Nice Job Meathead

Remote training is often CD - Civilian Dress. A nice break from the uniform, wearing "soft clothes" in case you had to do something physical and didn't want to ruin expensive work clothes. 

In almost every case, the order would read "conservative dress" which almost everyone took to mean jeans and a collared polo shirt and gym shoes. Some t-shirts weren't objectionable as long as they weren't full of holes and objectionable content.

Thanks to this appearing at LEMART the other day, soft clothes might be out for a while:

Seriously? What the actual f#$% is this? Not only the clothes, but we don't recall the "broccoli"haircut on the list of approved styles. Bump card? And if he shows up to work like this?

A commentator said he got SPARred and so did the Sergeant who failed to take corrective action. Another comment said all training will be in uniform from the time being, including detectives.

Feds Edit Crime Numbers

Remember a few weeks ago at the Presidential Debate, Trump contended that violent crime was up under the Biden/Kackler regime? And ABC "news" fact-checked the ex-pres and said fbi stats showed crime was down? And we (along with others) pointed out that LAPD and NYPD didn't even report their crime stats to the feebs so the numbers were suspect at best.

Seems the fbi is conducting election interference....again:

• When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

  But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

  The Bureau – which has been at the center of partisan storms – made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release.
  

They changed the stats, and didn't even bother to mention the alterations, leaving it to professionals with far more time that we have, to download the new spreadsheets and manually compare them to the ones ABC "news" and the Kackler used during the debate.

SURPRISE! The fbi lied (via omission) again!

And these aren't tiny lies either - they're whoppers:

• While the FBI claims that serious violent crime has fallen by 5.8% since Biden took office, the NCVS numbers show that total violent crime has risen by 55.4%. Rapes are up by 42%, robbery by 63%, and aggravated assault by 55% during Biden’s term. Since the NCVS started, the largest previous increase over three years was 27% in 2006, so the increase under Biden was slightly more than twice as large.

  The increases shown by the NCVS during the Biden-Harris administration are by far the largest percentage increases over any three years, slightly more than doubling the previous record.

If you lie to the feebs, you're going to spend - at minimum - a year in prison. Even inadvertent omissions or misinterpretations of events are considered "lies" and you will be prosecuted. But the feebs can lie ot the American people with impudence and attempt to influence an election - on multiple occasions (Russia-gate, Hillary's server, Hunter's laptop, J6, etc)

Disbanding isn't even a question any more. Prison terms should be insisted on.

School Endorsements

A couple of graphs to assist you in voting (click for larger versions):

The Illinois Policy endorsements.

And the full slate of people taking money from Stacy Davis Gates and the teachers' union:

Anyone in red doesn't deserve your vote.

You're only going to see one of these races on your ballot (by school Districts), so check out hte map up top, figure out where you live, and vote appropriately.

008 Tact Shooting?

A comment said there's almost no coverage on a "shots fired at the police" incident in 008 the other day.

They're correct - we can't find anything about it aside from two comments here.

Obviously, no one got hit. And obviously, the media doesn't care unless they can spin it as the police doing something wrong, so they deserved it. We remember when shooting at cops used to be a big deal.

Who's got info?

Election Advice

Along the lines of our recommendations on judges:

• The CTU is endorsing a candidate in every school district race. Vote for the other one.

Both papers have interviews with candidates this week. 

Here's the Slum Times one.

And here's the x/Twitter feed of the candidate the CTU is backing in the 9th District:

No, we aren't joking, even a little bit. This is from the Contrarian, so you know it's 100% legit. Lanetta Thomas is a psycho.

Voices of Defunding

Austin Berg is doing some awesome reporting on alternative media platforms. He recently posted this forgotten interview from a few years back:

• Three key members of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration discuss defunding and abolishing the Chicago Police Department. 
• Head of Intergovernmental Affairs Kennedy Bartley ($192,000 salary): “As an abolitionist, when I say defund the police it is through an abolitionist lens.” 
• Senior Advisor on Community Safety Alyx Goodwin ($103,488 salary): “The thing I would add here is that the demand to defund is like also an anti-capitalist demand.” 
• Deputy Budget Director of Community Safety Adam Slade ($135,084 salary): “I agree 100% with both of those views.” 
• Footage source: Panel discussion held April 7, 2021, hosted by Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Ice Miller LLP

Three of Conehead's top advisors, stealing almost half-a-million in salary, all advocating for the abolition of the CPD. 

