Good Luck With This

This will likely go nowhere:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson has his hands full with the migrant crisis, a persistent robbery surge, negotiations on a new teachers’ contract and an increasingly restive City Council. Now, he faces another potential, but much smaller, headache: a recall.

  A former technology salesman who lives in Lake View has formed a political action committee to raise money and at least begin the formidable challenge of putting a binding referendum on the Nov. 5 ballot asking Chicago voters whether they want the power to recall their mayor.

  Daniel Boland said the recall effort is about “helping and empowering” the people of Chicago — not about “hurting” Johnson. But he acknowledged he’s disappointed with the mayor’s performance.

Someone ought to be circulating these petitions in Police and Fire stations across the city in any event. They might get lucky and acquire the 11,000 signatures we gathered years ago.

Ethics? She had Ethics?

Continuing a long history of family corruption, in Chicago, Maywood and who knows where else:

• The Chicago Board of Ethics fined City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin $60,000 for violating the government ethics ordinance by using city resources to host a prayer service.

  In keeping with the rules governing the inspector general and Chicago Board of Ethics, Conyears-Ervin was not named in the report. However, sources confirmed to WTTW News that Conyears-Ervin was the subject of the board’s action.

  A spokesperson for Conyears-Ervin did not immediately respond to a text message from WTTW News seeking comment about the board’s action.

  The board found Conyears-Ervin committed 12 total violations of Chicago’s Governmental Ethics Ordinance for violating her fiduciary duty to the city, for the unauthorized use of city property and prohibited political activity.

Does hubby still own the crackhouse(s) in Maywood? And is he still using that office for stripper parties? How about that fake address over in 011 where he parks his truck before leaving for greener (and safer) pastures?

Good Question

But you'll never get a good answer:

• Honest question, why does COPA still have videos BEYOND the storage date? Outside of on-going court cases or some murder case, why are our videos still on their site!? Why are they above the law?

We asked the same question, years ago when COPA was IPRA was OPS. The City never throws out a piece of paper, never deletes a computer file (aside from selected e-mails), and never completely closes a complaint against an Officer.

We recall a few years back, we'd get those emails from the Department telling us that certain lists of Complaints were going to be released going back years, even decades. In fact, there were CR lists that they released with our father's name on them, and at that point, he had been dead for fifteen years. What purpose could be served by releasing those files?

We also think that the FOP, perhaps under Nolan, attempted to get these files destroyed, as they were required to be under State Law after seven years for Exonerated and Not Sustained cases. 

That went nowhere fast.

Who Watches COPA?

Evidently, no one, since COPA is involved in the PPP fraud, too:

• A top administrator and investigator at Chicago's Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) received a federal "PPP" loan of $21,106 for an alleged babysitting business while she was a full-time employee of the agency.

  That's according to a review of U.S. Small Business Administration records by Chicago City Wire.

  Sharday Jackson, "deputy chief administrator" at COPA, where she leads investigations into civilian allegations of police misconduct, was approved for the loan for her "child day care services" company, which she said had a single employee, on May 20, 2021, records show. 

  Jackson told her lender, Phoenix-based Prestamos CDFI LLC, that she needed a $20,832 federally-backed loan to cover "payroll" for her single employee. The loan accrued $274 in interest before being forgiven by the federal government, covered by taxpayers.

CityWire doing the investigative work that Cuck Goudie won't do,

Did you know that one Chicago neighborhood (West Garfield Park) accounted for 6,282 PPP loans totaling over $120 million?

And Auburn-Gresham racked up over $187 million in PPP loans....13 TIMES as many loans as it has actual licensed businesses.

All via the ChicagoCityWire.

Teach Teachers Not to Rape

Remember last summer (we think) where there was an unsubstantiated allegation that a cop from 010 had had illicit relations with an illegal alien resulting in a pregnancy? There were marches and protests and all sorts of bad publicity for the Department.

