Another Crimesha Failure

Boy, that "no cash bail/electronic monitoring" program is paying dividends:

• At an overnight press conference, Snelling said one of the people taken into custody was on electronic monitoring, but they may have cut off their ankle bracelet.

Evans, Dart and Prickwrinkle deserve plenty of blame, too.

The FOP president is letting politicians know exactly how bad their bull$hit policies are working:

• “This is the worst case scenario of what a lot of idiots in this city and across this country believe,” Catanzara said, “that an officer apparently needs to be shot at first or shot and killed before it’s appropriate to return fire.”

  He accused a host of public officials of “vilifying the police” and said they shouldn’t bother attending Martinez’s funeral. The list included Mayor Brandon Johnson, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Inspector General Deborah Witzburg, COPA employees and anyone who voted in favor of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice legislation.

Unfortunately, things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before it changes the voting patterns of lib-tards and "progressives" who still think there's no such thing as a bad person, evil intent or a justifiable street stop to prevent crime.

Nice Tourist Attraction Conehead

This won't affect tourism at all:

• A gunman killed two men at Navy Pier on Tuesday afternoon and then fled into Streeterville on foot. Chicago police suspect the killer is a recently fired employee at one of the pier’s restaurants.

  A security guard called 911 upon discovering the two victims down near a loading dock shortly after 1 p.m. The victims, men ages 47 and 51, were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where they succumbed to their injuries.

  Police scoured the pier and its parking garages looking for a 36-year-old employee who had recently been fired, according to police radio transmissions. But video footage eventually showed that he walked off the pier around 1:25 p.m. and was last seen heading west on Illinois Street at McClurg Court. Court records show he was convicted of armed robbery in 2008 and had a gun charge dropped in 2017.

And yes, we're aware Conehead has nothing to do with the loading dock areas which are mostly out of public view. But the buck has to stop somewhere and it might as well be him.

And Crimesha, who dropped the gun charges on this murderer back in 2017.

Pension Board Election

From the comments:

• Pension Trustee election results

  ....representing Investigator, Patrolman, or rank equivalent members:

  Detective Brock Merck: 933 votes

  Officer Nora Walker: 438 votes

  ....representing Annuitant members:

  Thomas Lonergan: 2,964 votes

  Rosemarie Giambalvo: 1,745 votes

1,300 votes for the Patrolman rep? What's that participation rate....under 20%?

Not that the retiree turnout was that much better - under 40%?

Here's an Idea

Back in the days of O.W. Wilson, a policy was in place that if a citizen called the 1950's equivalent of 9-1-1, they got a police officer to respond....every single time. Politicians loved it, citizens came to expect it, and cops hated it - the Department was stretched thinner than was ever thought possible. 

It continues pretty much until this day, although there is some minor "filtering" that happens at various levels - you might not get an officer for a number of hours for low priority calls since no one wants to be the one to tell citizens, "That's not a crime, police aren't coming." But it happens here and there.

Here's a concerted effort in the burbs:

• Multiple fire departments in Lake County have launched a program aimed at reducing 911 calls from people who routinely call for an ambulance in non-emergency situations.

  The Wauconda Fire District created a Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) program in August in conjunction with the Round Lake, Antioch, Countryside, and Libertyville fire departments. Wauconda Fire District Lt. Erik Christensen said the program is a proactive and preventative approach to prehospital care.

  An MIH program identifies patients who are chronically ill and use 911 services and the hospital emergency department as their primary level of care. Christensen said the goal is to identify those who are chronically ill and high utilizers of the 911 system.

  Once identified, the fire department will provide treatment and intervention to the patients in an attempt to decrease 911 calls and hospital emergency department use.

You know what people can use instead of an expensive ambulance for a non-emergency situation?

• friends or relatives
• Uber or Lyft
• taxi, bus or public transit

As thinly stretched as the CPD is, CFD ambulances are light years worse. Serious reform needs to be undertaken so that when grandma has a stroke on the south side, all the neighborhood ambulances aren't transporting people (or folks) with tummy-aches on the west side.

We've heard the stories.....and so have you.

Officer Down (Updates)

Details still sketchy, but the Officer has been declared deceased:

• A Chicago police officer was fatally shot Monday night in the Chatham neighborhood, and another person was later found dead at the shooting scene, sources said.

  The shooting was reported during an officer-in-distress call shortly after 8 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue, according to police radio traffic.

  Microphones peaked as officers screamed into their radios while the chaos unfolded and a radio dispatcher tried to pin down the location of the officer who was shot.

The usual midnight posting will be delayed due to the ongoing incident.

UPDATE: Officer Enrique Martinez, age 26, was just shy of three years on the job when he was killed during a traffic stop.

UPDATE: Killer and one accomplice in custody, second accomplice dead, gun recovered.

UPDATE: Traffic stop and shooter killed his own companion while attacking Officer Martinez:

• As officers approached the vehicle one of the occupants opened fire on Martinez, Snelling said, adding that “it sounded like rapid fire.” The officer was struck multiple times. One of the occupants of the vehicle was also struck and killed by the gunfire.

RIP Officer.

UPDATE: We understand that word filters down slowly through a huge bureaucracy like the Chicago Police Department. And we understand that the job must move forward at all times - calls must be answered, service must be given to those in need. But in cases like today, can't the Department show just a tiny little bit of common sense and read the fucking room?

