That's....Lucrative

It certainly pays to be connected:

• Newly installed interim Chicago Police Supt. Fred Waller is collecting an annual city taxpayer-funded pension of $141,608 while he has been earning more than $210,648 per year as a deputy director, bringing his total annual compensation to $352,256, according to records obtained by WTTW News.

  Waller, 64, has now twice served as CPD’s interim leader, first leading the department from May 2023 to September 2023 before Mayor Brandon Johnson picked Larry Snelling as the city’s top cop. After Snelling took office, Waller stayed on to advise Snelling, serving as deputy director in the superintendent’s office, records show.

  Waller has received pension payments of more than $11,500 per month since he retired on Aug. 15, 2020, and they will continue for the rest of his life, according to records obtained by WTTW News from the Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago. Annually, Waller’s pension increases by 3% to cover any increase in the cost of living, records show. He received a pension payment in June, according to documents obtained by WTTW News through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the police pension fund.

How many "merit" bumps?

Remember - Given, not Earned.

Crash Footage

The temporarily airborne vehicle footage:

• video link here

 And as predicted, the blame game has begun:

• Morales' father said he believes law enforcement bears responsibility for the events leading up to the crash.

  "They told me they stopped chasing, but the videos online show something else. They show lots of police cars behind them. I think there are other ways they could have stopped the car," he said in Spanish.

Well then, please list the "other ways" the police could have stopped the vehicle.

And while you're listing the reasons, please explain why a fourteen-year-old minor child was out at 2:00 AM with people (or folks) pointing a rifle at citizens.

We're just curious. 

Quick Hits

A few fun stories....another Brandon body:

• A man was shot Saturday night in an alley in the Hermosa neighborhood, and it’s unclear how long he lay there before anyone found him, because no one called 911 to report gunfire, he did not cooperate with police, and the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system that once covered the area was shut down by Mayor Brandon Johnson in September 2024.

That's Number Eighty-Nine. Any predictions on when Conehead will hit 100?

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Time to outlaw scooters!

• A man was hospitalized after he was shot by someone on a scooter Sunday night in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.

  The 35-year-old was outside about 10:15 p.m. in the 900 block of South Kilpatrick Avenue when a male gunman on a scooter opened fire in his direction, police said in a statement.

  The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds , police said. He was listed in fair condition. Police reported no arrests.

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And yet another ILLEGAL ALIEN culturally enriching Chicago:

• A Venezuelan migrant has been ordered detained after prosecutors accused him of dragging a Chicago police officer with a car during a South Side traffic stop, then biting and punching officers while threatening to kill one of them.

  Jose Yorwin Marquez, 22, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, two counts of resisting or obstructing a peace officer, and multiple traffic violations, including driving without ever having been issued a driver’s license.

Remember, this is who Fata$$ is protecting and who Conehead is spending countless million on.

So What's the Actual Problem?

This might be a bit dark, but there need to be more prisons like this:

• Around 10 p.m., a haze of gray smoke wafted down a hallway lined with prison cells at the Joliet Treatment Center. The window of cell A9 began to glow red as the fire within grew. Jason Stephens was locked inside. Minutes ticked by, and the smoke became so thick you could not see more than a few feet. No one came to let Stephens out.

  There have been more than 70 fires at the facility in the last three years, according to an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times. That includes a dozen cases in which men incarcerated there set themselves on fire.

  The Joliet Treatment Center opened in 2017 with the promise of being a new kind of prison in Illinois, designed to provide intensive mental health treatment. But in the years leading up to that night in the summer of 2024, incarcerated men and civil rights lawyers who visited the facility said the conditions declined. Men were kept locked in their cells for long stretches, with nothing to do. They complained about a lack of medical care and mental health treatment, which the prison system is legally obligated to provide. Men reported that guards used excessive force.

  As the men grew more despondent, some became willing to do anything to draw attention to their troubles and resorted to setting their cells — or themselves — on fire.

Sounds like a win. 

Prison is supposed to be restrictive and depressing so that inmates don't want to return to it and they make the effort to not go back. 

If they do go back - and the recidivism rate seems to imply a lot of them do - then the prison obviously didn't make a bad enough impression on them so that they improve their lives, get jobs and contribute to society.

Self immolation seems like a decent outcome....for the taxpayer at least. 

