What a Scumbag

This actually happened at the FOP meeting?

• Things got considerably uglier when a member questioned why Lodge dues should be paying for John's personal legal defense. Instead of simply answering the financial question, John turned it into a personal attack and brought up the member's deceased husband and her children. Catanzara told Beth Svec “ you should be thanking me for getting your ex- husbands full duty death benefits for Covid !” You could feel the air get sucked out of the room.

FOP has expelled people for far less than this.

Speaking of expulsions, a question for any lawyers reading: 

• should the current ruling junta lose their positions in the Lodge and the new administration opens an investigation into the questionable spending habits of the previous crowd (i.e. trips to New York, paintings, expensive steak dinners on the membership dime, etc);
• AND the investigation determines that these expenditures were not proper as they didn't benefit the membership in any way, shape or form;
• can (or will) the guilty parties be compelled to reimburse the Lodge for the improper spending on meals, plane tickets, hotel stays, etc?

We're just wondering. 

Giving Away Money Again

And this time, to people (or folks) that CRIMESHA HERSELF said were probably guilty of the crimes they went to prison for:

• Two Mexican men who were convicted of the brutal stabbing deaths of a Chicago couple, allegedly to help a woman steal their baby, are poised to get nearly $14 million from the city of Chicago over their claims they were coerced by cops into confessing to the murders, even though Cook County's former top prosecutor has testified she and other prosecutors never stopped believing the men were guilty of the crime.

  On Sept. 14, the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee voted overwhelmingly to recommend the full council approve the settlements with Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes.

  [...] Reyes and Solache were eventually exonerated and freed when then-Cook County State's Attorney Foxx declined in 2017 to pursue new trials against either man.

  The men swiftly filed lawsuits against the city and the police officers involved.

  They were later presented with so-called “certificates of innocence” by Cook County judges in 2022 and 2023, respectively, after Foxx's office again conspicuously declined to contest their innocence claims.

  [...] And in her testimony, Foxx revealed her office decided to not oppose the innocence petitions, even though she and other prosecutors believed both Solache and DeLeon-Reyes were guilty of the crimes for which they had been convicted. 

Crimesha has never adequately explained why she declined to actually do her fucking job and prosecute people that she believed, her staff believed and the evidence showed beyond a Reasonable Doubt that these two participated in the murders. Someone with half-a-brain would come to the completely logical conclusion that she was somehow compromised into acquiescing to the political winds of the time, likely financed by plaintiff lawyers. 

How about Crimesha sell her house and pitch in to the taxpayers she's screwing over?

One Hundred Years???

This is getting ridiculous:

• A man who got into a shootout with Chicago police officers during a hostage standoff in South Shore has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted him of 10 felony counts. But Steven Wade, 46, may face even more prison time. Prosecutors say he killed a woman in the hours before the standoff began, and that case remains pending.

  On February 27, 2023, Wade showed up unannounced at his ex-girlfriend’s home in the 12900 block of South Peoria Street after not seeing her for several years, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying multiple bags. The pair spoke at the kitchen table, but the woman became uncomfortable when Wade began discussing his newfound religious beliefs, according to prosecutors. As a precaution, she called a friend and asked the friend to listen in on the conversation.

  While the friend was listening, Wade placed a gun on the table, claiming he had killed a security guard to obtain the firearm and the bulletproof vest, prosecutors said. The friend heard those remarks and immediately called 911, sending Chicago police to the home.

Is one-hundred years in line with ten felony convictions? Sure. Stack em up.

But....

There are multiple decades of precedent written into Cook County history. No one gets one-hundred years, even for multiple homicides. And if they happen to get multiple felony convictions, they end up serving sentences concurrently instead of consecutively.

These wildly inconsistent sentences are going to be an issue when the appeals go up the process. Hopefully, no one gets freed immediately, but reductions are a real possibility and you can bet the media won't cover those if / when they occur.

Just Saying

Guess who has COVID?

• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently has COVID — and the way the news got out feels like a dispatch from a very different era.

  Reporter Pablo Manríquez posted Tuesday that Ocasio-Cortez had told a colleague on the House steps that she had COVID. Video of the exchange circulated Wednesday, showing the New York Democrat having the conversation outside the Capitol.

  That quickly produced a second question online: If she knew she had COVID, why was she hanging around the Capitol?

Why? Because without the associated comorbidities, it isn't dangerous to 99.9% of people.

For those keeping track at home, AOC was vaccinated in 2020, 2021, boosted in late 2021 and may have gotten a further three shots, none of which actually vaccinated her. 

Don't fall for it again - it's an election year. 

Integrity Check?

Remember back in the day, the rumors that IAD used to put cash or look-alike "substances" in the backs of squad cars to attempt to "uncover" corruption?

This one looks like it went just a little too far:

• A body was found inside a new Chicago police vehicle on Thursday morning, CPD said.

