"Not Going Back"

Doubling down....or tripling down....on stupid:

• Members of the Illinois House Legislative Black Caucus said they “remain open to thoughtful, data-driven refinements” to the landmark criminal justice reform law known as the SAFE-T Act, but will not consider measures that undermine the goals of the law, which eliminated cash bail as a condition of pretrial release.

  In a lengthy statement released Monday, the 22-member caucus said in part that they’re “not going back to a system where penalty enhancements, jailing more people, ignoring root causes and underinvesting in our communities were treated as public safety policy.”

  “That system was not just. It was not smart. And it did not make us safer,” they wrote. “We will not support legislation that carries the remnants of the system we left behind, because those approaches are adversarial to this work, adversarial to fairness, and adversarial to real public safety.”

Do you think these morons ever heard of the "social contract"? Here's a basic overview:

• ....social contract is an idea, theory, or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Conceptualized in the Age of Enlightenment, it is a core concept of constitutionalism, while not necessarily convened and written down in a constituent assembly and constitution.

  Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order.

In other words, we agree as a society to get along....BUT (and this is the key) everyone has to get actually get along. When one segment decides they don't have to get along with everyone else and those nominally in charge do everything in their power to remove the legitimate authority from enforcing the social contract, then things break down

1. people begin to get fed up;
2. they lose respect for the institutions;
3. they stop participating in a process they consider illegitimate; 
4. they move away;
5. in the extreme, they form loose alliances to do the enforcement that the government refuses to do

In other words, vigilantism becomes more prevalent....and eventually, the norm.

We might be mistaken and we might have missed a step or two, but it sure looks like we're in the midst of Step 4.

You know what discourages misbehavior?

Avoidance of consequences, like fines and prison. 

And do you know what permanently discourages misbehavior? 

The inability to do it again. 

San Fran "Solved" Crime

Well, not really solved, but they put a sizeable dent in the crime numbers via a very simple solution that no one ever thought of before:

• In just two years, car break-ins are down 85% from their previous highs. Robbery is down 30%. Burglary is down 33%. And most impressive of all, homicides haven't been this low since 1954. To give you an idea of how long ago 1954 was in San Francisco terms, the city was on its fourth in a string of five consecutive Republican mayors.

  All of these figures are courtesy of Austin Justice, an X account that tracks "Austin’s rogue criminals, prosecutors, and politicians." I suspect "Justice" looks at San Francisco with Texas-sized envy — and who saw that coming?

  The real question, though, is, "In two years since what?"

  In 2022, voters finally had it up to here [hold hand six inches above head for visual effect] with the city's soft-on-crime/George-Soros-sponsored district attorney, Chesa Boudin, and recalled him with a solid 55% majority. Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins to the job as Boudin's interim D.A., and she was elected to a full term in 2024.

  Jenkins has her own troubles, including committing two acts of prosecutorial misconduct, resulting in her placement in a mandatory diversion program to teach her the errors of her ways.

  But there's one thing Jenkins does exactly right, and it's that one weird trick that works so well against crime: She actually prosecutes criminals. 

First, they got rid of the Soros-backed commie prosecutor.

Second, the new DA actually started jailing and prosecuting crimes as written by the legislature.

Who would have thought that YOU CAN actually prosecute your way out of crime? Why had no one ever thought of this before??

Next thing you know, deporting actual criminals might drive the numbers down ever further. 

Someone want to tell Fata$$? Conehead? O'Neil-Burke - though she might have a tiny inkling.

Conehead's Non-Demonized Yutes

Funny that you have to go to England to find this article:

• A shocking video showed a group of young boys in Chicago wearing masks and nitrile gloves while proudly showing off their firearms as they walked through the city in broad daylight.

  One boy could seen with a long gun tucked inside his red coat, with the length of the weapon stretching nearly the full size of his jacket.

  Another flashed a handgun toward the camera, as others in the group also displayed their weapons and shouted out a gang affiliation.

  Some held what appeared to be rifle-style firearms with extended magazines, openly waving them around in public.

  'We out here, b***h,' one of the boys said. 'This [is] our block, n****.'

This is part of some contested real estate between a couple gangs, but it is literally four blocks from where Lil Homicide was blasting away at passing cars on 26th Street before he was justifiably shot by police.

This is also what Conehead and his commie friends support while wanting to disarm every one else. 

Cynthia White Died?

If you're old, you remember her.

What we remember is that an entire Tact team in 002 either went to jail or got fired (or both) while she skated after wearing a wire and testifying in court against them all. It was claimed she was rooting out a corrupt team, but team members said she was in on all of the corruption - she just flipped first.

