Missed This Mixed Message

The supernintendo interviewed on WGN the other day and this tidbit was contained within:

• Just saw Brown on WGN. He said he wants all his officers to be visible and doesn’t like unmarked cars and officers in civilian dress. What does that mean for tact, gang, and specialized units?
  
  I watched it, too. However I cannot reconcile his 'trust building and xbox'n with the kids' campaign with surge parades.
  
  Nothing says trust like sending an armada of cops from other districts to intimidate black neighborhoods cross town, right?

That is a valid point - how do you preach "building trust" and then you send one hundred or more cops with blue lights and sirens into the neighborhood? And now with "summer mobile" and "surge" units on the drawing board, how exactly is that going to create anything but another "occupying army" type of vibe?

E-Mail Addresses

These are the legislators who have the power to stop Fatass's Putsch that would close selected businesses for an additional 150 days, and subject owners, barbers, and hairstylists to criminal charges for violations. Eight of the twelve must vote to stop the rule. The 6 republicans are expected to vote to stop the rule. At least 2 democrats must be persuaded to join them. The best bet are those dems who aren't from Chicago and therefore more susceptible to correct thinking.:

• jcar@ilga.gov
  bill@billcunningham.com
  office@repkeithwheeler.org
  info@munozforstatesenate.com
  senatorrezin@gmail.com
  senschimpf58@gmail.com
  diane@senweaver.com
  demmer@ilhousegop.org
  RepHalpin@gmail.com
  statesenatorlightford@comcast.net
  repfranhurley@gmail.com
  Reick@ilhousegop.org
  rep32district@gmail.com

Be polite, but firm. These are the committee members voting on Fatass's attempted Putsch on Wednesday morning, so act soon. Sorry we don't have a dem breakdown here, but we were under the gun getting this out.

Masks Issued, But...

So the Department is finally issuing uniform masks. You have to sign for them and you have to wear them. You don't get a fancy one like Groot has. Here's a picture of the plain masks:

What a lovely....wait a second....what's that small label in the corner?

"No guarantee of protection from infection. Use at your own risk"

Really? The City and Department issue a piece of equipment, require you wear it, then tell you it doesn't protect you and use at your own risk? That would seem contradictory at best, especially in light of Inspector Harris writing up ten and twenty face mask violations every single day on officers working alone in their cars.

Only one, so....wash it every day? We don't see and "Cleaning and Care" instructions near that label. And where's the "Made in the USA" label anyway? Or is this some cheap Chinese knockoff that Putzger imported in the dead of night again like those KN-95 masks?

What Were Those Weekend Totals?

Six dead. Thirty-five wounded.

And Sunday should have been considered a rainout seeing as how Chicago went sixteen hours without a single shooting during the record breaking downpours.

One-hundred-ninety-four and almost two weeks to go in May.

Weed Murder?

Remember when they told us weed would make everyone less violent?

• A 60-year-old man allegedly shot and killed a man because the victim didn’t pay for the marijuana he gave him outside a Back of the Yards gas station.
  
  Terry Johnson offered to sell marijuana to Nathaniel Walker when he noticed Walker walking out of the Citgo station with blunts around 9 p.m. Friday, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney James Murphy said.
  
  Walker took the marijuana but did not pay Johnson and started driving away with a friend, Murphy said Monday at Johnson’s bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
  
  Johnson, who was on foot, grabbed 31-year-old Walker’s car and shot Walker through an open window, striking him behind the ear, in the 5100 block of South Halsted Street, Murphy said.

Technically, it's a theft we suppose, but you'd think weed people would be calmer, mellower and more willing to write if off as bad karma.

30,000 Jobs?

Doing what exactly?

• One Summer Chicago brings together government institutions, community-based organizations and companies to offer over 30,000 employment and internship opportunities to youth and young adults ages 14 to 24.

Hopefully, this is just a clearinghouse for jobs and not offers of summer employment by a city so broke, that it is passing a temporary $100 million budget with the promise of a bigger bond issue at a later date (current bond rating - Ninth Circle of Hell and digging a Tenth).

What Fatass Wants

Complete and total dictatorial powers:

• It appears the Governor is realizing his Executive Orders are not laws and they violate people’s Constitutional rights. What is the norm in Illinois when elected officials get exposed for violating the law? Change the law. In this case, change the rules and make criminals out of the very people that are the economic engine in this state.
  
  Not only do these new suggested rules invoke criminal penalties, but they also are to last 150 days and are being pushed through in an Emergency provision for such rule changes, meaning the public has little say about it. Let that sink in. Under these proposed rules it appears the Governor intends to continue with his oppressive overreach and lock this state down into the middle of October.
  
