CWB Doing Great Work

Yesterday, they called Conehead a liar and proved it....again:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday once again defended his decision to disconnect the city’s gunfire detection network, claiming that a University of Chicago study found CPD responded “four times faster to the city’s most serious 911 calls” in some South and West Side neighborhoods after the city ended its relationship with ShotSpotter. But that is not what the study says.

And what does it actually show?

• Robert Vargas, a sociology professor who leads the UChicago Justice Project, told CWB Chicago the study “was motivated by a specific set of claims made by elected officials that decommissioning ShotSpotter would have serious consequences for police response times.”

  However, Vargas also acknowledged that before analyzing response times, his students removed all 911 calls involving shots fired from the city’s dataset. In other words, the study’s conclusions about faster response times, if accurate, did not include gunfire calls, the only type of emergency ShotSpotter was designed to address and the specific response times elected officials had been discussing.

They took out ALL of the gunfire calls? Seriously? 

So this is yet another "Higher Education" bullshit program similar in nature to the crooked Northwestern "innocence" crap where they bribed convicts, lied under oath, slanted reporting, solicited perjury, aided and abetted by members of the Chicago media.

And the day before CWB had a little retrospective on fifteen years of wilding:

• What has gotten into kids these days? These “teen trends” and “teen takeovers?” This didn’t used to happen, did it? Well, as it turns out, it’s been happening a lot longer than even we remembered, stretching back at least 15 years across three mayors and eight police superintendents. Many of the 50-plus people arrested during this past weekend’s three mob-related incidents weren’t even born when it all started.

  The problem, it seems, isn’t kids these days. The problem is a steady refusal by mayor after mayor to directly address what’s happening.

They recalled McCompStats lies about closing a beach because of "heat," attacks on bikers, the Mag Mile, Millennium Park....like we said, fifteen YEARS of mayhem, much of it covered in our archives.

Give them a visit and read the only decent crime reporting in Chicago any more. 

Lawsuit Re-Filed

This is going to be dragged out in the hope the City settles:

• The family of Adam Toledo filed a fresh lawsuit this week against the city of Chicago and the police officer who fatally shot the 13-year-old boy.

  The case was filed a month after the family abruptly dropped another lawsuit filed in Cook County court, just days before opening arguments were set to begin. Now, the legal process will begin again in federal court, over five years after Toledo was killed.

In the previous trial prep, the scumbag lawyers threatened to have a hundred witnesses to testify - for something exactly ZERO of them actually witnessed - all in the hope of an offer from the City to go away. 

The trouble was the existence of body camera footage, a stop watch, a working ShotSpotter system and the criminal record of "lil' homicide" being part of the official transcripts would severely reduce any sympathy a jury might have.

fbi Shooting

Evidently the feebs are still in Chicago doing something:

• A person has died in a shooting involving an FBI agent Thursday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, officials said.

  One adult was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, which happened around 3 p.m. in the 3700 block of West Lexington Street, according to the Chicago Fire Department and the FBI.

  Chicago police officers initially responded to the scene, but officers have turned the investigation over to the FBI, the department said.

  Authorities have not released information about what led to the shooting. No other information was available.

Nothing about the usual community outrage commonly associate with law enforcement shootings, so that's good. And no law enforcement members were reported injured which is also good.

What are the feds up to on the west side? 

Out of State Corruption

What's with the crooked brass lately?

• The police chief of New Chicago, Indiana, was taken into custody in Ohio and is accused of stealing a gun tied to a criminal investigation and selling it to a pawn shop.

  Earl Mayo, 45, was arrested Friday in Clark County, Ohio after he tried to evade arrest. He leads the New Chicago Police Department in Lake County, Indiana.

  Mayo, who wrote a self-published novel about a bad cop turned good, titled, “When Lines Are Crossed: Love, Trust, Betrayal,” is facing seven felony charges, including theft, official misconduct, attempted obstruction of justice and unlawful possession of anabolic steroids.

That guy sounds like a piece of work.

How about this one?

• Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who was hired to oversee reforms in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, chose to resign rather than face disciplinary action for interfering with an investigation into his conduct, Mayor Jacob Frey announced Tuesday.

  O’Hara, who led local police during the recent federal immigration crackdown in the city, was under investigation on accusations that he was engaging in intimate relationships with city employees.

Investigative interference? Intimate relationships? That's almost like a requirement here.

Fundraiser

 One week away:

 Informational post - comments closed here.

Nice E.M. Program judge Bitch

Damn....the keyboard stuck again....judge Beach:

• More than one-third of the people on electronic monitoring for shoplifting cases in Cook County have gone missing, according to newly released data from Chief Judge Charles Beach. So have a quarter of the robbery defendants. Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campaign to overhaul the county’s ankle monitor program and improve its transparency.

  Tuesday’s report shows that of the 244 missing defendants, about 24% were on electronic monitoring for domestic-related charges. Alleged shoplifters dominate the balance: 24 people put on ankle monitors after being charged with shoplifting have gone AWOL, but a separate report by Beach’s office shows only 73 people are on ankle monitors for shoplifting, so a third of them have gone missing.

  Also showing above-average disappearance rates: burglars. Nearly 15% of them have slipped away while awaiting trial. And 27% of people charged with battery have gone AWOL, too. For more serious aggravated battery cases, the AWOL rate is 10%.