• Inspector showed up at Area 1 to conduct stand up Roll Call Inspection.

Even if it was Winter Inspection, give us a break. Some things can wait a day or two. God forbid an Inspector might have to work on a Saturday to do a make-up inspection.

COPA Overreach, Snelling Failure

If you had any doubts about how bad, corrupt and out-of-control COPA is, check this out:

• The agency charged with investigating wrongdoing by Chicago police officers recommended that an officer be fired for, mostly, posting a picture to Facebook of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot in “blackface,” when the image actually showed her in clown make-up, according to reports released Friday.

  After nearly five years of investigation, the agency sent its recommendation for termination to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling in April. He rejected COPA’s recommendation, calling its recommendation of termination “egregious” and noting that the image did not show Lightfoot, who is Black, in blackface. It showed her in clown makeup.

  COPA accepted Snelling’s counter-recommendation of a 10-day suspension.

Here's the picture that was posted:

Hilarious. This was after Groot had called the head of the FOP a "clown" on an open microphone. Groot faced zero suspension time by the way. Also note - the Officer who posted this picture in a private social media group had nothing listed on his account that identified him as a CPD Officer. COPA got an anonymous tip and did some digging.

We had warned years ago to be careful using social media, especially after the Department came out with "guidelines" and rules that purportedly told you what you could and couldn't do on social media. It was after the blog rocketed to prominence, so we might have been to blame for part of it. 

In any event, COPA recommended firing the Officer for putting Groot in "blackface" and another picture of Rahm in a ballerina leotard with a rainbow dildo on his head declaring himself to be a unicorn. Again, hilarious....and completely protected by the First Amendment. They can tell you what you can/cannot wear and say on duty, but off duty, the Department and COPA can go fuck themselves.

And 'lo and behold, Larritorious fails completely at understanding the Law:

• Kersten and Haynam concluded that COPA had “grave concerns” about [the officer] and recommended his “separation from CPD,” citing the need for police officers to build trust with the community and not act with bias toward “historically marginalized persons.”

  Snelling slammed the COPA investigation as “not thorough,” noting that, despite taking years to investigate a seemingly simple matter, its investigators never even spoke to the person who filed the initial complaint.

  “We have no statement from the complainant as to why she was offended by the photo of former Mayor Lightfoot or if she knew or even assumed that the person posting the photo was a Chicago Police Officer,” Snelling wrote.

  And, Snelling noted, COPA never received a complaint about the Emmanuel image but tacked it onto the investigation after “scouring through the old posts made by  [the officer].”

  Snelling compared COPA’s termination recommendation with suspensions received by officers accused of seemingly more egregious social media posts that contained direct, disparaging comments, which  [the officer] ’s posts did not.

  The top cop countered with a recommended 10-day suspension for  [the officer]  which COPA eventually accepted.

Larritorious had it completely correct, until that last recommendation. There, he failed to be an actual leader and proved (again) to be a political hack, kind of like when he was helping to strip Officers for daring to exercise bodily autonomy over an untested, useless, poison jab. 

Fuck COPA and fuck Larry for being a pussy. Thin skinned politicians deserve every bit of crap flung their way.

(by the way, we'll post the Rahm dildo unicorn picture if anyone has it, and will consider anything with Larritorious or Kersten that isn't pornographic in nature)

Busy Weekend at CWB

These guys are embarrassing the legacy media types.

First up, a few more no-bail failures:

• Prosecutors say a man who participated in a violent robbery aboard the Red Line this summer was on pretrial release for three separate cases at the time of the crime.
• A man on parole for shooting someone in 2016 is back in custody, accused of shooting someone else just months after getting out of prison.

  Daniel Perez has an “extensive” criminal history, said Judge William Fahy, as he ordered the 29-year-old detained as a public safety risk. The state is also reviewing Perez’s parole status.
  

And a few more lack-of-ShopSpotter failures to lay at Conehead's doorstep:

• #11 - A 21-year-old man was found shot to death in the Ashburn neighborhood early Sunday on a block that used to be monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system.

  Nobody called to report the gunfire that killed the man, who had been reported missing less than an hour before he was found, according to individuals familiar with the investigation.

  When police arrived in the 2800 block of West 83rd around 12:40 a.m., they were met by the 911 caller who discovered the man’s body. According to Chicago police, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

• #12 - Shot in both legs, a 45-year-old man was found lying outside a Marquette Park laundromat early Sunday morning. A passerby found him and called 911, saying there was a man down, and they thought he had been shot.

  But the nearest 911 call reporting shots fired around that time was about a mile away, at 69th and Springfield. It’s the latest example of a person being found shot in an area previously served by ShotSpotter technology.
  

You can't count on the Trib, Times or TV stations to point out democrat failures across the board. CWB is about the only outfit doing real journalism, along with HeyJackass.com being the only food source for statistics.

Over-Supervision at 376

We've got a pet peeve concerning what we call "straight-line supervision" in this and other Departments. It's also prevalent in corporate America, and when you see things like "cutting middle management" in the news, that's where CEOs are looking to save money and get rid of useless positions. like Assistant to the Assistant Vice President of something. You also see it a lot in government, which never runs efficiently and always seems to expand it's footprint at the expense of taxpayers, never shrinking. 

