Arena Lawsuit

Looks like the Tribune owes the Chaplains another $50:

• Northwest Side Ald. John Arena filed a complaint with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability alleging Chicago police officers may have violated the department’s code of conduct by making racially charged online comments about a controversial Jefferson Park apartment development plan that includes affordable housing.
  
  Arena made the complaint in mid-January, amid a long-running fight over the project in which supporters have claimed opponents are trying to keep minorities from moving into the bungalow belt neighborhood.
  
  The 45th Ward alderman said his office had presented the City Hall inspector general’s office with numerous examples of people identifying themselves as police officers in their online profiles or appearing in profile photos in police uniforms while using “racially charged language” to oppose the building on social media. The inspector general’s office told Arena to take the complaints to COPA because it potentially involved police officers.

The FOP and the Officers who are being politically intimidated by the alderasshole have struck back (click for larger versions):

Here's hoping that they win a bunch of money.

Tom Dart - Ball Gazer

If true, a priceless #HeToo moment:

• Anonymous said...
  
  Scc numerous reports on Facebook today Sheriff Tom Dart was sexually assaulted at the jail today. Inmate reportedly stripped and beat off in front of him. This is no BS.

How many pizzas will it cost to not beat-the-meat in front of the sheriff?

LA Style?

If CPD can't steal from the right coast, might as well steal from the left:

• Sean Malinowski was torn between two cities last year: chief of staff to Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and $250-an-hour consultant to the Chicago Police Department, helping create new, high-tech crime-fighting centers.
  
  “I used all of my vacation time and days off to do this,” Malinowski says. “My family time suffered. I’m a little worn out by it.”
  
  Invited to Chicago by Supt. Eddie Johnson to lend his expertise after the city suffered one of its bloodiest years in decades in 2016, Malinowski was hired under a $1.1 million contract between the city and the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s job: to help build and operate Strategic Decision Support Centers, where cops and civilian analysts monitor gunshot detectors, surveillance cameras and other data to pinpoint where crimes occur and where they might happen next.
  
  In essence, Malinowski’s job was to show the Chicago department how to use its own technology to fight crime, L.A.-style.

He seems knowledgeable in computer systems, but he spouts the line we've grown tired of:

• As the centers opened, the numbers of violent crimes fell. Shootings in Englewood dropped 35 percent in 2017. Murders declined by 15 percent across Chicago.
  
  “People will say this was just a momentary blip, but I don’t think so,” Malinowski says. “Something happened.”

Short term gains don't indicate long term trends. We've said it time and again and 2016 proved us correct. Basing your argument on Englewood, which is something like 50% vacant land with a population that has declined by double-digits in recent years.... well, there are other long-term trends at work.

The jury is still out on shot-spotter cameras. Check back in a few years.

Courtesy Parking Dead?

This came up yesterday:

As our e-mail asks:

• Does this include all the special parking courtesies around all the west side churches and Southside churches or the special parking around half dozen of them schools....

What's the reason for all this? And what are the aldercreatures going to say when the "revrunds" start complaining Sunday afternoon?

Snowmageddon!!!!

You'd think it never snowed in Chicago.

Drive careful boys and girls.

Maybe help someone on the block clear off their sidewalks, stairs or alley.

Now It Makes Sense

Trust our readers to put two and two together and come up with four.

We had noticed the push this week about getting or updating Hepatitis shots in the CO Book and on the AdMin fax network.

And we wrote about the Narcan coming to certain west and south side districts soon.

Someone put it together and commented that if you have to start giving Narcan spray to OD'ed junkies, you are inevitably coming into contact with a segment of the population that has a higher than average infection rate of....Hepatitis.

This might be part of Rahm's plan to save the pension - attrition by disease.

We're sensing a "lack of training" issue on the horizon. Two hours of Narcan training isn't possibly going to cover Universal Precautions protocols.

Nice Camera Room

The City just spent how many millions on cameras, re-wiring radio rooms, installing pretty expensive routers / docking stations? And someone had to spend $5 for a piece of plastic for this:

Nothing like a leaky police station.

Good Point

This comment sums up the Pritzker bullshit pretty well:

• Prickwrinkle, like all Democrats is just following the money. Imagine the what these parasites would be saying if it was Trump that said those things instead of a Democratic billionaire.

