Stay Classy Rahm

Dear Leader:

• Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel had a fiery response when asked Thursday night whether he would consider running for president in 2020.
  
  The former White House chief of staff to President Obama and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton flipped off consultant Neil Hare — twice — after being posed the question at BLT Steak, prompting laughter from others at the bar.
  
  Emanuel, famed for his coarse language and caustic retorts, was hanging out at the restaurant located blocks from the White House during a swing through Washington this week.
  
  But the mayor isn't shy when it comes to how he feels about being asked about potential presidential ambitions.
  
  “She’s a reporter,” someone at BLT said after the Chicago mayor gave Hare the bird, referring to your ITK writer.
  
  “I don’t give a f--- who she is,” Emanuel shot back.

Remember, this guy was a hero to the media when he was part of the Clinton and Obama administrations, until he became too toxic to keep around. So he came here...and became toxic once again when he hid the McDonald video from the media for over a year. How he's part of the "opposition" to a guy who hasn't even taken office yet, and he still treats the media like shit...and they love it the way a beaten wife "loves" her abuser.

He's not "famed for his coarse language and caustic retorts"

He's just a sawed-off 9-fingered asshole.

"Professor" Protess the Pimp

More movement in the fight against the "wrongful conviction" shysters (from Martin Preib's site):

• In a decision that could have far-reaching impact on the thirty-year wrongful conviction narrative, a federal magistrate last week granted attorneys for two accused Chicago detectives the right to pursue a defense theory based on the claim they are the victims of an ongoing conspiracy by wrongful conviction activists.
  
  Federal Magistrate Sheila Finnegan stated last week that accused “Burge” detectives can pursue discovery from former Northwestern University professor David Protess and several students who worked with him in an effort to exonerate a convicted rapist by claiming the detectives coerced a confession.
  
  According to Finnegan’s memorandum, the detectives, who arrested Stanley Wrice for the brutal gang rape and severe burning of a woman in 1982, can pursue depositions and discovery in an effort to assert that Protess and his students “have a playbook for obtaining false affidavits,” which includes allegations of “using female students as bait to induce witness statements and cash payments.”

Anyone with half a brain can see that Protess, abetted by media shills, manufactured evidence, coerced false confessions and pretty much sprung guilty monsters free upon society in furtherance of a leftist political agenda. Northwestern University, Lib-tard Central, discovered this and cut Protess loose once they became fully aware of the scope of his malfeasance. A significant monetary award against the involved parties would be completely justified.

Video Thanks

A "thank you" video from the Department:

• The Chicago Police Department on Wednesday released a tribute video thanking the many officers who worked to help Cubs fans celebrate the team's World Series win.
  
  The more than 5-minute video thanks the "thousands of officers and partners who worked countless hours in front and behind the scenes to ensure America could celebrate our World Champion CUBS safely."

Amusingly, Special Ed appears in the video about 82 times. Rahm, a few dozen. Actual officers are filmed for, literally, tenths-of-seconds, as the Cubs buses rush by. There were a couple of personal thank yous from players and some of the crowd shots were interesting.

We know it's the thought that counts, and we were certainly thinking of the Cubs when were were laying out cash for our Gremlin. But it was sort of obvious the boys and girls at the Video Services were writing a love letter to the brass to save their spots in some future budget cutting move.

Check your Department e-mail if you want to see this thing.

Nuclear Physicist Beats 94 Year Old

We don't know how much of a threat a 94-year-old woman is, but some of those elderly people can be cantankerous:

• Police are looking for a man who allegedly beat a 94-year-old woman, stole her purse and took off in a stolen vehicle before crashing it in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood.
  
  The victim's daughter, Judy Dusk, said her mother, Josephine Regnier, is a World War II Navy veteran.
  
  Dusk said she was waiting for one of her daughters outside her building in the 5100-block of South Long Avenue to pick her up to go to the dentist when she was attacked around 11:50 a.m. Wednesday. Police said a man pushed Regnier into the hallway of her building.
  
  "This man just came in the gangway and assaulted her, beat the **** out of her, took her purse and ran," Dusk said.

Channel 7 breaks with tradition and actually describes the suspect, probably because there was video and they couldn't think of a good reason to suppress it. A local restaurant is offering a $5,000 reward.

Shot Fired at Police Again

Hasn't hit the media yet, but our comment section says it happened in 012 about 0200 hours. Offender in custody, weapon recovered, cops okay.

When Special Ed heard about it a little while ago, he called it "concerning," and stripped himself so he could take a shower. Discipline forthcoming on everyone else.

"Fetal" Politicians?

Kass asks if the political wing of Chicago have "gone fetal"

• How bad is the bloody violence in Chicago, where more than 700 people have been murdered so far this year and thousands have been shot in the street gang wars?
  
  The gangs keep shooting, the survivors mourn, police morale is down, anti-police sentiment is up and the mayor says some cops have gone fetal.
  
  And the politicians do nothing in the bloody city. Street gang violence in Chicago is as bad, if not worse, than the record-setting death years of the 1990s.
  
  But there is no penalty for Democratic politicians who sit back in the Democratic city and do nothing to compel tougher sentences for gun crimes to keep the most aggressive shooters off the streets.
  
  Some say this a gun issue. But that's a con job. There are many guns in the suburbs, yet suburbanites aren't slaughtering each other.
  
  This is a street-gangs-with-guns problem, on the South and West sides of Chicago. And calling it anything else is a distraction to give cover to the politicians.
  
  If there is a downside, it is only for the dead and the maimed and their families.
  
  And there is a downside for police, too. Because if something goes wrong, the cop is the headline.
  
  Yet what of the politicians who do nothing? They really have nothing to lose. And they're doing just fine.

Of course they are. They have their scapegoats - the cops, the guns, the cops, the president-elect, the cops, etc. Not a word about teens "raising" the next generation of welfare dependent super predators, destroyed family structure, no punishment or responsibility assigned for misbehavior. Just demands for "more money" for "programs" that do nothing but buy votes and perpetuate the spiral of destruction.

Business as usual.....and the bodies stack up.

New Lieutenants

Hey look, assignments for the new guys and gals:

011 got four new lieutenants, so it looks like half of the Johnson v Johnson Homicide Race is chasing out the previous leadership.006 got three. A smattering of others here and there.

Amusingly, we got an e-mail or two from people in the know - it seems the new lieutenants were given a list of places that were open for assignment and they ranked their choices. 018 wasn't on the list, but somehow, someone landed there. Odds are he makes commander within 12 months.

Humor Break

This is amusing, especially as Chicago crossed into 700+ homicides for the year:

• Promising that every effort would be made to limit the impact on residents’ day-to-day lives, Chicago officials announced Wednesday that a fleet of plows was working around the clock to clear more than 18 inches of fresh bullet casings that had blanketed the metropolitan area overnight.
  
  Sources at the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation confirmed that over 250 ammunition-removal vehicles had been deployed to deal with the knee-deep layer of spent cartridges, which have been steadily accumulating on Chicago’s streets, alleys, and pedestrian walkways since the previous evening.
  
  “Our crews have been out there all night trying to make our roadways passable, but given how quickly the handgun and semi-automatic shells have piled up, it’s going to take some time,” DSS commissioner Charles L. Williams told reporters, thanking the public for its patience while crews made their way across the stricken municipality. “We’re making good headway, but as you can imagine, it’s not an easy job, especially with casings continuing to fall throughout the city.”

