"...depending on where you look"

Porkulous (and Fox News) are arguing over homicide numbers, and both are conflating homicide totals with homicide rates:

• Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over Chicago’s murder rate on Wednesday.

  During an exclusive Fox News Channel interview, Baier and Pritzker clashed over the murder rate in his city. The anchor brought out research data to contest the governor’s on-air claim that Chicago isn’t even in the 30 American cities with the highest murder rates.

TOTAL homicides are lower this year, but Chicago still leads the nation in the total number of dead bodies. Homicide RATES fluctuate, where it's more dangerous in certain cities compared to Chicago based on killings per 100,000 people. 

Amusingly, if you do it by neighborhood, Chicago runs away with both categories.

It's all a numbers game exploited by both sides, but as we reported for years, those numbers are untrustworthy in the extreme. Check out this from a week ago:

• D.C. police officers are feeding information to the Justice Department as it probes accusations of manipulated crime data, according to the D.C. Police Union and five other people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation in progress. The voluntary cooperation of about three dozen from the police force, according to three of the people, reflects long-standing frustrations about how violent crime is categorized by supervisors — and surfaces as public safety in D.C. continues to capture the president’s attention.

  Some rank-and-file officers and detectives have complained for months — in some cases, years — that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass. Some kept lists, documenting cases where they believed a higher-up improperly classified a crime as a lesser offense. One such tally, obtained by The Washington Post, lists more than 150 instances since March 2024 where staff in a Southeast D.C. police district believed offenses were, at least initially, inappropriately classified.

Or this one, closer to home:

• Officials in President Trump’s Justice Department have been scrutinizing crime data in recent months — they’ve found evidence that Democratic politicians have been skewing crime stats for their own benefit ahead of the midterm elections, The Post has learned.

  Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker — a vocal opponent of Trump’s use of federal troops for both immigration enforcement and fighting big-blue-city crime — has lately touted double-digit declines in Chicago crime rates where “shootings and homicides on our highways are down 60, 70, 80% depending on where you look.”

Gee, if you only count "highway homicides," then yeah, you're numbers are going to be massively skewed, and Fata$$ is undoubtedly looking at statewide numbers. The "depending on where you look" is what he's using for cover, because if you look at I-190 (the O'Hare circle) those rates are going to be lower than the Dan Ryan or the Stevenson. 

We could quote stats from Jefferson Park, compare it to North Lawndale and claim crime was down hundreds of percents, too. It wouldn't mean a damn thing, but it makes for great soundbites. 

CompStat was built on this bullshit, too, and we wrote dozens of pieces pointing out that the only persons who benefited from any of it were the politicians.

What Do They Expect?

All sorts of people whining about tear gas. 

If you don't want to get gassed, stop with this bullshit:

• Residents on Chicago's Northwest Side are outraged after federal agents, once again, deployed chemical agents against protesters. This time it happened as parents and children were heading to a neighborhood Halloween parade in the Old Irving Park neighborhood     

  "Started hearing some whistles and when I looked out I saw two fully uniformed Customs and Border Patrol agents tackling a guy to the ground Literally in my front yard right here," resident Brian Kolp said.

  That man been working on a nearby home when federal agents chased him down and took him into custody in the 3700 block of North Kildare. His brother said he is an undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S. with his family when he was 4-year-old.

  Within moments, angry neighbors poured out of their homes, joining protesters blowing whistles who had been on patrol looking for federal agents.

Unreported was the numerous sticks and rocks thrown at federal officers, but hey, that's routine for Chicago. 

So the feds, who are tasked with enforcing National Immigration Law, arrested an ILLEGAL ALIEN, and the neighborhood got upset because democrats told them that no one is above the law....except ILLEGAL ALIENS and assorted other voting groups that tend to vote left because that's who promises them money. 

And instead of teaching their children to mind their own business and obey the law, they drag them out to use them as props when the manufactured outrage crowd provokes a perfectly legal and efficient countermeasure approved in the Federal Use of Force model.

More of this please. 

What Changed?

It's only been a year. 

Last October, Sparklefarts was all over the place, telling everyone to vote for the black woman:

• Former President Barack Obama kicked off a campaign blitz for Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday in Pennsylvania, where he delivered remarks at a rally and spoke candidly to Black men at a campaign field office in Pittsburgh, urging them to get behind the vice president's candidacy.

  Obama thanked the volunteers working at the field office and said that he wanted to "speak some truths" after saying he heard reports that "we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," noting that this lack of enthusiasm appeared to be "more pronounced" with Black men.