In the CPD, you'll see a Captain reporting to a Commander. Why? You'll also see a single Deputy Chief reporting to a Chief. Again, why? And speaking of Deputy Chiefs, how come when we came on there were six total Deputy Chiefs and when we leave, there are eighteen?

Another example is Alternate Response. We got this from an e-mailer. After pointing out that 376 already has 1 Captain, 5 Lieutenants, and a boatload of Sergeants, now they're getting another Captain and a Commander:

No word if these new two are POWs....stripped of police powers. It doesn't appear to be the case, but you've already got plenty of white shirts there, some stripped, some not, but all supervisors nevertheless. How about cleaning up this redundant supervisory hiding spot?

Election Comes Down to This?

New York State government overreach because of a .... squirrel?

• An upstate man whose beloved squirrel was cruelly killed by the state said he was treated like a “terrorist” when 10 government agents descended on his home during a five-hour raid.

  Mark Longo, whose pet P’nut captured the hearts of 3 million social media users, was stunned when a convoy of vehicles carrying officials from the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health arrived at his Pine City home Wednesday.

  [...] They served him with a surprise warrant allowing them to snatch away P’nut the squirrel and Fred, a raccoon he’d taken in. “They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours,” Longo told The Post Saturday.

  “They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was. They asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn’t allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, who then checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.”

Up to four separate NY State agencies, ten armed agents, with a warrant signed by a judge....for a squirrel? Are you f#$%ing kidding us? And then they execute the squirrel that had been living in this guy's home for seven years and was the mascot for the animal sanctuary he and his wife run for almost 300 animals. The squirrel, by the way, had an X/Twitter account with half-a-million followers. And the Gestapo questioned his German-immigrant wife for nearly five hours, something they wouldn't dare to do to an illegal Venezuelan.

People don't like when you mess with their pets. They certainly raise holy Hell when police shoot a dog during a search warrant, justifiable or not. Will the outrage carry over to a rodent?

Fire Extinguisher Attack

Another thing Officers need to be aware of:

• Two Chicago police officers were hurt after being sprayed with a fire extinguisher early Saturday morning. This happened at about 5:01 a.m. in the 5900-block of South Ashland in the Englewood neighborhood.

  The 7th District officers were in a marked squad car when police said someone in another vehicle approached them and sprayed into the squad car. The officers inhaled the fumes, police said. They were both treated and released on the scene.

  According to U.S. Poison Control, exposure to fire extinguisher fumes can cause risk for mild respiratory, skin or eye irritation. Inhaling fumes can produce serious toxicity and would require medical evaluation.

So even though this is a potentially use of deadly force against an officer, you can bet the house that COPA and everyone else would demand the firing, charging and imprisoning of involved officers because "it's only a foam" and ignore the fact the US Government classifies it otherwise, even if it's at the lower end of toxins.

Fall Back

Remember, if you show up an hour early for your shift today, you forgot to move your clock forward. You probably won't get paid for it.

And if you show up an hour later at home after being at the bar when they moved the clocks back, you've got a ready made excuse for the spouse.

Nice Costumes CTU

In their private social media group:

Teaching an entire new generation about the joys of marxist-leninist philosophy, ensuring they'll never succeed at life and will most likely always vote the way they're told.

Ballot "Security"

This is what passes for ballot security in Cook County elections:

Those are early voting ballot boxes from Skokie being loaded into what appears to be a taxicab, for transport to 69 W. Washington. No police around and (we're told) no Cook County election official on hand to verify chain-of-custody.

But don't worry, they probably only made one or two stops along the way.

Officer Injured at Street Takeover

Another one of those incidents where tens of dozens of cars along with hundreds of morons "take over" an intersection by sheer force of numbers and break all sorts of traffic and public safety laws....with zero consequences:

• A Chicago police officer conducting traffic control was hit by a car in a hit-and-run early Friday in South Shore on the South Side.

  Around 1:30 a.m., the officer was conducting traffic control for a large gathering in the 7500 block of South Phillips Avenue when they were struck in the leg by a white sedan that fled the scene, police said.

  The officer was treated at the scene and released, officials said. No one was in custody.
  

Our sources say he wasn't treated at the scene - Beat 421 drove him to the hospital. But why are we conducting "traffic control" for an illegal display of assholery?

Remember when the city bought all those spike strips and told everyone they'd put a stop to this unlawful and dangerous behavior? They even started a "special unit" and sent them to training. And....nothing. Not even a hint of a plan. 

Is there a way to stop it all that doesn't rely on a massive and instant deployment of manpower and equipment? Something that deters future behavior? Do we need to return to the hydrant key method?

Well, Something is True

A few people sent us this (click for larger versions):

Interesting to say the least.

UPDATE: yes, it's 2018. First thing we saw. But it shows where the basis for the rumor got started....six years later.

Is This Panic Porn?

Regular visitors know we supported Vallas in the last election. We weren't shy about it, knowing what we did about Conehead's true masters. But how much of this social media post is reality and how much is making mountains out of molehills?

First up, there's no way Conehead could get a cut that massive through even the "progressive" caucus.

Secondly, before a single cop gets laid off, every civilian has to be removed....and then those jobs have to be filled by....police officers, so already short watches and Districts would be even shorter, crime would run rampant, and we'd finally get to see the vigilante squads we've been hoping for.

Crime is Down

Down nearly negative-three-hundred-percent!