The main trouble we always saw with EM was that anyone who disregarded the restrictions was more apt to disregard consequences - meaning that when they were in danger of being caught which they almost always were:

• they had broken the law once and got caught, 
• they broke it a second time violating the terms of release,
• then they were far more likely to actively resist arrest and do anything they could to avoid going back inside.

What's a third violation since there weren't any consequences the first two times? This happened time and time again. And now judge Bitch Beach thinks some "study" is going to cure the anti-social tendencies of people (or folks) who had zero regard for the system in the first place?

Conehead Supports Wilding

For all the noise politicians are making about battling the "teen takeovers," guess who isn't a fan?

• Despite a Memorial Day weekend marred by teen takeovers turned violent, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Wednesday that stricter curfew and parental responsibility laws are not the answer to the perennial problem plaguing Chicago.

  Johnson said 15 arrests were made early Sunday after a car veered into five Chicago police officers and injured them as they tried to disperse an unruly crowd of youths gathered on the Near West Side. But those arrests, he added, did not prevent an even bigger crowd from overtaking the 57th Street Beach in Hyde Park and spilling onto Lake Shore Drive on Memorial Day.

  That tells the mayor throwing the book at young people and their parents is not the answer to the problem of unruly gatherings summoned by social media.

Here we go again with the "You can't arrest your way out of these situations" bullshit.

Yes you can - you just have to be consistent with it. Every. Single. Time.

This guy gets it:

• Former Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s hard-nosed approach to unruly groups of young people largely succeeded in controlling the flash mobs that plagued Michigan Avenue during then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s tenure.

  “I didn’t have a mayor like Brandon Johnson who made excuses,” McCarthy said. “Let’s stop calling them teen takeovers. That is sending the wrong message. That sounds cute. These are mob actions. … There needs to be some sort of accountability for not just the kids but the parents and elected officials. Permissiveness is not working. It’s never worked. All it does is cause bad behavior.”

McStreetlights was always a secret fan of the blog and here he is almost quoting us about rewarding bad behavior causing more bad behavior. He was also the candy-ass who mothballed the LRAD despite it being the best available tool for dispersing crowds.

Don't Demonize the Dog

Must have been a Chicago rescue dog:

• A woman in Nebraska was injured after a dog inside a nearby truck accidentally fired a shotgun, sending a pellet into her arm.

  Police in Scottsbluff responded to reports of a shooting at a gas station on May 22, initially believing a BB gun was involved. However, officers later confirmed that a real shotgun had discharged from inside a parked truck with a camper attached.

  Investigators said the truck owner had gone inside the convenience store while a passenger stood outside the vehicle. A dog remained in the back seat near a loaded shotgun.

  According to police, the dog moved across the truck and accidentally triggered the firearm, causing it to fire through the passenger-side door.

Who's riding around with a loaded shotgun where a dog can walk on it anyway?

Not Once, Not Twice

What the actual f#$%?  Three times?

• An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated.

  An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated. 

We don't know who needs to hear this, especially you new kids, but a car is a lethal weapon. If only we had someone....a gym teacher even....who passed themselves off as a Use of Force "expert" (when he wasn't banging recruits) to explain this to the younger Officers.

Amazingly, judge Ankur Srivastava kept him in custody. 

Final Weekend Tally

Believe it or not, these are actually lower numbers than the average:

• A toddler and man died, and at least 38 others were wounded, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in Chicago in the least deadly holiday weekend in 16 years.

  Despite the fatalities — authorities said the one involving a toddler was an accidental suicide — more people were wounded over the holiday weekend than in 2025, when 25 people were shot in the city’s least violent Memorial Day weekend since 2010.

  Still, gun violence remains lower than the pandemic-era peak. In 2021, during the same holiday period, the city saw 65 shooting victims, including 15 deaths.

And for the first time in memory, the Slum Times numbers actually agree with the HeyJackass.com numbers. Usually the media plays down the numbers and goes with the manipulated totals in an attempt to make the people in charge look better.

So is the media actually doing reporting again? 

UPDATE: Yeah, we noticed the "accidental suicide" phrase the Slum Times invented, too. The media might be accidentally accurate in terms of statistics every so often, but they're old pros at creating stupid terms to advance the "progressive" agenda.

Gun Safety Days

Informational post only - comments closed here.

Get your pistol looked at - it's the most important tool on your person. 

Memorial Sign

An honorary street sign was put up the other day:

• Chicago Police Commander Bryan Spreyne called out the names of his 8th District officers one by one Sunday.

  Officer Enrique Martinez’s name was called three times as the officers stood at attention in the 6300 block of South Komensky Avenue before Spreyne spoke again, this time to say “may you never be forgotten.”

  Martinez was shot to death while making a traffic stop in Chatham Nov. 4, 2024, just a month before the 26-year-old would have marked three years with the Chicago Police Department.

  The West Lawn block the officer grew up on, now known as Officer Enrique Martinez Avenue, was dedicated on what would’ve been his 28th birthday.

There was also a list of Officers killed recently in the article:

• He’s among several Chicago officers who have been killed both on and off duty in recent years: Luis Huesca, Aréanah Preston, Andres Vasquez Lasso, Ella French, Krystal Rivera [...] and most recently, John Bartholomew last month.

So many lives, many so very young, stolen from us all.

