Don't Stop Ugly People

You'll get a ten-day suspension:

• A Chicago police officer unlawfully stopped and searched a student walking home from the bus, telling him and the person he was with that they were targeted because they were “ugly as f---,” according to findings released by a watchdog group.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) reviewed and analyzed body-camera video of the incident that unfolded after three officers stopped a male and a female around 1:50 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2024.

Now, granted, it looks like they didn't properly stop the pedestrians, failed to document any sort of Reasonable Articulable Suspicion and didn't provide a "stop receipt" after concluding the encounter. But is was the "ugly as fuck" comment that landed the officer ten days off....and certainly a bunch of re-training modules.

But the important questions is....did they get the Blue Cards? 

Integrity Check?

Remember back in the day, the rumors that IAD used to put cash or look-alike "substances" in the backs of squad cars to attempt to "uncover" corruption?

This one looks like it went just a little too far:

• A body was found inside a new Chicago police vehicle on Thursday morning, CPD said.

  CPD said a man was found dead at about 9:15 a.m. in the 700 block of E. 112th Street.

  The body as found in the backseat of a new and unused police vehicle, CPD said.

  Chicago police said the vehicle has never been in service.

  A death investigation is underway.

We're going to start a rumor that the subject of this "death investigation" was placed into the brand new squad car with $1,000 in non-sequential unmarked bills. If any are missing.....

Someone is going to have a lot of explaining to do! 

Someone is Getting Fired

....and arrested probably:

• A child fired a gun after a man left it on a school bus on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

  Police said a man left a bag unattended outside of Minnie Miñoso Academy near West 35th and South Wallace streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood just before 2:30 p.m.

  A 12-year-old boy found the bag, took a firearm from inside, and discharged one round, shattering a bus window, police said.

  Police said the man then took the gun and bag before fleeing. Police have not identified the man or said how he might be connected to the school or transportation provider.

There's usually only one adult on a school bus - the driver. If there's a second adult, it's usually someone attached to a special needs child. So the suspect count here is probably two.

No word if this was a CPS / CTU employee headed to a White Sox game....speaking of which, have they closed that case yet with the CTU member hiding a gun in her fat folds before suffering a negligent discharge in the stadium? The lies and fictions they're going to have to invent to make that one disappear will be legend.

Not Again?!?!

A peaceful, church-going rapper cut down in the prime of his career:

• Six gunmen fired more than 50 shots in an ambush that killed Chicago drill rapper BloodHound Q50 at a Fuller Park gas station early Sunday, according to a preliminary Chicago police report. No arrests have been made. The up-and-coming performer, born Mikquale Cooper, was 22.

  He was seated in the driver’s seat of a white 2019 Tesla at the BP station at 4248 South Wentworth Avenue when two carloads of gunmen targeted him just before 4 a.m. According to CPD, the shooters pulled alongside Cooper’s car, and gunmen from both vehicles opened fire.

Q50 was known for such hits as “Long Live My Brudda He Prolly Kilt Yo Brudda” and “Get Back Or Die Trying.”

Like we said - peaceful. 

And stop demonizing. 

Crime is Equalizing!

From that always humorous site, the BabylonBee:

• In the wake of a mass shooting that left one dead and 14 wounded, Mayor Brandon Johnson touted the city's increased diversity of shooting victims.

  While speaking at the annual Hoopers 2 Heaven event in Grand Crossing Park, Mayor Johnson said he'd never been prouder of how people from all walks of life were now being shot, instead of just the usual black people.

  "This was a horrific event that was made a little bit better by the diversity of the shooting victims," the mayor said. "I just hope we catch the shooters so that I can thank them personally for what they've accomplished in our city."

  According to witnesses, two masked gunmen opened fire on a crowd in Washington Park on Saturday night. But unlike the typical gang clash, the gunmen fired indiscriminately into a crowd, not caring who they killed. Black, white, or brown — it didn't matter. Everyone was worth killing, regardless of their color.

  "Yes, people shouldn't be shot," the mayor added, "but if it's going to happen, it might as well be diverse."

Our darker sense of humor smiled.

Follow That Car!

Remember this Training Bulletin?

 

Seems like Houston PD has found a way around it:

• A Houston Uber driver was caught "off guard" but kept his cool when two police officers jumped into his vehicle and directed him to chase a suspect fleeing on foot, wild dashcam video shows.

  Anthony Baines said he was driving for Uber at about 12:20 a.m. Aug. 8 in a Houston Heights neighborhood, when a shirtless man ran across the street in front of his vehicle with two Houston Police Department officers close behind, according to Storyful.

  The video shows Baines getting waved down by an officer and stopping as she approaches and hops into the front passenger seat.

