Drunken Auntie

America sure dodged a bullet last November:

She's obviously hammered out of her mind. Can you imagine her with the nuclear football?

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead

FOP taking some credit for this:

• The head of the agency that investigates allegations of significant wrongdoing by Chicago police officers, including cops involved in shootings, quit last week because the city’s police oversight commission was planning to recommend she be fired.

  John Catanzara, the head of the union that represents the city’s front-line cops, made that stunning claim in a YouTube video on Friday.

  “The reality is this,” Catanzara claimed. “The Community Commission [for Public Safety and Accountability], we know, took a vote to recommend her for a termination hearing at the City Council.”

  “She knew her days were numbered, so she left before having to face that termination and absolutely was not going to have her contract renewed at the very least, or at least not approved,” the union boss continued.

There are also a couple of lawsuits against her and her "leadership" issues that seem to mostly be personality conflicts based on her not having any trace of one. We aren't sure how much the FOP had to do with the final decision, but the heat was enough to keep it at the forefront of people's minds.

Check out the CWB link up top. There are a ton of embedded links in their reporting outlining what a corrupt mess CuckFOPA turns out to be.

Free Babysitting

Didn't a commander of 025 get removed for this? Escamerit we recall:

Thanks to the Contrarian for keeping the public aware of these aldermanic tools.

CPD Crash

Remember during the winter months, car windows are almost always closed up tight and the heaters are going full blast:

• Two Chicago police officers and another person sustained minor injuries Sunday night when a vehicle collided with a patrol car at an intersection on the Near North Side.

  According to police, at about 8:15 p.m. in the 500 block of North Michigan Avenue, a black sedan was going north on Michigan Ave. when it collided with a marked patrol vehicle that was going east on Illinois Street with lights and sirens activated.

  The two officers inside the patrol vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to an area hospital in good condition, police say.

Clear those intersections people, because the Traffic Review Board isn't going to accept excuses.

Get well soon Officers.

CFD Crash

Looks like CFD is going to need another pool ladder truck:

• A driver crashed into a Chicago Fire Department fire engine early Sunday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway and was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and issued citations for Move Over Law violations, according to Illinois State Police.

  ISP says that just after 4:30 a.m., troopers responded to I-290 eastbound at Morgan Street in Chicago for a crash involving a CFD fire engine. Preliminary information indicated the fire truck was blocking lanes of traffic to protect a previous crash scene, with lights activated, when it was hit by a black 2018 Nissan.

  According to ISP, the driver of the fire truck was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

The truck was blocking multiple lanes from a previous crash and was thankfully only occupied by the driver as the rest of the crew was busy with the initial call.

Best wishes to the driver for a speedy recovery. 

Suburban Officer

On the commute to work:

• A Glenview police officer was killed in a car crash Sunday morning in Barrington while on his way to work, according to the Glenview Police Department. 

  The crash happened around 4:09 a.m. in the 200 block of South Northwest Highway. There, the Barrington Police Department found the victim, identified as officer Robert Fryc, 43, who had suffered fatal injuries during the crash. 

  Officer Fryc served with the Glenview Police Department since 2007 and was recently recognized at the Village's Feb. 4 Board of Trustees meeting for being one of the first responders who helped save the life of a fellow officer last summer.

Prayers and sympathies to our suburban brethren.

Beware the Sidewalks

San Francisco has "poop apps" for user to keep track of piles of shit on the streets of their lovely city.

Some enterprising Chicagoan ought to make an app for this:

• A large dog was killed in River North on Saturday afternoon when it apparently made contact with an electrified manhole cover, according to witnesses and other officials. People who work and live in the area believe other dogs have been shocked at the same location recently.

Yeah, don't walk your dog over here or you might end up dragging it home.

So aside from beggars, robbers, and all manner of illegal alien confronting you on the streets, now you have to worry about your pet headed to doggie heaven just for walking on the sidewalk.

