Look! Free Money

Robbing Peter to pay off the CTU:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal includes a gift for Chicago Public Schools: He is recommending that the city take an unprecedented amount out of special taxing districts so CPS can cover its costs and send some cash back to the city to help it end the year in the black.

  School board members say they believe CPS will receive more than $500 million — meaning Johnson will declare a record $1 billion TIF surplus. This would give CPS enough money to make it through the school year without massive cuts. And it would give the city some of what it needs to cover a $175 million municipal pension payment that the district balked at paying without help.

  Johnson is making this proposal after the partly elected, partly appointed school board dealt him a political blow in August when members refused to include the possibility of borrowing so they could cover the pension payment.

So the city isn't broke, they're just mismanaged. The CTU wanted to float a bunch of unnecessary bonds so as to allow connected bankers to make a shit-ton of money in fees and such.

A few points:

• if there is a $1 billion surplus, shouldn't some of the outrageous tax hikes be rescinded or ::gasp:: money be refunded to taxpayers? 
• if Conehead can raid this fund to pay for teacher pensions, why can't he raid it to pay Police/Fire/Laborer shortfalls that are endangering the viability of those funds?

Remember, teachers pay something like 2% of their salary to their pensions with taxpayers picking up the remainder of the cost. Cops (and firefighters?) pay something like 11% because of course they do. They can't strike and hold children hostage as a negotiating ploy.

Another "Brandon Body"

But hey, there's no crime in Chicago if you ignore it:

• A man fatally shot in an alley late Tuesday went undiscovered for about half an hour because no one called 911 to report the gunfire. The alley where the shooting occurred was previously monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system until Mayor Brandon Johnson ended Chicago’s contract with the company in September 2023.

  The 28-year-old victim was found shortly after 11:30 p.m. behind the first block of West 44th Street, police said. A 911 caller told dispatchers they had heard gunfire around 11:02 p.m. But they didn’t call for help until about 30 minutes later, when they looked outside and saw a man bleeding and lying on the ground.

If the neighborhood doesn't care to call about gunfire, then they can't really bitch and moan when bodies are lying around for nearly thirty-minutes after said gunfire occurred.

We just like posting about it because (A) it's a simple way to throw some shade at Conehead and (B) it's a sideways nod at the failings of the democrat voting base, not caring about blatant crime. 

First PPP Fraud, Now Housing Fraud?

To be fair, there's a bunch of precedent for this:

• Two Chicago police officers, a city firefighter and a former Water Department employee have been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging they lied about their employment and income for years to qualify for subsidized housing assistance.

One of the accused worked on the west side where there have been a number of cops who deliberately misrepresented or concealed their real estate holdings to skirt the rules concerning "distressed neighborhood" home ownership. CWB wrote about one here along with a Tribune expose which went nowhere. 

Even a Deputy Chief was involved but nothing ever happened to any of them. If you assist the higher-ups in a successful "enterprise," they'll go to bat for you throughout the investigative process. It's a story as old as Chicago Machine politics.

Feebs Helped Serial Killer

(we're going through our bookmarks and locating a couple stories from earlier this month that got lost in the vacation time)

Remember, this is the premier law enforcement agency in the US, not a bunch of East German Stasi wannabes:

• A former FBI agent says a serial killer who doubled as an FBI informant for years manipulated agents into believing he was helping them, all the while preying on unsuspecting victims. 

  Scott Kimball will likely spend the rest of his life in a federal prison in Colorado after he was sentenced to 70 years in 2009. He pleaded guilty to killing four people between 2003 and 2004, and his number of victims could be much higher, according to former FBI Special Agent Jonny Grusing. 

  "He made a game out of tricking the FBI," Grusing told Fox News Digital, adding that Kimball's case was unprecedented. "As long as he won the game in front of him, that’s all that mattered."

While we appreciate what the current administration is trying to do, righting the ship and redirecting the mission from attacking Americans to fighting actual crime, we still think the organization as a whole is too far gone to have any sort of meaningful reform that would survive a regime change again. They've been weaponized and corrupted far too long, from the Prohibition days all the way through today.

There's no trust remaining. 

Another Corporate Departure

(we're going through our bookmarks and locating a couple stories from earlier this month that got lost in the vacation time)

The corporate occupancy rate downtown - you know, the massive tax base Chicago relies on - keeps shrinking:

• If you need more evidence of how badly downtown Chicago is struggling to recover from the pandemic, look no further than two recent pieces of news.

  The first wasn’t surprising. The office vacancy rate downtown hit a record 28% in the third quarter, according to data from real estate firm CBRE. Nearly three of every 10 square feet of office space in the central business district is going unleased right now. Brutal.

  But the second was a jolt. Walgreens, now owned by a New York private equity firm, said Monday that it’s departing its 200,000 square foot space at the Old Post Office, the massive building straddling the Eisenhower Expressway, which serves as a gateway to downtown from the west. The pharmacy chain will relocate an undisclosed number of workers — at one point, there were 1,800 in the Old Post Office space — to its Deerfield headquarters by the end of January.