They Believed They Could Fly

But flying cars don't exist yet:

• Three people were killed early Sunday after a car fleeing police drove off a bridge and into a train box car in Bedford Park, Chicago police said. A fourth passenger is in critical condition.

  Chicago police were responding to a call after someone pointed a gun at a person from the car. Officers tried to pull over the vehicle, but the driver didn’t stop. Officers briefly chased the car before stopping the pursuit, according to police.

Smart move! Obviously someone has been reading the Training Bulletin!

But then....:

• Illinois State Police troopers then saw the same car and attempted to stop it in the 5500 block of South Cicero Avenue. The car briefly stopped for the troopers, but then the driver sped off again. State troopers radioed Chicago police for back up.

We're hoping this is just sloppy reporting. Chicago terminated the chase, whether by supervisory order or self-termination - IT WAS OVER. Anything the State Police transmitted after that point should be considered information only - as in "last seen" or "headed in XXXX direction" or "occupied 4 times" etc.

Yes, we're aware a gun may have been displayed or pointed in some manner, but the powers-that-be have decreed that this alone is NOT a reason to pursue. We don't agree with it, but it's easier to suspend or fire you for disobeying the rules than to actually enforce the law.

Because then this shit happens:

• The wanted car — speeding away from police in the 6900 block of South Cicero Avenue — drove off a bridge and crashed into a train box car at around 2:15 a.m. Sunday, police said. Two men and one woman in the car were killed and pronounced dead at the scene. A second woman was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition.

And now the years of lawsuits begin and careers will hang in the balance as the bottom feeders attempt to blame the police for some dumbass being unable to drive....or obey the law.

UPDATE: unconfirmed report the fourth offender died? 

UPDATE: confirmed. 

CWB Alert

We really need a DEFCON type counter to be broadcast live these days:

• Large groups of teenage males violently attacked and robbed two women in separate incidents in the Loop this weekend, according to police, sending both victims to hospitals. CPD has now issued a community alert as they work to identify those responsible and prevent additional attacks.

  Between 10 and 16 people were involved in each attack, police said, both of which occurred near the corner of Michigan and Roosevelt.

  The first woman was attacked around 7:58 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of South Michigan Avenue. Police said the group struck her with their fists and feet and took her phone and jewelry. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital by ambulance, according to a source.

  Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, a similar group carried out what police described as a nearly identical attack in the first block of East Roosevelt Road. That victim took herself to Insight Hospital.

And CWB relays the FACTUAL information about who is doing it:

• Police described the attackers as a group of 10 to 16 Black males approximately 14 to 19 years old, but CPD has not yet released any images of the suspects.

And the Red Line....what a shocker.

Another Weekend

Another "mass shooting" in Conehead's Reign of Error:

• A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago's Humboldt Park community early Sunday morning.

  The shooting happened at 2:09 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of North Central Park Avenue, near Augusta Boulevard.

  Police said someone fired a gun and the gunfire struck all six victims.

  A 35-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout his body and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. A 36-year-old man was also shot multiple times throughout his body and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.

  The other four victims were all in good condition.

Nothing goo happens after midnight.

Even less good happens on the west side....24/7/365. 

Slow News Day?

This is "newsworthy" now? Instead of routine?

• Chicago police shot a dog after it had attacked two people, seriously injuring them, early Sunday morning at a home in North Lawndale on the city’s Southwest Side.

  According to police, a 15-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman were attacked by a dog inside a residence in the 4200 block of West Cullerton Street just after 5:30 a.m. After officers arrived on scene, one fired their gun and hit the dog.

  The 15-year-old girl was taken to an area hospital in serious condition with multiple puncture wounds and cuts on her arms, and the 25-year-old woman was also taken to an area hospital in serious condition with puncture wounds to her hands.

And the finishing touch?

• Police did not provide an update on the condition of the dog....

At least they didn't "report" the race of the dog - that would have been typical of the media.

Are the Officers on Thirty Day Desk Duty now? 

Nationwide Shortage

We've been commenting on the shortages for years now.

L.A. is putting numbers out there:

• The Los Angeles Police Department’s officer shortage has gone from bad to worse — with the city’s top cop revealing that he has lost hundreds of officers in recent months while trying bolster the beleaguered force by a staggering 4,000 more.

  LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell exclusively told The California Post that the department’s uniformed force currently stands at about 8,550, down about 200 officers from February when the LAPD had more than 8,700 cops.

  McDonnell also revealed that the LAPD currently needs about 12,500 cops to ideally safeguard the city, updating a previous estimate of about 12,000 officers that he cited to the Post in February.

That's what....a 33% shortage, give or take a few? 

Always the blue city / blue state $hitholes. 

Stupid Cheeseheads

Once again, you have to wonder about the "heroes" the leftists create - ILLEGAL ALIENS, dope addicts, murderers, rapists, etc. They're at it again in Cheeseland:

• The mother of a man shot and killed by Madison police said Corey Ruiz was an exceptional man who loved his daughter and the rest of his family.

  "He was my love. He loved his daughter, he loved his family. He did not deserve to be taken out like that. They took my baby from me," his mother Elsa Ruiz said, breaking down in tears. She said she never imagined she would be burying her son.

  The emotional news conference Thursday marked the first time the family has made a public statement since Ruiz, 38, was killed on a busy city street on Wednesday. Police say Ruiz pulled a knife during a struggle with four officers, injuring one of them. That officer then fired the shots, according to police.

Wah wah wah. "He had a family" seems to be a common refrain among these idiots.

You know what else he had?

• Court records show Ruiz had been in and out of jail over the past decade on charges including failing to pay child support, driving a vehicle without consent, jumping bail, threatening authorities, taking a vehicle without consent, possessing drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer and retail theft.

A real hero of the lib-tards there.....and oh yeah....this time he had a knife, wounding an Officer.

You know who never seems to get shot? 

• people who DON'T try to stab Police Officers. 
• people who DON'T attempt to disarm Police Officers. 
• people who DON'T make the effort to run Police Officers over with automobiles

 It's funny how that works.

O'Shea Doesn't Care (UPDATE)

That party house over on Maplewood that happens to be almost directly across the street from the aldermoron is still hosting parties AND advertising it publicly:

• Hidden Treasure Rooftop & Patio is a unique multi-level backyard venue located in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood. This private outdoor event space features a large patio, rooftop deck, elevated lounge deck, and garage service station, creating the perfect flow for hosting memorable celebrations. 
• The venue’s rooftop deck overlooks a beautiful tree-lined park, providing a peaceful scenic backdrop that makes the space feel like a hidden oasis within the city. 
• With multiple levels for entertaining, the layout allows hosts to create separate zones for music, food, cocktails, and conversation. The space works perfectly for everything from baby showers and birthday parties to live music performances and private celebrations. 
• With nearly 2,000 square feet of combined space, Hidden Treasure Rooftop & Patio comfortably accommodates up to 140 guests with mixed seating or up to 170 guests cocktail-style.

Remember, this is a RESIDENTIAL neighborhood where this sort of venue is NOT allowed...but that isn't stopping the owner:

• A Beverly neighbor has come under fire for hosting unlicensed concerts and events at her home, though she denied she is operating an entertainment business from the home and said officials have thwarted efforts to bring the events in accordance with the law.

  Since late May, a home in the 10500 block of South Maplewood Avenue — which has billed itself online as Hidden Treasure Rooftop & Patio — has been the subject of visits from police and city business officials over a series of ticketed events that were advertised as featuring live entertainment, food and drink.

  The latest outdoor event, held on Saturday and featuring a live band and armed security, saw police respond to the home and officials with Business Affairs and Consumer Protection issue nine citations.

She's selling tickets, has armed security on site (suburban off duty cops), has received numerous citations from CPD, and is still running the venue despite the building being in foreclosure.

And O'Shea is doing next-to-nothing, not even giving CPD the go-ahead to start mass arrests on scene, so there's obviously some political bullshit in play here. 

They shut down that bar up in 017 the other day after a single shooting, pulling licenses and shutting down the building....but this place gets a pass why exactly? 

How soon until someone gets shot over there?

UPDATE: The building is in foreclosure, but it turns out she also doesn't pay property taxes on the building - as in zero. She has a senior and disabled veteran exemption attached to the property....from her parents....that don’t live there.

And the aldermoron is backing this lawbreaking 100%. 

Governors Run States, Right?