  CPD said a man was found dead at about 9:15 a.m. in the 700 block of E. 112th Street.

  The body as found in the backseat of a new and unused police vehicle, CPD said.

  Chicago police said the vehicle has never been in service.

  A death investigation is underway.

We're going to start a rumor that the subject of this "death investigation" was placed into the brand new squad car with $1,000 in non-sequential unmarked bills. If any are missing.....

Someone is going to have a lot of explaining to do! 

Food Truck Given Away?

The General Meeting was yesterday - what happened and what the Hell is this?

• The FOP meeting today was a shitshow. JCAT said he and the FOP board gave away the food trailer to a charity controlled by his minions. This is a sad state of affairs. Will they take the FOP decals off the sides of the cart? We were told that the issue was lawsuit liability and that's why the cart was given away. So why the F did we buy it in the first place, if it's such a high risk?

Is this true or is this some proposal to give the truck to the non-existent unapproved charity that is supposed to be funded with $50K of Dues money? What is this Lodge liability for exactly? Accusations of food poisoning? Or shielding the current admin from an audit of cash purchases? 

The charity would be controlled by the same people currently running the Lodge so....not suspicious at all.

We did hear Catanzara claimed that since the Federal subpoenas were a year old, there's nothing to worry about. Someone then proposed that the Lodge stop paying the liar lawyer $450 bucks an hour if there's nothing to worry about. The president ruled the motion out of order and refused to allow it to come up for a vote, so....there must be something someone is worried about.

Fun times. 

Sixty Years from Whom???

Honest to Pete, we can't recall a string of massive sentences like this since the 1980s when the "crack wars" were in full swing:

• A homeless man who officials said spent nine days attacking women in downtown Chicago, culminating in the killing of a doctoral student from Maryland, was sentenced to 60 years in prison Tuesday.

  Anat Kimchi, a 31-year-old criminal justice researcher, was visiting a friend when she was attacked in the Loop on a Saturday afternoon in June 2021. As Kimchi walked in the 400 block of South Wacker Drive, Tony L. Robinson, now 46, grabbed her from behind and stabbed her in the neck and upper back with a knife, prosecutors said.

  A witness who saw the attack from a nearby park initially thought Robinson was trying to rob Kimchi. But Robinson fled with only her sweater. The witness briefly confronted Robinson but backed off when Robinson threatened him and went to Kimchi’s side and held her until paramedics arrived.

  DNA recovered from a shirt discarded near the murder scene matched Robinson. Surveillance video showed him approaching Kimchi from behind before the attack, then running with a knife in his hand and throwing the weapon into the Chicago River.

And you'll never believe who the judge was who applied this sentence after the jury verdict:

• Robinson took the murder case to trial in May, and a jury quickly returned guilty verdicts on two counts of murder. On Tuesday, Judge John Lyke handed down the 60-year sentence. Robinson must serve 100% of the sentence under state law.

Guess he's trying to burnish his image headed into the election.

Idiot

What a great screening process CPD has:

• A Chicago man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for smuggling five firearms and more than 1,700 rounds of ammunition into Mexico. A Chicago police officer is accused of helping him buy two of the guns.

You can read the whole thing at the link up top, but seriously. Throwing away a six-figure job for a gangbanging piece of shit that was going to throw you under the bus the second they got caught dirty. Real brainiac there. 

The officer is scheduled to plead guilty shortly so he'll have a federal conviction on his record.

OEMC Update?

And some workers aren't happy about it:

• By the time the clock strikes midnight on a single Tuesday, Chicago's 911 dispatchers will have fielded nearly 10,000 calls for police, fire and ambulance services.

  Of those, some of them are life-or-death pleas for help. But now, some operators and dispatchers who answer those calls say warn 911 chaos will arrive when a new computerized dispatch program is implemented.

  Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications has been handling the city's emergency calls on West Madison Street for more than 30 years. On Sept. 22, a new computerized dispatch system is set to be rolled out under a $75 million contract with Central Square, a company that has been renovating OEMC technology for the past several years.

  But some dispatchers who have contacted NBC 5 Investigates are less than enthused about the coming change.

We were among the last Officers who handled radio calls from 11th and State before they switched to the current OEMC building, so we experienced the growing pains associated with the system alongside the dispatchers and call takers.

The biggest complaint we remember back then was how the system was cobbled together from assorted low budget bids - the police radios were Motorola, the squad car computers were Badgers (?) or some other rodent and the OEMC computers were a completely separate system that we can't remember....

....and none of them worked well with each other because each system was a separate government bid to spread out the graft and crooked contracts. We were told that Motorola offered to coordinate / sync up all the systems, but the bribe money wasn't enough to sway the City Council people.

But we survived and kind of made it work, probably because the dispatchers were awesome. No idea if that's the case any more. 