Only one thing missing though:

• an actual victim
  

COPA searched for a long time and came up empty....so they went to numerous other Districts, interviewing illegals in the lobby, desperately seeking a victim and came up with exactly zero.

Maybe they ought to re-invent themselves and look at the Chicago Public Schools? Hundreds of cases over there....with proof:

• A former student filed a sexual abuse lawsuit against Chicago Public Schools, claiming the district failed to protect her from a former dean of students. She spoke at a news conference on Thursday with her attorneys, saying she is speaking out so other alleged victims feel the freedom to come forward.

  ABC7 Chicago is not naming the woman, since she is a victim of alleged sexual assault.

  The lawsuit claims that CPS negligently hired, supervised and retained a former dean of students after the accusations. Brian Crowder, the former dean at Little Village Lawndale High School, was charged with felony criminal sexual assault in 2022.

  He was removed from his position by CPS in 2021.

  The victim, who was 15 at the time of the alleged abuse, said CPS failed to protect her, even after they learned of the alleged assault. The now 25-year-old claimed Crowder sexually abused her from 2013 to 2016. The lawsuit also alleges that Crowder subjected the victim to two pregnancies, coerced her to have two abortions and posed as her parent to sign off on the procedures while she was still a student.

Not just one pregnancy....but two. 

No wonder the Teachers' Union wants to keep parents in the dark about pronouns, transitioning kids to the genital choppers, and having CTU employees escort minor children to abortion centers. It's to cover up crimes.

Spring is in the Air

Along with a lot of lead:

• Final Demonized Tally: 10 killed, 43 wounded

A wise-ass commentator mentioned the weekend stats noted from HeyJackass.com

No real outrage though.

Get used to it.

Court Update

Again, with a two week break, the trial of the naked crackhead squad car stealing witch continues on 29 April with a single rebuttal witness on tap. It certainly seems like Crimesha's staff is trying their hardest to throw this case, putting up the barest of minimum efforts.

Someone located the job application that naked crackhead squad car stealing witch filled out and it turns out the single reference she listed is Roosevelt Martin, the Dean of the College of business at Chicago State University.

And it came out in courtroom testimony that naked crackhead squad car stealing witch listed as her previous employment "Paid Mayoral Campaign Organizer." 

She didn't say (or it wasn't revealed) which mayoral campaign she worked for, but given her west side history, we'd lay money it was Conehead. 

Interesting possible connections. Maybe the I-Team could investigate?

Larritorious Can't Believe It!

What we wrote about yesterday:

• The murder of a nine year old girl at a family party is prompting Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling to ask "Where's the (public) outrage?"

  As Snelling's CPD detectives work to identify the shooter or shooters, the I-Team has learned that dozens and dozens of shots were fired from an automatic weapon. "The number, the number of shell casings that were found at that location for multiple weapons. Right now I believe the number is 76," Snelling said.

  He said the spray of gunfire came from an automatic weapon. The guns most popular with street gang shooters these days are semi-auto pistols that have been illegally converted to machine-gun style weapons capable of rapid fire rounds that can unload dozens of shots in just seconds.

  "I would really like to know where the outrage is for that. I really like to know where the outrage is for people in this city who had been victimized who had been traumatized who are going to continue to go through that trauma," he said. An impassioned career police officer, Snelling looks at what happened and can hardly believe the lack of citywide furor.

Larry knows exactly what the issue is, but he's way too political to actually say it. Some lives only matter when political headlines can be exploited from them. Otherwise, it's the racism of low expectations.

And it is amusing he specifically said "seventy-six" shots, knowing that we pointed out cops only fired seventy-nine of the "ninety-six" the media is running with after Dexter's magazine dump.

This is Interesting

This was tucked away in a Tribune report about the currently room temperature Dexter:

• Andrew M. Stroth, an attorney representing Reed’s family, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune that Reed was previously shot. Stroth declined to specify what happened, but said the shooting left Reed with trauma that he was still grappling with at the time of his death.

