Suspect Wounded

Likely by his own gun:

• A suspect is recovering in the hospital on Saturday after he was shot during a struggle with officers who were working to disperse a crowd on the city’s South Side overnight.

  Officers said the incident unfolded around 12:32 a.m. in the 5300 block of South Princeton Avenue, in Fuller Park.

  [...] As officers worked to control the crowd, they say they saw a man who had a firearm and tried to stop him. A brief struggle ensued between the officers and the suspect, however.

  Amid the struggle, police said the suspect’s gun went off, striking him in the leg. Officers immediately called for an ambulance and rendered aid to the suspect at the scene.

We guess that's one way to avoid the thirty days of desk duty - make sure he wounds himself. 

But also, if you see a gun, it's probably easier to shoot the gunman from a distance from behind cover. 

What's the Story Here?

Deadly Force can be used in self defense OR in defense of another. So what happened here?

• A suspect was arrested after allegedly fatally shooting a man who she saw stabbing a woman Friday night in Englewood on the South Side.

  The situation unfolded as a 22-year-old woman and 38-year-old Marcus Young were arguing inside a home in the 400 block of West Marquette Road around 10:55 p.m. and Young pulled out a sharp object and stabbed the woman in the abdomen, Chicago police said.

  When Young pulled the 22-year-old outside of the home, a female inside the home who witnessed the altercation, shot Young in the chest. Young was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

  The 22-year-old was taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said.

  Officers arrested the female and recovered the gun, police said. Charges were pending.

Black woman defending another black woman from being stabbed by a black man. Sounds like straight up "defense of another" at this point.

But it is the Slum Times "reporting," and we all know how inaccurate they are six-times-out-of-ten. Three-times-out-of-the-other-ten, they just lie.

Twice in Three Days

CWB asking what the lame-stream media won't:

• A Chicago man is accused of carrying a machete on a CTA train just two days after a judge released him to await trial on an earlier machete arrest, and questions are now being raised about why he wasn’t hit with a more serious charge the first time around, one that could have kept him detained from the start.

  Chicago police arrested Ronald Reed, 31, at the Clark-Lake station around 2:51 p.m. on July 8 after officers discovered he had a machete, according to a CPD report. A police spokesperson said officers initially stopped Reed for having an open can of alcohol and then subsequently found the weapon.

And we'll answer the same way we usually do:

• crooked judges
• SAFE-T Act nonsense
• democrats love criminals

But until we get a few more citizens stabbed, shot or lit on fire, don't expect voters to wise up.

But we remind everyone, if criminals can get machetes on board CTA trains, then you can certainly get a pistol on board to defend yourself or others. 

Try it - you might like it. 

They'll Be Back

Someone was asking what happened to HeyJackass.com as they haven't updated in a few days.

This post appeared there shortly after:

• Gone Fishin' 

 

So not to worry - they're just taking some time off, same as we did a few weeks ago.

Open post for a smokey Sunday. 

Police Layoffs?

Not likely among the rank and file, but among PPOs without Contract protections? It's been done before waaaaay back under Harold Washington:

• Some Chicago city employees, including police officers, could face layoffs this fall as Mayor Brandon Johnson and members of the City Council's budget accountability coalition clash over responsibility for a projected $98 million midyear budget shortfall.

  Johnson's administration outlined the deficit in its latest budget update, prompting a new round of fingerpointing over stalled revenue plans and the potential impact on jobs and a planned $260 million advance pension payment.

Conehead was bitching about the City Council refusing to enact his Head Tax, something that has been proven time-and-time again to drive businesses OUT of Chicago, some merely establishing their addresses across the street in a border suburb.

Oh, and what the Hell is a "pension advance payment"? 

• The $16.7 billion budget approved by a City Council majority that rejected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax required the city to make a full $260 million advance pension payment to stave off another costly reduction in Chicago’s bond rating.

  The Johnson administration ignored that mandate, made a half payment of $130 million in January, and promised to pay the other half in the second quarter of this year. Now that second installment is in jeopardy.

So Conehead and his people (folks?) lied again.

But he had $500 million for ILLEGAL ALIENS.

$400 million in TIF money for a soccer stadium.

$100 million "redirected" to some anti-violence grifters.

And extra $800 million in fantasy money that might have bought back the parking meters.

Now they might miss a "pension advance payment"?  

Close these Money-Pits

How long have we been pointing this out? Ten years? More?

• Proposed cuts, furloughs and a spending freeze are part of Chicago Public Schools' budget plan as the district works to balance its finances, but the proposal does not include school closures because of an ongoing moratorium.