• A woman was shot in an Edgewater alley this afternoon, Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) said in an email. Shootings in the neighborhood are now up 300% compared to last year.

  Chicago police responded to calls of shots fired in the 5900 block of North Kenmore around 3:20 p.m. and found the woman with a gunshot wound to the leg, Manaa-Hoppenworth stated. She said the shooting occurred in the alley between Kenmore and Winthrop.

  [...] The shooting occurred just a few hours after Manaa-Hoppenworth said she was “outraged and disheartened” by “recent gun violence incidents” in her ward. So far this year, 20 people have been shot in Edgewater, up from five in all of last year and ten during 2022.

If you're remembering aldercreature Manaa-Hoppenworth's name as someone whose been roasted before, here's why:

• Just five months after announcing she would no longer talk about crime in her constituent newsletters because doing so is racist and fuels an “inaccurate public perception about crime rates,” Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th) reversed course this morning.

  Calling her office “outraged and disheartened by recent gun violence incidents that have taken place in the ward,” Manaa-Hoppenworth laid out her “Safe48 Health & Safety Plan.”

  When she banned crime topics from her newsletter in May, the first-term alderman tried to drape her decision in a scholarly cloak by linking to a couple of studies that she said supported her thinking, including one from the University of Tehran. Anyone who wants to know about crime in the ward has to opt-in to receive separate emails. Presumably, they’re the racists who live in her corner of Edgewater and Uptown.

So by her own definition, Manaa-Hoppenworth is now a racist and is fueling an "inaccurate public perception about crime rates."

No word if she is one of the fourteen aldercreatures demanding a return of ShotSpotter and a return to fully funding the CPD, along with re-funding those 400 spots Conehead eliminated.

 

Haha....This is Priceless

When things appear to be going well, there's money to burn on all sorts of pet projects:

• tens of thousands of illegal aliens
• reparation "task forces"
• refurbishing the mayor's wife's office
• massive redundant oversight of police

But when things get ugly:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to cut 456 police vacancies would decimate spending and staff within the office leading the Chicago Police Department’s court-ordered reform push, raising renewed questions about his commitment to getting out from under a slow-moving federal consent decree.

  Johnson’s $17.3 billion 2025 budget increased CPD’s annual budget slightly, to $2.1 billion, but only to cover the 5% raises Johnson gave rank-and-file officers when he extended and sweetened the deal negotiated by his predecessor, Lori Lightfoot.

  The vacant CPD positions proposed for elimination are more than half of the 743 vacant positions Johnson wants to cut citywide to chip away at a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall next year. It’s the second straight year Johnson has eliminated hundreds of police vacancies. The mayor’s budget also includes a $300 million property tax increase facing stiff headwinds in an emboldened City Council.

  The Office of Constitutional Policing and Reform would take a major hit, with its budget shrinking by 45% — to about $3.7 million, down from about $6.7 million this year. The staff would be cut from 65 budgeted employees to 28 next year.

So it would seem:

• someone in a position to make decisions noticed the staffing at "Constitutional Policing" couldn't be justified as crime spiraled out of control, Conehead's bodyguard detail kept expanding and beat cars were going unmanned;
  
• they also noticed that "reform" is just another name for "funneling money to friends and family of connected people via crooked contracts" starting a few supernintendos ago;

The usual grifters (Robert Boik for starters) are whining that politicians aren't being serious about "reform" as they see the gravy train coming to an end:

• Robert Boik was fired as the office’s executive director in August 2022 after he criticized then-Police Supt. David Brown’s decision to reassign 46 officers under his supervision. Johnson’s cuts would be equally devastating and could slow to a crawl what has already been a painfully slow march toward police reform.

  “Reform doesn’t happen without investment,” Boik, now senior vice president of public safety for the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, warned Thursday. CPD’s overhaul, he added, hinges on technological advancements and hiring project managers and data specialists who can lead the department through the consent decree and track its compliance.

A typical tool who's made a living off of a "reform" train that never seemed destined to end. And a "reform" train that was never actually a Consent Decree....the federal government didn't authorized a dime for it and the Illinois/Chicago pols had to hunt up a retired federal judge to pretend to sign off on it. He got paid, too.

And then the money started to run out.

It Was a No Brainer

So thankfully, someone with a brain finally pulled the trigger on charges (no pun intended):

• A man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man walking to a West Ridge synagogue is now also facing terrorism and hate crime charges, Chicago law enforcement officials announced Thursday.

  New evidence indicates the 22-year-old suspect, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, “planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of Jewish faith” when he attacked the 39-year-old victim in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue Saturday morning, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told reporters at a news conference.

Hey, and a bonus Terrorism charge!

This after a pathetic press conference in which Snelling floundered about with excuses and then passed the buck to Ursetti, who was almost as bad at a live presser as Kamala Harris. It merely reinforced the perception that CPD's exempt staff are pretty much incompetent and next-to-useless without their puppet masters puling the strings. 

Which is hilarious when you know that Conehead is himself a puppet of the CTU. Prickwrinkle is the shadow mayor.

Nice Pick Conehead

Good lord, is there anything that Conehead can touch that doesn't turn to shit?

• A week since he was sworn into the office, the Chicago school board president resigned Thursday over controversial social media posts. The now-former Chicago Board of Education President Rev. Mitchell Johnson apologized for the posts Wednesday, but more troubling information surfaced Thursday, leading to additional calls for him to step down.

