Chaplains' Fundraiser

Pretty much the only Police charity we support any more:

• Come support Police Chaplains Ministry and our work with Gold Star Families!

  Notre Dame vs. NIU on Saturday 07 SEP. Kickoff at 2:30 pm.

  $50 donation to Police Chaplains Ministry covers endless Barraco's pizza and open bar for the entire game. Raffles, split-the-pots, scratchcards and other ways to part with your money.

  McNally's - 11136 S. Western Avenue

  Thank you to the Barraco Family and Mike Cummings at McNally's.

  Please continue to keep Nick Barraco's speedy recovery in your prayers!

  God bless!!!

  (Father) DB - www.ChicagoPCM.org
  

Maybe we'll see you all there.

Crap Headline - Good Shoot

No matter how much you hate the media, it isn't nearly enough. This was a 100% justified and legal police shooting, and their $hitty editors write this:

• 1 killed after police hear shots, open fire in Pilsen: CPD

Remember when actual journalists would insist on the "who, what, where, when, how/why" facts to be included in stories?

Now read the actual story, which is slightly better: 

• Officers fatally shot a man they say was armed after hearing shots in the area early Sunday in Pilsen, according to Chicago police. About 1:15 a.m., officers assigned to the Robbery Task Force heard multiple shots near the 1800 block of South Blue Island Avenue and found “armed offenders,” according to police. Officers then opened fire, striking a male, police said.

  The male, whose age was unknown, was transported to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead. A firearm was recovered at the scene .

  Near where officers heard shots being fired, a male and female were found inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Both were transported to area hospitals in critical condition, police said.

  Officials determined the male shot and killed was one of the gunmen who opened fire on the vehicle, according to police.

So what crappy excuse of a DEI hire wrote the headline? Or are they blaming this one on A.I.?

Glad the cops are okay. Glad they'll be missing the next thirty days of street duty (which includes the Mexican Independence Day debacle). 

Perhaps Larritorious can do a one-for-one swap where the Area 2 commander's staff can substitute in three house mice for the three officers off the street?

FOP Sues COPA

We'll see how far it goes in this crooked town, but all other options have failed. It's in Federal Court, so maybe it's less influenced:

• The union representing Chicago’s rank-and-file cops filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday, alleging the city’s police oversight agency has led dubious investigations and imposed unfairly harsh discipline on officers.

  The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police and eight officers allege the city of Chicago, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Chicago Police Department have “conducted untimely, biased and unfair investigations” used “to uphold excessive disciplinary recommendations.”

  COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten and several COPA employees are also named as defendants, along with Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling.

Much of the issue lies with the crooked and biased COPA investigators:

• Much of the suit hinges on the findings of investigations overturned or altered when officers took cases to arbitration. In 2021, the inspector general’s office found 78% of cases taken to arbitration resulted in discipline being either reduced or eliminated.

If 78% of your "findings" are overturned, then you are provably incompetent, your investigative skills suck, your bias is plain to see, and you obviously are more interested in the "progressive agenda" than in actually making the police a more professional force.

This Seems Like a Good Idea

Someone posted this in the comments, and they didn't seem happy about it:

• Anyone see channel 11’s interview with Cook county Chief Judge? Apparently Belmont and Western is the only processing center city wide and they will have a judge and court room on hand to bond people immediately ? How is Belmont and Western a large enough facility to process all protestors/ agitators- Didn’t they learn from the last mass arrests in 2020?
  
  Did they train district processing team on how to do arrests with the new process other than self reading a general order?
  
  Wow 19 is screwed - no events in 19 but hey give a pass to 001 and 12 and let 19 handle it all! Hate to be that Commander- I mean fall guy! When it’s all going sideways.
  
  Also was there a lawsuit stemming from NATO because they processed people in 19 staying it was to far for the arrestees to make it back to the area they were arrested from? So glad the Department has released the event orders with only 3 days to go. 
  

Seeing as how Belmont and Western (the closed Court side) has a large floor space in the Court Gallery for work stations, holding pens where prisoners used to await court appearances, and all the wiring in place for phones, fax machines, and computers (if the rats haven't eaten it all), this might have been an inspired choice, meaning no one from Larritorious' staff came up with it.