  “Dexter sustained a serious injury from a family altercation in August of 2021. He was a competitive basketball player, an athlete, his entire life, and after that incident he spent several months recuperating and rehabilitating from that major injury,” Stroth said.

"family altercation":

• he was previously shot....by his own family!

So even they knew he was an asshole and someone did something about it. 

It seems there's little money suing your own family for shooting you though.

Censure on Tap?

Who voted this asshole into office?

• Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a member of the mayor’s leadership team, headlined an event Saturday at which some participants chanted “Death to America” and plotted ways to disrupt this summer’s Democratic National Convention in the city.

  Sigcho-Lopez made headlines last month for appearing at another anti-convention protest, where he spoke next to a burned American flag. His appearance at the March 22 event prompted a nearly two-hour discussion before the City Council and an effort to remove him as chairman of its housing committee. The measure failed in a 29-16 vote.

  After his most recent appearance at Saturday’s event, Sigcho-Lopez is facing a fresh wave of attention, given his role on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership team.

You'd think a piece of shit like this, who is so unhappy here, would go to one of these commie shitholes he obviously admires.  And he could take his voters with him.

So where's the censure motion with the City Council? Maybe stripping him of committee assignments? Perhaps a removal from office? Oris it safe to assume the City Council supports this point-of-view?

Great Summer on Tap

Besides the usual hood crap, this will be a regular occurrence not doubt:

• Dozens were arrested Monday, after pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the roadway entering into Terminal 1 at O'Hare Airport.

  Friends and supporters waited outside Area Five police headquarters later Monday for the 40 people arrested to be released.

  Those arrested included 31 women and nine men, ages 19-43, according to Chicago police.

  At one point Monday morning, the pro-Palestinian protesters completely blocked access to Terminal 1 at the airport, and they blocked all lanes on westbound Interstate 190.

  Traffic came to a complete standstill right in the middle of rush hour at one of the busiest airports in the country.

Better brush up on the "mass arrest" procedures on all three watches, especially as delegates begin arriving at the end of summer.

Something Missing Here

Listen....do you hear that?

• 
  

Yeah, we don't hear it either:

• A mass shooting Saturday night in New City took the life of a 8-year-old girl and left three boys — ages 1, 8 and 9 — wounded, two critically, according to Chicago police.

  Seven adults were also wounded in the shooting.

  Officers responded to a Shotspotter alert that picked up 18 rounds fired about 9:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of West 52nd Street, according to Area 1 Deputy Chief Don Jerome.

  A family was gathered for a birthday party outside when gunmen opened fire with assault rifles and handguns, according to a police report. There were 75 shell casings recovered from the scene, according to the report. The first officers at the scene began lifesaving measures, including applying tourniquets and chest seal bandages.

Where to begin with this one?

Well let's see....a mass shooting, rifles and handguns, at a party filled with children....

• need more gun laws!

Shotspotter worked again, getting cops to the scene where they could perform lifesaving measures on numerous victims....

• better get rid of Shotspotter!
  

Seventy-five shots...or at least seventy-five empty cases recovered. Who knows, it might have been ninety-six!

• anyone know if the eight-year-old had any detentions or missing homework assignments?

Where's the outrage? The calls for more police, more patrols, more traffic stops, more lengthy incarceration for the monsters that would target a party full of kids? Seems to be missing.

In fact, the only one outraged in the entire article would seem to be Don Jerome.

Good Read by an Old Friend

If you want a logical and well written piece regarding police shootings, you don't go to the agenda driven media any more. Instead, you find a cop who has extensive experience in a wide array of roles.

You find a guy like friend-of-the blog Jack Dunphy:

• I can scarcely believe there's a need to write this piece, but this is the pretty pass we've come to.