The trouble is not only did she skate, she managed to get promoted to sergeant, lieutenant, captain (we think) and Inspector. That isn't because she was some super smart test taker. We think she held back just enough info on someone heavily connected and parlayed it into advancement

A more controversial figure would be hard to find.

Nice Shot Citizen

Another happy ending!

• A licensed concealed carry holder shot and killed a man who broke into his home and charged at him early Monday, a shooting that occurred inside a home directly across the street from a Chicago Police Department district station.

  The 33-year-old concealed carry license holder called 911 at 1:24 a.m. and told dispatchers he had shot an intruder inside his home in the 2200 block of East 103rd Street and had already begun performing CPR on the man, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. His home is across the street from the South Chicago (4th) District station.

  Officers arrived and took over lifesaving measures, but the intruder, who remained a “John Doe” as of Monday evening, was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m.

The homeowner isn't required to attempt life saving measures?

Who would have thought?!? 

Let's get this homeowner a box of ammo. 

Stupidity Gets Co-Sponsors

Like attracts like....and moron attracts moron:

• A North Side lawmaker’s effort to strip Illinois police investigators of one of their most powerful new tools since the advent of DNA indexing has failed to get out of committee. But the bill has two new co-sponsors, both from Chicago, suggesting it is far from dead even though its supporters can’t seem to find any examples of the technology being used to wrongly accuse anyone of wrongdoing in Illinois.

  The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, would ban any local or state law enforcement agency in Illinois from accessing a facial recognition database, and would prohibit agencies from working around that ban by partnering with or contracting out to a third party to do it on their behalf.

  Tom Weitzel, the retired Chief of Police in suburban Riverside, was blunt in his assessment.

  “Facial recognition is one of the most important investigative tools to come along in policing in 50 years,” he said. “Eliminating it outright is reckless and dangerous.”  Cassidy’s bill, Weitzel continued, “doesn’t regulate facial recognition; it destroys it. It strips police of a critical tool used to identify violent offenders and protect the public. No one in Illinois has ever been charged based solely on a facial recognition match. That claim is a myth, and it should not be driving legislation.”

To be honest, most democrat sponsored legislation is based on "muh feelings" and not actual facts. We could point out hundreds of examples without breaking a sweat. It's about (A) control and (B) loving criminals more than law abiding citizens.

If you look at the co-sponsors, they're the usual mix of idiots. And the ACLU supports this without being able to cite a single instance of anyone being actually charged in Illinois, instead citing a Michigan case from a number of years ago when the technology was in its infancy and the subject was merely detained, not charged. 

Pay Your Bills

If an Officer appears on one of these lists, they are the subject of an immediate SPAR, upgradable to a CR Investigation and suspended without pay until they are enrolled in a payment program, sometimes involving direct garnishment of wages.

But if you're a teacher or a CTA worker?

• A substitute teacher owes City Hall nearly $200,000 for building code violations, fines and traffic tickets he racked up over the past 25 years, making him the single biggest debtor working for the city of Chicago or its sister agencies.

  A convicted bank robber landed an entry-level job with the CTA’s Second Chance program even though City Hall says he owes more than $136,000 in fines, mostly for drinking in public and selling individual cigarettes near Douglass Park — a likely case of mistaken identity since he was in prison when the police issued those tickets.

  The operator of a West Side religious store owed the city more than $28,000 in water bills, but it didn’t keep her from landing a job as a staff assistant to a City Council member who’s pushing Mayor Brandon Johnson to collect money from deadbeats.

  They are among 12,761 people who work for the city or its sister agencies despite collectively owing City Hall more than $19.5 million for delinquent water bills, parking violations, speeding tickets, building-code violations and other infractions, according to data the city’s finance department provided to the Chicago Sun-Times in response to a public records request.

  Nearly 80% of those scofflaws have jobs with the Chicago Board of Education or the Chicago Transit Authority, owing nearly $15.7 million to the city, records show.

We even know of someone who was delinquent on his water bill and he had the nerve to run for mayor!

Lil Homicide Civil Trial

As this bullshit gets underway, remember:

• a ShotSpotter Alert directed Officers to the location;
• cameras and Officer observations saw only two people at the location of the shots fired;
• the suspects fled, one carrying a pistol, and failed to obey orders to stop;
• the time between the offender WHO HAD BEEN OBSERVED WITH THE GUN IN HIS HAND turning to face the Officer and the single fatal shot being fired, was timed at under half-of-one-second;
• even Crimesha found the Officer's actions legal justified 

If a jury finds that Officers shouldn't be chasing people with guns after there were shots being fired at passing cars down 26th Street at 0300 hours, then Larritorious should shut down the 010th District and send all the Officers to somewhere that appreciates the Police attempting to keep communities safe from gang banging curfew violators who shoot at people driving down the street.

