Root Beer Case Looking Shaky

Crimesha's office is even bragging about abusing her power to enforce the double standards:

• When a driver allegedly tried to hit Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx with his pickup truck and drenched her with soda after she had given him the finger, her chief investigator and security detail sprung into action and tracked the suspect to a library in Flossmoor, the Sun-Times has learned.

  Hours after William Swetz was taken into custody on June 21, two Cook County prosecutors came to the Flossmoor police station to review the evidence that had been collected, according to investigatory reports obtained through an open records request.

  The following day, one of the prosecutors conducted follow-up interviews with Foxx and a witness who saw the alleged attack in the 800 block of Sterling Avenue and informed police that Swetz would face felony charges.

Anyone remember that part of our General Orders that says you will not deliberately place yourself into jeopardy and claim your life was in danger? Seems like common sense, right?

But Crimesha can admit she was walking in the middle of the street, interfering with traffic, and then she can claim this guy attempted to run her over?

But....:

• A witness who watched the incident unfold said she was alarmed, but didn’t consider that Swetz had tried to hit Foxx with the pickup. “That did not come to mind,” the witness told an investigator.

If we had a witness to a crime say anything close to that, we'd be looking at an (A) continuing investigation or (B) a refusal of charges. Guaranteed. 

So the double felony is crap charging right off the bat.

Not Surprising

An innocent bystander, protecting his family from an assassin, turns out to have been someone who served as a First Responder for years:

• A former Pennsylvania fire chief, Corey Comperatore, was reportedly shot and killed when a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

  “Comperatore is being remembered on social media by family members, friends and colleagues of the firefighting community. He had retired from the fire department, but remained well-known in the community,” WPXI Pittsburgh reported.

  Comperatore’s sister, Dawn Comperatore Schafer, wrote in a post shared to Facebook that her brother died as he shielded his daughter as the shooter fired on Trump.

  “The hatred for one man took the life of the one man we loved the most. He was a hero that shielded his daughters,” she wrote, the New York Post confirmed. “His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable,” she said.

There's at least one fundraising site that has over $2 million pledged to the family, but we aren't sure what's legit and what isn't. Do your due-diligence over the next few days if you're so inclined to contribute so you and the family aren't scammed.

Missed Chance to Stop Assassin

This video might end up disappeared shortly as it:

• the BBC and
• it paints the Secret Service in a bad light

The included text is as follows:

• JUST IN: A guy outside the rally saw the shooter crawling on a roof and attempted to warn police and the Secret Service. "We noticed a guy bear crawling on the roof with a rifle." "I'm standing there pointing at him for two to three minutes, and the Secret Service is looking at us." "Next thing you know, five shots rang out." "Secret Service blew his head off." "They crawled up on the roof and made sure he was dead."

He and others saw the assassin with the rifle, called out to the protective detail, pointed, waved, did everything possible to warn them, and was ignored until the assassin got his shots off.

Now the FBI, which has been busy chasing down grandmothers, Catholics, people who address their local school boards, harass nurses who reveal illegal gender mutilation in hospitals, and political dissenters for the past few years, is the lead agency for assassination attempts. Remember, this agency won't release the tranny manifesto, can't determine a motive in the Vegas shooting, and has missed every "known wolf" in the past few years....all of whom happened to be raging leftists.

But hey, we all need to come together and forget that while the left is always screaming about "extremism from the right," the violence always seems to start in their neck of the woods.

UPDATE: The chance to bury the story has come and gone it seems. It's out in the general public with a lot more information. There need to be mass firings if they don't resign immediately.

How Close Was It?

Photographer Doug Mills caught this amazing picture - he'll probably win a Pulitzer for it:

That's a bullet in flight that missed Trump. 

It may be the one that killed the innocent bystander.

Lateral Program Closed?

And the rehire program, too?

• On top of all this, the rehire and lateral programs have been closed. Both programs netted 74 officers. Not the 600 plus rehired. As a exempt said at compstat, "the job is soo good that over 600 people want to come back." A good portion of new hires want to leave after a year or two.

Well that's going to go down as quite the failure. Tie it into the massive wave of retirements in May, June and July and no one is going to see a weekend until September at some point.

Loretto of the Ghetto

Hospitals are supposed to be places of treatment and healing?

• A former Loretto Hospital executive who resigned amid a series of COVID-19 vaccination controversies in 2021 is accused in a new federal indictment of scheming with others to embezzle more than $15 million from the hospital.

  Anosh Ahmed, 40, Loretto’s onetime chief financial officer, is charged with eight counts of wire fraud, four counts of embezzlement, 11 counts of aiding and abetting embezzlement and three counts of money laundering.

  Also facing several criminal charges is Sameer Suhail, 47, the owner of a medical supply company who allegedly participated in the fraud along with Ahmed and Loretto’s then-chief transformation officer, Heather Bergdahl, 37, who has previously been charged in the case. Ahmed also held the title of chief operating officer.

Golly, everyone is making a buck on the misery of the west side....except west siders. They aren't even getting decent medical treatment.

Assassination Attempt

The left has been advocating for this for months, years even.

They finally got their wish....almost.

What are the odds that they cancel one or both of the conventions?

He Said, She Said

But he is a nobody and she is a political heavyweight, so he must be crushed:

• The Flossmoor Police Department released 19 documents related to its investigation of the alleged assault and battery of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in June.

The link of course, is CWB, the one of the only local investigative sites in existence.

The reading is extensive and pretty thorough, and it shows two people acting like assholes to one another. It also shows the two standards of "justice" applied when one "victim" is an elected official. We can't get two ASA's to show up to an Officer Battery incident for a slam-dunk by-the-book felony charge, but Crimesha can.

See if you can spot the racial profiling by the witness.

What the Absolute F#$%???

All credit to CWB for puting together and reporting this ridiculous happening:

• Sandra Kolalou, the woman sentenced to decades in prison this week for murdering and dismembering her landlord, won a $3 million lawsuit against the CTA while she was in jail awaiting trial on the charges, court records show.

  The judge overseeing the ongoing civil suit permitted Kolalou to proceed under her maiden name, Sandra White, following her arrest for the murder and dismemberment of Frances Walker.

  Jurors were never told about the murder allegations or why Kolalou wasn’t in court for the civil trial (She was in jail.).

  [...] Within weeks, her civil attorneys sought to have the jury sequestered during the upcoming trial, an effort that failed. However, they succeeded in convincing a judge to prohibit anyone from using the name Kolalou during the trial due to a “strong prejudice against murderers.”

And to add icing to the shit sandwich, after the civil trial, city lawyers discovered her social media accounts:

• ....showed Kolalou “cliff-jumping, swimming with the dolphins, roller-skating, playing tennis, wearing high heels, and traveling to far-away destinations such as Egypt, South Africa, and Mexico” while she was experiencing debilitating leg and back pain

And the incompetent CTA Counsel still lost the appeal!

They're trying for a third time, but it sure looks like this piece of garbage will be a millionaire whiule serving a fifty-eight year sentence.