The picture accompanying the article is hilarious:

Supposedly, Charlie Williams is towing cars in the "2 Inches of Brass" zones, even if the brass is only 1.5 inches.

016 Gets....Rookies?

There certainly weren't 32 bids to 016, we can tell you that:

• Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson will assign an additional 12 police officers to the Jefferson Park District by the end of the month, fulfilling his September promise to beef up the force, according to Ald. Nicholas Sposato (38th).
  
  A total of 230 officers will report to the city's most expansive police district by year's end, up from 192 over the summer, Sposato said.
  
  The district saw 10 new officers added in October, then another 10 in November, the alderman said. On Tuesday, Johnson told district Cmdr. Bill Looney he'd get another 12 this month.
  
  Johnson "kind of dribbled along with his promise there for a while, but now it's complete," Sposato said. "I'm thrilled, the commander's thrilled. ... This was very much needed."

Well, we're happy for you 016. Anyone have the totals for 008 or 022 now?

Shots Fired....Again

The target - the police....again:

• Shots were fired at Chicago Police officers Tuesday night in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, marking at least the fourth time officers have come under fire in about a week.
  
  About 7:30 p.m. shots were fired at officers in the 1100 block of West 86th Street, police said. No one was hurt, and a person of interest was being questioned, police said.

Does anyone know how many times shots have been fired at the police this year? We know we've missed instances, but it has to be higher than previous years given the state of things.

A Bad Penny

Keeps turning up:

• Uh-oh word is leaking out that Rerun has been visiting quite a lot with a certain Captain who was a former Commander regarding her becoming a Commander again. 1st stop for her is Area North and then a couple of quickies with Rerun and back to Commander. Watch it weezie, there is a new hen in the office.

Seriously? This joke? With her history of stalking boyfriends and ex-boyfriends? How much did the Department pay that mailroom guy for the hell she put him through? Maybe someone could find out that amount of money? And that was only when she was actually arrested:

Not to mention the investigation regarding abusing her own child. And the numerous bat-shit crazy incidents when she was running around the west side, berating police officers, walking into the line of rifle fire, showing up at crime scenes without a gun.

Anyone wonder why VRI is so fucked up lately? Where they have to re-bid entire days and reassign supervisors to the places they actually work? That would be Henny Penny's last assignment. We say "last assignment" because it looks like she got moved to the D-Unit again, where she has a previous history of Battery to Detective in the locker room.

Hey media? You want to know why this Department is so fucked up? Because Fuck-Up / Move Up. These types keep their jobs, get promoted after being demoted, and are even considered for further promotion even after being a disgrace to the job.

On the bright side, we'll have tons more to write about if Special Ed makes this truly stupid decision a reality.

Totally In Control

Special Ed has got this!

• Top cop: 'Chicago is not out of control' — just parts of it are violent

Well thank goodness for that!

• Chicago's top cop says he's personally upset by public perception that the city is overrun by murder and other violence, even as a deadly November pushed homicides overall here to the highest level in nearly two decades.
  
  "The truth of the matter is Chicago is not out of control. There's certain parts of the city that we have to address the violence," Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Tuesday at a downtown City Club of Chicago breakfast. He and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told the room full of civic leaders and others gathered at Maggiano's restaurant that they continue to push for new legislation to toughen penalties for repeat gun offenders.
  
  Johnson's comments serve as pushback on President-elect Donald Trump's comments earlier this year, when he described violence in Chicago as "out of control" and said Chicago cops weren't being tough enough on crime.
  
  While Johnson said, once again, that the state needs harsher penalties for repeat gun offenders, Dart said Cook County Jail detainees often tell him they're more concerned with being confronted unarmed on the street than being caught with a weapon by authorities.

First up, good to see Special Ed not missing the most important meal of the day. A growing boy needs a lot of calories.

Second, who are these "inmates" Dart talking to? The jail is empty. They're tearing down three buildings. Prickwrinkle has declared everyone will be I-bonded so they can spend Christmas with their families.

The only smart thing to come out of this is the need to sentence gun criminals to harsher penalties - EXILE-type penalties - to cut down on violent crime. The police are doing their part, seeing as how we've taken how many more guns off the street than in years part. The system isn't doing its job.

"Experts" Weigh In

Of course, they say Special Ed and Granny Clampett don't go far enough:

• Proposed changes by Chicago police to its policy on use of force fail to spell out that deadly force should be a last resort and fall short of other key goals such as limiting Taser use and improving transparency, two leading police reform experts say.
  
  In comments submitted to the department Monday, Sheila Bedi, a professor with Northwestern University's MacArthur Justice Center, and Craig Futterman, a law professor at the University of Chicago, said the overhaul doesn't go far enough in spelling out clearly when officers can use force, particularly deadly force.
  
  The policy should begin with the premise that physical encounters with civilians are appropriate only when there is probable cause for arrest or a public safety emergency, Futterman and Bedi said. The policy also needs to be clear that the department's highest priority is the sanctity of life and that deadly force is "a matter of last resort" used only to protect the lives of officers and citizens, they wrote.

These liberals have zero law enforcement experience, except where it comes to criticizing and suing the police for doing a highly dangerous and unpredictable job, imagining their 20/20 hindsight is applicable to an endless number of scenarios.

The so-called "sanctity of life" has always been a hallmark of the Department's Use of Force paradigm, seeing as how it has always been more restrictive than state law, and continues in this new permutation, not to mention that Deadly Force has always been "a matter of last resort" except where dictated by the criminal/offender/assailant who is already using Deadly Force. Police work is necessarily reactive in nature - 100% of the time, the police react to the situation presented to them, be it a call they respond to or an incident observed on the street.

Perhaps the so-called "experts" would do better educating the community as to what sort of behavior is expected of them, by the police and by the law, to prevent tragedies from unfolding due to their own misbehavior.

Bias? What Bias?

You mean this bias?

• [...] When Black Lives Matter protesters planned to demonstrate in the neighborhood after a black man was gunned down by an off-duty Chicago Police officer on Nov. 5, someone in the girls’ text conversation shared a tweet claiming protesters were going to bring along gang members to kill white residents in retaliation, the suit says.

You mean this black man?

That one waving that gun-shaped object around in the middle of a busy Mount Greenwood street? NEWSFLASH to NBC - that will get you shot on most Chicago streets, even if you're purple.

And Here it Comes

Weren't we just talking about this?

• The Chicago Police Department should revamp its psychological exam and forgive minor drug offenses to attract minority police officers at a time of high crime and deep distrust, an influential alderman said Monday.
  
  Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), chairman of the City Council’s Black Caucus, urged Mayor Rahm Emanuel to embrace at least some of the recommendations of the Obama administration’s Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement initiative.
  
  At issue is a report from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to push the recommendations made by Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
  
  The report suggests that police departments across the nation should disregard minor criminal offenses of candidates from “underrepresented communities,” revise the controversial psychological exam and lower the bar for written and physical exams.

Again, we thought that it was a selling point that a police department was staffed by non-criminals. Criminals serve on City Councils on the Cook County Board. Sure, you get your occasional criminal slipping through the screening process, but that's usually because they were sponsored by an aldercreature or other political entity. And once they get on the job, sometimes they're protected and promoted via the corrupt "merit" process, like certain members of the past and current command staff.

