Not Good Advice

Lie to the police to get them there faster?

If you run the name, you find out that Shelley is a Cook County Public Defender who has actually been attacked by one of her "clients" not too long ago. But here she is giving advice to someone to lie to 9-1-1 to get a faster response.

Stop Already

Shootings are down, right?

Killings are down, right?

In fact, according to Special Ed, crime is pretty much non-existent - except for those pesky carjackings, endless property crimes, assaults and batteries downtown....but those don't really count.

So why is this still happening?

• Area North Dep Chief went into a rage at the commanders demanding more activity and ordering them not to grant more then 15% time due on any day. If you are denied , demand the rejected slip back from the WOL and use for grievance and litigation.

Can't everyone just be happy for the moment that it's been cold enough to keep killings at a reasonable pace? It's going to be 70 degrees later this week.

Slash Transit

Yet another CTA knife attack - is this London or what?

• A Chicago man who allegedly slashed a woman in the face with a knife at a CTA bus stop was ordered held without bail Saturday. Deandre Cavaness, 36, was charged after the stabbing, which happened Thursday about 9 p.m. in the 300 block of North Central Avenue.
  
  Cavaness approached the woman at a bus stop and slashed her across the left side of the face, prosecutors said in court. The victim, a 54-year-old woman, suffered a deep gash to her left cheek and jaw, and had to be hospitalized, police said.
  
  It’s not clear what prompted the incident.

And not a single citizen permitted to carry a gun nor a cop in sight

Nice Bus Mayor McNamara

We guess you could blame Rahm for this if the party buses were driven out of Chicago due to more oversight and expensive fines:

• Three people were found shot to death on a party bus early Saturday in the Rockford area, authorities said.
  
  About 3:30 a.m. officers were called to the 400 block of North Springfield Avenue for a report that several people had been shot. Officers from the Rockford Police Department found three people on a private charter bus who had been shot to death, according to a news release from the agency.
  
  Police said the shooting happened in the area of Auburn Street and Johnston Avenue and the driver kept going as he called police before stopping on Springfield Avenue.
  
  The party bus had been rented for a Friday night event, police said. The three people who were found dead have not yet been identified by the Winnebago County coroner.

Any word if Chicago addresses are listed for the "victims."

Firefighters Injured

Freak accident:

• A group of firefighters rushed inside the smoldering bakery when a gust of wind slammed the door closed behind them. Their fellow firefighters frantically tried to open the door, but the minutes ticked by while the acrid smell of the fire fell over the street, said Ruben Cruz, who watched the scene unfold early Saturday from his Southwest Side porch.
  
  After about five minutes, they yanked open the door, and pulled two firefighters out of the building by their vests. “They took off all their equipment,” Cruz said. “They made sure they were breathing.”
  
  Three firefighters were burned in a blaze that started before 12:30 a.m. in the 3000 block of West 42nd Street in the Brighton Park neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department. It was struck out later Saturday morning.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Political Games

This might be the most fun election in years:

• Off topic but there was a secret Pow-Wow between Vallas and McCarthy and Wilson in which they agreed to play nice and run against Rahm not each other. In addition snippets of some ugly “Rahm-versations” were provided by McCarthy that all 3 agreed would be used against Emanuel. Rahm will have to get to McCarthy somehow because these will humiliate and destroy him. McCarthy HATES Rahm and just wants use a scorched earth strategy.

Some men just want to see the world burn - count us in.

Snowflake Idiocy

Evidently, the police are always wrong, even when legally justified:

• The University of Chicago community protested Thursday the police shooting of fourth-year student Charles Thomas, who ran toward an officer with a metal bar while seeming to be having a mental health episode.

So a bunch of eggheads, who know exactly dick about police procedure and State Law are experts in police work? That's almost as dumb as letting high school students dictate national gun policy - who'd be that fucking stupid?

• Kenwood Academy junior Alycia Kamil Moaton, with the anti-violence youth organization GoodKidsMadCity, called attention to the fact that the University has not released the officer’s name. The University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
  Moaton said there were multiple officers at the scene, as shown in the body-camera footage released by UCPD, and she said they could have restrained Thomas without shooting him.
  
