Third Mass Shooting

But hey, don't send any free assistance to help out:

• A person of interest was taken into custody after five people were wounded in a shooting early Monday in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side.

  Officers responding to a call of a large disturbance heard gunfire nearby and found the five victims around 1:05 a.m. in the 3600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, according to Chicago police.

  [...] Four guns were found at the shooting scene and a “person of interest” was taken into custody, police said.

Up to 9 dead and 47 wounded as of Monday evening....maybe more by the time this gets published. 

Question for Conehead, Fata$$, the usual communists and media:

• how many dead, wounded and maimed minorities is the acceptable threshold? 

We're just wondering, because they seem to be getting fed up with your incompetence.

Memorial Park Dedicated

A fitting gesture:

• More than 200 people gathered in Garfield Ridge on Sunday afternoon, a sea of blue — including many wearing “Garfield Ridge Strong” shirts — for the unveiling of a statue in honor of fallen Chicago Police Officer Ella French.

  Elizabeth French, Ella’s mother, was brought to tears as she and Officers Carlos Yanez Jr. and Joshua Blas — who were with Ella French the night she was killed — unveiled the statue in Wentworth Park, shortly before the crowd sang “Happy birthday” on what would have been the fallen officer’s 34th birthday.

  Elizabeth French said the statue “captured the beauty and essence of Ella” and was “healing.” The statue sits near a dog park bearing the animal-loving officer’s name.

  But like any parent who has suffered such a loss: “You’d rather have your child,” she said.

RIP Officer.

National FOP Taking Steps

Things happening behind the scenes (click for larger versions):

 

That explains why the FOP logo disappeared from the UCOPS website and was replaced by a facsimile of the CPD star....which is also a violation of Chicago's ownership of said image. We'll see if Corp Counsel makes some waves over there.

In the meantime, don't forget to attend the General Meeting on 17 September at 1900 hours to vote down the By-Law proposals that would essentially strip you of National Membership and representation without a single debate or vote.

More Pictures

The next breakdown is literally days away!

6 and 12? Hahahahaha

We predicted six dead, twelve wounded, naively supposing cool weather and the desire for the non-demonized to be fully involved in a weekend worth of homework and perchance, enjoying the "Bike the Drive" event, might keep the numbers down. Well, when SCC misses, we miss bigly!

There are still twenty-nine hours or so to go this holiday weekend and HeyJackass.com has the totals so far:

• six dead, thirty-seven wounded

Even the national media has noticed something is going on in Chicago:

• At least five people have been killed and 30 others injured in shootings across Chicago over Labor Day weekend, including a drive-by attack that left seven victims wounded late Saturday night, according to police.

  The violent holiday weekend came as President Donald Trump renewed threats to send federal agents and National Guard troops to Chicago over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

  Trump on Saturday sent a warning to the Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in a post on his social media platform, referencing recent crime in Chicago and saying Pritzker "better straighten it out, FAST, or we're coming!"

Oh, and there wasn't one "mass shooting." There were two....including one just a block or two away from Headquarters:

• Seven people were wounded in a shooting late Saturday night in Bronzeillve less than a mile away from Chicago Police headquarters on the South Side.

  Around 11:10 p.m., a group of people were standing in the 3500 block of South State Street when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said.

Can you believe that a governor in a blue state shithole with the homicide capital of the nation is turning down free help from the federal government? How much effort would it take to let the feds run around enforcing national laws regarding ILLEGAL ALIENS for two weeks (or even a full month) and then bask in the reflected glory of any reduction of crime? In the unlikely event that there is no measurable impact, then you can gloat and run for president. 

Thanks Again Crimesha

Close....but not quite close enough:

• A man accused of flashing gang signs and pointing a gun at another man in a McDonald’s parking lot two years ago, only to get shot in the head because the other man was an off-duty Chicago police officer, just got a little salt in his wound: an 18-month prison sentence for illegally possessing the firearm.

  But, with more than 1,000 days of credit built up from time in jail and on electronic monitoring, 27-year-old Carlos Negrete isn’t expected to serve a single day in prison. 

He will have spent a tiny bit of time in County, plus the SAFE-T Act ensures he get credit for electronic monitoring (which is a joke). But no hard time in an actual prison.

And (surprise!) he wasn't a stranger to the "justice" system:

• A jury convicted Negrete on July 31 of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon with a threat of violence, but acquitted him of aggravated assault. On Thursday, Judge Steven Watkins imposed the 18-month sentence with 1,185 days of credit.

  At the time of the shooting, Negrete was already on bail for another felony gun case. Prosecutors dropped that matter in November 2024.