But not Porkulous - he's only concerned about what might generate national interest in a presidential run:

• Gov. JB Pritzker said he has not seen the video of an Illinois State Police trooper shooting an unarmed woman to death in January, though he reiterated trust in the department’s leadership on Wednesday.

  “So, I have to admit that the details of the decision about that, I do not know. So, it’s very hard for me to have a reaction,” Pritzker said at an unrelated event in Chicago, though he later referred to the woman who was shot as a “victim.”

  He was specifically asked about the St. Clair County state’s attorney’s decision not to file charges against trooper Gary Blake Novack for shooting and killing Rachel Tarrence, a mother of three, during a traffic stop in East St. Louis on Jan. 4.

  By contrast, the governor has said he watched “frame by frame” the video of a federal immigration officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis three days after the Illinois shooting.

So he saw the bullet hits to the front of the vehicle? The ones that could only have been fired by someone standing directly in the line of travel? Or the events leading up to the shooting where the deceased disobeyed lawful and legal orders by the Officers?

The good news is that in the latest New Hampshire polling, Fata$$ didn't even break 1% of the polling, so the nation is probably safe from him gaining national office. 

Someone Told Carter, "No"

Rumor central:

• Whoaaaaaa…. Listen to this. Eric Carter called the 1st deputy and asked to have a certain Lt from 006 promoted to a commander and she said no, Waller will be making those decisions and she said she won’t back any of his picks.. he blew a gasket, called Waller and vented and Waller told Carter where to go… hilarious. Good for the first and good for Waller.

Hilarious if true.

Crackhouse Owner Speaks

This alderthief has a great idea:

• Ignoring fears that Chicago was “buying high after selling low,” Mayor Brandon Johnson’s most powerful City Council ally on Wednesday forged ahead with his eleventh-hour plan to create a public infrastructure trust to take back the city’s parking meters.

And where would this "public infrastructure trust" get it's funding to buy back the parking meters?

You'll never guess:

• Budget Committee Chair Jason Ervin (28th) formally introduced his long-shot ordinance that would create a nine-member public trust to pool pension and city funds and match the $2.5 billion winning bid submitted by Stonepeak Partners, a New York investment firm, for the city’s parking meters.

Brilliant.

Might we add a suggestion though? If we're going to be taking existing pension funds, it ought to be funded by the best funded first and then working it's way downward through the funding ratios.

First up would be the aldermanic pension funds, which we're certain aren't short a dime.

Second, the teachers pension fund seeing as how they only contribute 2% of their salaries while taxpayers pick up the rest.

Working downward from there, the Fire and Police pensions would be near the bottom of having to contribute to this political boondoggle. 

Oh, and the funding that would be raised (unlikely as it seems) would be applied in reverse, so the worst funded would reap the benefits first since those are the pensions that need saving the most. 

Where's the Manpower?

These numbers would certainly alleviate manpower shortages at the District level:

• Fun fact: CPD has 145 Full Duty Sgt’s and 480 Full Duty Police Officers assigned or detailed to a unit within PSHQ. What-the-ever-loving-crap is going on at HQ that you need that many full duty people. That’s the equivalent of two entire districts covering 3 watches in one building, that primarily works M-F, 7am-3:30pm.

Under the "Consent Decree," the optimal span of supervision (officers overseen by a supervisor) is supposed to be something between 5-to-1 and 8-to-1. 

Most Districts we worked in, it was closer to 10-to-1.

HQ is 3.3-to-1 which is ridiculous with HQ sergeants doing between one-third and one-quarter of the supervisory tasks, not to mention there are few (if any) interactions with the public that would end up as Log numbers of something requiring actual....you know....supervision.

Seems Plausible

From that paradigm of truthful reporting, the Babylon Bee:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson credited Chicago's drop in reported crime to his new policy of holding the crime statistics chart upside down.

  While previous mayors held the chart right side up, making crime appear to be on the rise, Johnson came up with the idea of simply flipping the chart over.

  "And as you can see," said Johnson, pausing for dramatic effect as he turned the chart upside-down. "Crime is actually falling at a historic rate. The arrow is pointing down. We did it. Good job, me."

The included photo is funny:

 

This one is still funnier though:

 

"math?"

Vallas Commentary

As long time readers are aware, this is our only social media presence. We don't have any other accounts and yes we're aware there are others out there that use the same name we do....but it isn't us.