  “I’m confused as to why Charles couldn’t have been gently taken down by another officer and why he had to be shot on the scene that night,” she said. “Police need to be held accountable for their wrongdoings; they need to learn how to handle a situation when someone they are chasing down has a mental health issue.”

We will extend our previous offer to this moron also:

• We will give you a pistol, Taser, baton and handcuffs along with a short course on Illinois law and Use of Force policy;
• we will arm ourselves with a blunt instrument - probably a metal bar;
• you will get us into handcuffs by any means possible - but if you resort to stick, Taser or gun, you lose and must commit ritual suicide;
• by the way, we get to yell, scream, resist passively, then actively and finally, we get the first swing of the blunt instrument for free. Otherwise you lose and have to commit suicide on camera 

Will no one take us up on this offer? Put up or shut up snowflakes.

Stabbing Arrest

Clearing a heater case:

• After plunging a knife into the neck of a software CEO outside a River North bar last month, a South Side man boarded a CTA train and began counting the cash he grabbed from the victim, prosecutors alleged in court on Friday.
  
  Gino D. Bassett, Sr., 56, appeared before Judge Michael R. Clancy, who denied bond during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Friday afternoon.
  
  Bassett, of the 6100 block of South Ingleside Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder and two misdemeanor counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.
  
  Bassett is accused of stabbing Miguel Beedle, 55, of Park Ridge, on March 23 around 2:30 a.m. after following him into an alley in the 400 block of North State Street on the Near North Side.

Nice job tracking down all sorts of video to retrace the offender's escape, but we maintain our criticism of that the cameras are only there to record you getting assaulted and (in this case) killed. They do nothing to prevent crime and six kids don't have a father now due partly to chronic officer shortages and Rahm's failure to address the situation.

Safe Passage Arrest

Of a Safe Passage worker:

• This one is definitely originates far from of our usual coverage area. But we’re making an exception because it’s sooooo Chicago.
  
  Police arrested a 60-year-old Safe Passage worker Tuesday after allegedly seeing her sorting and holding two bags of heroin at her school route post.
  
  Around 8 a.m., cops in the 11th (Harrison) District were monitoring a pod camera feed from the corner of Gladys and Pulaski in Garfield Park. The area is “known for a high volume of narcotics trafficking,” police would later write in the Safe Passage worker’s arrest report.
  
  Police said they watched as Betty Brown walked a few feet from her post and hid behind a fence to “manipulate an item consistent with narcotics packaging,” according to court records. A patrol car was sent to investigate.

We're sure the junkies appreciated that they were buying their heroin in a "safe" location.

005 District Openings

There are about to be a boatload of vacancies that will have to be filled:

• ...an officer claiming to have a CPA background tells fellow coppers that he'll amend their prior three years tax returns for $500 a year, promising them bigger/additional refunds then they had already received. Sure as shit, coppers start getting 10, 12… even $15,000 checks from Uncle Sam. Supposedly one of the fifth district commanders secretaries netted a total of +/- $47K for her three years' amended returns.
  
  This copper/CPA abruptly and quietly resigned within the last week, all but disappearing. Didn't show up for his exit interview, phone number out of service, etc.
  
  Yesterday and/or today, Federal agents accompanied the IRS, internal affairs and the city's law department into the building. [T]here are a TON of clinched assholes and some of the likely suspects are openly panicking and having frequent powwows in the shadows. [...] NORTH OF 100 COPPERS INCLUDING SEVERAL IN SUPERVISORY CAPACITIES - POSSIBLY SOME EXEMPT - ARE INVOLVED. Some of these coppers also turned family and friends onto the scam, charging them more than the $500 for the PO/CPA and pocketing the difference. These people may be part of the +/- 100 people involved, but the vast majority are coppers.
  
  Mayor Midget is supposedly aware and has insisted on facilitating complete cooperation with federal agents. Licking his chops at being the reformer of police corruption just in time for the election, no doubt.