  The issue has renewed debate over the cost of keeping severely under-enrolled schools open, including Frederick Douglass High School on the city's West Side.

  The school, which can hold about 900 students, now has around 30 students enrolled.

And we all know exactly who is to blame for all this waste:

• "It's costing CPS about $94-95,000 a year per student at this school," Ferguson said.

  According to Ferguson, the average cost per CPS student is typically about $18,000. He also noted that the Chicago Teachers Union contract requires certain staffing levels regardless of enrollment.

  "We're talking about 30 students. We're talking about 30 full-time employees for a student-teacher ratio of one-to-one," Ferguson said.

And of those 30 students, guess how many read, write and math at grade level? Go ahead, guess.

We don't have the answer, but someone probably does. And someone probably has that link we used to use with all of the under-enrolled schools that are wasting literally tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions or scarce taxpayer dollars for pretty much zero return on the "investment." 

Don't Get Middled

Most readers here (not all) are Chicago Police Officers.

You have pretty much zero authority to investigate Federal agents, no matter what Conehead and the alder-morons claim:

• City officials were summoned to a testy City Council committee hearing Friday to provide answers about the delayed implementation of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s order directing Chicago police to investigate potential crimes committed by federal immigration agents.

  Members of the Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights spent about two hours peppering mayoral aides and police leaders with questions about Johnson’s “ICE on Notice” executive order, asking what the decree has accomplished and what additional steps are needed to enforce it.

  Police officials said the department had finalized internal procedures to implement the order, nearly five months after the mayor’s 30-day deadline. However, they wouldn’t say why it took so long.

  “We value CPD and want to believe that officers are indeed here to preserve and protect our communities. But it is long past time for accountability to the public,” said Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th), the committee chair.

They even want third party complaints to be "investigated" when the complainant wasn't there, witnessed nothing, and has zero standing. 

Don't fall for their bullshit, because they WILL NOT back you when the Federal courts decree you operated outside the scope of your local authority. 

Waller Making Moves

 Not much time being wasted:

• Deputy Chief Jill Stevens (BOP) to Chief of Patrol.
  
  Deputy Chief A. Parham to Deputy Chief BOP.
  
  Cmdr R. Watson (BOP) to Deputy Chief replaces Parham.
  
  Cmdr L. Courts (007) to Cmdr Narcotics replacing Josh Wallace (Retired).
  
  Lt Miles to Cmdr 007.

Anyone hoping things might get better just got kicked in the teeth.

Tracking SAFE-T Act Failures

This "transparency" thing seems to be a serious self-own:

• A newly released report shows that 10% of the people enrolled in the Cook County court’s electronic monitoring (EM) program were missing as of June 1, the latest disclosure in what Chief Judge Charles Beach has described as a renewed transparency effort following the killing of an on-duty Chicago police officer and the critical wounding of his partner by an EM escapee in April.

  But the program continues to be plagued by high-profile failures, including recent revelations by CWBChicago that a 10-time felon who was supposed to be confined to his home while wearing an ankle monitor was found in Gov. JB Pritzker’s backyard. And another man, alleged by federal authorities to be a member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, is charged with kidnapping and murdering an 18-year-old man while wearing one of the chief judge’s monitoring devices.

The only reason the "high-profile failure" even see the light of day is the outstanding reporting of the CWB blog - no other media outlet is doing it. And the number of "low profile" escapees is likely in the hundreds....many hundreds.

Something that should be spotlighted by persons running for higher office on a daily basis.

This is a Law?

This has been around for almost a century?

• A man who fatally punched a House of Blues patron outside the River North venue in November 2023 was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, according to court records. Jamie Miller, 32, was originally charged with murder. But prosecutors were unlikely to win that charge at trial, based on nearly a century of Illinois case law holding that a person cannot reasonably expect a single punch to kill someone.

  Miller’s sentence will be cut in half under state law, and he will also receive credit for 912 days spent on electronic monitoring and in jail while awaiting trial, according to an order from Judge Mariano Reyna.

That's a Hell of an assumption because we've known a few Golden Gloves fighters and more than a few street brawlers, and we always assumed that they could kill someone with their bare hands if the decided to go that route. In fact, killing someone with bare hands accounts for more murders than rifles most years, so the possibility is there for anyone who cares to research it. 

Giving this "freebie" to criminals who "didn't know" after they've spent years perfecting the ability to end a fight as quickly as possible is questionable at best, irresponsible at worst. 

But maybe we can use if for the Street Vigilante Committee in the future? 