  I offer here some advice that (one hopes) most PJ Media readers will find unnecessary: When stopped by the police, regardless of how unjustified you may find it, do as you are instructed. Lower your windows and unlock your doors when asked to do so, do not pull a gun, and, above all, do not shoot at them. If you do, it is a virtual certainty you will be shot, perhaps fatally.

  Learning this too late was the late Dexter Reed, Jr., of Chicago, who I suspect was not a PJ Media reader.

Mr Dunphy does us the honor of citing a few of our posts in his well written piece. We encourage everyone to go read it and seek out other things he's written over the years.

Funny Stuff

An oldie, but a goodie:

And very timely as the media is posting graduation pictures from eight years ago.

There was a website a few years back (or a planned one) that was going to sell this picture along with a selection of candles, empty liquor bottles and some other nonsense. Does anyone know if it ever got off the ground?

If not, feel free to steal the idea.

 

Slum Times Strikes Again

Airing out all sorts of unsustained allegations:

• The five Chicago police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed after his SUV was pulled over have been investigated a combined 41 times since 2019, with many of those complaints stemming from traffic stops.

Not a single sustained allegation by the way.

But this particular article doesn't once mention Dexter's previous weapon arrest. Why the double standard? If we're throwing out unsustained allegations, then a previous gun arrest deserves mention, along with alleged PPP fraud, right? Especially a gun arrest at a rather large public gathering where hundreds of innocent people (and folks) were potentially in danger!

The Slum Times also quotes the fake ACLU (All Criminals Love Us) stats regarding traffic stops:

• The American Civil Liberties Union last year filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department claiming officers make a disproportionate number of traffic stops in predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.

To which we simply reply:

Cops go to where the crime is....and crime is (cough cough) disproportionate.

Graphic courtesy of HeyJackass.com

Do Nothing

So is this order actually written down? 

• SCC, the 3rd watch in Englewood was told yesterday that A1 DC has ordered NO traffic stops for minor violations! Just thought you should know
  

Or is this another one of those where the boss tells everyone to ...

• stand down, 
• slow roll, 
• cease and desist

...and then denies ever saying anything like that, and after a week, whines about numbers being down.

Dead PODs

Anyone know if there's a current listing of:

• POD camera locations, and
• POD cameras out of service?

Someone emailed us (and someone else commented) that many POD cameras are reaching the end of their effective lifespans (not to mention warranty expiration for parts) and the inoperative status is far past 25% non-functional, approaching 33%.

And Conehead is earmarking $70 million for illegals with almost nothing budgeted for POD maintenance, repair or replacement.

You know the media won't be asking anything like this.

Well, Well, Well

You knew there had to be a tie-in:

• Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1: The convicted felon who opened fire on CPD in March, wounding one officer, also received $20K in PPP loans for his "transportation" business. Watch Chicago media spin this to portray Reed as an entrepreneur.

Any guesses as to:

• how Dexter paid for a new car?
• how Dexter paid for a gun?

ZERO mentions in any media outlets aside from the Contrarian.

Not even Cuck Goudie.

Quick Hits

As readers know, this week has been dominated by one particular story. We do a lot of reading most days, so things we bookmarked for posting and commentary got shunted to the side for the bigger event. Here's some of the things we read earlier this week that cops might find interesting.

Once again, massive unexpected increases in heart issues among persons who are probably in the top 1% of healthy people:

• Vaccine-Related Heart Conditions Among Navy Pilots: In 2022, striking increases in myocarditis, hypertensive disease, ischemic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and other forms of heart disease were reported when compared to the average of the preceding five years. This alarming trend, underscored by a 151% spike in myocarditis cases, raises essential questions about the possible link between these health issues and the COVID-19 vaccines.

"Trust the science!" they said, except these guys and gals didn't have a choice if they wanted to keep flying.

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That Bears stadium on the lakefront? Might not be a done deal:

• Bears President Kevin Warren sounds like a man in a hurry when it comes to building a domed stadium adjacent to Soldier Field. But the advocacy group that has long served as the lakefront’s primary protector is saying, “Not so fast.”

