The New Engagement Rules?

An interesting statement by convicted felon and current alderasshole Burnett the other day:

• Ald. Walter Burnett, 27th, flagged the setting of the stop. Plainclothes officers stopped Reed in what Burnett described as a high-crime neighborhood.

  “I couldn’t imagine what was going on in the young man’s head. He should not have had a gun, he should not have did what he did,” Burnett said. “But if someone would have walked up on my car in that neighborhood, I don’t know how I would react.”

Taking Wally's bullshit to the illogical extreme, any time a black/white/brown person approaches our car, we're justified in blasting away? 

Wally, being a convicted felon....kind of like Dexter....is known to have a certain disregard for the law, so it's not too far of a leap to suppose he carries a gun when traveling. And knowing that, a smart politically aware officer on a traffic stop might already have his gun out and ready when approaching the alderasshole.

We must confess, we wouldn't know how we would react either.

Background Check Arrest

Someone occasionally doing their job correctly:

• Stephon Arnold walked into a Chicago Police Department station last October looking for a job, but prosecutors said details he revealed during his interview led them to uncovering he and his brother were connected to a nearly decade-old kidnapping and rape investigation.

  Arnold, 30, and his brother, Sherrow Harris, 35, were both arrested and charged on Friday with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated criminal sexual assault after investigators said they violently assaulted two 18-year-old women back in 2016....

Of course, our comment section is alive with horror stories of background checks going awry, not being done correctly, or purposefully being disregarded due to hiring and/or political issues. Look at the recent coverage regarding the woman beater or the habitual traffic offender asshole - you can't tell us there weren't warning flags in those background checks. We're old enough to remember who buried the Abbate warning signs back in the day.

But helping solve a nearly decade old sex assault is good news.

$15 Million?

From a foundation that has zero to do with police work or leadership as far as we can tell:

• All Chicago police supervisors will soon be enrolled in an innovative program aimed at using a $15 million gift to turn them into more effective leaders.

  Police Supt. Larry Snelling said he wants department members “to walk away with a feeling of confidence” — and crucial new job skills.

  “We want them to be able to think on a critical level [and] develop strategies based on things that they’re seeing in the communities,” Snelling told the Sun-Times. “It’s going to make for a much more effective police officer, and it’s going to make for much more effective planning around strategies that you need to reduce violence.”

  The Sue Ling Gin Foundation gave the funding to the Civic Committee, which will develop and run the program over the next five years alongside the University of Chicago Crime Lab.

  The first group of police leaders is expected to start training in January.

The foundation is known for advancing far left wing causes (mainly gun control) and appears to be run by a family that made millions supplying meals to airlines. How this is connected to anything police related is a mystery, but the Department got $15 million when Conehead has run out of money citywide.

What's Missing?

Rumorville is kicking up some dust in the comment sections - see if you can tell what's missing:

• SCC: mayor had a meeting with department heads. you think overtime is down now just wait til 2026 budget comes:
  
  OT budget tightened - have fun with your late arrest- pass it to the next shift. felony means only box 1 stays late.
  
  Position cuts will come from 9161- probably another 500 vacancies
  
  9164 is getting trimmed too- no need for 449 FTO’s when only 50 recruits are hired every month. will be cut via attrition to 350 and remaining FTO’s will just get more ppos to stress them out. supervisors are safe thanks to the consent decree
  
  canine will be shrunk as well. the city has wanted to do away with it for a while but hasn’t because of federal $$.
  
  CFD also in the hotseat, they want 3-5% of firehouses closed. nance-holt and BJ do not see eye to eye, so a new commissioner will be brought in this summer to oversee the trimming of the Daley days OT and paramedic OT and to find new “efficiencies”.
  
  other departments will be told to cut ot, delay some services like tree trimming, pothole remediation, minor ward projects, cuts to hours of operation at clerks office, libraries etc.
  
  taxes fines and fees all go up. 600k house in Beverly, you’re looking at a 3k increase over 2-3 years
  
  if city council grows a pair and insists on cuts, non critical layoffs will follow.

Did you spot it?

Supposedly, they want a 3-to-5% cut in firehouses....but still have something like over TWENTY high schools operating at less than 25% occupancy, some with full administrative and janitorial staff, not to mention a student-to-teacher ratio of  5-to-1 while other schools are nearly 35-to-1.