Tooting his own Horn

We're still surprised Dart isn't running for mayor:

• A three-year effort by the Cook County Sheriff's Office to help bring down crime on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago appears to be working.

  A group of 40 to 50 sheriff's officers patrol the Mag Mile every day of the week, and have made more than 100 arrests so far this year.

  It's a concerted, concentrated effort by Cook County, following years of crime plaguing Chicago's most prominent shopping district, and record vacancy rates in buildings along the Mag Mile.

  "It was happening on a massive scale. We were getting to operations that were getting $10,000, $20,000. $100,000 of stuff that was being stolen," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

  His office started running the targeted law enforcement operation on the Magnificent Mile in 2023, and has made more than 415 arrests since then.

  In one recent case, sheriff's officers arrested a man who stole about $8,000 in merchandise from the alo clothing store, and was later found to have three active warrants.

Maybe he's looking at Prickwrinkle's job? 

HeyJackass.com Back?

They seem to have updated the weekend numbers pretty close to their usual schedule.

Hopefully, their short break was just that - a short break.

Welcome back if true. 

UPDATE: from the comments:

• Hey SCC. We've been back for a couple of weeks now, but only with occasional updates. Going forward, we'll be looking at posting once a week, likely on a Monday or Tuesday. Beyond that, we're planning on a total overhaul given the extreme age of the underlying infrastructure.  

Someone is Getting Fired

....and arrested probably:

• A child fired a gun after a man left it on a school bus on the city's South Side on Monday afternoon, Chicago police said.

  Police said a man left a bag unattended outside of Minnie Miñoso Academy near West 35th and South Wallace streets in the Bridgeport neighborhood just before 2:30 p.m.

  A 12-year-old boy found the bag, took a firearm from inside, and discharged one round, shattering a bus window, police said.

  Police said the man then took the gun and bag before fleeing. Police have not identified the man or said how he might be connected to the school or transportation provider.

There's usually only one adult on a school bus - the driver. If there's a second adult, it's usually someone attached to a special needs child. So the suspect count here is probably two.

No word if this was a CPS / CTU employee headed to a White Sox game....speaking of which, have they closed that case yet with the CTU member hiding a gun in her fat folds before suffering a negligent discharge in the stadium? The lies and fictions they're going to have to invent to make that one disappear will be legend.

Hero Garbageman

One of the robbers he shot just got eight years - the other one got a funeral:

• A garbage collector shot two men who tried to rob him outside a Chicago charter school last year, killing one and wounding the other. On Monday, the surviving robber, a Hammond, Indiana, man, received an eight-year sentence.

  The victim, a concealed carry holder, was working alone when 22-year-old Aaron White and his much larger accomplice, 42-year-old Kenneth Elliott, approached him near the back of his garbage truck in an alley next to DRW College Prep, 931 South Homan Avenue, around 5:18 a.m. on January 31, 2025.

  Surveillance video obtained by CWB Chicago shows the victim walking along the driver’s side of the truck toward the rear, where he encounters the two men approaching from the passenger side. (The video may be viewed here. Discretion advised.)

Glad to see this one finally come to a conclusion. Hope the victim is doing well, is still employed and is still packing on the west side.

Whoa Whoa Whoa

You can't demonize the parents of demons, can you?

• The senseless murder of a Chicago 911 calltaker in Back of the Yards on Friday has a Chicago alderman blasting Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration for failing to help make improvements in the neighborhood and “gangbanging parents” for passing a love of violence on to a new generation.

  Natalia Rodriguez, 50, was shot and killed while driving in the 4500 block of South Wood Street shortly after midnight Friday. Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) said she was in the area visiting family, and he suggested that she was randomly targeted in a “gang check.” Cook County Crime Stoppers and the ATF have teamed up to create a $30,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment of the people responsible for her death.

  “Her loss is great because it takes away the thoughts of what could have been and also leaves a stain on a community living in fear of gang and gun violence,” Lopez said in a lengthy post on X. “Sadly, this gang mindset and culture is generational, where gangbanging parents instill this lifestyle in their children, continuing the cycle.”

What's next - blaming decades of democrat anti-family and anti-punishment policies for the generational dysfunction prevalent across most blue city shitholes?

Or would that be a bridge too far? 

Conehead is Running (so far)

Conehead has tossed his pointy hat into the ring, despite an approval rating in the single digits:

• After months of deliberation, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Sunday set out on the uphill road to reelection, launching a campaign that he said will force voters to “identify the difference between real progressives and posers” in the crowded 2027 mayoral race.

  Johnson spoke to an energized crowd of hundreds of supporters in a cloud-covered courtyard at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. The block party-style event — with a sign-making station, tacos and campaign merchandise — was a who’s who of Chicago’s progressive activist community.