One-hundred coppers - all up on IRS tax charges - oh wait:

• ....the "list" of involved officers earlier today and it is now closer to TWO HUNDRED people. They mentioned that since it involves so many coppers the [Department is] scrambling to brainstorm a way to minimize the damage. They're kicking around the idea of a blanket CR and dinging everyone with X amount of days. Only thing wrong with that idea is this scandal falls way outside the realm of department discipline - I don't believe the IRS would be cool with just 15 day suspensions across the board.

Great. Just great.

Swiping Schedule

Here it comes:

This is supposed to be the same system that LAPD instituted...then abandoned after two years because it was impossible to use, amend, or attach to the payroll system. The Department ended up pulling additional officers off the street in order to make corrections to the constant number of errors.

California Insanity

This stupidity will be embraced by lib-tards in every blue-enclave nation-wide:

• California wants to change their legal standard from the “reasonable force” rule to “necessary force,” according to the Associated Press.
  
  They define "necessary force" as force used when “there were no other reasonable alternatives to the use of deadly force.”
  
  This initially seems close to the old standard, as they both require reasonableness. However, it does not allow for the officers to use force based on how circumstances appear to them at the time. Instead, it allows the officer to be judged in hindsight if the force was actually necessary.
  
  For example, if a suspect pulls a pellet gun on an officer, they are not actually presenting a deadly threat. The officer would have no reasonable way to know that the gun isn't a lethal firearm, but under the new law, they could be charged if they shoot that suspect.
  
  This law would also appear to apply if somebody pulled an unloaded gun on an officer, or drew a malfunctioning gun. In these circumstance, unbeknownst to the officer, the suspect is not actually presenting a deadly threat. If the officer reasonably responds by shooting that person, they could be criminally charged.

Get out while you can.

Haunted School

This seems like it might be tempting the forces of Hades:

• A 15-year effort to build a school in the city’s Dunning neighborhood is underway with an unusual complication: Construction workers are taking careful steps to avoid disturbing human remains that may lie beneath the soil.
  
  The $70 million school is to be built on the grounds of a former Cook County Poor House where an estimated 38,000 people were buried in unmarked graves. Among the dead are residents who were too poor to afford funeral costs, unclaimed bodies and patients from the county’s insane asylum.
  
  “There can be and there have been bodies found all over the place,” said Barry Fleig, a genealogist and cemetery researcher who began investigating the site in 1989. “It’s a spooky, scary place.”
  
  Workers have until April 27 to excavate and clear the site, remediate the soil and relocate an existing sewer line. The school is scheduled to open in time for the 2019-20 academic year, though a spokesperson for Chicago Public Schools would not say what type of school it will be.

The voting rolls show a HUGE number of Machine votes coming from this burial site, so perhaps Rahm might want to rethink uprooting (pun intended) such a strong voting bloc.

Special Ed - Human Shield

Special Ed taking some heat - just like Rahm planned:

• Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson got an earful from community stakeholders Wednesday about his decision to rule that Police Officer Robert Rialmo was “justified and within department policy” when he shot Quintonio LeGrier and bystander neighbor Bettie Jones.
  
  During an invitation-only meeting at the South Side Community Arts Center, roughly 30 black ministers, elected officials and community leaders confronted Johnson about his decision to contradict the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and COPA’s recommendation that Rialmo be fired.
  
  “They feel frustrated. They feel angry. They feel like there has not been much difference in what we’re seeing in the past as it pertains to the shooting and killing of unarmed black men and youth and people in the community,” said Chicago Urban League President and CEO Shari Runner.

We wish the media would stop being such whores and including Bettie Jones in the "justified" statement. There hasn't been a single finding that her death was anything except a tragic accident. A bullet passing through the offender's body and striking an unintended person is not criminal by any stretch of the imagination.

We also wish Fran would stop publishing bullshit like this Runner character's statement about "unarmed black men."

LeGrier had a bat, therefore he was armed. We will make the same offer to Runner that we've made to assorted media morons:

• We will give you a pistol, Taser, baton and handcuffs along with a short course on Illinois law and CPD policy;
• we will arm ourselves with a blunt instrument - probably a bat;
• you will get us into handcuffs by any means possible - but if you resort to stick, Taser or gun, you lose and must commit ritual suicide;
• by the way, we get to yell, scream, resist passively, then actively and finally, we get the first swing of the blunt instrument for free. Otherwise you lose and have to commit suicide on camera

What say you Runner?

