WTF New York???

Our "un-fucking-believable" button is getting quite the workout today. 

Fuckworthless is at it again:

The hold up is your party Tammy. 

When ICE showed up at the airports this week, the lines all but disappeared - even CNN reported it. Obviously you're just a tool for the left. Good thing Stratton is waiting in the wings. She might make you look (slightly) smarter.

In the meantime, this happened in New York City:

• An illegal migrant sat stone-faced in Long Island court Monday as prosecutors outlined sickening new details of his alleged babysitting sex attack on a young girl he left needing surgery.

  Guatemala citizen Carlos Aguilar Reynoso, 27 was babysitting a 5-year-old girl while her mother was at work on Feb. 1, and violently raped the toddler leaving her bleeding and suffering from internal injuries, Suffolk County prosecutors told the court Monday.

New York has some of the same problems as we do here: 

• Police arrested Reynoso just one day later, though not easily as he resisted the cops attempts to detain him, Murphy revealed. He was nearly let loose back on the streets due to a combination of lax state bail laws and sanctuary policies.

  Reynoso was initially charged with endangering the welfare of a child, which isn’t bail eligible in the Empire State. ICE would have been barred from picking him up because of the state’s sanctuary policies but investigators issued the alleged perv a desk-appearance ticket so he would be processed and released.

  The federal agents then cuffed him on his way out of the precinct, sources said.

They issued a child rapist a "desk appearance ticket" and let him walk out of the station?!?!? 

We snidely opined a few posts down that democrats will shortly be thanking ILLEGAL ALIENS for sexually assaulting their families....and it looks like we weren't too far off the mark:

 

While the five-year-old is a completely innocent victim here, New York certainly deserves everything they voted for.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

It keeps getting worse:

• Taxpayers in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, reportedly footed the housing bill for an illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman.

Part of Conehead's habit of embracing criminals over citizens:

• By June 2023, Medina was in Chicago, living at the Leone Beach Park fieldhouse in Rogers Park, a city-sponsored shelter for migrants, according to the address given on his arrest report.

  The fieldhouse — about a half mile north from where Gorman was killed — was among the scores of city-owned buildings that temporarily served as shelters for the thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants who arrived in the city in 2022 and 2023.

And now, we're paying for his tuberculosis treatment that he either brought with him or caught at the overpopulated shelter from another unscreened unvetted un-immunized ILLEGAL ALIEN.

And the national party won't even commit to deporting a murderer after his time is served ()we're assuming he'll be paroled within five years):

• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) did not say whether or not an illegal immigrant charged with murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman should be deported if convicted.

  During an exchange with Fox News congressional correspondent Bill Melugin on Capitol Hill, Jeffries was asked, “An illegal immigrant has been charged with murdering a college student in Chicago last week. Do House Democrats believe if he’s convicted, he’s someone who should be deported?”

  Jeffries replied, “I’ll look into the case,” as he continued walking and did not elaborate further.

We guess Temu-Obama has to see if the murderous ILLEGAL ALIEN would be voting democrat once he gets out of prison....if he's even convicted.. The alderbitch says he might have been "startled."

Oh No, Must be an Election!

How can we tell?

• A new Covid variant is spreading across the U.S. and it may be able to evade protection from current vaccines.

  The variant, known as BA.3.2, has been detected in nasal swabs taken from four American travelers and clinical samples from five patients in four unidentified states. It’s also been found in three airplane wastewater samples and 132 wastewater samples taken in more than 20 states, suggesting that its reach is actually far more widespread than what scientists see right now.

Four cases!!!!  SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

Wait, is it here?

• BA.3.2 has been found in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, Louisiana, Michigan and Ohio.

AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Illinois!?!?!?!  Quick, someone evacuate the governor's family to Florida and fly the daughter's horses down on a private flight!!!

How many dead already????

• The variant was detected in hospitalized patients in December and January in three unidentified U.S. states.

  The patients included two hospitalized older adults with additional health conditions - including one who had been admitted for heart care - and a young child who received outpatient care.

  All of the patients survived and the researchers said detection in hospitalized patients does “not necessarily indicate that the variant causes more severe disease, nor does it establish any association with risk factors.”

Oh.

So 100% survivable, doesn't effect kids to the point of hospitalization and one of hte two hospitalized adults had a contributing health factor.

Just like the original virus. 

Tone Deaf Moron

Mayor Dumbfuck must have doubled up on his stupid pills today....and even the Slum Times noticed:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson and city officials unveiled Wednesday the “Abolish ICE” snowplow, the winner of this year’s snowplow naming contest, which drew a record number of submissions.

  The mayor said the winning snowplow name is a message to the federal government that U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t welcome in Chicago.

  But the unveiling in West Town came as Chicago has again become a focal point of America’s debate over immigration policies following last week’s fatal shooting of an 18-year-old college student.

If ICE was here, doing their jobs and ejecting ILLEGAL ALIEN criminals from the country without dumbocrats embracing lawbreakers, Sheridan Gorman would still be alive.

But then, expecting a leftist commie to have an IQ above room temperature would be a stretch. 

What the Actual F#$%?