We hate seeing these street signs because they demonstrate the depravity of Chicago criminals, but every one of these Officers should have one. 

Wrong Direction Conehead

The mayor must have noticed CPD is suddenly short manpower again, this time by five injured Officers:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson decried an early Sunday morning ‘unauthorized large gathering’ apparently involving teens that ended with a car veering into five Chicago police officers, injuring them, as they were dispersing the crowd on the Near West Side.

  Police have not announced any charges Monday against the driver, 18, who was arrested.

  “Unauthorized large gatherings can quickly become dangerous, and early this morning, after curfew hours, we saw that firsthand,” the mayor posted on X Sunday night.

And where does Conehead think the responsibility lies?

• Johnson said the people who participated in violent behavior should be held accountable, but many people, including city leaders and community members, have a responsibility to look out for young people.

Um....the government isn't a parent moron. Government isn't supposed to "look out for" people (or folks) breaking the law - they're supposed to look out for everyone else attempting to peacefully and peaceably go about their lives.

Who the City should be looking out for are their employees i.e. the Officers attempting to enforce the Ordinances and Laws passed by the elected representatives. That means maintaining adequate manpower numbers and maintaining equipment required to do their jobs. 

You don't fund a fire department and give them a bucket with a hole in it (though Chicago is headed that way.) You are supposed to give them a working water system, hydrants, attachments, trucks and pumps so that they can save lives and property.

Same with the police. You don't give them a list of Laws that everyone is supposed to abide by, and then underfund / defund them, disband units that could have responded effectively, hide equipment that used to work (gas teams, LRAD, etc) and take away all the options to defend themselves. Politicians doing that would rightfully be called idiots, morons, progressives and assholes.

Yet Another "Takeover"

Farther south this time:

• Crowds prompted a large police response at a South Side beach after reports of plans for a teen takeover there on Monday night.

  Police are working to disperse groups of people at 57th Street Beach, which is near Hyde Park.

  The Office of Emergency Management and Communications said there is heavy traffic on northbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive at East 57th Drive. OEMC asked drivers to take an alternate route.

  This comes after the University of Chicago Police Department said it received information about a possible teen trend gathering at the beach planned for Monday at 6 p.m. UCPD said additional staff would be in the area.

They're publicizing these things on social media. CPD used to have a unit that monitored social media for EXACTLY these types of incidents. Of course, it is about as useful as that commercial regarding crime "monitors" if you don't have units available to do anything about it. Back in the day, we had SOS, TRU, MSF and a system for mobilizing tactical/gang teams citywide. Now? 

Did Conehead make it go away because it unfairly demonized the undemonizable?

How much effort would it take to set up a couple CFD trucks with spray nozzles to mist the crowds? Nothing illegal or forceful about a gentle rain shower and certainly no TRRs. Maybe hand out bars of soap, too. They'd go home if they were soaking wet.

Someone else suggested a fleet of thirty or forty tow trucks on standby. If you're taking their wheels, they're leaving the neighborhood. Curfew ordinances aren't working, but vehicle impounds might make a serious dent in the misbehavior, PLUS they couldn't run over five cops at a time.

The City Council is making the usual useless noises:

• Some Chicago City Council members are gearing up to take on parents of teens who get arrested during illegal takevovers past curfew.

  The proposal comes as the city reels from a takeover on the Near West Side that nearly turned deadly for a number of police officers Sunday morning.

  [2nd Ward Aldercreature Brian Hopkins] says he and City Council colleagues are drafting an ordinance that would give police the tools to go after parents of teenagers who take part in illegal gatherings.

  “All that combined sends a strong message that we are no longer going to tolerate this kind of activity. We need the mayor to step up and stand with us on it. Tough talk is fine, but that doesn't seem to change anything," he said.

Let's be real - no one is going to hold parent(s) accountable. If that was an option, it would have been done years ago. Taxpayers would be far better off with some uncomfortable soaking wet teens or a boatload of impounds that go before hearing officers who are told in no uncertain terms that their jobs rely on liability findings like they did back in the glory days of sound impounds.

Almost Vigilantes

This seems to be becoming a trend:

• Witnesses intervened after a convicted felon attacked and sexually abused a woman aboard a CTA bus on the Near West Side this week, Chicago police said. Morris Love, 36, is scheduled to appear for a detention hearing Sunday afternoon in connection with the case.

  Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, a 35-year-old woman was riding the bus in the 1700 block of West Roosevelt Road when Love sat down next to her, police said. The woman later told police she felt uncomfortable and stood up to move away, but Love grabbed her, held her down, and sexually abused her on the bus, according to police. Other passengers intervened and freed her from Love, police said.

  Love then followed the woman off the bus, stole her property, and tried to grab her again, according to police. She was able to get away. Witnesses gave police a description of the attacker, and patrol officers located Love nearby. CTA surveillance video and statements from the victim and witnesses played key roles in the investigation, police said.

While it's good to see citizens becoming more involved in standing up to criminals instead of ignoring it or worse, filming it to stream it somewhere else, what we really need is a concerted push for "witnesses" to start beating the crap out of criminals. Like the other week where two "witnesses" tossed an assailant onto the El tracks and then followed him down to discourage his unlawful behavior to the point that the offender had to be carted off by an ambulance.

THAT is a lesson that just might take hold. 