This turns out to have been one last "F#$% you" from Crimesha to the Police. That other charge that could have added a few well deserved years to his sentencing was dropped in November 2024 as Crimesha left office. O'Neal-Burke wasn't sworn in until December 2024, by which time, any sentencing enhancements fell into the cracks.

These Idiots

Thanks to all who sent these in. 

Conehead Panicking

Now he's making up "executive orders" which we aren't even sure are legal or authorized in the City Charter:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday afternoon aimed at holding federal law enforcement in the city to municipal rules on policing while also keeping tabs on new deployments and informing citizens of their rights.

  [...] The measure, signed Saturday afternoon in the mayor’s ceremonial office, says the Chicago Police Department would remain a city agency and requires federal law enforcement to abide by city laws on policing under threat of being taken to court. This includes barring officers from hiding their identities with masks, wearing active body cameras during engagements, and displaying identifying information such as badges and uniforms, and also stating CPD will not work with federal or military units in the city.

Um....supremacy clause anyone? Federal officials aren't bound by local rules.

This is why we're 100% certain that any non-DEI lawyers work at Corp Counsel, because they probably would have pointed this out. Aldercreature Ray Lopez agrees with us:

• ....Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said it “wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on” in a social media post. 

Feds aren't going to wear body cameras either, no matter what Conehead thinks.

• “This executive order makes it emphatically clear this president is not going to come in and deputize our police department,” Johnson said. “We do not want to see tanks in our streets. We do not want families ripped apart. ... And I don’t take orders from the federal government.”

No one is sending tanks. The only road capable of handling a tank is most likely I-290 which was built to Federal/military specifications as part of the National Highway System....and quite frankly, having tanks on the Ike would only be an improvement. Crime would fall over 25% alone putting tanks there.

And you'll do what you're told Conehead.

The CTU had to chime in, proving once again why Chicago students can't do math, read or recite simple history:

• The Chicago Teachers Union also praised the move, saying, “we know that safety does not come from federal forces invading our city.”

Really? These idiots are teaching children history?

• 1957 - the Little Rock Nine escorted to Central High in Arkansas by federal forces in the face of democrat opposition;
• 1965 - MLK escorted from Selma to Montgomery by federal forces in the face of democrat opposition;
• 1967 - Detroit riots stopped by federal forces when democrat politicians stood by;
• 1968 - nationwide deployment by federal forces to put down riots following the assassination of MLK by a democrat;
• 1980 - Cuban boat lift into Florida, federal forces deployed when democrat governor Bob Graham couldn't manage the issue;
• 1992 - LA Riots stopped by federal forces in the face of democrat incompetence;

Seems the only time safety and peace are achieved in blue state/city shitholes is when federal forces arrive to clean up democrat messes.

Out of Money

Wow....the School Board did the correct thing and refused to take out a "pay day" loan that Conehead and the CTU supported that would have saddled taxpayers with additional millions that don't exist:

• Chicago will end the year in the red for the second straight year after Mayor Brandon Johnson suffered a devastating blow from the city’s school board, which this week balked at authorizing a short-term, high-interest loan to reimburse the city for a $175 million pension payment for non-teaching school employees.

  The continued defiance by a partially elected Chicago Board of Education still controlled by Johnson’s own appointees will force the city to end 2025 with a $146 million shortfall and make what the mayor called the “hard choices” needed to erase a nearly $1.2 billion budget gap in 2026.

  [...]  Chicago Public Schools needs a record $379 million tax-increment financing surplus just to keep cuts out of the classroom — even without making the pension payment. That’s $79 million more than last year’s record amount.

  But CPS is not going to get it. 

Here's to hoping someone responsible will start taking an axe to the CPS budget, closing under-utilized schools, cutting staff (especially the schools with SIX "assistant" principals) and firing a lot of dead weight currently under investigation for assorted sexual offenses against children.

The meeting turned contentious at one point with one of hte Board members accusing Conehead's recent appointee of being an FALN tool....which he obviously is based on our post from the other day. Must be a fan! 

Reminder

It's been more than a few years since we posted anything about this, but a helpful reader reminded us about it.

Nearly 1 in 7 Illinoisans have a claim on over $5 Billion in property currently held by the State of Illinois. Property includes bank accounts and physical assets left by deceased individuals without proper wills or bequests.

You can search around at this link here. 

We found $50 in an unclaimed refund a few years ago.....hey, it was a tank of gas. 

(comments closed here - informational post only) 

Trump Wins Again

Gee, all it takes is a threat from Washington DC, and suddenly, enforcement of local laws and ordinances is a priority?