Any of the Detectives working the Mass Arrest Processing Teams have any insight into if this was a good idea?

More Nonsense on Tap

This might just go down as the most expensive summer in CPD history:

• What’s up with Larritorious passive-aggressive approach. Last night, first he sent a link to a YouTube video with a rah-rah speech then followed up with another email canceling RDOs from Sep 13 to 17 for Mexican independence weekend.

Potentially, there are how many day off groups that aren't going to see an actual Saturday or Sunday off since late July? Early August at least.

So much for looking out for Officers' mental well being.

Yes, Please

A non-lethal automated paintball / nylon bullet / pepper-ball / beanbag gun?

• South Africa ranks third in Africa on the Global Organized Crime Index. Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban are among the most dangerous cities in the country, suffering from high levels of violent crime, carjackings, robberies, and murders.

  Given the South African government's inability to protect individuals and businesses from the chaos, one South African company has developed a non-lethal remote control gun mounted on light poles that shoots intruders. 

  Johannesburg-based Sublethal developed the non-lethal remote-control gun that fires standard .68 caliber paintballs with solid nylon bullets or pepper balls.
  

The embedded videos are amusing to watch,

The headline claims San Francisco might be the first US city to implement these, but we can't see that $hithole allowing robotic guns to do what they won't even let the police do. 

Fact is, the places that need them the most, won't allow them, mostly because it would deprive them of a cop to blame.

Inflation for Dummies

That 2.9% announced a few days ago and the dems are all, "It's below the predicted 3%! It's coming under control. Cut interest rates before the election!"

Econ 101 - inflation is cumulative. Here's a simple explanation using the last four years of inflation numbers:

• I used to weigh 200.

  In 2020 I gained 2.8 lbs (1.4% gain)
  In 2021 I gained 14.2 lbs (7% gain)
  In 2022 I gained 14.1 lbs (6.5% gain)
  In 2023 I gained 7.9 lbs (3.4% gain)
  This year I only gained 5.9 lbs (2.9% gain)
  
  
  So my weight gain is down. But now I weigh 245? The percentage compounds on the previous increases. That's why they use year-over-year rates to be able to completely gaslight about the previous years.

Or you could just look at your receipts from the grocery store instead of listening to democrats.

More Medical Numbers

The Contrarian is all over this:

Anyone know if Phillips has been relieved of her command? Not for medical reasons - lord knows PTSD is a serious malady and deserving of treatment and sympathy when properly diagnosed.

But someone with PTSD issues isn't really who you want in a high stress position that requires quick thinking, on-the-fly decision making that impacts not only those under her command, but the citizens who are depending on that smart, capable, legally sound judgement call, and the taxpayers who might be on the hook for something that goes wrong.

Well....actually, there are numerous ambulance chasers who would LOVE to have a PTSD afflicted commander in charge of a busy district making all sorts of questionably legal decisions. They would probably sell their own mothers to Satan himself for that to happen.

CTU Doesn't Use CPS

Gee, it's almost like they know that their co-workers are incompetent and their efforts are $hit:

• Almost one-third of Chicago’s well-paid public-school teachers keep their kids out of the Chicago Public School System (CPS), a study finds.

  Even the current leader of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Stacy Davis Gates, sends her son to a private school, according to the Chicago-based Illinois Policy Institute.

  According to federal data reviewed by the think tank, about 31 percent of Chicago’s public-school teachers send their kids to a private school to keep them out of the CPS.

  The data was culled from the 2018-2022 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample, compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Policy Institute noted.

And they want how big a pay raise? How much additional funding for a shrinking student body?

Anyone want to bet that the kids of CTU members actually do go to public high schools....in the suburbs that their teaching parent resides in? It sure would be interesting to have some people with nothing pressing in their post-police careers to follow and compile a list of how many teachers drive to and park in suburban driveways. We'll bet it's well over ten-percent.

Google-Me Lies Again

The fbi isn't the only agency that needs to be disbanded and rebuilt from the ground up:

• The Secret Service is investigating a report that says an agent left her post at a Trump event to breastfeed.

  In a statement shared with Newsweek on Thursday, Secret Service's chief of communications, Anthony Guglielmi, said, "All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards. While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further."