As the article further states, it doesn't seem the Deerfield campus can accommodate all of those 1,800 workers - meaning either massive expansion or (more likely) drastic corporate downsizing, meaning not only does Chicago lose, but so does Illinois.

Just further evidence that the disease crippling Illinois would appear to be out-of-touch anti-business democrats. 

McCompStat Still at It

Some of the right leaning websites have to dig into the past to cite the hypocrisy of Fata$$:

• Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy mocked Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker for a video in which he claimed to feel safe in a dangerous Chicago neighborhood — after Trump cleaned out the criminals.

  “JB Pritzker today put out another video in Little Village talking about how safe he feels,” McCarthy said when the governor put out his video. “Well, Little Village is primarily a Hispanic neighborhood here in Chicago. That district is down about 55% so far this year in murder. Well, where do you think ICE has been working in Chicago since January?”

This guy still has political ambitions we think.

And speaking of politics, we're noticing a couple other sites wondering why - if Chicago is so safe - why Conehead had a 150 man security detail. 

Long Ride for Shirley

Madigan is serving 500 miles from home:

• Michael J. Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader and the longtime head of Illinois’ Democratic Party, is in prison.

  Madigan, 83, surrendered Monday to a minimum-security federal prison camp in Morgantown, West Virginia, according to a source close to the former speaker.

  That facility is 500 miles away from Chicago, just south of Pittsburgh.

No word if the Madigan's are going to buy a local condo there for visiting days, somewhere the kids and grandkids can stay while awaiting visiting days.

The good news is Mike has a prison commissary account:

• Prison camps like the one in Morgantown are known to have little to no fencing. And inmates have access to a prison commissary. At Morgantown, Madigan could purchase pitted dates for $4.35, a chess set for $7.10 and an alarm clock for $10, according to a menu online.

Here's a link to the Rules and such for sending money. 

We'd say don't bother sending any until his $50 million bankroll starts running low.

Historical Reference

Here's a link to the Contrarian article from four years ago outlining Paz's accusation against the Department and Barz:

• A lieutenant of the “Community Safety Team” alleges in a recent court filing that he was re-assigned after refusing to participate in a quota system driven by the Superintendent’s policing strategy. The supposed strategy? An expectation that officers pull over at least ten cars per day and complete blue cards. A “blue card” is documentation created when an officer conducts a traffic stop but neither issues a citation nor makes an arrest. Keeping in mind the Community Safety Team is made up of over 700 officers, common sense would suggest this team should have some other mission. If there is an epidemic of dangerously bad drivers, the offenders should be issued tickets. If there is a connection between bad drivers and crime, the focus should be on something other than what amounts to a verbal warning and ten minutes of paperwork for the officers.

  On principle, the lawsuit sounds plausible. The Deputy Chief alleged to have been carrying out the Superintendent’s quota dirty work, Michael Barz, is said to brag about his close relationship to the Superintendent. It is public record that the feeling is mutual. During testimony to the City Council on October 29, 2020, Brown replied to an alderman’s question about the Community Safety Team: “Thank you for the question and giving me the opportunity to brag on Mike Barz and his team.”  

The article also reports Barz's crooked IAD time and some of the investigations he hid from public view to assist in his upwardly mobile career track.

Not Nearly Long Enough

Should have been forty years minimum:

• A former Chicago police officer who sexually abused four victims, including two children he met through his work as a cop, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

  David Deleon, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to multiple felony charges before Cook County Judge Kenneth Wadas, who accepted the plea and imposed the sentence, according to court records.

  Deleon’s behavior came to light in 2023, when Norridge police charged him with sexually abusing a minor in their town. The investigation widened after detectives obtained a warrant for Deleon’s phone and discovered what prosecutors described as “multiple crimes against children.” The case was then turned over to the Cook County sheriff’s police.

If you follow the news semi-regularly, you'll note that there have been two incidents (one in North Carolina, one in Europe) where child molesters have been ::cough cough:: removed from the prison population.

It's a trend we hope to see continue for the foreseeable future. 

Great Job Barz

Merely confirming what we had been reporting for ten or so years.

This probably played a largish role in why he left under a cloud:

• Taxpayers should pay $950,000 to a former Chicago Police Department lieutenant who said his supervisors retaliated against him after he resisted orders to make “illegal” traffic stops, city lawyers recommended.

  Lt. Franklin Paz accused CPD officials of violating the state’s Whistleblower Act by reassigning him to the overnight shift in a South Side police district after he objected when former Commander Michael Barz demanded that Paz order the members of the citywide Community Safety Team he supervised to stop at least 10 Chicago drivers every day.

  The city paid nearly $681,000 to private attorneys to defend Paz’s lawsuit, according to records obtained by WTTW News through a Freedom of Information Act request.

  State law bans law enforcement agencies from requiring officers to make a certain number of traffic stops. A CPD spokesman told WTTW News in a statement the department does not “utilize quotas” for traffic stops.

  That did not stop Barz from pushing members of the team to demonstrate high levels of “activity,” according to the lawsuit.

Barz (allegedly) demanded 10 stops a day.

Was he also the boss (allegedly) collecting phone numbers (on video no less) from young women during parades? Was that part of another quota? Inquiring minds want to know.

