Shooting

Officers are all okay:

• An armed suspect was shot overnight by a Chicago police officer in Brighton Park.

  Police said just before 12:30 a.m., officers were investigating a call of an aggravated assault and a person with a gun inside a business in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue.

  The responding officers encountered the man who displayed a firearm. When officers tried to take it away from him, police say he fired his gun. One officer returned fire, hitting the man.

This is the second time in a week or so where the reports are that Officers were attempting to "take away" a gun on a suspect. We're pretty sure we weren't taught that way and most safety protocols don't advise wrestling over a gun.

Glad everyone important is okay though.

Charges Dropped

One of two:

• Barely a month after two Chicago cops, including a high-ranking deputy chief, were charged with slashing vehicle tires while on duty at Puerto Rican Fest, charges have been dropped against one of them.

  Last month, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office declined to file felony charges against Nieves, 53, and Gies, 26, citing insufficient evidence.

  Despite the state’s attorney’s decision, supervisors at the Chicago Police Department decided to strip both men of their police powers and directly file two misdemeanor charges of criminal damage against Gies and one count of the same charge against Nieves on September 5.

This has rapidly turned into a welcome spotlight on the corruption evident in the Bureau of Internal Affairs / Internal Affairs Division and the yo-yo in charge. She seems more determined to remove opponents and impediments to Conehead's "progressive" agenda....and maybe settling a few grudges along the way.

New ShotSpotter - CFD

Been a few days since a bullet-riddled body (alive or dead) showed up, but never fear! Chicago won't disappoint:

• A Chicago Fire Department truck crew, on their way to a major fire in Little Village on Friday evening, ended their response upon finding a woman shot in the 3400 block of West Van Buren.

  The firefighters reported hearing gunfire in the area, but no 911 callers reported the shooting before CFD found the woman. ShotSpotter, the gunfire detection system, monitored the 3400 block of West Van Buren until Mayor Brandon Johnson pulled the plug on the technology on September 22.

  Chicago police said the victim, a 30-year-old woman, was walking when someone fired shots from a vehicle around 9:19 p.m. The fire department truck crew encountered the woman and requested an ambulance more than ten minutes later, at 9:31 p.m. She was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her abdomen, according to CPD.

Once again, not a single call to 9-1-1. 

If nothing else, it ought to be used for body cleanup efforts.

Detective List

Ain't the best pics and the margins are all over the place, but here's what we got:

Click for larger versions. If anyone has something better, send it along.

New / Old 008?

Politics throwing a wrench in this plan....and maybe for the best:

• Three members of Congress — including U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia — are pushing back against Mayor Brandon Johnson’s reliance on federal air traffic safety rules to justify his decision to use a former National Guard armory as an equipment storehouse instead of a new Southwest Side police district.

  The shuttered armory area alderpersons have wanted to turn into a new police station is next to Midway Airport. In a letter to Johnson Friday, Garcia, a former mayoral challenger, and fellow Illinois Democrats Sean Casten and Brad Schneider added federal muscle to the campaign for a new station, which would speed response times in a Chicago Lawn police district serving the second-largest geographic area with the fewest officers per capita.

  While they share Johnson’s “focus on aviation safety,” Casten, Garcia and Schneider said they “believe there is a path forward” to allow the former Illinois National Guard Armory at 5400 W. 63rd St., which the state is donating to city for $1, to be used to create that new police district in Chicago Lawn.

We've gotten a few e-mails about this building and suffice it to say, with the money needed to rehab it and bring it up to code, it might make more sense to start from scratch.

This was a military armory, under federal control. It's almost ninety years old, when certain environmental standards weren't even in existence, and once passed into law years later, a lot of military outposts were exempted from the new rules (i.e. think asbestos first, then think about diesel fuel). The potential for health related lawsuits ought to kill this thing immediately. Not to mention it's too close to a runway and too high for being inside the airport fence. They'd have to take off part of the building to bring it into compliance, and then there's always the chance off a runway overshoot that could wreck the entire structure.

Obviously, some politician has a connected relative in the building trades and wants to steer some business their way.

Amazon Delivered What Now?