The media wouldn't let go of the word "shithole" despite it being a perfectly apt description of locales where everyone is leaving because of the "shit-holiness." But it's okay when they do it, as long as they support illegal aliens, anti-police rhetoric, tax money giveaways, etc.

Short Memories

McCarthy took a shot at Rahm yesterday:

• Fired Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy is accusing Mayor Rahm Emanuel of being asleep at the wheel when it comes to stopping Chicago’s epidemic of carjackings and waking up only after the problem was out of control.
  
  McCarthy said the brazenness of carjackings in the downtown area — often after motorists are bumped from behind and get out of their vehicles to assess the damage — has discouraged tourists from visiting Chicago and suburbanites from coming downtown.
  
  “When I got here seven years ago, when there was a crime in the Gold Coast or Michigan Avenue, everybody was up in arms. It was like the craziest thing in the world that it could ever happen. That’s no longer the case. We’re becoming numb to it,” said McCarthy, who is considering a race for mayor against Emanuel.
  
  “There’s shootings on Lake Shore Drive. Northwestern Hospital is getting hit with bullets. An off-duty Chicago cops gets carjacked in Bucktown at 12 o’clock in the afternoon on a Wednesday. People are constantly looking over their shoulders. … There’s not part of the city that’s safe right now.”

McCompStat forgets that his signature is the most prominent one on the ACLU agreement. We've posted the page before and will again as soon as we locate it in our archives.

Retiree Age/Time

A reader was kind enough to re-create the statistics we had in graph form:

Looks like many are bailing out as close to the 25 year step raise and as near to 55 as they can.

Here Comes the Narcan

Further making the police armed social workers instead of law enforcers:

• Chicago police officers in four South and West Side districts with the greatest number of opioid overdoses will soon be carrying the antidote naloxone, and will get two hours of training in how to administer it.
  
  The Calumet, Gresham, Ogden and Harrison districts and the Chicago Police Department’s Narcotics Unit will kick off a $200,000 experiment bankrolled by fines against drunken drivers.
  
  Firefighters have already been carrying Narcan, the brand name for the drug naloxone, since 2016 and have treated thousands of people with it. Now the city will evaluate the effectiveness of cops having the drug on hand in those four pilot districts.

Has anyone ever done a study on how much crime junkies contribute to the totals? We imagine it'd be a sizable percentage. And we've already had experience with junkies attacking medical personnel who administer the Narcan. So, the following questions arise:

• where is the waiver of liability? And don't give us the bullshit about we can't be sued. We've been sued a bunch of times for stuff that ended up being completely legal and justified. That didn't stop a scumbag lawyer from filing the suit and putting us through the wringer
• is CPD handcuffing the subject prior to administering the Narcan?
• since they're in cuffs, is there an ISR to be completed?
• are we duping these calls to an ambulance?
• what if they have dope still on them - are they getting arrested?
• in a place like 005, 006, 010 and 011, ten and twenty overdoses in a single shift is commonplace - do they have the manpower for ten and twenty hospital details, especially when the hospitals insist on keeping them for "observation."

Once again, people in power not realizing the end result of their shortsighted policy. 

Party Over All

The past few days have been hilarious, watching JB Pritzker founder and excuse his behavior on Federal wiretaps. But this takes the cake:

• Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker issued a public apology Tuesday, saying he regretted remarks he made about African-American politicians with then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich during a 2008 discussion about filling Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat.
  
  “I regret some of the things that I didn’t say and some of the things that I did, but my heart is in the right place — that I’ve tried really hard through the course of my life to do the right things for the African-American community and for communities across Illinois,” Pritzker said at a West Side restaurant, flanked by black elected officials including Secretary of State Jesse White, City Treasurer Kurt Summers and Aldermen Pat Dowell, Michael Scott and Walter Burnett.
  
  “I’ve been better every day since,” Pritzker added.
  
  The apology came as other Democratic governor candidates contended Pritzker’s comments tainted the billionaire’s candidacy and would jeopardize chances for a Democratic victory in the fall.

And the usual Machine politicians are lining up to bail out a foundering campaign:

• A day after Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker apologized for comments he made about African-American politicians a decade ago, his campaign announced an endorsement from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
  
  The backing of Preckwinkle, one of the state’s most prominent black officeholders, was not much of a surprise, given that she’s vice chairman of the county Democratic Party that endorsed Pritzker months ago and even mentioned her support last October on “Chicago Tonight.”
  