Special Order 06-14-03

From the comments:

• Anyone see the new order on responding to incidents involving citizenship? The street deputy will respond, along with…. the wol. Interesting how they left the commander and captain off of it. Why wouldn’t they respond? Or be required to respond? Dumping it all on the WOL’s as usual as they skirt without any responsibility or liability.
  

And sure enough, hopping over to the online directive site, you find this Order, updated 20 January 2025.

Skimming through, you'll find the usual responsibilities and such listed. But there's a phrase that keeps popping up:

• "civil immigration enforcement"

As far as we know, illegal immigration isn't "civil" at all - it's criminal, 100% of the time. So all this order seems to do is further muddy the waters in an attempt for Chicago politicians to put illegal aliens in front of actual America citizens....you know, the people paying taxes to support the police (and government).

Read it carefully so you know what's what and what's expected or required. 

The part about making the WOL's leave the office though....damn.

How Much?

You know they're going to go on strike shortly, right?

• Think student success is just a matter of spending enough money? Well, Douglass Academy High School spent  $93,787 per student last school year – yet not a single 11th grade student at the school was proficient in reading or math.

  Only 35 students were enrolled at Douglass last year in a building that can fit over 900 students. There are currently 27 full-time equivalent staff members, an increase of two staff members since the previous school year.

  What sense does it make to keep a big high school open for basically a single classroom worth of students? Why squander so many resources on so few students?

  Because the Chicago Teachers Union demands it. And Chicagoans can expect more of the same – high costs and abysmal student outcomes – if CTU gets its way in current contract negotiations

They're just about the single largest line item on the property tax bill, they constantly raise their portion the limit despite decades of failure, and they're going to do it again this spring.

Far past time to break the CTU.  Declare them "essential" and deny them the ability to strike. That'll put an end to 80% of more of their nonsense. Then start making funding contingent on actually producing positive results and see them start crying.

Years Long Problem

Back when Cuck Goudie was doing something bordering on actual investigative reporting:

• Monday, May 2, 2016 - The I-Team is investigating major equipment that Chicago firefighters say is so old it puts them and the public at risk.

  They are startling figures: 40 percent of the city's fire department engines and ladder trucks are too old for safe front-line use, according to industry standards. And within a year, that fire hazard will significantly increase

  The I-Team uncovered one of the worst cases: a busy Chicago firehouse with equipment from 1985, 31 years old. Firefighters say this slows down response times and puts lives in danger.

A comment yesterday cited this report and another asked if the trucks and engines from almost nine years ago might still be on the streets? We certainly wouldn't doubt it.

So this one can't be laid solely at the feet of Conehead, but it's been going on at least since the 9.5 digit midget was in charge and probably long before that.

No One Seems to Care

Lack of ShotSpotter, combined with near 100% community apathy, leads to bodies lying in the street without any sort of response:

• Passersby found a 54-year-old man lying in the middle of 49th Street overnight, suffering from three gunshot wounds to his chest, Chicago police said. Nobody called 911 to report gunfire in the area.

  The man was found on a block that was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the company’s contract in September. Had the system been operational this morning, it could have alerted police and EMS to the shooting so the victim didn’t have to lie around waiting for someone to find him.

Obviously,the community doesn't care, probably since the police didn't shoot him.

The aldercreatures don't care much since they've muted most of the criticism over the ShotSpotter contract being voided.

The public appears to have become inured to having dead, dying or bleeding bodies in the streets.

We continue to be amused.

Nice Highway Fata$$

We figure the state is mostly to blame for this continued disaster:

• The delays associated with the Kennedy Expressway construction project aren’t over.

  The Illinois Department of Transportation said Friday afternoon that problems with the new automated gates have forced the closure of the ramp from the Ontario Street feeder ramp onto the outbound Kennedy Expressway reversible lanes.

  The closure is indefinite.