But as the Slum Times points out, Conehead has dug himself a pretty deep hole already:

• By waiting until after Labor Day to announce his decision to run again, Johnson has put himself behind the eight ball. He has less than $650,000 in his campaign fund compared to the $22 million held by frontrunner and Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. Johnson has the power of incumbency and has been making the most of that, but he still needs money to defend his record.

  He doesn’t need to duplicate the $12 million that allowed him to go from single-digit obscurity to the mayor’s office in 2023 in a campaign bankrolled and staffed largely by the Chicago Teachers Union. But he does need enough cash to run costly television ads.

So....is the CTU getting behind mayor 6%? Because that's about the only place he'll be getting any further campaign cash.

The real question should be "What portion of the electorate is Conehead trying to play spoiler for?" Supposedly, he has the CTU backing, but that spot is increasingly toxic. Is he in to deny someone else the lakefront progressives? Or to fracture the black vote? Willie Wilson, Matt Brewer and Danielle Carter-Walters each have their niche appeals, none of which will get them elected, but could minimize that formerly solid voting bloc into irrelevance. Pappas running directly against Giannoulious, Quigley is there to split the white ethnic vote, Cardenas is in to kneecap Mendoza at the moment, so he's likely a Giannoulious plant. Holberg, Nee and Kelly are non-entities.

Remember, the goal is to be in the runoff. Giannoulious is THE money guy at the moment. He thinks he's one of the top two finishers and he wants a weak opponent for the runoff, i.e. not Mendoza.

The filing deadline for nominating petitions is something like 26 October, so the field will narrow somewhat by then. Interesting times ahead. 

Whoops

Weekends like this we really miss HeyJackass.com:

• One man was killed and 6 other people, including a 14-year-old boy, were wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire Sunday afternoon on a crowd in Humboldt Park, police said. More than 70 shots were fired and, according to a preliminary report, a vehicle found at the scene was involved in a separate drive-by shooting on the West Side earlier this week.

  The shooting happened around 12:17 p.m. in the 700 block of North Christiana Avenue, near the alley between Christiana and Homan avenues, according to CPD.

  Six people were standing outside when two vehicles pulled up, and multiple gunmen got out and began shooting, police said. A 30-year-old woman driving nearby was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus, according to CPD.

  An officer who reviewed surveillance video reported that one of the gunmen, described as a Black male wearing a black hoodie over a white shirt and dark pants, appeared to suffer a leg fracture upon being struck by one of the getaway vehicles.

Gotta love when they run over one of their own. No doubt he'll be arrested at a hospital in short order.

No doubt these were all licensed Concealed Carriers with lawfully owned firearms, none stolen in suburban Park Ridge or anything like that. After all, it's impossible for felons to get firearms in Illinois these days. 

Not Again?!?!

A peaceful, church-going rapper cut down in the prime of his career:

• Six gunmen fired more than 50 shots in an ambush that killed Chicago drill rapper BloodHound Q50 at a Fuller Park gas station early Sunday, according to a preliminary Chicago police report. No arrests have been made. The up-and-coming performer, born Mikquale Cooper, was 22.

  He was seated in the driver’s seat of a white 2019 Tesla at the BP station at 4248 South Wentworth Avenue when two carloads of gunmen targeted him just before 4 a.m. According to CPD, the shooters pulled alongside Cooper’s car, and gunmen from both vehicles opened fire.

Q50 was known for such hits as “Long Live My Brudda He Prolly Kilt Yo Brudda” and “Get Back Or Die Trying.”

Like we said - peaceful. 

And stop demonizing. 

So How Was the Weekend?

Days off cancelled?

Mandatory twelves?

Involuntary deployments?

We don't miss it at all. Get to retirement boys and girls. 

Commander 005 - DEI Hire

This happened in 005 the other day:

 A non-demonized minor child decided to throw a rock at a homeless person, missed, and hit a window of the 005th District station causing it to shatter. Notifications up and down the chain of command with CPIC getting a call. So what is Commander Jackson worried about?

Apologies for the poor quality of the picture (that happens when you take a phone snapshot of a computer screen) but the narrative reads as follows:

• When you encounter a person or population that lacks adequate housing, or nightly shelter the term UNHOUSED or UNSHELTERED  referrenenced.
• The attached depicts an example of a notification that was poorly vetted . Ensure proof reading prior to dissemination of docs / emails.

Speaking of "proofreading" we'd suggest the commander have someone go over his writing as we spotted improper punctuation, atrocious grammar, and a number of spelling errors.

Perhaps worry more about twelve-year-old girls throwing rocks at homeless sidewalk inspectors than a CPIC notification no one will ever see or care about. 

More Assholery from Lyke

And chief judge Bee-atch won't do a thing about it:

• In Courtroom 208 at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on 26th Street, things run a little differently. Presided over by Judge John Lyke, it is a courtroom where cop killers and other violent crime defendants can embrace their families while victims’ grieving relatives, some of whom will never touch their deceased loved ones again, look on.