The attached four-second video from the link is amusing, with one cop jumping in the front seat, picking up her partner and then directing the Uber driver to follow a running subject.

If it all goes south, just blame the Uber guy. 

One Way to Solve Crime

Legalize it:

• In what officials have hailed as a historic first, California has become the first state to achieve a crime rate of zero after passing legislation to make all crimes completely legal.

  "This is a great moment for our state," Governor Gavin Newsom said. "No other state in the nation's history has successfully brought the crime rate down to nothing. California is once again leading the way! Now, please, for the safety of your loved ones, don't venture out of your homes at night. Or at least carry an air horn. Whatever. I don't care."

  Analysts point to the state's legalization of all criminal acts as the catalyst for reaching a zero crime rate. "It was a bold but revolutionary move," said Professor Kyle Ray of the California Crime Institute. "California has effectively eliminated all crime from existence simply by making every unlawful or despicable act completely acceptable. Murder, assault, robbery — these are yesterday's terms. Californians are now truly free to express themselves however they choose. Zero crime!"

Yes, it's the BabylonBee. But essentially, this was what New York, California, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota and Illinois (via Crimesha) had been doing for years.

Checking Those Numbers

Not saying that this was us....but we were in the area:

• A Powerball ticket sold in Illinois matched all six numbers in Wednesday night's drawing, winning an estimated $1.04 billion jackpot, according to the lottery organization.

  The winning numbers were 4, 26, 66, 67, 69 and red Powerball 9. The Power Play multiplier was 2x.

  It's the largest Powerball jackpot so far this year, and the eight-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history.

If we disappear suddenly, assume the best.

So What's the Actual Problem?

This might be a bit dark, but there need to be more prisons like this:

• Around 10 p.m., a haze of gray smoke wafted down a hallway lined with prison cells at the Joliet Treatment Center. The window of cell A9 began to glow red as the fire within grew. Jason Stephens was locked inside. Minutes ticked by, and the smoke became so thick you could not see more than a few feet. No one came to let Stephens out.

  There have been more than 70 fires at the facility in the last three years, according to an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times. That includes a dozen cases in which men incarcerated there set themselves on fire.

  The Joliet Treatment Center opened in 2017 with the promise of being a new kind of prison in Illinois, designed to provide intensive mental health treatment. But in the years leading up to that night in the summer of 2024, incarcerated men and civil rights lawyers who visited the facility said the conditions declined. Men were kept locked in their cells for long stretches, with nothing to do. They complained about a lack of medical care and mental health treatment, which the prison system is legally obligated to provide. Men reported that guards used excessive force.

  As the men grew more despondent, some became willing to do anything to draw attention to their troubles and resorted to setting their cells — or themselves — on fire.

Sounds like a win. 

Prison is supposed to be restrictive and depressing so that inmates don't want to return to it and they make the effort to not go back. 

If they do go back - and the recidivism rate seems to imply a lot of them do - then the prison obviously didn't make a bad enough impression on them so that they improve their lives, get jobs and contribute to society.

Self immolation seems like a decent outcome....for the taxpayer at least. 

Slow News Day?

This is "newsworthy" now? Instead of routine?

• Chicago police shot a dog after it had attacked two people, seriously injuring them, early Sunday morning at a home in North Lawndale on the city’s Southwest Side.

  According to police, a 15-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman were attacked by a dog inside a residence in the 4200 block of West Cullerton Street just after 5:30 a.m. After officers arrived on scene, one fired their gun and hit the dog.

  The 15-year-old girl was taken to an area hospital in serious condition with multiple puncture wounds and cuts on her arms, and the 25-year-old woman was also taken to an area hospital in serious condition with puncture wounds to her hands.

And the finishing touch?

• Police did not provide an update on the condition of the dog....

At least they didn't "report" the race of the dog - that would have been typical of the media.

Are the Officers on Thirty Day Desk Duty now? 

Cheap Ass Mofo

Another SAFE-T Act success story!

• A suburban man accused of robbing a restaurant owner at gunpoint tried to saw off his ankle monitor by walking into Home Depot and using a pair of — appropriately — bolt cutters from the shelves, prosecutors say, but he walked right into the arms of Cook County Sheriff’s Police in the parking lot, according to prosecutors.

  Tyrone Arnold, 28, is charged with escape from electronic monitoring and criminal damage to government property for almost severing the county’s GPS tracker from his ankle. Almost.

Cheap ass couldn't even buy the bolt cutters?

We guess we should be thankful he didn't steal them....even though he'd be released on that charge before the case reports were approved.