More PPP Accountability

But only for the CPD?

Probably because it's easier to fire cops for Rule Violations than it is to get rid of union members with all sorts of delaying tactics:

• Eight more Chicago police officers now face dismissal for fraudulently obtaining federal Paycheck Protection Program loans during the pandemic, City Hall’s inspector general announced Wednesday.

  The officers falsified statements on government documents to obtain a total of $282,639 in federal funds intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis, according to Inspector General David Glockner’s first quarterly report.

  Glockner stepped into the watchdog role in April, succeeding succeeding Deborah Witzburg. Witzburg, now chief of staff to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, previously issued reports showing a total of 28 other cops had bilked the PPP program, which was rife with fraud.

  The eight officers highlighted in Wednesday’s report are accused of breaking the law, making false statements and discrediting the police department, among other things. Their names weren’t released.

Still no word on OEMC workers, of which there are dozens upon dozens.

And CPD exempt members are still being allowed to retire (with credentials) if they got caught up in this shitshow. 

(on a side note, we had to call 9-1-1 the other day for an incident - the phone rang thirteen times before being picked up....that hints at staffing issues that might have something to do with them slow-walking the OEMC investigations, especially if they suddenly had to fire fifty calltakers.) 

Larry Leaves

If you're interested, here's a media link.

We can't say we had a high opinion of him. He was a tool during the COVID strippings, he had quite the reputation at the Academy during the #metoo era that was conveniently swept under the carpet, and we scored higher than he did on every promotional test we ever took.

We'd wish him luck in retirement, but we're sure he's already got something lined up politically to go along with his "Given, not Earned" gold braid pension.

See ya. 

No One Likes Conehead

And the polling numbers are reflecting it:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson has yet to announce if he'll seek re-election next year, but a new poll reveals he faces a tough road ahead if he does run for another term.

  The gold standard poll commissioned by the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation delivers an education on how poorly Chicagoans view Johnson, and the uphill climb he faces if he runs for re-election.

  The city that delivered him a victory in 2023 is delivering a starkly different message in the final year of his first term.

  The poll found just 13.6% of Chicagoans want Johnson to run again, and 58% of Chicagoans say they're not excited by another Johnson campaign.

  Johnson's job approval rating dropped to 23%, down from 25% in December.

And that 23% is a combination of "great job" and "okay job" numbers. His "great job" numbers have never climbed much higher than 6%.

The anointed one is burying Conehead in campaign dollar totals:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson spent nearly three times as much money as he raised in the second quarter of this year, and has just over $631,309 in the bank just two weeks before mayoral candidates start circulating their nominating petitions.

  Johnson already faced a huge fundraising disadvantage, having closed the first quarter of 2026 with $813,125 in campaign cash on hand — compared to $18.3 million for Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.

  Giannoulias, a prolific fundraiser, has continued to widen that gap. In the three-month period ending June 30, he took in about $3.65 million and spent about $106,000, leaving him with about $21.85 million in cash on hand, according to the quarterly fundraising report filed Wednesday.

  That gives him a roughly $21 million lead over Johnson.

No word on how many of those millions are from the taxpayer bailout of Broadway Bank, but hey, putting someone who used to run a failed bank in charge of a city that can't balance the books or keep taxpaying citizens and businesses in town....what could go wrong?

Now We're Talkin'

Is it a cascade of layoffs inbound?

• Chicago Public Schools officials on Wednesday announced plans to lay off hundreds of teachers and other staff and impose five furlough days to help close a $732 million deficit for next school year.

  The district's budget plan calls for laying off 760 teachers, 801 teachers' aides, and 162 central office employees. The district also plans to furlough staff for five days when students are not required to be in school – such as report card pickup days and teacher training or planning days – during the second semester.

  CPS also plans a midyear spending freeze starting in the second semester.

  CPS said its proposal does not add to the district's roughly $9 billion debt. Instead, district leaders said they're looking to reduce administrative spending, tighten operations, and rely on additional state money to help balance the books.

What state money? Illinois is billions and billions in debt. That's a dry well.

But back to the layoffs - the fact that they can lay off more teachers' aides than teachers tells you that CPS has a manpower allocation problem. And the 162 central office employees is just the usual bureaucracy middle management overstaffing problem that affect every large organization.

If you fire everyone who has the word "assistant" in their job title, you'd save billions over the years....and yes, that includes every CPD employee as well, though in the CPD case, the title "deputy" can also be grounds for being launched. 

Heat Wave - Close the Beaches!