Remember when we pointed out the express lanes were being used as a "private highway" for VIPs during the Kamalalalala Convention? It seems that ended up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and untold man-hours, including a automated gate system that doesn't work:

• While the convention lasted only a week in August, the contractor said IDOT’s order to remove all equipment from the roadway delayed the project by 32 days.

  “JBCC was directed to cease all activity and remove all materials and equipment from the reversible, outbound and inbound lanes,” reads an August 28th memo from the contractor. “JBCC was not allowed to work on any activities during this time.”

  The contractor also claims IDOT significantly expanded the scope of the project beyond the original contract, adding a total of 113 days and $318,000 to the timeline and cost. The changes included a 200% increase in power cable as well as delays caused by additional work added to the inbound lanes of the Kennedy expressway, according to the memo.

Oh, and they've been lying about the delays the entire time. And since it was the state that ordered the lanes be opened as a private highway, they're not going to try to collect the $10,000 per day fines that would have been levied against the general contracts for missing the deadlines, costing taxpayers even more money.

No Brakes!

CFD is short working equipment and their pool rides are as bad as ours:

These things weigh between ten and twenty tons including a full water tank. That's a lot of momentum with zero brakes to be flying around city streets.

Madigan Pension Suspended

Sorry about the Tribune paywall (there are ways around it):

• Former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s $158,000 annual state of Illinois pension is being halted following his high-profile corruption conviction.

  Timothy Blair, executive secretary of the Illinois General Assembly Retirement System, said Thursday he “sent the letter out today” to notify Madigan the pension system will stop sending his monthly checks because Illinois law bars elected officials in the legislative pension plan from collecting payments once they are convicted or enter a guilty plea in a felony tied to their government job.

  But Blair said Madigan will receive his nearly $13,170 pension check for February because that has already been processed.

Here's a different link from WTTW:

• Michael Madigan’s pension has been suspended following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

  The General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois (GARS) sent the former Illinois Speaker of the House notice by mail Thursday, according to the State Retirement Systems.

  The suspension comes days after Madigan, 82, was convicted on 10 felony counts of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud in his landmark corruption trial.

Hopefully, he can survive on his other ill-gotten gains and generous gifts from those who benefited from his favors. Maybe he can move in with the booger-eater.

Cleaning House?

Conehead is getting rid of people he doesn't like:

• Three days after warning of a City Hall housecleaning fueled by disloyalty, Mayor Brandon Johnson broke out the broom.

  It happened quicker than anyone expected. In rapid-fire succession, the mayor’s office announced that Aviation Commissioner Jamie Rhee and Civilian Office of Police Accountability chief Andrea Kersten, both holdovers from previous administrations, were “retiring.” Also leaving is another holdover, OEMC director Jose Tirado, who has a job lined up.

  The Chicago Sun-Times reported earlier this week that Rhee was among those whose days could be numbered as Johnson seeks to act on his claim that he should have “cleaned house faster” when he took office and now plans to correct that mistake by sending people packing.

  “If you ain’t with us, you just gotta go,” the mayor said.

While every cop should applaud the firing of the CuckfOPA witch and the OEMC departure appears completely voluntary, the Aviation Commissioner is garnering assorted aldermanic praise, which may hint at Conehead making yet another misstep. The appointments he makes moving forward will tell everyone more.

One could be forgiven for noting the ::ahem:: "melanin deficiency" of all the persons leaving or being forced out though

The Fallacy of "Consent"

The Contrarian has a guest article up outlining the Orwellian "newspeak" describing Consent Decrees:

• A consent decree is a term and process feared by law enforcement and law enforcement chiefs, city village managers, and some political leaders. While there may be some legitimate reasons for having consent decrees in some police agencies throughout the United States, I have always believed they are a form of judicial extortion. If you think there is any consent by police agencies in these consent decrees, I hope to enlighten you. 