  Conspiracy theories involving 9/11 and anti-women posts were enough for Mayor Brandon Johnson to ask for Rev. Johnson's resignation. The move comes after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and close to 40 alderpersons demanded Rev. Johnson's resignation, with many asking why the mayor appointed him to begin with.

  Chicago Council Members are demanding to know how Rev. Johnson was vetted to become Mayor Johnson's pick to be Chicago's school board president.

Simple - Conehead isn't doing the vetting. The CTU is, the CTU is communist, communists are historically and notoriously antisemitic.

One might also ask why the media completely failed to vet Conehead for the spot he occupies.

It also brings to the forefront the complete absence of a mechanism to recall an office-holder who is entirely incompetent and unqualified at their positions, that voters are stuck with them for an additional three years.

Election Day Preparations?

We aren't hearing about any.

Our readers are commenting that there don't appear to be any.

Even our downtown sources haven't seen anything resembling a plan in case of riots.

It appears no one is even considering the past history of 2016 when the unexpected happened.

Does that mean the unexpected isn't expected to happen again?

UPDATE: Washington DC is boarding up:

• Boards are going up in Washington, DC, less than a week from the election, at it seems some businesses are anticipating riots on election night.

  Andrew Leyden, a freelance photographer in DC, said he caught wind that some in DC were beginning the process of boarding up, so he decided to check it out himself. Indeed, he found that the back entrance of the Post Office near the White House has been covered with plywood boards, and workers are currently boarding up the front side of the office as well.

  The McDonald’s next to the White House also has plywood going up over the building, as well as the building next to it. Video shows workers actively putting up the boards.

panty-fa is getting it's marching orders from the democrats.

Here Comes the Pain

Strap in for a whole bunch of BS:

• Chicago property owners reeling from reassessments will be hit with a double whammy — a $300 million property tax increase — to help Mayor Brandon Johnson balance his $17.3 billion budget for 2025 without layoffs.

  Johnson chose the property tax increase he campaigned against — and made it the city’s largest in a decade — instead of asking unionized city employees to give a little by accepting mandatory furlough days or targeted layoffs.

  Wednesday afternoon, the mayor’s office released estimates of the impact of the tax increase on homeowners. It ranges from $72 a year for a home valued at $100,000 to $481 per year for a home valued at $500,000.

About fourteen aldercreatures have already said they'll vote against the budget if it doesn't include reinstating the ShotSpotter program. A few more said the elimination of 400 unfilled CPD vacancies is not acceptable, seeing as how crime isn't really down. And even more will have further demands to buy their votes.

Conehead swore up and down that a property tax hike wasn't in the cards, but it this proposal turns out to be the largest single property tax increase in history. His approval rating now stands at 14%.

Nothing about closing under utilized schools and perhaps selling the land to developers, especially amid declining enrollment as more families flee the city. CPS raised their share of property taxes another $324 million over two years - the maximum allowable by law. Funny how they never aim lower....they just max it out every single time and find something to spend the money on....like huge fully staffed buildings with sixty students.

Um, What Now?

One of the secondary intents of this blog was to address rumors. This one would appear to need addressing, and damn quick, too:

• Hearing a guy at a bar put his fist through JCats loud mouth. Now Johhny boy is all butt hurt cause his mouth wrote a check his ass can't cash. So instead of taking his licks like a man he's suing the bar. And word on the street is that he's using FOP funds to pay his attorney fees. So now he's going after a small business owner who actually supports the police and is using officers money to do it. Well done.

This one sounds way out there.

Federal Charges

This is probably the only way to (A) get some real justice for a particularly violent crime and (B) the only way to put a stop to this out-of-control shit:

• Federal prosecutors on Tuesday slapped three men with carjacking charges, saying they took a man’s car at gunpoint from a Far South Side gas station. Two of the men are accused of trying to carjack another driver but they couldn’t figure out how to operate the victim’s vehicle.

  Marquell Davis, 22, Ramone Bradley, 26, and Edmund Singleton, 34, are already fighting state carjacking charges for the same crimes, which occurred on the evening of November 3, 2022.

  [...] When state prosecutors charged Singleton with the carjackings, they sought a no-bail detention because, among other things, he was on federal supervised release for unlawful transportation of firearms. 

  The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago said Tuesday that Bradley faces a maximum 30-year sentence if convicted. Davis and Singleton face mandatory sentences of between 7 years and life.

Long time readers will remember we advocated for a version of Operation Exile here in Illinois, where gun offenders were essentially "exiled" to federal prisons far away from their families and gang compatriots in the state penitentiaries. 

In Virginia, where it was pioneered, gun crimes dropped by over a third within months of word getting around that you weren't going to be housed locally, or even within a bus trip on weekends. Of course, once democrats saw how well it was working in Virginia, they ran against it since if affected such a huge portion of their voting base.

Bad News

The CFD Firefighter injured last week is paralyzed from the waist down:

• A Chicago firefighter has a long road to recovery after suffering a life-changing injury last week. He was hurt while battling a fire in the city's Burnside neighborhood. John Anderson is now partially paralyzed, but fellow firefighters are banding together to help Anderson and his family with his mounting medical expenses.

  Anderson is described as a character, known to always crack a joke. "You're not around him very long without laughing about something," Chicago Fire Capt. Chris Steinmetz said. Steinmetz has gotten to know Anderson very well. They're both firefighters working out of a fire station in Burnside.