Conehead Fumblerooski

A vague attempt to hold someone accountable for community misbehavior ends in no one being held accountable:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson appeared set to throw his weight behind a proposal this week to fight chaotic Chicago “teen trend” meetups and illegal parties that sometimes end in gun violence, but backed away from the plan amid progressive pushback.

  Aldermen were discussing with the administration Thursday a draft ordinance to levy $10,000 fines against the organizers of certain “unlawful gatherings” — including many of the raucous, social media-fueled get-togethers pulling crowds of young people together at city parks and abandoned buildings.

  The mayor’s administration wanted to push the measure through the City Council as soon as next week, Ald. Lamont Robinson, 4th, told the Tribune before it was pulled. The ambitious timeline for the crackdown suggested Johnson feels the need to do something about the parties, which have drawn attention for some high-profile acts of violence.

  However, his administration quickly changed its tune in the face of questions from aldermen about its ramifications, and instead planned to hold the draft ordinance by Friday morning. Despite the administration’s intergovernmental affairs team’s work to push the ordinance and its appearance on a council agenda, a Johnson spokesperson said Friday it had moved forward “erroneously.”

Those "progressives" just can't get enough of dead and maimed minority children, can they?

And Conehead plays along instead of, you know, actually leading.

In that spirit - and in recognition of the weekend of 90-plus temps - we're going to make a prediction of 9 dead and 31 wounded, starting at 1700 hours Friday until 0001 hours Monday morning.

Graft Continues

All of this automated progress, and no cost cutting:

• Gone are the days of stashing coins in your car for highway toll booths, the last vestige of a 60-year period when drivers could stop to deposit change or hand over cash.

  The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority tore out its last physical booth along the southern section of Interstate 294 this summer, more than four years after the agency stopped using booths during the COVID-19 pandemic.

You'd think without toll booth attendants, money transport and counting, toll booth maintenance and all sorts of other overhead, there might be an effort to cut tolls? Maybe pay off a few of the bonds from the 1950's and 60's and finally make the tollways the freeways they were promised to be, instead of a sprawling bloated government entity with a helicopter fleet three times larger than CFD and CPD combined.

Nope.

Seriously? The Black Death?

Is this the next election interference by democrats?

• Colorado health officials on Tuesday confirmed a case of human plague in that state.

  The infection -- which occurred in Pueblo County, in the southern part of the state -- was first reported Friday based on preliminary test results, while the source of the infection is still being tracked down.

Trump must be making inroads in Colorado. They're importing illegals to generate absentee votes, the Russia hoax is being re-released, the lawfare proceeds apace and liberal courts are once again rewriting election law ahead of November.

Going to be an interesting end of the year.

Another $100 Million Appears!

From the "business community:"

• In a show of political and private force after a horrifically violent extended holiday weekend in Chicago, civic leaders joined Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and state legislative leaders to announce progress in their commitment to funding community-level violence prevention programs.

  The Chicago business community has raised $100 million to support on-the-ground programs, which typically take the form of nonpolice interventions in communities at risk of violence, in a first-of-its-kind effort from the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. In addition, $175 million in state funding for those programs has begun to be distributed, Pritzker said.

  The gathering of CEOs, philanthropic leaders, police and violence interrupters came after more than 100 people were shot in Chicago over the extended Fourth of July weekend.

It would have been nice if this $100 million was available prior to the one-hundred-plus being perforated, wouldn't it? 

So what happens when the business community doesn't see any return on this investment? What pressure was brought to bear to garner these "donations"? Are they buying access to a presidential hopeful?

And what tax benefit was granted to these corporate and private entities that will deny tax revenues to Illinoisans as a whole, rather than a subdivision of society that has refused to live by the law, constantly claims to be victims of a institution that ended tens of decades before any of them were born, all while victimizing thousands of honest citizens to the tune of billions of dollars?

60 Years, Out in 30

Another Cook county judge releasing a murderer, and no one told the mother of the victim:

• Despite receiving a natural life prison term for the murder and decapitation of a friend more than 30 years ago in Barrington, Paul Modrowski is free again after a judge ruled the defendant had been too harshly sentenced in a grisly crime that garnered widespread headlines.

  Modrowski was quietly released without media fanfare July 2 from Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet after serving more than three decades behind bars. He turns 50 later this year and, according to public records, is living with a relative in the southwest suburbs.

  Two hikers found Dean Fawcett’s dismembered body without its head, left arm and right hand near a railroad embankment in Barrington on Jan. 18, 1993. Prosecutors charged Modrowski and a co-defendant, Robert Faraci, with the 22-year-old LaGrange Park man’s murder that April.

  In a Tribune interview, the victim’s mother, Mary Kay Fawcett, said she assumed her son’s killer would die in prison. “I just figured with what he had done, no way would they ever let him out,” Fawcett said. “The thing I keep wondering, hopefully it was quick and my son didn’t suffer. It’s hard to comprehend, even after 30 years.”

And the offending judge:

• Cook County Judge Marc Martin resentenced Modrowski on June 28 to 60 years in prison. Under sentencing laws in place at the time of the crime, Modrowski was eligible for day-for-day credit, allowing for his release days later. He must serve three years of mandatory supervised release.

  In a recent ruling, Martin had tossed out Modrowski’s original life sentence after finding in part that he had been unfairly portrayed as emotionless and cold during the trial and sentencing proceedings when the characteristics were likely due to his autism.

Um, he forced the victim into a car, shot him, chopped off the head, left arm, right hand (none of which were ever found), and expressed no regret for any of it. We don't care if he was a high-level functioning autistic, he's a psycho and should have died behind bars. 

Now he's a fifty-year-old psycho running around in reasonably good health and might live another forty years. Have you seen a list of serial killers who reached their prime killing years during their forties and fifties? It's extensive. 

Cook county courts are beyond broken.

The Politics of Race

Someone made a comment that Chief of Patrol was always a "white guy" spot, because whoever was in it was expendable to the political administration, and the political fallout would be minimal. It provoked this comment from another reader:

• The entire assignment of exempts is political and racial. Why can't a Black be commander of 8 or 16? Why can't a white commander head up 2 or 3 or 5? Why is it always a Latino who has 10 or 14? Time to assign by qualifications and not race or ethnic background? I was told by a black commander when I brought this up that the black people of Chicago would not stand for having a white commander in their area and the Mexicans would not stand for a black commander in their area. Lets test it. Let do something different.

They have tested this at different points of our career....and as we recall, it always failed. We think it was McCompStat who wanted to buck that trend, and the 011th District woke up to one day to a commander named O'Grady. After being named boss, O'Grady introduced himself, then went on furlough a couple days later. He never returned to 011. The entire experiment lasted maybe three weeks. There was something similar in 010 we believe, and perhaps 015? 

Politics is too intertwined with the Department. Anyone have other examples? Qualifications have never meant squat on CPD.

Crank Calling a Judge

There's going to be some sort of "commitment hearing" for the naked crackhead who attempted to murder one of our own on 15 August. Don't expect much in the way of incarceration - the judge claimed she was mentally impaired, but there wasn't a single doctor or therapist report in evidence, so there's pretty much nothing to justify holding her, addressing her behavior or addiction issues.