• Chicago police and city workers on Thursday conducted what Ald. Bill Conway (34th) described as a “large-scale clean up” of Fulton River District viaducts, some of which have long been trouble spots for open-air drug markets.

  In an email to residents, Conway said that the operation focused on the Halsted Street viaduct at Kinzie Street, as well as viaducts under Jefferson and Hubbard Streets.

  "At both sites, several individuals were apprehended for suspected drug dealing, numerous abandoned tents were removed, and both sites were thoroughly cleaned,” he wrote.

Remember, there are already Ordinances in place that forbid camping on streets, sidewalks, under viaducts, even in the parks, not to mention blocking foot traffic, cooking in open spaces, shitting in buckets in public, along with the usual drinking, dope dealing and begging....many of which haven't been enforced - AND HAVE BEEN FORBIDDEN FROM BEING ENFORCED - for years.

Pedestrians can't walk downtown without being accosted by the homeless and illegal beggars. Kids can't play in the parks without navigating "tent cities" and dodging needles and fentanyl zombies. The Fire Department is responding to out-of-control fires in these encampments at least weekly. The rat and bedbug infestations are rampant and as we mentioned, the buckets of human waste, piles of garbage and discarded gas cylinders make Chicago look and smell like a Third World shithole.

The fact that enforcement is suddenly on the table makes it obvious the polling numbers are massively supportive of what's coming in the next week or so.

A Better Podcast

Speaking of podcasts, The Contrarian has started a podcast, and what they discuss will probably have more bearing on your every day life than any propaganda that CPD puts out:

•  Contrarian Podcast Link

Give it a listen. 

A Podcast?

Remember "Checkerboard Chat," that ill fated propaganda effort by Pat Camden, John Henry and a number of politically connected house mice as a counterweight to the blog?

For those unaware, it was supposed to be an open forum, give and take, where rank-and-file cops could ask questions to combat "misinformation" on the blog. It was started specifically because our network of informants had started to really expose corruption, political malfeasance and general bedroom shenanigans of the exempt staff. 

We had a bit of fun at their expense (post #1 and post #2) and pretty much exposed how they were useless political tools censoring everything and only spouting approved messaging. They went out of business within weeks and we went on to millions of visits, tens of millions of page views and fans worldwide. 

Seems they're trying it again (click for larger version):

Gee, an interview with Larritorious!  

Perhaps it will touch on how he got so many "merit-clout-orious" promotions in such a short time, especially as he spent as little time as possible on the actual street. 

Or how he cost the City tens of millions as an alleged Use of Force expert, testifying against Police Officers in Federal Court? 

Or how he avoided and continues to avoid accountability for a trail of "#metoo" accusations that dogged his entire career at the Academy, but resulted in more than a few promotions for accusers. What file cabinet are those CR files in over at IAD Confidential?

And it's being promoted by Hein? Good Lord, we'll bet it's gone by the end of the year.

Weekend Starts....Now!

It used to be that school started next week, so we'd have one last eruption of violence as everyone got their licks in before being minimally restricted by school hours and targets disappeared. Now, we're already into the second week of school.

In any event, we're still going to treat the holiday weekend as the last hurrah of summer and make a prediction that readers can use to entertain themselves via guessing and gambling.

So, from 1700 hours Friday (right now) until 0500 hours Tuesday - eighty-four hours total - we'll predict the following:

• cooler weather, chance of rain and a general decrease in violence this summer will result in a mere six deceased and twelve wounded;
• (use this as a tie-breaker) the over/under for mass shootings is one (the lib-tarded definition of a mass shooting as being four or more wounded in one incident);

Have at it. We have plans on and off all weekend, so posting may be sporadic along with comment moderation. 

Stay safe. 

"Flying Blind"

Not a good look for people supposedly in charge of stuff:

• Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling said Thursday communication will be key to keeping the peace if and when President Donald Trump sends the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, but the top cop hasn’t used his department’s close relationship with the feds to learn their intentions in advance.

  During a virtual briefing that included Mayor Brandon Johnson and members of his senior leadership team, Snelling also stressed that his officers won’t assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who attempt to conduct raids, nor will Chicago cops ask for the immigration status of crime victims or anyone seeking help.

  Instead of dispatching “our officers alone” to respond to reports of immigration enforcement, police supervisors will be dispatched to the scene of ICE enforcement actions to “assess the situation,” the superintendent said.

  If the supervisors determine that it’s “only immigration enforcement,” Snelling said, Chicago cops will “not be in those areas assisting in any way.” But they won’t be “obstructing federal agents” either, Snelling added.

We'd bet actual dollars that the DoJ people aren't telling Conehead or Larritorious diddly-shit because they know they'll just tell Fata$$ and the rent-a-mob people to "spontaneously" protest. 