Conehead could close his entire budget "shortfall" just by reforming CPS expenditures.

Really Yoyo?

An amusing article over by Channel 7:

• Yolanda Talley is the new second-in-command at the Chicago Police Department, and she's making history. She is the first woman to ever hold the position of first deputy superintendent.

  ABC7 Chicago spoke exclusively with Talley about her experience on the force, and what it brings to her leadership role.  It's a place Talley never imagined she'd be.

Yeah, we never imagined it either:

• after the dope was found in your personal car 
• with your niece and her gang banger boyfriend
• the gang banger who was the "informant" on the "naked woman search warrant" debacle
• and the IAD cover-ups, including the woman-beating witness-threatening detective that was brought to the attention of your office with email proof....and you left him in place, told the victim to bid out, and told her not to mention "hostile workplace"
• have they addressed the "rumor" of your nephew being a shooter?

This part made us laugh out loud:

• She's now second-in-command to top cop Larry Snelling. The office had been vacant for nearly two years.

Um....if some position is vacant for two years and almost no one noticed, is that position even necessary at all? Perhaps it ought to be defunded and shuttered.

Yeah we know it was shadow-filled by that other jackass who spent his time putting all his lackeys, lickspittles, asskissers and suckholes in various positions, but seriously, who'd miss a useless layer of pension draining over-supervision?

Will He or Won't He?

Conehead did. Can Fata$$ be less of a....who are we kidding? Porkulous can't be "less than" just about anything except certain large ocean dwelling creatures. We're going to guess he'll decline:

• Calling the request a “partisan dog and pony show,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday said he is evaluating whether he’ll testify before the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next month over the state’s immigration policies.

  The request comes after Mayor Brandon Johnson on March 5 participated in a six-hour congressional committee alongside Democratic mayors who represent sanctuary cities.

  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has requested Pritzker, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul testify before the committee on their sanctuary state policies on May 15. In a letter to Pritzker, Comer asked Pritzker to confirm his testimony by April 17. Comer has also requested documents and communications about the state’s sanctuary status.
  

With all of the information about the Pritzker family being linked to over 50 different non-government groups getting tons of taxpayer money from the corrupt USAID coffers, he might want to avoid a hostile Congress.

Finally, a Good Decision

It's been years, maybe even decades since we've seen common sense prevail at the City Council - don't get used to it:

• A key City Council panel on Friday rejected a $1.25 million settlement to the family of Dexter Reed, who was killed in a hail of Chicago police gunfire after he shot and wounded an officer during a controversial West Side traffic stop last year.

  Two months after the payout had stalled in the Finance Committee amid bitter opposition from some of the Council’s staunchest police allies, it was turned down by a 12-15 vote, blocking it from consideration by the full Council next week.

  City lawyers had recommended the settlement, arguing that taking the case to court would cost taxpayers several times as much money to defend with outside counsel.

  But a vocal bloc of Council members rejected settling in a case that saw Reed fire the first shot before officers instantly returned dozens of bullets that continued even after the 26-year-old went down, authorities have said.

A few aldercreatures ventured into the unfamiliar area of actual truth: 

• “I don’t want to be associated with any conversation that justifies the shooting of a Chicago police officer. This is a bad day for Chicago, if this is the way the conversation is going to go,” Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) said.

• “When I hear someone vocalize that they don’t know if they would do anything different than what this young man did to try to take the lives of Chicago police officers, if they were in that same situation, what the hell is going on in this room?” [Ald. Ray Lopez (15th)] said.

  “We have an officer who nearly lost his hand because this young man took it upon himself to open fire,” Lopez added. “Yes, his loss is unfortunate, but he is the responsible party for it. You want to settle because you say it’s cheaper. You are sending a message to every criminal, and you are also sending a message to every officer on the street, that their lives do not matter any more.”

The family claims "racism!" the way ignorant people (or folks) always do. The black offender shot a black officer as his first target, so who's the actual racist? The tact team was actually racially balanced and reflective of the city as a whole.

This was a can of worms that shouldn't be opened. Ever. Because there is a subset of people (or folks) who will actually attempt to get shot for the resultant payoff. We met more than a few over the decades, all most likely mentally ill to some extent, but all wanting to get shot or bragging about it after they succeeded.