And that's not even taking into consideration the test cheaters who are an entirely different classification altogether.

"Reshaping" the Office

Danger! Danger!

• Newly elected Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx detailed her plans Monday for shaping the second-largest prosecutor's office in the country, including creating a gun crimes unit and revamping the team that reviews potentially wrongful convictions.
  
  [...] In an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter in her corner office on the 32nd floor of a Loop high-rise, Foxx said her office is looking at its authority to investigate police shootings and not wait for months or years while the Independent Police Review Authority completes its investigation.

Danger!!! BIG DANGER!!!

• "We're looking at our authority to go in immediately like with the other cases, collect evidence and do a parallel investigation so ... that we get results in a timelier fashion," she said. "Waiting for secondhand information to come after the completion of an investigation by another agency and then reviewing their work months later, I don't think necessarily gives us the best results."

Best results? Or best political result?

You think we're joking?

It's already here.

An "Earful"?

Golly. Rahm must be shaking in his tutu:

• Members of the tony East Bank Club might want to give the gym's locker room a wide berth if they spot former police Superintendent Garry McCarthy> and Mayor Rahm Emanuel getting changed at the same time.
  
  The frosty relationship between the two macho men might cause anyone caught in the middle to catch a chill.
  
  "I haven't spoken to the mayor since last December 1st," said a visibly upset McCarthy in an interview with WGN-TV Ch. 9. "I ran into him a couple of times at the East Bank Club."
  
  Asked if he wanted to speak to Emanuel, he said, "Um, that's a great question. I'm not sure how to answer it. You stumped me because I'm really angry about what happened, and I'm very angry about what is happening.

You got that? He's angry!

• "Where is the black caucus screaming?" he added. "When they were calling for my resignation we had the lowest murder rate in the city since 1965."

Notice, he said "murder rate." To be fair, he and Tracey were better at hiding "death investigations" than Special Ed is, probably because NYPD was where people codified the practice so as to deflect media attention from it. Special Ed couldn't even hide a crooked exam that managed to promote five people from IAD, all good friends of McCompStat's First Deputy's wife.

What Could Go Wrong?

Another brilliant idea from Washington DC:

• In a push to hire minority police officers, the Obama administration is asking the nation’s 18,000 law enforcement agencies to forgive drug use, disregard the criminal records of candidates from “underrepresented communities” and lower standards on written and physical exams. It’s part of the administration’s Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement initiative following a string of officer-involved shootings involving African Americans. Key to the mission is the racial diversification of local law enforcement agencies so that they “better reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.”

The article is about a month old, but correct us if we're wrong....

• we thought cops were supposed to represent....you know....law and order types, seeing as how we enforce the laws duly passed by the legislature

We might be misunderstanding part of the job, but not that part.

And we're thinking, once again, someone in DC hasn't been paying attention to what happens when you lower the requirements. For reference, we'd suggest they look at the history of the DC police after they lowered requirements.

Snowflakes Unite!

OEMC story:

• Too funny not to share: Last night my friend got a call at the station. The caller was very distraught that Trump would pick a guy named Mad Dog for Secretary of defense. Dead serious. The officer had to explain that it was a nick name, not his real name. This woman from Hyde Park actually called the police! Lol

Anyone have the event number on this call?

Not KING 810??!!

Canceling gigs because of "violent imagery"?

• A metal band has had its upcoming Chicago show canceled over its “excessive use of guns and violent imagery” on stage.
  
  KING 810 was booked to play Thalia Hall on Dec. 18 but the venue’s promoter has told the band he was having a tough time defending the gig in light of Chicago’s gun violence epidemic. There were 701 murders in the city through November.
  
  KING 810 has appeared on stage with masked characters dressed in black and armed with automatic weapons. Their first album includes "Killem All" and Murder Murder Murder."

What's next? Banning rap acts? Oh, the humanity!

Rookies? No Kidding? (UPDATE)

This is news......if you live under a rock:

• Faced with a surge in killings and a breakdown of trust in law enforcement, the Chicago Police Department is sending its least experienced cops to neighborhoods that see the most violence.
  
  The six police districts with the highest total of murders and shootings this year have the most rookie officers, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of police deployment data found.
  
  Those districts — all of them on the South Side or the West Side — also have some of the least experienced supervisors, on average.

Yeah, because as soon as you get this little thing called "seniority," you tend to want to get out of the crappiest neighborhoods (i.e. high crime) and head to someplace that actually appreciates the police. Where you aren't subject to taunts, spit and solving the problems of people (or folks) who refuse to take responsibility for their lot in life.

Certain aldercreatures feel like they have to force veterans to work where they don't want to be and are going to be pushing for that when the Contract expires, which will make a happy and productive workforce - just like when they let the ACLU and #blm run things.

We'd think about doing it for an extra $20,000. And after we got the suitcase full of money to think about it, we'd probably still say no. But it'll cost them $20,000 to hear us say it.

UPDATE: Someone in the comment section had a good point/idea - why doesn't the City experiment with moving the veteran teachers back to places like "Fenger, Kelvyn Park, Bowen, Bogan, Douglass, Tilden, CVS, VOISE"? After all, the children are our most important resource, right? And they deserve to be taught by the most experienced teachers so that they can be successful astronauts and physicists and doctors, right?

This sounds like a great idea, and it's all "for the children," so Rahm can get behind it and feel he's still supporting the Hillary Agenda.

Hypocrites

So as a wise reader pointed out....

• “We know that holding people in jail destroys lives. Even a short period of pre-trial detention can result in the loss of your job or your home,” Preckwinkle said. “Every effort needs to be made to be sure that people can keep working, attending school and caring for their families as they await trials.”

And just how much was Van Dyke's bail?

• $1.5 million

Good thing he had all that money lying around so he could keep working, attending school and caring for his family, right?

Money for Illegals?

No money for retirees, raises, vehicles, equipment, training.

But lots for this:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday kept up his postelection push to position himself as a protector of immigrants against President-elect Donald Trump, announcing the creation of a $1 million "legal protection fund" to help those fighting possible deportation.
  
  The fund was created in partnership with the National Immigrant Justice Center to "provide immediate legal information, screenings, consultations and representation to individuals who may be at risk for deportation," according to a news release from Emanuel's office.

And just where is he getting the money?

• The money will come from the $20 million the city set aside for Emanuel's property tax rebate program, according to city spokeswoman Jennifer Martinez. That initiative fell flat, with just 12,000 households applying for tax relief to the tune of about $1 million, leaving ample leftover money to pay for immigrant defense

Um, that isn't "leftover" money. It's already been collected and tasked for rebates. Rahm shouldn't be able to just redirect it to something that is in violation of Federal Law. If residents were overtaxed (which is just about always), then the money ought to be returned.

What Happened to Downtown Brown?

Seems like his past sins caught up with him:

• A top Cook County official was fired last month because of his work as a Chicago police commander, WBEZ has learned.
  
  County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Nov. 18 that Ernest Brown was no longer the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Preckwinkle has remained tight-lipped about why Brown left, but sources close to her say she dismissed him after reading an article that argued a code of silence protected corrupt cops working under him.
  
  Brown commanded the Chicago Police Department’s Public Housing Section from 2000 to 2002. During that time, there were several investigations of his officers.

"several"?