It's a bit warm:

• Chicagoans caught outside on Tuesday sought relief from the heat any way they could as the city entered its second stretch of 90-degree-plus temperatures in a month.

  [...] Temperatures peaked at 96 degrees Tuesday afternoon at O’Hare Airport, shy of the record 100 degrees set in 1998, according to the National Weather Service.

  An air quality alert was in effect until at least Wednesday for the area. The air quality could worsen on Thursday and Friday, when wildfire smoke could reach the region, according to the Illinois Department of Health. State health experts encouraged people to stay indoors, use stronger air filters and turn off fresh air intakes on air conditioning. They also suggested limiting time outside.

So when does Conehead shut down the beaches?

You know, like McStreetlights did for Rahm at North Avenue a number of years back - it was just too darn hot to have the beaches open next to the cool refreshing water. 

Or has City Hall revamped that opinion these days? 

More Cuts Needed

We'd call this a "good start" except everyone laid off will be rehired shortly, probably with back pay:

• Chicago Public Schools on Monday announced that it laid off 162 employees from its central office and citywide positions last week.

  The layoffs come as CPS works to close a $732 million budget deficit for the upcoming academic year. The reductions are said to generate about $18 million in savings.

  On Tuesday morning, members of the Chicago Teachers Union blamed some of the cuts on a chronic problem with property taxes.

  Cook County property tax bills did not go out on time this summer, starting a chain reaction. A delay in collecting money causes a delay in doling out revenue, which causes a gap in funding.

  CPS has been forced to fill that cash hole with a loan. Once the loan was taken out, interest payments then added even more costs to the district's balance sheets.

Someone had a shocking statistic the other day that claimed there are twice as many non-teaching positions in CPS than there are actual teachers. We don't know the actual numbers, but someone out there does.

Fully staffing these schools - and operating them - when they're only at 5% or 10% of capacity is an excellent place to begin real cuts to the bloated CPS system.

But we'll never see it. 

The Contrarian Demonizes

Damnit, didn't they get the word from Conehead? No demonizing!

• I was strolling through the park one day in the merry, merry month of July (as the old song goes) when I stumbled upon something that perfectly captures the absurdity of Chicago’s approach to crime. It was a Lime scooter, not particularly remarkable in itself, except for one detail: It was covered in gang graffiti. Think about that for a moment. Not a wall. Not an abandoned building. Not a railroad viaduct. A rented electric scooter that exists for one purpose — to move people from Point A to Point B. Apparently, even that has become gang territory.

  Now, I realize this is anecdotal evidence. One scooter does not constitute a scientific study. But it does illustrate something everyone in Chicago already knows and our political leadership desperately tries not to acknowledge: The overwhelming majority of serious violence in this city is connected to gangs. Not poverty alone. Not climate change. Not racism. Not a lack of social workers. Not a shortage of government programs. Gangs.

  The problem is obvious. In some neighborhoods, everybody knows who the gang members are. Chicago Police know who they are. The neighbors know who they are. The victims certainly know who they are. Yet somehow our political class continues to treat gang violence as though it were a random weather phenomenon rather than the predictable result of organized criminal behavior. Every weekend we see the same headlines: Drive-by shootings, retaliatory shootings, street-corner shootings, carjackings, armed robberies. Again and again, investigators discover gang connections. Again and again, the same names, the same crews, the same neighborhoods, the same feuds.

It hasn't changed in our lifetimes, now in our sixth decade. And prior to that, it hadn't altered much then either. It was always a core group of assholes driving the disorder and violence....and it was always explained away by all manner of bullshit.

It may be finally petering out. We've certainly noticed it in other locations that aren't blue state shitholes run by lib-tarded morons. 

Go read it all. 

F@#%ing Retarded COPA

These jagoffs are ridiculous, but you can't say we haven't been warning you for how many years now?

• A Chicago police officer acted within department policy when he shot a man in the head after the man fired a gun during a struggle inside a Brighton Park bar, according to findings from the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. But the agency recommended disciplinary action for the officer’s partner, who criticized the bar’s security staff moments after the shooting by saying, “Whoever f****** searched him is a retard.”

  Fernando Guzman, 38, survived the shooting and was later acquitted of attempted murder and discharging a firearm toward a peace officer following a jury trial before Judge Ursula Walowski in November. Jurors did convict him of two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and he received a three-year sentence.

Seriously? They found the Officer who shot the shithead acted within the Rules, Orders and Law....

But his partner,...