UPDATE: This was the Finance committee only. Trust Conehead or his lackeys to try to find a procedural end-around at some point. 

Tax Situtation Gets Worse

Prickwrinkle is ripping you off:

• The typical Cook County condominium or single-family homeowner paid 78% more in property taxes in 2024 than they spent in 2007, despite median property values only rising 7.3%.

  The median property tax bill paid by the owner of a single-family home or condominium in Cook County grew to $5,821 last year – an increase of $2,558 since 2007, the oldest data available.

  The median property values for the 1.17 million single-family homes and condominiums examined in Cook County only rose from $224,000 to $240,000, according to data from the Cook County Assessor’s Office.

This is why the outbound U-Haul rentals are so high statewide - with an emphasis on Cook County.

Don't forget about CPS's portion of the property tax levy - attendance is down tens of thousands from just a few years ago, but they raise their share of the property tax the maximum allowable.

Every. Single. Time.

And we have how many under-populated schools? How many kids who can't read? How many teachers making more than CPD captains and chiefs?

Go read the entire article - you aren't getting any bang for your buck any more.

This Will Do It, For Sure

A sternly worded letter ought to solve all Chicago's weekend problems!

• The Chicago Police Department is looking at ways to try and prevent teen takeovers as warmer weather moves in, and police are hoping for help from CPS.

  Scenes of hundreds of teenagers descending upon downtown have become all too familiar, blocking the streets and sidewalks, dancing on cars, and now in two recent incidents have turned violent.

  The Chicago Police Department sent an email to Chicago Public School parents overnight strongly encouraging them to refrain from allowing their kids to attend such events. CPD said in the letter in part, "In instances of large gatherings, we will use de-escalation and dispersal techniques to encourage our young people to comply with the law."

  If they do not comply, CPD warns, teens will be subject to arrest.

And upon "arrest" they will be either (A) released to the nearest upright being claiming to be related or (B) escorted to the nearest CTA station and put on board (free of charge!) and dismissed from the area....whereupon the accused will exit at the next available station and return to downtown.

We don't know how many times we have to say this: 

• without immediate, consistent, direct and painful consequences (physical or financial), then you are granting them free reign to continue the mayhem

And it's not a "takeover," it's what it has always been - wilding.

And just to let the politicians know what might be coming - one of these days, a shopkeeper or a tourist or a retired cop out for a pleasant evening is going to shoot one or more of these ne'er-do-wells. It might not even be downtown.

Our last decade on the job, we told people to get a gun, because cops weren't able to protect them. The last five, we told people to stay away from downtown. Now, we tell the neighbors keep the sidearm handy and don't stick around to answer questions.

Darn Those Blog Rumors

All that talk about OT restrictions....you know they just make it all up!

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Who has the rest of the "rumor"?

Fata$$ Headed to Washington

In the face of threatened funding cuts for Chicago and the entire state, governor Porkulous is called to DC:

• President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, and that could have a huge impact on Chicago.

  The city is expecting more than $3 billion in grants this year from the feds.

  Meanwhile, more than a month after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was grilled on Capitol Hill, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker could be next in line. In a letter, the Republican House Oversight Committee Chair requested ".documents and communications" related to Illinois' sanctuary policies and invited Pritzker to testify at a May 15 hearing.

Federal funds are funny things - if you accept fed money, you abide by fed rules. Period. There's no getting around it in the end. It's how the "21 to purchase alcohol" became the national norm and the 55 mph speed limit (since rescinded) was adopted years ago. Lawsuits by blue-state shitholes merely delay the inevitable.

If fed money is withheld, Porky isn't going to bend the knee and cut programs. Guess where Fata$$ is going to find the money to keep the giveaway spigot open?

Missing Info

From last Friday:

• Chicago police officers may have stopped a tragedy from unfolding at a Northwest Side high school on Friday afternoon: A troubled student who threatened to shoot up the school as he left campus was arrested by cops who allegedly saw him ditch a loaded firearm directly outside the school grounds.

  At about 1:50 p.m., officials at Foreman College and Career Academy, 3235 North Leclaire, notified police that a 17-year-old student had left in an Uber, saying he was going to come back with an AR-15 to shoot up the school, according to initial information given to responding officers.