There has been an awful lot of stupidity on display the past week from the leftists, especially media types:

• As the Loyola University Chicago community grieves over the ruthless murder of an 18-year-old freshman, the campus newspaper is focusing on not offending the suspected murderer.

  On Monday, prosecutors charged Jose Medina-Medina with murdering freshman Sheridan Gorman. Medina, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly killed Gorman while the student was hanging out with friends at a nearby beach early on the morning of March 19.

  Campus newspaper The Phoenix originally reported on the charges with an Instagram post titled: “Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved.”

  The original post also referred to Medina as an “illegal immigrant.”

  However, facing backlash, the student newspaper edited the post to remove the term “illegal immigrant.” The newspaper refers to Medina as a “Rogers Park Resident,” referring to the Chicago neighborhood where Loyola’s main campus is located.

They apologized....for accurately describing an ILLEGAL ALIEN who murdered one of their classmates. 

At this point, Trump can't deport enough ILLEGALS fast enough, regardless of criminal records. Everyone goes. Period. And every democrat supporting criminals over Americans needs to be removed from office.

Next thing you know, they'll be thanking rapists for violating their wives and children. 

Conehead Hates Police?

For a guy who hates law enforcement, he sure has a lot of cops watching his ass:

• Manny Whitfield has served in a Chicago city government role for seven years, and said he expected to be on track to one day become the next deputy mayor for public safety. 

  But those plans came to a crashing halt last Thursday when Whitfield, serving under Mayor Brandon Johnson as director of violence prevention and community safety, was shown the door. 

  [...] Whitfield also said he and Gatewood had to prod the mayor to show up at the hospital for fallen law enforcement members, a part of the job he says is crucial for the mayor to do. Whitfield said he fears there is a culture of hostility toward law enforcement among the mayor and his senior leaders.

Given that Conehead's policies of embracing ILLEGAL ALIENS that commit crimes, murder firefighters and shoot college students, it's surprising someone would finally say this out loud....and that anyone would actually report it.

To be honest, we wouldn't want him there anyway.

But it seems like the Machine might be gearing up to launch Conehead. 

(FYI - there are still a bunch of people posting that all 150 of Conehead's security people are making E-3 pay. The only people making E-3 are the twenty-plus body people evenly divided into two squads. All of the other officers watching the residence are making regular patrolman salaries. The sergeants are the ones making commander pay. That's the way it was before and as far as we know, continues.)

Tammy Strikes Again

Durbin was always a moron.

Fuckworthless leaves him in the dust:

This is the bullshit that claims women are too dumb to vote or find the documents to be able to vote - kind of what they told black and brown people for years. 

One of authors of the Bill immediately fired back:

We checked the Bill, and by golly, it's right there:

• ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL .—Subject to any relevant guidance adopted by the Election Assistance Commission, each State shall establish a process under which an applicant who cannot provide documentary proof of United States citizenship under paragraph (1) may, if the applicant signs an attestation under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and eligible to vote in elections for Federal office, submit such other evidence to the appropriate State or local official demonstrating that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and such official shall make a determination as to whether the applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in the State.

So if anyone is denying women the right to vote, it would be officials in Illinois making that determination. Not only that, but there are already a number of Laws in place whereby - if you cannot afford it - free official copies will be provided for birth, marriage and divorce certificates, passed by dumbocrats in Illinois years ago.

No one is getting a free passport of course. If you can afford to travel, you can afford a passport,and we know hundreds of people who have never set foot outside of the country and even a few outside of Illinois.

But Tammy thinks you're all morons and has to lie to attempt to stop a Bill that has nearly 75% support across ALL political parties. You'd think that there was a load of fraud going on or something she wanted to protect.

Another Billion....GONE

This money sure would have come in handy:

• Last fall, a Chicago headline caught my eye: A man who had posed with Governor J.B. Pritzker at a “Peacekeepers” anti-violence event had just been charged with murder.

  The man was part of a state-funded program designed to prevent gang violence by paying locals—often former gang members—to mediate conflicts on the street. About a week after appearing with the governor, prosecutors say, the man participated in a smash-and-grab robbery of a Louis Vuitton store. In the chaotic getaway, another man was killed: Mark Carlo Arceta, whose son was born the next day without a father.

  The story raised obvious questions: What exactly is a Peacekeeper? And how often do people in this program end up back in cuffs?

  The local press quickly moved on. I started digging.

  After three months of Freedom of Information Act requests, door-knocking, and speaking with ex–gang members, I answer those questions in today’s story.

The entire article is behind a paywall, but here's the damning graphic:

 

Although they tout private contributions, the fact is taxpayers are footing the majority of the bills for what is essentially a money-laundering operation for gangs, criminals, grifters and scammers. The article delves into all sorts of names and events that would invite scrutiny from legitimate news organizations, but those don't seem to exist any more.

If you can find a way to read the article, do so. 

The Startled ILLEGAL ALIEN

The Loyola murder is attracting national attention.

So what does the aldercreature do? Blames the victim:

• Meet Chicago Democrat and 49th Ward Alderwoman Maria Hadden, who pretty much blamed Sheridan Gorman for her own murder: “The kids were out doing normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong-place, wrong-time situation, running into a person who had a gun. They might have unintentionally startled this person at the end of the pier.”