• who along with the Officer who shot the armed suspect, 
• had just undergone probably one of THE most intensely stressful incidents of his entire career
• and but for the grace of God managed to survive it along with his partner

....is getting tagged for making a completely 100% ACCURATE observation....BUT WITH SOME POLITICALLY INCORRECT LANGUAGE. 

This is what the CPD is reduced to? No allowances for stress and no understanding that this fucking jagoff had just fired a gun next to his partner's head? Nope, just a finding that such language was "unprofessional." A reprimand and retraining has been recommended.

Someone needs to see what kind of language this fucking retarded "investigator" would use if someone discharged a gun near their head. 

Trespass on Astor Street

We need more of this:

• A man on pretrial release in a felony retail theft case that he picked up while already on pretrial release for another shoplifting charge disappeared from the Cook County chief judge’s electronic monitoring program for 11 days before authorities found him again — in the back yard of Gov. JB Pritzker’s Gold Coast mansion, court records show.

  Those records also indicate that, despite Chief Judge Charles Beach’s public pledge that “major violations” of the court’s electronic monitoring program would be brought before a judge within 24 hours, 10-time convicted felon Dwayne Milton began violating the terms of his release almost immediately upon being outfitted with an ankle monitor, and those violations continued for six consecutive nights before the matter was reported to a judge.

  Around 10 p.m. on July 4, Chicago police officers were dispatched to the governor’s residence in the 1400 block of North Astor Street to assist Illinois State Police troopers assigned to Pritzker’s security detail. Troopers had detained Milton, 46, after he allegedly jumped into the governor’s back yard.

  A state trooper told CPD officers that they had been monitoring the mansion’s security cameras when they saw Milton attempting to scale over the governor’s rear gate before successfully entering the property. He is charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

Gee, a ten-time-convicted felon - surely he's learned his lesson by now!

• Doubtful SCC....and don't call me Shirley 

Every paroled or ankle monitored criminal should be given a slip of paper upon release with this address on it along with a promise of free food, candy and a grape pop. 

Motorcycle?

Once again, the local media making up stories:

• A motorcycle crash left a woman dead and a 9-year-old child injured in Englewood Friday night.

  Chicago police said two men in a black SUV hit the motorcyclist around 11:20 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Damen Avenue.

  The men were driving south on Damen Avenue when their SUV hit the motorcycle traveling east on 67th Street, police said. The men were not injured.

  The motorcyclist, a 36-year-old woman, and her 9-year-old child were injured in the crash, police said.

  The woman was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Her name has not been released.

But here's a picture from the scene (msn.com):

That's not a motorcycle.

And we're willing to bet it ain't even close to being street legal....not that it was being driven on the street. One emailer says they were racing down the sidewalk before t-boning the SUV who had the green light. 

Another Brandon Body

All those promises of a ShotSpotter replacement.

All those victims waiting for an ambulance that might never come:

• Passersby found a gunshot victim lying near a Chicago Lawn intersection overnight, marking another case of a delayed emergency response after nobody called 911 to report gunfire in a neighborhood that was once monitored by the city’s gunfire detection network. Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the ShotSpotter system in September 2024 despite strong objections from a supermajority of the City Council, his handpicked police superintendent, and, according to one poll, 70% of Chicago residents.

  At about 2:10 a.m., someone walked into the Chicago Lawn (8th) District police station and reported that a man was lying on the ground near the intersection of 64th Street and Troy Street, according to CPD radio transmissions. Moments later, the Chicago Fire Department requested police assistance at 64th Street and Kedzie Avenue after paramedics found a man who had been shot.

He's alive....for now. 

Shots Fired; Second Guessing Begins

Was this the Tire Deflation team?

• A driver in a group of speeding vehicles evaded a deflation device and headed toward police downtown early Sunday, prompting an officer to fire shots, CPD said.

  Police said officers responded to a call about a large gathering in the 300-block of East Balbo Drive, near Grant Park, just after 3 a.m. There, officers saw a group of speeding vehicles and deployed a tire deflation device.

  Police said one of the vehicles, a black sedan, went around the device and headed toward an officer. That officer fired shots, striking the vehicle, but no one inside of it was hit by gunfire, police said. The officer suffered a minor ankle injury and was treated and released from the hospital.

So much to unwrap here. There has been a long standing policy that banned shooting at vehicles. We think it was Hillard who implemented it, but it was written into the Orders that Officers would remove themselves from pathways of vehicles because it was argued by lib-tarded morons that Officers only stepped into the pathway of a two-ton hunk of steel, aluminum and plastic simply so that they could shoot at it.

Yes, they actually said that.

And so began the long descent into the current policy:

The result being a couple thousand percent increase in vehicles fleeing from the police and these "takeover" incidents popping up all over. So what did the Department do?