Dozens. Not to mention the endless parade of sexual harassment beefs. But somehow, all of these red flags were missed by the background checks Prickwrinkle had done before she hired Downtown.

What? She didn't do any background checks? What kind of government is this, not checking on who is being hired? Is this some sort of den of cronyism and phone-call-hiring where there are no standards?

Oh wait.....yeah it is. Sorry.

No One is Immune

Even Commanders are getting shot at:

• SWAT teams swarmed a home in the city's South Chicago neighborhood after shots were fired at a police district commander late Thursday night. A five-hour standoff with the suspects ended early Friday morning.
  
  Police said five suspects were taken into custody around 3:30 a.m. Friday without incident and several weapons were recovered from the scene.
  
  The commander was checking out a suspicious person in an alley in the 8800-block of South Saginaw Avenue around 10:20 p.m. Thursday when one or more people opened fire on his unmarked patrol car, police said.

Just to be on the safe side, Special Ed stripped the commander for taking fire.

All is well that ends well, but let's be serious - until these offenders and other gun offenders start getting real prison time, extensive prison time, far from here, things like this are going to keep on happening.

Minimum five year sentences in federal prisons far from home has worked wonders in the past in other states (look up Project Exile and similar sentencing). Ten year sentences would likely cut the homicide rate by half if politicians had the guts to stick up for the law abiding instead of catering to the criminal underclass.

Fort Worth Hiring

And all you have to do is out shoot this recruit:



Good luck!

Thank You Cubs

The Cubs overtime check hit the other day. We've been counting on that money to fulfill a desire of ours we've had for quite some time now:

It's been over 40 years, but we finally got it.

It's Over as of.....Now

Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

• Promising “transparency” and building trust with the community, Kim Foxx was sworn in Thursday as Cook County’s first African-American female state’s attorney.
  
  Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans swore in Foxx before a crowd that included Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, police Supt. Eddie Johnson, former Gov. Pat Quinn and several Chicago alderman.

We can't make it any clearer - police work is over, dead, finished, done. The actions you take from here on out will be scrutinized with a magnifying glass a hundred different ways. And if there is the slightest gray area, you will be stripped by Special Ed and indicted by Foxx.

Stay Fetal - Stay Employed.

How Empty is the Jail?

This empty:

• Cook County is demolishing three divisions, representing close to a half-million square feet of cell space, as the jail population has hit the lowest level in 25 years.
  
  Cook County officials stood in a muddy yard behind the razor wire and walls at the jail complex as demolition started on the first building. WBBM [...] reports.
  
  “Jails are for violent people,” said Sheriff Tom Dart, “and we have a lot of violence in our society.”
  
  “We are always going to have places for them here,” Dart said. “But for the non-violent people, for the mentally ill, they don’t need to be here and through a lot of the work we’ve been doing for the last few years we have been able to get a lot of those people out of here.”

This non-police lib-tard (along with Prickwrinkle and the media) doesn't seem make the connection that the rising violence in Chicago just might be directly connected to the jail being empty. Because we've noticed in our decades of policing that when the jail is full and people are held in a secure environment, they don't seem to victimize the rest of society.

We can't prove it, but it must have something to do with the razor wire, twenty-foot high walls, regulated atmosphere and sniper towers. We're hoping to get funding for a study soon.

Prickwrinkle has this laughable take:

• “We know that holding people in jail destroys lives. Even a short period of pre-trial detention can result in the loss of your job or your home,” Preckwinkle said. “Every effort needs to be made to be sure that people can keep working, attending school and caring for their families as they await trials.”

No word on the families destroyed when their "screening process" fails miserably.

One Year

We forgot that yesterday was the one-year firing anniversary of McCompStat.

Who misses his New York arrogance? His ham-handed attempts to play the political game? His keeping the brass's assholes puckered at the "accountability" meetings.

Not us.

More Good News for Chicago

That housing "rebound"? Ain't happening:

• The housing market in the Chicago area is expected to be the weakest of any of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas during 2017, leaving opportunity for people to buy homes at affordable prices while perhaps frustrating home sellers.
  
  Both prices and sales will increase, but at a stunted rate compared with other areas, according to a forecast by Realtors.com, a website for the National Association of Realtors. The prices of homes throughout the Chicago metropolitan area are expected to climb just 1.95 percent, and sales of new and existing homes are expected to increase 2.27 percent.
  
  [...] Chicago's problem is a combination of slow growth in both population and jobs, said Jonathan Smoke, an economist at Realtors.com. The area's population is expected to increase only 1 percent next year. Given the size of Chicago, the city should be among the nation's top three markets for job creation, Smoke said. Instead, Chicago is ranked eighth, with job growth much stronger in areas such as Dallas and Phoenix.

Rising crime, rising taxes, rising unemployment, shrinking prospects.

Indictment

Some good news:

• A Cook County grand jury has returned an 8-count true bill against a man who allegedly beat an off-duty Chicago police officer during an altercation outside of Wrigley Field this summer.
  
  Tremaine Wilson was charged with aggravated battery of a police officer and reckless conduct in the June 22 incident.
  
  But criminal-friendly Cook County Judge Marvin Luckman threw out the case citing “no probable cause” two weeks later even though cops identified Wilson after reviewing footage from a nearby surveillance camera.
  
  Flummoxed prosecutors took their case to the grand jury.
  
  Wilson’s now facing six counts of aggravated battery to a police officer and two counts of aggravated battery in a public place.

So we've got that going forward now. Let's see if the States Attorney's Office stays on this one...or drops it.

Damn! This Guy is Good!

He really ought to be put in a leadership position of some sort:

• After a pair of gang shootings in the 15th Ward erupted minutes apart Monday night and left two dead, Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) called on the Chicago Police Department to be more aggressive in its crackdown on gang violence.
  
  "The department needs to go from passively engaging these individuals to aggressively going after them," Lopez said. "These are the same individuals who are routinely at the center of these conflicts. We have to rout them out and remove them from our communities. My residents simply can't take it anymore."

Wow, what a great idea!!! Let's have the police go after lawbreakers, drug dealers, gang bangers and shooters! This is fucking brilliant!!! Why hasn't someone thought of this before 700+ got killed or 4,000+ got ventilated?

Rahm? Special Ed? Let's step up! Get this done! Why are you sitting around on your asses letting the gangs run the streets?

Lead the way!!!

Winter Parking (UPDATE)

Despite the 50 degree weather....

Despite the lack of snow.....

Despite the lack of anything resembling winter, Winter Parking Regulations are in effect tonight!

That means that it's time to set the over/under for vehicles towed tonight. In years past, it's been right around 100 to 120 cars, depending on how much money Chicago needs.

We'll guess at 111 cars.

UPDATE: Unconfirmed report on WBBM NewsRadio 780 - 170 cars towed overnight. The tow companies get $48 per car towed, so you know they had a bit of an incentive to clear the streets.

This Ass?

Someone who attempted to intimidate an entire organization based on an endorsement they never made:

• Often tipped as a potential mayoral candidate, Ald. Ameya Pawar (47th) is eyeing a different political office — Illinois governor.

Sure, a giant lurch to the left couldn't possibly do any harm to a city foundering under nearly a century of democrat rule.

This is truly amusing though:

• "You create 'the other' and everyone is divided. We fight over scraps instead of looking at the top," he said. "That's the perfect strategy for maintaining the status quo."