UPDATE: that was Don Jerome. Barz was the crooked sergeant who covered up the IAD lieutenant cheating scandal where six of the top ten scores came from the IAD Confidential Section. He sat on the evidence until promised (extorted?) a series of promotions for not exposing Sup. Johnson's wife and her entire bridal party.

Media Hacktivist

If you had any doubt that the media was part and parcel of the ongoing insurrection, this ought to have opened a lot of eyes:

• A producer for WGN-TV, a Chicago television station, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on Friday in a residential area of the city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.

  The DHS said in a statement that Debbie Brockman "was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

  A video taken by a bystander and shared on social media shows masked border patrol agents holding a woman to the ground who identifies herself as Debbie Brockman, an employee of WGN. She is handcuffed and taken into a silver van with New Jersey plates. Onlookers honk their horns and jeer at the agents.

  It was not immediately clear whether Brockman had been taken into custody, or whether she had a lawyer.

This is what happens when you hire activists instead of journalists....or "journalists" if you prefer. 

She looks exactly how you think she'd look, and she's on video throwing object(s) at Federal agents, which is why the WGN "coverage" is underwhelming at best. 

Amusingly, the feds needed two pairs of cuffs to secure the criminal properly:

That face has "Karen" written all over it. 

Thankfully, an intrepid e-mailer improved it with photoshop:

That's even scarier....and they'd probably need four pairs of cuffs for Fata$$. 

More FOP Nonsense?

There are no checks and balances occurring at Lodge 7 (via an email):

• Members of the audit committee are supposed to meet quarterly.  (It has been more than a year since this has happened.)  The audit committee exists to review income and expenses.  They are supposed to compare items, such as receipts, to ledger entries.  While the committee has not been doing it's job, if it were to, how could Harold Brown, who takes in money at the store, audit his own actions?  This is absurd and goes against basic accounting principles.

And the guy running the FOP store is on the audit committee?

Are they just meeting in the hallway and saying, "Books are good!" and calling that a meeting or what? Especially in light of the ongoing allegations, it certainly seems like there isn't even a fox watching the hen house any more.

Shades of Dukakis

This is from a few days ago, but we were out of town....but how much do democrats hate you and love ILLEGAL ALIENS?

• Wow. Democrat Mayor of Chicago refuses to answer a simple question about an illegal who bashed a woman’s head into the sidewalk & raped her. “If that had been your wife, would you want ICE to deport that rapist illegal?”

Here's the video link.

Obviously, Conehead would cheer on the rapist, as long as the ILLEGAL ALIEN promised to vote for him and Fata$$ next election.

SCC Returns Tonight

We missed you, but we're readjusting our sight alignment, so perhaps we'll hit what we're aiming at next time.

Comments are re-opened.

Thanks for the break....posting returns overnight as usual.

Be safe.

SCC Has Left the Building

That temporary comment disabling we talked about has been activated.

We tried an internet cafe nearby, but the protocols for logging in and such made us think of government overreach gone wild, so we're going with the disabled comments for a few days while we travel. If we didn't, we'd come back to around 2,000 comments and we'd be going through stuff for days.

Archives are open for your reading pleasure. We'll be back early next week. Stay out of trouble and stay safe. 

Gaslighting Press Conference

So here's a link to Larritorious' press conference Monday:

• Video link

Larry starts out by reading the timeline of two incidents that he claims are being conflated and confused, but that seems to be a pretext to further muddy the waters. 

He actually starts with some good sense, explaining that CPD Use of Force, Rules and Regs, and reporting are completely different from Federal guidelines, and just because CPD is on the scene of an incident doesn't mean CPD is enforcing immigration law against ILLEGAL ALIENS. He also emphasizes that just because you disagree with a law doesn't give you permission to break other laws, a message that needs to be turned into Public Service Announcements and played on TV, radio and internet sites for the next few decades.

Unfortunately, that's where the good sense ends. 

Larry claims "his Officers" aren't political pawns. We'd almost believe that if it weren't for the vaccination scandal he eagerly took part in, the biggest bit of political theater in history where Officers were stripped, suspended and threatened with job loss for daring to exercise bodily autonomy.

Then around 20:50, he starts making excuses for Hein. Around 34:00, a reporter cites the OEMC tapes and Larry deflects, saying there may have been "miscommunications," but he can't outright deny it seeing as how every media site in existence has the audio and are playing it non-stop. Then later, around 40:30 or so if our notes are right, he launches into a full-throated defense of Hein, about how he trusts him, he has character, social media shouldn't be believed, etc. 

This is "his" Chief of Patrol. But compare these words with the utter silence where "his" First Deputy was stripped of all job responsibility and is (correctly) being forced out. You can see where Larry's words are not his own and his actions are directed by a puppet master. 

Even Catanzara got in on the act, ripping the crap out of Hein as a known liar and tool on some Fox News panel (anyone have the link?) Will they start interviewing the bartenders over at Edison Park Inn?  

The national media is having a field day with this, but the political winds are lining up behind Hein putting Larritorious out to deflect blame and confuse the media, leaving only two people at the short end of the shit stick:

• Beat 999 for fronting out Hein
• the unnamed OEMC dispatcher who relayed the info

Discuss.