Another Conehead Corpse

In a neighborhood originally covered by ShotSpotter:

• A 15-year-old boy found unresponsive on the back porch of a West Side home overnight was actually a gunshot victim, a discovery paramedics made only after they began treating him at the scene.

  First responders had no indication the boy had been shot, or even that there had been gunfire in the neighborhood, because nobody called 911 to report shots fired, records show. The block is also no longer monitored by ShotSpotter after Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s contract with the gunshot detection system in September 2024.

  The Chicago Fire Department responded to a home in the 4600 block of West Jackson Boulevard shortly after 1 a.m. for a report of a person who was not awake or breathing. According to dispatch records, the person who discovered the child had already begun performing CPR before emergency crews arrived.

  About 15 minutes later, a Chicago Police officer who was asked to ride along with paramedics reported over the radio that the fire department believed the boy might be suffering from a gunshot wound. They soon confirmed their suspicions. In a media statement, CPD said the 15-year-old had been shot in the head. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

How long ago did Conehead say he was looking for a replacement for ShotSpotter?

How long does it take to find a niece, nephew or other aldermanic relative to run this connected replacement?

This is the 88th victim of Conehead's Reign of Error.

Fata$$ Falls Down

Reports say he was filming another one of those "lakefront walk" commercials he's been running for months now.

Tsunami Warnings have been issued, beaches have been evacuated:

• A rare 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded Wednesday near the north suburbs, United States Geological Survey officials said.

  The earthquake happened in Lake Michigan around 2:38 p.m.

  USGS officials said the location of the earthquake was about 13.8 miles northeast of Evanston.

Fortunately, no one was injured when Porkulous fell though we did hear that one State Trooper sprained his ankle leaping out of the way.

Happy Independence Day

We were trying to locate a picture of fireworks against the Chicago skyline and found this: 

 

Turns out that this was from a teen takeover near Columbus Drive a few months ago.

....maybe....

In any case, stay safe. It's already been a crazy weekend so be alert.

Nice Shots?

This seems like a very....specific....message being sent:

• An overwhelming display of firepower by five gunmen who killed a man on a River North street corner on Wednesday morning was a “gang-on-gang targeted ‘hit’ and not a random act,” according to the local alderman, who said the victim had been targeted in gang shootings before.

  Another man who was in the area, identified as a homeless man who frequents the neighborhood by a resident who spoke with CWB Chicago, is recovering after a bullet intended for the decedent struck him in the foot.

  At about 3:20 a.m., five men pulled up to the corner of State and Grand in a newer Honda Accord and hopped out, each masked and armed with either a rifle or a pistol, according to an officer who reviewed surveillance video. All five immediately began shooting at their intended target, a 30-year-old multi-time convicted felon who has not only been convicted of gun possession multiple times, but has also been questioned in connection with at least one murder, according to a law enforcement source. Dozens of shots were fired and police struggled to keep shell casings lying on an office building plaza from blowing away in the wind.

We don't know whether to lament the continued downtown crime trends or be amazed that the shooters only managed to wing one innocent bystander.

Seems like they might have practiced this one. 

Who has the details about the dead guy - was it as deserved as the aldercreature is implying? 

CCL Holder Detained

In our opinion, CWB fumbles this reporting: [see update at bottom of post]

• A concealed carry license holder is in police custody after he shot a homeless man during an altercation in West Rogers Park early Saturday, according to a preliminary Chicago police report.

  Officers responded to reports of shots fired and a person shot in the 6400 block of North Richmond Street shortly after 6 a.m. In a media statement, Chicago police said a 45-year-old man “was walking outside … when he entered a verbal altercation with a known offender. The offender produced a firearm and opened fire. The victim sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. The offender was taken into custody.” CPD said the injured man was in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital.

No charges filed as of this writing, so the CCL holder isn't an "offender" which should be Reporting 101. Just about every media outlet uses the word "allegedly" so often, it seems to have lost all meaning. Many use it even following a court conviction, as if a legal finding wasn't enough.

• CPD did not publicly disclose that the shooter is a concealed carry license holder. However, according to a preliminary police report, the man, who lives near the shooting scene, told responding officers he fired his weapon after the other man attacked him.

  Police recovered at least eight shell casings at the scene. Responding officers also recognized the critically injured man as someone who is homeless and regularly spends time along nearby Devon Avenue. CPD records show the wounded man has been arrested 15 times during the past year. His most recent arrest came less than a week ago when officers charged him with drug possession on Devon Avenue, about a half-mile from where he was shot.

Gee, a homeless vagrant who (by CWB's own reporting) has been arrested fifteen times in the past twelve months, the last time for drug possession - which usually means being prone to....drug usage, which often leads to....violent behavior.