It isn't likely we'd expand our footprint, so we're mostly reliant on people sending us interesting posts from other authors. This particular one was either from The Contrarian's or Paul Vallas's X Account. Since Vallas writes for the Contrarian, it gets confusing sometimes and our emailer wasn't clear:

• You can’t make this up.
  
  
  Just the latest in a string of settlements involving hundreds of criminals who actually committed the crimes for which they were convicted and incarcerated, many were released and granted “Certificates of Innocence” by Kim Foxx. The COIs helped them secure multimillion dollar civil settlements.
  
  
  Foxx admitted in a recent deposition she believed evidence existed suggesting Gabriel Solache and Arturo Reyes were both guilty of the heinous Bucktown murders. Mejia, a co-conspirator in the crime who procured Solache and Reyes services and never retracted her testimony of their involvement remains in jail.
  
  
  These cases have cost hundreds of millions and will cost hundreds of millions more. It is important to note half of those released and half the cash settlements for “wrongful convictions” occurred in county while Foxx was in office.
  
  
  For the cottage industry of advocates and trial lawyers who claim this was justice reform, explain this warped justice that has rewarded hundreds of millions of dollars to vicious criminals and their trial lawyers, to the families of the victims who were overwhelmingly Black or Hispanic.
  
  
  Meanwhile the media reinforces this narrative that these settlements are all because of police misconduct, portraying these criminals as victims and even sometimes heroes and their lawyers as civil rights advocates.
  
  
  This demands a US Justice Department investigation.

Foxxx really needs to be prosecuted for Official Misconduct at some level - there's no statute of limitations on it in Illinois, and she was actively playing for the other team - elected to PROSECUTE criminals, but making up Laws to make it impossible to successfully charge, try and imprison felons along with the "Certificates of Innocence" bullshit that is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions.

But she's part of the crooked system here, so that's unlikely.

Hey Conehead?

Can we demonize this one?

• Less than two hours after 17-year-old Javar Woods returned home from a stint at the Cook County juvenile detention center on May 21, he shot 13-year-old Deantwan McKeever while the two were stealing a car together, prosecutors allege.

  Felled by a single shot to his forehead, McKeever lay alone in a South Chicago gangway for roughly 24 minutes before someone finally called 911 on his behalf, officials say. Until Mayor Brandon Johnson deactivated the city’s ShotSpotter network in September 2024, the technology could have alerted first responders to the gunfire even if no one else did.

Added Bonus!  Another Conehead Corpse! 

This happened on 21 May around 2:43 in the afternoon....a school day. 

Why weren't these non-demonized yutes in skool?

Cheap Ass Mofo

Another SAFE-T Act success story!

• A suburban man accused of robbing a restaurant owner at gunpoint tried to saw off his ankle monitor by walking into Home Depot and using a pair of — appropriately — bolt cutters from the shelves, prosecutors say, but he walked right into the arms of Cook County Sheriff’s Police in the parking lot, according to prosecutors.

  Tyrone Arnold, 28, is charged with escape from electronic monitoring and criminal damage to government property for almost severing the county’s GPS tracker from his ankle. Almost.

Cheap ass couldn't even buy the bolt cutters?

We guess we should be thankful he didn't steal them....even though he'd be released on that charge before the case reports were approved.

Police Are Bad

But don't look over at the CPS / CTU:

• More than 700 employees of Chicago Public Schools were found to have engaged in some form of misconduct within a single year, an analysis of district records shows. 

  Over the course of four months, WTTW News obtained records that provide a detailed look at how CPS disciplined employees in cases investigated by district staff, outside agencies or the CPS Office of Inspector General.

  Between Jan. 3, 2025, and Jan. 6, 2026, Chicago Public Schools sustained misconduct allegations against more than 700 employees, with most cases involving routine workplace violations and dozens involving more serious allegations, including harassment, discrimination and fraud, records show. Among the most serious offenses, 10 employees resigned or were fired after facing allegations of sexual abuse involving a student, and almost two dozen cases overall involved allegations of sexual misconduct or discrimination. 

It sure would be interesting to compare those numbers against other City departments, even on a per capita basis. Sure, there would be a lot of low level, SPAR sustained stuff for uniform infractions, court deviations and procedural errors, but we highly doubt any other department would come close to the chomos that CPS covers up for.