Arlington Bears Countdown

The manufactured theater is ready to wrap up!

• In the fight for a new Chicago Bears stadium, the mayor of Arlington Heights is counting on a last-minute score this week.

  Sunday is the last day of the spring legislative session in Springfield, so they have under a week to pass the bill that could keep the Bears in Illinois.

  "I'm very optimistic. I believe that it's going to happen. I think that our governor and legislators in Springfield are working really hard to make it happen," said Mayor Jim Tinaglia. "I'd like to make sure we get it done. And so, if it takes till 11:59 p.m., that's what it takes. I'm good with that."

What we've heard is that the site in Indiana would require two years and over $100 million dollars to decontaminate it to the point that every player, coach, vendor and attendee wasn't at a high risk of assorted environmental cancers. That and what we posted almost two years ago about all those businesses relocating to the I-290 / /I-294 / Route 53 business corridors in anticipation of a Bears move. They knew what was up before anyone else noticed.

And it certainly looks like Conehead is waving the white flag:

• Although Johnson wants the Bears to stay in the city, on Monday, he said his current priority in Springfield is progressive revenue. "It's unfortunate that corporate interests have dominated this particular session. The digital ad tax, there's still time to pass that, a millionaire's tax," Johnson said.

With the Bears leaving, Conehead's budget shortfall just went from "huge" to "monstrous" and he's still talking about raising taxes. Econ 101 was definitely NOT his strong suit.

Five Cops Plowed Into

:::GASP!!::

Another one of those "teen takeovers" by the non-demonized yutes:

• A driver plowed into a crowd of people on the Near West Side early Sunday, injuring five Chicago Police officers and at least one bystander, according to witnesses and preliminary information gathered at the scene. At least 14 people were arrested during the incident, including the driver and two of his passengers, sources said. So far, CPD has not issued any statements about what happened.

  Police had been in the area of Washburne and Throop since Saturday night, managing a large teen block party. Justin Peters, head of Chitown Crime Chasers, estimated 500 people were involved.

  By around midnight, police supervisors began towing vehicles to clear streets and stop more people from arriving by car. But the crowd continued to grow and become increasingly unruly. CPD brought in teams from districts across the city to carry out the effort, but the sheer size of the crowd, which at times broke into fights and pepper spray battles, made it difficult for some officers to get close to the scene.

We were unaware that teens were allowed to apply for permits for block parties. They did have a permit, right? 

And the "block party" continued well past midnight. Last time we had a block party, the permit expressly said 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM. It was understood that if that rule was violated, then next year we wouldn't be getting a permit.

Best wishes to all of the injured for speedy recoveries. You wouldn't want to miss the next three months of canceled days off and festive block parties.

Crime is Down

But it was certainly a bad Sunday morning:

• At least 18 people have been shot over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

  No one has died from the shootings since Saturday and most of the victims — the youngest of whom was 14 — are in stable condition, according to Chicago police. The majority of the violence happened in a two-hour stretch from 1:30 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. Sunday.

The number has since climbed to 20 wounded and the lone fatality was Friday afternoon. 

But it's still far below the historical weekend averages of the past eleven years (9 dead, 42 maimed) per HeyJackass.com.

Memorial Day

Remembering the Fallen.

Posting and comment moderating will be sporadic today. 

Enjoy the day if you're off. Stay safe if you're working. Spare a thought and a prayer for all those who gave their lives over the years. 

Paroled for Gun Charges - Gets More Guns

Nice Parole Board Porky: 

• When Maurice Reddick arrived at his ex-partner’s home in South Chicago on Tuesday night, things went sideways quickly. Within an hour, prosecutors say, he would open fire on a woman, shoot at two uniformed CPD officers, and then hide in a basement crawlspace surrounded by three guns, one of them an AR-15 style rifle equipped with a working machine gun conversion device.

  Reddick, a 34-year-old on parole for his second gun conviction, faces multiple felonies, including two counts of attempted murder of a peace officer. Judge John Hock detained him following a detention hearing on Friday. The state is also moving to revoke his parole. 

You know how you keep parolees from getting more guns? Stop doing this:

• Reddick’s criminal history includes a four-year prison sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Public records show he was paroled on May 27 last year after serving half that sentence. In 2021, he received a one-year sentence for illegal gun possession but did not serve prison time, having accumulated enough credits while awaiting trial on an ankle monitor.

And keep them in f#$%ing prison. 

This is Legal?

We see a lot of challenges to it:

• Requires the Secretary of State to administer the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program. 
• Provides that a driver who commits 2 qualifying offenses within a 12-month period is required to enroll in the Program, and the Secretary shall suspend the driver's license or driving privileges which shall remain suspended until the driver participates in the Program for 365 days for a driver's first Program enrollment, 730 days for a driver's second Program enrollment, or 1,095 days for a driver's third or subsequent Program enrollment. 
• Sets forth requirements for notification, application for an Intelligent Speed Assistance Permit, and installation and proof of installation of an intelligent speed assistance device. 
• Requires a participant in the Program to pay the Secretary a Permit administration fee in an amount not to exceed $30 per month. 
• Creates the Indigent Intelligent Speed Assistance Device Fund and the Intelligent Speed Assistance Permit Fee Fund. 
• Establishes....

You get the idea. you get caught speeding twice and you are required to install government monitor in your car and pay $30 per month for a year ($360 for the year).