  Cops in a nearby police district went to the boy’s home while other officers responded to the school.

  At about 2:03 p.m., an officer spotted the boy walking in the 5000 block of West Belmont, across from the school’s athletic field, and allegedly saw the boy toss something under a nearby vehicle. The boy briefly ran from the police, but the cops caught him and recovered a fully loaded Ruger 9-millimeter handgun from under the vehicle, according to a law enforcement source.

The principal sent out a letter to parents telling them there was an "incident" but failed to mention important pieces of information - that threats were made to use a gun, a gun was recovered from the known offender and police were actually the heroes of this tale.

After all, you wouldn't want parents to know that the threat was real and cops did an amazing job responding, identifying and arresting the offender peacefully.

Another Embarrassment

Guilty plea entered since it was all on video:

• A Chicago police officer has been given court supervision and ordered to perform community service for an off-duty incident in which he allegedly drove recklessly and evaded on-duty cops who tried to pull him over. Body camera footage of the same officer’s behavior during a previous traffic stop went viral in 2021.

  Jonathan Mehrhoff, who joined the force in June 2018, continues to work as a $108,012-per-year officer in the Austin (15th) District, a police spokesperson said Wednesday.

  On the evening of November 27, 2022, a Harrison (11th) District tactical unit tried to pull Mehrhoff over after seeing his Acura MDX run two red lights in the 400 and 500 blocks of South Kostner, a CPD arrest report said. But the Acura “accelerated in speed and disregarded [the officers’] attempt to stop the vehicle,” the report continued.

  Mehrhoff, 34, headed onto the inbound Eisenhower Expressway, drove on the shoulder, then “came to an abrupt stop causing [the officers] to make an evasive maneuvers [sic] to avoid crashing into the Acura MDX,” said the report stated.

So....an asshole AND a dick, trying to make Officers crash into him. 

And not his first instance of being recorded acting as a Grade A jagoff.

The mugshot over at CWB isn't a surprise either. 

How does this behavior fit into Larritorious' vision for the future of the CPD?

What the ??!!?!

Bad situation getting worse:

• Chicago police were conducting a death investigation after a 34-year-old off-duty officer died early Thursday at the 18th District station on the Near North Side.

  In a written statement released early Thursday, Chicago police say they were “mourning the tragic loss of an officer within the 18th District station.”

  The 34-year-old female officer was found about 2:30 a.m. at the station, 1160 N. Larrabee St., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

  According to a law enforcement source, she was found in a first-floor bathroom with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

There is a link in the post directly below this about the "strategic plan" and Larritorious states:

• “My objective since I got here is the top-down effect. It starts with me,” he said. “We have to be responsible, and we have to take full responsibility for everything that happens in this department when it comes to accountability, when it comes to wellness.”

  With off-the-charts daily stressors that have all too often led to death by suicide by his men and women in blue, Snelling says a big part of his plan centers on mental health wellness.
  

Well?

Sympathies to everyone over in 018. 

"Strategic Plan"

We're in the midst of this article from the other day:

• Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling introduced a new strategic plan Monday that includes his vision of CPD in 2025.

  The Chicago Police Department Strategy for Organizational Excellence is a 59-page how-to manual based on best practices gathered from law enforcement across the country. It is also very Chicago-centric.
  

In the quoted paragraphs is a link to the sixty-page "manual" that we're paging though. More than a few opinions have already been ventured in the comment sections, so we thought we'd post one place ot deal with it all until we've finished reading.

The WGN article is (so far) a typical puff piece. We'll wade through it and see if anything hops out for discussion and/or criticism. Stay Tuned.

No More Sigs?

Our old friend Paul Huebl is still out there blogging and he brought this to our attention:

• In a move that’s rocking the rank and file, the Chicago Police Department has abruptly banned the use of the once-trusted Sig/Sauer P320 pistol as an authorized duty weapon. The order came down swiftly, leaving thousands of officers scrambling. The official reason? Alarming reports that the weapon can fire without the trigger being pulled.

  For years now the gun-maker has brushed off horror stories about negligent discharges, usually blaming human error. After all, it’s easier to blame the gun than admit to a deadly mistake. Just think back to Alec Baldwin’s tragic shooting on a New Mexico movie set—he insisted he never pulled the trigger, yet a woman lost her life. But experts were quick to point out that the revolver in question simply doesn’t fire on its own. This, however, isn’t Hollywood.