Something tells us this wasn't a "Prime Day" deal:

• Police are conducting a death investigation after a man found an Amazon box containing an object that may be a human head on the West Side yesterday evening.

  The man was walking his dog when he came upon the box around 5:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of West Taylor, according to initial information.

  In a brief media statement, Chicago police said the man reported that he was “on the sidewalk and discovered a box containing an unknown victim’s remains inside.”

  The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is examining the recovered item today. Investigators there will determine if it is human remains and, if confirmed, try to determine who they are and how they died.

Imagine being a porch pirate and stealing this off a porch.

Better stick to robbing trains on the west side.

Lieutenant Assignments

 Here's where they landed:

Check back in a month, see how many remained where they got sent.

Better Picture

You know, if you click on the pictures here, you ought to get a larger version.

If that doesn't work:

And yes, we know that in most cases, decals are printed by an outside vendor. But the vendor usually goes by what's written on the Order Form and it's usually checked by an editor. 

What the client wants, the client gets....even if it's wrong

Detectives Made

We only saw one set of pictures of the list, but it had a bad reflection and was near unreadable at points.

If anyone has the list, post it.

Money From Where?

Conehead says money is tight. Police classes are cancelled. Fire apparatus isn't being repaired. OT will be sharply restricted. Layoffs are likely. He might even have to raise taxes.

In the meantime:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters this week that "everything is on table," including the potential layoff of city workers, which Johnson said he hopes to avoid, as the city grapples with how to address a nearly billion-dollar budget shortfall.

  But invoices and receipts uncovered by NBC 5 Investigates are raising questions about why during a time of financial crisis did the city spend more than $80,000 redecorating and renovating an office in the Chicago Cultural Center for First Lady Stacie Johnson.

  The invoices and receipts, obtained by NBC 5 Investigates through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, show that work order requests began in February and continued through August of this year to renovate and redecorate Room 306 in the Chicago Cultural Center.

It's getting so a mayor can't even afford to go on a "business trip" to London, but by golly:

• One invoice shows the city was billed more than $43,000 for furniture, including a $2,200 high-back executive chair and a $4,400 desk that's referenced on the invoice as "First Lady's Desk." Another $4,600 is listed for what appears to be the desk for a staffer. The same invoice shows more than $8,300 was spent on two club chairs.

Someone's ass is going to be pampered by a $4,000 chair.

Spell Check Anyone?

No doubt, another CPS student socially promoted without actually passing anything:

Checkout the circular sticker on the window panel.....it's all over the truck:

At least they spelled "police" correctly.

Typical

This a$$hole is exactly who you thought she was:

• A Chicago alderman is “p***ed off to the highest of pisstivity” after learning that a senior public safety advisor in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested on Tuesday on an outstanding warrant.

  As a $103,488 per year “senior adviser on community safety,” Alyxandra Goodwin, 33, helped lead the administration’s charge against ShotSpotter, but she wound up on the other side of the law Tuesday afternoon in the 6600 block of South Cornell. That’s where Chicago cops encountered Goodwin and arrested her for an outstanding DuPage County warrant, according to internal CPD communications.

A criminal, pissed at being held accountable (for pretty much the most easily fixable of offenses), ends up working for a "progressive" administration where she can advocate for anti-police policies and anti-law enforcement technologies.

Still Kissing the Ring

This place wasn't on anyone's radar....until it got a certain inmate:

• Illinois Sen. Duckworth visits FCI Thomson on Thursday

 It's a video report, so nothing to quote. Duckworth's office says it's all about under-staffing.

We're betting someone had to drop off the last payment to Ed's commissary account.

ShotSpotter Still Lives?

Conehead is such a gutless coward. He didn't even follow through on his threat to veto the ShotSpotter vote:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson is dropping his plan to veto a City Council ordinance aimed at continuing the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system he ended last month, in the face of council opposition that appeared strong enough to overrule him.

  Johnson promised to veto the ordinance passed in a 33-to14 vote, but failed to make the move before a Wednesday morning deadline. A spokesperson told WBEZ the mayor changed plans because his administration believed the ordinance is already not legally enforceable.