But none of this came out during the election - "progressives" and their media lapdogs are great at hiding their true intentions.

(tip of the hat to the Contrarian for the info)

Dana Starks - RIP

Word trickling in that Dana Starks passed overnight.

Love him, hate him, whatever, we met him maybe twice during our career.

We do know he played politics (as all higher up bosses do), but he also righted a few wrongs when he knew someone was wrongly screwed over (which is more than a lot of other bosses did).

No Hits

No runs, no errors:

• Officers investigating a woman’s 911 call, claiming she was unsafe in a vehicle with people who had four guns, fired shots at a suspect’s car and later arrested a person in Old Town on Sunday evening. No injuries from gunfire were reported.

  According to initial information, the woman called 911 around 6:36 p.m., reporting that she was not safe in a silver car northbound on Lake Shore Drive near Ontario Street. She told a 911 operator that the people in the car had four guns.

  After receiving additional information about the car’s location, police stopped a vehicle matching its description in the 300 block of West Division around 6:50 p.m.

  According to a CPD statement, the car’s occupants refused to follow the officers’ commands and the driver struck one of the police vehicles. An officer fired toward the vehicle, which fled the scene, according to the statement. Police did not say why the officer fired on the vehicle.

With little to fear from actual prosecution or jail time, this has now become common. 

Be careful out there.

"Stupid" but not a Smuggler

The evidence begs to differ:

• A British woman allegedly caught carrying more than 90 pounds of cocaine in her luggage at O’Hare International Airport is “stupid,” but she’s not a drug smuggler, according to her father.

  John Hall told reporters in the UK that a couple of men promised his 28-year-old daughter, Kim, a free vacation in Cancun if she traveled home with two suitcases they had packed for her. They allegedly told Kim that each suitcase contained $250,000 cash, but they actually contained about $4.5 million worth of cocaine.

  Homeland security investigators intercepted her luggage and arrested Hall in August as she tried to make a connecting flight home to Manchester, England, according to court records.

  Hall’s father told a British paper that his daughter met two men claiming to be Mexican real estate developers while on vacation in Portugal, and they offered her a free getaway in exchange for her willingness to take two suitcases back home from Cancun.

Gotta admit, that sounds pretty stupid.

Hilariously, the judge refused to keep her in custody and ordered an ankle monitor. At the same time, the judge ordered her passport confiscated so she couldn't leave town. According to County policy, ankle monitors can only be issued to those with a fixed address, which a British citizen doesn't usually have, meaning she's been in custody at the jail since her August arrest.

Perhaps the judge is the stupid one here?

Indoctrination Factories

Not that this should be a surprise to anyone reading, but CPS is filling kids heads with racist ideology backed by lies and propaganda. A sample of what's being handed out in schools recently (ckick kfor larger versions):

 These authors are typical leftist bomb-throwers.

The "cages" supposedly for children, were leftovers from the Sparklefarts administration, as documented by even legacy media outlets.

Why do they insist on making heroes out of criminals?

This is what's being taught in Chicago schools today, which makes the school board elections seem a bit more important. Anyone accepting money or endorsements from the CTU shouldn't get your votes.

Who is This A$$hole?

We're trying to load this as a audio file - it's a squad car crash in the 010 District and the dispatcher is asking for a sergeant to head to the scene after dispatching an ambulance:

The sergeant gets cranky with the dispatcher, violating at least one FCC regulation, says he's busy with something else and the officers better "learn to lay low." While we agree with the sentiments, they got into a crash. 

If you didn't want to be a sergeant, with all of the responsibilities that supervision entails, then why did you take the test and accept the promotion? As for the shortages, grow a pair and deal with it. You can only be one place at one time, so prioritize and handle it. 

Here's a hint - the one involving possibly injured Officers takes priority.

(if this doesn't load properly, we'll try something else in the morning when we have more time)

Another Gunshot Victim

All these people, lying in alleys, undiscovered for long periods of time without medical or police response....it's actually a bit entertaining, it's providing CWB with lots of material for articles, and it ought to be embarrassing to politicians:

• A woman shot and critically injured lay on the ground in pain for more than 20 minutes before first responders located her early Sunday morning. Nobody called 911 to report gunshots in the area, which used to be served by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network.

