A Slum Times Miracle!

A PPP fraud case....that doesn't involve the CPD?

• A former top Chicago Public School official was charged with ripping off two pandemic relief programs, nearly three years after the school system found she had lied about her income in order to receive loans.

  Crystal Cooper, the district’s former chief operating officer, was among at least 14 CPS staffers who left their jobs in 2023 after the district’s inspector general uncovered they had falsified information on applications for federal Paycheck Protection Program loans.

  This May, Cooper was charged with three counts of wire fraud, according to a recently unsealed federal indictment.

  Beginning in June 2020, Cooper applied for two federal loans through the PPP and Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, according to the indictment. Those programs were intended to help small businesses survive the pandemic, but they were overrun with fraud.

  Cooper was accused of lying about her income and the revenue she received from a side business that she’d never disclosed to CPS. She ultimately received over $28,000 in loans that she tapped for “her personal use and benefit,” according to the indictment. Like most of the country’s 11.4 million PPP loans, Cooper’s were forgiven and she didn’t have to pay anything back.

How did this one get past the Slum Times editors?

Wait....wait.... 

• At least 36 Chicago police officers were found to have defrauded the PPP program, according to reports by City Hall inspector general’s office. The list includes eight cops highlighted in a report last month who bilked a total of $282,639 in PPP funds.

Ah yes....there's the Slum Times bias we've all come to know and love. Over 1,000 city employees were found to have received fraudulent loans, including 780 CPS employees (none of whom actually missed a paycheck), but they have to mention 36 cops.

Assholes. 

Body Cam Proves Lies....Again

A criminal making false statements against the police? The "media" reporting these lies as fact?

CWB destroys the Fox "News" report by requesting the body camera footage - something Fox should have done before airing the lies:

• Police body camera footage appears to contradict parts of a television news report in which a Chicago man claimed CPD officers beat and wrongly arrested him while he was trying to rescue his younger brother from a Fourth of July “teen takeover.”

  Quotangelo Temple, 19, was featured by Fox Chicago four days after his arrest in the 1200 block of South Fairfield Avenue. The station’s story, headlined “Chicago football player alleges police beat him while rescuing younger brother during teen takeover,” centered on Temple’s claim that he went to the gathering only to retrieve his 16-year-old brother.

  “I was just trying to get my little brother out of there,” Temple told Fox Chicago. He denied striking any officer and said he wished police had “approached me differently.” “The disregard of what they had going on, how they was frustrated with the kids and all that stuff, that don’t mean just take that anger out on me,” Temple said.

Um....you don't get to "rescue" someone who is being arrested - that's a charge unto itself dumbass.

But guess what CWB discovered when the body cam footage was viewed?

• After reviewing Fox Chicago’s report, CWB Chicago filed a public records request seeking all Chicago Police Department body-worn camera footage related to Temple’s arrest and the criminal charges filed against him. CPD released one body camera recording last week.

  In that footage, the man CPD identifies as Temple is not wearing the clothing shown in Fox Chicago’s report. Instead, he is wearing a black T-shirt with a white and red design, jean shorts, and red athletic shoes. Temple’s mugshot from July 4th also shows him wearing a black T-shirt.

  As the CPD clip begins, the man police identified as Temple walks quickly around the back of a parked SUV and advances briskly toward a group of officers. An officer almost immediately pushes him back, telling him to “back up, back up,” and a physical struggle begins.

So HE approached aggressively. 

HE disregarded legal, lawful and proper orders to cease his advance and return to the sidewalk.

HE grabs an Officer by his vest.

HE continues the attack by swinging his fists before being subdued and arrested. 

Too bad he didn't get tasered. 

But kudos to CWB for doing the job the "media" doesn't even bother to do any more. 

Motorcycle?

Once again, the local media making up stories:

• A motorcycle crash left a woman dead and a 9-year-old child injured in Englewood Friday night.

  Chicago police said two men in a black SUV hit the motorcyclist around 11:20 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Damen Avenue.

  The men were driving south on Damen Avenue when their SUV hit the motorcycle traveling east on 67th Street, police said. The men were not injured.

  The motorcyclist, a 36-year-old woman, and her 9-year-old child were injured in the crash, police said.

  The woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Her name has not been released.

But here's a picture from the scene (msn.com):

That's not a motorcycle.

And we're willing to bet it ain't even close to being street legal....not that it was being driven on the street. One emailer says they were racing down the sidewalk before t-boning the SUV who had the green light. 