This October, Sparklefarts is campaigning in Virginia, telling everyone to vote against the black immigrant woman running for governor:

• Former President Obama will campaign with Democratic Virginia gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger in Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 1, Spanberger’s campaign announced Tuesday.

  Obama last campaigned in Hampton Roads in 2012. His upcoming campaign stop with Spanberger will mark the first campaign visit of any Democratic president to the area in more than 10 years.

Something must have altered the universe? Anyone see Eric Holder around so we could finally have the "conversation" he was begging for all those years ago?

Detective List (Amended?)

We've gotten two different lists - we're assuming the second one is the amended list. 

It goes from ten "merit" picks DOWN to eight

Rank order promotions from forty UP to forty-two.

No idea what's going on there.

 

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What Will Porky Do?

As we predicted, the pardon at the federal level merely put the ball in Fata$$'s court, leaving him holding the live grenade:

• Since President Donald Trump commuted his federal life prison sentence five months ago, Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover has had three heart attacks and remains imprisoned in “extreme” conditions in Colorado, his lawyers say.

  Now, Hoover is asking Gov. JB Pritzker to finally make him a free man. Hoover’s lawyers sought clemency Wednesday from the Democratic governor in a petition that offers new insight into how Hoover has fared since Trump famously released the onetime Chicago gang leader from the federal government’s so-called supermax prison in Colorado.

  Despite receiving clemency from Trump on his federal conviction, Hoover still has a sentence to serve on a state murder conviction.

Hoover deserves to leave prison, horizontally and in a hearse. But this is a blue-state shithole, run by a fat commie billionaire who's always looking for angles and exploitative opportunities. 

But a commutation or pardon would likely impact any national ambitions as the "soft on crime" commercials write themselves. 

Think Dukakis, but with a few hundred extra pounds.

Blago Rips Fata$$

An Op-Ed in the Washington Times:

• I know a thing or two about being at odds with the political establishment, and I am no stranger to corrupt prosecutors in law enforcement. Yet even in the most contentious days of my governorship and during my darkest days in my fight for justice, I never dreamed I’d see the day when the governor of Illinois would publicly attack our law enforcement officers for doing their jobs to enforce our immigration laws.

  Nor could I have ever imagined that I would see the day when a governor, elected by the citizens residing in his state, would encourage civil disobedience and incite violence in defense of illegal immigrants, tens of thousands of whom are violent criminals. Yet here we are. J.B. Pritzker has not only crossed the line; he has erased it altogether.

  I believe deeply in the idea that America is a nation of immigrants. My own father was an immigrant who came here with nothing but hope and a belief that America was the land of opportunity. Still, there’s a difference between supporting legal immigration and undermining the rule of law in the name of political opportunism. What Mr. Pritzker is doing is dishonest, deeply disrespectful and dangerous.

Basically, Blago ends up saying what sane people have been noticing for a while now:

• you can't claim "no one is above the law" and then say that people who BROKE the law to come here ILLEGALLY are immune from the consequences of breaking the law.

It's hypocritical in the extreme....but when has hypocrisy ever hindered a democrat from grabbing the spotlight and shining it everywhere except at themselves?

Dick "Turban" Durbin and Fuckworthless were bitching about the President not granting blanket disaster relief to a couple of blue states, but both were mysteriously silent when the drooling vegetable's FEMA people were ordered to bypass hurricane damaged homes in the south that displayed Trump signs. 

People are (finally) noticing the inconsistencies. 

FOP Hearing

From an e-mailer:

• A disciplinary hearing was conducted on Thursday for Fop Lodge 7 President John Catanzara . There were numerous charges of financial malfeasance brought by the 1st VP who was recently demoted from a field rep by the accused . Catanzara was accompanied to the hearing by his attorney and refused to answer several questions asked of him.

  Catanzara called witnesses to support His case but they testified that he did not pay back money he was supposed to . He “ allegedly “ said he had used the Fop credit card on vacation when he visited Croatia and Jamaica . The next meeting is the third Wednesday of next month and anyone who has a question should be there. The real question is how will the entire Fop Board handle this in relation to discipline? Are we paying for another attorney for Catanzara ?

Obviously, this is the basis for the rumored discussion someone overheard along the lines of, "But if I pay it back, then there's no problem, right?"

Actually, it's a problem, and a pretty large one. The FOP isn't a piggy bank or a pay-day loan service, fronting interest-free loans to previously bankrupt members who can't manage their own finances. If it was, we would have traveled more extensively when we were members.

So now what? Does the hearing committee of three render a decision? Is the membership stuck waiting until the next meeting? Any additional oversight? Any information about other on-going investigations or why the FOP is paying some shyster $450 per hour for what looks like a personal issue rather than an organizational one?