Nothing like having your mayor and police chief out-of-the-information-loop. It's a real good look. It might even provoke....a panic attack! 

FOP Charges?

Is this something?

• According to FOP Lodge 7 Constitution and By Laws dated and revised on September 21, 2022, there is a section in regards to Duties And Obilgations.

  Article II - Duties And Obligations

  Section 1. States “….he or she shall be subject to discipline for any action, inaction or omission which constitutes a violation of his or her duties and obligations as stated in this Constitution and By-Laws….”

  Section 2. Any member may be disciplined for committing any one or more of the following offenses.

  (d) Causing or attempting to cause withdrawal or succession of this or any other Subordinate Lodge from The State or Grand Lodge;….

It sounds like something.

Another Panic Attack Coming

CWB dives deeper into Conehead's recent appointment of a "director of strategy:"

• Mayor Brandon Johnson went on national television Tuesday morning and did what Chicagoans have seen him do many times before: talk in circles.

  On MSNBC’s morning show, host Joe Scarborough asked Johnson a simple yes-or-no question: Would adding 5,000 more cops, combined with strong social programs, make Chicago safer? Scarborough asked again. And again. Johnson never answered, opting instead to do what he does so often: duck, dodge, and deliver a word salad.

  As video of Johnson’s dodging spread online, Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) offered the response Johnson should have given: “Yes, we would take the resources to hire additional police officers along with the other resources. Not a hard question to answer.”

  By afternoon, Chicagoans had a good idea why Johnson wouldn’t touch the question. Word leaked that he had quietly hired a fierce defund-the-police proponent, Sheila Bedi, as his administration’s new director of strategy.

Sure - a defund the police advocate....in charge of "strategy." What could go wrong?

Coincidentally, Conehead is suddenly falling behind the national trend of embracing anti-crime strategies:

• NEW YORK - Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) on Tuesday called out judges who she feels prematurely released alleged criminals back onto the streets without holding them on bail. Hochul’s comments come as President Donald Trump increases the pressure on states with large cities to clean up crime.
• CALIFORNIA - Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he’s sending new teams of state police to major California cities —contrasting the effort with Donald Trump’s unilateral deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles and Washington. The California Highway Patrol troopers will target crimes like auto theft and drug dealing in Los Angeles, San Diego, inland regions and the San Francisco Bay Area. Trump recently threatened to send Guard members to San Francisco, saying he would “clean up” the city.
• WASHINGTON DC - Mayor Muriel Bowser initially expressed fear of President Donald Trump’s plan to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital, but its clear success made her change her mind. After Trump announced his plans to deploy National Guard troops and assume oversight of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to tackle rising crime in Washington, D.C., Bowser warned such a crackdown would be "unsettling and unprecedented."

  However, the mayor admitted at a press conference on Wednesday that the federal surge has made a noticeable impact on one of America's most famously dangerous cities. At the briefing, Bowser displayed a chart crediting the influx of FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Park Police and Capitol Police with bolstering MPD’s efforts and declared, "We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city."

An 87% drop in carjackings alone. Obviously, someone told the democrats that being pro-crime was a sure-fire way to lose the midterms....all the polling said it was an 80-20 issue and being on the "20" side was kind of stupid.

You know who's mysteriously silent in all of this? 

• governor Porkulous

Fata$$ is MIA and Conehead is twisting in the wind. Stuff like that could drive someone into a panic! 

Another Interesting Appointment

Conehead recently named another member to the Chicago Board of Ed. As is common practice, this is an ally of Conehead's and as usual, will reflect the leanings of his master.

What is also usual - and amazingly corrupt - is the supposed "watchdog" media not doing a single iota of due diligence on the  background of the appointee - Angel L Velez.

Fortunately, a friend of ours tipped us off to Mr. Velez's college thesis, a 326-page monstrosity that heaps high praise and excuses the crimes of the FALN, a Puerto Rican paramilitary group (domestic terrorists) that conducted around 130 bombings in the US and killed numerous people. Members were also charged with Seditious Conspiracy, Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and numerous Federal firearms and explosive violations. 

Many of these crimes took place in and around Chicago, which we recall in vivid detail.

But the FALN was and remains a "Marxist–Leninist militant group which fought to transform Puerto Rico into a socialist-communist form of government," so it's not particularly surprising Conehead and the CTU would back someone who supports this.

Number One Again!

The wins just keep on accumulating during Conehead's term:

While we understand Conehead can't be at every residence in the city making sure sanitation standards are upheld, his Reign of Error certainly contributes to the general dumpiness of the city.

Great Picture

Not ours, but sent to us by many:

 If they spike strip the driver side, that thing is going over....twice.