  If approved, the Illinois Department of Public Health would be enacting an Emergency Rule establishing criminal penalties for violating what appears to be Governor Pritzker’s Executive Orders. This action points to his desperation and an admission his EOs had no enforcement power outside of those given in the law, which were limited to the Illinois Emergency Managment Agency. According to the Emergency Rule, violating IDPH rules will constitute a Class A Misdemeanor, which includes a fine and/or imprisonment. County State’s Attorneys will be charged with bringing the charges – but it is already well-established, a State’s Attorney has prosecutorial discretion when it comes to charging someone with a crime.

That last quoted line - you can bet actual dollars (and win) that Crimesha will be selectively applying any charges the same way she selectively only charges certain people for crimes already if she gets that power.

Go read it all. And if you haven't done it already, start figuring out who your state reps and senators are, because you're going to have to be heard this week.

Any Suburban Cops Reading?

Are any of you able to verify this?

• Mayor GROOT is keeping all GYMS/Workout Facilities shutdown until a Vaccine is not only developed but proven to be effective.She stated that will occur when the City enters Level 5 of her Restore Chicago Plan.
  
  I have a family friend on the Niles Town Board who related that GROOT has been in contact with bordering suburban Mayors in an effort to get their towns non essential businesses to remain closed until Chicago opens.This Bitch is something else.Can you imagine taking a phone call from her to keep your town shutdown until she gives you the O.K. to open?

Groot would look quite foolish if everyone else was open and she's sitting on city businesses, completely obliterating them from ever contributing another tax dollar to her worthless budgets.

This is Amusing

Once again, the most creative fans in the world have a suggestion for Brownie:

• C.L.O.W.N.
  Communerty Liberation Officers in Wasted Neighborhoods
  Need a house built? Send in the CLOWN!
  Diaper change? Send in a CLOWN!
  Baby Mama needs a night on the town? Send in a CLOWN. 

 There's also a suggestion for a new Putzger nickname:

• Commodius Maximus

Use as you see fit.

Street Parties are OK Now?

Anyone know why the usual Saturday street party at Lake and Homan - with attendees numbering well north of 500 - had both lanes of traffic blocked along with the parking lane? And they weren't shut down, nor subject to threats of tickets and tow trucks?

We have it on good authority that social distancing norms were not being observed and face masks were few and far between. It's almost like Groot and Brownie are picking on the people who generally obey laws and resist unconstitutional executive orders.

Anyone know why the gutless media weren't there conducting interviews and taking pictures?

Free tip for the media - they'll be out there next Saturday, guaranteed.

Big Rumor for Friday

The complete closure of OCD on tap for Friday.

Hundreds of cops being sent back to Districts - at least the ones not sent to the new citywide unit.

Seniority numbers across the board destroyed - we suppose that's one way to ensure plenty of "volunteers" for Brownie's new "community policing unit" for building houses, delivering for UberEats and changing bed pans.

Live, Happening Now

Take a look at this up north, happening now:

From our friend on the scene:

• Chicago Police are currently blocking the entrance to the PRIVATE bank parking lot across the street from Elim Pentecostal Church, to prohibit members from parking their cars there for the 7 pm service. The Church has had a contractual right to use this parking lot for the last 18 years. The Police confirmed that Mayor HeavyHand has ordered them to do this, after her street parking ban backfired against her this morning.
  
  The Police are now trespassing on private property and interfering with private contractual rights, not to mention grossly violating the Constitution. They are making our legal case better by the minute.

Somewhere, the Founding Fathers weep and Stalin smiles.

Enjoy your federal lawsuits.

UPDATE: Someone smarted than us e-mailed the following:

• You realize the bank lot is Private Property and the police are being utilized to prohibit access (interfere) to an area that is the subject of a legal Contract between two individual entities (the bank and the church)? Most of the church people don't live in the neighborhood, so they aren't the ones street parking here or at that Romanian church. They are using bank lots and other places that are closed on Sundays. Legal Affairs dropped the ball big time on this one and a number of big name law firms are eager to take up these cases.

Again, the governor's executive orders and the mayor's proclamations do not carry the weight of law. That's why Fatass is headed to Springfield this week to attempt to get his EO's authorized as Laws with criminal penalties.

What the Actual Fuck?

We are breaking a long standing rule here to post in the middle of the day.

This was the scene in front of the Philadelphia Romanian Church this morning:

City tow trucks arrived and yanked the vehicles of every single resident, including numerous elderly people and a more than a few nurses coming in from the night shifts and impounded them for violation of the signs that got posted Saturday with under twenty-four hours notice. The City also "closed" the private lot that the church used for parishioners in some half-assed attempt to force church-goers to park on the streets, streets listed as temporary tow zones to snatch their cars, too.

We don't know what the current parking situation is in Ravenswood (we think it's Ravenswood), but last time we set foot in that area, Permit Parking was rampant along with a heavy concentration of three flats, meaning parking would be a problem, even if it wasn't a Sunday. So all the residents WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHURCH are on the hook for tickets and towing and damages to their cars - because we all know exactly how gently City tow drovers are with someone else's property.