  The Sig Sauer P320 has a documented pattern of discharges—many occurring while holstered. Lawsuits are piling up, and the manufacturer continues to deny fault, but the incidents are too numerous, too consistent, and too dangerous to ignore.

  In a city already struggling to staff its police force and control spiraling violence, CPD brass made the call: better to pull the plug than risk another injury or death. The P320 is now officially de-authorized.

As Paul points out, the Sig is currently the issued sidearm for the US Army. We know a lot of ex-Army people and we haven't heard about negligent discharges or self-firing incidents. We haven't heard of any here either.

Paul also mentions this isn't a small expense - Sigs cost nearly a grand and along with magazines and holsters will easily run a few hundred more. He does add this to his report:

• Update: Under the current fraternal order of police labor contract, the City of Chicago is required to cover the cost of a new service weapon if the police department deauthorizes a previously approved firearm. Officers are not financially responsible when the department mandates a change in duty weapons.  However, this is only for officers below the rank of Sergeant.  Calculating the average replacement weapon cost indicates the city will be paying upwards of $1 million to affect this change.

If a Sig cost a grand and a new Glock is only $600, is the city making up the difference?

And how many Sigs are we talking about here? Because the pistol you bought and trained with at the Academy is a very personal choice. You train for around 400 hours on the range, breaking in the holster, drawing and holstering thousands of times and putting thousands of rounds through the most important tool on your belt.

Now you're starting over at zero? This is a very dangerous situation. How many cops are going to crease their legs, damage squad cars, lockers, roll call rooms,  (or worse) in the coming months?

Welcome to the Party

The States Attorney's office has caught up to where we were years ago:

• Cook County’s electronic monitoring program has become “a serious threat to public safety” because the office of Chief Judge Timothy Evans, which recently assumed responsibility for its operation, is not equipped or prepared to handle it.

  That’s not us talking. That’s Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, who instructed the county’s prosecutors to publicly object anytime a judge places a defendant on an ankle monitor instead of granting the state’s request to keep them in jail.

Credit to O'Neill Burke for saying what Crimesha never would:

• After years of effort, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart successfully transferred responsibility for the electronic monitoring program on April 1. Dart has repeatedly said the county is misusing the program by putting violent and dangerous offenders on ankle monitors when the system was designed for low-level offenses like drug possession.

  Evans’ office has operated a separate electronic monitoring program for many years, but it has generally been used for defendants who are given nighttime curfews, not for 24/7 monitoring.

  In a memo to her staff, O’Neill Burke said Evans’ electronic monitoring staff members are not law enforcement officers, and they cannot make arrests. If an electronic monitoring participant goes AWOL, the top prosecutor said, Evans’ staff must “call 911 or seek assistance from law enforcement” and then take the matter to court.

More calls that CPD won't be able to answer, more warrants to be issued (weeks later). Maybe you'll stumble on these fugitives on a traffic stop that Fatass, Prickwrinkle and Conehead are actively telling you NOT to do and passing laws to make it illegal for you to even do that.

Fun times!

Nationwide Fetality

Building on the below post about NYC, here's an article about the west coast and the nationwide phenomenon we've been writing about for how many years now?

• At a January Police Commission meeting, Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell gave remarks highlighting concerns that the excessive disciplinary measures his officers face are discouraging proactive policing and negatively impacting officer performance.
  
  He said, "If you make a mistake in the Oakland Police Department ... you are going to get allegations levied against you that will ruin your career and your opportunity to work anywhere else in the United States. Our officers have been conditioned to do as little as possible to stay out of trouble and that is a problem."
  
  According to Oakland Report, which posted the initial article on this, Oakland's police oversight policies have led to an excessive number of disciplinary investigations of officers, even for minor infractions. The data shows that 92 percent of officer investigations are not "sustained," meaning that the allegation was untrue, within policy, or lacked evidence.
  
  Of those that are sustained, 75 percent are for minor offenses, such as use of profanity or conducting personal business while on duty. All of these incidents become part of an officer's permanent personnel record, the police log, and supervisory files as well as making officers feel inferior.