You mean like when Pawar's "othered" the local police for an endorsement the National Lodge made, based on the non-responsiveness of Pawar's chosen candidate and his subsequent framing of future Contract talks being held as a club over the National endorsement?

Good thing Hillary won, right?

Shoot Your Partner?

Special Ed is unhappy that everyone isn't contributing their opinion to the new Use of Force Policy:

• It’s an old adage meant to fill polling booths: If you don’t vote, don’t complain about who’s in office.
  
  Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, with noticeable frustration in his voice, used similar logic to urge people to share their opinions on a proposed overhaul of the department’s use of force policy.
  
  “I have to emphasize that if you don’t comment on it — and you don’t look at it, and you don’t comment on it — then don’t be upset with the policy that’s put in place because you didn’t help craft it,” Johnson said Tuesday at a breakfast at the Union League Club.

As we stated a while back, the number of comments submitted is under 150. Supposedly, 101 of them are from Jamal, Lemon and pfather Pfleger. Another 25 are Special Ed trying to order a pizza. So there are only something like two dozen actual comments, meaning that your comment might actually have some weight....if Special Ed, Granny Kirkpatrick/Clampett or Rahm really gave a shit what you thought.

• Johnson announced the yet-to-be finalized draft in October, along with a 45-day window in which public comments would be accepted. The window shuts on Dec. 5.

On 06 December, Special Ed will ceremoniously strip 100 officers....just because.

This however, was pointed out by an e-mailer and is a bit concerning:

• Proposed changes also would require officers to stop another officer who is engaging in misconduct when it comes to the use of force.
  
  “We are going to require officers to actually intervene,” Kirkpatrick said. “You must intervene and stop the misconduct, not just report it.”

So...if your partner is using, let's say, Deadly Force. And you, for whatever reason, decide that the use of Deadly Force is above and beyond what you would have used. You must intervene to stop the alleged misconduct. According to the Use of Force Model, Deadly Force is countered with.....Deadly Force.

So......shoot your partner?

We've worked with a lot of cops over the years. A few great ones, some not so great, most just honest guys and gals trying to get through the day, get home, drink a beer, see the kids' school play, get some sleep, whatever.

We can't recall ever wanting to actually kill them, but according to the Wicked Witch of the West Coast, we'll be required to "intervene" when witnessing misconduct, up to and including, shooting our partner to stop misconduct, disregarding the fact that two people can witness the same situation from different vantage points and come up with completely different interpretations of events.

FOP? PBPA? You strong silent types want to chime in on this before somebody in charge actually puts this bullshit into effect?

Still Trying for Shortshanks

Like trying to nail jello to the wall:

• A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit can go forward accusing former Mayor Richard Daley of ignoring evidence that white Chicago police detectives working under disgraced former police Cmdr. Jon Burge tortured dozens of black suspects into murder confessions.
  
  U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve's ruling sets the stage once again for Daley to potentially be forced to give sworn testimony about what he knew of the painful legacy of police torture that first came to light when Daley was Cook County state's attorney and later exploded during his more than two decades as mayor.

"potentially be forced" means Rahm is readying the taxpayer checkbook once again instead of actually contesting one of these cases that would demonstrate what a shaky foundation of half-truth and bullshit so much of this is built on.

Rahm Gets One Thing Right

The media slant continues to be "Police Out Of Control." Rahm points out the obvious:

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel cautioned Tuesday against trying to generalize about the recent spate of police shootings, saying "they're not all the same" and lauding Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson for his handling of the situations.
  
  Chicago police went through a period ending Sunday night where officers fatally shot four people in the past 10 days, a cluster of shootings that has drawn even more attention to the department as federal investigators continue their probe into its training and tactics prompted by the release of the Laquan McDonald shooting video a year ago.

In two of the shootings, police shot an individual who had just killed someone else.

In the third, the police shot someone who had just blasted his pregnant girlfriend, killing the unborn child, then shot at police not just once, but twice.

In the last, Special Ed has stripped the involved member due to a missing gun, disregarding the fact that if a gun bounces twice on the sidewalk in certain neighborhoods, the Pope would declare it a miracle. Special Ed brags about being a street cop, but any street cop knows guns, drugs, even hot cars disappear with amazing regularity when left unattended.

Rahm pointing out that each shooting should be judged on its own merits is disingenuous at best, seeing as he and his appointees are the ones who suppressed the one video and surrendered the streets to assorted "activists."

Understaffing Everywhere

Chicago has been skimping on Public Safety for years - and now Health:

• Less than 44 percent of Chicago restaurants and 24.8 percent of bars are being inspected as often as state law requires — undermining public trust and jeopardizing state funding — because the city’s Department of Public Health is “seriously understaffed,” Inspector General Joe Ferguson has concluded.
  
  State law requires the city to inspect high-risk food establishments twice a year. The category includes restaurants, hospital kitchens, day care centers and schools that prepare food on site.
  
  If the risk of food-borne illness is “medium” — a category that includes groceries, bakeries, delis and schools serving food prepared off-site — inspections are required once a year. Low-risk establishment — including gas stations, convenience stores and bars — need to be inspected only every two years.
  
  But after auditing 2015 inspections, Ferguson concluded that the Health Department is falling far short of those staggered standards and would need at least 94 food inspectors — 56 more than it has on staff — to abide by those state requirements.

But until someone gets sick, sues the City, or dies, don't expect much from Rahm.....he's running Chicago on the cheap. Look at how short we've been for years.

Again, Shots Fired at Police

But this time, there were Feds along for the ride:

• Police searched several blocks of a neighborhood near Midway Airport with SWAT teams, a helicopter and dogs Monday morning after a passenger in a car fired several shots at federal and state law enforcement officers, authorities said.
  
  No one was injured and authorities made four arrests within an hour of the shooting, which occurred around 9:25 a.m. in the 6100 block of South Kolmar Avenue, authorities said. FBI officials were at the scene gathering evidence midday.
  
  The shots were fired while members of an FBI-Chicago police task force were involved in an investigation, according to FBI spokesman [...].

We imagine this means that the arrestees will be seeing a Federal judge and not a Cook County cream-puff who would I-Bond them out on a signature so as to keep the jail empty and Prickwrinkle happy.

Good job by all involved.

Impressive

But they did have the extra day:

• At least 68 people were shot, 8 fatally, in attacks across the city over Thanksgiving weekend, according to Chicago police.
  
  Last year, 8 people were killed and 20 were wounded in shootings during the same four-day holiday weekend, beginning at 7 p.m. the day before Thanksgiving.

And those 68 shot pushed Chicago's total shot to over 4,000 (per HeyJackass.com). Take a bow Rahm.

Leaks from HQ

So over on Jamal Green's facebook page, he's got a picture of the sergeant that Stripper Ed relived of his powers.

Obviously we aren't going to link it or post it - two people sent us screen captures. But the e-mailers rightfully ask how is this ass getting the info before the media? Is Special Ed (or his people) leaking info to the activists, seeing as how they work for and answer to the activist anyway nowadays.

And the comments attached are threatening bodily harm or death to the sergeant. We're sure that will be looked at as soon as the new States Attorney is sworn in.