This should be a wake-up call to all the residents who habitually vote for the Machine and "progressives." It should also be a clarion call to the churches across the city as to how far the left will go to crush the faithful of all denominations. You are only useful to them as far as you obey orders and do what you're told. If you don't speak up now, expect the same to happen to you in short order.

Four and Twenty Already

NBC had early numbers of three and twelve, but you know that couldn't last:

• Chicago police say three people are dead and at least 12 others have been injured in shootings across the city in a violent start to the weekend. 

Saturday evening, HeyJackass.com had the tally at four and twenty with part of Saturday night and all of Sunday to go. Thirty homicides already in May and barely halfway through the month.

We were going to ask HeyJackass.com to keep a running total of BB and AB (Before Brown and After Brown) starting when Brownie made that ridiculous statement about 300 murders.

Badges?

These carry exactly zero weight in terms of authority:

• The lovely MAYOR has issued little badges to very goofy type people doing the census!
  
  Caught one going backward down a 1 way street at high rate of speed in a M plate van.
  he quickly stated i GOTZ a badge too the mayor gave it to me.
  
  So double check these goofs he did have an IR number to boot.

Census takers aren't immune from Traffic Law by any stretch of the imagination. Neither are we except in emergency situations.

Sideways Anger

Groot is determined to ban churches from holding services, by hook or by crook. We're going to use most of the article seeing as how the statement by Rev. Cimpean is instructive to say the least:

• CHICAGO (CBS) — People heading to Philadelphia Romanian Church in Ravenswood on Sunday might have a hard time finding a parking spot.
  
  Ald. Matt Martin (47th) said no-parking signs have been put up for several surrounding blocks near the church at 1713 W. Sunnyside Ave. The signs have been mounted on Sunnyside Avenue between Greenview and Ravenswood avenues, and Paulina Street between Lawrence and Berteau avenues, Martin’s office said.
  
  The parking ban is in effect from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, according to Martin’s office.
  
  Martin said the signs were put up at the direction of the Mayor’s office, in response to plans by the church to hold one or more religious services – in violation of the stay-at-home order for the coronavirus pandemic.
  
  The church’s pastor, the Rev. Florin T. Cimpean, took aim at Mayor Lori Lightfoot in response to the parking ban.
  
  “The police called me to inform us that they were asked by the mayor to put up the signs. It is completely ridiculous,” Cimpean said in the statement. “The mayor is inciting hate against the church which is very sad. A lot of our members risked their lives to escape Communism, only to find it germinating in 2020 under mayor Lightfoot in Chicago.”
  
  Cimpean continued: “We prayed for the mayor and the governor almost every evening since March 19. We will continue to pray for them. Yet, we are also aware of our constitutional rights. Their effort to intimidate us will make us stronger.”

We spoke with a couple of cops working over that direction, and there isn't a single notice of any special event taking place in that neighborhood. This is purely a political move by Groot in regard to a church daring to defy the government, and these parishioners specifically fled a government that restricted how, where and when they could worship. This is the cruelest of ironies and we certainly hope that any Chicago Police Officer or supervisor called to the scene takes a stand with the citizens.

Not Just Florida

Fatass has now added Wisconsin to the list of places his family has been staying in violation of the "quarantine" and "no-travel" orders he has given:

• Gov. J.B. Pritzker for the first time Friday acknowledged his wife and daughter were in Florida before Illinois’ statewide stay-at-home order took effect in March and just recently returned to Chicago. 

But don't worry! It's all because of "safety:"

• He said he was being “very private and very reserved” about his family “because there are threats to my safety and to their safety.
  
  “You have seen that there are people that stand outside the Thompson Center and stand outside the Capitol in Springfield, holding, I mean, hateful signs that reference me personally and that suggest, if not say, but suggest the potential for violence,” he said.

He is, of course, referring to the National Socialist German Workers' Party symbols carried by some protestors. What he doesn't say (and the media fails to mention), is that the symbols were referring to Fatass's actions - you know, restricting Civil Rights, shutting down businesses, closing churches .... like the National Socialist German Workers' Party used to do when they ran Germany.

Now, there will be those who claim by failing to criticize the protestors, we somehow support the outlandish straw man put forward by Fatass and the compliant media. We don't. In fact, you can put us squarely on the side of Jake Blues when we happen to run across actual Illinois nazis. These weren't them. These were people making a point....clumsily, but a point nonetheless.

When the party in power starts restricting your ability to make a living, worship freely, associate, protest, and expect you to follow their proclamations while completely ignoring those same rules for themselves, then we're going to have a problem.

This Again?