Kind of Insurrection-y

Remember, Conehead and Fata$$ are supporting exactly this:

• Federal agents in Chicago on Monday arrested a suspected latin kings leader accused of offering cash bounties to capture and kill a senior immigration officer working with "Operation Midway Blitz."

  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois unsealed a criminal complaint Monday charging 37-year-old Chicago resident Juan Espinoza Martinez with a single count of murder for hire.

  Martinez was taken into custody Monday morning, though his initial court appearance has not yet been scheduled. U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros called the alleged plot "an attack on the rule of law."

Yesterday, we had a post about the Virginia democrat running for Attorney General who wanted to kill his opponent and kill his two sons (aged 6 and 8) while his wife watched them die, because the only way people change their policy thoughts is if they experience pain.

Guess what else he advocated? 

• Virginia’s Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones chillingly suggested that if more cops got killed after being stripped of legal protection, they would shoot fewer people, according new claims from an ex-colleague in the state legislature.

And Virginia democrats STILL won't condemn his words or tell him to drop out of the race.

Meanwhile, Fata$$ still tosses around Hitler comparisons, Fuckworthless calls federal agents "gestapo" and Conehead says Republicans want to re-fight the Civil War. 

For Sale

Remember all that computer equipment that CPS lost track of back during COVID? Tens of millions of dollars worth, maybe even more, al because CPS refused to install tracking software on a bunch of it?

It's turning up:

For sale....at a Salvation Army store....in Chicago Heights....with the CPS sticker still on it.

And they want to raise our property taxes....again. 

More Stupidvisors Inbound

How long does it take to grade a scantron test? About ten seconds, tops? It's been how many weeks now for the Lieutenant test? Gotta "massage" the answers to get the desired racial make-up, not the smartest people who actually studied, knew the answers, and could apply their knowledge to the job.

• ....words out from HR. Passing score for LT part 1 will be a 60%. I’m hearing barely any DEI candidates were even close to a 70%.

Only the best and brightest!

Photoshop Time

From countless emails:

And keeping with the leftist rhetoric:

Is he still in line for Talley's spot? 

Supposed Timeline

From an email, someone who may or may not have access to the full OEMC tapes and dispatch logs. Where you see the "[...]" we are attempting to translate the abbreviations so those unaware can follow along:

• After the HSI shooting, CPD responded en mass. Cmdr JM (009) called Deputy Chief GS about next steps. D/C GS called Chief JH who ordered her to remove all personnel from the incident. “Not our problem. They can handle.” OEMC dispatched the message to withdraw.

  Lt. JB called Hein out over the air. Lt. JB had OEMC repeat the order and make a notation for the record.

  The Sup consulted w the COS [chief of staff? - SCC] (who was the previous GC [General Counsel? -SCC]). COS explained that our policies mandate we assist (sanctity of life and deescalation).

  Sup immediately ordered a tactical response and countermanded Hein’s order.

  An incident team from multiple district tac teams and 3rd watch (009) re-engaged. As CPD formed the perimeter, activist began throwing rocks, bottles and other objects.

  HSI notified CPD they would be deploying gas (but most our members were not prepared). Once gas was deployed, our members were pulled off the line because of the [l]ack of gear.

If....and that's a BIG IF....this timeline is remotely accurate, Beat 999 was perhaps the smartest person on scene, having OEMC repeat the order and get it on the record where it came from and who gave it. Intelligent move from a guy who pretty much destroyed the Narcotics Unit at Homan.

Gold Medal CYA there.

Larritorious countermanded the withdrawal order and ordered a tactical response? 

Silver Medal CYA by Snelling.

Which means:

• Welcome to FALL GUY TOWN! Population: Jon Pussy Hein

Don't know who his phone call is, but hoping it all gets exposed moving forward. 

Also concerning, the last bit of timeline - Homeland Security notified CPD that gas would be deployed....but there is a ton of video out there showing CPD (009 tact in particular) suffering the effects of the tear gas because they were ordered not to bring gas masks (or riot helmets) along.

Shades of the Columbus Statue - politicians and brass-holes more fearful about the optics of being prepared for a riot than actually protecting Officers from the riot. This ought to be an FOP Safety Violation Grievance at the very least, but God only knows what's going on over on Washington Blvd this week.

Another Scandal Brewing?

Retired white shirts being investigated by the IRS?

• ...a retired CPD captain along with several other retirees (both sworn and civilian) are under investigation by the IRS .... for various things including but not limited to; tax fraud and tax evasion. The captain who owns this security consulting company has made a point to aide her “top employee” in tax evasion by paying straight cash .... one retired exempt member [has been] interviewed by the IRS ....

This retired captain, who was pulling in many tens-of-thousands of dollars with this security company, also had a side gig administering a sooper-sekret study group with an amazing record of placing candidates in the top twenty in scores for a number of years now. Her daughters did amazingly well on Sergeant and Lieutenant tests, along with their cousins and a son-in-law.

It's almost like she was given the test by a former First Deputy who was a subject matter expert for the tests so that he didn't have to waste "merit" picks on friends and relatives. They could just claim those undeserving made it by score!