Others are pointing out:

• Sheridan Gorman was kiIIed 4 days ago by a Venezuelan illegal in Chicago

  0 [comment or mention] from Chicago Mayor Johnson
  0 from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
  0 from Illinois Lt. Governor Stratton
  0 from Illinois House Speaker Welch
  0 from Illinois Attorney General Raoul
  0 from Illinois Senate President Harmon

But earlier this year, Porkie went to Minnesota to honor law-breakers for interfering in ILLEGAL ALIEN removals....while removing themselves from the gene pool.

So remember:

• ILLEGAL ALIENS who might vote for democrats - good
• eighteen-year-old college student killed by ILLEGAL ALIEN - bad 

Tax Revenue Generation

The City needs money. It's a never-ending quest.

Democrats think you can tax everybody and everything into prosperity but all that does is drive out the people who can afford to leave and they take their money with them. It also drives us to do all of our shopping in the suburbs and collar counties, not to mention out-of-state when we need un-serialized ammunition. 

There used to be giant tax generating entities in Chicago that funded much of the government - McCormick Place conventions, the Mag Mile, a thriving bar, music and entertainment scene. 

But cost overruns killed the convention business, the Mag Mile is a plywood forest, Chicago went from a few thousand bars to a few hundred, movie theaters are dying, stage plays are few and far between, the Bears are leaving and so are the White Sox. And instead of dealing with these shortfalls, Fata$$ and Conehead raise hotel and restaurants taxes for tourists that aren't coming in numbers big enough to save the city.

But here's a bright idea that's sixty years overdue:

• Madison Street on the city’s West Side has been rocked by some serious body blows over the last 60 or so years and it shows: the unhealed scars left by the civil unrest that followed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, nearly three generations of disinvestment and scores of vacant commercial buildings.

  Yet the street goes on. Down, perhaps. But never quite out.

  And now, the thoroughfare is the focus of a city study aimed at helping bring new retail, housing and other activity to three miles of Madison Street, stretching from the shadow of the United Center to the heart of K-Town.

The United Center has (had?) the potential to be an anchor for west side redevelopment that was never fully explored or exploited. People always knew that the Mag Mile was a massive generator of revenue and jobs for decades. But not many knew that the second highest generator of revenue was the Twenty-Sixth Street business corridor for most of the 80's, 90's and 2000's. Madison Street (corrected) was that, too....but at the other end of the 20th Century....until the 60's. 

We don't know if it has that potential any more.

And Speaking of Shortages....

Building on the post directly below this one, we got an interesting e-mail about the "quiet defunding" going on here in Chicago:

• Hey SCC, just thought you'd like to know. The current manpower levels of the CPD are around 8,000 bodies. That isn't just blue shirts - that is everyone from Larry to the newest rookie. Not only that, the city has just about reached it's hiring numbers for the year, a grand total of 250 officers. Keep in mind there are about 1,000 retirements on tap for 2026, so that's a net loss of 750 bodies.

The letter goes on a bit, but that's the meat of it. 

Eight thousand is a ridiculous number for twenty-two District and five Areas. 

Is the Great Re-Districting finally upon us?

More NYPD Shortages

NYPD pensions are based on salary plus overtime, a nifty little benefit. But with the islamo-communist mayor defunding everything that isn't "progressive," thousands of NYPD personnel are likely to bail out at their current rates instead of sticking around to lose money:

• More than half of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force cops can retire right now, along with thousands of sergeants, lieutenants, and captains, worrying officials about the future of terror and crime fighting in Gotham, The Post has learned.

  Forty-five of 82 JTTF detectives – or 55% – have 20 years under their belts, which is enough time on the job to leave with a full pension, according to union data.

  There are 5,121 active detectives in the NYPD, and 1,193 of them — or 23% — are in the same boat, eligible for a full pension after 20 years.

  Another 698 lieutenants, or about 42% of the total 1,669, could retire today; 518 captains, or 66% of the 780, could leave; and 954 sergeants, representing about 22% of the 4,300 total, could exit at any time, according to union data. 

  Police are concerned that the thousands of veteran NYPD bosses and gumshoes will flee if Mayor Mamdani cuts overtime, which would significantly reduce their pensions, union officials said. 

A couple of years ago, there were ambassadors from dozens of mid-to-small city police departments recruiting from blue state $hitholes, including Chicago and New York, grabbing any warm trained body and incentivizing departures with tens-of-thousands of dollars.

We're imagining a lot of NYPD people will be filling these small town departments, greatly reducing opportunities along the way. Make your moves soon.

Blue Haired Karen

So the ILLEGAL ALIEN who executed the Loyola student was allowed in by the Drooling Vegetable administration a few years back and promptly began committing crime:

• Court records show he was arrested in mid-June 2023 for allegedly shoplifting merchandise worth $132 from the Macy’s at 111 North State Street in the Loop. Arrest records show he listed 1222 West Touhy Avenue in Rogers Park as his home address at the time — the address of Leone Beach Park, where the fieldhouse had been converted into a migrant shelter by City Hall. Leone Beach Park forms the north end of Loyola Beach.