We thought we had heard this guy was a big thinker:

• Weeks into his new post as the city’s top cop, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said he is considering starting a citywide unit devoted to stopping flare-ups in violence and other crime, a controversial idea that has come and gone in the department in recent years.
  
  It would be the first time CPD has used such a roving team on a permanent basis since 2011, when two predecessors were disbanded amid concerns about their aggressive style and after a previous unit was rocked by a corruption scandal.
  
  In an interview with the Tribune at his fifth-floor office at police headquarters this week, Brown floated the idea, describing it as a “significant community policing-oriented unit,” that would be community friendly, a vision drastically different from other versions over the last two decades in Chicago.

"community friendly"?

• If such a unit were to form, Brown spoke of possibly replicating a program used in the Dallas police academy, which he oversaw as that city’s police chief from 2010 to 2016, that required officers to perform community service.
  
  “They could work on a Habitat for Humanity home. They could deliver meals one day a week to the seniors in the city. They could do some work with young people in the schools,” Brown said. “And what I like about a community service day once a week for groups like this, it keeps that group sensitive to the needs of the community, rather than every day, all day, every day, they come to work, that’s all they do is enforcement.”

Man, he is going to be getting the "volunteers" lining up around the block for this unit.

Here's the deal Dave. You have a unit for all of this. Last we heard, it's run by a Deputy Chief or some other such politically connected ass-kisser. It's called CAPS and it is about the most useless of positions you could find. But with the right guy in charge, it might be changed it into something worth having around instead of a useless money pit.

As for your city-wide response unit, even the Tribune admits that after disbanding SOS in 2006 and TRU/MSF in 2011, homicides totals shot up by tens of dozens, even hundreds. Having a group of 250-to-300 officers (unconstrained by the Contract protections of District beat officers) that can tamp down hot spots and respond quickly to emerging conflicts is a "must have" item on any supernintentdo's deployment menu. The trouble with these types of units has always been training (next to none) and supervision (see LA Rampart scandal).

You're listening to the wrong people already Dave. You don't know any better yet, but you can learn. And if you continue to listen to them, it's on you.

UPDATE: Someone reminded us - the Sooper Dooper CAPS Program (DCO) is currently underway across the west side. How about deciding which is the better use of manpower, assets and money, then kill the other one and send the officers back to patrol.

Still Giving Away Money

Groot with another bad idea, the latest in a string of bad ideas:

• Is Mayor Lori Lightfoot planning to close streets and sidewalks so restaurants can safely reopen for diners and residents can have a place to run, walk and play? Sure sounds like it.
  
  “People are itching to get outside. Businesses are looking at creative ways to serve customers. The key is how we do it,” the mayor tweeted Friday.
  
  “Stay tuned for some changes to our streets and sidewalks. Transportation is more than just cars. We’ll show how Chicago can be safer and easier to get around.”

Seems like a semi-good idea. Much too reliant on the weather in Chicago, which is iffy every day of the summer anyway, but has anyone in the administration (or the Restaurant Association) thought about what types of streets surround most restaurants?

• Permit parking and.....

This is the important part:

• metered parking

Who owns the meters? It isn't Chicago.

And who has a Contract with the city for the next ninety years that says every time the City takes a meter out of service, they get paid the full portion of the revenue that the meter would have generated had the meter been open? That means the City is paying the Chicago Parking Meter LLC full price so restaurants can serve maybe 33% (tops) of their clientele?

How is this difficult to understand? Are there any adults working at City Hall? And do they know any accountants?

Quick "Pandemic" Hits

We haven't run one of these posts in a long time. Why not now?

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Did you know it's been almost eight weeks since the infamous block parties in Noble Square and Austin that everyone claimed was going to be the end of humanity? And nine weeks since the St. Patrick's Day debacle that infuriated Groot and Fatass so badly they closed beaches, bars and restaurants.

Has anyone been keeping track of the spike in cases / deaths that was supposed to arise from the parties?

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Anyone see a "murder hornet" lately? Or was that another "media scare"?

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Does anyone know what Groot has planned for the summer Block Party season? There's no way that these can be held under current restrictions and no way for the Aldercreatures to legally issue permits for them. Is there a plan in place for when people (or folks) start blocking off streets and having their own parties? Are we arresting everyone? Tear gas?

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(from the comments) Where are the Occupy Wall Street assholes now that the government is killing off all sorts of small local businesses and enriching massive corporations? This is right in your wheelhouse dorks - and you don't have jobs to go to anyway.

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Someone was saying that us questioning Fatass's choice to run the Illinois Department of Health was "out of bounds" because we aren't doctors. It was just a few years ago that questioning our leaders was said to be the highest form of patriotism, and suddenly, it's out of vogue? Guess who has a non-elected "doctor" making political decisions regarding shutdowns? Read about LA County and their non-medical-doctor ruining hundreds of thousands of lives. This is exactly why we raise questions.