  But Johnson was on track to suffer an embarrassing and unprecedented defeat if the veto had gone forward.

He would have been embarrassed, and his handlers would have been embarrased, and everyone would see what a gutless, useless tool Conehead is. 

Actually, they already see that if you've been following the editorial pages the last few days, with everyone and their brother calling him out as weak, wishy-washy, dictatorial, unable to build coalitions, and pretty much the CTU's bitch. Supposedly, his disapproval rating has topped Groot's, climbing well over 70% and nearing 80% is some of the wards.

Only the Best and Brightest

 Nice to see well qualified individual are still landing those phone-call spots:

• Also… have you heard about a member of his “security team” who had their car stolen after they parked it on the 3800 block of Grenshaw? With the keys in it. And their pistol. And their vest. And their wallet with credentials. And their ballistic helmet. Nothing but the Best & Brightest on this job. Let’s see if they try to hide this one.
  

Nice job idiot.

Conehead Employment Agency

Via an X/twitter account:

• CONFIRMED: Brandon Johnson is still going to appoint Carlos Ramirez Rosa's (35) mother to the Chicago School Board. He is currently out of the country on his honeymoon and will not make any statements until November. This is after Carlos's sister was appointed to a $150k/yr job to be the "Chief Philanthropy Officer" which she was unqualified for and was pushed out. His policy director confirmed this to a constituent

Isn't this one of those "progressive" aldercreatures? 

We thought they were "beyond corruption" and "business as usual" in Chicago politics? We guess they're just greedy pricks like every other politician.

Guilty Finding

A small measure of justice for an off duty cop killed in a case of mistaken identity:

• A Cook County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of murder in the shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer in River North in 2019, according to court records.

  Menelik Jackson, 29, was convicted of murder and aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of Officer John Rivera, 23, which also injured another man, following a jury trial that began last week.

  Rivera was sitting in a parked car in the the 700 block of North Clark Street with at least one other off-duty officer when assailants walked up and fired into the vehicle, killing Rivera and wounding another occupant of the car, police said.

There was a previous conviction on a second offender and a third pled guilty, all because some low IQ assholes with zero impulse control couldn't remember who they were arguing with and just blasted away at a parked car with some people inside.

New Model, Same as the Old One

Isn't this the guy the US media has been touting as the "new model for masculinity"?

So how come we have to go to European press to find out the real stories?

• Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn't flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.

  A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an 'unqualified' part-time model as a legal secretary 'because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office'.

  The claims are the latest in a string of allegations revealed by DailyMail.com that threaten to shatter Emhoff's image, heavily promoted by the Harris presidential campaign, of a feminist ally and 'wife guy'.

Like during his first marriage, getting the nanny pregnant, bullying her into an abortion, and then slapping the crap out of his next girlfriend.

Sounds like this "new model" is more like last century's old model.

And before anyone starts with the, "But Trump...." that's the actual point - every scandal even whispered about with Trump is trumpeted in all the media, but this is ignored by every single media outlet on this side of the Atlantic.

Contrarian Wins Again

Five days ago, the Contrarian had this:

• Here is some chilling news for Chicago.

  Despite @ChicagosMayor's claim a hiring freeze would not affect CPD, we've learned no training classes will be accepted to CPD academy until December.

  CPD is also preparing for massive cuts — defund-level cuts — to the police budget.

Late yesterday, the Sun Times discovered:

• The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze.

  And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — and submit proposals by Friday. The goal: $75 million in additional savings in 2025.

And amid all the noise, a "shortage number" appears:

• Canceling police academy classes for at least two months also did not sit well with the police union’s Council allies. They noted CPD, with 11,660 sworn officers, already is 1,693 officers below its January 2019 level.

  Between January 2022 and June 2024, the police department processed 28 academy classes, averaging 68 recruits each, over a 30-month period to make up for time lost during the pandemic.

If our memory serves us correctly, between January 1995 and December 1998, nearly 4,000 cops were hired with the assistance of federal grant money doled out by Clinton.