  What made it news was the timing, coming two days after the Chicago Tribune first published the recordings of the racially tinged talk between Pritzker and then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Since then, Pritzker has been working to keep African-American supporters from backing another candidate in the March 20 primary, and putting Preckwinkle out front is a move toward that end.

Remember, Prickwrinkle was booed at the Billiken parade for her soda tax. Backing a multimillionaire who was caught on tape ripping Emil Jones, Jesse and Obama's pastor doesn't seem like a smart move.

006 Scandal

Smooth move there asshole:

• A Chicago police officer is under investigation for allegations he sexually assaulted a suspect in police custody, a department spokesman said Tuesday.
  
  The male officer, who is assigned to the South Side’s Gresham patrol district, was accused of sexually assaulting the male suspect at an area hospital, said Anthony [Googleme], the spokesman.
  
  He said the allegation was reported to Chicago police Sunday evening. The officer was on duty at the time.
  
  The officer has been relieved of his police powers and placed on paid desk duty while the investigation takes place...

You do know that someone in custody can't consent to anything like that, right? A thousand other places to get your freak on (the Kissing Bandit would have been happy to supply you with a list), but you decide to try your luck with a prisoner in a hospital. You've got a real brain trust operating in your skull, don't you?

Years of Service

Some of our crew did some research late last year in anticipation of a posting:

• They went through the FOP newsletters for the retiree list;
• total up the number of retirees;
• total up the years of service;
• do some math to get the average years of service

Guess what they found? The average number of years that retirees accrue has been steadily decreasing. We lost the compiled data in a computer crash, but for big retirement wave last year, the average years of service was only 27-and-a-fraction. The monthly totals since then have gone down regularly - not a single spike upwards - and it's trending toward 25 years. Coppers aren't staying until max pension and no one ought to be surprised.

If we can recreate the data table, we'll try.

Mixed Message

Alderasshole Arena has a link on his web page directing people how to apply to become an Officer.

Unmentioned are the CR numbers that he'll get against you if you aren't sufficiently "progressive" for him and his staff.

(post corrected)

This Will Solve EVERYTHING!

In yet another incident proving that "crime and no punishment" is just about the stupidest lib-tarded idea of all time, the juvenile arrested for attempting to carjack on off-duty cop, was caught again.... doing what?

• Less than two days after three teens were arrested for trying to steal the car of a retired Chicago cop, one of them was in trouble with the law again.
  
  Around 7 p.m. Friday, Texas Marshal Ricky Fobbs, a retired Chicago police officer, spotted a young man jump into his car while he was about to check in at the DoubleTree hotel in Streeterville. Fobbs chased his car, yanked a teenager out, and pinned him to the ground. The suspect’s accomplices tried to run Fobbs over, but several witnesses blocked the car, and ultimately three teens – ages 14, 15, and 17 – were arrested on felony charges, including vehicular hijacking and attempted aggravated battery.
  
  Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony [Google-me] said all three suspects were released to their parents. Sunday night, one of them was arrested again, when he was caught with a gun in another stolen car in Englewood

Amazing how he gets another car and a gun without a seconds hesitation. Well done Toni, Kim and Tim - your commitment to actual justice knows no bounds. Five previous felony charges and walking around, free as a bird.

So now Special Ed announces this nonsense:

• Officials from multiple law enforcement agencies plan to meet Monday at Chicago Police Department headquarters to hammer out details of a new task force aimed at curbing the surge of carjackings in the Chicagoland area over the past year, officials said Sunday.
  
  The task force was formally announced Sunday at the Police Department’s Shakespeare District during a news conference where Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson touted the deployment of 83 new officers across the city. Johnson said the joint effort is meant to more aggressively work to arrest and prosecute carjackers but he declined to provide some details, saying he did not want to give out the “playbook” for how they would do that.
  
  But Johnson did say that could mean seeking prosecution for carjackers through federal courts.
  
  “We’re not playing around,” Johnson said. “If they want to continue to go out there and take the easy path to taking someone’s vehicle then we are going to take that (federal) path to punish them to the fullest extent of the law that we can.”

Does that include juveniles, who seem to make up the vast majority of carjackers? Are they going to be doing hard federal time?

Does this include actually apprehending carjackers? That might mean :::gasp::: chasing cars that are taken at gunpoint. Who is going to indemnify the Officers? Uncle Sam?