Bad Crash

This is going to short the Watch for a few weeks:

• Police fired shots at train burglary suspects who plowed into police officers and their cars early Wednesday in Englewood, leaving two suspects and five officers hospitalized during an incident that also involved a pursuit, according to officials.

  At least one person was still being sought following the incident that unfolded at 5:05 a.m. as officers were conducting a burglary mission. They were alerted to multiple people taking items from rail cars in the area in the 5800 block of South Princeton Avenue, Chicago police said.

  As officers approached, people who matched the description of the thieves “accelerated rapidly” and in an SUV and hit an officer with the vehicle, police said. Officers then fired their weapons in the direction of the SUV, which then slammed into a marked squad car, officials said. The SUV driver was taken into custody and taken to an area hospital for injuries related to the crash, officials said.

And then there was another crash two miles away that injured the fourth and fifth officers.

Best wishes for a rapid recovery to all involved. 

Why Hire This?

This certainly looks like some quid pro quo of some sort:

• A civil rights attorney with a history of suing the city over alleged police misconduct has been chosen to serve as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s director of strategy, a move that one pro-police City Council member called a “serious conflict of interest.”

  Sheila Bedi is a clinical professor of law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic. The clinic describes itself as providing “students with opportunities to work within social-justice movements on legal and policy strategies aimed at redressing over-policing and mass imprisonment.”

  It was in that role that Bedi drew the attention of a congressional committee for representing a pro-Palestinian group that shut down the road leading to O’Hare Airport last year to protest Israel’s role in the war in Gaza. 

  [...] Bedi was also the attorney who represented activist Miracle Boyd and persuaded the city to compensate Boyd with a $280,000 settlement for being roughed up and having her front tooth knocked out by a Chicago police officer during a 2020 protest at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park. That statue has since been removed from its pedestal.

  And Bedi served on the legal team for the family of Dexter Reed, who was shot to death by police officers in 2024 after Reed shot and wounded one of them during a traffic stop. A $1.25 million proposed settlement that would have compensated the Reed family stalled in the Council’s Finance Committee amid opposition from pro-police Council members.

  Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th), one of the police union’s staunchest Council supporters, called Bedi’s appointment a “very serious conflict of interest because of her history” of representing activists in legal action against the city.

She can certainly do more damage to city taxpayers and city finances as an insider, that's for certain, pushing for settlements without trials and opening the already-empty accounts to further depredation. 

Just another dumb move by Conehead who is determined to break the city finances for his political masters over at the CTU. 

Another School Shooter, Another....

Yes, it's a tranny:

• A senior administration official confirmed to Breitbart News that the alleged shooter at a Minneapolis Catholic school changed from a male name to a female name at 17 years of age and identified as a female.

  A document posted on social media was confirmed as authentic by the official. The document describes the name change as occurring in 2020 when the alleged shooter was a minor, and required parental sign-off on the change.

And as soon as this was suspected, the left went into full damage control mode, blaming guns, the NRA and Trump for some reason. It's amazing that as soon as one of their followers, with all the attached anti-religion, anti-Trump propaganda, exhibiting more red flags than even democrats can pretend is normal, and it's the gun and the NRA that gets blamed instead of everyone who accommodated this obviously twisted psycho.

Quick thinking individuals rapidly downloaded videos, photos and manifestos of the shooter before the authorities could wipe his social media presence, so this won't be covered up like the Nashville tranny shooter. 

"If it saves one life..." is a common canard - unless it's catering to a mentally ill democrat. 

Good thing crime isn't out of control in another blue state blue city shithole. The National Guard might have been headed there next. 

Something Rotten at the Lodge

A couple concerned members making us aware of shenanigans at the Lodge:

• Something’s going on over at 1412 W. Washington that members deserve to know about. At the last FOP general meeting, JCat introduced an organization called UCOPS, the United Coalition of Public Safety. On the surface, it was pitched as nothing more than a coalition of police groups working together nationally.But the way he kept slipping into talk about “his brand” made it sound less like union business and more like a pitch deck for his own startup.

  UCOPS’s own website displays the Chicago Police Department logo as one of its “members.” Not the FOP Lodge 7 logo, not our union, but the official insignia of the Department itself. This is no small distinction. The Chicago Police Department is not a labor union, nor can it legally be a member of one. The only explanation for this is that JCat knows he would be in violation of State and National FOP bylaws if he tried to present Lodge 7 as a UCOPS member, so instead, he has allowed CPD’s official logo to be misused to push his agenda.