• 1995 + 29-and-a-day = 2024

Meaning there are 4,000 potential retirements on tap for the next thru 2027. We say potential because of the large number who did:

• 20 and out
• 55 and gone
• any combination of the above
• laterals
• the usual resignations, jailings, firings and deaths

Some enterprising reporter with time and FOIA ability could easily find seniority lists and put some weight behind those numbers.

Nice Staff Conehead

Doesn't anyone do background checks any more?

• ...senior advisor for Conehead was just arrested in 003. Unknown warrant issued in DuPage

Hopefully, it's not a water bill issue. That might be embarrassing.

UPDATE:

 

It Happened Again!?!?

Can't anyone read the damn signs???

• A teen was injured after an argument between two women led to a shooting on a CTA bus in Chatham Monday evening, Chicago police said.

  The women were in a “verbal altercation” on a CTA bus in the 8600 block of South State Street at 5:22 p.m. when one of them pulled out a gun and started shooting, police said. A 16-year-old passenger was grazed on his knee and treated at the scene.

  No one is in custody.

With all these criminals carrying guns illegally on public transportation, it seems the only way to ensure your own safety is to carry your own gun illegally.

Kackler Got a Gun

This shouldn't be an issue, being that this is America and all (for now). But when your private life conflicts with your political life, all bets are off.

Kamala has a gun, and she's bragging about it in an effort to appeal to millions of gun owners, thinking that they're stupid enough to believe that if a politician owns a gun, she isn't going to come after theirs.

• Vice President Kamala Harris was happy to remind voters that she owns a gun, but the more they learn about her firearms, the more they ask why she appears to support a double standard for gun owners.

  During her 60 Minutes interview Monday night, Harris followed up on previous statements that she is a gun owner with some specifics that she owns a Glock pistol. The Democratic presidential nominee said she has owned one for "quite some time" and has practiced firing it at a gun range.

See? Your guns are safe.

Except, Glocks are designated as "unsafe weapons" under California law, and if we aren't mistaken, Washington DC law also:

• "Note that California law classifies ALL Glocks as 'unsafe handguns' because they do not have a compliant chamber load indicator, lack a magazine disconnect mechanism, and until our lawsuit caused California to repeal the requirement, of course lacked microstamping," Kostas Moros, an attorney with Michel & Associates representing the California Rifle & Pistol Association, posted on X.

  "The only reason we can still buy Gen 3s is because they are grandfathered in, but they are still 'unsafe handguns,'" Moros continued. "We can't buy more modern Glocks new in gun stores (just secondhand from exempt cops, or from those who moved here with them from other states). She supported the Unsafe Handgun Act and expanded it such that microstamping began to be enforced in 2013. So why does she own an 'unsafe handgun'?"

She's also claiming a "law enforcement background" that she spent it locking up black and brown people for minor drug crimes, many based on questionable evidence via a possibly corrupted testing lab. 

But hey, be sure to contribute to the bail fund for Minneapolis rioters!

What an A$$hole

Gotta trot out the race card, even when it's as far from the truth as possible:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson announced six proposed appointees to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday following uproar over last week’s announcement that the entire board was resigning.

  During a fiery news conference, Johnson rejected calls to pause the appointment process and shot back at criticism that he has been heavy-handed in his handling of Chicago Public Schools.

  He said his mission is to avoid major staffing and programming cuts in the city’s schools — and at one point likened his detractors to leaders of the Confederacy who said it was too expensive to end slavery.

Forty-one of fifty aldercreatures signed a letter objecting to the overt politicization of the School Board process and the almost certain political firestorm brewing just over the horizon.

What a one-trick pony this prick is.

Positive Story

Good police stories seem few and far between in these troubled times, but here's an Officer attempting to make a difference in one of the rougher neighborhoods around town:

• The corner lot at Jackson and Christiana is lined with enormous elephant ears, banana leaf trees and prolific coleus. Sweet potato vines cascade out and down.

  Deronis Cooper started this magical garden with just a few containers to brighten up the landscaping around his new condo complex. "I would go around and take photos of planters that I liked and wanted to somehow duplicate," he said.