By the way, has anyone seen the $10K painting yet? 

More Dem Hypocrisy

They call everyone on the right fascists....while acting like fascists.

They claim everyone on the right is violent....while supporting and encouraging violence.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias felt left out, so he started whining about license plates:

• Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias is warning federal immigration agents that swapping or altering license plates during the Trump administration's enforcement operations is against the law and "will not be tolerated."

  Giannoulias issued the warning after reports surfaced that ICE agents have been changing or flipping state-issued license plates while carrying out what he described as "military-style deportation efforts" in the Chicago area.

  A video circulating on social media appears to show a federal agent telling someone, "You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day."

  In response, Giannoulias said, "Swapping out license plates or tampering with them to avoid or conceal detection is illegal, unsafe and will not be tolerated in Illinois. No one, including federal agents, is above the law, and we intend to hold them accountable, especially while driving on our roadways. This is a matter of public safety and protecting the wellbeing of our communities."

Maybe Alexi missed the news over the past few months while counting his share of the bailout money from the Broadway bank collapse (costing taxpayers nearly $400 million) but there's an entire committee of political hacks currently drafting rules, ordinances and laws forbidding Illinois law enforcement from enforcing Compliance Violations. 

No one has to have current stickers, illuminated license plates, or front plates at all, intact windshields or an entire swath of things that the Legislature says are required, but can't be enforced against politically convenient persons.

And then there's the whole Federal Supremacy thing. 

Ambush Footage

CWB (again) doing the actual crime reporting in Chicago:

• For the first few seconds, the home surveillance video looks like most any other: a parked car on a quiet street in West Garfield Park. But that’s all about to change. Inside that parked car, five men are waiting. Each of them is armed.

  They sit quietly until a 16-year-old boy appears, gliding down the middle of the 4100 block of West West End Avenue on an electric scooter. His name is David Mason, known on the street as “Lil Dave.”

  At 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, as Mason nears a speed bump that slows his approach, all four doors of the car pop open. The gunmen, dressed head to toe in black with hoodies raised over their heads, fan out and start firing. Mason instantly ditches his scooter and bolts out of frame. The camera keeps rolling as the attackers advance, unleashing a barrage of gunfire. Some of their weapons are fitted with extended magazines.

The video shows the moment of ambush, but not the final crime scene. CWB appears to be the only outlet showing the footage, a trend others have noticed where the legacy "media" actively hides footage that runs contrary to the lib-tarded narratives about who is actually committing crimes (see CWB for the "loop Puncher" attack footage that they had to sue the City to release)

Unfortunately for "Lil Dave"  his upcoming Halloween costume appears to be a slice of Swiss cheese.

Ironic Headline

No idea if the media did this on purpose or they're just ignorant:

• Former Mayor Lightfoot announces project to ‘unmask’ federal immigration agents

Groot is supposedly a lawyer, worked as a prosecutor (badly from all reports - she was a DEI hire) and headed COPA back in the day, so we assume she has a passing familiarity with the Law. Hopefully, she runs afoul of the current DoJ people and faces disbarment / charges.

But to say she's "unmask[ing]" federal agents, after she spent how long trying to force all Chicagoans and Chicago employees into masks during the plandemic....

Masks keep us safe, right?

Masks keep everyone safe, wasn't that the claim?

But now masks are evil?

Maybe the headline writer is a closet republican. 

Another Rumor!

We started this site over twenty years ago to (A) inform readers, (B) amuse readers, and (C) keep readers abreast of rumors and gossip (see Item B). The fun thing about rumors is they trigger all sorts of other rumors....like this:

• There are rumors going around that the city is not going to fund the OT budget at all. No OT for the police. No special, no targeted enforcement of any kind. They can project increases all they want for next year, but they don't have to fund it. Furthermore, they are looking into putting house mice on a firm salary for inside work. They will have to agree to this condition or get launched into patrol. Even when they work mandatory OT they will not get compensated monetarily and will get C/U hours. This may also be a big ask for the next contract. Get all current CPD officers on a firm salary.
  Paying officers to appear in court is going to be interesting. Can they dip into the regular police budget?

The trouble with this one is, it sounds all too possible, especially when you see the financial cliff Conehead is driving the city toward and the financial iceberg Fata$$ is steering the entire Ship-of-Illinois into.

Part of this rumor is something many have advocated for decades - gut the inside spots and deny house-mice the Duty Availability checks that street coppers actually earn, perhaps even institute a real Shift Differential for First and Third Watches.