  According to court records, he was released from custody “by rule of the court,” a cash bail-era procedure by which people charged with non-violent crimes were released on their own recognizance. He never showed up for court again, records show. After his first failure to appear in July 2023, Judge Peter Gonzalez granted a 30-day continuance. When a Macy’s representative appeared for that date and the man once again failed to appear, Gonzalez issued an arrest warrant requiring a $50 deposit to be released from jail. He was never caught.

There's that judge again. Big surprise.

And remember, Fata$$ is going to stand between ILLEGALS and federal authorities who will have to "go through" Lord knows how many layers of shit to get to a murderer.

Now he's in custody and the feds filed an immigration detainer - which may or may not be enforced according to Porkulous:

• The federal agency also claimed that “Medina-Medina should have never been in our country, but was RELEASED into our communities by the Biden administration. He was then released AGAIN following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago, Illinois.”

Just pointing out to CWB, the federal agency doesn't have to "claim" any of this. CWB's reporting cites it in the first article - he's ILLEGAL, he came in under Biden, he was released by judge Gonzalez - it's all there. Give yourselves some credit guys - you ARE the media now.

And one of the tools that led to the arrest of an ILLEGAL ALIEN MURDERER....well, democrats can't have that working against their new core constituency!

• An Illinois state legislator wants to strip law enforcement of a tool that has helped detectives solve murders, robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults — including some of the most violent crimes to hit the CTA in recent years: facial recognition.

  [...] But if a North Side state legislator gets her way, Illinois police will soon be barred from using any facial recognition database, including the Secretary of State’s, to do their work ever again. 

  The bill is called the Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act, and it’s being pushed by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, who represents most of Rogers Park and Edgewater in Springfield. Cassidy’s office did not respond to an email seeking comment for this story.

Cassidy looks EXACTLY like you think (check out the CWB link for a picture) - a blue-haired AWFL troll bent on destroying the Rule of Law by importing ILLEGALS and setting them loose on the public to rape, rob, and murder. The Loyola murder took place in her District, and she still had the gall to propose Police be prevented from solving it.

We can see why tar-and-feathering was a thing back in the day.

Hammer Time

That CTA rider with the two hammers that we posted about a few days ago....he's been identified:

Meet Eric F. Vinson and his THIRTY prior arrests for different levels of assault, with and without deadly weapons. But you know, "crime is down."

This guy doesn't just have a forehead....or a five-head. Hell, that thing is even beyond an eight-head. But it would make an excellent backstop if he approaches us anywhere on the public way.

Dumb Ideas Continue

And the stupidity keeps coming from dumbocrats in Springfield (click for larger version):

 

We're pretty sure something similar was decided by the Supreme Court years ago whereby you cannot require extra expenditures to exercise what is an enumerated Right in the Constitution. This was related to the "poll tax" or literary tests that were utilized across the Jim Crow south to deny minorities the Right to vote.

Those restrictions were instituted by democrats back then, too. 

Arrest in Loyola Execution

And you'll never guess who the offender was:

• Offender in custody who lives a block from incident location.
  
  Gun recovered.
  
  Venezuelan migrant.
  
  Not targeted.
  
  Random.
  
  Had a picture and used good ol’detective work to track him down.

Turns out to be an ILLEGAL ALIEN, who shouldn't be able to get near a gun, but somehow in a city and state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in existence, manages to get one and kills an 18-year-old student from New York.

Here's the Slum Times coverage: 

• Chicago police are questioning a person of interest in the Thursday fatal shooting of an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student.

  Sheridan Gorman was on a walk with her friends in the 1000 block of West Pratt Boulevard around 1:30 a.m. when she was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Chicago police confirmed they are questioning a person of interest in the shooting of the student from Yorktown, New York, but no other details were released.

No other details were released because they would be embarrassing to Conehead and Fata$$. 

If I.C.E. was here hunting illegals, this girl might be alive.

Park with the Engine Off?

Is this true?

• OT. We were told in roll call today to be mindful of how much gas we’re using. It were stopped we should turn the engine off. WTF. 

At least it's been nice weather - could you imagine if it was below freezing and they wanted you to park with the engine off? Or 100 degrees like out west this weekend.

Maybe it's time to adopt the CFD model and park at the station until a call comes in. 

Is Conehead having money problems? 

UPDATE: How many cars on Conehead's detail?

• 150 cops across three watches - call it +/- fifty per watch
• days off, furlos, etc - that's twenty two-man cars plus at least one supervisor, probably two

So Conehead has twenty-plus cars burning gas 24/7 plus the two armored vehicles which are constantly kept running in case Conehead needs to leave in a hurry.

Too Stupid to Vote

Anyone else find it amusing that the party that spent the last couple of decades telling everyone that requiring ID to vote was racist because black and brown people were too dumb to....

• use the internet,
• locate government offices and
• get an ID, social security card, birth certificate or passport

....have started telling women that THEY'RE too stupid to get a copy of birth certificate, a marriage certificate  and/or a divorce certificate so they're going to be unable to vote?

Democrats think their voters are morons. 

Sometimes, they're correct, but many are waking up to this degrading behavior that is meant to maintain the left's control over fraud.

Arsonist Charged

And (surprise!) he was on electronic monitoring:

• A Rogers Park man has been charged with murder and aggravated arson in connection with a fire that killed Chicago Fire Department Firefighter and EMT Michael Altman, prosecutors announced. He is the fourth person charged this year with killing or attempting to kill someone in Chicago while on felony pretrial release.