Armed Assailant Killed

Protests scheduled for later today:

• A man suspected of shooting a pregnant woman during a domestic disturbance was fatally shot by a Chicago Police officer Sunday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
  
  Officers responded about 11:30 p.m. to a call of the domestic battery in the 4600 block of West Adams, according to a statement from police.
  
  A 24-year-old pregnant woman was found to have been shot in the abdomen and was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition, police and Chicago Fire Department officials said.
  
  The suspect left the scene, but then ran into officers in the first block of North Kenton, where he fired a handgun at the officers before running away, police said. The officers chased the suspect and a perimeter of the area was established.
  
  The suspect was spotted again in a gangway in the 4500 block of West Washington, where he again shot at the officers, police said. The officers returned fire, striking him.

So he's an attempted murder three times over, four if you count the unborn child. Special Ed arrived on scene and stripped five coppers, two sergeants, a detective, three civilians and a tranny hooker who happened to be looking for a good time.

One copper was injured, though reports are it wasn't by gunfire. A speedy recovery wished to the Officer and good job to all involved.

UPDATE: A second officer was injured according to reports, graze wound, so this could have been a lot worse.

Lookie Here

Seems someone recognized the altar boy:

But police are the problem.

Well Done 008

From the comments:

• 008th district commander comes into roll call and says he got a phone call from some other douche boss and got his ass chewed out because for the last 30-45 days there has been zero isr's written in 008. The best part is him telling us that he's not a numbers guy but doesnt like his ass chewed out. Well grow some balls and tell them to suck your wrinkled dick. And as far as the isr's....when the 5 coppers that lost their jobs from assisting van dyke at his shooting get their jobs back maybe just maybe I'll come across 1 here or there. Maybe.

With street stops down something like 82% and Special Ed stripping coppers as soon as the "community" tells him to, this number is, quite frankly, way too low. But for 008 to be making a point with zero over the course of a month? Impressive.

Staged Protest

Brilliant - per-negotiated arrests:

• Upcoming staged protest plan - courtesy of SEIU, City of Chicago councilmembers, and the 12th District - at the corporate Mconald's (2005 W Chicago) will result in the 'arrest' of 100 SEIU 'demonstrators' as part of a larger national plan. SEIU, Alderman, and other protest groups have met with CPD command members to orchestrate these future arrests (ANOV) to include use of background checks. This astroturf event will be amplified in the media nationally to show how SEIU has the back of our nation's minimum wage employee

This while Chicago closes in on 700 "official" homicides, the real number prepares to pass 730 and over 4,000 people have extra holes in their bodies due to out-of-control gang violence.

Stripper Ed at it Again

You've already got the Sergeant as a POW, off the street, for 30 days. But he couldn't wait to follow the orders of his "activist" buddies:

• Dear Members,
  
  This past Wednesday in West Englewood (6500 S. Marshfield Ave), we had an officer involved shooting that occurred after a foot pursuit and encounter between a sergeant and a 19-year old offender. While the chronology of events is still not clear, I reviewed the available information, including the report from detectives and the OCIC; the unsuccessful canvass for a weapon and last night's ruling by the Medical Examiner which indicated the offender was struck in the back.
  
  After considerable deliberation over the evidence and available information thus far, I still have additional questions and concerns pertaining to this incident. Therefore, I have decided to relieve the involved officer who discharged his weapon of police powers pending the outcome of IPRA’s independent investigation. I have urged IPRA to act swiftly to bring this case to resolution for the benefit of everyone involved.
  
  Having been a police officer for 28 years, I know that this job is not easy and the decision to use force is extremely complex and must be made in seconds without the benefits of formal reviews and deliberations. I feel this decision, while difficult to make, is in the best interest of the Department and the people of Chicago as we await a methodical and impartial investigation into what transpired.

If you've been any sort of cop for even two years, you know that people get shot in the back oftentimes. It isn't always a "stand-up" gunfight. People move, run, retreat, fire over their shoulders, etc. Being hit in the back isn't evidence of anything.

If you've patrolled in any sort of crappy neighborhood, you know that evidence walks away all the time. Proceeds of burglaries, all sorts of dropped narcotics, and yes, guns. And witnesses to these acts lie, all the time.

So your wishes for "a methodical and impartial investigation" ring kind of hollow, especially as you continue to cover for the IAD cheating scandal involving Wysinger's wife and a number of girlfriends of high ranking exempts - namely yours. But hey, Rahm says jump, Jamal says jump, you might as well jump, right?

100 Shots

Remember, police are the problem as the ghetto body count rises:

• Carl Benton was playing music at a house party in the South Chicago neighborhood on the Far South Side early Saturday when he looked up and saw people rushing toward him.
  
  Soon, women were on top of him during what he recalled being about 10 minutes of gunfire. He thinks he heard "about 100" gunshots just after 2:10 a.m. from inside and outside a home in the 8800 block of South Exchange Avenue.

Along with the tone-deafness, the irony was thick:

• A CeaseFire sticker was visible on the front door of a home at the edge of the crime scene. Nearby, residents had posted on a wooden fence a sign of a gun, warning the public that they don't call 911.

That wasn't posted to warn the public - that was posted to warn the other bangers. Obviously this "reporter" has no sense of gang-banger sarcasm.

Harvey Manhunt

Not sure if this is a cop or a security guard. We've seen reports stating both. But this is one cold blooded asshole:

• Police are searching for a man who shot and killed a Canadian National Railroad police officer and stole two vehicles Saturday evening in south suburban Harvey.
  
  About 7 p.m., a woman called police to report a man stealing her car, according to Harvey city spokesman Sean Howard. The woman was able to get in another car and followed the man while speaking with police. After hearing police sirens and realizing he was being followed, the man crashed the stolen car near 159th Street and Park.
  
  The man then ran towards the viaduct on the nearby railroad where he saw the Canadian National Railroad police officer in a vehicle, said Howard. The officer was found shot in the abdomen and was taken to South Suburban Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  
  The shooter stole the officer’s vehicle but then abandoned it in the 100 block of 71st Street, according to Howard.

Hopefully, they find him quick. And we were just talking about railroad security.

Chicago's Gun-Walker Scandal

This idiot had information....and sat on it:

• Chicago Ald. Pat Dowell was so concerned about railyard gun heists that last year she wanted to hold a public hearing to question railway representatives.
  
  But she tells the 2 Investigators the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and railyard giant Norfolk Southern “strongly encouraged” her not to go public for fear she would expose serious security deficiencies.
  
  Dowell held off. Now, it’s happened again.
  
  In the latest incident, a half-dozen semi-automatic rifles and 27 handguns were reportedly stolen from a rail car near 77^th and Avalon, the 2 Investigators have confirmed.

Gee....the BATFE.

Wasn't there some sort of scandal about 7 years ago in the supposedly "scandal-free" Obama administration where a shitload of guns "walked" across the border and ended up slaughtering hundreds of Mexican citizens along with American law enforcement officers?

Now a sitting aldercreature, whose community is being destroyed by guns, lets the BATFE sit on "security deficiencies" so that even more guns get stolen and sold on the streets of Chicago?

And Rahm says guns are the problem? How about railyard security is the problem along with aldercreatures who let a federal agency ignore security concerns in furtherance of a political agenda that costs dozens, maybe hundreds of people their lives.

Alderasshole Dowell should have a body count attached to her re-election bid.

Morale Still Low?