More Media Bias

You still don't hate the media enough - this is an actual article from three days ago:

Didn't the media just spend the last three months telling everyone high gas prices were sending the country into another recession? That inflation was out of control? That these prices were the "new normal" and we all better get used to it?

Now that things are calming down, the low prices are....a bad thing?

We're so confused. 

Channel 7 Still Stealing from SCC

The content thieves over at Channel 7 seem to have discovered crime reporting is part of their jobs again, and guess what they're doing? Right there on their front page:

• At least 18 people have been shot, two fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

  ABC7 is tracking the shootings across Chicago from Friday at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

Seriously? We've been doing Friday 1700 to Sunday 2359 hours for nearly two decades (extra bonus hours on holiday weekends), and Channel 7 moves an hour and pretends it's an original idea? Are they accounting for rush hour or something?

• here's a hint - those doing the shootings aren't usually coming home from jobs, so that hour doesn't mean much. We used 1700 hours because the number of potential innocent victims on the street went up.

If they use anything different from HeyJackass.com stats, then they're continuing the propaganda BS put out by the Department.

If they start betting pools based on casualty counts, we're going to be mildly irritated....and amused.

By the way, nice Saturday night Conehead:

• Nearly half of the victims shot overnight in Chicago were children and teenagers, including an 18-year-old who died from his injuries.

  Chicago Police have reported at least 15 people were shot from around 9:30 p.m. Saturday to just after 5 a.m. Sunday. Seven of the people shot were between 12 and 19 years old.

  The violence hit nearly every side of the city, including a shooting that left a woman critically wounded in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

We'll guess Conehead didn't ask the pope for divine intervention regarding crime.

Media Trust Continues to Die

This was the Slum Times a few days ago:

Why would they use a CFD ambulance graphic for a death in Evanston?

Oh yeah, because they're lazy, unprofessional, DEI hires assisted by A.I. 

Vallas Puts Two and Two Together

Something that Marty Preib had been writing about for ten or fifteen years ago and what we had amplified for nearly as long:

• Chicago’s media outlets are amplifying a dangerous narrative that paints the Chicago Police Department (CPD) as racist and unreformable, eroding public trust and hamstringing officers who protect our streets. This isn’t journalism—its activism disguised as reporting. Criminals are increasingly treated as victims and cops as villains by so called police reformers and advocates and criminal trial lawyers with media cheerleading the distortion. Facts be damned: the story line is that CPD is biased against Black residents, and allergic to change. It’s time to set the record straight.

It was a racket - it was always a racket:

• In nearly every major settlement for wrongful conviction or police misconduct, failure to implement the Consent Decree is cited as justification for multimillion-dollar payouts. Rarely do reporter’s question whether individuals receiving these settlements were actually innocent or why the settlements are so large. Since 2000, Chicago has paid out over $700 million in police misconduct lawsuits, not because claimants were proven innocent but due to alleged police misconduct.

  The media ignored Kim Foxx’s brokering of deals with a secretive “Lawyers Committee” composed of private attorneys specializing in lawsuits against the police. These lawyers, sometimes hired as “Special Assistant State’s Attorneys,” worked to overturn murder convictions, often not because of new exculpatory evidence but due to allegations of police misconduct. Foxx’s “Conviction Integrity Unit” issued “Certificates of Innocence” even when there was no evidence to support actual innocence, paving the way for successful lawsuits against the city.

  After eight years of Foxx having her thumb on the scales of justice, Chicago has seen half the nation’s overturned convictions and wrongful conviction lawsuits filed. By the time she left office in December 2024, Foxx left as many as 275 wrongful conviction cases for which lawsuits have been or will be filed, seeking millions more in damages. These new suits could cost the city $ 1 billion. No one in the media ever seems to question whether these individuals were innocent of the crimes.

Everything Vallas wrote is 100% true, 100% accurate....and 100% years too late. Like we said, Preib led the way on a lot of this and did far more legwork than any "reporter" even attempted to do because investigative reporting is dead and "journalism" is a corrupt enterprise these days.

You can read it all at the link up top and wonder what might have been before the death-spiral took hold of Chicago and bankrupted it - financially and morally.

Media Business as Usual

A reader of ours took a "reporter" to task over the WTTW report that said excessive force complaints were up 46%. The actual headline:

• Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data

A pretty straightforward misrepresentation of the what the numbers actually revealed as it turned out. Our reader wrote to the "reporter" asking for a retraction:

• Your Feb 23rd article "Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data" has been completely blown apart by CWBChicago.

