting once a week, likely on a Monday or Tuesday. Beyond that, we're planning on a total overhaul given the extreme age of the underlying infrastructure.  

Someone is Getting Fired

....and arrested probably:

• A child fired a gun after a man left it on a school bus on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

  Police said a man left a bag unattended outside of Minnie Miñoso Academy near West 35th and South Wallace streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood just before 2:30 p.m.

  A 12-year-old boy found the bag, took a firearm from inside, and discharged one round, shattering a bus window, police said.

  Police said the man then took the gun and bag before fleeing. Police have not identified the man or said how he might be connected to the school or transportation provider.

There's usually only one adult on a school bus - the driver. If there's a second adult, it's usually someone attached to a special needs child. So the suspect count here is probably two.

No word if this was a CPS / CTU employee headed to a White Sox game....speaking of which, have they closed that case yet with the CTU member hiding a gun in her fat folds before suffering a negligent discharge in the stadium? The lies and fictions they're going to have to invent to make that one disappear will be legend.

Hero Garbageman

One of the robbers he shot just got eight years - the other one got a funeral:

• A garbage collector shot two men who tried to rob him outside a Chicago charter school last year, killing one and wounding the other. On Monday, the surviving robber, a Hammond, Indiana, man, received an eight-year sentence.

  The victim, a concealed carry holder, was working alone when 22-year-old Aaron White and his much larger accomplice, 42-year-old Kenneth Elliott, approached him near the back of his garbage truck in an alley next to DRW College Prep, 931 South Homan Avenue, around 5:18 a.m. on January 31, 2025.

  Surveillance video obtained by CWB Chicago shows the victim walking along the driver’s side of the truck toward the rear, where he encounters the two men approaching from the passenger side. (The video may be viewed here. Discretion advised.)

Glad to see this one finally come to a conclusion. Hope the victim is doing well, is still employed and is still packing on the west side.

Whoa Whoa Whoa

You can't demonize the parents of demons, can you?

• The senseless murder of a Chicago 911 calltaker in Back of the Yards on Friday has a Chicago alderman blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration for failing to help make improvements in the neighborhood and “gangbanging parents” for passing a love of violence on to a new generation.

  Natalia Rodriguez, 50, was shot and killed while driving in the 4500 block of South Wood Street shortly after midnight Friday. Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said she was in the area visiting family, and he suggested that she was randomly targeted in a “gang check.” Cook County Crime Stoppers and the ATF have teamed up to create a $30,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment of the people responsible for her death.

  “Her loss is great because it takes away the thoughts of what could have been and also leaves a stain on a community living in fear of gang and gun violence,” Lopez said in a lengthy post on X. “Sadly, this gang mindset and culture is generational, where gangbanging parents instill this lifestyle in their children, continuing the cycle.”

What's next - blaming decades of democrat anti-family and anti-punishment policies for the generational dysfunction prevalent across most blue city shitholes?

Or would that be a bridge too far? 

Conehead is Running (so far)

Conehead has tossed his pointy hat into the ring, despite an approval rating in the single digits:

• After months of deliberation, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Sunday set out on the uphill road to reelection, launching a campaign that he said will force voters to “identify the difference between real progressives and posers” in the crowded 2027 mayoral race.

  Johnson spoke to an energized crowd of hundreds of supporters in a cloud-covered courtyard at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. The block party-style event — with a sign-making station, tacos and campaign merchandise — was a who’s who of Chicago’s progressive activist community.

But as the Slum Times points out, Conehead has dug himself a pretty deep hole already:

• By waiting until after Labor Day to announce his decision to run again, Johnson has put himself behind the eight ball. He has less than $650,000 in his campaign fund compared to the $22 million held by frontrunner and Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. Johnson has the power of incumbency and has been making the most of that, but he still needs money to defend his record.

  He doesn’t need to duplicate the $12 million that allowed him to go from single-digit obscurity to the mayor’s office in 2023 in a campaign bankrolled and staffed largely by the Chicago Teachers Union. But he does need enough cash to run costly television ads.

So....is the CTU getting behind mayor 6%? Because that's about the only place he'll be getting any further campaign cash.

The real question should be "What portion of the electorate is Conehead trying to play spoiler for?" Supposedly, he has the CTU backing, but that spot is increasingly toxic. Is he in to deny someone else the lakefront progressives? Or to fracture the black vote? Willie Wilson, Matt Brewer and Danielle Carter-Walters each have their niche appeals, none of which will get them elected, but could minimize that formerly solid voting bloc into irrelevance. Pappas running directly against Giannoulious, Quigley is there to split the white ethnic vote, Cardenas is in to kneecap Mendoza at the moment, so he's likely a Giannoulious plant. Holberg, Nee and Kelly are non-entities.