  And duplicate he did. Over the last 16 years he has hand-watered thousands of plants in his yard. He calls himself "Grandma's Gardener," as he was by his grandmother's side, tending to her garden as a teen. "I loved my grandmother a lot, we always hung out and did stuff, so what it turned into was grandma saying I need you to help me in my garden," he recalled.

  Now an adult and a Chicago police officer, gardening has become his outlet.

We saw this garden once or twice during deployments and it certainly catches your eye in regards to the rest of the area, an oasis in a desert, and we had no idea it was one of our own.

Early Voting Tip

Early voting locations are open and mail-in ballots are arriving. 

It's time to make our usual judicial recommendations.

• Vote NO on every single judge

The system is broken, the States Attorney bought by the Soros dollars, and the judiciary has been corrupt since before Greylord. The only reason the feds stopped that investigation when they did was the Cook County courts would have had to shut down for a year to be rebuilt from the ground up, jeopardizing thousands of cases.

There is not one single judge in Cook County who isn't corrupted in some way, shape or form since before we were born.

Nice Fire Department Conehead

Englewoodians?

Hey Englewoodians - are you getting the message yet? You don't matter to the Machine any more:

• Chicago Fire Department union officials are calling for city leaders to address a vehicle shortage as they say some fire stations are currently operating without proper equipment.

  A large lot filled with city vehicles in need of repair takes up more than a city block on the South Side. It is filled with ambulances, trucks and fire engines.

  While the repair lot is full, the fire station down the street in the heart of Englewood, one of the busiest stations in the city, has no fire truck.

As Larritorious is a Englewoodian native, word is that he'll be equipping squad cars with fire extinguishers, hydrant keys and buckets to provide immediate rudimentary fire protection due to CFD shortages.

• It will be called Law Enforcement Fire and Rescue Training.

Welcome to LEFART.

Who Paid?

Conehead made an 18-hour trip to Vegas for a Kackler Kampaign event.

No word on how many bodyguards made the trip along with him.

Who paid for what while the city is falling apart?

Be Aware Today

The one-year anniversary of the 07 October attacks in the Middle East.

With all of the thousands of murderers, rapists, burglars and battery offenders Biden/Harris have let into the country with zero screening, it's not out of the realm of possibility that a few terrorists made it through, too.

Rumor

And it's a Hell of a rumor:

• BIG NEWS SCC, Just found out through a couple reliable sources that COPA KERSTEN's c ontract is about to expire and she will be replaced by guess who....KIM FOXX !! WTF?? We are sooo screwed.

If true, arrest numbers better hit zero in short order.

The FOP ought to hire some real lawyers, too.

HeyJackass.com

We were perusing our favorite statistical site this weekend and were slightly surprised to see that Octob er is on quite a tear already.

• October To Date
  Shot and Killed: 9
  Shot and Wounded: 32
  Total Shot: 41
  Total Homicides: 9

Almost 2 dead and 8 shot every day. 

Those are summertime-type numbers...and it hasn't really been quite summer-like temperatures. The rain has been missing (and Illinois is currently in a drought) and isn't on tap to dampen the high spirits of exuberant non-demonized yutes.

Must be a MAGA thing.

Cops Out of Schools!

Wish granted.

Meanwhile....:

• Officials are beefing up security at a North Side high school after a gang-related shooting left a 15-year-old boy injured at Hamlin Park on Friday afternoon. The shooting, a source said, is part of escalating tensions between the Maniac Latin Disciples and Insane Deuces street gangs.

  In an email distributed Saturday afternoon, Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) said Chicago police “believe this was a targeted incident related to gang affiliations,” adding that CPD will be increasing its presence during Alcott High School dismissals next week.

  Additionally, CWBChicago has learned that more shots were fired in the neighborhood early Saturday. At about 3:39 a.m., residents reported gunfire in the 3100 block of North Leavitt, and one 911 caller reported that a bullet went through their window. Shell casings were found at the scene. While no injuries were reported, a source familiar with Friday’s shooting investigation felt confident that the overnight incident was related to the ongoing gang conflict.

Don't take this as us supporting cops in schools. We thought they should be out on the streets years ago where they're supposed to be.