Fuck Lil Homicide, his useless parent(s), the "community" that supports these gang banging pieces of garbage and the scumbag lawyers pushing this twisted agenda. 

Shakespeare had it right....but his list was too short. 

Proof of What Now?

The Sparklefart Grift is set to continue:

• You'll soon be able to purchase tickets to visit the museum at the Obama Presidential Center. Tickets for Founding Members go on sale starting April 21. Ticket sales open to the general public on May 6. You'll be able to book a date to visit, starting June 19 through November 30.

  Admission is $30 for adults, and $23 for children ages three through eleven.

So they've stopped calling it a "library."

But this part amused us:

• The museum is also free on Tuesdays with proof of Illinois residency.

How is one supposed to prove Illinois residency? The party of Sparklefart has been telling us for years that black and brown people are either: 

• systemically denied being able to get ID, 
• economically unable to afford ID
• or too dumb to get an ID

Remember, you need ID to shovel snow in New York, buy liquor, fly on a plane, recycle metal, pawn anything, and now go visit the Sparklefart Center.

It's so confusing. 

Cicero Cops Injured

Chasing a burglary crew:

• A four-vehicle crash during an early morning police chase in Chicago's west suburbs left five people injured, including two officers.

  The crash happened around 4:49 a.m. Monday at Roosevelt Road and Cicero Avenue in Cicero, according to town officials.

  "We along with other municipalities have had issues with gaming café burglaries in the early morning hours," said Cicero Police Superintendent Thomas Boyle. "That morning our department was looking for those individuals committing that type of offenses."

The police clipped the back end of a turning semi. They should be okay after some time recovering.

But this piqued our curiosity:

• As officers approached, the driver fled, jumping a curb and heading north on Cicero Avenue. Police then tried to catch up to deploy a tracking device.

  "They then attempted to get behind the vehicle to place a tracker called StarChase, and in the course of that, the collision occurred," Boyle said.

We had seen this a while back but didn't realize it was in service anywhere locally. Here's the link to the company. It looks like a GPS tracker embedded in a big sticky ball of snot that's launched at a suspect vehicle and broadcasts its location. When does CPD get to pilot this?

Next step - an embedded Taser-type device that fries in-car electronics, eliminating all pursuits? 

For a Doll?

Are you f#$%ing serious?

• Chicago police officers sprang into action, even using a helicopter, to rescue a Teddy bear stolen from a Downtown chocolate shop.

  According to police scanner dispatch reports, officers used a helicopter to help track down Truffles, a 3-foot brown bear in a blue hat and overalls that was taken Friday night from his home at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at 3 N. State St.

  “Operation Teddy Bear, strong work,” an officer was heard saying Friday night.

  The bear was in his usual spot in the window when a group of teenagers who had been hanging around outside went inside around 7:30 p.m. and took off with him, owner Tyson Minnick said.

  “He got a wild ride around the city for about an hour,” Minnick said.

  The teenagers tried to take off with Truffles, boarding a CTA Red Line L train, but they were stopped by police officers at the 35th Street station.

Oh, the Red Line....that explains everything. 

Except for burning through helicopter money at $1,000 dollars per hour for a misdemeanor Theft that - were it a foot chase - would get you suspended for three days to start. 

What Budget Crisis?

Conehead (and Fata$$) keep claiming there is no money, even as they continue to raise taxes and blame Washington DC for their spending problems.

Then Conehead announces this late last week:

• Chicago officials unveiled a plan they say would effectively end homelessness in the city, even as questions over leadership changes and unclear funding streams cast early uncertainty over how the plan will be implemented. 

  The five-year blueprint features data, recommendations and insight into how the city might address the issue of homelessness. It contains seven pillars to address – emergency services, housing, health, education, employment, community cohesion and systems alignment.

  Improvements to homelessness services have already been in progress according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, but the blueprint will provide guidance for initiatives. The report says it aims to effectively end homelessness, based on a framework called Functional Zero.

  Sendy Soto, Chicago chief homelessness officer, was appointed to the position by the mayor in 2023 to lead efforts creating the five-year plan. Her departure from the position was announced by Johnson early this week.

So the person nominally "in charge" of this effort just left. 