Continuing Investigation

Great way for Kim Foxxx to avoid charging known felons with weapons:

• Chicago police said they found a loaded handgun lying in the grass along Recreation Drive near the car where two gangbangers were hanging out late Friday night. But prosecutors refused to file weapons charges in the case because the gun couldn't be tested for fingerprints on the weekend, police said.
  
  Instead, Alfonso Fierro and two friends are charged with being on park property after hours and other minor offenses.
  
  Fierro, known as “Little A,” is currently awaiting trial for allegedly possessing a loaded handgun in a car this winter. And one of his other arrestees is a felony gun offender.

What are the chances this wasn't actually his gun? Zero? Next-to-zero? So Kim is using either CPD non-staffing or ISP Crime Lab hours to not charge these goofs.

Wait a minute - where was the ATF NIBIN van? That super van that's supposed to be available weekends to print guns, shell casings, recovered evidence in order to charge gun offenders promptly? Or is that just another reelection ploy that doesn't really mean holding gu offenders accountable?

U of C Shooting

Are metal poles like bats - not weapons?

• A University of Chicago police officer shot and seriously wounded a 21-year-old student who charged an officer with a metal pipe near the South Side campus late Tuesday, authorities said.
  
  The shooting happened off campus just before 10:15 p.m. in the Hyde Park neighborhood, an area patrolled by both U. of C. and Chicago police officers.
  
  Three U. of C. police officers responding to a call of a burglary in the 5300 block of South Kimbark Avenue encountered a man — later identified as a student — breaking car and apartment windows with a long metal pipe, university officials said in an email to students.
  
  The officers ordered the student to drop the pipe, but he refused and charged at the officer in an alley, university President Robert Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier said in the email.
  
  One of the officers fired his weapon, hitting the student in the shoulder, according to the university. The student was initially taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition, authorities said.

Officer is fine physically. Can't wait to see how the overly libtarded Hyde Park populace handles this one .... non-CPD protecting them shoots a student assailant.

Credit Union Change (UPDATE)

From the comments:

• OT but important if you have a CPFCU credit union checking account. They are now charging $4 a month for checking. They snuck this in and call it premium checking but the few little things they give you amount to nothing. Of course they couldn't offer this as an optional upgrade because no one would take it so they are forcing everyone to opt out. If you don't opt out by April 16 they will start taking $4 a month from your account. I don't recall getting anything in the mail about this. The only reason I found out is because I went into the credit union for something else.

It's actually getting more economical to store our money under the mattress again.

UPDATE:From a long time reader:

• Thank you for the info about CPFCU switching our checking accounts to premium checking without our consent. As I live overseas, I didn’t want to waste time on the phone, so I emailed them.
  
  I received a response and was sent a form to opt from premium checking and revert back to free checking. I had to fill out the form, scan it, and email back to the credit union. I just checked my account, and my checking has been reverted to standard checking. Just thought the members should know.
  
  Thanks for keeping me updated on the current Department Situations!

Good to know you can opt out.

COPA Investigator Tweets

Do you think COPA Investigator Daniel Kobel might have an agenda?

After Trump won, he sure seems stable:

Wishing death upon a sheriff:

Making fun of a cop getting killed:

Remember, this is the person railroading investigating you. Supposedly there was a shitload more tweets that our source wasn't able to capture regarding anti-police, anti-republican, anti-NRA stuff before he took the account private. Isn't transparency grand?

Save the Date

Got to get all the possible voters eligible as soon as possible:

So who are they going to vote for?

What's This Crap?

True? BS?

• Is this a first? Recruit class has star ceremony, gets sworn in and receives their starts. Next day, yes, the very next day, IAD comes to the academy and strips the entire class. Something about stealing keys and having a party at the troop street building a few Saturdays ago.
  
  #bethechange?

"be the change" indeed.