  Gin Kilgore, acting executive director of Friends of the Parks, is not about to go along with what she called Warren’s “Buy now, this deal won’t last!” sales pitch. The Bears met with Friends of the Parks March 21 and gave leaders of the group a glimpse of the team's vision for a lakefront stadium.

  “We need to slow down ... We need a lot of scrutiny because this isn’t just about the lakefront. ... It’s about public financing. It’s about community development. ... The Bears ...were going to leave us for three years and now, they want to come back,” Kilgore said.

Friends of the Parks have been the stalwart defenders of keeping the lake front open and accessible to all Chicagoans, not just the moneyed class who want to buy and restrict access. They kept George Lucas from dumping a ridiculous "museum" on the lake front - and seeing what Star Wars has become, that was a great move. The Bears shouldn't be selling any land in Arlington Heights any time soon.

[edit] As a commenter reminded us, the Friends of the Parks did allow the city to steal a huge chunk of park land for the Sparklefart Library, so they're obviously swayed by politics.

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Why is gun crime in Chicago up? Because the feds won't prosecute:

• Chicago is flooded with firearms, more than almost anywhere in the country, but federal prosecutors in the city are less likely to approve gun charges than their counterparts in most other cities.

  A massive new data release by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows that more ownership traces of “crime guns” recovered by law enforcement agencies were done in Chicago than anywhere except Houston from 2017 through 2021.

  Yet federal prosecutors in Chicago were ranked in the bottom eight of the country's 94 federal court districts in the percentage of gun cases they approve, according to the report...

We guess when 85%-to-95% of your gun offenders are of a certain background, a high conviction rate could be interpreted in an unflattering light.

Useless Quotes and Ideas

Fancy names and words:

• Chicago police officials have unveiled a "four-pillar plan" to address car thefts and robberies, which have remained stubbornly high in recent years.

  Police officials joined Mayor Brandon Johnson and Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) on Friday to announce the plan, which utilizes technology, focus missions, public engagement and accountability, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters at Public Safety Headquarters, 3510 S. Michigan Ave.

To quote Inigo Montoya, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." "Accountability" means punishment and jail time....something impossible in the era of Crimesha and very unlikely with democrats in charge of anything.

[edit from the comments] Technology? You mean like....Shotspotter? 

• Snelling announced a partnership with Hyundai and Kia to host vehicle safety days during the first week of May at Guaranteed Rate Field where eligible owners can get software updates to help prevent vehicle thefts.

  Along with the updates, vehicle owners can also receive catalytic converter etchings and steering wheel clubs.

  "We want to be proactive and not just reactive when these crimes occur," Snelling said.

Software updates? Meh. 

Etchings? Prevents nothing.

Steering wheel clubs? Ten second delay at most.

Proactive, not reactive? You mean like....traffic stops? Pursuits? Arrests?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You and your handlers are trying to crucify a bunch of cops this whole week for being proactive. Or have you forgotten?

• The department is utilizing license plate readers and pod cameras to help identify offenders and collect video evidence to include when releasing community alerts, which can generate tips and information to help aid an investigation.

  "These community alerts are put out in the hopes that those with information come forward," Antoinette Ursitti, chief of detectives, said at the press conference. "With most of these crimes, someone out there knows something."

Have you seen the "Alerts" after the media censors the ever-loving piss out of them?

• Beware of males, traveling in pairs.
  

Real f#$%ing helpful there Antoinette. 

• Citywide motor vehicle thefts through the end of March dropped nearly 24% — from 7,314 to 5,594 — compared to last year while robberies remained roughly the same, according to police data. 
  

That's still sixty-one car thefts PER DAY.

We've seen a lot of incompetency in our nearly finished career, spanning parts of four decades now, but this crew is taking the cake.