  When asked directly at the meeting if he planned to abandon the FOP and form his own union, the President denied it. Yet his actions tell a different story. He has already aligned us with UCOPS, without membership approval, and now he’s pushing a vote next month to allow outside departments to join Lodge 7. This vote is nothing more than a power grab designed to grow his own empire; a stepping stone toward breaking away from the FOP and creating his own organization.

  This is a betrayal of the membership. We cannot belong to two unions at once, and affiliating with UCOPS while remaining under the FOP umbrella directly violates our bylaws. The members deserve honesty and transparency, not backroom maneuvering and half-truths.

  And let’s not forget the optics: the heads of the Chicago Police Department would likely be outraged to learn that their official logo is being used to advertise “membership” in a labor organization without authorization. That misuse alone should raise serious legal and ethical questions.

  The members of Lodge 7, and the public deserve to know the truth. Our union leadership is not being forthright. JCat is lying to members, making moves behind our backs, and trying to drag us into an organization we never voted to join, all while setting the stage to walk away from the FOP entirely.

We checked the UCOPS website and there's a CPD star on the website though we are 100% unaware of any CPD employees being affiliated with them....there's the FOP and the PBPA. Someone should probably notify Corp Counsel that there is a CPD star - a trademark (copyright?) protected emblem if we recall (which is why we never used it) - appearing on a website that does no business with the Chicago Police Department.

Someone should also contact the National Lodge to let them know they might need to take some proactive legal steps here in town to preserve their presence.

JCat is supposedly unhappy with the blog, talking crap at the General Meeting and Unit Rep Meeting. He's going to be really unhappy in the run-up to the next General Meeting as we'll be posting weekly reminders that everyone who has a chance better be attending on 17 September at 1900 hours and vote down the By-Law proposals that would deny everyone National FOP membership and representation without a single debate or vote.

UPDATE: if you go to the UCOPS site and click on the CPD emblem, it takes you to....the Lodge 7 website? WTF? 

Bad Timing by Demonized Yutes

Democrats tell the Administration to stay out of Chicago. After all, "crime is down."

Just ignore this: 

• A Chicago man who was arrested late last month after allegedly running from police with a gun is now accused of robbing and carjacking a man with a machine gun just three weeks later.

  [...] Melvin was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and released from custody the following day.

  Exactly 20 days later, around noon on August 20, Melvin resurfaced in Countryside. Armed with another gun, this one fitted with a switch to make it fully automatic.

And pay no attention to this:

• It may still be August, but business people across Chicago are already planning for the Christmas shopping season. Those business people include the city’s ever-present shoplifting mobs, who need to stock up on high-end merchandise that will later be sold at a discount online.

  One such team went on an inventory supply run Sunday evening on the Magnificent Mile, hauling away up to $100,000 in designer handbags that will almost certainly appear on apps and Facebook Marketplace within days.

  At about 6:55 p.m., around 10 people raided the Louis Vuitton store inside Nordstrom, 55 East Grand, according to witnesses and Chicago police. After scooping up the store’s handbag collection, the crew fled in two or three vehicles that were waiting outside. A couple of bystanders recorded the getaway.

  [...] An officer who responded to the scene reported a preliminary loss estimate of $100,000. 

And for God's sake, stop looking at this!

• A 17-year-old boy has been charged with viciously attacking three people in River North early Saturday morning, just hours before video of the assaults spread widely across social media.

  According to a Chicago police spokesperson, the victims—a 30-year-old man, a 31-year-old man, and a 35-year-old woman—told officers they were walking in the 700 block of North LaSalle around 3:54 a.m. when a group of strangers came up from behind. The offenders began punching and kicking the victims, then ran away, according to CPD.

  All three victims were transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition, police said.

  The attacks gained wide attention Monday after video surfaced online showing one of the victims lying unconscious on the sidewalk as two passersby rummaged through his pockets. One of the pocket-pickers appeared to be a security guard.

If you want to see the video, there's a copy oat this link here - it's pretty messy.

Manpower in 004?

Anyone know if this was true yesterday?

• in 004 we have 3 beats down, 411, 431 and 434 Tuesday. They don't want to give overtime. Unbelievable! 

In a case like this, with actual staffing falling that far short, you'd would think that overtime was a no-brainer.

Unfortunately, with the "no-brainers" actually being in charge of things, car are left unmanned and neighborhoods underserved. 

Bad Picks

This is Larritorious' command staff:

• So drunk Chief of Patrol JH gets fall down drunk at EPI during EP Fest and gets into a fist fight inside EPI with another PO!

• SCC you heard it here first. First Deputy garbage Tally is being forced out unsure of the reason. She is a total embarrassment. Karma yo-yo, karma.October at the latest. Legit. Total humiliation.