  At about 1:40 a.m., an anonymous 911 caller reported hearing a woman calling for help in the 7500 block of South Sangamon. According to police dispatch recordings, she said she thought the woman was in the alley or maybe around some nearby railroad tracks.

  Cops went to the area, but they didn’t find anyone. As they were wrapping up their search, around 2 a.m., another 911 call came in. This time, the person reported hearing a woman screaming that she had been shot in an alley behind the 7500 block of South Sangamon.

  Within two minutes, the officers and firefighters located the 33-year-old woman. She was in the alley between Sangamon and May, south of 75th Street.

This winter, we'll guarantee some shooting victim freezes to death while waiting for police/ambulance responses that aren't arriving in a timely manner.

Off Duty Sheriff

Someone tried to rob and off duty sheriff:

• An attempted armed robbery ended in a shooting and a car engulfed in flames on the city's West Side. The shooting happened on Sunday around 1:41 a.m. near Lake and Morgan in the Fulton Market District, according to Chicago police. Police said the offender jumped out of a Ford SUV and tried to rob a man at gunpoint.

  The victim was an off-duty correctional deputy, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office. The off-duty deputy pulled out his own gun and fired several shots toward the offender.

  No one was hit. The suspect ran off.

"No one was hit." And no one can explain the burning SUV or if that was just coincidence.

Except, CWB discovered this:

• There’s a plot twist to report in the overnight attempted robbery of an off-duty Cook County correctional officer in the West Loop. The officer pulled a gun and fired at the robber and a second man as they ran from the scene, Chicago police said, adding that no injuries were reported.

  But we have learned that a man with five gunshot wounds arrived at Rush Hospital in an Uber about 30 minutes after the shooting. Investigators were working to determine if he was shot by the correctional officer.

If this sheriff scored five hits, well done indeed.

Members Sue Union

No, not the FOP....at least, not yet.

This was emailed to us the other day:

 And then this was published by IllinoisPolicy.org:

• The Chicago Teachers Union is facing a lawsuit by four of its own members for breach of contract because it failed for over four years to provide an annual audit to members, as is required under the union’s rules.

  Attorneys for the plaintiff CTU members sent a letter to the union on Oct. 1, 2024, demanding the union release audits for the missing fiscal years. When the union failed to comply, the members filed suit.

  The last time CTU released the required document was Sept. 9, 2020, covering the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 fiscal years. While keeping its members in the dark, CTU has raised their dues by 13%, to over $1,400 for its 2024 fiscal year.

This (hopefully) throws a wrench in Stacy Davis-Gates' plans to extort taxpayers (by holding children hostage) to the tune of a few extra billion dollars.

An interesting paragraph in the report:

• Those who have dared to question CTU’s finances have been targeted with insults by its president, Stacy Davis Gates. Other members have just left the union altogether.

  It’s not a good look for the union: refusing to abide by its own rules, keeping its own members in the dark on union finances and then driving up their dues to pay for whatever the union’s leaders are doing with the money.

That sounds familiar to a lot of comments here over the past few months. Trouble over on Washington Blvd?

Shooting

Officers are all okay:

• An armed suspect was shot overnight by a Chicago police officer in Brighton Park.

  Police said just before 12:30 a.m., officers were investigating a call of an aggravated assault and a person with a gun inside a business in the 3900 block of South Kedzie Avenue.

  The responding officers encountered the man who displayed a firearm. When officers tried to take it away from him, police say he fired his gun. One officer returned fire, hitting the man.

This is the second time in a week or so where the reports are that Officers were attempting to "take away" a gun on a suspect. We're pretty sure we weren't taught that way and most safety protocols don't advise wrestling over a gun.

Glad everyone important is okay though.

Charges Dropped

One of two:

• Barely a month after two Chicago cops, including a high-ranking deputy chief, were charged with slashing vehicle tires while on duty at Puerto Rican Fest, charges have been dropped against one of them.

  Last month, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office declined to file felony charges against Nieves, 53, and Gies, 26, citing insufficient evidence.