• formed a unit where Officers are required to place themselves into the potential path of on-coming vehicles to deploy Stop Sticks.

Now the fleeing driver has two choices - (A) run over the Stop Sticks or (B) swerve around them where the Officer who just deployed the sticks is standing or moving, thereby placing the Officer in the position of either violating Department Policy by shooting at someone attempting to kill them with a two-ton hunk of metal and plastic or making a split second decision to turn left, turn right or leap over....whoops, you're dead, because we all see what they did to the Officer who made a snap decision in about six-HUNDREDTHS of a second in the lil homicide shooting.

CTA Special Going Away?

It seems the sheriffs are having an outsized impact on crime numbers and CTA Special Employment is on the chopping block.

It is also rumored that there are discussions about getting rid of Mass Transit altogether and just letting Dart run a new Mass Transit Police Force under Prickwrinkle's patronage army.

The arrest and citation numbers for CPD's part are pretty much abysmal and the level of spending can't be justified any longer.

Prepare your Bid paperwork just in case. 

Again Mikey?

What's that phrase? 

"Where there's smoke, there's fire."

Sure seems like something is burning over there:

• The Archdiocese of Chicago announced in a letter on Saturday that it's investigating an allegation of sexual abuse against Father Michael Pfleger. 

  In a letter to members of St. Sabina Church, the archdiocese said the Office for Child Abuse Investigations and Review has received an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Father Pfleger that was alleged to have occurred at St. Sabina more than 30 years ago.

  Due to the allegation, Father Pfleger will step aside from ministry and live away from the parish during the investigation, the archdiocese said. 

Pfleger denies everything (as all molesters do) and claims it's all part of a long standing plot to get money from the archdiocese and stifle his political activism. 

Never mind that this is something like the fifth allegation in a few years, that we've been hearing about his monthly group outings to Home Run Inn pizza with all those young altar boys for years, and how he manages to stay locked into one parish for three decades while every other priest gets moved around every seven years.

We're just surprised the accuser is a female. That's a first.

We also thoroughly enjoyed his press release that included this line:

• "Before an investigation or even a conversation has taken place a priest is removed and told to remain silent during their process. The presumption of innocence does not exist for priests."

This from an asshole who granted ZERO presumption of innocence to how many Police Officers over the decades? The shoe is on the other foot now, eh? Again.

Pfuck you pfather. 

Long Read, but an Excellent One

One of our long time favorite authors, Heather MacDonald:

• This past Memorial Day, more than 1,000 teens swarmed the blocks around Lake Michigan in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. A resident described the scene: “Hundreds of people were walking and running down our street, jumping on top of cars, twerking, smoking blunts.” One group twerked on the top of a city bus.

  At about 9 pm, the Chicago Police Department closed Lake Shore Drive. As sirens wailed, the Hyde Park resident armed himself with bear spray to retrieve something from his car. An hour later, a gunman shot three teens a block from the resident’s home. The suspect remains at large, though police made 13 arrests for illegal gun possession, battery of an officer, and other felonies.

  The previous day, an after-prom gathering in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood descended into mayhem. “It looked like a million kids out here,” one neighbor told WGN News. “They were acting like straight animals. Kids were all on top of cars. They were stopping in the middle of the street, twerking.” Fights involving pepper spray and other weapons were common. Cars sped through the crowds. Shortly before 3 am, a police commander formed skirmish lines. Three minutes later, a sedan veered into oncoming traffic and struck an officer. Moments afterward, it hit a second officer, crossed into another lane, accelerated, and plowed into three more cops. The rampage ended when the vehicle crashed into a police car and a utility pole. The 18-year-old driver was carrying a semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine. An hour later, shots were fired in the area, but no arrests have been made.

  These two incidents are just a few of the mass-disorder events this year that have been dubbed “teen takeovers.” Nationally, violent felonies overall are down, but disorder is not.

And that's just the first four paragraphs of an extensive and thorough article exploring the teen "takeover" trend, how they started, what's behind it (and what isn't) all backed up by a boatload of interviews, statistics and ::gasp!:: actual research!

We were first introduced to Ms. Mac Donald's work via her book, "The War on Cops" way back in 2016 and have been a reader ever since. A stalwart defender of the police and opponent of political correctness dictating law enforcement policy, her work has only gotten better over the years.

Set aside a good chunk of time for this article - you won't be disappointed. 

Modern "journalists" should take note....maybe they'd learn something....but probably not.

A Year??