Of course, this meant that instead of everyone else competing for 70% of the promotional spots (with 30% "merit") they were actually vying for around 50% or so since the outcome for the top spots was predetermined by those who had the test.

CR Number Filed

Or Log Number....whatever you want to call it (click for larger versions):

 

The Complaint was filed against Jon "Pussy" Hein and the Watch Operations Lieutenant, Beat 999 for ordering Officers not to respond to the scene.

Here's the second Complaint against Beat 999:

 

It's documented with dates, times, OEMC event numbers, etc. Hopefully, it's also forwarded to the Department of Justice where actual consequences might be obtained, because we all know IAD is corrupted beyond measure and COPA does what they're told. 

Dems Want to Kill Your Children

And they've wanted to for years - because their parents are Republicans:

• Democrats are shamelessly standing by the party’s scandal-scarred Attorney General nominee for Virginia, Jay Jones, after vile texts surfaced of him fantasizing about then-Republican state House Speaker Todd Gilbert being assassinated.

  Virginia Beach Dems insist Jones will serve with “integrity and accountability,” and gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger has refused to disavow him — despite sickening text messages where Jones fantasized about Gilbert getting “two bullets to the head” and called his young children “little fascists.”

If you wanted to see the messages (click for larger views):

 

He admits it was him, but it was three years ago and he "apologized" so it's okay, even though his opponent refused the apology and wondered why democrats are still advocating the murder of his six and eight year old children. In fact, not a single Virginia democrat has called on this piece of shit to step down....many others have defended him.

There is an assassination culture in full bloom on the left, not only flagrant stuff like this, but the slow burn of "nazi" rhetoric espoused by the likes of Conehead, Fuckworthless and Fata$$, backing the anti-ICE riots. 

We're just letting the readers know that, as the police, you are going to be caught in the middle of some ugly shit if it continues. Be aware of what the politicians are driving society towards. 

Senator Fuckworthless

Still following the Fata$$ playbook with the nazi comparisons:

• Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation, ” Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of “using Gestapo tactics” in Chicago.

The link has the interview. Some of the highlights:

• "And what I am hearing is that, for the large part, people are being very quiet, are being very respectful."

Like ramming ICE vehicles? Throwing rocks and frozen water bottles at federal officers?

• "Remember that they are zip-tying children. They are raiding apartment blocks in the middle of the night, separating children from their families, pulling people out onto the streets naked. "

Never happened. Not a single video or picture exists.

She's just making shit up. Again. 

Always. 

 

Media Lies....Again

After the ICE helicopter raid the other night, a bunch of local media outlets ran with video and photos of the wreckage supposedly left behind in the aftermath of the police action. Darn those nazis and fascist feds, making the apartment complex unlivable for all those ILLEGAL ALIENS!

Except CWB did some REAL investigative journalism and guess what?

• Chicago news outlets have published and aired seemingly endless images and videos from inside the South Shore apartment building raided by federal immigration agents this week. You’ve undoubtedly seen them: doors hanging open, apartments torn apart, and hallways left in disarray after the feds left.

  What the outlets haven’t shared is what the building looked like before the raid. That’s why we’re here.

  On Friday night, CWBChicago obtained several videos recorded inside the building at 7500 South South Shore Drive that were posted to TikTok in September, about three weeks before the federal raid. The “before” footage is in some ways more shocking than the “after,” showing living conditions that appear unfit for rats, let alone humans.

Libtards, media-types and democrats (but we repeat ourselves) are always surprised when subsidized or free government housing (in which the occupants have zero investment in maintaining) turns out to be leaky, moldy, roach-infested shitholes in poor repair.

What we saw in nearly thirty years would turn the stomachs of normal people. We learned not to touch or lean on walls pretty quickly, and not to go digging too deeply through a lot of closets or furniture unless we were really sure of what we were looking for....and wearing disposable gloves at the very least. Many was the night we'd change clothes in the garage so as not to bring home unwanted guests. We stopped telling those types of stories to non-police friends pretty quickly, too, because they wouldn't believe that human beings would voluntarily live like that. 

The news footage we saw brought back  a lot of memories, some amusing, some not. But we didn't for a second believe that the feds did that type of damage to the building.

Aldercreature Cuffed

Humorous video at the below link:

•  Video link here (it plays without a subscription)

She / It didn't get arrested, just escorted from the hospital, where she / it didn't belong anyway. 

Aldercreatures don't get to visit patients in federal custody. Come to think of it, they don't get to visit arrestees in CPD custody either.

But just remember, this is an ILLEGAL ALIEN who isn't allowed to (A) be in the country or (B) vote for the aldercreature....as in NOT a constituent. 

But she / it is prioritizing the ILLEGAL over American citizens.

Not the Only One

Just so everyone knows, the thing with Hein isn't a one-off. Check out this reporting from CWB regarding the 011 District incident the other day where the Border Patrol detained a suspect after a traffic crash:

• Within a few seconds of the crash, a CPD officer monitoring a city surveillance camera quickly confirmed the crash occurred and that ICE agents were on the scene.

  For a while, the local district had no officers to send because it was in a “backlog,” meaning dispatchers had a stack of calls for police service but didn’t have any cops available.