  Sheaves Slate, 27, is expected to appear for a detention hearing at the Cook County courthouse at 26th and California on Saturday afternoon, where additional details about the allegations against him are expected to be released.

Apologies for bringing this up, but this really should be used as a giant f#$%ing club to beat any and every politician who voted for the SAFE-T Act. 

These creatures shouldn't be walking the streets among the decent and law-abiding citizens, sowing mayhem and murder wherever they go. They need to be in cages or - if on bond - be forced to live with the politicians who voted for this crap bill....and the fat tub of shit that signed it.

Another Property Tax Scandal

Nice to see Conehead's staff carrying on the long time traditions of the Chicago Machine:

• For the past five years, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget director has illegally gotten property tax breaks on a South Loop condo she owns but hasn’t lived in since 2019.

  Annette Guzman got those tax breaks from her former boss, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. They’ve saved her $3,434 in taxes on a condo she called an investment property on the required financial disclosure statement she filed with the Cook County clerk a year ago.

  Guzman and Kaegi say that, until asked by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter about the tax breaks, they were unaware she was violating state law by collecting the homeowner exemption on her investment property and also her Bronzeville home.

  Illinois law allows homeowners one such exemption every year and requires them to live in the home.

  Now, Kaegi’s staff has canceled the homeowner exemption on the investment property and ordered Guzman to repay $2,071.89 in tax breaks she got — not what she wrongfully failed to pay for the past five years but just for the past three years. Kaegi also waived any interest payments.

Dozens of politicians have been caught up in the scam of undervaluing properties or residency issues connected to "investment" properties. Seldom have they been held criminally liable and certainly never politically. Luis Gutierrez is the first one that comes to mind. Shortshanks got a sweetheart deal on his condo before it was even built and then sold it for ten or more times what he bought it for within a very short time frame.

Just pay back a portion (never the whole thing) and skip the interest payments that cheated actual taxpayers out of services.

Funeral Arrangements

Full Honors:

• A funeral has been scheduled for next week for third generation Chicago firefighter Michael Altman, who died after being injured fighting a Rogers Park blaze on Monday.

  Visitation will be held 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 26 at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel, 7740 S. Western Ave., the Chicago Fire Department announced Wednesday. Funeral services will be held there at 10 a.m. March 27.

  Altman, who served on Truck 47 in Edgewater, responded to a fire at a four-flat in Rogers Park late Monday morning. When the floor collapsed, he fell into the flames, fire officials said.

Rest in Peace.

Offender Charged

From the Sergeant Shot incident:

• A 26-year-old Chicago man was detained Thursday after prosecutors said he shot his own mother four times, then opened fire on a Chicago Police sergeant minutes later, telling investigators he had been wanting to shoot a cop since he had a recent “spiritual awakening.”

  Judge James Costello ordered Treavor Taylor detained on charges of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and aggravated battery of a peace officer.

  [...]  

  After being advised of his Miranda rights, Taylor told officers that he had shot his mother but hoped she would survive so that she would suffer, according to Pekara. As for the sergeant, Taylor allegedly said he simply wanted to shoot a cop, didn’t care whether they lived or died, and that he had been wanting to shoot a police officer for some time following what he described as a spiritual awakening.

  Taylor is also accused of attacking officers and a lockup keeper while he was in police custody. He was ultimately transported to a hospital for a mental health evaluation before being brought to court.

Bunch of felony charges there....he'll probably have to wear two ankle monitors.

Is This Psycho Still Free?

We can't embed the video - and you don't need a social media account to play it - but keep the volume down if you're at work:

• video link here

Somewhere, Charles Bronson or Bernie Goetz is wishing they lived in town. 

Just another day on the CTA. 

Crime Solved!

Not only was the crime solved, but many future crimes were prevented at the same instant!

• A 27-year-old man shot and killed a 16-year-old who tried to rob him at gunpoint on Wednesday afternoon on the Far South Side, according to police.

  According to preliminary information, the man is a licensed concealed carry holder who was working in the area of the 11700 block of South Normal when the boy approached him around 3:36 p.m. CPD said the 16-year-old tried to take unspecified property from the man while displaying a firearm.

  The man drew his own firearm and shot the 16-year-old in the chest, police said.

  Officers responding to the scene administered CPR in an attempt to save the boy, but he was pronounced dead after being transported to Christ Hospital.

Did anyone ever decide to run with that program where a successful Concealed Carrier shooting was rewarded with a free box of ammo?

Crime is Still Down

Just ignore the eighteen-year-old executed at the lakefront overnight:

• An 18-year-old woman was shot and killed in what was an apparently random attack while she was with friends at the Loyola Beach pier early Thursday morning.

  At about 1:11 a.m., a 911 caller reported they were running for safety after a man in a ski mask and black clothing fired a single shot at a group gathered at the lakefront near Pratt Boulevard. Other members of the victim’s group soon called 911 as well.

  Officers found the woman lying on the pier near the light beacon. She had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses told police that the gunman emerged from behind the light beacon, fired once, then fled down the beach.

First year student from New York, seems completely random.

How many homicides does 024 have a year anyway? 