  At age 50, Anderson is the oldest among his colleagues. He assumed a father-figure role and took on duties as the fire house cook. "It was one of the best things about being here, having great meals every day. He was outstanding all the time," Steinmetz said.

  But now, Anderson is being looked after by his colleagues, after suffering a catastrophic injury. On Friday night, the firefighters responded to a house fire at 90th Street and Langley Avenue, and Anderson was outside when a large object fell on him. He is now permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

He has a long road ahead of him and will need a bunch of support. While most will be no doubt handled by the CFD family, we would hope that they let us know about fund raisers and where we can contribute to assist moving forward. If anyone hears anything, post it in the comments.

fbi Out of Control

They're now a completely rogue agency:

• The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation.

  An FBI agent involved in the probe revealed the off-the-books criminal investigation on Tuesday in a protected disclosure sent to the committee.

  The whistleblower disclosure said two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as “honeypots” while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail.

A whistleblower is alleging that the fbi has now engaged agents as essentially prostitutes in an effort to subvert the electoral process and is operating off-the-books, meaning ZERO oversight, which is shocking considering how many oversight bureaus, committees, councils and inspectors that local law enforcement is answering to - CPD answers to at least four or five.

• The FBI whistleblower said the off-the-books investigation was closed because a newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercover agents and was about to publish it.

  The FBI press office, according to the agent’s disclosure, misled the newspaper by claiming the photograph was of an FBI informant, not an undercover agent. The FBI said the informant would be killed if the photograph was published.

  Additionally, the FBI employee alleged that one of the undercover agents agreed to be transferred to the CIA so she would not be available as a potential witness, and another bureau employee involved in the operation was rewarded for her activities with a promotion and now is a high-level FBI executive.

Gee, sounds like a bunch of whores.

Hiring and Firing

This is how "candidate screening" is supposed to work:

• A former Peoples Gas worker said he applied to become a Chicago cop because he wanted Black people to see someone like them working for the Chicago Police Department and “wanted to help create a safer life” for them.

  But his application was rejected because he’d been arrested 10 times — for reasons including an accusation that he’d punched his girlfriend in the face.

  None of his arrests led to a conviction. He later got them expunged. Still, his appeal to be restored to the department’s eligibility list was denied. He sued the Chicago Police Board, the oversight agency that handles such appeals.

  “I still feel I did not get a fair chance in Chicago,” says the 37-year-old man, who agreed to an interview on the condition he not be named. In May, the Harvey Police Department hired him, state records show.

Someone like this doesn't need to be anywhere near law enforcement....but Harvey we guess.

Now look at someone they're trying to fire:

• A Chicago police officer facing dismissal for fatally shooting an armed man during a foot pursuit is also under fire for paralyzing another man in a shooting months earlier, the Sun-Times has learned.

We remember many cops like this - we'd jokingly refer to them as "$hit magnets" because they always seemed to attract the worst of society. Two or three in particular were involved in multiple shootings - double digits worth, all justified, all legal and all felonious encounters that put very bad people in prison or six-feet under.

They were good cops, probably even great ones, who paid attention to all sort of small details most of us would overlook or miss, and they'd establish good reasonable articulable suspicion (RAS) and expand it into Probable Cause stops. They were really amazingly good at this job. But now, someone like that, they're trying to fire them after one or two incidents.

CCL Shooting

Expect more of these as manpower dwindles and more people realize that they are responsible for their own safety and the safety of family and friends:

• A concealed carry holder intervened in an argument between two people and fatally shot one of them Friday afternoon in the Washington Park neighborhood.

  About noon, a 26-year-old man was arguing with a woman he knew near a sidewalk in the 300 block of East 56th Street, Chicago police said.

  The man with a concealed carry license, 23, was driving by when he saw the two arguing, according to police. He stopped his car and intervened when he saw the 26-year-old man brandish a gun, police said.

  The 23-year-old retrieved a gun from his car and fired shots, striking the 26-year-old in his chest, police said.

  The still-unidentified victim was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

We'd really like to see someone start a program where members could send CCL holders a free box of ammo and maybe a gift certificate to a shooting range for every successful and legal shoot that eliminates an asshole.

Can it Get Worse?

We noted the other day that the Washington Post and the LA Times refused to endorse the Kackler for president. Now a third lib-tarded paper has refused their endorsement - USA Today said they won't play footsie with the dems.

Can it get worse? Yep:

• Gannett, owner of the nation’s largest newspaper chain, announced that its more than 200 publications, including USA Today, will not publish presidential endorsements in the run-up to the November 5 election.

  In a statement, Gannett said that while its USA Today Network of publications nationwide will not issue presidential endorsements this year, the outlets may still endorse candidates at the state and local levels at their own discretion.

The Washington Post also announced that they have lost 200,000 subscribers due to owner Amazon Bezos clamping down on the far left wingnuts infesting his newsroom. Maybe we'll finally start seeing some of these "newspapers" go under.

$225K Lottery Ticket?

For waving a gun around and threatening people with it:

• Chicago taxpayers should pay $225,000 to the family of an Indianapolis man shot and killed by two off-duty Chicago Police officers in 2016 after he pointed a gun at them during a brawl that exacerbated racial tension in Mount Greenwood, city lawyers recommended.