The judge however, went on some sort of rant last week claiming she's been getting anonymous phone calls complaining (threatening?) her over her obvious incompetence. That accusation would cover damn near 90% of the judges in Cook County.

But we're sure someone will use it to paint the police as "extremists" even without an iota of evidence the calls were connected to the CPD.

Hammer Time!

When your only solution is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a bent nail:

• The leader of Chicago’s largest police union is warning CPD brass that renewed reliance on canceling officers’ days off will tank morale ahead of the Democratic National Convention, when the eyes of the world will be watching how they respond to demonstrations and gun violence.

  John Catanzara, president of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, recently lambasted Chief of Patrol Jon Hein for allegedly directing other supervisors to “cancel whoever’s days off you need to.”

  Catanzara insisted that Hein was “on a warpath,” and he urged Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling to step in. “Unless the superintendent reins this nonsense in, morale is about to start fading away really fast … before the huge convention that is going to turn this city upside down on its head,” he said in a YouTube video on June 28.

Hein is quite frankly, a moron, a piss-poor "leader," and just dumb enough to miss that Snelling and Conehead are using him as the whipping boy for any blame coming down the road for staffing issues. 

Look at Larritorious deflecting:

• Before Memorial Day, Snelling told reporters that his administration would “be judicious” about cancelling officers’ regular days off and would give them “advanced notice so that they can plan around those changes.” But in recent weeks, as gun violence has spiked and police resources have been stretched thin by special events, the department has again relied on the controversial practice, aimed at addressing long-standing staffing woes.

  Former police Supt. David Brown faced sharp criticism for canceling days off, and concerns grew as a wave of suicides impacted the department.

  When Snelling addressed the violent Fourth of July weekend on Monday, he told reporters that day-off cancellations had fallen by about 70% this year, but he said canceling time off is sometimes necessary. “It’s not just canceling days off just to cancel days off,” Snelling said. “It’s to make sure that our officers have enough manpower out there to deal with the situation at hand and make sure that they keep down the violence.”

You know how he can claim a 70% reduction in cancellations? 

• The department stopped doing it for the first five months of the year. They let beat cars go unmanned, watches were shortchanged, and they hoped the weather would keep crime down.

And it worked as it does every year....until the weather warms up, as it does every year. Then the staffing issues are exposed for everyone to see. Then they rely on the media to not report it....which they don't.

The solution remains what it always has and what we've writing about for seventeen years and what we've espoused for our entire careers:

• gut HQ for real...make it stick. Every bureau is overstaffed by 75%;
  
• minimize front offices...you don't need a secretary, assistant secretary, ticket clerk, stat person(s), DAC officers and whatever other made-up positions exist merely to hide officers. Civilianize it all;
• get rid of CAPS for pete's sake. It's outlived it's usefulness and is merely a money laundering operation nowadays. The amount of swag, cash and outright thieving that goes on, it's amazing that the media has never done a deep dive into it;
  
• downsize unit administrative staffs, Detective areas and Homan Square especially. You could reduce inside staff by 50% and no one would ever know;
• revamp the Academy. Teaching one hour of every five is ridiculous, and it's worse at the outlying training spots. At one training session last year, we had eleven different instructors in an eight-hour session, four of whom never spoke a word;
• someone grow a set of testicles (looking at you Larritorious and Hein) and tell Conehead he gets twenty cops and two sergeants the way it used to be. The other hundred-and-thirty go back to a District;
  
• man the beat cars, every single one, every single watch, first and foremost. Instead of Tact Teams, go back to 06 cars. Make it a monthly assignment, plain clothes, and they're the Area response team. Make the Chief there responsible for their deployment and for their numbers. Real numbers, not blue cards. Heads and CB numbers.
  

And those Area Teams, that's your old Task Force deployable asset. If you run it correctly, you'll probably have a few hundred officers per Area. Add in a voluntary Special Employment OT initiative and you'll get plenty of greedy cops sucking up the OT, further minimizing the need to cancel days off all summer.

But sadly, no one has the balls or the will power.

Just Drop It Already

It seems "reporter" Leah Hope is attempting to take up the mantle of shit-stirrer Cuck Goudie:

• A new report from Chicago's Office of Inspector General is raising concerns about alleged connections with extremist groups in the Chicago Police Department. The inspector general said not enough is being done to extract extremism and repair trust.

  "We cannot ask people to trust a police department whose members are allowed to dabble in hatred and extremism," Chicago Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said.

  Witzburg said Tuesday her recommendations to further investigate and oust officers with connections to extremist organizations have not been heeded.

Conehead and the Department counter:

• Last month, the IG recommended CPD reopen its bureau of internal affairs investigation of eight officers associated with the Oath Keepers. CPD declined, emphasizing there was a thorough investigation, and there was not evidence the accused officers actively participated in the Oath Keepers.

  And, in April, the IG suggested the city convene a task force.

  The mayor's office responded last month, saying the office is "fully committed to rooting out extremist, anti-government and bias organizations" and outlined efforts to address and prevent these issues, but did not agree to set up a task force.

There was already an investigation....a pretty thorough one from all we've been told. And the main issue is that there is no evidence - aside from being named on some mailing lists - that any officer participated in any questionable behavior while representing the CPD, on CPD property, or while being attired in a CPD uniform.

Now, if you go though assorted social media posts during the St. George of Fentanyl "protests," you can find all sorts of photographic evidence of police officers, in uniform, on duty, in police stations, actively participating in prohibited behaviors. 

Guess why that isn't an issue?

We think there are a few pics in our archives, we probably saved a few others in our records, and we know for sure that many other officers have dozens of these pictures, just in case they're needed as evidence in a politically motivated persecution of officers exercising their freedom to associate off duty.

"Surge Ambulances"?

Where did these come from? Who are they manned by? 

• Chicago Fire Department officials are meeting with local hospitals to devise a plan to make available the best possible emergency medical services at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month.

  The department has now confirmed they will be providing emergency medical support both inside the secure perimeter that will be going up around the United Center in August for the DNC, and inside the stadium as well.

  Sources told the CBS News Chicago Investigators the CFD also will be bringing in its fleet of extra ambulances called surge ambulances. Those will be stationed near the United Center and providing aid wherever else they will be needed.

Why do we think these are pool or retired BLS ambulances? No way they have fully-equipped ALS ambulances stashed away in a climate controlled garage.

Could have used a few "surge" ambulances this past weekend. 

The article also says there will be more CFD protests and informational picketing at the United Center. Turnout at NASCAR was around 125 attendees.

Not Just Nixon

A reader with a better memory than we have found that Conehead's blaming of Richard Nixon wasn't the most outrageous leap of liberal stupidity this century.

Some "insignificant blog" wrote about some carpetbagging supernintendo from NY over twelve years ago blaming.....the Pilgrims:

• [July 2012] It’s official: With more than 240 dead, Chicago’s murder rate has surpassed the body count in war-torn Afghanistan. But as the city death toll continues to mount, outraged residents are asking questions and city officials are scrambling for answers – at least, the politically correct ones.

  Answers that usually involve blaming dead white guys or ones that are still kicking.