When Google-me says "no impact," what he means is no one took a shot at Trump, so all's well that ends well, right?

But seriously, what in the Hell are the DEI requirements for the Secret Service nowadays? Who brings (or has brought) an infant to a high profile security gig that has already proven to be a place where gunshots might suddenly ring out? Does anyone know where Agent Mommy will be if an assassin takes a few shots at the protectee?

• probably protecting her child - which is what any mother worthy of the name would do

But that noble effort is negated by bringing an infant child to an event like this where her JOB is the designated protectee. Not only that, she brought two family members behind the "sterile environment" where no one is allowed without prior screening AND was using the room set aside for emergencies - like someone important got shot.

The Favored Few

You know, back in the day, we knew enough to keep our mouths shut about favors like these:

• Well nothing like a scholarship kid in my unit with under 3 years OTJ bragging about how she’s being exempt from going to the DNC because the honor guard is requesting her. What does the honor guard even have to do with the DNC!? She made it well known she used to work for a certain alderman and has no shame in bragging about her clout and loves bragging about how she got on the HG. I hope someone in the HG sees this because she will tarnish that group with her bullshit.
  
  I thought the honor guard wasn’t a phone call spot?
  
  All these DEI hires are now ruining good spots and bringing shame everywhere they go. It’s embarrassing.
  

Between this and the Area 2 Commander keeping the office staff hiding inside during twelve-hour day-off cancelled deployment, it's enough to make you think the whole game is rigged.

Conehead Screwing Around

From our friends at The Contrarian's X/Twitter account:

So Conehead wants the extra police presence, but refuses to grant them the authority to....you know....actually be the police, in uniform, within city limits. And the agencies involved are rightfully hesitating sending their officers to be literal unarmed scarecrows in what may possibly be a volatile situation, especially given the fact that Crimesha would gladly let 1,000 rioters go free if she could get a single shot at imprisoning a suburban officer.

Those 375 bodies would have come in handy, but it would be the height of irresponsibility to send them here and possibly expose their suburban taxpayers to Chicago's horse$hit "justice" system.

Test Run?

If the blog disappears again, it's because the feds told Google to do it:

• The “accidental” underground Com Ed transformer fire Wednesday at the SoHo Hotel on the perimeter(Green & Randolph) of DNC security zone suddenly was a source for serious concern when CPD/CFD notified Secret Service it was suspicious and possible test run for bad actors. Secret Service reached out and had story scrubbed from local news before people put 2+2 together and start to panic. Nothing to see here move on vote for a President/ Vice President that weren’t elected and don’t have any policies.

We don't want to alarm anyone, but in 2008, ten (yes, ten) terrorists brought the city of Mumbai (population 12.5 million) to a standstill for four days, killing 175 and wounding hundreds more.

HeyJackass.com would have a hard time keeping up with the numbers.

Nice Hiring Process Conehead

Must all be DEI hires?

• I just heard a rumor that 39 out of the 67 most recent CPD Police Academy graduates FAILED the State Exam..for the THIRD time!!!!! Including the class commander. Good Grief!

So....fifty-eight percent failed?

Ten bucks says half make "meri-clout-orious" rank inside of a decade.

"Worst in Nation"

And these two clowns (Conehead and Fata$$) are giving speeches to a national audience advocating for more of the Chicago, Illinois formula for suck-sess:

• Nearly 100,000 Chicago-area residents are out of work, and at 6.2% the Chicago metro area has the highest unemployment rate of the nation’s 50 largest metro areas. Illinois as a whole isn’t doing much better, with a 6.1% unemployment rate.

  Chicago has fewer workers and more unemployed residents than before Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023. The labor market has gotten so bad in Chicago that the metro area faces the highest unemployment rate of the 50 largest cities in the nation.

And the numbers are probably even worse than the statistics show with thousands of illegals living off taxpayer money.

Guity as Sin, Free as a Bird

So said Bill Ayers many years ago after beating the charges for setting off a number of bombs. He's on a short list of graves we'll be pissing on once he dies.

Same for this guilty as sin crackhead:

• Just finished court ..Whitley temple only has to do outpatient treatment and walked out of court free

After stealing a squad car, nearly killing a Police Officer with it, and driving off before crashing into an innocent party, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity without a single medical report or expert testifying to her mental state. 