  Despite the state’s attorney’s decision, supervisors at the Chicago Police Department decided to strip both men of their police powers and directly file two misdemeanor charges of criminal damage against Gies and one count of the same charge against Nieves on September 5.

This has rapidly turned into a welcome spotlight on the corruption evident in the Bureau of Internal Affairs / Internal Affairs Division and the yo-yo in charge. She seems more determined to remove opponents and impediments to Conehead's "progressive" agenda....and maybe settling a few grudges along the way.

New ShotSpotter - CFD

Been a few days since a bullet-riddled body (alive or dead) showed up, but never fear! Chicago won't disappoint:

• A Chicago Fire Department truck crew, on their way to a major fire in Little Village on Friday evening, ended their response upon finding a woman shot in the 3400 block of West Van Buren.

  The firefighters reported hearing gunfire in the area, but no 911 callers reported the shooting before CFD found the woman. ShotSpotter, the gunfire detection system, monitored the 3400 block of West Van Buren until Mayor Brandon Johnson pulled the plug on the technology on September 22.

  Chicago police said the victim, a 30-year-old woman, was walking when someone fired shots from a vehicle around 9:19 p.m. The fire department truck crew encountered the woman and requested an ambulance more than ten minutes later, at 9:31 p.m. She was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her abdomen, according to CPD.

Once again, not a single call to 9-1-1. 

If nothing else, it ought to be used for body cleanup efforts.

Detective List

Ain't the best pics and the margins are all over the place, but here's what we got:

Click for larger versions. If anyone has something better, send it along.

New / Old 008?

Politics throwing a wrench in this plan....and maybe for the best:

• Three members of Congress — including U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia — are pushing back against Mayor Brandon Johnson’s reliance on federal air traffic safety rules to justify his decision to use a former National Guard armory as an equipment storehouse instead of a new Southwest Side police district.

  The shuttered armory area alderpersons have wanted to turn into a new police station is next to Midway Airport. In a letter to Johnson Friday, Garcia, a former mayoral challenger, and fellow Illinois Democrats Sean Casten and Brad Schneider added federal muscle to the campaign for a new station, which would speed response times in a Chicago Lawn police district serving the second-largest geographic area with the fewest officers per capita.

  While they share Johnson’s “focus on aviation safety,” Casten, Garcia and Schneider said they “believe there is a path forward” to allow the former Illinois National Guard Armory at 5400 W. 63rd St., which the state is donating to city for $1, to be used to create that new police district in Chicago Lawn.

We've gotten a few e-mails about this building and suffice it to say, with the money needed to rehab it and bring it up to code, it might make more sense to start from scratch.

This was a military armory, under federal control. It's almost ninety years old, when certain environmental standards weren't even in existence, and once passed into law years later, a lot of military outposts were exempted from the new rules (i.e. think asbestos first, then think about diesel fuel). The potential for health related lawsuits ought to kill this thing immediately. Not to mention it's too close to a runway and too high for being inside the airport fence. They'd have to take off part of the building to bring it into compliance, and then there's always the chance off a runway overshoot that could wreck the entire structure.

Obviously, some politician has a connected relative in the building trades and wants to steer some business their way.

Amazon Delivered What Now?

Something tells us this wasn't a "Prime Day" deal:

• Police are conducting a death investigation after a man found an Amazon box containing an object that may be a human head on the West Side yesterday evening.

  The man was walking his dog when he came upon the box around 5:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of West Taylor, according to initial information.

  In a brief media statement, Chicago police said the man reported that he was “on the sidewalk and discovered a box containing an unknown victim’s remains inside.”

  The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is examining the recovered item today. Investigators there will determine if it is human remains and, if confirmed, try to determine who they are and how they died.

Imagine being a porch pirate and stealing this off a porch.

Better stick to robbing trains on the west side.

Lieutenant Assignments

 Here's where they landed:

Check back in a month, see how many remained where they got sent.

Better Picture

You know, if you click on the pictures here, you ought to get a larger version.

If that doesn't work:

And yes, we know that in most cases, decals are printed by an outside vendor. But the vendor usually goes by what's written on the Order Form and it's usually checked by an editor. 