Actually, over fourteen months:

• A police oversight agency has cleared a Chicago police officer who exchanged gunfire with car burglars who opened fire on him during a confrontation outside his West Lawn home last year, according to newly released records. Two juveniles were later arrested, but neither was charged with shooting at the off-duty cop.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, COPA, concluded the off-duty officer acted within CPD policy when he fired a single shot after one of four people breaking into vehicles outside his home shot him in the ear during the April 28, 2025, encounter in the 3700 block of West 67th Place. The agency found the officer faced an “imminent threat of death or great bodily harm” and that his response was “objectively reasonable.”

They knew that within the first hour of responding to the scene - he was bleeding from a gunshot wound and all the evidence pointed to his being shot and returning fire.

And it still took these incompetent morons a year?

Having this hanging over your head, your career, your future undoubtedly contributes massively to stress. 

And it probably contributes massively to realizing disengagement is likely the best course of action from that point forward. 

Will Porkulous Protect a Molester?

Anyone wondering if Porkulous is going to honor this request....or will he support Child Molesters over American children?

• The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer asking Governor J.B. Pritzker and Illinois sanctuary politicians to not release from jail a Venezuelan criminal illegal alien who was arrested on felony charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child in Kane County, Illinois.

  According to local reporting, Janio Gionel Velasquez-Muro, a criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, pursued a 9-year-old who was riding her bike in Pingree Grove, forcing her into a nearby vehicle where he sexually assaulted her. The suspect initially fled the scene but was arrested afterward through forensic evidence on June 30, 2026. Velasquez-Muro now faces charges of aggravated kidnapping of a child, predatory criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation of a child.

Given recent democrat history, you can almost guarantee he'll take the side of the criminal:

• The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement condemning Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians after they granted a pardon for an illegal alien who had been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.

  On June 10, 2026, the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission voted to grant a pardon for Tou Lue Vang, a criminal illegal alien from Laos. Vang had been convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

  Vang was set to be removed from the country imminently after the pardon was announced. Now, the pardon could thwart his removal from the United States.

Thankfully, the Executive Branch still reigned supreme in the Minnesota case:

• An illegal alien child rapist from Laos who was set for deportation until Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the State Board of Pardons granted him clemency has been removed from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News Digital.

  Rubio stepped in to terminate Tue Lue Vang's legal status in the U.S. and ensure that Walz's actions would not create roadblocks for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removing him from the country.

  [...] Rubio told Fox News Digital, "Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators — shielded from deportation by their own elected officials — could endanger them or their children. That's why I terminated his legal status in the United States," he continued. "Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again."

This may be Porky's "Dukakis moment." 

Not a Genius

And now he's going to get deposed under oath:

• A federal judge has refused to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former Markham police officer who claims she was fired after reporting that the city’s police chief ordered her to release a convicted murderer she arrested after allegedly finding a loaded handgun in his car during a traffic stop.

  The ruling allows former Markham patrol officer Kayla Heller to continue pursuing claims that Police Chief Jack Genius and the City of Markham retaliated against her after she reported the incident to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Illinois State Police.

  The lawsuit stems from an incident first reported by CWB Chicago in December 2025, when we revealed that Heller had been fired shortly after we asked Genius why he ordered her to release convicted felon and current U.S. Senate candidate Tyrone Muhammad without charges.

  In a 14-page order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama denied the defendants’ request to throw out the lawsuit, finding that Heller had presented enough of a case for her claims to move forward to discovery.

You think CPD is political, these small towns are thousands of times worse. We would hope she scores a few million dollars, but it's Markham, which is always teetering on the brink of insolvency anyway.

But she could get damages against Genius since he's obviously acting outside of his governmental authority here. Maybe he has a nice house. 

The Latest Non-Demonized Yute

Despite Conehead's best efforts to non-demonize, this keeps happening:

• A 16-year-old boy has been charged with participating in a shooting and robbery that left three people dead and a fourth injured in the Chatham neighborhood in February 2024. He is the second person charged in the case and has not been publicly identified because he is expected to be prosecuted as a juvenile.

  Details of the case emerged a month after the shooting, during a detention hearing for the first person charged, Antonio Velasco, who is now 18. During the hearing, prosecutors said four people gathered in a bedroom inside a home in the 8000 block of South Vincennes starting in the late afternoon of February 25, 2024: a 16-year-old boy, 14-year-old Amere Deese, 36-year-old Randy Graham, and 20-year-old Ladeverette West Ringgold, who lived in the home with family.

