Special Ed Surrenders

We've seen all sorts of bosses come and go. Some were less competent than others. Some tried to do good. Some were complete train wrecks.

Special Ed is in a class all by himself - and not in a good way:

• Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Friday said he has agreed to meet with Black Lives Matter Youth activists every month to discuss relations between police and minority communities.
  
  Johnson talked of his plans following a meeting between him, leaders of minority youth groups, Ald. Matt O’Shea (19^th) and the principal of Marist High School.
  
  After the closed-door meeting, which ran more than two hours, leaders from Black Lives Matter Youth and the Black Student Union of Walter Payton College Prep told reporters that their demands had been met.

Demands? Are you fucking kidding us? Who listens to "demands" from a group that advocates violence against police? That advocates "shut it down" as a legitimate form of political expression? Whose actions belie any respect for the rule of law, but rather mob rule?

• The teens will now be able to educate Chicago Police officers first-hand on the goals and values of Black Lives Matter Youth, they said.
  
  “They were concerned that police officers don’t understand what Black Lives Matter Youth stands for,” Johnson said. “I told them that if they created a curriculum and they wanted to come in and speak to members of CPD, I would facilitate.”

Um, what? Ex-squeeze me? They? Are going to educate us? Are you fucking nuts? What exactly are their qualifications? That they're black? What are their credentials? Some sort of documentation from an accredited organization that they have anything to offer police officers?

Special Ed's "facilitation" would most likely consist of lick-spittles, kiss-asses, toady exempts and cheating lieutenants. We can't think of a copper who wouldn't walk out of roll call should this dumbassery appear in an actual roll call.

Hey Ed?

You might want to look around for some of these. It'll fill the void in your pants.

COPA Update

This is what Fairley is recruiting over at COPA:

• Q: Who, or what, most impacts how you do your job?
  
  A: Like many agencies, IPRA was constrained by many things: laws, fiscal appropriations, etc. But perhaps the least recognized yet most impactful factor is the police union’s collective bargaining agreement. Those agreements impact how we are able to investigate weapons discharges and allegations of misconduct. The union’s bargaining agreements impact when we’re able to talk to officers after incidents, how long the police department has to respond after a finding is made, the appeals process and the disciplinary process.
  

This is from a 20-something so-called "prison abolitionist," someone who has (and will continue) to put the rights of criminals over those of the police officer. Remember, these are agreements in place to protect our Rights because the city consistently played fast and loose with the Civil Rights of police officers. It actually had to be put in writing to remind the City that cops were still citizens with actual Rights.

These tools over at COPA are going to be sitting right next to the City lawyers at the next Contract negotiations attempting to undercut every single protection we have. The FOP better be on its toes.

What Could Possibly Happen?

Great security you got there:

• Clean drinking water is essential for our health, so when a man with a foreign passport is discovered trespassing in a protected Chicago water plant, the FBI and Homeland security are alerted.
  
  Authorities say Shahroon Augustine entered the Eugene Sawyer Water Purification Plant with a duffle bag, containing a passport from Pakistan.
  
  He was charged with trespassing, then vanished.
  
  [...] A spokesperson for the city Department of Water Management, citing security, will not say how Augustine got access, though he claims he never breached “critical areas.”
  
  “The city regards it as a serious offence to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” the spokesperson says, adding the department is reviewing the incident to determine how security can be improved.

Kind of hard to prosecute someone you can't locate. And claiming he never "breached critical areas" is just bureaucrat-speak for "we don't know exactly how he got in or where he got to, but he was caught eventually so don't worry!"

So What About the DOJ?

The playing field has changed. Abruptly. Severely.

Trump is decidedly pro-police. He's probably more than able to look beyond the heated rhetoric of the soon-to-be-history Administration and see that the agenda driven narrative is full of falsehoods. That the blown-out-of-proportion cases cited by assorted leftists are the exception rather than the rule of police work.

The Slum-Times has noticed this fast-approaching day:

• As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump described Chicago as a virtual Hellscape of violent crime, and suggested the cure was “tough police tactics.”
  
  Those remarks take on special significance now that Trump is president-elect, and the U.S. Justice Department winds down a yearlong investigation of civil rights abuses by the Chicago Police Department.
  
  Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week said he remained committed to the cause of reforming the nation’s second-largest police department, even if the Justice Department under Trump no longer pushes the aggressive police reform agenda it has pursued during President Barack Obama’s two terms.
  
  Obama’s Justice Department has forced 19 departments across the U.S. into so-called consent decrees, court-monitored agreements that mandate sweeping reforms— more than the Justice Department under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined. Jonathan Smith, former head of the department’s division that handles police civil rights investigations, said this week he doubts that trend will continue under President Donald Trump.