  The practice is not new.

  In April 2023, Steven Montano appeared in Lyke’s courtroom to plead not guilty to the on-duty murder of Chicago Police Officer Andres Vazquez Lasso, whom Montano shot dead near a schoolyard as children took shelter under playground equipment.

  During the hearing, Lyke allowed Montano to hug several family members in the gallery, something he specifically orders his deputies to allow — in violation of sheriff’s office regulations.

  “I wanted to vomit,” said a now-retired Chicago police officer who was in the courtroom for Montano’s plea hearing. “Literally wanted to vomit. He was rubbing it in the faces of Andres’ family, partner, everyone with a sense of decency. [Lyke] did it on purpose.”

Not only did Lyke have the aforementioned two deputies taken into "custody," he's has threatened FOUR other deputies with contempt for not following his directives - all of which run contrary to established security protocols and sheriff office policies.

And almost no one is standing up for the deputies - not Dart, and certainly not Bee-atch.

There ought to be a job action by the deputies and the Teamsters. And a formal complaint with the ARDC or whoever oversees judicial misbehavior. And then, a lawsuit.

Look, a Demon

How else would you describe her?

• Chicago police have filed charges against one of three people who pushed a man to his death Monday afternoon from a moving Red Line train on the South Side — and the accused is a 15-year-old girl.

  Kyle Bickham, 29, was riding the train home after delivering packages for Amazon when he got into an altercation with three people near 69th Street around 2:30 p.m., officials said. The situation escalated, and the assailants pushed Bickham from the moving train, causing him to fall onto the third rail, where he lay incapacitated, according to CPD. He was then struck by another oncoming train.

  Police initially said Bickham had jumped from the train, but their investigation revealed that he was pushed. CPD later said the people who pushed him were men. Now, police say one of them was actually a 15-year-old girl. She was arrested Friday, but state law prohibits CPD from identifying her or releasing other details.

But don't demonize, even when the behavior is demonic.

But don't worry, in another fifteen years, she'll probably be strangling her kids to death. 

Incompetency of the Year

 Hey Chief Judge Bitch Beach, how about you remove this idiot?

• The Cook County judge who released repeat violent felon Alphanso Talley on electronic monitoring before he was charged with killing a Chicago police officer is accused of holding two courtroom deputies in contempt this week for not immediately removing handcuffs from a different inmate charged with murder.

  It’s an upside-down world in Judge John Lyke’s courtroom, where deputies are locked up and repeat violent offenders are sent home.

  On Wednesday, two deputies were escorting the inmate into Lyke’s courtroom at the Leighton Criminal Court Building when he ordered them to remove the man’s handcuffs, according to Teamsters Local 700, which represents the deputies. The inmate, who was not identified by the union, was classified as “high risk movement.” Sheriff’s Office policy requires a supervisor’s approval before restraints are removed from an inmate with that classification, according to the union.

This was a "high risk" inmate, probably prone to constant misbehavior in the jail and likely with a history of attacking Correctional employees. He's in cuffs and restraints for a specific reason. 

Lyke....get this....wanted the defendant to be able to hug his family who had appeared in court.

Not like family members haven't ever assisted inmates in escaping. Or slipped them some contraband while visiting. When the deputies objected and called for their supervisor - AS REQUIRED BY THEIR OPERATING PROCEDURES - Lyke had them taken into custody for contempt.

First of all, what County Officer(s) took them into custody FOR FOLLOWING THE RULES?

Second who does this idiot think he is? It's bad enough he lets mentals and assailants out under shady circumstances - including one who ended up killing a CPD Officer. But he's going to stick Sheriff Deputies in lockup with the very inmates their supposed to be guarding because they followed procedure - a procedure that keeps the public AND JUDGES safe from violent criminals?

This is why you vote NO on every single judge - because they're unqualified incompetent  DEI hires who love criminals more than citizens.

If you don't vote NO on every single judge, at least remember to vote against John Lyke and that other useless bitch Tyria Walton. 

COPA Clears Another Cop

And it only took TWO YEARS:

• A Chicago police officer who went viral after a video showed her pointing her firearm out of a CPD wagon during a street takeover two summers ago has been cleared of wrongdoing by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, better known as COPA.

  The brief video, recorded on August 5, 2024, showed a street takeover at the intersection of 59th Street and Pulaski Road. A white vehicle was doing donuts in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic. As a CPD wagon tried to drive through the crowd of people and vehicles, a female officer pointed her firearm out of the passenger-side window at one or more people in the street.

  The agency launched an investigation after police supervisors saw the video on Twitter and Facebook.

  COPA determined there was “no way to identify or interview any of the citizens involved in the incident, including the original creator of the videos that were posted on social media.” As a result, the agency relied on the officers’ statements and available third-party videos.

So they kept this "investigation" open for over two years because (A) no complainant and (B) no witnesses....including the one who shot hte video in the first place.