What the client wants, the client gets....even if it's wrong

Detectives Made

We only saw one set of pictures of the list, but it had a bad reflection and was near unreadable at points.

If anyone has the list, post it.

Money From Where?

Conehead says money is tight. Police classes are cancelled. Fire apparatus isn't being repaired. OT will be sharply restricted. Layoffs are likely. He might even have to raise taxes.

In the meantime:

• Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters this week that "everything is on table," including the potential layoff of city workers, which Johnson said he hopes to avoid, as the city grapples with how to address a nearly billion-dollar budget shortfall.

  But invoices and receipts uncovered by NBC 5 Investigates are raising questions about why during a time of financial crisis did the city spend more than $80,000 redecorating and renovating an office in the Chicago Cultural Center for First Lady Stacie Johnson.

  The invoices and receipts, obtained by NBC 5 Investigates through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, show that work order requests began in February and continued through August of this year to renovate and redecorate Room 306 in the Chicago Cultural Center.

It's getting so a mayor can't even afford to go on a "business trip" to London, but by golly:

• One invoice shows the city was billed more than $43,000 for furniture, including a $2,200 high-back executive chair and a $4,400 desk that's referenced on the invoice as "First Lady's Desk." Another $4,600 is listed for what appears to be the desk for a staffer. The same invoice shows more than $8,300 was spent on two club chairs.

Someone's ass is going to be pampered by a $4,000 chair.

Spell Check Anyone?

No doubt, another CPS student socially promoted without actually passing anything:

Checkout the circular sticker on the window panel.....it's all over the truck:

At least they spelled "police" correctly.

Typical

This a$$hole is exactly who you thought she was:

• A Chicago alderman is “p***ed off to the highest of pisstivity” after learning that a senior public safety advisor in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested on Tuesday on an outstanding warrant.

  As a $103,488 per year “senior adviser on community safety,” Alyxandra Goodwin, 33, helped lead the administration’s charge against ShotSpotter, but she wound up on the other side of the law Tuesday afternoon in the 6600 block of South Cornell. That’s where Chicago cops encountered Goodwin and arrested her for an outstanding DuPage County warrant, according to internal CPD communications.

A criminal, pissed at being held accountable (for pretty much the most easily fixable of offenses), ends up working for a "progressive" administration where she can advocate for anti-police policies and anti-law enforcement technologies.

Still Kissing the Ring

This place wasn't on anyone's radar....until it got a certain inmate:

• Illinois Sen. Duckworth visits FCI Thomson on Thursday

 It's a video report, so nothing to quote. Duckworth's office says it's all about under-staffing.

We're betting someone had to drop off the last payment to Ed's commissary account.

ShotSpotter Still Lives?

Conehead is such a gutless coward. He didn't even follow through on his threat to veto the ShotSpotter vote:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson is dropping his plan to veto a City Council ordinance aimed at continuing the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system he ended last month, in the face of council opposition that appeared strong enough to overrule him.

  Johnson promised to veto the ordinance passed in a 33-to14 vote, but failed to make the move before a Wednesday morning deadline. A spokesperson told WBEZ the mayor changed plans because his administration believed the ordinance is already not legally enforceable.

  But Johnson was on track to suffer an embarrassing and unprecedented defeat if the veto had gone forward.

He would have been embarrassed, and his handlers would have been embarrased, and everyone would see what a gutless, useless tool Conehead is. 

Actually, they already see that if you've been following the editorial pages the last few days, with everyone and their brother calling him out as weak, wishy-washy, dictatorial, unable to build coalitions, and pretty much the CTU's bitch. Supposedly, his disapproval rating has topped Groot's, climbing well over 70% and nearing 80% is some of the wards.

Only the Best and Brightest

 Nice to see well qualified individual are still landing those phone-call spots:

• Also… have you heard about a member of his “security team” who had their car stolen after they parked it on the 3800 block of Grenshaw? With the keys in it. And their pistol. And their vest. And their wallet with credentials. And their ballistic helmet. Nothing but the Best & Brightest on this job. Let’s see if they try to hide this one.
  

Nice job idiot.