This doesn't (and shouldn't) presage a return to the 1960's version of policing. Police work should be handled with the professionalism, top-notch training and executed in accordance with law. But the stifling of good police work hurts the honest people struggling to get by and emboldens the thug element as we've seen here and elsewhere.

Maybe the DOJ can look into other aspects of the Department, like the testing process that allows people sleeping with certain bosses and Subject Matter Experts to score high enough to get promoted (yeah Wheezie - we haven't forgotten you or Mrs Wysinger.) Or the illegal quotas being pushed again by degenerate thieving Commanders. Or officers who were taken out of Districts by IAD, yet mysteriously rise to command staff material (lots of those around).

Stop picking on the beat cops - start picking on the corrupt system.

Classy Move by President-Elect

This is a nice change - and he hasn't even taken office:

Kind of feels like....hope and change....of a better sort.

More Shots Fired

Did this one make the news anywhere?

• No mention of the off duty officer who exchanged gunshots with three gangbangers in 17th district that were tagging a garage. No one was hit and all three offenders were caught and the gun was recovered by the 19th district burglary team, tact LT ,SGT and a PO from second watch in 19. Nice job officers and all other officers that showed up to help the off duty PO.

Be careful out there.

You Voted Trump?

Trump supporters are the dangerous ones, right?

The Chicago media is actually covering this, too.

• Sun Times
• Tribune

Assorted television stations have it. We suppose they're going to blame the Trump supporter the same way they blamed Trump supporters for getting in the way of protestors' fists at UIC during the aborted Trump rally.

Funny

Protests Where?

Well, according to Breitbart:

• Several anti-Donald Trump protests emerged in New York, DC, Chicago, California, Boston, Seattle, and other major cities Wednesday night, with demonstrators blocking and cutting off traffic among calls of “Not my president!”
  

Okay. So let's review the Electoral Map:

• New York City - New York state went for Clinton
• DC - went for Clinton
• Chicago - Illinois went for Clinton
• California - went for Clinton
• Boston - Massachusetts went for Clinton
• Seattle - Washington state went for Clinton, too

So these so-called protestors are protesting in places that already went for Clinton, rioting, burning, breaking. That's going to earn you a lot of support somewhere along the line? We're missing something here.

Be careful ladies and gents.

Ed Wears Out His Welcome

Letting the personal intrude on the professional side of things:

• OT-Kulbida was allegedly "really pissed off" yesterday and ordered the 2nd watch WOL to call everybody in off the street with Parker, ANOV and mover books in hand. He wants to know when the last violations were written as he is planning to personally choose car and watch assignments for 2017.
  
  Really Ed? Are you really that dense? Did the "work wife" as you so lovingly call her tell you to go fuck yourself yesterday causing you to lose your shit and bully the entire 2nd watch? Everybody has been patiently awaiting your retirement but you are the herpes sore of the 012 Dist that won't go away. DOJ still doing the private interviews? Ed, you are nothing but a bully and were never a leader. Ever. You depend on the so very few that still kiss your ass, laugh at your stupid fucking wise cracks and refer to you as "boss." Unfortunately for you, those numbers are rapidly dwindling. You are the kiss of death for morale.

Did that golf outing money ever turn up? Or that other "stuff?" We heard he's still pissed the guy running the 012 Golf Outing didn't set aside one of the TV's for him.

Cook County Elections

The corruption runs deep:

• A law clerk who faces charges of impersonating a judge has been elected as a judge in the Chicago area even though she’s been barred from taking the office.
  
  Rhonda Crawford had been expected to win Tuesday’s election over a write-in opponent, as she was the only name listed on the ballot. The 45-year-old can’t be sworn in to the $180,000-a-year job unless she’s cleared of wrongdoing.

Even under investigation, she wins a spot (as she was running unopposed anyway.) Great system we got here in Cook County.

Remember.....

....guns don't prevent crime:

• An 18-year-old man attempting to rob a store Wednesday evening in the South Side Gresham neighborhood was shot by the clerk, according to Chicago Police.
  
  The would-be robber was shot multiple times by the clerk at 7:56 p.m. in the 8100 block of South Racine, police said.
  
  He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said.

Maybe this was the cure he needed to stop taking stuff that isn't his and he can go get a job and be a productive member of .......hahahaha. Who are we kidding?

Wha.......???

Two immediate thoughts come to mind after the elections:

1. Obama's "Pardon List" just got a lot looooooooonger 
2. Rahm ain't going anywhere until we vote him out

Let's start working on that second one.

Three a Day?

08 November.

28 homicides (per HeyJackass.com)

That's 3.5 killings per day.

When we said it looked like the pace of homicides was increasing, we were being our normal sarcastic selves seeing as how the weather was warm and the number of shootings seemed high for a November.