  As YOU should have done, CWBChicago uncovered that a mere FOUR percent of these allegations were sustained last year. They even included a nice detailed chart to illustrate your own data set over the period 2022-2025. The chart shows on average just some 6-7% sustained allegations over 2022-2025.

  Criminals lie. Do "reporters" lie too?

  A retraction is in order.

The "reporter," of course, immediately admitted to misrepresenting the facts and issued a clarification:

• HAHAHAHAHA....April Fool!!!!

The "reporter" - who is a worthless police hater with a lib-tarded anti-police agenda written into her DNA - was very condescending to the letter writer:

• I appreciate your feedback! I'd like to direct your attention to this paragraph of the story: "In a statement to WTTW News, a CPD spokesperson said it would be 'inaccurate' to 'characterize an increase in excessive force complaints as a definitive increase in use of force' by police officers, since those allegations have not been probed for accuracy."

  The story does not assert that all of these complaints have been sustained; as you can see, it includes the information that they have not.

  For your reference, the number of complaints filed against officers was one of the reasons the Department of Justice investigated CPD in 2015 and 2016 and is a metric tracked by federal officials as part of the consent decree process.

  Best regards,

  [police hater with a lib tarded anti-police agenda written into her DNA]

The paragraph in question is seven or eight deep in the article, and as every third grader knows, people who read that far past the headline are few and far between, especially after the past few years of anti-police narratives being peddled in the media. "Editors" in charge of propaganda know this and they write their headlines accordingly, to catch the passing interest of the uneducated who then apply the headline to their internal biases.

And as any reader of the "consent decree" knows, there are no federal officials involved in the CPD "consent decree" aside from a retired federal judge who signed off on some document present to them. An actual Consent Decree involves tons of Federal money pouring into the Department to enact reforms....and that seems to be lacking around here. 

WTTW Lies while CWB Reports

WTTW continues to embrace the libtarded narrative.

CWB pretty much embarrasses WTTWs half-assed reporting:

• The WTTW headline was damning: “Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data.” How can it be that after all of these years of efforts to improve the city’s police department, there is still so much excessive force being deployed?

  But allegations are just allegations. And WTTW’s report did not explore how many of those complaints were ultimately found to be valid. In fact, the outlet does not appear to have requested that data before filing its story. So, CWB Chicago did it for them.

  As it turns out, the numbers look quite different once you filter for complaints that actually held up under scrutiny. The worst year for bona fide excessive force complaints in WTTW’s data set was 2022, and even then, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability sustained just 15% of cases.

CWB then cites (and charts) the complaints and rates of sustained allegations.

Guess what?

• criminals lie;
• supporters of criminals lie;
• family members of criminals lie;
• people with an agenda to push lie constantly

Good to see someone taking up the pursuit of truth instead of propaganda. 

You can never hate the libtarded media enough. 

Must....Contain....Laughter

Look who got laid off (paywalled article):

• A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three creative services employees getting the axe Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by immigration agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes. 

  Brockman, a 15-year employee at WGN, rose to national fame after a video captured her being forced to the ground, handcuffed and placed in a van by federal immigration agents while on her way to work at the station from her Lincoln Square home.

"on her way to work" while interfering with Federal agents and attempting to pass it off as an "assignment."

Media Layoffs

It would take someone with a heart of stone not to laugh....and we don't have that heart:

• The axe is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom.

  Eight veteran reporters and anchors were laid off Monday: Sean Lewis, Ray Cortopassi, Bronagh Tumulty, Judy Wang, Julian Crews, Paul Lisnek, Chris Boden and Dean Richards, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

  [...] The massive downsizing is casting a pall over the newsroom, according to insiders, who say Dallas-based owner Nexstar Media is reducing the station to a shell of its former self.  

That's nothing compared with the "pall" assorted media companies have been casting over Chicago, spouting overly-libtarded bull$hit, anti-law-and-order crap, deliberately slanted "reporting" and opinions that don't resonate with half of their supposed audience.

WGN (and pretty much all Chicago media) embraced that philosophy years ago and this reckoning has been long overdue. 

Fortunately, there are a bunch of coding jobs that have opened up. 

And we heard CPD is hiring - maybe they can demonstrate how much better they can do our job than we did for nearly three decades.