Arson?

Word came in from some former co-workers that there was a person of interest named in the investigation of the death of the CFD Firefighter Michael Altman. He has since been picked up on an unrelated warrant:

• Chicago police on Wednesday arrested a man sought in connection to a Rogers Park blaze that resulted in the death of a firefighter earlier this week.

  An internal bulletin issued Tuesday said detectives were “seeking to locate and interview” the man in relation to firefighter Michael Altman’s death earlier that day. The man was arrested on a warrant Wednesday at Thorek Memorial Hospital, according to police records obtained by the Sun-Times.

  The Sun-Times isn’t identifying the man because he hasn’t been arrested or charged in relation to the fire.

  He has been arrested at least three times since July 2025, according to Cook County court records. In October, he was placed under court supervision for a year after pleading guilty to retail theft. 

Three arrests since July 2025 and "court supervision." 

One of our commentators knows EXACTLY what that means:

• Can one of our brothers in the Detectives Division CONFIRM that the arsonist who set the fire was on Cook County Judges Electronic Monitoring !!??!!?? This is the direction we are going. By transferring Electronic Monitoring from the Sheriff to the Judge these vile criminals will run the streets with no metrics in place, public safety emergency as far as I’m concerned.

Yep, another person wandering around on Electronic Monitoring with zero consequences aside from a notification mailed to his last known address that he missed court.

Did he light this fire? 

Political Losses

From the Contrarian X/Twitter feed:

• Kat Abughazaleh loses the Illinois 9th.
  
  
  Junaid Ahmed loses the Illinois 8th.
  
  
  Kina Collins loses the Illinois 7th.
  
  
  Joey Ruzevich loses the Illinois 6th. 
  
  
  Robert Peters loses the Illinois 2nd.
  
  
  Progressivism loses in every race in Illinois. 

On one hand, this is good that they got knocked out in the primary

On the other, this is pointless because these are "safe" seats and the democrat that won the primary will likely still be elected.....and that is bad because they'll still vote the "progressive" agenda because they're too far gone to do anything else.

And speaking of too far gone, what was this?

• Brendan Reilly ran against Prickwrinkle for Cook County Board president and at the last polls before election day, was trailing by 20+ points the entire race - but that didn't stop Lodge 7 from making a $100,000 donation to what was obviously a losing effort;
• Stephanie Kofowit ran for Comptroller and was pooling poorly - and the Lodge threw $25,000 to someone who ended up finishing dead last .

Is the Political Action Committee going to be fired for these wasted dollars?

How much will they give Conehead and Fata$$ next? 

NYC Regrets

So after electing a islamic-socialist mayor who promised to de-fund police, pay for government run grocery stores and raise taxes along with all sorts of other crap, regular New York citizens are realizing how badly they screwed the pooch.

How badly?

• he is proposing to make the speed camera zones around schools active 24/7/365....when kids aren't even there and schools aren't even open;
• the speed limit will be knocked down to 15 MPH 

A money grab pure and simple to fund his impossible budget....and it's going to tag the common folks more than any millionaire or billionaire. And that has reduced the governor to begging for wealthy people to come back to New York so that they can pay fines there:

• Gov. Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the city to encourage their rich pals to come back and continue padding the Empire State’s lavish public handouts.

  Hochul made the case against caving to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s demands that she hike income taxes — by saying she not only wants fat cats to stay in the city, but also by clawing at those who have moved to states with better business climates like Florida.

  “Maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded,” the Democratic governor said at a forum hosted by Politico last week.“I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,” she said.

Meanwhile, Hollywood "elites" are fleeing California and the multi-millionaire owner of Starbucks is leaving Washington for Florida.

H.L. Mencken said it best:

•  Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Gooder and harder New York (and California and Washington and yes, even Illinois.)

Larry Chose Option A

From last week regarding the exempt moves:

• Now the BIG question - does Larritorious delay the moves because word has leaked out? Or does he let them move forward and just admit that people can't keep secrets any more? 

So far, nothing.

But more moves than just the five we listed are due the first week of April. 

Will the first set happen this Friday or will everything be delayed for one single big announcement?

"Bag of Guns"

We had to read this one twice:

• A crew of armed robbers that Chicago police have linked to at least two other holdups this month surrounded a man near the Magnificent Mile on Monday afternoon, taking his valuables and a bag containing firearms before fleeing in a luxury SUV.

  The robbery happened around 4:40 p.m. in the 100 block of East Chestnut Street. Police say a 64-year-old man had just stepped out of his vehicle when a black SUV, possibly a Maserati, rolled up with four males inside. Three of them got out, displayed rifles and handguns, and stripped the man of his wallet, a high-end watch, and the bag with the firearms, according to a preliminary report.

  The robbers then turned their weapons on two bystanders, a 58-year-old woman and a 47-year-old man, but left without taking anything from them, a police spokesperson said. The victims flagged down a passing CPD unit to report the crime. Camera footage captured the plateless SUV turning north on Rush Street before circling back to Chicago Avenue and heading south on Lake Shore Drive.

  The robbers were described as Black males between 16 and 35 years old, dressed in all-black clothing and standing about 5-foot-7. Two wore white face masks and one wore a red face mask.

Who wanders around the Mag Mile with a "bag of firearms"?