Golly!  A fetal police department....haven't we been warning and writing about that for probably a decade now? And all of the issues that come with a demoralized and downgraded department?

Cops aren't robots and police work isn't measured and evaluated like corporate work. But lib-tarded blue city shithole politicians will insist they can "fix" it.

NYC to Ban Traffic Stops

Keep making this job easier:

• A new bill would ban cops in the state from stopping and searching drivers over a slew of low-level violations — including the one that ended up nabbing serial killer Joel Rifkin.

  Top law enforcement officials are calling the Albany proposal the “most dangerous” and “craziest” bill they have ever seen, warning it would limit cops’ ability to conduct routine traffic stops that can uncover much more serious crimes.

  “It is the most ridiculous thing I have seen in my 36 years in law enforcement,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reporters Friday outside the county’s police memorial in Mineola, LI.

  The proposed legislation would no longer allow officers to stop or search drivers over such issues as busted head- or taillights, expired registrations and inspections, window tints and even the smell of marijuana.

We've already seen a push for this here, banning "pretextual" traffic stops. The problem is the years-long push for Sparklefart's TSSSSSSSSSSSSS blue cards. If you stop someone for a violation, you really ought to write the mover. The ticket should be a "must appear" violation so that the driver has no choice but to show up in court and prove to a judge that they fixed the reason for the stop.

No "pretext," no problem, and you can still ask questions and make observations that might lead to bigger crimes being discovered - you know, like actual police work.

Welcome to France

Long time readers might remember we occasionally cover international stuff. Years ago, we mentioned the "banlieues." or suburban areas of France that were essentially "no-go" zones for police, areas controlled by illegal muslim gangs and routinely exploding in riots.

Well Congratulations have to go out to Conehead, Fata$$, Smelling, Groot, Prickwrinkle, Dart, Evans, all the way back to the 9.5 Digit Midget. You have aided and abetted the beginnings of the first ever No-Go Zone in Chicago:

• Four members of the [latin bitches] gang are said to be behind bars following an ambush attempt on a Chicago Police Department (CPD) vehicle, while authorities continue to search for one more suspect, according to a source familiar with the incident.

  The police source confirmed that charges have not yet been filed in the ongoing investigation and that law enforcement is aware of the identity of the remaining suspect.

  According to the source, what's being described as an "ambush" on police was premeditated and comes a week after an anonymous warning call received by the 10th District.

  The caller, believed to be connected with the [latin bitches], reportedly declared a "war" on law enforcement, stating that they would target officers due to the increased pressure from police crackdowns in Little Village, an area known for heavy gang activity and drug dealing.

Thirty years ago, the Department would run Edge Missions following an occurrence like this. Every gang member would be swept off the street and locked up. Special Operations and Gang Units would flood the area. Vice would shut down every single money-making corner for as long as it took for the morons to get the message. Former shooting galleries would be quiet for weeks on end, kids would actually be able to play in the parks, parents would thank us for locking it all down and ask why we didn't do this all the time?

The reality was CPD could do it for a little while, but the social ills were just too widespread and (to be honest) the legal issues weren't codified adequately. That type of manpower use was short term even in the heady days of the Clinton money pouring into big cities. New York had "stop and frisk," we had Edge.

But then, the pendulum swung waaaay over to the left and all sorts of restrictions were placed on the police. Again (to be honest) some were Constitutionally necessary. But it went overboard and the Police were painted as the enemy for the next few decades. That mindset took over, culminating in the "defunding" movement, based on lies, exaggerations and progressive propaganda.

The result - a beyond fetal police force, reactive only, with inadequate recruitment, even more inadequate retention, lowered standards and now, being driven out of neighborhoods, unable to respond to a challenge to lawful authority. 

Larritorious has little-to-no response available, and even if he did Conehead wouldn't let him. On the minuscule chance that Conehead allowed a police response, Fata$$, Prickwrinkle, Dart and Evans have completely limited the justice system from dishing out consequences, even if that consequence was simply an overnight in lockup.

It began under the 9.5 Digit Midget, accelerated with Groot and may be peaking with Conehead. But maybe not. If one "no-go" zone is permitted to be birthed into existence, there will be others. And the death spiral will accelerate as we pass Detroit and look more like suburban Paris.