But it is amusing that Conehead cancels ShotSpotter and gunfire and dead bodies are going unreported. Now cops are out of schools and gang conflicts are popping up without warning or via cops who might have had a few informants on the inside.

Weekend Reading

It never hurts to be aware of Chicago politics, especially in these uncertain times. Here's a few articles to assist you on your journey.

The Contrarian covers how the media is failing at their job:

• All news is curated. Regardless of the source, all the media that you see, hear, or read – all the information you consume – is aggregated. Behind every "fact" there is someone, or a group of someones, who thought that particular piece of information was important enough to be shared. Whether we realize it or not, the definition of "newsworthy" is being made for us. The editors at media companies are the curators of all the information we use to make decisions.
  

  Moreover, it's impossible for everyone to know everything. So as a society, we rely on the media to provide us with the information we need to make intelligent decisions regarding ourselves and our families. And it's more than some newsworthy event over here; some heartwarming story over there. Much more.

Conehead comes right out and says it - "get out of the progressive's way"

• Did he or did he not ask Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to resign? Earlier this week, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he did not ask anyone to do anything, but when asked to clarify that statement Wednesday the mayor was tight-lipped.

  "I don't ever discuss personnel issues," he said. "I find it to be highly offensive, irresponsible and raggedy, and I don't do raggedy."

  However, Johnson made it clear that all of his leaders must share his progressive agenda to transform public education.

So, no opposition allowed. His way (the CTU's way)( or the highway.

And if you don't get out of the way....:

• A day after Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his entire hand-picked school board would resign, about three dozen members of the City Council blasted the recent developments in an open letter.

  Following the announcement of the resignations, the 38 aldermen wrote, "This is unprecedented and brings further instability to our school district."

Conehead wanted CPS to take out a short-term high-interest loan to cover hundreds of millions of unavailable dollars. Martinez said, "No," so first the CTU lied and said he was the subject of a DCFS investigation, then Conehead demanded he resign (to avoid a generous severance package) and finally, Conehead bullied the entire Board to resign, so that he could appoint an all-Conehead team who will find a reason to fire Martinez and install a puppet to sign off on half-a-billion dollars that taxpayers will be forced to pay off when CPS defaults.

Is it any wonder that property tax assessments skyrocketed just now?

Conehead Lied Again - Cuts Coming

Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that Conehead left skidmarks in his underwear backtracking on the press release that said the Police Department wouldn't be affected by hiring freezes and cuts to their budget?

The Contrarian discovered differently:

• Here is some chilling news for Chicago.

  Despite @ChicagosMayor's claim a hiring freeze would not affect CPD, we've learned no training classes will be accepted to CPD academy until December.

  CPD is also preparing for massive cuts — defund-level cuts — to the police budget.

And the rate of retirement is still quite high as the classes of the middle 90's max out and leave.

"defund level cuts" sounds ominous, demonstrating the need for a recall mechanism for voters to get lying sacks of shit out of office.

The feebs Lied Again?

"Crime is down" democrats claimed....in campaign ads, at the debates, in interviews. We joined in the rebuttals pointing out that crime stats gathered by the feebs did not include New York City, Los Angeles and dozens of other jurisdictions.

Yesterday, the feebs "revised" the crime stats from 2022, and guess what?

• This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official statement.

  Yet, with crime a central issue in this year’s election, he and the mainstream media have carefully ignored evidence that the FBI may be fudging its numbers — much like the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics massively overestimated the number of jobs created during the Biden-Harris administration.

  Last month, new FBI data showed that reported serious violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) fell by 3.5% in 2023. But at the same time — and much more quietly — the FBI revised its earlier data for 2022, turning a reported decrease into a worrisome increase in violent crime.

So once again the feebs are committing election interference and playing politics with numbers to assist the communists progressives democrats lie their way into office.

The East German Stasi look almost tame compared to the feebs and the Department of Just-ass.

Dear Ol' Dad

Once again, the media giving voice to the ignorant to spread their bull$git everywhere:

• The father of a 16-year-old boy who was injured in a shooting involving Chicago police on Thursday is speaking out and disputing the officer’s version of the events. As the wounded patrol officer recovers from the shooting, weapons charges are pending against the teenager who underwent surgery at Stroger Hospital following the incident.