  The group spent hours “playing with a rifle,” an assistant state’s attorney said, but they ultimately set it on the floor behind a television in the bedroom. At about 5 p.m., Velasco and his 13-year-old brother arrived, joined the others, and the group smoked marijuana together, prosecutors claimed at the time.

  Two hours later, prosecutors said, Velasco stepped out of the bedroom and returned carrying a handgun fitted with an extended ammunition magazine.

Obviously, more gun laws are needed to prevent people who shouldn't have guns from stealing another gun....or some such nonsense.

How Many Felony Convictions?

Yet another issue Bailey should be hammering Porkulous on:

• A man convicted on 30 felony counts stemming from a violent robbery in 1997, including attempted murder and home invasion, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for a 2023 armed robbery inside a River North parking garage, where prosecutors said he fired a gun at a victim who was running away.

  Cook County Judge Kenneth Wadas handed down the sentence for 55-year-old Mitchell Davis nearly a year after finding him guilty following a bench trial in which Davis represented himself.

This guy actually has THIRTY-FOUR felony convictions on his record - and he was able to commit a violent armed robbery that netted him the last few.

That's a broken system....thirty-four strike and you still aren't out? How much has he cost taxpayers, not just in terms of damage, but housing and feeding his worthless carcass.

More Fata$$ Success Stories

No one seems to be making any political hay out of this:

• A crane company is moving its headquarters from Illinois to Northwest Indiana.

  Uesco Industries is moving to a long-unused building at 5009 Calumet Ave. in Hammond, Economic Development Director Juan Moreno said.

  Uesco is investing $25 million in the new headquarters, Moreno said. It plans to build an overhead bridge crane manufacturing facility at the site by the Grand Calumet River, not far from the Illinois state line.

  The company plans to hire 100 workers for high-paying jobs, Moreno said.

Or this:

• Hardware giant True Value has just announced that they are moving their headquarters from Chicago, Illinois to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  It is just the latest in an exodus of big businesses which have fled Illinois on the watch of Governor JB Pritzker over the state’s high taxes and difficult business environment.

This is what happens when you allow Fata$$ to draft AND fund his own political opponents. A controlled "opposition" that won't hammer JB on crime, taxes or businesses fleeing the state at a record pace.

Big Brother is Watching

This popped up in our news feed:

• Bluetooth-enabled tasers and body-worn cameras, used by thousands of Australian police officers, can inadvertently reveal their real-time location to any criminal with a phone or laptop.

  Police services around the country have been warned of the security flaw. But despite the safety risks, especially to officers who are undercover, in tactical units or who take their equipment home, none appear to have acted.

  Devices that use bluetooth have their own unique serial number called a MAC address. Most mobiles, like Apple iPhones, have built-in privacy features that randomise the code and make them harder to track.

  This hacker realised US tech giant Axon, which sells tasers and body-worn cameras to police around the world, had failed to do the same.

Which was an odd coincidence, because two people emailed up this Case Report (click and enlarge to read):

 

Real? No idea.

Possible? Certainly.

Likely? In this day and age with body cams, air tags, GPS/RFID chips, META glasses and everyone's cell phone doubling as a portable spy device, oh Hell yeah. You just need someone dedicated enough to pull all the metadata together to filter it into something usable.

Beware. There isn't much you can do about it, but be aware that it's happening. Constantly. 

Nice Job Sarge

Right place at the right time:

• An off-duty Chicago police sergeant spoke exclusively with ABC7 after helping rescue four people from a sinking boat on Lake Michigan after spotting a distress signal through dense fog over the weekend.

  Sgt. Christoria King said she was on a holiday boating retreat late Saturday night when she noticed a flickering light in the distance amid heavy fog near 31st Street Harbor and Beach.

  "The fog was so thick, you could not see in front of you," King said. Despite the limited visibility, King said a call for help carried across the water. "I saw the flickering light again, and I'm, like, 'Somebody's in distress,'" she said.

She and her friends ended up rescuing four people before the boat sank.

Well done. 

HQ Rumor

These types of rumors make us smile:

• Half days and free days are over for HQ officers!!!! New swiping in and out of the building and the parking lot!!!!

Because no one actually keeps track of this for more than a day or three. Then someone sabotages the swiping machine or breaks the gate in the parking lot, or whatever.....and it's right back to scamming again.

Remember when Walter Jacobson or one of the other media types would actually camp out at a Ward yard and log the cars going in and out and ask why someone was working a three hour day? You'd think with all the remote cameras and technology someone could stick a Go-Pro or a trail cam over on the school by HQ and record every car going in and out and have some fun with the clouted.