Another part of this rumor is pure fantasy, seeing as how there are actual legal decisions and such regarding paying Officers for off-duty appearances in Court. Like the "mandatory CU" instead of pay - FLSA would gut that in a heartbeat.

But every good rumor has a ring of truth in it somewhere. 

Arbitration Win?

Anyone know if this is true?

• If you switched over from the SIG 320 save your receipts, we won our arbitration and the city has to compensate those who purchased them.

You shouldn't be penalized for following the General Orders if the City changes the rules in the middle of the game. 

There's a way for the City to avoid all of this nonsense and it's been proposed more than a few times. Most police departments in the nation or the entire world do it:

• go to a single model issued firearm

All weapon upgrades would be uniform across the board, all replacements, all parts, all repairs under a single contract, all armorers qualified by the manufacturers. In the event of a disaster-type scenario, all Officers would have the ability to swap out magazines with co-workers. 

But someone is obviously getting paid off somewhere along the line. 

Contractual Surrender?

There's a win posted directly above this post, but this would be a definite loss:

• Why did the FOP agree to allow the department to require a minimum 14 days to submit time off instead of 10 days for personals and 7 days for time? What did we get in return?

This would increase the ability of the Department to screw Officers with short notice cancellations. Why permit this? There's no good reason we can think of.

Back in the day when they had the regularly cancelled RDO deployments, we knew of a number of Officers who never worked a single date. The Department released the schedule a month or so in advance and these crafty bastards would drop Personal Days in advance - the day before and the day after their RDO's and say they were going to be out of town, unable to return for the deployment.

The schedule would be posted, they wouldn't be on it, and the day before their scheduled Personal Day, they'd pull the requests, saying plans had changed. 

It worked - every single time. It worked so well, we did it for a year when we decided the overtime wasn't worth what we had to miss. And we sold those Personal Days back at the end of the year, too. 

Leo Leaving

Former CPD, former ISP, former Cook County, and former WWE pro wrestler Leo Schmitz is retiring....again....and headed to Washington DC for another job. 

Long time readers will remember we had a running gag for years regarding Leo's stunning resemblance to Ric Flair, his uncanny ability to slide his way into so many inner circles, and his unparalleled success in avoiding any and all backlash when his underlings were caught misbehaving. 

It had to be the hair and the body oil.

In any event, isn't it time to let go Leo? Go spend some of that pension money. 

2026 Murders to Skyrocket

Conehead making useless noise again:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed budget for 2026 would impose new limits on overtime spending by the Chicago Police Department while acknowledging it was unrealistic to expect CPD to spend less than $200 million next year to compensate officers for working extra hours.

  In all, CPD’s budget is set to swell to $2.1 billion, increasing by $37.9 million to cover the cost of salary increases required by agreements with unions representing members. That includes an estimated savings of $30 million from a partial hiring freeze of long vacant positions, officials said.

  Johnson’s proposed spending plan would double CPD’s overtime budget from $100 million to $200 million, the first increase since 2020, when the budget for police overtime went from $95 million to $100 million, records show.

  Budget Director Annette Guzman told reporters Supt. Larry Snelling said he was confident CPD would spend less than $200 million on overtime next year. However, Chicago taxpayers have already paid $190.1 million to officers for working extra hours through September....

Chicago is going to end up with just over 400 homicides this year (probably), not a record, but an improvement over years past, and that was with how many days off and weekends cancelled? How many OT initiatives?

The main way to cut OT long term is to hire more bodies and that ain't happening.

Another way is to revamp the Department, top-to-bottom, eliminating all sorts of useless spots and getting more bodies on the street. We don't see that in the works.

A third way is to close two more Districts along with an Area and spread the manpower out, usually in combination with the previously mentioned top-to-bottom restructuring. Anyone see that in the planning stages? 

So less coverage, more cuts, lots more elearning and a continuation of the useless policies of the last three decades.

Better hope for a cold winter, a rainy spring and a mild summer, otherwise it's back over 500. 

Rumors Abound

A bunch of things popping up in the comment sections:

• SCC please address this issue with Chief Hein. He’s been hiding under a rock for several weeks and Compstat has been canceled three weeks in a row so he can keep a low profile. Rumor is there’s an IG investigation, but likely it will go nowhere.

Well, obviously, he's keeping a low profile because everything posted about him giving that order is 100% true and he's being hidden until it blows over.  

• Mice here at 35th yall. Working here ground level by subpoena unit. Little mouse ran by towards Gun Registration. People talkin about hittin the medical. Are they coming in from the mail room?

Not surprising considering the other infestations that have been recorded here over the years, mostly bedbugs. 