  On Friday, the teen’s family said they were deeply distressed about Thursday’s incident, which unfolded in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue, in Englewood. “He was complying and I guess they went up to him and they attempted to take it out of his waistband,” the teen’s father Scott Gracey said

Yes, that's what Officers usually do with a compliant suspect - he keeps his hands in the air, away from the gun, and the Officers disarm him. Except something went wrong:

• But the teen’s father said he believed that his son was not treated fairly.

  “I know my son apparently had a gun. Lock them up for the gun. But don’t shoot him. Like, come on man, it’s not right,” Gracey said.

Unfortunately, he won't be locked up, because Crimesha won't press charges that would jail him for his lawbreaking.

And the cops didn't intentionally shoot him with one of their guns - jagoff's gun discharged during the disarming process. An investigation will hopefully determine if (A) the gun was cocked, (B) the safety was off, (C) the trigger was unintentionally pulled or (D) the trigger snagged on a piece of clothing - which happens a lot when you don't have the gun secured in a proper holster.

• The teen’s father was not at the scene, but after talking to others and watching the video, he said that he believed emergency responders were slow to react.

  “They took the police officer away within the two minutes and left my son on the floor for 20 minutes. All of this is on camera. I have it on video,” Gracey.

Well, take it up with the Fire Department Dad. We're pretty sure there's plenty of body cam and squad car video, too. Officers made the call to transport their partner in conjunction with the wounded Officer. If they made the decision to move a wounded criminal, the lawyers would have a field day with how unqualified Officer are to make that determination and how they aggravated the injury. This is EXACTLY why many argued against requiring Officers to perform tasks that they weren't trained properly for.

• Gracey said he had no idea his teen even had a gun.  

  “That’s something we’re going to have to ask him when I get to talk to him. Because I didn’t even know he had a gun,” Gracey said. “I’ve been through all of that stuff before, and I’ve grown up out of there, I am a single father, I own my own house. I don’t do that no more and he shouldn’t be walking around with a gun either,” Gracey said.

But he was, which kind of calls into question how observant you were as a father who "don't do that no more." Sounds like you were quite the stellar example to an impressionable youngster. We're betting you want to see the offender to tell him not to mention to anyone the gun might have belonged to someone else?

How about you stop looking for a payout?

Officer Wounded

This sounds like a series of unfortunate circumstances:

• A Chicago police officer and a 16-year-old boy were accidentally shot by the same bullet during a chaotic scene Thursday afternoon in Englewood, according to police officials.

  Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling, who spoke to reporters outside the University of Chicago Medical Center about 4 p.m., said the shooting was an “accident.” Officers were conducting an “investigatory stop” involving a 16-year-old in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue about 12:30 p.m. when they realized he had a gun in his waistband, according to police.

  When an officer reached to grab the gun, it “inadvertently” went off, with the bullet hitting the teen in the groin and then the officer in the leg, Snelling said. One shell casing was recovered.

It is unknown if the gun was "cocked" while in the waistband of the teen.

It is also unknown if the teen was "decocked" following the discharge of the weapon, which truth be told, would be the best outcome of all since he wouldn't be able to breed the next generation of stupidity.

In any event, the Officer was rapidly transported to the hospital by his partners and should be okay following a stint in physical rehab. 

The teen will likely be released by Crimesha without spending a single day in juvie detention.

The parent(s) will face zero charges or accountability.

Fata$$ will try to pass another series of laws against law abiding gun ownership despite the fact that not a single law abiding citizen was part of this blatant disregard of existing law.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Frank Main Catches Up

Almost a full day behind the curve, Frank found a story to write about:

• A Chicago police commander of major narcotics investigations was struggling with almost $840,000 in debt earlier this year, including more than $30,000 in taxes he owed the IRS, according to bankruptcy records.

  Joshua Wallace, 50, is one of the two finalists to become the next police chief in Des Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register newspaper first reported on Wallace’s bankruptcy filing in February.