If you get a second set of violations, it's $30 per month for two years. Third time is a three year enrollment with the $30 per month "administration fee."

You can read the whole thing at the link up top. We don't see how the government gets you to forcibly enroll in a subscription series of fines for something that used to cost you about $100 for the moving violation.

Are speed camera tickets part of this? Does the Traffic School option still exist? Since police can't chase for "minor" violations, we're seriously considering putting magnets on our license plates and taking them off when driving around town.

UPDATE: this monitor tracks the car, not the person driving it? So exactly like Chicago speed and red light tickets - the owner of the registered vehicle on the hook? Great - we'll keep Grandma's name on the title (R.I.P Nana) and keep the car at our out-of-state property.

UPDATE: Amazing that these politicians think they'll be able to monitor and track vehicles without an issue, but Electronic Monitoring for violent felons is a total failure. If this worked so well, how come child molesters and gun offenders aren't tracked at all? The failure rate of GPS trackers on domestic violence offenders is rumored to be north of 80% in terms of timely notifications.

Wishful Thinking?

We're sensing a bunch of disappointment on the horizon:

• The Obama Presidential Center's grand opening is less than one month away.

  The museum and library are expected to bring tourists to the city, and businesses near the center are expecting a big boost. ABC7 spoke to business owners who say more customers means more jobs for Chicagoans.

  In the shadow of the Obama Center, many on the South Side are eager for that promised economic boost. A beautification project in Woodlawn is among the new jobs for MGE Property Solutions. The owner, Malki Brown, told ABC7 that with more development happening around the Obama Center, they are getting more clients and hiring more workers.

These "expected" impacts never last much longer than a few years, if that. Americans have notoriously short memories and Chicagoans even shorter ones. The only way this thing makes money is forced field trips by CPS and suburban schools for a few years, maybe a few political fundraisers or left-wing conventions. 

Supposedly, they haven't even funded the endowment that's going to cover regular maintenance and grounds-keeping so Chicago and Illinois taxpayers will be tagged for that soon. Taxes will kill the rest of it.

Larritorious at the City Club

From this past Wednesday. 

Didn't announce he was leaving.

Didn't announce he was running for office.

Did shock many of the attendees by echoing Trump Administration officials regarding taking responsibilities for "teen takeovers":

• Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling did not mince words about teen takeovers when speaking with the City Club of Chicago on Wednesday.

  “We have to get parents involved,” he said. “We have to get adults involved. It’s not parent-shaming to say that you should know where your children are at 10, 11, 12 o’clock at night when you have a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old. They’re vulnerable. When they go into these environments, they can be harmed. They can even be killed, and that has happened.”

  Snelling told the crowd that accountability should not end with adults.

  “I think it’s an insult to young people, especially young inner city kids, which I was one, to say that they shouldn’t be held accountable for this because of their circumstances and their conditions,” the CPD boss added. “Because what we’re actually saying is, is that they don’t have the intellect to be able to determine right from wrong.”

Parental involvement. "Know where your kids are." The racism of lowered expectations. 

Larry sounds so....so....Republican.

Maybe he is running for office. 

Another "Brandon Body" (UPDATE - Vigilantes?)

Could turn into a Conehead Corpse in short order though:

• A 13-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was found shot between two homes in South Chicago on Thursday afternoon, police said. Initial indications are that the shooting occurred about 15 minutes before he was found, but there were no calls of shots fired in the area. Mayor Brandon Johnson shut down the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system in September 2024.

  Officers responded to two calls from people who had discovered the boy shot in the 8200 block of South Coles Avenue at about 3:07 p.m., according to dispatch audio. The callers began CPR on the child before paramedics arrived. Police said he was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

No calls about Shots Fired for at least fifteen minutes....at 2:50 in the afternoon.

CWB has this as the eighty-third instance. There's video of two people leaving the area, but if you combine no ShotSpotter with the Facial Recognition ban efforts, it's just another example of democrats catering to criminals. 

UPDATE: Seems the "victim" is one of those 13-year-old non-demonized carjackers that never seemed to pay a price for his crimes.

 Maybe the bill came due? 

Dollars at Stake

Gee, if the Feds threaten to take away money, suddenly public safety on public transportation is a top issue - this is from a few days ago:

• The Cook County state’s attorney’s office announced a new task force Monday that will bring together officials from a swath of local, state and federal agencies to discuss how to improve safety on public transit.

  The group will convene monthly to analyze violent incidents that have happened on or near public transit systems and work to bring charges.

  “The task force mission is clear: promote public safety on transit systems by working in collaboration together,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said at a news conference.

  The task force will include representatives from Metra; Pace; the Chicago Transit Authority; the Chicago Police Department; the Cook County sheriff’s office; the U.S. attorney’s office; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Drug Enforcement Administration; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Ooooo....a "task force!" that will meet monthly.

All this seems to mean is they'll determine:

• which cases can be prosecuted in a public manner
• so as to generate positive headlines for persons trying to reelected
• in the face of severe public anger about being unable to travel safely around the city.

And retain the couple hundred million in Federal dollars to pay for their grift. 

Officer Attacked

A brutal attack with brass knuckles:

• A Chicago police officer's family said he's lucky to be alive after he was attacked on Tuesday night in the McKinley Park neighborhood.

  Officer Kevin Mangan has a long road ahead because of the injuries he suffered.