So how much control does Larry have? 

Obviously, not that much, so who keeps putting these morons in charge? 

It can't all be Conehead.

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Countdown Begins

How long until Fata$$ bends the knee (and needs to be helped up with a crane)?

• President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at ending no-cash bail nationwide, but advocates in Illinois argue he cannot force the state to abandon its policies.

  Illinois became the first state to eliminate cash bail nearly two years ago, following a push from state legislators to right a system they argued was inherently unfair to poor defendants.

  The Trump administration is now threatening federal funding for cities and states, like Illinois, that have eliminated cash bail.

And in typical leftist fashion, the usual commies are using some outdated arguments to claim this can't be done:

• “The President of the United States cannot commandeer state and local policy by threatening to cut off funds and abandon the federal government’s responsibility to fund state and local government,” Ed Yohnka of ACLU Illinois said Monday. “That is not the way the system works.”

Actually, that's the way the systems works and has worked for years. The Federal Government forced states to comply with a national 55 MPH speed limit in the 70's with highway funds being withheld. We think we remember the same thing with the tobacco purchasing age to be raised from 18 to 21 a number of years ago. 

There are literally hundreds of other examples available. If you take Federal money, you follow Federal rules, and those rules depend on which party is in control at the time of issuance. It might be tied up in Court for a bit, but again, it's an 80-20 issue where voters will see that democrats are (again) favoring the criminal class over the working people.

Did They Even Read the Order?

So the President signed an Executive Order "banning the burning of the American flag."

OMG! It's fascism! The dictatorship is here! It's unconstitutional!

Did anyone actually read what was written?

• Trump emphasized that the Supreme Court, which protected flag burning under the First Amendment in the 1989 Texas v. Johnson case, has not ruled that burning the flag in a manner that can incite a riot or violence is constitutionally protected.

So, incitement to riot, which is already against the law, is the defining factor. And in fact, the E.O. acknowledges Freedom of Speech is still protected, so if you want to burn your own flag on your property, have at it!

But we'll predict that in short order, democrats and leftists will be burning every flag they can get their hands on....and once again, they're on the wrong side of a 80-20 or 70-30 issue with all the accompanying bad publicity.

UPDATE: As we were just reminded:

• Who was it again who was jailing American citizens for daring to burn rubber on "pride" flags painted on streets and crosswalks?

Oh yeah, that would be the "progressive" left. 

Again?

What is this Department hiring? And what is the Academy teaching?

• Any word on the goofball in area one PRT that attended a zoom call for traffic court shirtless? Apparently the judge was furious and reached out to numerous bosses over this display of unprofessionalism. BE THE CHANGE!

Do people not realize how Zoom works? Or how Court works....even virtual Court?

Get the Popcorn Ready!

 From the comments:

• Supe, Dana Omalley, Hein and Talley had to have an emergency meeting with the mayors chief of staff Saturday morning. Apparently trumps threat is starting to get real. They have to have a preliminary plan to give [t]o the mayor by Wednesday of how CPD will respond if the national guard is deployed, what cpds roll will be, how any federal arrests will potentially impact CPD and will cpd have to assist in any way if anyone is arrested for local and non federal charges etc etc. some are hinting this may happen in time for Mexican independence weekend. This will be a disaster.

Au contraire dear reader....this will not be a disaster. This will be entertainment of the highest order. 

We have contacts standing by at three different hospitals and a mole in Conehead's detail who have promised to let us know as soon as the motorcade diverts to Panic Attack Mode.

Here Come the Troops

Fata$$, Conehead, and all the usual suspects are up in arms about National Guardsmen being deployed in and around Chicago. They want a crisis to occur, something along the lines of Kent State back in 1970.

Here's the thing - the troops are (most likely) not going to be carrying live ammo and will probably going to be guarding federal property....that's it. No traffic stops, no checkpoints, merely freeing up more of those Officers (fbi, INS, Homeland Security, etc) already performing perfectly legal and authorized tasks.

• “The Department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. 

So what does this mean?

• Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a statement Sunday, said he is working closely with county and state officials to prepare for “any potential unconstitutional military deployments to Chicago.”

  “The Governor, the Cook County Board President, and I are in complete alignment: Chicago is not calling for a military occupation of our city. We are currently evaluating all of our legal options to protect the people of Chicago from unconstitutional federal overreach,” Johnson said. 

Meaning....what? You're going to deploy Tact teams in turtle gear against the feds? Or you're going to hide behind Corp Counsel, pretty much an office of bottom-of-the-barrel DEI hires who settle every lawsuit that comes there way rather than fight to save taxpayers money? That last two times we were in Federal Court, the City subcontracted out our representation to suburban law firms because someone didn't trust Corp Counsel to actually know what they were doing.