Conehead Employment Agency

Via an X/twitter account:

• CONFIRMED: Brandon Johnson is still going to appoint Carlos Ramirez Rosa's (35) mother to the Chicago School Board. He is currently out of the country on his honeymoon and will not make any statements until November. This is after Carlos's sister was appointed to a $150k/yr job to be the "Chief Philanthropy Officer" which she was unqualified for and was pushed out. His policy director confirmed this to a constituent

Isn't this one of those "progressive" aldercreatures? 

We thought they were "beyond corruption" and "business as usual" in Chicago politics? We guess they're just greedy pricks like every other politician.

Guilty Finding

A small measure of justice for an off duty cop killed in a case of mistaken identity:

• A Cook County jury on Tuesday found a man guilty of murder in the shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer in River North in 2019, according to court records.

  Menelik Jackson, 29, was convicted of murder and aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of Officer John Rivera, 23, which also injured another man, following a jury trial that began last week.

  Rivera was sitting in a parked car in the the 700 block of North Clark Street with at least one other off-duty officer when assailants walked up and fired into the vehicle, killing Rivera and wounding another occupant of the car, police said.

There was a previous conviction on a second offender and a third pled guilty, all because some low IQ assholes with zero impulse control couldn't remember who they were arguing with and just blasted away at a parked car with some people inside.

New Model, Same as the Old One

Isn't this the guy the US media has been touting as the "new model for masculinity"?

So how come we have to go to European press to find out the real stories?

• Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn't flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.

  A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an 'unqualified' part-time model as a legal secretary 'because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office'.

  The claims are the latest in a string of allegations revealed by DailyMail.com that threaten to shatter Emhoff's image, heavily promoted by the Harris presidential campaign, of a feminist ally and 'wife guy'.

Like during his first marriage, getting the nanny pregnant, bullying her into an abortion, and then slapping the crap out of his next girlfriend.

Sounds like this "new model" is more like last century's old model.

And before anyone starts with the, "But Trump...." that's the actual point - every scandal even whispered about with Trump is trumpeted in all the media, but this is ignored by every single media outlet on this side of the Atlantic.

Contrarian Wins Again

Five days ago, the Contrarian had this:

• Here is some chilling news for Chicago.

  Despite @ChicagosMayor's claim a hiring freeze would not affect CPD, we've learned no training classes will be accepted to CPD academy until December.

  CPD is also preparing for massive cuts — defund-level cuts — to the police budget.

Late yesterday, the Sun Times discovered:

• The Chicago Police Department won’t launch recruit classes for at least two months — fueling complaints that Mayor Brandon Johnson is reneging on his promise to exempt public safety agencies from a citywide hiring freeze.

  And at an emergency Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Chief Operating Officer John Roberson ordered other department heads to identify personnel cuts — beyond reductions already made — and submit proposals by Friday. The goal: $75 million in additional savings in 2025.

And amid all the noise, a "shortage number" appears:

• Canceling police academy classes for at least two months also did not sit well with the police union’s Council allies. They noted CPD, with 11,660 sworn officers, already is 1,693 officers below its January 2019 level.

  Between January 2022 and June 2024, the police department processed 28 academy classes, averaging 68 recruits each, over a 30-month period to make up for time lost during the pandemic.

If our memory serves us correctly, between January 1995 and December 1998, nearly 4,000 cops were hired with the assistance of federal grant money doled out by Clinton.

• 1995 + 29-and-a-day = 2024

Meaning there are 4,000 potential retirements on tap for the next thru 2027. We say potential because of the large number who did:

• 20 and out
• 55 and gone
• any combination of the above
• laterals
• the usual resignations, jailings, firings and deaths

Some enterprising reporter with time and FOIA ability could easily find seniority lists and put some weight behind those numbers.

Nice Staff Conehead

Doesn't anyone do background checks any more?

• ...senior advisor for Conehead was just arrested in 003. Unknown warrant issued in DuPage

Hopefully, it's not a water bill issue. That might be embarrassing.

UPDATE:

 

It Happened Again!?!?

Can't anyone read the damn signs???

• A teen was injured after an argument between two women led to a shooting on a CTA bus in Chatham Monday evening, Chicago police said.

  The women were in a “verbal altercation” on a CTA bus in the 8600 block of South State Street at 5:22 p.m. when one of them pulled out a gun and started shooting, police said. A 16-year-old passenger was grazed on his knee and treated at the scene.