  What is a consent decree? For law enforcement agencies, it is a court-ordered settlement between a police department and the Department of Justice (DOJ) that establishes an enforceable plan for sustainable reform. Typically, consent decrees are detailed documents that include specific requirements and deadlines for action. Most consent decrees require an independent monitor as part of the process. A federal judge typically oversees the consent decree and is the individual who appoints an independent monitor.

"Extortion" is an understatement.

The entire article is a mere ten paragraphs, so go read it all.

Zero-For-Four

Just keeps popping up, over and over and over:

• A Chicago police commander’s odyssey to land a chief’s job in another city has come up empty again — this time in Detroit.

  Joshua Wallace was one of three finalists for Detroit’s police chief job. This week, the mayor there picked a Detroit candidate, the interim police chief, over Wallace and a former chief of a Denver transportation district. The Detroit News reported the Michigan staffing service that ran the candidate search was unaware Wallace had filed for bankruptcy last year after he fell more than $839,000 in debt.

  Wallace’s bankruptcy was first reported in October by a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa, after he was named a finalist for the chief’s job there. That position went to a local candidate, too.

  Last year, Wallace also was a finalist for police chief’s jobs in Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado. The Austin job went to a Cincinnati assistant police chief, and the Boulder job went to the interim police chief there.

We remember a time when a walking financial disaster like this wouldn't have even been considered for the job he did have with CPD - commander of a specialize unit. Speaking of which - how are these other cities discovering his issues, but Chicago never did?

Burke Gets a Bunkmate

Although, at their ages, we doubt there's a top bunk available - probably all ground level:

• Michael J. Madigan spent decades building a political empire rivaled in Illinois history only by his most storied peers, rising to become the longtime speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, chair of its Democratic Party and head of a powerhouse tax appeal firm.

  But in a landmark verdict that could transform the 82-year-old politician into a federal inmate in the twilight of his life, a jury found Madigan guilty Wednesday of a nearly decade-long bribery conspiracy involving ComEd. They also convicted him of a plot to install ex-Ald. Danny Solis on a state board in exchange for Solis’ help securing private business for Madigan’s law firm.

  However, the jury stopped far short of delivering the sweeping verdict prosecutors sought.

But even the relatively "lower" charges Madigan was convicted on carry a maximum of 20 years. 

Figure it's his first actual conviction and lack of a criminal record, the judge will go toward the low side of sentencing. But even if he gets five years, he has to serve 85% of federal time, so he's doing four inside.

After Burke and now Mike, will other politicians get the message?

Go Where You're Wanted

If true, then hats off to the 017 Officers:

• Last year, Community Policing Officers from Chicago’s 17th District organized a prom clothing drive for Roosevelt High School, collecting hundreds of donated dresses and suits for students in need. Officers set up racks of clothing at the school, allowing students to browse and select outfits, with a seamstress even volunteering to tailor dresses.
  
  This year, Roosevelt High School refused to allow officers inside, instructing them to simply drop off the clothing, citing concerns that some students might feel "scared" by their presence. To their credit the officers refused and going to the more welcoming (and not insane) Schurz High School.

This is how you stop the progressive bullshit in general. They don't want you around, then don't go there. Go where you're appreciated or the beneficiaries are thankful and screw the entitled.

Drink at Home

Seldom - if ever - does anything good happen after midnight:

• The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has released 911 calls and ring camera footage of a drunken gunfight that broke out in December involving off-duty officers, but the files do not include any calls from the officers themselves.

  COPA did not respond to the scene because there was initially “no indication” that an officer discharged their weapon. Whether or not the officer fired a weapon later became unclear “due to the inconsistency of his statements and intoxication,” according to police reports.

  At about 1:25 a.m. on Dec. 14, two off-duty officers, a woman, her boyfriend and his brother, 26, were leaving a party at Legends in Maywood.

And absolutely nothing good ever happens in Maywood once the sun goes down.

You can read more at the link up top, but it's run-of-the-mill drunken BS that we used to be warned about in the Academy during Week #1.