Like we've said before, the Administration wins either way, especially when the dems stake out a position opposite what nearly 80% of voters already want.

So Close!

As of 0800 hours on Sunday, HeyJackass.com had one of those rare occurrences up on their website:

• 8:00a Demonized Tally: 0 killed, 19 wounded

It was looking like even the mere threat of deploying National Guard and military troops to Chicago was enough to keep criminals from actually accomplishing a murder all weekend.

Alas, it wasn't to be: 

• A 5-year-old boy was fatally shot Sunday afternoon inside a Kenwood apartment.

  The boy was shot in the head about 1:15 p.m., while inside the home in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago police said.

  He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was initially listed in critical condition, police said. He was later pronounced dead, according to Chicago police.

  A firearm was recovered at the scene, police said. Officials did not release any other details Sunday about the shooting.

Of course, in the spirit of lying about crime numbers, we're sure the brass is working on labeling this on "accidental" or something so as to avoid a murder statistic.

UPDATE: Will this one get added to the numbers or will the CompStat people hide it as usual?

• A man accused of barreling a Chevy Equinox into a five-star Mag Mile hotel at nearly 85 mph, killing his back-seat passenger, has been ordered detained on felony charges.

  John Walker, 40, was arrested this week after Chicago police determined he sped through red lights and stop signs across Streeterville in the early morning hours of April 19, ending in a crash that left 40-year-old Emmanuel Carter dead.

He's charged with Reckless Homicide and Agg DUI, so you think it would appear in the homicide numbers.

Court Hearing

Attempted Cop Murderer Whitney Temple is up for a name change hearing in court today, all in an effort to conceal her criminal and crack-addicted past from future job background searches. It's all being conducted via Zoom, so here's the info in case you want to attend virtually (click for lager view):

Be sure someone gets the new name she'll be hiding under.

What Could Go Wrong?

Once again, making ILLEGAL ALIENS the priority over American citizens:

• In 2013, Illinois led the country as one of the first states to issue temporary visitor driver’s licenses to help drivers who passed road tests regardless of immigration status. The 2024 law allowed undocumented immigrants to receive standard IDs without the large purple mark stating not valid for identification.

  House Bill 3125 will allow anyone with a TVDL for at least two years to teach driving courses. Sponsors said this change will help expand the people eligible to become driving instructors without reducing qualifications for the job.

There weren't any Illinoisans looking for a job opportunity?

Oh well, we guess you get what you vote for. 

What's the worst that could happen? We mean, besides an illegal alien making an illegal u-turn across three lanes of traffic and killing a family of three....oh wait, that actually occurred in Florida this month.

Nice to be Connected

Sometimes we think we went into the wrong career, but we have actual standards:

• Former Ald. Walter Burnett (27th Ward) will collect an annual city taxpayer-funded pension of $120,608 — and could also earn more than $310,000 at the same time as head of the Chicago Housing Authority, according to records obtained by WTTW News.

  Burnett, who represented parts of the West Side and the West Loop for 30 years on the Chicago City Council, retired July 31. During 2024, his final full year as an alderperson, Burnett earned $145,974, and accepted a 4.1% raise for 2025, bumping his final annual salary to $152,016, records show.

  Burnett will start receiving pension payments of $10,134 per month sometime in October, and they will continue for the rest of his life, according to records obtained by WTTW News from the Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago.

He's pretty much doubling his income in retirement. 

We'll bet that the "Municipal Employees’ Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago" isn't one of the funds flirting with financial disaster for some reason.

And They're Demanding Raises?

If you can't meet the standards, just lower them!

• Most Illinois students are struggling to read or do math at grade level on their end of year state assessments. The State Board of Education’s solution? Lower the standards.

  The board of education approved a plan to lower the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness. It also determined the scores needed to be considered proficient in reading and math for 11th graders as the state moves from the SAT to ACT as the state-required assessment for high school students.

  The most recent state data available shows only 41% of students in third through eighth grade could read at grade level in 2024 and just 31% in 11th grade. In math, 28% of third through eighth graders were proficient and 26% of 11th graders

  New proficiency rates will be implemented on the 2025 Illinois Report card released in October, leaving Illinoisans unable to compare scores to previous years’ proficiency rates.

Got to love that last paragraph, making it impossible to actually assess the year-over-year improvements....or the far more likely, the declines.

Indiana resident and CTU boss Stacy Davis Gates still wants Fata$$ to come up with another billion-and-a-half while her members haven't successfully taught kids to read and do math at grade levels in years.

It is truly past time to break the CTU.