  A man and a woman were in custody on Wednesday night, and charges were pending against them for beating Mangan so badly they knocked out his teeth. He'll be unable to chew solid food for months, and will be off the job even longer.

He was called to the scene of people blocking an ambulance and was blindsided by the attack.

Felony charges were inbound, but we don't know if the offenders were released by Lyke or Thedford yet. 

How about some Civil Suits against these offenders along with the criminal proceedings? 

The Officer has a long road back. 

Cops Singled Out Again

What is it that we've always said?

• cops are not above the Law, but neither should they be under it

You're under it again:

• The City Council moved Wednesday to ban cops with ties to extremist groups like the far-right Proud Boys or Oath Keepers from serving in the Chicago Police Department.

  The ordinance from Ald. Matt Martin (47th) prohibits officers from engaging in “extremist activities,” defined in the measure as any attempt to overthrow the U.S. government through violence or “unconstitutional means.” The measure also bans police from actively participating in extremist groups, such as doing fundraising, recruiting or displaying tattoos to uplift extremist groups.

  It passed 28-21.

  Under the new ordinance, alleged extremist activities or ties to extremist groups will be investigated by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, an independent city watchdog, instead of the department’s internal investigatory unit.

  In his appeal to colleagues, Martin said Chicago must defend against federal acts such as President Donald Trump’s Day 1 signing of roughly 1,500 pardons and commutations for those convicted of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Martin added that the ordinance protects against extremism beyond Trump’s presidency. 

Believe it or not, there isn't a single illegal thing about the Jan 6 pardons - there is no restriction on the President's power (though there probably should be some guardrails) so this local ordinance is just so much smoke being blown up asses.

So shortly, if you're a registered Republican or a member of the NRA or advocated for bodily autonomy regarding mandatory jabs or contributed money to Turning Point USA, you'll be labeled an extremist, charged and fired. 

Any CFD Readers?

Tragedy in Englewood:

• Two children and two adults are dead, and two other children are injured after a house fire in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood early Wednesday morning, Chicago police said.

  The Chicago Fire Department battled the 2-11 alarm fire in the 6000 block of South Paulina Street, which was extinguished just before 3 a.m. CFD said six people were rescued from the fire and initially taken to local hospitals in serious condition.   

  Chicago police later said that a man and a woman suffered severe burns and were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. Four kids, including three boys, ages 14, 15, and 16, and an 8-year-old girl, were taken to Comer Children's Hospital. 

  Police confirmed that the two adults, the 8-year-old girl, and the 15-year-old boy later died. 

The fire is being investigated as an arson, which would mean all four deaths are homicides. Keep an eye on how they are classified them moving forward.

But our question is this - did the equipment issues (disabled tower ladders, engine and truck shortages) have anything to do with the ability to respond and extinguish the blaze?

This high of a casualty count in a fire is rare these days, so it's a legit question that should be asked. 

An Intelligent Judge?

We weren't sure they existed in Cook County any more, but evidently, there's one:

• A Chicago judge denied a request to appoint a special prosecutor for investigations into federal agent misconduct during Operation Midway Blitz last fall.

  A group of hundreds of politicians, community activists and religious leaders had asked for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of misconduct against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration Enforcement agents during the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago.

  They argued Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke worked too closely with federal agencies to bring cases against them, and had abandoned her duty to investigate the actions of federal immigration agents.

  O'Neill Burke denied any conflict of interest, and her team argued, "Illinois law simply does not permit prosecutors to initiate criminal investigations and bring prosecutions because the general public and elected officials would like them to."

  The judge ruled the petitioners did not prove the state's attorney abandoned her duty to investigate federal agents, nor did they prove she had a conflict of interest. The judge said an allegation of a relationship with law enforcement is not enough to establish a conflict of interest.

Amusingly, the entire article doesn't mention the judges name even once. There's an embedded link to a previous story that names the judge - Erica Reddick - but we guess the "reporters" don't want it know that there is an actual judge following actual Law and recognizing that Cook County pretty much has zero authority to investigate and prosecute Federal agents.

Not that we would even recommend voting for a judge in Cook County, but we'd recommend cutting her a break for traffic violations or something. 

ShotSpotter Deactivated Again

This time at Harvard - guess why?

• The Cambridge City Council narrowly voted Monday to end the city’s use of ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system that has drawn years of criticism from residents and councilors over privacy concerns and potential data-sharing with federal authorities.

  The policy order, which passed in a 5-2-2 vote, directs City Manager Yi-An Huang ’05 to remove and disable ShotSpotter devices across Cambridge within 90 days of signing the measure.

  More than 30 residents urged the Council to cancel the city’s contract with SoundThinking, ShotSpotter’s parent company, during public comment Monday. They argued that the system is inaccurate, intrusive, and incompatible with Cambridge’s surveillance and sanctuary city ordinances.

So ILLEGAL ALIENS are tracked by ShotSpotter? Who knew besides Conehead?

We guess it's okay for ILLEGAL ALIENS to shoot guns? 

Twice?

Probably should have eliminated him the first time:

• For most people, getting shot by a Chicago police officer is something that never happens. Prosecutors say Cordero Ramey has now experienced it twice.