• When asked about the “gap” between law enforcement and the black community, McCarthy reached back 400 years for an answer.

  “It’s a big issue. It’s a long time coming. We’ve done a lot of things wrong in policing in this country. I’m willing to admit that,” said McCarthy. “But this goes back 200-300 years to the time when Pilgrims came here and things developed from that, the African American experience in this country.”

  But the Pilgrims weren’t the only people being blamed for the violence. The superintendent also laid blame at the feet of America’s finest and inferred – without actually stating it - that white police officers are the problem.

We closed the post with:

• Pilgrims and cops enforcing the law. That's to blame for 7-year-olds getting killed at 10:45 p.m., 3-year-olds getting winged at 11:30 p.m., and a body count rivaling Afghanistan.

  Thank goodness we finally know who to blame.

Probably should have added, "McCarthy is a liberal New York a$$hat."

A Future Picasso

Someone has a bit of undiscovered talent:

We hope the sergeant approved it as is. 

And we hope it ends up as Exhibit A in a court proceeding.

Supreme Hypocrite

Remember this moron dissenting in the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court case?

• Breyer/Ginsberg/Sotomayor contended, “I can find nothing in the Second Amendment’s text, history, or underlying rationale that could warrant characterizing it as ‘fundamental’ insofar as it seeks to protect the keeping and bearing of arms for private self-defense purposes.”

  Later in the dissent, after criticizing a prior SCOTUS decision — District of Columbia. v. Heller (2008) — Breyer/Ginsberg/Sotomayor stressed, “Further, there is no popular consensus that the private self-defense right described in Heller is fundamental.”

  In the early portion of the dissent’s conclusion, Breyer/Ginsberg/Sotomayor claimed, “In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense. There has been, and is, no consensus that the right is, or was, ‘fundamental.’”

Essentially, there is no "Right" to self defense.

Then this happened a few days ago:

• In July, one of Sotomayor’s armed guards shot a would-be carjacker outside her home.

  According to the New York Post, the incident occurred shortly after 1:00 a.m. on July 5, 2024. At that time, 18-year-old Kenneth Flowers allegedly pointed a gun at a U.S. Marshal assigned to protect the justice, and the Marshal opened fire, leaving Flowers with non-life-threatening wounds.

We certainly hope that Justice Sotomayor has the offending US Marshall fired for exercising what she considers a non-existent Right.

We also expect that she surrenders her government supplied vehicle to the criminal, so that he may pawn it to pay for his hospital bills and legal fees.

And finally, we pray she pencils another opinion about using Deadly Force to protect private property that results in a re-evaluation against those who rule one way while living behind armed guards that none of us common persons can afford.

This Guy Was a Teacher?

 

This would help explain the sorry state of the schools and the appalling ignorance of its graduates.

• In recent years, Chicago’s leaders have blamed a wide range of external factors for the city’s infamous street violence. They’ve pointed fingers at Donald Trump, Indiana, Kim Foxx, and gun manufacturers, among others.

  On Monday, after 108 people were shot, 19 fatally, during the Independence Day weekend, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson became the first leader to blame Richard Milhous Nixon.

  “We are standing here today talking about a violent weekend because of generations of disinvestment,” Johnson told a room full of reporters.

  “Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time,” Johnson claimed. “We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes and people mocked President [Lyndon] Johnson and we ended up with Richard Nixon.”

Has Chicago's BJ been talking to "president" JB?  Is senility transmissible?

Nixon resigned fifty years ago and has been dead for thirty years. We barely remember his presidency. We'd even bet actual money that 33% of Conehead's voting base has no idea who Nixon was. The country ended up with Nixon because LBJ declined to run again. 

We're also aware of the quote by LBJ, and apocryphal or not, are amazed Conehead would attempt to make this "Nixon-crime-LBJ" link after a few decades of crime numbers. (attempts to accurately quote it will be deleted)

Does he think that he and LBJ are related via last name? Because that isn't really anything to be proud of.

UPDATE: HeyJackass.com - always ahead of the game - already has a T-shirt up for sale. Go visit and support their site.

Statistical Variations

As far as we can tell, it has to do with starting and ending times:

• Channel 9: Chicago police have confirmed 109 people were shot, 19 fatally, across the city over the Fourth of July weekend.
• Channel 5: After a Fourth of July holiday weekend that saw more than 100 people shot in Chicago....
• Channel 2: At least 19 killed, 87 hurt in shootings across Chicago during 4th of July weekend

Everyone seems to agree that 19 people (or folks) got chalkified. 

HeyJackass.com had the totals at 19 and 89 (108 total). (UPDATE - late expiration....it's now 20)

But you'll be happy to know that Conehead and Larritorious agree - this must stop! Right now! 

• A “heartbroken” Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday declared “there will be consequences” for those responsible for “wreaking havoc on my streets” over the long holiday weekend. It was a clear change in tone for Johnson, who has in the past often emphasized the need for youth programs or other social spending to get at the root causes of crime.

  “We are here to say emphatically that this is enough. It’s enough. When this reckless violence ravages across our city at this magnitude, we are losing a piece of the soul of Chicago. It deeply pains me to admit that, but it is true,” Johnson told reporters at public safety headquarters, flanked by Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and other officials.

  “But I will not stand idly by. We will not be passive in this moment,” he added. “We need to ensure that we are holding every single individual accountable for the pain and trauma and the torment that they have caused in this city. There will be consequences for the violence. We will not let criminal activity ruin and harm our city.”

We agree 100%. Consequences are the only thing that will alleviate the constant bloodshed. Consequences like extensive prison sentences. And not just for shooters - lock up accomplices and those who shelter offenders. Prosecute straw buyers and sentence them to the maximum allowable by law. Bring in Project Exile like Virginia did in the 1990's and saw murders drop by 33% the first year.

• As of Monday morning, there had been no arrests in any of the weekend’s fatal shootings.

Oh. That's a new definition of "accountable" we hadn't thought of.

Next "progressive" Target

What did we say just last week? 

• Stop doing traffic stops 

That set off quite a few angry comments. You think we advised that lightly? That we just think up dumb $hit to post about to provoke controversy?

Check out what CWB is reporting today:

• With the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system soon to be removed from Chicago’s streets, so-called “reform” activists are turning their attention to another tool police find useful: traffic stops.

  Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in May that her office is developing a policy not to prosecute gun, theft, and drug charges stemming from certain traffic stops. Foxx said her staff would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”

We saw this coming years ago, and we struggled to reconcile two different schools of thought:

• our desire to do actual police work 
• and our other desire to stay out of Federal Court

After a slew of Federal cases where we were named as defendants or witnesses, we started see what a bunch of old timers had told us - the winds were shifting and weren't headed back any time soon, and we began to accept that police work as we were taught was more dangerous than ever, just not in terms of violence directed at us. 

We were in real danger of losing our houses, salary, savings, deferred comp, pensions, even our actual freedom and families. Not because of conscious criminal acts, but because of the "progressive" mindset taking over the courts.

If you aren't paying attention to the politics in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois today, then you're going to get blindsided one day, for something that was legal and proper just a few years ago.