  Nearly 30 minutes after the crash, as word spread about the heavy ICE presence, the first CPD officer to head to the scene was the local district commander — not exactly the guy who usually spends his day handling fender benders.

  Once the commander, his aide, and a sergeant assessed the situation, they quickly established their priorities. Topping that list was ensuring that no one could claim CPD was helping the feds.

  “The [crashed] car can sit in the middle of the street,” a supervisor said 45 minutes after the incident began. “As long as we’re not over there, it’s all that matters.”

As people have been pointing out, CPD isn't allowed to gauge their responses on a persons' race, age, religion, sexual orientation, or any one of a hundred other things.

But it seems we can deny / delay responses based on employment if a Republican is in Washington DC.

Family of Shitheads

It's almost like they were raised wrong:

• Three days after attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed, the man fatally shot by Chicago police after he opened fire on an officer during a traffic stop, reached a tentative settlement with the city late last year, Reed’s brother was arrested in a separate traffic stop for allegedly possessing a gun.

  The City Council ultimately rejected the proposed $1.25 million settlement, and the civil lawsuit remains unresolved. But, Dexter’s younger brother, Julius, recently resolved his own legal problems by pleading guilty to a felony gun charge in exchange for two years of probation, court records show.

Something in the water, right?

Hein - The Gutless Pussy

The Attorney General of the United States just opened an investigation into the Command Staff of the Portland Police for refusing to enforce the laws over ICE protests in Oregon.

Chicago is next - following the shooting of an armed offender who was involved in a mass ramming of ICE vehicles, this went out over the PDTs:

That would be Exhibit #1 for Dereliction of Duty or a Failure to Perform any Duty charge, helpfully preserved for eternity by OEMC.

Conehead and Fata$$ can whine and protest all they want, but if someone gets shot by a law enforcement agency - local, state or federal - within the city limits, then there better be a Chicago Police response at the very least and a sizable presence of Chicago Police to establish order.

You want Federal troops in Chicago? Because failing to show up at a shooting scene is how you get Federal troops in Chicago. It's also how you lose the next two decades worth of elections. 

Hein needs to be in handcuffs and appearing before a Federal Judge. He can give up Larritorious or Conehead to save his own ass.

Sergeants Promoted

Here ya go (click for larger views):

We've reached the point in our lives where we only recognize a single name or two on the lists any more. We guess we have officially aged out of the Department. Not a horrible feeling, but an odd sense of detachment from something that was such a huge part of our lives for almost three decades.

Best of luck to the deserving.

UPDATE: Seems the Supe's driver made it....again. Long standing tradition that driving the boss around makes you qualified to supervise Officers.

PPP Loan "Progress"

This partly explains why IAD and other "oversight" agencies were slow-walking any release of information:

• Terry Hillard and Fred Waller both rose through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department all the way to the top.

  The sons of the former police superintendents have also joined the department, but their careers have been far less illustrious — and are now in jeopardy.

  Dana Hillard and Kendall Waller have both been sidelined pending investigations into allegations they broke the law.

  Dana Hillard has been accused of defrauding the federal Paycheck Protection Program that was intended to keep businesses afloat during the pandemic, records show. Kendall Waller faces allegations of domestic battery, breaking into a home and stealing a car.

Following a long and dubious tradition of bosses covering up for their entitled progeny.

It also provides clues as to why certain exempts have been allowed to retire with credentials while the Statute of Limitations ground toward expiration.  

See Ya Mike!

The court rules he can start serving his sentence while he appeals:

• A federal appeals court has rejected former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s bid to remain free while challenging his historic corruption conviction, meaning the country’s longest-serving state House leader is almost certainly headed to prison this month.

  The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had appeared to be the 83-year-old’s last, best hope of remaining free. But the court denied Madigan’s request without explanation in an order Friday.

  It’s not clear where Madigan will serve his prison sentence, but his lawyers have asked that he be sent to a prison camp in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Any bets on a "medical emergency" in the coming days? We've heard that Federal prisons have mediocre medical facilities at best, although up until a number of months ago, we heard that they'd pay for your transition surgery. Darn that Trump! 

(we might have made that last part up - it was probably Fata$$'s IDOC doing the trans surgeries) 

What's the Running Tally?

From a few days ago:

• The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved a $2 million settlement with a former student who was groomed and sexually assaulted by a security guard at Paul L. Dunbar Career Academy in Bronzeville.

  The guard, Tywain Carter, is serving an eight-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in May 2023 to criminal sexual assault of a minor by a person in a supervisory position.

CPS has a way to go to catch up to the CPD settlement numbers, but they're higher than you've heard about because we're pretty sure the Board of Ed doesn't have to run their settlement numbers by the City Council. They just hide the teachers and staff who sexually abuse and assault students. 

The last numbers we saw were something like 300 or more "incidents" being handled and hidden from public view by the grooming factory.

Is CWB going to do the actual journalism Chicago media won't do, running total dollar amounts of CPS payouts? 