And now, when these guns start turning up at crime scenes or in the possession of previously convicted felons, are we going to have to listen to Fata$$ and Conehead spout off about how lax gun laws in Indiana or Wisconsin loosed the offending firearms on the peaceful streets of Chi-raq (or is it Chi-ran now?) 

UPDATE: They're expanding their hunting range. 

What New Hell is This?

The single biggest thing we don't miss from the job:

• I’m currently sitting in the academy at the Impartial Community Policing class. Who in the fuck puts this bull shit into training? This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever been a part of.

This seems like part of the "consent decree" scam.

• the political powers-that-be implement all sorts of "progressive" or communist or racially motivated training for "slights" suffered by assorted "oppressed" communities;
• here's the grift part - some outside "consultant" firm of DEI hires comes up with a set of bullet points in a power point presentation for an 8-or-16 hour block of time. They charge the City and the Department hundreds of thousands of dollars for this lesson plan;
• some house mouse or pin cushion or future "meri-clout-orious" pick then reads the slide aloud to a group of coppers who know it's all bullshit, but they have to meet their 40-hour-per-year requirement, so they sit, happy to be away from the street for a day

Does anyone ever wonder why the training staff almost tripled over the life of the "consent decree"? Because the instructor #1 reads Hour One of the lesson plan, then go to lunch (or duck out) and instructor #2 reads Hour Two before they skate, etc etc.

When that Texas firm was here, we remember having seven different instructors for an eight hour course. They got replaced by a local grifting outfit once Groot was gone because why send that money to Texas? 

Business Unfriendly

We were correct again, years ahead of a lot of people:

• Chicago business owners say bike lanes and concrete barriers are driving customers away.

  One after another, business owners, operators and workers addressed the city council’s committee on pedestrian and traffic safety last week.

  Evelyn Almanza said her mother owns a hair salon and said business owners and community members are frustrated with the bike lanes on Archer Avenue.

  “Our customers don’t have places to park and end up leaving when trying to access our services. Many businesses, including my mom’s, are facing a decrease in revenue,” Almanza said.

  Bakery owner Juan Castro said the bike lanes are hurting his business and others in the neighborhood.

  “Why would I want to keep my business here, knowing that I can go somewhere else and have better access. You’re making people not want to live in Brighton Park,” Castro said.

If people can't find parking in front of the store they want to patronize, they'll leave.

We had to drive around for a couple appointments the other day and guess what? Not a single bike lane was plowed, swept, passable....or in use.

But they took up an entire lane of what used to be traffic and/or parking. 

Dumb Dumb Dumb (UPDATE)

Another dumb idea, courtesy of Illinois dumbocrats, House Bill 4414: 

• Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, all handgun ammunition that is manufactured, imported into the State for sale or personal use, kept for sale, offered or exposed for sale, sold, given, lent, or possessed shall be serialized. 
• Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any person who manufactures, causes to be manufactured, imports into the State for sale or personal use, keeps for sale, offers or exposes for sale, or who gives or lends any handgun ammunition that is not serialized is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. 
• Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, any person who possesses in any public place any handgun ammunition that is not serialized is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. Provides exceptions. 
• Provides that beginning January 1, 2027, the Illinois State Police shall maintain a centralized registry of all reports of handgun ammunition transactions reported to the Illinois State Police in a manner prescribed by the Illinois State Police. 
• Provides that information in the registry, upon proper application for that information, shall be furnished to peace officers and authorized employees of the Illinois State Police or to the person listed in the registry as the owner of the particular handgun ammunition. 
• Provides that the Illinois State Police shall adopt rules relating to the assessment and collection of end-user fees in an amount not to exceed 5 cents per round of handgun ammunition or per bullet, in which the accumulated fee amount may not exceed the cost to pay for the infrastructure, implementation, operational, enforcement, and future development costs of these provisions. Effective immediately.

We haven't bought ammunition in Illinois in years. There are nearby states where we can buy thousands of rounds far cheaper than anything locally. And if we wanted to, standard thirty-round magazines.

It's almost exactly how we get our fireworks - we're happy to make the trip to Free States.

But that's a pretty big assumption that ammunition manufacturers are (A) tooled up to do anything like what is proposed and (B) ISP is equipped to log and record anything like what is in this proposal. We still remember the "gun registry" that ended up with something like a 3% compliance rate and zero enforcement action taken by ISP. 

It's probably cheaper to not ship ammunition to Illinois - which is likely the aim of the bill.

UPDATE: Just thought of this - say we show up locally for our retirement qualification. We usually being our oldest ammo along to burn up, stuff we've bought in our travels for trips to the range with buddies - it has no serial numbers. Are the instructors required to call an Officer in, arrest us, process us on the misdemeanor charge....and then revoke our retirement credentials?

Election Day

Machine politicians across the city were relieved to finally see some snow and chilly temps - it keeps the un-interested voters home (nothing will stop the dedicated Machine people) and makes anything shady easier to pull off.

A couple suggestions for those going to vote in Cook county:

• if you pull a republican primary ballot, you'll note that it's pretty much empty except for the statewide offices. That's because the republican party in Illinois has given up on Cook County to the extent they spend almost no money (because they have so little) and send out maybe two mailers.
• if you pull a democrat ballot, that's where the action is. Tens of dozens of races with hundreds of names for everything under the sun. When we go that direction, it's usually to vote against certain names. A mostly pointless exercise, but fun none the less.