Anyone know the last time a homeless drug abuser with numerous arrests was EVER accused of confronting a pedestrian? Should we measure that in hours or minutes?  

Based on the available data though, the reporting is subpar. At the moment, it sounds like the vagrant picked the wrong victim this time. 

UPDATE: a couple commentators point out it appears that CWB is quoting a press release from CPD. We missed the quotation marks that might have tipped us off. Apologies. 

But when we see something like that, we usually toss in a [bracketed reference] or (sic) or some editorial notation that notes "this error isn't ours." Perhaps we were mistaken in assuming CWB would catch something like that - they've done a great job many other times.

Given CPD's history of slanted and politically tainted press releases along with outright lying over crime statistics (documented here for years), if we had seen that press release, we'd have posted it and pointed out the inherent bias. 

New Tax Opportunity!

Pfather pflaggot waving his freak flag again:

• A Chicago priest told President Donald Trump to "shut up" following his social media post about a violent Juneteenth weekend that saw at least six people killed and more than 30 others wounded across the city.

  Father Michael Pfleger scolded Trump as Chicago community leaders on Monday called for a city agency to tackle gun violence prevention following the weekend's bloodshed.

  [...] "Shut up, Donald. Just send money and restore the money you took away from gun violence prevention for the city of Chicago and across this country. Give the money back now."

Anyone know how much the Catholic Church pays in taxes every year?

• they don't - they're a non-profit organization and are therefore tax exempt

And if they don't pay taxes, commenting on expenditures of tax payer funds is generally off limits.

Yes, we're aware of politicians campaigning at certain churches and such, but they don't actively solicit funds. That would - and has - run afoul of IRS guidelines regarding non-profits.

But if Mikey wants to comment on how the government spends tax money, well then by golly, his organization ought to start paying taxes starting with Illinois Property Taxes. 

After all, there are pension shortfalls to make up and a whole boatload of untaxed revenue to be tapped.

Thanks Cupich! 

Unintentional Suicide?

Won't somebody think of the children???

• A 1-year-old boy found unresponsive in an East Garfield Park apartment this spring died from a drug overdose that the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has now ruled a homicide. He is the second young child in Chicago to be the victim of a drug-induced homicide since July, though authorities have not filed charges in either case.

  Shortly before 10 p.m. on March 24, Chicago police and CFD paramedics responded to a 911 call in the 3100 block of West Fifth Avenue and found the boy unresponsive inside an apartment, officials said at the time. The Chicago Fire Department transported him to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

  The death prompted an investigation by Area Four detectives, who were awaiting autopsy and toxicology results. Those findings were recently completed. The medical examiner determined the child died from a combined overdose of fentanyl, medetomidine-dexmedetomidine, and “probable heroin.” Dexmedetomidine and medetomidine are sedatives used during medical procedures, with medetomidine approved only for veterinary use in the United States.

Why aren't there "safe storage" laws for narcotics? If these drugs had been kept on a high shelf or in a locked safe or stored with a child-proof cap, this could have been prevented.

Lib-tards demand it for guns....it's about time they demanded it for dope, too. 

We're surprised the M.E. didn't classify it as an "unintentional suicide." 

Shades of Juicy

When the demand for "racism!!!" exceeds the supply, you get crap like this:

• Chicago police are investigating after a cross was burned in Grant Park.

  Police said officers and firefighters responded to the 600 block of South Columbus Drive around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday after reports of an “object” on fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze.

  The “motives and circumstances” of the burning are under investigation, police said. No one was hurt, and no one is in custody.

We're surprised there weren't clothesline nooses and puddles of bleach amongst the Subway sandwich wrappers littering Grant Park.

That didn't stop the usual suspects from screeching that this was (A) racist, (B) Trump related and (C) related to the Texas murder trial that just wrapped up. Even pfather pflaggot is offering a ten-thousand dollar reward for apprehension of the suspect....who appears to be Asian (pix from CWB blog).

With all the cameras around Grant Park, it's only a matter of time finding and tracking this mope down and discovering he was paid by the SPLC or some other left-wing outfit to gin up fake outrage in a blue city, blue state, $hithole that voted overwhelmingly for Sparklefarts, Hillary, Biden and Kamala. 

 

Good Question

In light of the recent "firework death" on the Eisenhower, a forward-thinking readers raises the following:

• Okay, If thats what had happened then are the firework shells considered deadly. So when there is a street take over with vehicles driving all crazy doing donuts inside a gasoline ring of fire and lighting firework shells and throwing them at the police its considered what ??? Where do artillery shells appear on the "use of force" chart ?

Any Use of Force Sexperts want to take a break from banging recruits and chime in on this one?