From the "No Shit Sherlock" files:

• When the veteran Chicago police officer joined the department, he expected to stay long enough to earn two star patches on the lower left sleeve of his uniform, signifying 40 years on the job.
  
  Even as he grew older, his enthusiasm was unwavering. He prided himself on continuing to work in some of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods, figuring that's where he could make the most difference.
  
  Now, though, with about 20 years in uniform, he wants out, fed up with how dramatically his work life has been upended in the months since the release of the video showing an officer shoot Laquan McDonald 16 times. Like many others he works with, this cop believes his proactive style of policing has become a relic of the past because of real fears over lawsuits, firings, even indictments.
  
  He and other officers interviewed by the Tribune say the anti-police furor that erupted over the vivid footage continues to sink morale, hamstring officers and embolden the criminal element, contributing to a shocking jump in violence this year to levels unseen in Chicago since the late 1990s.

The entire article goes on like that for a while, ending with the usual ACLU and Futterman denials that less proactive police have anything to do with the skyrocketing murder numbers. Sure, an 82% drop in street stops couldn't have anything to do with it - what a bunch of asshats.

The article, in fact, could have been distilled from the past 8 or 9 years of the blog, every since J-Fledgar and McCompStat came in and destroyed the Department, along with the current occupant who's bedmate scored amazingly high on the most recent Lieutenant exam (100% amazingly if the investigation is to be believed.)

But remember, police are the problem.

Thanks Social Media

Just to dispel the media narrative, here's the latest altar boy in his uncensored environment:

The early-onset hand arthritis.

The numerous unregistered firearms.

"He never had no gun....."

Except for those photos. And the one he tossed near a group of upstanding citizens as he fled from the police and they picked it up so as to prevent Englewood from becoming a litter-strew hellhole.

Another Shooting

Caught in the act of murdering someone:

• A man was shot and killed by Chicago Police officers who saw him shoot two other people, one fatally, early Friday in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, according to police.
  
  It was the city’s second fatal police-involved shooting in just over 24 hours, and the third in a week.

The complaints will start up shortly that the police didn't get there fast enough to prevent the first killing, so they killed the killer to cover up their slow pre-cog abilities.....and this will make sense to some people.

No cops hurt, which is the main thing.

Uh Oh....

What's this? Sounds like a Federal lawsuit in the offing...a big federal lawsuit:

• A "very reliable source" says an African American" police officer who works in the "hiring department" has just realized he has stepped on his dick. Individual layed out to the wrong person how they are discriminating against certain males from a certain neighborhood. A little lesson boys and girls---assume everything is being recorded. This guy lays it all out and mentions names of others in the conspiracy. Stay tuned.
• Sit back boys and girls! There is an "black insider" that was caught on video bragging about how they are fucking over Mt. Greenwood" male applicants! 😁 You will see a federal lawsuit that will eventually end up in a more "fair" court. There are a lot of individuals waiting to see if their loved ones get disqualified. Rham Emmanuel is powerless with this new administration.

Hopefully, President Trump puts a young aggressive Federal prosecutor here in Chicago, eager to make a name for himself putting a few politicians (and police brass) in federal prison...and not just any federal prison:

Daley kept himself out of prison with a bunch of middlemen willing to do 2 years at a time. Let's see who's willing to roll over on who in the Rahm administration.

Shooting

Police shooting in Englewood:

• A 19-year-old man was fatally wounded late Wednesday after a police sergeant said the man pointed a gun in his direction, but a grid search Thursday morning failed to uncover a weapon, officials said.
  
  "We were not able to locate a weapon as of yet,'' said Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who briefly made remarks about the shooting at a 1 p.m. news conference at headquarters. “We have some missing information in our timeline,’’ Johnson said.

Now comes the part where we mention that everyone should wait until the investigation takes its course, that judgement should be reserved, that there are dozens of situations where it is completely justified to shoot an unarmed assailant, like this jagoff in California:

And of course, the media ignores this all and starts interviewing the usual assholes, including the Jamal character who supposedly has told people he received upwards of $20,000 from Kimesha Foxx to protest, agitate and promote disorder.

Captured Video

A whole bunch of readers have downloaded, saved, Google Drive the video, so we imagine it's safely stored any number of places, which is exactly what is needed in this atmosphere. We're going to try out a few of the links and make sure it's accessible to anyone who wants it.

Thanks to everyone.

(Reference: Yesterday's video from Lemon Record alleging payoffs by Kimesh Foxx)

Happy Thanksgiving

Lots to be thankful for. Lots to reflect on.

Comments may be delayed as most of us aren't even in town today.

Another Ambush Killing

The officer ambushed in Michigan has died:

• The Wayne State University police officer shot Tuesday night while on partol [sic] near the Detroit campus died from his injuries, university police ....
  
  Canine officer Collin Rose, 29, was reportedly surrounded by friends, family and more than 100 other police officers when he died shortly before 6 p.m. at Detroit Receiving Hospital. Rose was on life support following surgery late last night. He was in critical condition since he was shot on the job at about 6:45 p.m.

This is the sixth or seventh shooting of a cop within the past week and continues a particularly bloody year for law enforcement across the board. Keep an eye out for yourself and each other.

Rahm - Master of the Obvious

This headline is among the stupidest ever written:

• Teens Who Shot U.S. Rep Danny Davis' Grandson Shouldn't Have Had Guns: Rahm

Really?

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday the two teens charged with killing U.S. Rep. Danny Davis' 15-year-old grandson should not have had access to a gun.

No shit Sherlock. But you know what else would have worked? Keeping criminals behind bars where they belong, be it awaiting trial or serving a full sentence upon conviction. Even if they're juveniles, there's a secure detention facility upstairs at the Audy Home....and we hear it's underutilized, like every other county detention facility.

• "This is an incredible poignant and incredibly petty moment," Emanuel said. "This maybe should have been, at best, a fist fight."

Over shoes? This shouldn't have even been a fist fight you ass. Or is this another one of your "take it to the alley" things? You're still an asshole of gigantic proportions if you think an argument about over-priced sweatshop produced gym shoes is a legit reason for any sort of fight.

• Davis, who represents Chicago's South Side in Congress, called for city and local authorities to declare a "state of emergency" in high crime, low-employment areas of the city in the wake of his grandson's death.
  
  Emanuel declined to endorse that call, but agreed with Davis that city and state officials should do more to provide activities on the weekends and after school not just to keep teens busy but to give them a "foundation to know right from wrong."

Didn't we just spend a summer of people whining about the "over-militarization" of the police? And now he wants what? The National Guard to come in and restore order? Tell us how that is supposed to work out. And Emanuel once again attempting to have the state do what parents (plural ....parents) should be teaching every single day.

As a life long resident of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA we can tell you exactly how many times a politician taught us right from wrong:

• ZERO

If we stepped out of line, we got the belt, the foot-in-the-ass, the paddle or grounded. To hear Rahm tell it, so did he, but he's a lying sack of crap anyway, so you can't believe a word of it.

Here's the issue - Rahm, Davis and all the rest of the left has been enabling for so long, they've forgotten how the world really works. And even if they remembered, they're too pansy-fied to do anything about it. And having to admit that they were wrong would kill them. And even then, the genie is out of the bottle. They couldn't put it back if they attempted it.

The left says you can't arrest your way out this situation, but no one knows because no one has tried. It would be far better than the bloody alternative, but that one works, too. It's just messy.