And who's Rules of Engagement? Some of these thieves aren't going to go quietly. Is CPD operating under Federal guidelines? Federal protections? Is CPD wearing cameras? Are the feebs? If CPD has an unfortunate misstep, are the Feds making a case against the police? (Old timers will recall this has happened on more than one occasion - good faith errors were prosecuted as Federal felonies.)

We think that Chicago better get ready for this:

The new "normal."

The Real Challenger

Rahm isn't scared of McCarthy - he hasn't even mentioned him as far as we can tell. But Vallas has already earned an attack from Rahm:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday branded former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas “the architect of kicking the can down the road” and said the city is not going back to those bad old days.
  
  “This is a person who is the architect of kicking the can down the road — from skipping pension payments, eliminating direct-line revenue support for teachers pensions to Chicago’s corporate account . . . It took the city seven long, hard years to fix what he broke,” Emanuel said.
  
  “We’re not going back. It’s not gonna be back to the future . . . Since this is the day, we’re not gonna have Ground Hog Day again here in Chicago. It’s not gonna happen.”

Vallas blasted back, showing that he might actually be a legit candidate:

• Vallas accused the mayor of spreading a “bald-faced lie.”
  
  He argued he left CPS with “massive cash reserves,” pensions “fully-funded” and an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union that, if pensions ever fell below full-funding, the necessary contributions would be made.
  
  “The rating agencies don’t upgrade you 12 times if you’re kicking the can down the road . . . What has Rahm gotten — 12 downgrades?” Vallas said.
  
  “This is what politicians do when they have a lot of money, and they have a record they don’t want to run on . . . Like Trump, they hope that, if they repeat the lies enough times, people will begin to believe them . . . That’s Rahm’s modus operandi.”

Vallas is remembered as being reasonably capable, and that's dangerous. Rahm's attack is a bit misguided - Shortshanks was in charge, not Vallas. But Rahm won't attack Shortshanks directly - that would appear ungrateful.

Interesting times.

Parolee Hearing

From a guy who keeps track of this sort of thing:

• I received a letter from Jill THORNTON, CCSAO (773-674-3405) that there will be a PAROLE HEARING for cop killer JOHNNY VEAL on
  Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 9 A.M. at the Criminal Court Bldg., 2650 S. California Ave., 12th Floor.
  
  At the time, like ret. Sgt. Rich Morask and the late Tom Skelly (lead detectives.) and I were assigned to Area 6 Homicide. On July 17, 1970 at about 7:03 PM, In uniform, Area 6 Task Force Sgt. Jim SEVERIN and PO Tony RIZZATO were walking across a baseball diamond just south of the 19-story Cabrini-Green CHA bldg., 1150 N. Sedgwick St. when they were slain by sniper fire. At scene, both officers revolvers were securely holstered.
  
  Johnny VEAL (IDOC# C-01600) and George Clifford KNIGHTS (IDOC# C15356) were subsequently convicted of assassinating both officers in cold blooded MURDERS from a 6th floor bathroom window at 1150 N. Sedgwick St. Both VEAL and KNIGHTS were sentenced to a prison term of 199 years. Also, in an earlier FOP magazine article by the FOP's Jay RYAN, note the CORRECT spelling of both defendant's names.
  
  (Sgt.) John Northen (Ret.)

199 years - seems like that would be around the year 2169 at least. Even at day-for-day credit, it would be 2070 at the earliest, and we still seem to be about 52 years short of that.

Arrest for Child Threats

Via a local website:

• Chicago police have someone in custody in connection with an apparent Facebook threat that was made in the 22nd District. A now deleted Facebook post from a social media user known as "Savion Savo" includes a photo of a young man, possibly a minor, in Chicago Police Department apparel and a message that most on social media have perceived as a threat.
  
  The young person with the CPD gear on could be seen in the corner of the photo and looked unaware that the photo was being taken, and depicted him, in selfie mode.
  
  The Facebook post, which was tagged in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood but a report from the Mt. Greenwood Watch neighborhood page indicates was actually made at a pizza restaurant in nearby Beverly/Morgan Park...

This story is from 01 February, so charges are long overdue. What did Foxxx go with? Misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct? An ANOV? A harshly worded letter?

Memo

The "best and the brightest:"

The application for "merit" must have been a doozie.