  The 26-year-old, who was first wounded by Chicago police in 2020, was shot again on May 11 after he allegedly opened fire on two officers in South Chicago. Until Wednesday, he had been hospitalized recovering from his wounds since that night. Now he’s detained by order of Cook County Judge John Hock on charges including attempted murder of police officers.

  Around 10:30 p.m. on May 11, CPD received a call that a man had pointed a gun at someone near the 3100 block of East 83rd Street, Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara told the judge. Two officers in an unmarked car spotted Ramey matching the suspect’s description, pulled over, and ordered him to keep his hands visible. Pekara said Ramey raised his hands and then dropped them toward his waist. When the officers stepped out of the SUV, Pekara said, he ran.

  As officers gave chase, Ramey turned, extended his arm and fired “numerous shots” at them, Pekara said. Both officers returned fire. They both escaped injury. Ramey crossed the street during the exchange, threw his gun to the ground, and fell, according to Pekara. The cops caught up with him and called for an ambulance, allegedly recovering 25 bags of suspected heroin from his possession.

Third time - as they say - is the charm. Hopefully, it's the Police who are charmed and not this waste of carbon.

Vigilantes Spotted!

Locally this time:

• A man accused of shoving a woman onto CTA tracks at the Cicero Blue Line station ended up on a stretcher himself after outraged bystanders allegedly jumped him, threw him onto the tracks, and beat him before police arrived, according to court records and a Chicago police report.

  Prosecutors said 44-year-old Robert Rhodes-Chambers attacked a 43-year-old woman on the platform around 11:30 p.m. on May 10. He allegedly punched her in the back of the neck and shoulder with his fists before pushing her onto the tracks.

  A CPD report said the attack was captured on CTA security cameras. The woman suffered pain to her knee, ankle, right shoulder, and head, according to the report.

  But before officers could get to the station, two witnesses allegedly turned on Rhodes-Chambers.

The offender was himself tossed onto the tracks, then beaten by the "witnesses."

No where in the article does it give a description of the "witnesses" and no where does it say anyone is in custody....and we certainly hope it remains that way. No one should be looking too hard for these "witnesses."

And in the unlikely event anyone sees any "Seeking Information...." posters around the Blue Line, remember to properly dispose of said garbage, kind of like these "witnesses" disposed of their garbage.

UPDATE: Is word filtering down to the crooked judges to start holding CTA criminals accountable?

• A menace who brutally attacked women on the CTA trains across the city for several months in 2024 received a nine-year prison sentence on Tuesday, according to court records. Darryl Alexander, 35, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated battery and one count of criminal damage to government property in exchange for the sentence from Judge Anjana Hansen.

  Prosecutors charged Alexander with attacking five women on the city’s transit system between August 1 and October 8, 2024, crimes he allegedly committed while on probation for attempting to rob another woman on a train downtown.

But...but...we can't "jail" our way out of this situation!

Except that Darryl won't be attacking women on the train for at least three years now. Too bad he won't run into a few of these "witnesses" for some even more effective justice. 

Shots Fired at Police

No hits, no runs, no errors:

• A man was taken into custody on Tuesday evening after police say he allegedly fired a shot at officers in South Chicago.

  According to police, the alleged shooting unfolded just before 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 8600 block of South Marquett Avenue.

  Officers were first called to the scene following a report of shots fired in the area, and when they arrived, they encountered the suspect, a 34-year-old man.

  While on the scene, officers said the suspects allegedly pulled out a gun and fired a shot in the direction of the officers.

  Following the shooting, the suspect allegedly fled the scene and ran into a residence in the area, where he was taken into custody without further incident.

Stay alert Officers.

Question

Since it seems Larritorious is on the way out, we were wondering:

• has he let the D-unit officially close the White Sox Park shooting incident?

You remember, the one where:

• a bullet fired from over a mile away, 
• traveled in an arc that rose above the walls of the stadium, 
• then dropped at an angle that ignored ballistic trajectory modeling, 
• and retained enough force to wound a fan, 
• all while ignoring a rather obese CPS employee seated twenty feet away with second-and-third-degree scorch marks on her fat folds?

And the location of the ShotSpotter hit (timestamped) never exactly lined up with the time of injury for some reason - a bullet traveling around 1,200 feet-per-second would have covered that mile in four seconds or so, not the minutes the "investigation" tried to wish away.

Not that anyone in the media ever bothered to ask these discrepancies be explained. 

Cultural Enrichment

Remember a few years back, all those ILLEGAL ALIENS were piled into parks and Police Stations, bringing with them all manner of illness and infestations for months on end? It took months for our nasal passages to heal.

Seems a few might still be hanging around:

• The mother of an 18-year-old man got a terrifying call from Venezuela: the caller said her son was kidnapped and told her where he was. On Tuesday night police found his body, according to a Chicago police report.

  In a statement, police said they responded to a well being check about 9 p.m. Tuesday inside an apartment in the 6800 block of South Perry Avenue, where Cristian Jose Rojas Barrios, who suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and leg, was found and pronounced dead on the scene.

  According to a police report, Rojas Barrios’ mother got a phone call from a person from Venezuela who she does not know. The caller told her that her son had been kidnapped about 3 p.m. Monday near a basketball court in the 7100 block of South King Drive and he could be found “inside an apartment” at the Perry Avenue address. Rojas Barrios was found lying face down in a bathtub with his hands tied behind his back, the report said. Three nine-millimeter shell casings were found near his body.