Crap Reporting as Usual

The usual anti-police hack over at WTTW:

• Chicago police officers disproportionately used force against Black Chicagoans, even when considering they are more likely to be arrested or suspected of committing a crime in the city, according to the results of a court-ordered, first-of-its-kind study that examined four years of data.

  CPD officers also disproportionately used force against Latino Chicagoans, as compared with White Chicagoans, according to the study. In addition, CPD officers used greater levels of force against both Black and Latino Chicagoans than White Chicagoans, according to the study.

  The study, conducted by social scientists from the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Pennsylvania hired by CPD brass and crafted with the approval of a court-appointed monitoring team, blamed “systemic factors” for the disparity, not the actions of individual officers.

  The study also found that the number of times CPD officers used force against Black and Latino Chicagoans “rose significantly toward the end of 2023,” according to the study, which did not attempt to determine the reason behind that increase.

You know who else didn't "attempt to determine the reason behind that increase"?

• the "reporter"

Here's a clue:

 And that's just shootings - the stats hold across most categories of crime regardless.

And when criminals decide to break the law, avoiding apprehension and accountability is at the top of their list, which often involves resisting arrest....you know, using force against Police Officers....who are then required to fill out all sorts of forms which are used by the "social scientists" to claim there's something "disproportionate" about cops defending themselves and using force to defeat an arrest. 

Force that is completely LEGAL and AUTHORIZED by State Law by the way.

And then the media hacks spin it (again) as "disproportionate" while ignoring the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of crime (95%) is committed by two particular groups for whatever reasons and the other group tends to obey police commands when arrested.

You still don't hate the media enough. 

You (Still) Don't Hate the Media Enough

This was a headline:

You mean....the president promised a crackdown on crime, delivered (even Conehead admited it) and this reliably left wing site wonders why crime is falling? 

It's a mystery. 

Learn to Code

One of the larger and more famous media outlets is circling the drain....one foot in the grave as it were:

• The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it is laying off hundreds of its employees, which marks one of the newspaper’s deepest workforce cuts in its history.

  This development is part of a broader trend as legacy media outlets are rapidly losing viewers and readers.

  [...] The layoffs are expected to affect hundreds of journalists across multiple departments, including local news and international issues, according to The New York Times. The daily “Post Reports” podcast is shutting down, as well as the Metro section, which covers Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. 

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the paper years ago and it's lost money ever since, hundreds of millions of dollars. Libtarded newspapers are a dying enterprise - we've seen it here with both the Fibune and the Slum Times, the latter operating as a non-profit for business and a charity case for otherwise unemployable hacks. 

We keep hoping this is the year that the Slum times will go under. The paper keeps getting smaller and smaller while ad revenues plummet. They're doing at least as badly as the Washington Post and there isn't a billionaire looking to bail them out.

Another Slum Times "Error"

The other day, we wrote about the Slum Times attributing nine shooting deaths and one stabbing death to being "police related." We poked fun at them and CWB picked up on it, asking for explanations.

The Slum Times blamed a programming bug and said they had corrected it. Their "Homicide Tracker" site notes the corrections and also blames it on a programming "bug." An editor also appeared in our comment section, thanking us for discovering the error and noting they had corrected the issue:

• Thank you for flagging this problem with the Sun-Times violence tracker. Due to a bug in the tracker, some homicides were incorrectly described as having police involvement. The bug was fixed this morning. — Ari Soglin, Interim managing editor-news

  1/22/2026 12:48:00 PM

Hooray for accountability, right?

Not so fast - it seems this "error" appears other times, at least once that CWB discovered and tipped us off to. Here's one from October of 2025 (click for larger version):

First thing you should notice is TWO separate guys named Oman Cobbs, 48, appear to have been murdered on the same day. The second one is listed as a "police shooting." If you click on the link, you find this story:

• The October death of a 48-year-old man found in a suitcase on the Southwest Side was shot to death in a homicide, officials said.

  Around 11:55 a.m. on Oct. 17, officers responded to the 3300 block of South Kedzie Avenue near the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago police said.

  There, officers located a green suitcase and inside it found a “badly decomposed” body of Omar S. Cobbs, according to police reports and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

So the Slum Times summary is that not only are Chicago Police killing individuals across the city, afterwards they're stuffing them into suitcases? We must have missed that lesson back in our training days and we don't recall anything like this in the e-learning modules before we retired. Is this a Consent Decree thing?

We'd hate to think the media was so incompetent at their jobs (and their editors so ignorant as to what was being published) that this happened regularly. Oh wait, we already think that and - once again - this proves it. 