But COPA got their licks in anyway!

• The agency found the allegation that the female officer unnecessarily displayed and pointed her firearm to be “not sustained.” However, COPA sustained an allegation that she failed to activate her body-worn camera. She told the agency she did not realize she had failed to activate it until she was interviewed. COPA recommended that she receive a reprimand and retraining on body-worn camera protocols.

Cuck FOPA sideways.

OEMC Calltaker Slain

Mistaken for a rival gangbanger?

• Cook County Crime Stoppers said the 50-year-old woman shot and killed while driving on Chicago's South Side early Friday morning was a Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications employee.

  The organization said Natalia Rodriguez was killed in the shooting.

  The shooting took place at about 12:17 a.m. in the 4500-block of South Wood Street in the Back of the Yards. Police said Rodriguez was driving a silver SUV south on Wood Street when she was struck by gunfire and crashed into a parked SUV. The woman was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

There's a reward being offered by CrimeStoppers.

No word on where Conehead's "violence interrupters" were interrupting crime.

Sympathies to her family and OEMC co-workers. 

Twenty Five Years

 

Without a doubt, one of the most defining events of our careers and lifetimes. 

While it didn't directly affect us in terms of loss or injury, it had an profound impact on work, home, family, travel, finances, safety....just about everything when you really drill down. It still hits home every September.

When we started meeting and working with Officers who weren't even born when the towers fell, we were painfully aware that we had become the "old guys" we had always teased in the past. 

Prayers for all of the victims of that horrible day.

Remember. 

Don't Share the Minutes

Seems like concealing information from the membership has been a standard practice for years:

That's taken directly from the Board Meeting minutes from April of 2023.

We thought that the Board was paid by dues money. Which would mean all actions and official meetings, including the records of said meetings, belong to the membership and can be shared among the membership. 

We can understand excluding the media because they aren't members, but hiding things as a matter of policy - especially after running your campaign on exposing past practices of the previous administration....

It all seems a bit hypocritical. 

Springfield Morons at it Again

There's no way this passes Constitutional muster....and it seems to run against existing Federal Law:

• A first-of-its-kind state law would force gun manufacturers to pay for a portion of the financial toll of gun violence in Illinois.

  Gun violence costs the state about $20 billion annually, according to estimates based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That figure includes direct costs like emergency services, medical care, law enforcement resources and funeral expenses. It also includes indirect costs like mental health treatment, loss of income and childcare.

Illinois is paying funeral costs? Why?

• The Responsibility in Firearms Legislation Act, a bill coming before the Illinois General Assembly, would require gunmakers to contribute to a state fund that would help offset the costs shouldered by taxpayers and the individuals directly affected by a shooting.

  If passed, the law would be a first of its kind in the country. Other states have considered similar bills, but none have become law.

  “Name another industry in this country that gets to sell a product, profit from the damage it does and pay nothing for it,” said state Rep. Kevin Olickal during a news conference Tuesday morning outside the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Gee whiz.....how about clothes dryers? Gas ovens? Sharp knives? Extension cords and electrical appliances? Pools, wall mounted TVs, cleaning chemicals, etc. All of these things can damage or kill people....and do kill people on a daily basis.

The key here is to have knowledge of the danger, properly maintain the device and don't use it outside of the manufacturers' instructions.

• “When a car is defective, the automaker pays. When a drug harms patients, the manufacturer pays. Tobacco pays. Asbestos pays. Opioid companies are paying right now. That is how accountability works in every industry but one: firearms,” said Olickal, who is sponsoring the House version of the Responsibility in Firearms Legislation Act.

Wrong you moron. And you actually prove it in your screed - "defective." A gun is a legal device and when maintained and used properly, functions as designed, thereby rendering your entire argument pointless.

You aren't holding Ford, Chevy or any of the other dozens of vehicle manufacturers liable when a drunk misuses their product to kill innocents....because they tell you not to operate the car unsafely or when impaired. If you've ever bought a gun, the paperwork that comes along with one rivals many automobile user manuals.

But holding criminals responsible for the misuse of legal products has never been big on the lib-tarded radar. It would actually solve problems while cutting into their voting totals. If passed, this will cost Illinois more millions of dollars in taxpayer money for a losing proposition.

Stolen Gun

You ever notice that one of the statistics that never gets mention much is how many guns that are used in crimes are actually stolen guns? Many times when there's a shooting, the lib-tards complain about how easy it is to get a gun, that they're bought and transported over state lines, that we just need to ban guns outright to stop crime.

If you do a google search on "stolen guns used in crimes" you learn that:

• Stolen guns are significantly more likely to be used in crimes, with studies showing that stolen firearms have nearly nine times the likelihood of being involved in criminal activities compared to legally acquired guns.