Ticketing Driverless Vehicles

Not in Illinois (yet), but no doubt that you'll see it in your lifetimes:

• Currently, driverless cars are operated in many cities across the US, with San Francisco, Austin, and Phoenix at the forefront of autonomous driving tech. Although robotaxis have been usually safe, with accident statistics showing that they're better than humans, they are still far from perfect. In some cases, they have been seen performing illegal or dangerous maneuvers that shocked fellow drivers.

  When such incidents had become widespread, police officers had to confront a bizarre situation. Even if they caught the robotaxis while misbehaving, they found no one to fine in the driver's seat. In a 2022 SFPD directive, officers were instructed that autonomous driving vehicles weren't exempt from traffic violations. However, the same directive underlined that "no citation for a moving violation can be issued if the AV is being operated in driverless mode."

  It appears the practice is still in effect, although new legislation has been passed to allow police officers to fine robotaxi companies instead. The bill also requires autonomous driving companies to set up an emergency phone line for first responders. However, the bill signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2024 will not take effect until July 2026.

Personally, we can't wait for some of this:

• World's First Double Flying Car Crash 

A rehearsal before an airshow in China resulted in some injuries and a spectacular battery fire. 

Imagine a flying car car-jacking downtown resulting in a helicopter chase to the west side. The lawyers are going to have a field day.

Um...What Now?

Rumors all over yesterday's "FOP Shitshow" post, including this one:

• Interesting bit of info from an insider… Duckhorn, who was handpicked by Gorman to be on the 3 person panel to hear JCats charges not only recused himself from that role, HE RECUSED HIMSELF FROM HIS ELECTED TRUSTEE POSITION ALTOGETHER. This was in addition to last month’s board meeting where he abstained from voting on how deep to look into the finances.

  There’s gotta be a very good reason he’s walking away from the trough he’s been hitting for years at $800/month to do pretty much nothing. He was reportedly overheard stating something along the lines of “I had no choice, I’m too old to go to jail” in a sidebar discussion upon exiting (voices carry in that courtyard, Daddy Duck… learn to use your inside voice).

  FOP is slowing imploding and the rats are starting to jump ship to save themselves. We’ll have to wait to see exactly who all talked to whoever is doing the investigation. Funny how the old timers seem to be the ones most nervous (right, Rick King?) when they’re always the ones always talking smack about “fuck the Feds, you ain’t gotta tell them shit” etc etc.

Any verification? 

Has someone flipped?

What the Hell is going on over there?

Three Guesses

Another "no cash bail" success story:

• Two Colombian men accused of stealing thousands of dollars in cash from an ATM attendant’s car on the Northwest Side have disappeared after being released on electronic monitoring.

  On September 7, a 66-year-old ATM attendant parked his car in the 6600 block of North Oliphant in Edison Park and walked to a nearby restaurant and bar to service a cash machine. When he returned, he found his rear passenger-side window broken and a backpack containing $10,000 in cash missing, according to a Chicago police report. Surveillance video showed two men, one acting as a driver and the other breaking into the car, police said.

  [...] Both men were charged with burglary and with driving and vehicle registration violations. Because those charges are not detainable, Judge Susana Ortiz ordered them released on ankle monitors, according to court records. But those records show neither man showed up for court on September 22, and Judge Anthony Calabrese issued failure-to-appear warrants for both of them. They had not been located as of Tuesday night.

So....:

1. hiding locally?
2. ICE custody?
3. or Columbia?

Ten grand split two ways isn't going to get you that far. 

Booger Hook off the Bang Switch

Someone not being careful?

• Chicago police said no one was injured when an officer's gun unintentionally went off in a police station in the Near West Side Tuesday morning.

  CPD said that at about 11:40 a.m., an on-duty officer was handling a firearm at the 12th District station in the 1400 block of South Blue Island Avenue when the gun went off.

  The officer did not mean to fire his gun. No one was struck and no injuries were reported, CPD said.

Locker Room? 

Hallway by the gun lockers outside of lock-up? (does 012 even have a lock-up?)

Clothing snag? 

And how is Channel 2 getting this info? 

Name Change Update

It is refreshing (to say the least) to see the States Attorney's Office doing the correct thing on behalf of taxpayers in general, and law enforcement in particular:

• A woman’s effort to change her name after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of trying to kill a Chicago police officer has hit a roadblock. Court records show the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office filed an objection Wednesday to Whitley Temple’s name-change request, adding a new layer of drama to the unusual case.

  Temple was acquitted last year of attempting to murder Officer Ed Poppish during a bizarre 2022 West Side incident in which she, half-naked, ran over him with his own squad car. Temple then fled in the vehicle, stopped briefly at a gas station, and continued onto the Eisenhower Expressway, reaching speeds of 97 mph before crashing into multiple vehicles, prosecutors said.

Now let's see what the judge does.

Name the Exempt

Who's this idiot?

• video link here

Hey Larritorious, this is your command staff? 

How about Conduct Unbecoming?

And yes, we've seen the other one that is obviously A.I. of six female white shirts twerking in the Multi Purpose room at HQ. 

FOP Shitshow

Fun times at the Board Meeting last night.

Catanzara requested (demanded?) the Board hire a lawyer, but not just any lawyer - a lawyer with experience dealing with federal investigations. Now who would be under a federal investigation and why would the Lodge have to pay for that lawyer? Unless the Lodge itself was under investigation?