Good Weekend Read

Sometimes you have to take your time and direct your attention to a longer written article that really gets into the meat of an issue. 

This Contrarian article is one of them:

• 2025 was another banner year for Chicago media. Over the past year, what news consumers experienced in Chicago was more overt political bias in ostensibly neutral news media. Business as usual for Chicago’s print, television, radio, and digital media figures, in 2025, reporters continued to demonstrate their utter intolerance with opposing views and became less trusted to separate fact from fiction in the delivery of the news. 

  Whether it was covering up or whitewashing Mayor Brandon Johnson’s incompetence and mammoth failures as mayor or throwing a tantrum at Department of Homeland Security agencies enforcing immigration law in Chicago, in 2025, Chicago media confirmed their intent to serve as a protective chrysalis for politicians and groups they favor. 

  It was once a non-negotiable duty to maintain a strict pose of neutrality in the reporting of the news. However, instead of asking questions and learning a story, media figures in Chicago persist in their habit of creating news. With Chicago media simply disinclined to fulfill the core journalistic duty of telling the truth or holding powerful people accountable for their actions, contributors to Contrarian have collected some of the most egregious examples of biased journalism in Chicago for 2025. While some reporters profiled here are regulars, in this installment of “Worst in Chicago Media,” there are some new arrivals, including our worst journalist for the year. 

The Contrarian starts there, and then names names along with cited examples of the worst of Chicago "reporters" and their so-called "reporting."

Media trust is at an all-time low across the country and the Chicago media is doing their part to demonstrate that just when you think they're at rock-bottom, they find a shovel and start digging a basement.

Go read it all - it's good. 

Nice Editing Slum Times (UPDATES)

Evidently, the only thing driving crime this year is police shootings (click for larger versions):

 

 

So out of the twenty-five homicides already this year (per HeyJackass.com), ten of them (forty percent) have been police involved.

Someone ought to have a talk with Larritorious about that. 

UPDATE: the idiots in charge sent an intern back to correct all the errors....or as a democrat would claim, "cover up police crimes."

Here's the link to the corrected version. 

UPDATE: CWB rips the Slum Times a new one, too:

• In a remarkable series of errors, the Chicago Sun-Times has published data claiming Chicago police officers have shot and killed 11 people already this year — and felled another in “a police-related stabbing.”

CWB also goes a step further and relates that other websites (many A.I. fueled) "scrape" the information from major outlets and add it to databases that will then falsely report on police shooting numbers.

Interesting Interpretation

The Slum Times headline:

• Chicago records fewest killings since 1965, despite Trump's attacks against the city

But has the Slum Times thought about this interpretation of facts on the ground?

• After Hundreds of Extra Officials in Uniform on the Street along with Many Hundreds of Traffic Stops, Arrests, Detentions and Deportations of Criminals, Crime Drops

Completely plausible....probable even. Criminals go to where Law Enforcement isn't - even if the law enforcement isn't local.

But did anyone expect the Slum times to be even handed?

Hopefully, the Last Legs

The Slum Times has turned into a joke, more so than it ever was back in the day. The past few months, it's simply been an anti-ICE anti-law-and-order rag that we wouldn't even let a parakeet crap on.

This article is just ridiculous:

• Four men — one from Venezuela and three from Mexico — are all likely heading to prison after they were arrested early this year before the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation operation swung into full force in Chicago.

  They were arrested about the time President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, visited Chicago in late January after saying the city would be “ground zero” for mass deportations due to its sanctuary status.

  What makes their cases unusual, according to federal court records, is that one of them admitted to a serious gun charge and the others, while pleading guilty to entering the country illegally, previously served prison time for gun and drug offenses.

The article highlights the "plight" of a number of felons:

• gun trafficker selling a "ghost gun" to police;
• five time ILLEGAL with a conviction for fifty pounds of cocaine;
• another UUW offender;
• another multiple charged ILLEGAL ALIEN;
• a suspect in a triple homicide

Why would the Slum Times waste ink and paper on these persons who contribute exactly zero to society? Who gives a rats ass if these types get sentenced to months or years in prison prior to being ejected from the country? 

Their website is a constant stream of pop-up ads begging for money, so we would hope they're going to finally go under one of these days. 

Who You Know, Who You....

This was an....interesting....Slum Times HEADline:

Yeah, we're aware it's probably just the left-hand page of a two page report, but seriously, no one noticed this?

Thanks for the laugh.