So if you leave your gun in a parked car....let's just say in suburban Park Ridge....and someone breaks into said car and steals the firearm, why should anyone else be restricted from buying or owning a firearm because you were stupid with yours? Should it matter that you're the wife of a former high ranking CPD member from an east coast city? What if that stolen gun is used in a couple of armed robberies? Maybe an aggravated battery? God forbid a killing or three? That could really screw up Conehead's "crime is down" narrative.

We were just wondering. And we're wondering which media outlet might actually report this without telling anyone where they found out about it.

About That Subpoena

From the Federal Court filing (click for larger view):

This seems to be based solely on his term at the State Lodge? Is this just an effort by the feds to get someone talking? 

Someone posted this in the comment section: 

• Retired;;;;;;;KMA 2: Pretty obvious the blog is campaigning against current leadership. 

There's a campaign? Whom did we endorse? 

The fact is we aren't campaigning for anyone and we aren't supporting anyone. What we are doing is informing the membership of some of the sketchy behavior going on at the Lodge and encouraging them to ask questions about their dues money and their representation spending said money - questions that should have been asked continually for years....AND QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ANSWERED EACH AND EVERY TIME THEY'RE ASKED. 

Remember, the next meeting is 16 Sept at noon.

(technical issues with this post - we're correcting what we can) 

Lieutenants Made

Class of sixteen:

Congrats to the deserving.

Lake Forest Officer Back

Officer Czarnecki was flown back to Illinois and is currently undergoing treatment locally:

• A family says they are grateful for the community’s donations, which allowed a Lake Forest police officer to return to Chicago on Tuesday on a medical flight after being critically injured on vacation in Nicaragua.

  The family of Lake Forest Police Officer Filip Czarnecki told Lake and McHenry County Scanner in a statement that they were “deeply grateful” to announce that Czarnecki was coming home Tuesday evening.

  The medical evacuation flight took off from Managua, Nicaragua, around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and landed at Chicago Midway International Airport around 7 p.m.

One report says he's already showing marked improvement, perhaps due to the treatment or perhaps being closer to family and friends and the support they're giving him.

Continued prayers for his recovery efforts.

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Trib Re-Reports FOP Subpoena

Why is the Tribune covering this again?  (this is a paywalled article):

• Federal investigators issued a subpoena to the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police late last year for an FBI probe into Chicago’s FOP President John Catanzara’s financial dealings, according to a copy of the document reviewed by the Tribune.

  The subpoena, dated October 2025 and sent as part of a grand jury investigation, demands that Illinois FOP personnel turn over a slew of financial and governance records dating back to October 2020. Among the records sought were expense vouchers, reimbursement forms and receipts. The subpoena was issued from the Northern District of Illinois, although the Illinois FOP is based in Springfield.

  Catanzara — long a lightning rod for controversy who has represented the Chicago Police Department’s rank and file since May 2020 — is the only person named in the document. He took a leave of absence from his role as the first vice president of the state police union in October 2025.

The cited subpoena is nearly a year old.

Catanzara is making his usual threats:

• Reached by phone for comment Tuesday afternoon, Catanzara told the Tribune that he had not seen the subpoena issued to the state lodge, and said he had not testified to the grand jury or retained an attorney to represent him in the proceedings. He said the investigation was likely sparked by animus within the union, and added that the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 received a similar subpoena last year as well.

  “Should we ever determine the origins of this investigation that has cost this lodge membership a lot of money over nonsense and pure hatred, personally, of me — it’s based on nothing more than that — those members will be held responsible,” Catanzara said.

Yeah, John might call Florida and tell stories about retired Officers to their new employers. Or refuse to allow anyone to see the FOP credit card receipts. Or ask the Board for $50K in seed money for a charity that duplicates the work of two or three already existing charities. Or swings another 10K for a five person road trip with the food trailer to a city that doesn't have an FOP lodge.

So is something heating up? 

UPDATE: free version of the article here. 

CWB Exposes Corruption

CWB doing some real power-lifting here with this scandal:

• Members of Chicago’s primary police oversight commission tried to push one of its own members off the workgroup searching for the city’s next police superintendent, and then fought to keep the paper trail hidden from the public.

  An 86-page email chain released last week shows four commissioners working to remove Sandra Wortham from the Superintendent Search Work Group, despite the commission president warning that the effort lacked a clear basis and could look like an attempt to settle an “interpersonal or philosophical disagreement” through a procedural maneuver. The emails also reveal that the majority was fragile from the start. It has since collapsed as one member abandoned the plan entirely.

  The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability originally gave CWB Chicago an almost completely redacted version of the emails. Last week, though, the commission released the full chain less than 48 hours after the Illinois Attorney General’s Office opened an inquiry into its handling of CWB’s FOIA request.