Fundraisers

A couple coming up or ongoing:

Also, a GoFundMe for a copper who suffered a debilitating stroke.

Comments closed here - informational post only.

100!

You know it's bad when even the Slum Times admits one hundred people got shot:

• Seventeen people have been killed and at least 83 wounded during shootings in Chicago over the extended Fourth of July weekend.

  By the end of Friday, the tally of shootings — six people shot Thursday and 62 shot Friday, 12 killed over both days — surpassed the numbers for last year’s entire holiday weekend. Last year, 11 people were killed and 62 wounded over the holiday weekend, which stretched over four days, July 1-4.

  This year’s holiday violence includes four mass shootings. In all, 24 people were shot, four fatally, in the mass attacks.

But don't worry. Conehead says all that OT money was well spent in spite of the ruined family holidays.

• Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a statement the Chicago Police Department would deploy officers whose days off for the holiday weekend were previously canceled, aiming “to maximize presence and ensure prompt incident response.”

  “We are devastated by the recent violence that has left our city in a state of grief, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families and communities impacted by these recent events,” Johnson’s office said in a statement.

No words of thanks or apologies to our spouses, kids and relatives who had one (or both) of their parents dragged away from a proper holiday celebration.

(be sure to check out HeyJackass.com for the official totals later this morning)

More on ShotSpotter

CWB continues to hammer Conehead over the ShotSpotter contract:

• ShotSpotter, the gunfire detection system that Mayor Brandon Johnson has decided to remove from the city’s most violence-troubled neighborhoods in September, continues to help CPD officers locate shooting scenes and illegally possessed guns.

  On Independence Day, CPD first responded to a mass shooting in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn upon receiving a ShotSpotter alert. Dispatchers received calls from humans a full 90 seconds later. Audio recorded by the system’s microphones, shared with CWBChicago by a source, indicates that at least some of the shots fired came from automatic weapons.

The ShotSpotter program seems pretty much the only part of city government that is actually working as promised. The CWB cites dozens of their reports backing it up. They also have this tidbit:

• Critics of the ShotSpotter system insist that it is inaccurate and ineffective. Some say it is racist. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx claimed that ShotSpotter does not contribute significantly to firearms-related prosecutions in the city.

Yeah, the only thing that "does not contributes significantly to firearms-related prosecutions in the city" is Crimesha and Crimesha's office. The USDA contributes more to firearm prosecutions than Crimesha, and they're prosecuting at LOW numbers during this administration.

Award Ended?

Is it true that the Department discontinued the "Traffic Stop of the Month" award?

Why ever would they do that? We mean besides the fact the ACLU is looking for any and all excuses to sue officers over any traffic stop.

Meanwhile, one hundred people got shot this extended weekend.

Rally for....Trump?

This is....something:

Madison and Central?

In 015?

No indications that there would be an appearance by the candidate, but the thought of this even happening on the west side is amazing in itself. Can't wait to see how much $hit-for-brains has alienated the community.

96....97....98....

We suppose having a live counter on the blog might be a fun retirement project, but we plan on being a little more active than sitting in front of the screen, reading news sites, monitoring encrypted radio transmissions and calling in favors.

Meanwhile, HeyJackass.com (the only accurate source for statistics) has Chicago at 17 expired and 81 bleeding as of 7 AM Sunday morning.

Have we already hit 100 and no one knows it?

More Crimesha Failures

And the Cook County courts.....but mostly Crimesha:

• Prosecutors have charged a man with shooting at a car occupied by two off-duty Chicago police officers on the Near West Side last month. Derrien Johnson, 18, was on pretrial release for two felony gun cases in juvenile court at the time of the incident on June 3, officials said.

  He is the 19th person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while on pretrial release.

That "No-or-Low-Bail Initiative" is sure working wonders in Chicago.

Of course, that's if they face charges at all:

• A woman accused of shooting a gun at two people after an argument on a River North street corner this week was arrested under very similar circumstances earlier this year, but prosecutors refused to charge her with a felony back then. She wasn’t so fortunate this time.

  Amira Wilson, who has worked as an outsourced janitor at the Chicago Police Department’s Deering (9th) District station, was detained this week by Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman.

  Back in January, a 31-year-old woman told police that she got into an argument with Wilson while waiting for an Uber outside Shark’s Fish and Chicken, 2640 East 75th Street. The woman, who was with her 13-year-old daughter, said she knew Wilson because Wilson was dating her ex-boyfriend, a CPD report said. According to the report, the woman said the argument escalated until Wilson pulled out a gun and fired shots toward her and her daughter. No injuries were reported.

What is it we've been saying for nearly two decades on the blog and nearly three decades of police work?

• If there's no consequences for bad behavior, you'll get more of it
  

Low or no bail, along with lack of charging, is a "no consequence" end result. It isn't surprising.

Crimesha Overreach

We've got no use for crooked cops, but even a first year law student should know you can't introduce "unsubstantiated allegations" when charging:

• When a Chicago police officer stands trial in a case that accuses him of lying about a gun arrest, the jury won’t hear about other problematic gun seizures that could lead to his firing, a judge has ruled.

  Officer [DF], 35, was charged last year with writing a bogus report and providing false testimony about the arrest of Rodney Westerfield, who was found with two guns during a search in West Pullman in August 2020.

  As part of that case, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office has tried to tie [DF] to a broader “scheme” investigated by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which found that [DF] and three other tactical officers seized guns without making arrests and then lied about where the weapons came from.

  Despite citing COPA’s allegations in court, prosecutors have declined to file charges in connection with those findings.

That last paragraph - Crimesha's own office REFUSED to file charges against the officer, but wants to introduce the investigation into evidence against him. Absent an actual conviction.

It's good to see that there are actually a few reasonably intelligent legal minds sitting on the bench, because there certainly aren't any around Crimesha's office.

It's the Economy Stupid

This is why they lie constantly about how bad things truly are:

• The unemployment rate has ticked up to 4.1%, going over 4% for the first time since November 2021.

  
  

  - 74% of jobs added last month came from government and healthcare education.

  
  

  - May jobs were revised down from 272K to 218K.

  
  

  - April jobs were revised down from 165K to 108K.

  
  

  - Black and Asian unemployment rates increased.

  
  

  - Full time employment in June actually decreased by 28,000 workers.

  
  

  - Part time employment went up by 50,000 workers.

  
  

  - In just over a year, the unemployment rate has increased from 3.4% to 4.1%.

Voting for democrats is - technically - against one's own self interest.

Thank You Italian Americans!

Finally, someone is taking the onus off of the minority communities:

• Several people were killed or injured in a series of unrelated shootings that took place around Chicago following Fourth of July celebrations, police said.

  The largest shooting occurred about 12:15 a.m. Friday, when the Chicago Police Department responded to the Little Italy neighborhood. Investigating officers found several people who had gunshot wounds, police said.

  Investigators believe an exchange of gunfire took place between two individuals, leaving eight injured. The suspects have not been identified and fled the scene, police said.
  

Someone's seventy-four-year-old grandmother (great grandmother?) stepped up and took a round in the leg for equality. That's some amazing dedication to evening out the statistics.