• Why was Glen Brooks a member of the Chicago Police Department wearing a Chicago Police polo shirt participating in the No Kings March?

Because he's a connected "progressive" commie with enough political whack to avoid any accountability.

And speaking of a lack of accountability, since it seems CPS teachers can be unaccountable for off-duty off-site behavior, someone suggested that the Officers accused of being members of the Proud Boys or similar such organizations now have a defense for off-duty off-site behavior.

Make them live by their rules. 

Glock Rumor

Completely 100% non-verified, but it certainly could affect Department operations in a large way:

• Gun owners across America are buzzing about unconfirmed reports that Glock, one of the world’s most recognizable firearm manufacturers, may be planning the most dramatic overhaul of their product line in decades. The potential changes could affect millions of law enforcement officers, security professionals, and legal gun owners who rely on the Austrian company’s pistols.

  According to a widely circulated social media post from GlockStore, the manufacturer might discontinue nearly all of its current handgun models starting November 30, 2025. If accurate, this would represent a seismic shift for a company whose firearms are used by police departments, military units, and civilian gun owners worldwide.

  
  

  The unverified report suggests that only three models – the Glock 43, 43X, and 48X – would remain in production from the current lineup. These compact pistols, popular among concealed carry permit holders, would apparently continue unchanged while the rest of Glock’s extensive catalog gets replaced.

After the Sig incident(s), we speculated that switching a thousand-plus Officers to a different Department-approved pistol could have far reaching operational effects - you react how you are trained and you are trained with hundreds of Firearm hours at the Academy. It takes time, effort and a whole lot of ammunition to effectively train a decent shooter, and we all know how the City and Department operate on the cheap.

A Glock revamp would be a massive disruption, more so if Glock refuses to qualify Department armorers or supply parts to current owners of the pistol. 

UPDATE: Glock has confirmed they're discontinuing everything except the three listed models. 

She's Getting Away with It

One of our readers sent an update to the scumbag teacher at Nathan Hale (click for larger version):

 

 

So blame the alleged provocateur (with no proof) and claim since it was away from school grounds and off hours, no action will be taken. It seems CPS has no "morals" or "expectation of professional behavior" clauses in their Contracts. They're communists, so expectations are low.

Here's the principal who supports this sort of behavior in those teaching children and leading by example:

Why are educators such violent scumbags? 

Particularly Illinois teachers?

Like this one:

• A man was captured on video calling for federal immigration agents to be shot while he spoke at a "No Kings" rally in Chicago in a message that quickly went viral on social media, resulting in calls for him to be fired and investigated. 

  "You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system," the "No Kings" protester said in a video [...]. 

  "These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. The same machinery that’s on full display right there has to get wiped out."

Turns out to be another Chicago teacher, though not CPS - City Colleges:

He may have been fired already. 

Or how about this one:

• An Illinois State University faculty member was arrested after he was accused of flipping a Turning Point USA student group's table and tearing down promotional flyers on campus last week.

  Derek Lopez, a 27-year-old graduate student and teaching assistant at the university, was captured on camera speaking to a man standing near the table set up by students in the conservative group to promote political comedian Alex Stein’s upcoming event at the institution, before he then tossed the table, video shows.

  "Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?" Lopez told the man before he was seen flipping the table over. "Thanks guys, have a great day," he later sneers as he waves and leaves the area.

No word on this one, but it isn't his first run with conservative student organizations according to one report.

Maybe Chicago's violence problem isn't a gun issue - it's teachers teaching kids that disrespect and ultimately violence, is an acceptable response to words and opinions you don't agree with....kind of like fascists.

Awesome Beat Tag

When the Department stops supplying equipment, don't be surprised when things get adapted for amusing purposes:

Reminds us of other humorous times:

Fun days.

Government Shutdown?

Did anyone notice that there's a government shutdown? Must not be too serious if we haven't noticed anything. Maybe the government is just too darn big and needs to be trimmed.

As you may or may not know, the main sticking point is democrats want $1 trillion for ILLEGAL ALIEN health care. For those claiming, "No they don't" you're not paying attention to New York, California and Illinois who have all passed laws funding ILLEGAL ALIEN care through programs that are largely funded by the federal government. Just because you pass the money around doesn't mean the source changed.

But aside from that, they're demanding continuation or increasing payments for subsidies to the Obamacare Act - subsidies that democrats negotiated a sunset provision for.

• so they're protesting the provisions they passed
• why does anyone need "subsidies" for the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)? 

The fact that a subsidy exists means the "affordable care" isn't actually....affordable.

Thanks again Sparklefarts! Something to think about. 

Another SAFE-T Success!