  No one is in custody.

With all these criminals carrying guns illegally on public transportation, it seems the only way to ensure your own safety is to carry your own gun illegally.

Kackler Got a Gun

This shouldn't be an issue, being that this is America and all (for now). But when your private life conflicts with your political life, all bets are off.

Kamala has a gun, and she's bragging about it in an effort to appeal to millions of gun owners, thinking that they're stupid enough to believe that if a politician owns a gun, she isn't going to come after theirs.

• Vice President Kamala Harris was happy to remind voters that she owns a gun, but the more they learn about her firearms, the more they ask why she appears to support a double standard for gun owners.

  During her 60 Minutes interview Monday night, Harris followed up on previous statements that she is a gun owner with some specifics that she owns a Glock pistol. The Democratic presidential nominee said she has owned one for "quite some time" and has practiced firing it at a gun range.

See? Your guns are safe.

Except, Glocks are designated as "unsafe weapons" under California law, and if we aren't mistaken, Washington DC law also:

• "Note that California law classifies ALL Glocks as 'unsafe handguns' because they do not have a compliant chamber load indicator, lack a magazine disconnect mechanism, and until our lawsuit caused California to repeal the requirement, of course lacked microstamping," Kostas Moros, an attorney with Michel & Associates representing the California Rifle & Pistol Association, posted on X.

  "The only reason we can still buy Gen 3s is because they are grandfathered in, but they are still 'unsafe handguns,'" Moros continued. "We can't buy more modern Glocks new in gun stores (just secondhand from exempt cops, or from those who moved here with them from other states). She supported the Unsafe Handgun Act and expanded it such that microstamping began to be enforced in 2013. So why does she own an 'unsafe handgun'?"

She's also claiming a "law enforcement background" that she spent it locking up black and brown people for minor drug crimes, many based on questionable evidence via a possibly corrupted testing lab. 

But hey, be sure to contribute to the bail fund for Minneapolis rioters!

What an A$$hole

Gotta trot out the race card, even when it's as far from the truth as possible:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson announced six proposed appointees to the Chicago Board of Education on Monday following uproar over last week’s announcement that the entire board was resigning.

  During a fiery news conference, Johnson rejected calls to pause the appointment process and shot back at criticism that he has been heavy-handed in his handling of Chicago Public Schools.

  He said his mission is to avoid major staffing and programming cuts in the city’s schools — and at one point likened his detractors to leaders of the Confederacy who said it was too expensive to end slavery.

Forty-one of fifty aldercreatures signed a letter objecting to the overt politicization of the School Board process and the almost certain political firestorm brewing just over the horizon.

What a one-trick pony this prick is.

Positive Story

Good police stories seem few and far between in these troubled times, but here's an Officer attempting to make a difference in one of the rougher neighborhoods around town:

• The corner lot at Jackson and Christiana is lined with enormous elephant ears, banana leaf trees and prolific coleus. Sweet potato vines cascade out and down.

  Deronis Cooper started this magical garden with just a few containers to brighten up the landscaping around his new condo complex. "I would go around and take photos of planters that I liked and wanted to somehow duplicate," he said.

  And duplicate he did. Over the last 16 years he has hand-watered thousands of plants in his yard. He calls himself "Grandma's Gardener," as he was by his grandmother's side, tending to her garden as a teen. "I loved my grandmother a lot, we always hung out and did stuff, so what it turned into was grandma saying I need you to help me in my garden," he recalled.

  Now an adult and a Chicago police officer, gardening has become his outlet.

We saw this garden once or twice during deployments and it certainly catches your eye in regards to the rest of the area, an oasis in a desert, and we had no idea it was one of our own.

Early Voting Tip

Early voting locations are open and mail-in ballots are arriving. 

It's time to make our usual judicial recommendations.

• Vote NO on every single judge

The system is broken, the States Attorney bought by the Soros dollars, and the judiciary has been corrupt since before Greylord. The only reason the feds stopped that investigation when they did was the Cook County courts would have had to shut down for a year to be rebuilt from the ground up, jeopardizing thousands of cases.

There is not one single judge in Cook County who isn't corrupted in some way, shape or form since before we were born.