  The email chain began July 10, less than a week before Larry Snelling left his post as CPD’s top cop, when CCPSA Vice President Angel Rubi Navarijo sent a lengthy email to commissioners “to respectfully express my concerns regarding Commissioner Sandra Wortham on the Superintendent Search Work Group,” citing concerns about “whether she possesses the collaborative leadership style necessary for this specific responsibility.”

Their complaint against Wortham is that she didn't go along with the other commissioners, that her opinions and positions were too conservative, that she listened to all sides and came to logical conclusions backed up by facts and ::gasp:: established Law and procedures. That she was too "diverse" in her thinking it seems and didn't "go along to get along." Dumbocrats only want followers, not free thinkers. And an intelligent, well-spoken, qualified lawyer isn't someone you'd want giving input on appointing the next political tool.

Seems like the problem is led by this Navarijo, who seems like a complete Karen-asshole that ought to be removed for being a commie bitch. 

But that's only our opinion. 

CTU Influence Waning?

Perhaps their stranglehold on Chicago politics is loosening?

• By advancing unsustainable financial demands, taking an ever larger share of tax revenues at the expense of city workers and systematically denying residents quality school choices, CTU support is plummeting

  The Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) defamation lawsuit against the Illinois Policy Institute and the Liberty Justice Center is evidence of a union in full panic mode as it attempts to silence its political opponents. The lawsuit follows a significant court ruling compelling discovery, which may finally force the union to open its books and account for years of delayed financial disclosures. It also comes as the CTU experiences a series of political defeats driven by its current leadership as its public support erodes and key labor relationships fray.

  The CTU has evolved into a hyper-political force with a broad agenda extending far beyond educating Chicago’s students. It deploys millions in member dues to back far-left political candidates and seek control over the Chicago Board of Education. As the Chicago Tribune editorial board correctly observed, the CTU attempts to have it both ways: Acting as the city's dominant political power broker while claiming immunity from public criticism under the guise of merely representing teachers.

Maybe it exposes financial improprieties? Like that luxury mansion in the Southwest that no one seems to know how or why it got purchased with union money? Maybe Davis Gates goes to prison soon and Conehead drops out of the election?

Go read it all. 

Great Reporting by the Slum Times

So this article is still up as of Tuesday evening:

• Chicago Fire Department personnel found a person dead on the Chicago Transit Authority Red Line tracks near 69th Street on the South Side Monday afternoon after responding to a call, officials said.

  The body was found when the fire department responded to a call of a person on the tracks around 2:36 p.m., a fire department spokesperson said.

  Chicago police said a man whose age was not immediately known had jumped from a moving CTA Red Line train and was incapacitated when he landed on the third rail.

  The man was later struck by an oncoming train and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Except that's not what happened - CWB has the real story:

• Three men pushed a 29-year-old man from a moving Red Line train Monday afternoon, sending him onto the tracks where he was struck and killed by another train, according to Chicago police.

  CPD initially reported that the man had jumped from the train near 69th Street and landed on the third rail, “where he remained incapacitated,” before being struck by an oncoming train.

  But investigators later determined that the man had been involved in an altercation with three men aboard the train around 2:30 p.m., according to updated information from CPD. Police now say the three men pushed him from the moving train, leading to his death.

God forbid the Slum Times report timely facts that might make Conehead's CTA look like a crime ridden Hell hole.

One might think crime happens all the time on the CTA....like this (also reported by CWB):

• A man dressed in a security guard’s uniform maced and punched a passenger on a Red Line train on the North Side while making antisemitic comments, according to a community alert issued by Chicago police. Now, CPD needs help identifying the assailant.

  The attack happened around 6:55 p.m. August 25 as the victim was riding a train near the Granville station, police said.

  The man seen in surveillance images sprayed the victim with mace, punched them in the face and made antisemitic statements during the attack, according to CPD. Police did not disclose the victim’s age or gender.

And almost always the Red Line....makes you wonder.

It Wasn't Groot

At least not so far:

• Chicago police remained locked in an extended standoff Tuesday morning with a man barricaded inside his Logan Square home, just a few doors down from the residence of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The standoff began shortly before noon Monday, drawing a large police response that included SWAT officers and armored vehicles to the Northwest Side neighborhood.

  Police first arrived around 11:45 a.m. Monday to conduct a well-being check on a woman living in the 3400 block of West Wrightwood Avenue. According to dispatch transmissions, a 911 caller reported that the woman’s upstairs neighbor had knocked her down several days earlier, followed her, and spat on her husband.

  When patrol officers reached the home shortly before noon, they requested a supervisor after encountering a man who, police said, displayed a rifle from a window and then struggled with officers before retreating inside. Officers later reported that the man had thrown the rifle out a window but believed he had additional firearms inside. The situation continued to escalate. At one point, the man sprayed a fire extinguisher from a window, according to police transmissions.

  The man also called 911 himself, telling dispatchers he was afraid because police had barricaded him inside his home, the transmissions showed.

Is Groot even in town? What's her detail doing these days?