He also fired the First VP (Mette) from his Field Rep spot. As readers may or may not be aware, the Field Rep spots are filled at the direction of the president, meaning if an opposition candidate won a top seven spots that are traditionally also Field Reps (Pres, VP1, VP2, VP3, Recording Sec, Financial Sec or Treasurer) the President can (and has in past administrations) frozen out opponents to put lackeys in.

If we aren't mistaken, there was a By-Law proposal to lock in the top seven spots as Field Reps since members voted for them to be there, but it was shot down by either Nolan or Donahue so they could control who was detailed to the Lodge.

Mette is still First VP, but he'll be back at his regular assignment when the paperwork clears downtown. That's what happens when you're the one filing the charges against the president.

Strap in boys and girls - things are getting interesting, and not in a good way.

 

Border Patrol Making Arrests

But hey, Fata$$ and Conehead don't want federal help!

 

Someone better warn the feds to bring their own backup - 011 is one of the most backlogged Districts in the city starting at noon.

But this had us laughing out loud:

• Federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter onto the rooftops of Chicago residential buildings, launching a sweeping immigration enforcement operation targeting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members, according to NewsNation.

  The operation, led by ICE with support from the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol, was designed to apprehend high-priority targets connected to the Venezuelan crime syndicate that U.S. authorities have accused of trafficking, violence, and other cross-border crimes.

And according to CWB, aldercreature Ray Lopez voiced support for the raid:

• [Tren de Aragua]'s took over the building,” Lopez wrote, adding, “they will not be missed — except by @ChicagosMayor & the Leftinos!”

Fun times indeed.

Shutdown Truths

The latest democrat lie making the rounds is that no money is being spent on ILLEGAL ALIENS health care, that Trump is lying because ILLEGAL ALIENS aren't even eligible to participate in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). 

That doesn't explain why they want a trillion dollars to fund assorted "subsidies" that they themselves put a sunset provision on years ago, but maybe this will explain it a little better:

• California - Medi-Cal is funded through a partnership between the state of California and the federal government, with the federal government covering about 50% of the costs ($10-to-12 BILLION dollars per year.) A quick Google search shows that ILLEGAL ALIENS can participate in Medi-Cal through this year with few previous restrictions, and future restrictions are merely "proposed" for next year;

• HealthChoice Illinois is funded through a combination of federal and state resources, primarily through Medicaid, which supports low-income individuals. 65% is Federal money. Can Undocumented Immigrants Get Medicaid in Illinois? Yes, undocumented immigrants can get Medicaid in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) offers two programs that provide health care coverage to ILLEGAL ALIENS;

• New York's Essential Plan (EP) is a low-cost health insurance program designed for residents who do not qualify for Medicaid or employer-sponsored insurance. It has been crucial in providing coverage to many, especially legal immigrants. The federal government historically covered about 95% of the costs for the Essential Plan through subsidies from the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In New York, undocumented immigrants may qualify for the Essential Plan, which offers low-cost health insurance for adults with low income who do not qualify for Medicaid. However, eligibility for the Essential Plan typically requires a valid visa or deferred action status....

The top three blue state shitholes take federal block grants and dish it out to ILLEGAL ALIENS, then claim since the feds don't fund it directly, those aren't federal dollars. The trouble is, when that money goes away, they'd have to gut their own budgets to maintain the levels of funding that would otherwise go to help actual taxpaying citizens.

We know most readers don't really care, but they should. Roads are crap, bridges are falling down, infrastructure is outdated and failing. We need massive upgrades in air traffic control, computer technology, and national defense improvements in light of what's happening in Ukraine. We can't do it importing third world leeches and catering to their needs.

Minor Consequences

The number of years this went on, just pointed to how broken the Department has been:

• A retired Chicago police officer accused of repeatedly filing false auto theft reports to avoid paying traffic fines has pleaded guilty and will serve probation, according to court records.

  Jeffrey Kriv, 56, pleaded guilty to a single count of theft before Judge Jennifer Coleman last week. In exchange, prosecutors dropped eight other felony counts, including multiple counts of perjury. Coleman ordered Kriv to pay $4,500 in restitution as part of the deal.

  Kriv, who retired from the department in January 2023, was accused of falsely reporting that his girlfriend had stolen his personal car on 44 separate occasions since 2009 to beat parking and automated traffic tickets. Prosecutors said he claimed during administrative hearings that his girlfriend had taken the vehicle each time the citations were issued. Officials alleged he submitted nearly identical false police reports to support his claims, which resulted in the dismissal of dozens of tickets. 

Forty-four separate reports of his car being stolen....and no one caught on? Multiple perjury charges, but allowed to plead to a single charge that results in probation.

Must be nice to be connected. 

Medical Section News

Is this a big deal?

We avoided the Medical Section like it was the plague, especially on the way out the door. But we did hear horror stories and there have been hints here and there in the comment sections, especially when it concerned the CPD and CFD trying to force obviously unwell Officers and Firefighters back onto the street.

We're all for rooting out the scammers - but they never seemed to catch any of those.