  The agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers ruled the officers were justified in shooting Joshua Beal.

  The proposed $225,000 settlement is set to be considered Monday by the City Council’s Finance Committee. A final vote of the City Council could come on Oct. 30.

At the time, we pointed out that there were photographs of Beal waving the gun around (click for larger image):

Not only that, but we also posted info that this wasn't the first time the dead asshole was waving a gun around (click for larger image):

But the city lawyers and the City Council are going to reward this type of bad behavior with taxpayer dollars for what turned out to be a completely legal, lawful and well deserved shooting.

Here's Comes the Pain

Conehead, elected on a litany of lies, prepares to announce he's a one-termer (paywalled article in Crain's):

• Mayor Brandon Johnson will propose a 2025 budget this week that backs away from a potential fight with the city’s unions.

  Instead, the mayor’s budget plan will largely rely on pulling dollars from the city’s tax-increment financing districts and a significant property tax increase to close a $982 million shortfall, according to City Hall sources not authorized to discuss the budget plan.

  The mayor's office did not respond to a request for comment.

  The mayor and his finance team had previously directed city departments to prepare for deep spending cuts that could only be addressed by furloughs, buyouts or layoffs, but amid stiff resistance from labor, the budget to be released Wednesday will not propose reductions that would have to be negotiated with the city’s labor unions.
  

There's still a chance he can't get it through the City Council, but it will be a battle. 

We certainly wish Chicago still had those hundreds of millions spent on illegal aliens over the past few years.

As Expected

It was terrorism at the very least:

• A 22-year-old Chicago man has been charged after allegedly shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man and firing at first responders over the weekend on the North Side, police and an alderman said.

  Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm at a police officer or firefighter and aggravated battery, Chicago police said Monday.

But no hate crime charges, even after video surfaced of the shooter yelling, "Aloha Snackbar!" as he shot at CFD and CPD responders. Imagine any other combination of racial/religious make-up and you'd see Crimesha leaping at the chance to make headlines. Now, they just want it to disappear.

And he's an illegal who was supposed to be deported two years ago from the west coast, but he landed here.

Nice Business Climate Conehead

This was a shocker no one seems to have seen coming:

• Hundreds of PepsiCo workers are being laid off, after the company decided to close the plant in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Monday.

  Some workers said they have been with the company for more than 45 years. The workers said they came to work as normal, and were told the plant was closing and to go home.

  Many workers left with tears in their eyes, trying to figure out how they will provide for their families. "No notice, none of that, blindsided," former PepsiCo truck driver Eric Gadson said.

People who have spent decades working blue collar jobs, dismissed without any warning whatsoever. 

Preliminary reports from the unions claim this is a violation of the WARN Act that requires sixty days notice for any major layoffs. But recourse would appear to be slim.

How's this going to fly with Conehead's property tax hikes?

What Have You Done Citizen?

When we give advice like this:

• Don't get middled - let them torch downtown. Let Conehead have his nervous breakdowns. Let Fata$$ refuse to call out the National Guard. Self-preservation is the only intelligent move.

We know it's going to provoke comments from some tiny-brain like this:

• And you and your fellow travelers wonder why regular, normal, tax paying, working stiffs don't "Back the Blue" anymore? Actually calling for crime and mayhem to be ignored???

We didn't say "ignore." By all means, respond promptly and carefully if assigned the job. But...be that "crime monitor" you see on the commercials. Make sure your in-car camera is running, turn on that body cam, record everything you can....from a safe and secure distance, using time and shielding as dictated by the "Consent Decree." Because any police action you take will be scrutinized by four or more "oversight" agencies looking to suspend, fire and imprison you.

And you, Dear Citizen Reader, what have you done to "Back the Blue" as you so cavalierly put it? Did you buy a t-shirt? A bumper sticker? Have you displayed them proudly on your car or in your windows? Do you sign petitions and organize community groups to speak up for the police? Are you making phone calls to politicians who vote to hamstring the entire Department and allow un-elected bureaucrats to dream up reasons to harass, suspend and fire Officers for what was completely normal (and legal) just five years ago? Are you running for office or just running your mouth?

No doubt you are a "progressive" type that won't stand up to aggression if it's by one of the "protected" classes who are allowed to run roughshod over entire neighborhoods. You have the "Hate has no home here" sign on the lawn and watch XiNN and MSDNC to tell you police are slave catchers, Trump is Hitler, boys can be girls and climate doom is a mere few years away. 

You expect the police to be all knowing, all powerful and all-to-willing to go to prison for what an armchair quarterback decides over the course of days to second guess a situation that an Officer might be lucky to have five seconds to react to. And with the "defunding" and manpower shortages, do it all with increasingly useless, tedious, needless "training" that exists solely so some exempt member's pincushion can avoid the street.

Do us a favor - sign up and show us how it's done. We did, for nearly thirty years.

Show Us the Money

And this money - unlike the usual owed cash - is accruing interest:

• Chicago's budget crisis may be worse than many had thought.

  A still-pending lawsuit over police overtime pay could put the city on the hook for $200 million. It's a liability Chicago City Council members recently learned about as the city heads into budget season.

  [...] In 2015, several police officers filed suit in what is now a class action case against the city, alleging officers were not properly paid for the overtime they worked.