We don't know why stories like this don't get more play - Fata$$ should be so proud!

• A man who was already on felony pretrial release fired two guns at once in a South Shore alley last month, killing one man and injuring another, according to a newly filed federal complaint.

  Fabias L. Shipman, a convicted felon with a 2019 federal drug conviction, was charged Friday in U.S. District Court with illegally possessing ammunition. Prosecutors say Shipman opened fire with a gun in each hand during a September 29 confrontation behind the 2500 block of East 78th Street.

  The entire attack was captured on surveillance video, providing key evidence that helped investigators identify Shipman even when the surviving victim did not.

Wait, a "federal complaint"? 

What's this nonsense? 

State charges aren't good enough any more?

Next thing you know, someone is going to be sending federal agents, officers and national guard troops into these lawless hellholes to enforce the laws that....that....

Oh wait.... 

 

Again?

Its almost like CPS is hiring predators:

• A Chicago high school security guard is accused of sexually assaulting two girls over several years, according to court documents.

  What we know: Heather L. Pancer, 48, of Hammond, Indiana, allegedly sexually assaulted two teenage girls between 2018 and 2021 while she was in what police described as a "position of trust and authority."

Hammond, Indiana? She's listed as a CPS employee, not a subcontractor. 

Perhaps it's time to start checking the residency compliance of ALL CPS employees moving forward? There certainly are a lot of suburban city stickers on the cars parked around our local school. You'd think an enterprising investigative reporter would want to make a name for themselves with this slam dunk.

So when does CPS start their "Consent Decree" with body cameras and e-learning? 

Pissing Away Tax Money

Glad to see this is getting some alternative coverage, seeing as how the bought-and-paid for local outlets aren't looking out for taxpaying citizens:

• The Democrat-led state of Illinois spent more to give free health care to illegal migrants than the total it spent on its citizens in programs for foster kids, the elderly, its roadways, and the arts — combined.

  The 2025 budget, passed in June of 2024, totaled $53.1 billion in spending, inducing more than one billion dollars in new taxes.

  But despite the huge rise in taxes, Gov. JB Pritzker also signed onto a total of $629 million toward taxpayer-funded health care for illegal migrants called the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIA).

  The mounting number of programs for illegal aliens comes at a cost of billions of tax dollars, according to the Illinois Policy Institute.

  But expenditures for citizens are decidedly smaller, according to the Washington Examiner.

Again, Exhibit #1 as to why Fata$$ is U-Haul's Governor of the Decade, contributing mightily to their bottom line as one-way rentals out of Hellinois skyrocket.

Weekend Totals

We made our SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) and predicted 5 and 12.

Per HeyJackass.com: 

• 4 and 21

We're going to blame the rain for keeping everyone inside and making tempers percolate.  

Father of the Year Candidate

He's got our vote:

• The killer of a 6-year-old boy has been released on parole after serving only half his sentence — and the slain child’s father issuing a dire threat to the freed man.

  Ronald Exantus, 42, stabbed the entire Tipton family as they slept in their Versailles, Kentucky, home on Dec. 7, 2015 — but focused most of his rage on little Logan, who he slashed repeatedly in the head with a kitchen knife. When Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, confronted the knife-wielding intruder, the dad was stabbed and tossed 10-15 feet, he told WLKY.

He stabbed the six-year-old in the head so hard, he bent the knife.

• [...] Exantus, a former dialysis nurse, was sentenced to only 20 years in 2018 for assault charges because a jury found that he was not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, WLKY reported. He was released on parole on Oct. 1 after serving just 8 years due to good behavior and education credits, according to local outlets. His parole ends on June 18, 2026, according to the Kentucky Department of Corrections.

He got out because the only conviction that stood was the assault, which doesn't qualify as a violent offense under Kentucky law.

• Tipton expressed outrage over the release and vowed to avenge his son’s killing if he ever sees Exantus again.“He told [Dakota] that he was going to kill every one of us. So now I’ve gotta be on extra guard to protect my kids because I will not lose another one,” Tipton told local Fox56.“I’ve had my talks with God cause I’m not afraid to tell you all, I told the court — if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man. I will kill him where he stands,” he told WKYT.

We certainly hope he gets away with it. We'd even contribute to his getaway and defense fund.

Yep, a CPS Teacher

The "no kings" protest happened this weekend and the vast majority of attendees were old white boomers with no actual purpose left in life, protesting because their appointed queen (that none of them got to vote for) lost.

And this "peaceful" protest had the usual smattering of scumbags, like this one:

She's carrying a Mexican flag and mimicking a gunshot to the neck, a la Charlie Kirk. There's even video here (it plays as a standalone.)