Kim Foxx Payoffs?

Lemon Record makes the allegation that the then-candidate for States Attorney was in negotiations with Jamal Green for a $20,000 contract for organizing and protesting last year or earlier this year.

Don't believe us? Go to Lemon's Facebook page. You can see it there for a limited time only...before Kim and her people make Lemon take it down or they sue him. The fun starts after the 4:00 minute mark.

Amusingly, Lemon also makes a number of threats to "shoot" someone over this Facebook feud, something that seems to occur with astonishing regularity in the circle these assholes run in. That's after the 6:00 minute mark.

So after all things come to pass and one of these jagoffs shoots the other, who's going to take the blame? And why is a States Attorney candidate entering into contractual agreements with known agitators/criminals/assholes?

And if someone who knows Facebook tech could figure out how to save the video, it would always have a home here if you get it to us.

"Reforms" to Continue

Stay the course!

• Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday vowed to press ahead with reforms at the Chicago Police Department whether or not President-elect Donald Trump agrees with the results of an ongoing Justice Department probe spurred by the Laquan McDonald shooting.
  
  Responding to questions about whether the department needs to have in place a federal consent decree laying out new department training and use of force rules before Trump takes office in January, the mayor said "our commitment to reform will not change with the administration."

Of course, if the President-elect does something drastic, like cutting funding to the DOJ, including the on-going and continuous costs and grant money necessary to keeping such a close eye on the police, well then, Rahm is going to have to face the unpleasant prospect of raising taxes ... again.

Which of course leads to the "death spiral" effect, where it's too expensive to live in Chicago, so taxpayers and businesses move out, leading to a shrinking tax base, leading to higher taxes once again to sustain the "gib me dat" crowd, leading to more people leaving, etc etc.

Black Friday Protests

For the second year in a row, malcontents are going to interrupt citizens freedom of movement to buy stuff:

• For a second straight year, protesters will attempt to disrupt Black Friday shopping along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile.
  
  Last year, hundreds of demonstrators marched on North Michigan Avenue last year to protest what they called unjustified police shootings.
  
  That forced many businesses to close earlier on the busiest shopping day of the year.
  
  This year, protesters say they will be back on the Mag Mile, to draw attention to gun violence, racism and police brutality.

Again, how about marching where....you know....the violence is actually occurring?

Would that be too dangerous?

Or are the marchers admitting that the violence is moving downtown?

Hey Special Ed? How about we keep the streets and entrance/exits clear this time so people can engage in lawful commerce?

Another Exam?

We heard they aren't even halfway through the current list of eligible-to-be-hired, but the pool is evidently so small, the City expects to finish it before the year is out.

So if you know anyone willing to be second guessed by

• the media,
• the revrunds,
• the City Council,
• mayor, 
• clergy
• and assorted "community" groups

while putting their

• cars,
• homes,
• paycheck,
• freedom
• and life

on the line for

• an ungrateful,
• entitled,
• hateful culture
• who has never actually done the job,
• but knows everything about the job

direct them to this link and get their ass hired!

The Truth Comes Out

From the e-mail basket:

• Breaking news on the recent attack by squirrel. The Squirrel in question has been identified as Snappy D. Squirrel, age 13, of the local elm lofts. The family has provided as usual the traditional post incident picture of his 8th grade graduation. When interviewed, Mrs. Squirrel was only able to state 'my baby, my baby be dead". please find enclosed the picture as provided by the grieving family. Protests can be expected as SLM (Squirrel Lives Matter) held a vigil on the bike path halting bicycle traffic yesterday for several hours, calling for the end of bicycles and aldermen. A lawsuit was also filed yesterday in Cook County court against Specialized Bicycles for wrongful death.

SqLM!!!

Oh the humanity!!!

• Don't mess with the squirrels!
  
  That was the nasty but unambiguous message sent to Ald. Howard Brookins, 21st, by Chicago's rodent community just weeks after he gave a fiery City Council speech decrying the menace of "aggressive squirrels."
  
  Out cycling on the Cal-Sag Trail on Nov. 13, Brookins was jumped by a kamikaze squirrel that leapt into the front wheel of his bike and lodged himself in the spokes, sending the alderman flying over the handlebars.
  
  The attack cost the squirrel its life and left Brookins needing surgery and other treatment for a broken nose, a fractured skull and five or six teeth that were knocked out in the accident.

The Tribune, adding insult to injury, published a picture of the offending rodent tangled in the spokes:

If the squirrels are organizing, we could easily see a homicide total rising into the 1,000's. Remember what happened when the insect world almost took over?

The media couldn't wait to deliver society into their cruel clutches.

Crooked Reporter Still Crooked

Martin Prieb hits another one out of the park. 

Disgraced Tribune "reporter" Steven Mills is already under a cloud for his horseshit reporting regarding the Anthony Porter/Alstory Simon debacle where a convicted killer was released and an innocent man framed with the media's assistance based on nothing except the hyperventilating of assorted leftists.

Now he is pushing the "innocence" of four more convicted rapist/murderers, misrepresenting the trial, evidence and crap-tacular work of the State's Attorney office. And the basis for much of Steven Mills' "reporting?"

Quoting his own disgraced columns.

Preib nail it down, exposing yet another series of agenda driven media lies that put dangerous criminals on the street.

Go read it all.

And Another Study

Blowing holes in the liberal slant and misreporting so prevalent over few past two years:

• The day after a Minnesota cop was charged in the July shooting death of a black man, an in-depth study purported to show race generally does not play a role in police shootings.
  
  Among the findings of the investigation released Thursday by the Crime Prevention Research Center: White police officers are not significantly more likely to shoot black suspects; body cameras have had little effect on decreasing police killings; the more cops at the scene, the less likely it is a suspect will be shot.
  
  The study examined data from 2013 to 2015, a time period which almost perfectly bookends the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014, an episode that helped lead to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and placed increased scrutiny on police shootings. Yet, the research team of John Lott and Carlisle Moody found the percentage of black suspects killed in the 19 months before Brown’s death (24.8 percent) was almost exactly the same as the percentage killed in the 16 months after Brown’s death (25 percent).

Imagine that. Police profile criminal behavior, and not skin tones, because police know criminals come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

The entire study is here. John Lott is a bright mind and a thorough researcher.

We're Number One!

New York and Los Angeles, even combined, can't top Chicago's murder total:

• Chicago was pushed into an unwanted spotlight earlier this year when it was noted the city has recorded more murders than New York City and Los Angeles combined.
  
  As the year winds down, that’s still holding true.
  
  The city surpassed 700 homicides over the weekend, according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of Cook County medical examiner’s records. That number includes 10 cases in which victims died this year but were injured in previous years.
  
  The Chicago Police Department tallied 654 murders as of Nov. 13. The department’s total omits “non-criminal” deaths that the medical examiner classifies as homicides, as well as expressway murders handled by the Illinois State Police.

NYC + LA = 558.

HeyJackass has the total at 711, and you can see some of the manipulation where the CPD doesn't count expressway murders, even though the roads are entirely within the corporate boundaries of Chicago - it's like a twilight zone where nothing matters. Death investigations that get re-classified after 01 January of next year are also carefully omitted.

And Chicago is still between 100 and 150 murders over the combined totals.

Can anyone explain why Special Ed still has a job?