Frank also did some actual reporting and discovered a mini-scandal regarding certain Department rules:

• His debt raises questions because in the past, the police department routinely vetted the credit history and financial background of officers who investigate narcotics trafficking, law enforcement sources said.

  They said large debts can be a disqualifying factor because of the potential for an officer to pilfer money from police funds seized in drug cases in order to pay off debts. Police applicants who have big debts are often rejected from entering the training academy, city records show.

  “An officer might have $10,000 in student loan debt, and he discloses it, and we were fine with that,” one high-ranking former police department official said. “It’s a judgment call. But close to a million in debt? I don’t know about that.”

Our readers discovered a slightly larger issue that Frank didn't though:

• His partner from 006 is in federal prison for stealing money on traffic stops. Now you put this guy in charge of Narcotics. Smart move

Although you'd think that would be a red flag of sorts, the number of gold stars with former partners in prison is actually quite astonishing. We can name three without even trying.

Brandon's Bodies Stacking Up

CWB has started a separate heading just for these incidents - follow it here.

In the meantime, here's number 4 (aggravated battery):

• A man who was shot during a robbery in a West Side park on Sunday night sought help by walking to a nearby gas station. But, records show nobody called 911 to report the shots, which were fired in an area previously served by the city’s ShotSpotter network.

  Police said the 48-year-old was in Horan Park in the 3000 block of West Van Buren when two armed men confronted him around 8 p.m. They demanded his property and shot him in the back, according to CPD. The men fled on foot without getting anything from the victim, who was listed in fair condition.

Number 5 (homicide):

• Chicago police found a man lying dead with gunshot wounds to his chest and back on a West Side street overnight. There had not been calls of shots fired in the area, which was monitored by ShotSpotter gunfire detectors until last week, for over an hour.

  A 911 caller reported the man down at 1:52 a.m. in the 4800 block of West Adams. Investigators found about a dozen bullets and an ammunition magazine a few steps from the victim’s body.

And number 6 (homicide):

• Yet another murder victim has been found lying alone on a street previously monitored by the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. He is at least the third person found fatally shot without any 911 calls reporting gunfire since Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter on September 22.

  Police received a call of a person down in the 3500 block of West Cermak around 11:47 p.m. Tuesday, according to Chicago police. Officers found the victim, who had suffered gunshot wounds to his back, chest and arm. He was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Not a single call to 9-1-1 reporting shots fired in any of these incidents.

Suggestion to Larritorious and Conehead - pull the cops out of these neighborhoods and re-deploy them to the parts of the city worth saving....you know, where people WANT the police and actually CALL the police when they hear gunfire. It would be a far better use of taxpayer dollars.

On Purpose?

Or some weird coincidence?

• A downstate woman has been detained pending trial after prosecutors accused her of shooting a dozen rounds into an off-duty Chicago police officer’s home.

  CPD officers took Bobbi Barnes, 51, into custody in Danville after local officers arrested her on unrelated charges, a Chicago police report said.

  The off-duty officer and her young daughter were sleeping when someone fired shots through their bathroom and living room windows in the 10100 block of South Winston around 4:57 a.m. on March 14, according to prosecutors. Court filings offer conflicting ages for the daughter, with one saying she was 8 years old and the other 11 years old.

  No injuries were reported.

Random crime or something more sinister?

Misspent Money

News out of North Carolina, Georgia and parts of Florida is sketchy, with all sorts of unsubstantiated rumors. But what isn't a rumor is the Federal Emergency Management Agency is claiming to be broke:

• Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the remainder of hurricane season, yet $640 million has been allotted to DHS specifically for issues related to illegal immigrants.

  “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds — FEMA does not have the funds — to make it through the season,” Mayorkas revealed.

Along with the billions sent (laundered) to Ukraine, FEMA can't even take care of Americans this hurricane season. 

Not only that, but we're remembering the pictures of tens of dozens of military helicopters plucking survivors off of rooftops and transporting good to New Orleans just a few years back. 

Now? Not a single shot of military choppers in the air, and in fact, many reports of the units who did rescue work during Katrina being told they won't be deployed to North Carolina or Georgia, which is where they're based. 

Incompetency? Or a deliberate non-response to states likely to vote a certain way?