Why, we were just perusing the numbers over at HeyJackass.com and we were appalled at the 96.5% minority victims/offenders of crime and thought to ourselves that someone really ought to try to even that out. And then someone could let the ACLU know, so that they stop crying about "over-policing" and traffic stop "disparities" in the hood?

Italian Americans really deserve a statue or something downtown. Maybe that Columbus guy?

Maybe 100 Shot Weekend?

Looking like a possibility!

• Eleven people have been killed and 55 have been wounded during shootings in Chicago so far over the extended July Fourth weekend.

  The tally nearly tied last year’s numbers for the entire holiday weekend. Last year, 11 people were killed and 62 others were wounded over the July Fourth weekend.

  This year the violence includes three mass shootings, one in which two women and an 8-year-old boy were killed and two young boys were left in critical condition Thursday morning after multiple shooters opened fire into a home in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.

Thursday night into Friday sunrise alone accounted for the vast majority of these shootings....and there are still two full days to go with no appreciable drop in temps or weather breaks.

Good thing they installed a 9 PM curfew at the 31st Street Beach!

Maybe a 9 PM citywide curfew could be next?

Protest Permits

Here's some of the disgruntled that will be popping up next month:

• Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws
• U.S. Palestinian Community Network
• Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
• Students for a Democratic Society at UIC
• Israeli American Council
• Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved Africa
• March for People’s Agenda
• Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

Of course, it's the ones who aren't applying for any permits that should be of the most concern.

All told, the estimates are of 40,000 protestors camping out in Chicago that week. We're pretty sure those are exaggerated as they're coming from the protestors themselves. But even 20,000 would be an issue for the Department.

Informational Picketing

Not the clearest poster, but you can get the specifics from it (click for larger version):

Of course, with all the days off cancelled, we might be relying on CFD to carry the bulk of the effort.

Lake Pollution

Is anyone really surprised?

• There aren’t many shipwrecks off Chicago’s coast anymore, but the city’s lakeshore has its own kind of ghostly marine curiosity: tons of rideshare bikes submerged in Lake Michigan’s shallow shorelines.

  Now, a group of dedicated Lake Michigan swimmers are taking it upon themselves to bring the sunken rides back up with them.

  The group is known as The Divvy Fishers Society and was started by Glenn Rischke, an unsung diving partner of the Great Lake Jumper, the local man known for his four-year streak of plunging into the lake every morning. Rischke said he started the cleanup crew in a last-ditch effort to “advocate for better waters.”

In Amsterdam (population 920,000), they pull over 15,000 bikes out of the canals ANNUALLY, so you can bet there are probably a few thousand here. And not just the lakefront. We've heard there is Pod Camera footage of hundreds of bikes being tossed off of various bridges over the past few years by disgruntled yutes. No one is bothering to recover those.

What Are You Doing?

Has no one read the news the past few years?

• Collectively, police agencies across Illinois made more traffic stops in 2023 than they did the year before, according to a new report from the Illinois Department of Transportation.

  The report also shows that police continue to stop Black and Latino drivers at disproportionate rates and that dozens of police agencies fail to report traffic stop data, as required by state law.

  “It’s really disappointing to see that after all the attention that has been paid to the disparity in traffic stops along racial lines, that we see not just the continuation of those racial disparities, but we see an increase in the number of stops,” said Ed Yohnka, director of communications and public policy at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.

The public and politicians don't want you making stops. The ACLU doesn't want you making stops....unless it means they get their names in the paper and more fodder for lawsuits.

The statistical BS continues with the "disproportionate" meme getting beaten to near-death.

Until they give police a list of offenses that minorities are allowed to commit with impunity, traffic stops should be a figment of their imagination. 

In fact, the FOP (local, state and national) should declare a moratorium on all traffic stops until such time as there is an active and updated list of stops that cops are allowed to perform. Let the public live with these decisions made by useless politicians until they elect actual Law and Order types.

A Safe and Happy Fourth

 

Stay Safe. 

Enjoy what free time you have...if any.

Let's Count the Days

....the Days Off Cancelled so far:

• PRIDE weekend
• five days over the Fourth (on a Thursday?)
  
• NASCAR
• a week of Lolla

And we haven't even touched on the Air and Water / Billiken double weekend, all in a run up to the DNC $hitshow.

How long until we hear the media whining about another year of massive overtime costs....ignoring the fact that these are CANCELLED DAYS OFF. We didn't ask for them - they were forced on the Department by inept political action (or inaction).

Conehead is a Liar?

Not just a liar, but a bad one according to our friends at The Contrarian:

• Since Johnson become mayor, there has been an impressive consistency to his fibbing: It never ceases, and it applies to every conceivable circumstance. Bearing this in mind, it should not be too terribly surprising Mayor Johnson Pinocchio-ed his way through a recent interview with WCUI’s Brandon Pope on the subject of ShotSpotter.

  Though the range of Johnson’s sit-down with Pope was short and rather narrow, on the subject of ShotSpotter, the mayor lied about the efficacy of the gunfire detection technology for three-straight minutes. Broaching the subject of ShotSpotter gently, Pope quizzed the mayor over whether aldermen opposed to Johnson ending the city’s contract with SoundThinking should have influence over whether the technology should remain in their wards.

We only quoted a couple of paragraphs, so head over there and read it all. The entire article is a tour de force taking Conehead to task for numerous and endless lies about ShotSpotter, what its purpose is, how it functions and the technology that actually works well.

If Conehead wants more dead children in minority neighborhoods, let it be on his head. He's safe in his suburban hideaway far from the gunfire.

More Felons Out on Bail

Out on bail for Aggravated Battery:

• A Venezuelan migrant bit a Chicago police officer twice as cops tried to arrest him in the Loop last week, officials say. Yonaiker De Jesus Arevalo Ortiz was already on felony pretrial release for allegedly biting another cop who arrested him less than three weeks earlier.

  Video of the latest arrest quickly went viral, showing Arevalo Ortiz yelling at bystanders and bracing his foot against the patrol car doorframe. The footage shows him fighting with officers as they try to get him into the back of the squad outside the Standard Club shelter, 330 South Plymouth, around 6 p.m. on June 24.

  A crowd gathered around the officers and tensions grew. The cops declared a “10-1” police emergency for backup, and one officer held off the crowd by wielding his Taser.

The bigger question is why does this a$$hole have any teeth?

Remember - brought to you by democrats. 

UPDATE: Why is it that when we make a statement, everyone (even our readers who are mostly cops) assume we mean exactly the opposite of what was said?

This jacka$$, who obviously cannot fight, bites cops after being restrained. You think he hasn't bitten anyone who has ever been in a fight with him, who put him in a headlock in a bar, who dragged him out of a dog pile?

We've been to those bars, we've responded to calls at those bars, and the offending party often goes to the hospital because after the fight, the guy(s) who got bitten usually made sure that was the last time that tactic was remotely effective. You think in these days of POD cams, cell phone cams, car and body cams, we'd suggest a cop bust this a$$hole in the teefuses?