Remember, the goal is to be in the runoff. Giannoulious is THE money guy at the moment. He thinks he's one of the top two finishers and he wants a weak opponent for the runoff, i.e. not Mendoza.

The filing deadline for nominating petitions is something like 26 October, so the field will narrow somewhat by then. Interesting times ahead. 

Whoops

Weekends like this we really miss HeyJackass.com:

• One man was killed and 6 other people, including a 14-year-old boy, were wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire Sunday afternoon on a crowd in Humboldt Park, police said. More than 70 shots were fired and, according to a preliminary report, a vehicle found at the scene was involved in a separate drive-by shooting on the West Side earlier this week.

  The shooting happened around 12:17 p.m. in the 700 block of North Christiana Avenue, near the alley between Christiana and Homan avenues, according to CPD.

  Six people were standing outside when two vehicles pulled up, and multiple gunmen got out and began shooting, police said. A 30-year-old woman driving nearby was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus, according to CPD.

  An officer who reviewed surveillance video reported that one of the gunmen, described as a Black male wearing a black hoodie over a white shirt and dark pants, appeared to suffer a leg fracture upon being struck by one of the getaway vehicles.

Gotta love when they run over one of their own. No doubt he'll be arrested at a hospital in short order.

No doubt these were all licensed Concealed Carriers with lawfully owned firearms, none stolen in suburban Park Ridge or anything like that. After all, it's impossible for felons to get firearms in Illinois these days. 

Not Again?!?!

A peaceful, church-going rapper cut down in the prime of his career:

• Six gunmen fired more than 50 shots in an ambush that killed Chicago drill rapper BloodHound Q50 at a Fuller Park gas station early Sunday, according to a preliminary Chicago police report. No arrests have been made. The up-and-coming performer, born Mikquale Cooper, was 22.

  He was seated in the driver’s seat of a white 2019 Tesla at the BP station at 4248 South Wentworth Avenue when two carloads of gunmen targeted him just before 4 a.m. According to CPD, the shooters pulled alongside Cooper’s car, and gunmen from both vehicles opened fire.

Q50 was known for such hits as “Long Live My Brudda He Prolly Kilt Yo Brudda” and “Get Back Or Die Trying.”

Like we said - peaceful. 

And stop demonizing. 

So How Was the Weekend?

Days off cancelled?

Mandatory twelves?

Involuntary deployments?

We don't miss it at all. Get to retirement boys and girls. 

Commander 005 - DEI Hire

This happened in 005 the other day:

 A non-demonized minor child decided to throw a rock at a homeless person, missed, and hit a window of the 005th District station causing it to shatter. Notifications up and down the chain of command with CPIC getting a call. So what is Commander Jackson worried about?

Apologies for the poor quality of the picture (that happens when you take a phone snapshot of a computer screen) but the narrative reads as follows:

• When you encounter a person or population that lacks adequate housing, or nightly shelter the term UNHOUSED or UNSHELTERED  referrenenced.
• The attached depicts an example of a notification that was poorly vetted . Ensure proof reading prior to dissemination of docs / emails.

Speaking of "proofreading" we'd suggest the commander have someone go over his writing as we spotted improper punctuation, atrocious grammar, and a number of spelling errors.

Perhaps worry more about twelve-year-old girls throwing rocks at homeless sidewalk inspectors than a CPIC notification no one will ever see or care about. 

More Assholery from Lyke

And chief judge Bee-atch won't do a thing about it:

• In Courtroom 208 at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on 26th Street, things run a little differently. Presided over by Judge John Lyke, it is a courtroom where cop killers and other violent crime defendants can embrace their families while victims’ grieving relatives, some of whom will never touch their deceased loved ones again, look on.

  The practice is not new.

  In April 2023, Steven Montano appeared in Lyke’s courtroom to plead not guilty to the on-duty murder of Chicago Police Officer Andres Vazquez Lasso, whom Montano shot dead near a schoolyard as children took shelter under playground equipment.

  During the hearing, Lyke allowed Montano to hug several family members in the gallery, something he specifically orders his deputies to allow — in violation of sheriff’s office regulations.

  “I wanted to vomit,” said a now-retired Chicago police officer who was in the courtroom for Montano’s plea hearing. “Literally wanted to vomit. He was rubbing it in the faces of Andres’ family, partner, everyone with a sense of decency. [Lyke] did it on purpose.”

Not only did Lyke have the aforementioned two deputies taken into "custody," he's has threatened FOUR other deputies with contempt for not following his directives - all of which run contrary to established security protocols and sheriff office policies.