Guess who she works for? Guess who she teaches?

Yep, Chicago Public Schoolteacher Lucy Martinez, from Nathan Hale Elementary at 6140 S Melvina. And golly, on a Sunday of all days, someone at CPS took down the entire Hale website and all social media sites (probably making double-time-and-one-half for the weekend efforts.)

She's teaching Chicago children, sucking up a taxpayer salary, awaiting a taxpayer subsidized pension, all while demonstrating how morally bankrupt CPS/CTU was, is and continues to be, fully supported by the political structure.

Lieutenant Results E-Mailed

And as suspected, they had to place the bar so low, a Chicago Public School student could step over it:

• Included in the email was the passing score with how many sat for it and how many passed. 63.08% to pass. 689 sat with 585 passing.

Remember, you have to pass almost every single e-learning with a score of 70% or better. In fact, you have to pass every single Academy class and the state test to become a police officer with a 70% or better.

But you can supervise the CPD with a score of 63%.

In fact, anyone want to bet that number 585 gets promoted long before number 25 even gets a look at the silver bars?

Bridgeport Doesn't Care?

No one even bothers to call the police any more:

• A man and woman were found shot to death inside an SUV that apparently sat unnoticed in a Bridgeport intersection for up to 20 minutes before police discovered their bodies Friday evening.

  Shortly after 7 p.m., officers on patrol stopped to investigate a Ford Explorer that was stopped in the middle of 31st Street and Princeton Avenue, outside Franco’s Ristorante, according to Chicago police. Inside the vehicle, officers found a 41-year-old man in the driver’s seat and a 39-year-old woman in the passenger seat, both dead from gunshot wounds to their heads. A firearm was resting on the man’s lap, according to an officer at the scene.

Murder/suicide.

But twenty minutes in the middle of the intersection....and no one calls? No one curious enough to look into the vehicle? Maybe see someone slumped over and call 911? 

Lawsuit Dropped

As we speculated, on private property that you voluntarily enter, your options are limited:

• The Chicago Cubs have apparently emerged unscathed from two lawsuits that accused the team and its security contractors of secretly collecting facial data from fans at Wrigley Field. Attorneys representing plaintiffs in both of the recently filed cases have abruptly withdrawn the lawsuits just weeks after filing their original complaints.

  In federal court, attorneys notified the judge last week that they were voluntarily dismissing their case against the Cubs, Blue Star Security, and Connecticut-based Protos Security. A similar filing followed on Wednesday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, ending a state-level complaint that mirrored the federal case.

  Neither filing offered any reasons for the sudden reversal. Both actions had been filed in September and quickly gained national attention for accusing one of Major League Baseball’s most storied franchises of violating Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a law that carries steep financial penalties for the unauthorized collection of biometric data. Individuals claiming BIPA violations can seek damages of $1,000 for each negligent violation or $5,000 for each reckless one, with every unauthorized scan counting as a separate infraction.

Has anyone been to any of the airports lately? We have, and guess what's everywhere?

• facial recognition cameras

You can see some of them, but it's the ones you don't see that are truly impressive. It's not just overhead, but eye-level and waist-level looking up. Thousands of cameras, all recording 24/7/365. The data storage fees are astronomical (pretty much federally funded.)

We still have a few friends who work at the airports and they tell us that the moment you set foot onto airport property, TSA can track you continuously via camera and facial recognition software, from entry point until boarding, from exiting the plane through baggage claim, customs, all the way to parking, cabs or public transportation. 

And that's the government. Casinos do it. No reason to think that any venue that you voluntarily pay to enter for entertainment wouldn't be doing it. 

Illegal Hired as Police?

We worked with probably a dozen or more Officers who were not citizens....or we should say "not YET citizens." They were going through the process, had applied for citizenship, were preparing to take the test and oath. Some were military guys, others weren't. But all were LEGAL.

We have a lot of questions with this one:

• A Hanover Park police officer accused of living in the U.S. illegally has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a federal crackdown targeting sanctuary cities like Chicago.

  However, the Hanover Park Police Department said Officer Radule Bojovic was hired "in full compliance with federal and state law" and was legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of his employment, according to a statement released Thursday.

He was here on a TOURIST visa and overstayed, thereby becoming ILLEGAL. We know actual immigrants whio have applied for citizenship can apply for work visas and legally procure employment, but TOURISTS by definition are headed back to their home country at some point - it's a temporary admission so that you can go see the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone or something. It's not a permanent invitation to stay.

The TOURIST visa expired back in 2015. And if we're reading the article correctly, he graduated the Academy in August 2025, meaning he was here ILLEGALLY for ten years and still got hired, processed, and through a Police Academy.