Remember to always vote "NO" on each and every judge. Yeah, they'll be appointed later if they don't get retained by vote, but it's the thought that counts.

And as we've reminded coppers for years who think that by voting they're more likely to be called for jury duty - the state hasn't used the voter rolls for jury summonses for years now - they use the Drivers Licenses (motor voter ring a bell?)

We'll still bet turnout is under 50% again. 

Firefighter Injured (UPDATE - Has Passed)

Fighting a fire while the blaze burns the floor you're standing on:

• A Chicago firefighter was seriously hurt Monday when he fell through the floor of a burning Rogers Park apartment building.

  The fire started around 11:20 a.m. at the back of the four-story multiunit building at 1757 W. North Shore Ave., Chicago Fire Department Deputy District Chief Kelly Burns told reporters at the scene Monday afternoon.

  Firefighters responded to the fire in less than 10 minutes, he said. “We thought we were making good progress. And then we had a collapse on the first floor,” Burns said.

  The firefighter who fell was taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital. Burns did not share his current condition.

Worse than fighting a fire that's weakening the floor you're standing on, is the fire is traveling around inside the walls and hidden dead spaces, meaning you are standing in what could turn into a chimney in an instant.

No thanks.

Prayers and best wishes to the injured Firefighter. 

UPDATE: Despite the best efforts of the medical staff, the Firefighter has passed:

• A firefighter who was seriously hurt battling a fire in Rogers Mark Monday morning has died.

  The firefighter was taken to Stroger Hospital with serious injuries and was pronounced dead Tuesday, according to authorties.[sic]

  A procession from Stroger Hospital to the Cook County medical examiner’s office on the Near West Side is taking place as of 12:45 p.m., according to a Monroe District police lieutenant.

We have received notification of a fundraising website - an alternative to those that charge fees. We haven't tried it and know nothing about it, so proceed cautiously.

• link here

The site says he leaves behind a child and an expectant wife. They're going to need a lot of help shortly. 

Maybe it's the Trains?

Sure, the CTA is bad:

• A 59-year-old River Forest man walked from his home to the Harlem Avenue L stop on the morning of Dec. 1 to take the train to Rush University Medical Center, where he volunteered when not working his regular job as a grocery clerk at Jewel.

  Intellectually disabled, living independently and described as a “good, generous human being,” the man relied on the CTA to get around the Chicago area because he didn’t drive.

  But what should’ve been a routine trip seven stops east on the Blue Line from Forest Park to the West Side nearly turned fatal for the man, who was shoved off the commuter platform onto the tracks by a suspect with a long rap sheet — who badgered the victim for $1 and apparently got upset when he didn’t get it.

  [...] A Sun-Times analysis found the man is far from the only L rider to have been shoved on train tracks in recent years. More than 60 instances have been recorded in CTA paperwork since 2021 — amounting to one incident a month, on average.

But now Union Station is getting in on the act?

• A London man is charged with attempted murder after prosecutors said he held a knife to an Amtrak passenger’s nose at Union Station, then slashed at his throat, missing by less than an inch. He allegedly claimed to be a CIA agent who believed the victim was a hitman.

  Zakir Ibrahim, 25, was taken into custody on March 3 and charged with attempted murder in connection with the attack on a 32-year-old Amtrak passenger.

If they want to instill confidence in public transport being a viable option for commuters, then it needs to be efficient, clean and safe....which none of it is at the moment.

Conehead Prioritizes Criminals

From a comment, this article:

• More than 100 people gathered in Sheridan’s gymnasium, about 70 miles southwest of Chicago. Students of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, which offers undergraduate degrees to men incarcerated at Sheridan, their families and professors had the opportunity to speak with the mayor. 

  In 2023, their initial graduating class became the first group of incarcerated students to earn a bachelor’s degree from a top university. Northwestern also offers a bachelor’s degree program at the largest women’s prison in the state, Logan Correctional Center.

  “I’m here to learn and ensure that my responsibility as a leader of the city in Chicago, that you all know that you will always be front and center in all of the decisions that I make,” Johnson said to the crowd.

And our commentator points out exactly what these criminals are in prison for:

• Who's at the forefront of his mind you say?
  
  Anthony Ehlers - Currently spending life in prison for murder and armed robbery
  Nikolas Gacho - 35 years for attempt murder
  Giovanni Rios - 23 years for murder
  Hugo Ocon - 45 years for murder
  Darvin Henderson - 45 years for murder
  Taki Peacock - 80 years for murder and kidnapping
  Ian Valencia - 26 years for attempt murder
  Demetrius Cunningham - 80 years for murder
  Anthony Harris - 15 years for robbery (with a prior agg CSA/weapon conviction)
  William Peeples - Life for murder
  
  WTTW's cute little article omitted what these guys were charged with, go figure.

We did see the article noted the last name was serving time for murder, but it seemed like the article glossed over the rest of them.

But if Conehead isn't sucking ILLEGAL ALIEN ass, he's sucking up to murderers instead of law abiding citizens.