Working for the Prickwrinkle machine certainly has it's benefits.

Interesting Rumors

The comments are alive with a number of rumors:

• Smart officers are hitting the medical. 1500 as of this morning. (seems like an awfully high number - who has the actual manpower?)
  
• District Commanders were instructed by Larry not to list white shirts who hit the medical on their watch sheets. Doing so would encourage blue shirts to hit the medical as well. (well who would want to stick around when your leaders aren't sticking around?)
  
• The bosses are now running around like pissed-on chickens. The issued gas masks ran out weeks ago. The Feds and National Guard are preparing to sit this out and hide. If this DNC goes down without dozens of CPD getting seriously hurt it will be a miracle. (the equipment issue should have been addressed the day after they announced Chicago was hosting - update helmets, eye wear, everything.)
  
• You heard it here first … the powers that be have decided that [COPA] going to put up 13 tents around the UC and those tents will be accepting complaints against the police.Fuck this city , fuck the Dems , do not jeopardize your job for anyone. (sadly, very believable - don't get trick-bagged)
  

And after the pro-pali protestors stormed the Harris-Walz meeting in New York yesterday, does anyone think Chicago is going to escape any sort of similar demostration?

Who is Getting Arrested

Our friends over at The Contrarian did a deep dive into arrest numbers:

• The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has maintained its arrest records in electronic format dating back to the 1990s. For those who are seeking records prior to 1990, there is going to be some paper required, but electronically, CPD maintains over 6.5 million records.

  Going back 25 years, the number of arrests made by CPD in the early part of the century was fairly consistent. Between 1999 and 2009 the number annual arrests remained steady between 250,000 and 300,000.

  In 2007, however, arrests peaked at 295,876. In the years following, arrests trended downward, and a ten-year decline bottomed out with 142,090 arrests in 2016. This is not a measure of crime — either real or perceived — in Chicago. It is just a matter of arithmetic: In 2016 CPD arrested fewer than half of the number of people it had 10 years earlier.

We're not going to steal their content, charts and graphs (go over there and read it all), but the numbers behind the numbers are a real eye-opener:

• However, an examination of who is arrested and their place of birth becomes more intriguing when analyzing 2021. In the 11 years spanning 2010 – 2020 the percentage of foreign-born arrestees never rose above 12 percent. The peak is 2014 with 11.9 percent. In 2020 it was 10.5 percent. Then, as if there was a sudden change in policy, the rate jumps over three percentage points (and greater than 30 percent) to 13.6 percent in 2021.

  A trend that continued, the rate of foreign-born arrestees rose to 18.7 percent in 2022, and in 2023, it continued to rise steadily to 24.9 percent. Through July of this year, it is running at 31.9 percent. In sum, over the last three-year period, the rate at which CPD arrests foreign-born individuals has nearly tripled.

Shocking....not.

Scabs at McCormick Place

Pro-union?

• Looks like there is fencing being put up today all around McCormick Place for the DNC...low and behold, the work is being done by NON-UNION personnel, as well as the drivers.

  This is supposed to be handled by UNION Carpenters, but they've been told to shut up and support Kamala

That's from the ChicagoGOP X/Twitter site. 

Anyone surprised the trades are taking the knee? They're useful until they aren't.

It's the Economy Stupid

Does any sane person really want four more years of this?

• The CPI report shows a 2.9% year-over-year inflation increase in July, slightly below the 3% economists predicted. However, this lower inflation rate does not mean prices are decreasing; they continue to rise and have surged by 20.3% since January 2021.

• Prices for essential goods and services have seen significant spikes in that time, including gas (+50.5%), electricity (+31.7%), and groceries (+21.6%).

• Economist E.J. Antoni commenting on the report tweeted, “Common expenses for the average American family are up 25% or more since Jan '21; vehicle cost, maintenance, repair, and insurance are particularly bad - driving is now prohibitively expensive for many folks,” adding, “Consumer prices have never been higher, but I'm also curious what changed in Jan '21…?”

None of anyone's pay raises kept up with inflation, and that "average" increased expense of 25% is certainly much higher in the Windy City. We've been shopping well outside of Cook County for a number of years now. It might be outside of Illinois within a year or two.