And almost no one is standing up for the deputies - not Dart, and certainly not Bee-atch.

There ought to be a job action by the deputies and the Teamsters. And a formal complaint with the ARDC or whoever oversees judicial misbehavior. And then, a lawsuit.

Look, a Demon

How else would you describe her?

• Chicago police have filed charges against one of three people who pushed a man to his death Monday afternoon from a moving Red Line train on the South Side — and the accused is a 15-year-old girl.

  Kyle Bickham, 29, was riding the train home after delivering packages for Amazon when he got into an altercation with three people near 69th Street around 2:30 p.m., officials said. The situation escalated, and the assailants pushed Bickham from the moving train, causing him to fall onto the third rail, where he lay incapacitated, according to CPD. He was then struck by another oncoming train.

  Police initially said Bickham had jumped from the train, but their investigation revealed that he was pushed. CPD later said the people who pushed him were men. Now, police say one of them was actually a 15-year-old girl. She was arrested Friday, but state law prohibits CPD from identifying her or releasing other details.

But don't demonize, even when the behavior is demonic.

But don't worry, in another fifteen years, she'll probably be strangling her kids to death. 

Incompetency of the Year

 Hey Chief Judge Bitch Beach, how about you remove this idiot?

• The Cook County judge who released repeat violent felon Alphanso Talley on electronic monitoring before he was charged with killing a Chicago police officer is accused of holding two courtroom deputies in contempt this week for not immediately removing handcuffs from a different inmate charged with murder.

  It’s an upside-down world in Judge John Lyke’s courtroom, where deputies are locked up and repeat violent offenders are sent home.

  On Wednesday, two deputies were escorting the inmate into Lyke’s courtroom at the Leighton Criminal Court Building when he ordered them to remove the man’s handcuffs, according to Teamsters Local 700, which represents the deputies. The inmate, who was not identified by the union, was classified as “high risk movement.” Sheriff’s Office policy requires a supervisor’s approval before restraints are removed from an inmate with that classification, according to the union.

This was a "high risk" inmate, probably prone to constant misbehavior in the jail and likely with a history of attacking Correctional employees. He's in cuffs and restraints for a specific reason. 

Lyke....get this....wanted the defendant to be able to hug his family who had appeared in court.

Not like family members haven't ever assisted inmates in escaping. Or slipped them some contraband while visiting. When the deputies objected and called for their supervisor - AS REQUIRED BY THEIR OPERATING PROCEDURES - Lyke had them taken into custody for contempt.

First of all, what County Officer(s) took them into custody FOR FOLLOWING THE RULES?

Second who does this idiot think he is? It's bad enough he lets mentals and assailants out under shady circumstances - including one who ended up killing a CPD Officer. But he's going to stick Sheriff Deputies in lockup with the very inmates their supposed to be guarding because they followed procedure - a procedure that keeps the public AND JUDGES safe from violent criminals?

This is why you vote NO on every single judge - because they're unqualified incompetent  DEI hires who love criminals more than citizens.

If you don't vote NO on every single judge, at least remember to vote against John Lyke and that other useless bitch Tyria Walton. 

COPA Clears Another Cop

And it only took TWO YEARS:

• A Chicago police officer who went viral after a video showed her pointing her firearm out of a CPD wagon during a street takeover two summers ago has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, better known as COPA.

  The brief video, recorded on August 5, 2024, showed a street takeover at the intersection of 59th Street and Pulaski Road. A white vehicle was doing donuts in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic. As a CPD wagon tried to drive through the crowd of people and vehicles, a female officer pointed her firearm out of the passenger-side window at one or more people in the street.

  The agency launched an investigation after police supervisors saw the video on Twitter and Facebook.

  COPA determined there was “no way to identify or interview any of the citizens involved in the incident, including the original creator of the videos that were posted on social media.” As a result, the agency relied on the officers’ statements and available third-party videos.

So they kept this "investigation" open for over two years because (A) no complainant and (B) no witnesses....including the one who shot hte video in the first place.

But COPA got their licks in anyway!

• The agency found the allegation that the female officer unnecessarily displayed and pointed her firearm to be “not sustained.” However, COPA sustained an allegation that she failed to activate her body-worn camera. She told the agency she did not realize she had failed to activate it until she was interviewed. COPA recommended that she receive a reprimand and retraining on body-worn camera protocols.

Cuck FOPA sideways.

OEMC Calltaker Slain

Mistaken for a rival gangbanger?

• Cook County Crime Stoppers said the 50-year-old woman shot and killed while driving on Chicago's South Side early Friday morning was a Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications employee.