  "It's pretty basic, and it's almost unbelievable that it happened, so the city used two systems to track an officer's time," said Will Aitchison, an attorney for the officers. "One for overtime from extended shifts, and another for when cops worked special details, and the systems were not integrated... In a court filing a year ago, the plaintiffs estimated the overtime backpay due the officers exceeded $200 million, a figure the city disputed in the filing."

  Right now, there are no settlement talks underway and none are planned. The officers' attorney says if that doesn't change, this case could drag on for another three years.

This has mainly to do with FLSA overtime - time in excess of the federally "permitted" total hours that are paid at the regular rate. Anything in excess of the "permitted" hours is paid at the higher FLSA rate, occasionally amounting to something between $4-to-7 dollars-per-hour (depending on grade). 

Very lucrative for those who worked every single day off and every single OT initiative the City offered to hide the manpower shortages that were becoming evident even before 2015. But the Department and City were miscalculating or deliberately misrecording hours into different columns on the time cards depending on which pool of money they were draining at the time.

They're going to fight this tooth-and-nail, because the money isn't there.

Garbage Mayor

Just when you think your opinion of him couldn't get any lower, Conehead finds a shovel and starts digging a basement. Bunch of cops got hurt at a gang funeral:

• Three Chicago police officers were hospitalized after a brawl broke out outside of a funeral on Chicago’s West Side Saturday.

  Officials said police were called to a funeral service that was taking place at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, located near Madison Street and Kildare Avenue in West Garfield Park, at about 12:30 p.m .

  A fight had broken out outside of the church. When officers tried to break up the brawl, though, things escalated — and funeral goers attacked police. Three officers were battered while trying to break up the brawl. According to authorities, they were taken to the hospital for their injuries.

Not a word from Conehead. But you an guess what would be said....and Anita Padilla, formerly of Fox 32, makes a good guess via X/Twitter:

• This is why Chicago’s Puppet @mayor is a complete joke. He’ll say police were attacked by “misguided youths…silly kids…we shouldn’t want to ruin their lives over a mistake…you’re a racist..blah, blah, blah” His entire detail should stand down in protest of their Brother in Blue…but they won’t. And Monday will come along and everyone will just move on like it didn’t happen when another P.Diddy pervert story breaks.

Good point, but trying to get cops who are in cushy spots to stick up for the ones getting their asses beaten in the ghetto would endanger said cushy spot.

Mystery Solved

We were "today years old" when this clicked:

• Groot has huge hands
• Groot acts like a wanna-be-dictator
  
• Groot has the "biggest dick in Chicago"
• Groot's hairline is receding faster than Conehead

Groot has obviously been taking bootleg testosterone treatments in an effort to become a very short reincarnation of Napoleon.

North Side Gun Battle (UPDATES)

Seems this one went on for a little while:

• A man who fired at officers responding to a shooting Saturday morning in West Ridge was shot, Chicago police said.

  A 39-year-old man was walking about 9:30 a.m. in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue when a 23-year-old man following him opened fire, striking the victim in the shoulder, police said.

  As paramedics were rendering aid to the victim and officers were investigating the scene, the gunman emerged from an alley and fired shots at the officers, hitting a Chicago Fire Department ambulance, police said.

  The gunman continued to shoot at officers from different locations as officers returned fire. He was shot multiple times, then taken into custody and transported to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

The shooter was popping in and out of different locations, firing and retreating numerous times before Officers successfully ended the threat. 

An excellent job all around in a situation that could have been a lot worse.

UPDATE: Hate crime? The Department and the media won't say, so you know it probably was.

UPDATE: from the comments - "You heard it here first… the shooter is a radical Muslim that shot a Jewish guy walking home from temple. The kicker is that the Muslim guy (shooter) illegally crossed the border into the United States in March 2023."

Firefighter Seriously Injured

Bad fire on the south side:

• A Chicago firefighter was injured while battling a fire on the city's South Side on Friday night, CFD said.

  The fire broke out at around 9 p.m. near 90th and Langley in the city's Burnside neighborhood, the fire department said.

  The injured firefighter was transported to University of Chicago Hospital in serious to critical condition, CFD said.

  CFD did not say how the firefighter was injured.

Prayers for his recovery.

Ringing Endorsements

Right before the weekend, the LA Times announced that it wouldn't be endorsing anyone for president. Kamala's hometown paper that endorsed her for every other office she ran for, wouldn't tell people to vote for her.  Seems the liberal billionaire owner senses something in the near future.

Not even two days later, the Washington Post (owner billionaire Jeff Amazon Bezos), which has spent the past week or so declaring Trump to be worse than Hitler, also refused to endorse the Kackler. Think about that for a moment - wouldn't endorse the woman running against Worse than Hitler. 

The internal polling must be so horrible, that the big money people are trying to play neutral so as not to attract unwanted attention from a new administration. 

Remember what happened in 2016 when the democrats unleashed their pantyfa thugs to riot and burn cities. Expect this and worse. Don't get middled - let them torch downtown. Let Conehead have his nervous breakdowns. Let Fata$$ refuse to call out the National Guard. Self-preservation is the only intelligent move.

More Dork Pictures

Here's accused murder Lil Durk with Crimesha at the game:

And just in case the fix wasn't in, he he is with Conehead AND Chief Judge Tim Evans:

Good thing it looks like he's going to Federal Court, because you couldn't trust a verdict coming out of this hell hole.