Why would Mom get a call from Venezuela about her son, kidnapped and executed in Chicago?

At least Conehead spared the Caracas Police Department another unsolved murder!

This Should be Fun

Depositions and discovery are going to be lit!

• A former high-ranking Chicago cop has sued the city, police Supt. Larry Snelling and other officials alleging he was added to the city’s do-not-hire list based on bogus information about his disciplinary record.

  Michael Barz, who rose to the rank of deputy chief, filed the defamation lawsuit last month in federal court in Chicago, claiming the move tarnished his reputation and contributed to the “loss of the professional dignity earned through nearly thirty years of decorated service.”

  The lawsuit highlights a memo sent to Snelling on April 26, 2025, by Joy Brown, another defendant in the case who serves as director of human resources for the city’s Office of Public Safety Administration. The memo recommended that Barz be added to the do-not-hire list, focusing on two disciplinary investigations that purportedly led to recommendations for 15-day suspensions.

  However, Barz never faced a sustained disciplinary complaint over his career, including in those two cases, the suit holds. And those suspensions weren’t imposed.

Correct us if we're mistaken, but "weren't imposed" usually means you beat the charges to the door. The case remains in what is pretty much "suspended animation" since the City can't discipline you if you aren't employed by them any more. But in the unlikely scenario that you returned to work for the CPD, the suspension findings would move forward.

In any event, the alleged "quota" system over traffic stops appears to be the main bone of contention. It's probably going to come down to interpretations of what was said and what was written down and what was "understood."

It's going to be a source of entertainment to see some white shirts on the hot seat for policies they implemented in the furtherance of their careers while hanging the blue shirts out to dry. 

Recognize These Faces

These are the "progressive" democrats who tried to outlaw Facial Recognition software because it actually helped Police do their jobs - which is capturing violent criminals:

Picture from CWB - and exactly how we imagined they'd all look....DEI all day long:

• A group of Illinois lawmakers is ending their effort to pass legislation that would have prohibited state and local police agencies from using facial recognition to develop leads in criminal investigations.

  The Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act, pushed by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, who represents most of Rogers Park and Edgewater in Springfield, picked up three co-sponsors along the way. But the lawmakers failed to gather enough support among their colleagues as news reports highlighted the technology’s role in solving difficult, random violent crimes.

  Now, Capitol News Illinois reports that Cassidy is “not looking to move the measure this legislative session” because they are “wary of debates happening in the wake of major news events, which can emphasize the technology’s role in investigations over its risks, including misidentification of individuals and expanded surveillance.”

And remember, they couldn't cite a single instance of anyone being imprisoned for mis-identification in the entire country. There was a single instance in Detroit, years ago, where a man was detained temporarily after what was essentially a beta-test version of facial recognition, but he wasn't tried or convicted and even the ACLU (All Criminals Love Us) doesn't bring it up when asked.

Stop voting for people who love criminals. That blue haired screeching Karen represents the neighborhood where Sheridan Gorman was executed and Facial Recognition led to the arrest of the ILLEGAL ALIEN killer. 

More Money Gone

This wold be the second time the meters have been sold.

• The owner of Chicago’s parking meters is seeking to sell the asset to a New York investment firm — but the deal requires approval from City Council.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office on Monday confirmed the tentative agreement between Chicago Parking Meters LLC and New York-based Stonepeak Partners.

  The deal, which would change ownership of the meters and who collects their profits, now sits before City Council, which could seek concessions in favor of the city before approving it.

  The tentative sale is the most recent development in the fight for parking assets. 

The first sale was Shortshanks underwhelming sale to the Abu Dhabi people that was found to have been priced $974 MILLION less than what Chicago would have collected in meter fees. For a mere $1.15 billion, the buyers made back their money PLUS $500 million between 2008 and 2023, and there were still 60 YEARS left on the deal.

But these people aren't idiots - they see that Groot and Conehead destroyed downtown and anything within ten miles of downtown. Less people than ever are using the meters, so the rate of return on their investment has fallen off a cliff, which is why they're looking to unload. Conehead made noise about buying it all back, but couldn't scrape together the estimated $3 billion needed (thank god). 

But the fact that this "deal" is being estimated at $3 billion and Chicago won't see much (if any) of it, ought to be remembered every time your property taxes go up or some Machine democrat whines about money needed for some useless social program. You had this money generator and you pissed it away to outsiders.

Shades of Yummy

You bring too much heat, you're going to get burned, this time in Texas:

• A teenage fugitive being hunted for the September murder of a 17-year-old girl has been found shot dead in his bullet-riddled car.

  Deshawn Suggs, 18, was the sole suspect in the murder of Alianna Ujueta, 17, who was shot in the head while leaving a house party in San Antonio, Texas, nearly four months ago.

  A warrant was issued for Suggs’ arrest in November — but he was not found until early Saturday, when he was found dead in a car on San Antonio’s Far West Side.

Texas might have convicted him, perhaps even executed him in the future, but this way is much more .... efficient (?) for all involved.

Let's see if it catches on. 

Is This a Joke?

 It's already at the point where it's difficult to tell:

We know there's a basketball court at the Sparklefart Center, so it could be true. 

We also know there will be a permanent fixed post at the location for the next couple of years AND anyone who serves there regularly will automatically be given a "merit" spot.