And somehow, he got a gun, which we're told is impossible for ILLEGALS, let alone someone on a ten-year-expired-TOURIST visa.

Something is badly broken. 

Well Done

Great job and recognition for a job well done:

• Four Chicago police officers are being honored for their swift response and decisive actions that led to the arrest of a man accused of brutally attacking and raping a woman in Belmont Cragin this summer.

  The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation announced that 25th District Officers Alejandro Vega, Jesus Flores, Jasper Catalano, and James Witt have been named September’s Officers of the Month for locating and arresting 21-year-old Leyter Arauz-Medina minutes after the assault.

  According to court records and prosecutors, the attack occurred around 3 a.m. on August 31 in the 2300 block of North Lavergne Avenue. The 54-year-old woman was walking home when Arauz-Medina allegedly ran out of nearby Blackhawk Park, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her into an alley. Prosecutors said he tore off her clothes, told her she was going to die, and repeatedly slammed her head into the concrete until she lost consciousness.

A rapid and efficient response along with a methodical search soon located the offender, who was captured after a short foot chase....probably in violation of the foot chase policy being championed by "progressives" like Conehead, Evans, Prickwrinkle and Fata$$. It's a good thing the drooling vegetable "president" spent four years importing and supporting rapists to do the criminal sexual assaults that American criminals were refusing to do.

In any event, great job by the Officers. 

Captains Made (corection - Training)

One of these is a very good person, but we'll refrain from naming them so they can develop their own reputation. 

Killing Crime - Brutally

Too bad there aren't any actual investigative reporters any more....or at least any that would make a democrat look bad. Imagine if this happened anywhere a republican was in charge:

• I work for a stolen auto task force that is for an outside agency.  We recover anywhere from 2-6 stolen autos per day. Most being entered by CPD. What CPD just started doing is leaving out the report numbers for the police reports your JH JJ numbers etc. Per LEADS  a report number is to be attached to all entries.  It appears in the most recent thefts (this week ) they stopped attaching report numbers. 
  
  
  
  So I emailed CPIC to please send me the reports associated with the vins.  There email response was there are no stolen auto reports for those vins. 
  
  
  
  I emailed them back and provided the LEADS number that gets assigned to the entry on the states side.  They emailed me back again saying there are no reports with those entry numbers.
  
  
  
  I asked them what was going on.  They responded back in email. All Outside agencies are getting the same response.
  
  
  
  Which reading between the lines they are saying the reports don’t exist for outside agencies and appears they are falsifying there numbers are stolen autos.
  
  
  
  These were all confirmed stolen vehicles when we recovered them via dispatch to dispatch.
  
  Not only is this falsifying numbers this could lead cops out to dry while making recoveries and reports “don’t exist”. 

Crime doesn't exist if you don't report it in a democrat run shithole.

What do the insurance companies say? They aren't paying out for stolen vehicles any more because there's no verifiable paper trail? 

A Message for Retirees

A good read and pretty accurate:

• I’m in my 28th year on the job, 17 of those as a sergeant. I’m staring down retirement, and I’m not expecting a parade. I’ll likely get the popular cake and coffee send-off, and then it’s done. And that’s OK. Cake and coffee are how it should be, because not every department or municipality can give extravagant goodbyes due to ever-tightening budgets. What I am expecting, because I’ve seen it over and over again, is to be forgotten. Quickly.

  I’ve watched it happen to good people, respected people, officers who gave everything, who bled for their agency, who mentored generations of cops. Not one of them got the long memory they expected. Six months out, their names rarely come up. A year later, it’s like they were never there. That’s the truth no one tells you when you’re gearing up to walk away. The silence is real, and no one is immune to it.

  There’s a common saying that gets passed around: “Forty-five minutes out the door and you don’t matter anymore.” I don’t know who created that quote, but whoever it was really nailed it.

A short while into what we hope is a long and enjoyable retirement, this strikes a chord, especially after the last promotional class where we only knew a couple names. The job moves on without you. And at some point, we'll walk away from the blog, too.

Never make the mistake thinking the job loves you - it doesn't. It pays the bills, maybe it makes you smile or laugh, hopefully gifting you some good friends along the way, but it never has and never will like or appreciate you in a deserving manner. 

No Kings

Except this one, sitting on his porcelain throne:

 Open post for the weekend.

In fact, in light of the warm weather, how about a HeyJackass.com killed/wounded guessing game?

• let's say five and twelve - usual restrictions (1700 Friday until 0500 Monday morning)

Maybe Porkulous will join in since he likes to gamble.