Priorities Dumbass

Conehead steering the USS Chicago back into the iceberg, after Shortshanks, 9.5 and Groot already hit it a few times:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pension commission has been meeting for a year, and so far there’s no sign of any long-term solutions. They might want to come up with something fast — the pension mountain is getting steeper to climb.

  Chicago’s unfunded pension liability rose by another 5.2% in 2023 — from $35.4 billion to $37.2 billion — thanks to “changes in pension assumptions and legislation,” according to the certified annual financial report for 2023 by the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

  It’s the second straight year that the pension crisis has grown by more than 5%.

  The Firefighters Pension Fund once again hovers closest to bankruptcy, with assets to cover just 21.6% of liabilities. That’s followed by Police (21.79%), Municipal Employees (22.2%), and Laborers Pension Funds (38.55%).

Where's all that casino money? Or the Sports betting tax increase? All that's being directed to the foundering pensions, right? You aren't spending that money on tens of thousands of illegals who have contributed nothing to the city except raging cases of lice, bedbugs, measles and a few other diseases, along with open prostitution, child trafficking, robberies, thefts and an increasing number of hit-and-runs?

All Those Car Thefts

From the folks over at CPD1617Scanner, they went digging through the City's own data and found this:

• Using the city's OWN data, car thefts are down 24% from last year....but UP 78%, 147% and 165% since 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectfully.

So year-over-year, crime might be down.

But the trend is barely noticeable after a massive upswing the previous three years.

Feeb Whistleblowers?

Not likely. A piece about how the fish rots from the head down:

• One often hears in conservative media how the top folks at the DoJ, FBI, CIA, IRS, NSA, etc. may be corrupt traitors to the country and the Constitution but the ol’ rank and file are made up of honest, hardworking, patriotic Americans.

  To this I call bullsh*t. Out of hundreds of thousands of employees, how many whistleblowers -- i.e., truth tellers -- are there? How many opinion pieces and media appearances have these supposed patriots made? how many have refused to participate in the crimes being committed by these agencies against their fellow American citizens?

  Yes, that was a lonely tumbleweed that just rolled by, serenaded by the sound of crickets.

  It is not a question about whether these folks can be bought. They clearly can be and are.

  Sadly for us, the price for them to sell their souls is no more than their annual paycheck and their retirement.

After this week of US Supreme Court decisions that - at least in writing - gut the "administrative state," watch for the "Deep State" to make more overt attempts at living down to the low standards set by their predecessors in the KGB and the Staatssicherheit.

They'll probably come after the blog again, but we'll be retired by the time they come knocking.

Still in Custody

Remember all those violent criminals released on little-to-zero bail? Repeat felons, robbers, muggers, shooters, root beer battery offenders? And not just in Cook County, but across all sorts of blue state blue city $hitholes. Open up any media site and you'll find numerous examples. Hell, Crimesha just dropped the charges against eighty people arrested at the Art Institute a few weeks back.

But not if you're accused of a crime way back on 06 January 2021:

• The persecution of J6 political prisoners continues. Jake Lang, who has been incarcerated for three and a half years as a pre-trial detainee, has spent 800 days in solitary confinement for ridiculous infractions, such as accepting an interview with the media. Lang’s attorneys filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in April, alleging that he “continues to be held and transferred in violation of his constitutional and human rights.”

  Lang told me that the “FBI hunted us down like animals” after J6. He said he refused to take a 10-year prison sentence as part of a plea bargain offered to him, because “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.” During J6, he said the Capitol Police officers pushing back on the crowd turned it into a “human swimming pool,” with bodies stacked up three to five high on top of each other.

  Lang, who has now spent much of his 20s incarcerated, was arrested after he posted a video on social media of his participation at J6. He was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, civil disorder, accessing a restricted building or grounds, and violent entry or disorderly conduct.

  Although he has no criminal history, he has been denied bond twice. In contrast, convicted violent felons are being increasingly released on little to no bond around the country.

Three-and-a-half years in custody, over eight hundred days of solitary confinement. For what seem to be misdemeanor charges in any other circumstances.

It evidently doesn't pay to stick to your principles.

Parade Fallout

All that planning, all those cancelled days off, all that OT money? 

Didn't do diddly preventing an evening of mayhem:

• Mass arrests took place late Sunday night on the city's North Side as people were reportedly jumping onto cars and throwing bottles at police overnight, hours after the city's Pride parade.

  The Chicago Pride parade ended around 1 p.m. Sunday, and the mass arrests took place beginning at about 1:23 a.m. in the 3000 block of North Clark Street near Halsted in Lakeview, police said, meaning there was a 10 to 11 hour separation between Pride celebrations and these incidents.

You have to love how Channel 7 emphasizes the "10 to 11 hour separation" attempting to disassociate the parade from the mayhem, regardless of the fact that this mini-riot has been happening every single year for the last ten years or more.

We will admit that most of the parade goers are peaceful bystanders, but they're reinforced by a sizeable contingent of drunks looking for problems along with a huge number of opportunists looking to assault, mug, beat people and destroy property.

A bunch of cops got injured, too, and we're imagining they'll be out of action through August.

Any truth to the rumor that the feds had observers at OEMC and were appalled at the complete ineptitude of the supervisory ranks as the mini-riot unfolded?

Don't Park in the South Loop

As if tourists needed another reason not to visit Chicago:

• Thieves have stolen at least 20 vehicles parked on the south end of the Loop this month, Chicago police said in a community alert on Sunday.

  The thieves target unattended cars parked on streets and in parking garages. CPD says the thieves have broken side windows to gain entry to almost all of the cars.

  Detectives have publicly linked 20 auto thefts to the crime pattern...

CWB lists times and addresses of all the thefts.

Anyone have the numbers for the year as compared to last?

Tax Hikes! (and a savings opportunity)

All sorts of tax hikes and law changes went into effect yesterday:

• gas tax up almost two cents a gallon
• sports betting operator tax increased
• video gaming tax up again
• illegals can get DLs

All sorts of things to make life in Illinois and Chicago more expensive.

Along with a chance to save some money, too!

• Starting Monday, restaurants in Chicago must start paying tipped workers more per a new city ordinance that has sharply divided the restaurant industry and supporters of the law.

  The tipped minimum wage is increasing from $9.48 per hour to $11.02. Chicago’s overall minimum wage is also rising, from $15.80 per hour to $16.20 for employers with four or more workers.

  In October, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance to increase the tipped minimum wage by 8% each year for five years until it reaches parity with the city’s standard minimum wage.

Well, if they're paying a "living wage," there's no need to tip any more. Eating out - a rare treat with the post-pandemic Bidenflation price increases - just became less expensive. So thanks for that. 

And as tipping decreases, the IRS also thanks you since they won't have to trust you to declare that shady percentage of under-reported cash.

CWB Files Appeal

CWB blog has appealed the FOIA request for Flossmoor PD documentation. Flossmoor unilaterally disobeyed existing law to assist Crimesha in the cover-up:

• The city of Flossmoor appears to be circling the wagons to keep the public from seeing records related to the alleged battery of one of their town’s most famous residents, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.