  The organization said Natalia Rodriguez was killed in the shooting.

  The shooting took place at about 12:17 a.m. in the 4500-block of South Wood Street in the Back of the Yards. Police said Rodriguez was driving a silver SUV south on Wood Street when she was struck by gunfire and crashed into a parked SUV. The woman was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

There's a reward being offered by CrimeStoppers.

No word on where Conehead's "violence interrupters" were interrupting crime.

Sympathies to her family and OEMC co-workers. 

Twenty Five Years

 

Without a doubt, one of the most defining events of our careers and lifetimes. 

While it didn't directly affect us in terms of loss or injury, it had an profound impact on work, home, family, travel, finances, safety....just about everything when you really drill down. It still hits home every September.

When we started meeting and working with Officers who weren't even born when the towers fell, we were painfully aware that we had become the "old guys" we had always teased in the past. 

Prayers for all of the victims of that horrible day.

Remember. 

Don't Share the Minutes

Seems like concealing information from the membership has been a standard practice for years:

That's taken directly from the Board Meeting minutes from April of 2023.

We thought that the Board was paid by dues money. Which would mean all actions and official meetings, including the records of said meetings, belong to the membership and can be shared among the membership. 

We can understand excluding the media because they aren't members, but hiding things as a matter of policy - especially after running your campaign on exposing past practices of the previous administration....

It all seems a bit hypocritical. 

Springfield Morons at it Again

There's no way this passes Constitutional muster....and it seems to run against existing Federal Law:

• A first-of-its-kind state law would force gun manufacturers to pay for a portion of the financial toll of gun violence in Illinois.

  Gun violence costs the state about $20 billion annually, according to estimates based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That figure includes direct costs like emergency services, medical care, law enforcement resources and funeral expenses. It also includes indirect costs like mental health treatment, loss of income and childcare.

Illinois is paying funeral costs? Why?

• The Responsibility in Firearms Legislation Act, a bill coming before the Illinois General Assembly, would require gunmakers to contribute to a state fund that would help offset the costs shouldered by taxpayers and the individuals directly affected by a shooting.

  If passed, the law would be a first of its kind in the country. Other states have considered similar bills, but none have become law.

  “Name another industry in this country that gets to sell a product, profit from the damage it does and pay nothing for it,” said state Rep. Kevin Olickal during a news conference Tuesday morning outside the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Gee whiz.....how about clothes dryers? Gas ovens? Sharp knives? Extension cords and electrical appliances? Pools, wall mounted TVs, cleaning chemicals, etc. All of these things can damage or kill people....and do kill people on a daily basis.

The key here is to have knowledge of the danger, properly maintain the device and don't use it outside of the manufacturers' instructions.

• “When a car is defective, the automaker pays. When a drug harms patients, the manufacturer pays. Tobacco pays. Asbestos pays. Opioid companies are paying right now. That is how accountability works in every industry but one: firearms,” said Olickal, who is sponsoring the House version of the Responsibility in Firearms Legislation Act.

Wrong you moron. And you actually prove it in your screed - "defective." A gun is a legal device and when maintained and used properly, functions as designed, thereby rendering your entire argument pointless.

You aren't holding Ford, Chevy or any of the other dozens of vehicle manufacturers liable when a drunk misuses their product to kill innocents....because they tell you not to operate the car unsafely or when impaired. If you've ever bought a gun, the paperwork that comes along with one rivals many automobile user manuals.

But holding criminals responsible for the misuse of legal products has never been big on the lib-tarded radar. It would actually solve problems while cutting into their voting totals. If passed, this will cost Illinois more millions of dollars in taxpayer money for a losing proposition.

Stolen Gun

You ever notice that one of the statistics that never gets mention much is how many guns that are used in crimes are actually stolen guns? Many times when there's a shooting, the lib-tards complain about how easy it is to get a gun, that they're bought and transported over state lines, that we just need to ban guns outright to stop crime.

If you do a google search on "stolen guns used in crimes" you learn that:

• Stolen guns are significantly more likely to be used in crimes, with studies showing that stolen firearms have nearly nine times the likelihood of being involved in criminal activities compared to legally acquired guns.

So if you leave your gun in a parked car....let's just say in suburban Park Ridge....and someone breaks into said car and steals the firearm, why should anyone else be restricted from buying or owning a firearm because you were stupid with yours? Should it matter that you're the wife of a former high ranking CPD member from an east coast city? What if that stolen gun is used in a couple of armed robberies? Maybe an aggravated battery? God forbid a killing or three? That could really screw up Conehead's "crime is down" narrative.

We were just wondering. And we're wondering which media outlet might actually report this without telling anyone where they found out about it.