Turns out, the numbers are looking high for a July.

Safety Alert

Issued earlier:

We'll see if the media picks up on this - we're betting "No."

Another Retirement Seminar

The first one filled up very quickly. So quickly, the people running it have scheduled an additional one. Here's the flyer:

You can register at this link here.

More Shots Fired at Police

Sunday night:

• Two suspects are in custody after gunmen shot at people on an Uptown street and then fired on police officers who pursued them Sunday evening. No one was injured.
  
  Officers on foot patrol near Truman College reported hearing three shots at 7:42 p.m., police said. The officers immediately gave chase to a man who was seen running from the area while holding his side.
  
  That man, possibly a teenager, turned and fired shots at the pursuing officers, cops said.
  
  One shot was captured on police radio as the officers called in the pursuit.

West Side Monday afternoon:

• SCC, some coppers got shot at in the area of Western and Polk. Big chase on the highway into Cicero. Sounds like they got three heads, a gun and a hot car. No one hit. Tell everyone to be careful

And a Trooper on the highway:

• An Illinois state trooper was injured in a struggle during which his attacker's gun went off on the Tri-State Tollway at the Halsted Street Toll Plaza, but the trooper suffered no gunshot wounds, officials said.
  
  The trooper saw a suspicious person at the Halsted Street Toll Plaza on Interstate 294 near Harvey and was injured in a struggle with the man, according to a release from Illinois State Police.

That suspect is still at large. Be careful.

Rahm the Pandering Fuck

What a tool this jagoff is:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday condemned demonstrators for "ethnically tinged language" surrounding the controversial fatal shooting by Chicago police officers of a black man in the predominantly white Mount Greenwood neighborhood.
  
  [...]
  
  "There is no place in the city of Chicago for racially, culturally or ethnically tinged language," the mayor said. "It is totally unacceptable. You can have a protest. You can make your views known without it spilling over to anywhere that in any way demonizes anybody for their race, their ethnicity or their culture. That is unacceptable. And that's a unifying principle throughout the city of Chicago, one that we all share.

Don't look now jagoff, but it looks like the "unifying principle" you're spouting off about is a bloodlust unseen since the 1990's.

Did you see or hear the "ethnically tinged language" coming from the mouths of protestors? Have you been briefed about the intelligence that a certain well-known gang has declared "open season" on white children in Mount Greenwood? How about the "Burn it down!" screeches coming from the usual harpies?

We guess everything is excused if you're the correct complexion and Rahm might need your vote. These people (or folks) show up in the face of the visual evidence of criminal wrongdoing and the soon-to-be-released video evidence of blatant criminality and spout their lies and expect society to bend over to accommodate them.

They certainly knew that Rahm was going to fall in line, didn't they?

SeeBS Media Trolling

Forwarded to us via a social media user:

• Please read !!!. As I came home from work about 9:30 am this morning and went in the back to open the gate to the back yard to park my car, two men jumped out of the car , one holding a camera , the other with a microphone and a piece of paper in his hand. He identified himself as Dave Savini from Channel 2 News and asked me what's my respose to ten allegations of domestic something ?
  
  I had no idea what the hell he was talking about ...I don't have any domestic complaints nor CRS regarding any domestic other than 18 years ago when my son's father, who is not the police, would call the department constantly trying to get me fired. I have never done anything. I believe I have an examplary record and I have no idea what the hell he was talking about .
  
  I put my hoodie on my head and then I told him to stop following me and if he was crazy to follow officers at home like that. Of course FOP said that anyone can do that. So please be careful when you go home and ensure no white van or any asshole follows you and keep your family safe . God bless and United we stand !
  
  UPDATE. Someone just told me that they got the FOIA with officers with CRS and it is believed that they got the wrong officer, and they probably wanted my soon to be ex, whose last name I have

Nothing like "due diligence" when confronting a female alone with unsubstantiated allegations.

Ambushes Up

A truly disturbing statistic:

• The ambush-style killings of two police officers in the Des Moines area add to a deadly increase in a disturbing trend for law enforcement nationwide: the number of police officers gunned down has increased 167% this year, according to a law enforcement group.
  
  It ties for the deadliest year for such attacks, matching 2014’s 16 ambush-style killings.
  
  In all, there have now been 40 officers shot and killed in ambushes since 2014, said Steve Groeninger, spokesperson for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks police fatalities.
  
  Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines police Sgt. Anthony “Tony” Beminio were the latest fatalities. Both were gunned down separately in their patrol cars while responding to reports of gunfire early Wednesday.

The point of an ambush is, of course, to inflict maximum damage with the least amount of damage in return. There is usually no defense. Be wary and aware. You may only get one chance to defeat such an attack.