  After Foxx accused another Flossmoor resident, William Swetz, of reversing his car toward her and dousing her with a Big Gulp of root beer, CWBChicago filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the Flossmoor PD reports documenting the incident.

  The Illinois FOIA law gives public bodies five business days to provide responsive materials, but it also allows them to extend the deadline by an additional five days if they need more time due to certain circumstances.

  Flossmoor PD FOIA Officer Megan Ivers responded on Friday morning, the fifth business day after we filed our request. In her letter, she cited the law that allows them to extend the deadline by five days.

  In the very next sentence, though, Ivers said the city would respond to our request not within five additional business days, but within 30 additional business days. [...] In response, we asked Flossmoor officials to cite the state law giving them the authority to grant themselves a 30-day extension, particularly since they cited the law that gives them only five.

  We also informed Flossmoor’s people that if they did not provide a legal basis for its extension to August 12 by noon on Friday, we’d take the matter to the state attorney general’s office.

Of course, one can't expect the Cook County Machine to turn on one of Prickwrinkle's own. This is essentially a Simple Battery by all of Crimesha's interpretations of the Law....except when she's the "victim" of it.

Pension Board Sexcapades

Bad news and good news....and a bit of bad news again.

First bad news....you have to hear about supernintendo Johnson's johnson again:

• The pension board meeting on Thursday was a mess due to one particular case. The case in question concerned PO Cynthia Donaldson, Eddie Johnson’s side piece. Donaldson had been gifted ordinary disability previously because of the “PTSD she now suffers from due to being the victim of a sexual assault for three years at the hands of the then superintendent.”

This was actually said at a Pension Board hearing. Working in a building full of cops, just down the hall from Human Resources and Internal Affairs ("affairs"....snicker) unable to approach a single co-worker or supervisor regarding an alleged three-year-sex assault that took place in the building, in the superintendent's vehicle, and on trips with the superintendent?

• Donaldson and her private attorney were arguing and pleading for over two hours to have them approve her for full duty disability. The new guy on the pension board ended up telling Donaldson, “If you were a CSA and rape victim then I think the first thing we need to do is file a police report.” Donaldson wanted NO part in that. Donaldson was asked to return to work in which she flat out responded with “no”.

Sure. Because a case report would lead to a trial. And trials involve discovery. And discovery involves depositions. And depositions would reveal the completely voluntary nature of the three-year "sex assault" that resulted in numerous days off, reduced working hours, dinners, dancing, air travel and hotel stays. Cops are a jealous bunch and the line to provide testimony would take a few years to go through. And then Eddie would have a pretty good shot at a counter suit for tens of millions.

Now, the good news:

• In the end, her duty disability was DENIED.

Thank goodness for that. Now if only they could revisit the original "duty disability." 

And finally, a bit of bad news:

• It’s a shame they allowed her to waste so much time because the other cases on the agenda were pushed to next month’s meeting. The Board only meets once a month, so now because of this shitshow, legit injured cops will suffer another month with no money, no health insurance and essentially in fear of how to survive. 

Perhaps one of the injured parties has a legit lawsuit against Donaldson and her lawyer for presenting a flawed (and bullshit) case to the Pension Board?

Where's Summer Mobile?

Oh, right. No manpower:

• A teen was among two people injured in a stabbing and shooting near 31st Street Beach Saturday night, according to Chicago police. The shooting happened around 11:34 p.m. in the 3000-block of South Fort Dearborn Drive, police said.

  A 26-year-old woman was arguing with a 17-year-old girl, Chicago police said. During the altercation, the 26-year-old allegedly stabbed the teen in the arm and then the teen shot the woman in the shoulder. Both the woman and the girl were taken to hospitals and were expected to be okay.

  No charges have been filed. CPD Area One detectives continue to investigate.

  The shooting and stabbing happened after police planned to crackdown on crime near 31st Street Beach after four people were shot and killed there earlier this month.

The aldercreature promised more enforcement and Hein cancelled everyone's days off, but did anyone get assigned to the 31st Street war zone?

UPDATE: Seems the initial report was incorrect - female teen stabbed the woman who then shot the teen:

• A woman possessing a valid concealed-carry license shot a teenage girl who stabbed her late Saturday night near Chicago's 31st Street Beach, authorities said.

  The incident occurred at around 11:34 p.m. in the 3000 block of South Fort Dearborn Drive. According to police, a 17-year-old girl and a 26-year-old woman got into an argument when the teen stabbed the woman in her right arm with a sharp object.

  The 26-year-old, who possesses a concealed-carry license and Firearms Owners Identification Card, produced a gun and fired shots, striking the teenager in the left shoulder, police stated.

Sounds like a good shooting, too.

 

Nice Ferris Wheel

You know what prevents events like this? Regular scheduled maintenance, which it is whispered, has been neglected to the point that.....well, read the story:

• A frustrating night at Navy Pier on Saturday, as several people were stranded on the Centennial Wheel. Video obtained by ABC7 Chicago shows Chicago police and the Chicago fire department at the scene. A family member of one rider told ABC7 Chicago they were stuck for more than an hour.

  Chicago police confirmed all riders were off the ride. No other information was provided. No injuries were reported, according to a Navy Pier spokesperson.

  An "electrical component" failed, which caused the ride to stop.

We also hear that many of the stranded riders were most fearful of being sitting targets during the busiest shooting hours. 

The weekend numbers (with a bit to go) stand at 6 dead and 23 wounded. A triple homicide in Chatham topped off a fun Saturday night / Sunday morning.

Stupid Games, Stupid Prizes

Utica, New York in the news regarding a police shooting....and the community is upset:

• Video released late Saturday shows an officer in upstate New York fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy who had been tackled to the ground after he ran from police and pointed a replica handgun at them.

  The teen was killed a little after 10 p.m. Friday in Utica after officers in the city about 240 miles (400 kilometers) northwest of Manhattan stopped two youths in connection with an armed robbery investigation, police said.

  The youths, both 13, matched the descriptions of the robbery suspects and were in the same area at around the same time the day after, police said. One was also walking in the road, a violation of state traffic law.

Matching given descriptions, walking in the road, the cops stopped them to investigate. Then the replioca firearm comes into play:

• The body camera video released by police captures an officer saying he needs to pat them down to ensure they don't have any weapons in their possession. Immediately one of the two, identified by police as as Nyah Mway, runs away.

  Authorities froze frames of the video where a running Nyah Mway appears to point the gun at the pursuing officers. Police also edited the video to insert a red circle around the weapon to show it to viewers.

  The officers believed it was a handgun, police said, but it was later determined to be a replica of a Glock 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine.

  [...] The replica gun carried by the teen "is in all aspects a realistic appearing firearm with GLOCK markings, signatures, detachable magazine, and serial numbers," Lt. Michael Curley, a police spokesperson, said via email. "However ultimately it fires only pellets or BB's."

So a completely identical toy pistol with markings, numbers, coloring and built with a detachable magazine is pointed at cops, so cops respond as trained to a deadly threat.

Too bad, so sad (not) for the dead offender.

But community isn't happy, and the ultimate fear is that this and other cases will one day be used to require officers to actually be shot before responding, just so everyone is sure it's a real gun.