And TheCenterSquare points out there is no actual funding stream to fund the entire plan.

For a city....

• that can't maintain 60% of its CFD Tower Ladders, 
• is seven years into a "consent decree" can't adequately man Districts or supervisory positions, 
• burned through $400 million for ILLEGAL ALIENS, 
• and won't fix potholes that exploded across the city following the usual freeze/thaw cycle of March

.... is going to end homelessness. This Functional Zero would seem to describe Conehead's entire administrative staffs' brainpower.

Color us skeptical. 

Crime is .... Up?

Up three homicides from last year according to HeyJackass.com:

Red is the current month to date.

Gray is the projected month end totals based on current trends (subject to reality). 

Conehead is praying for rain and low temps.

Another SAFE-T Act Killing

The only way to end this is to stop voting for democrats who love criminals (and ILLEGAL ALIENS) more than citizens:

• A man who walked out of court to await trial on a felony stolen vehicle charge in June 2024 killed a 25-year-old man just two weeks later while speeding through a red light in yet another stolen car, prosecutors now say. Dujan Lucas, 24, is now the 37th person charged with killing or trying to kill someone while on felony pretrial release in Chicago that year.

  It started, according to prosecutors, on June 6, 2024, when Lucas was charged with possessing a stolen Dodge Durango. The vehicle was suspected of being used hours earlier in a shoplifting raid at the Louis Vuitton store inside a Nordstrom, where roughly $22,000 worth of merchandise was taken, according to a CPD report.

  Exactly two weeks after he walked out of court, prosecutors now say, Lucas was driving a stolen black 2021 Jeep Cherokee SRT-8 at 73 mph when he ran a solid red light at 83rd Street and South Kedzie Avenue. A CPD surveillance camera captured what happened next: the Jeep slammed into a white Honda HRV heading west on 83rd Street.

CWB has a running total and chart of all the cases they've uncovered at their site.

They also drill down through the data and show that charges are filed in less than 5% of non-fatal shootings and 33% of murders, partly because of dead-ended investigations but also because the States Attorney refused to move forward. That may have changed under O'Neil-Burke.

COVID "Vax" Cancelled

UPDATE: This post was flagged and cancelled by eBlogger because it ran afoul of their "misinformation policy." We don't know what "misinformation" they're referring to as every single day uncovers more and more of what may turn out to be the largest unsupported public health scare in human history.

So instead of quoting from the "JustTheNews" website, we'll quote directly from the Reuters News site that appears to be part of the approved tech-regime information sources:

• LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - Vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech halted a large U.S. trial of their updated COVID-19  vaccine in healthy adults aged 50 to 64, saying enrollment in the trials had been too low to generate the needed data. In a letter to  trial investigators dated March 30, seen by Reuters and previously unreported, Pfizer said it would stop surveillance for signs of COVID illness of all participants in the study after April 3.
  
  Enrollment was closed on March 6, following a review of current epidemiological trends, it said.
  The move comes as COVID vaccine makers grapple with pushback from the U.S. administration and weak U.S. demand for the shots.

Pretty much the exact same reporting.

 

More Planned "Takeovers"

The kids aren't making any secret about it:

• City leaders say five so-called "teen takeovers" are planned in Chicago this weekend.

  One was expected to happen in Bogan Park on the city's South Side. Police made their presence felt there on Friday night.

  Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson posted a video, warning that these gatherings can turn dangerous and even deadly.

  He asked parents to check in with their children to see where they plan to be. He also urged them to find safe alternatives.

Safe alternatives....like Naperville? (paywalled article):

• Four juveniles were arrested on battery charges Monday night during a gathering of about 300 teenagers in downtown Naperville.

  Naperville police Cmdr. Rick Krakow said a group of juveniles congregated in different parts of downtown “during the early evening hours,” with the largest group near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Washington Street.

  The crowd began to disperse between 8 and 9 p.m. as it started to rain, he said. It’s not known how many of the teens were from Naperville as opposed to other cities.

  Four juveniles were arrested for misdemeanor battery as a result of a fight that broke out, Krakow said. He did not know what provoked the incident and he would not provide the ages or genders of those charged.

This issue has spread far beyond Chicago's borders, but always to blue city $hitholes that don't make any effort at holding offenders responsible for crimes.

"Scrambling" for Eggs

See the headline there? We're so punny:

• Children dressed in their Easter best set off on a hunt for candy-filled eggs on Saturday in East Garfield Park.

  Parishioners at Harvest Worship Center Ministries spread out thousands of colorful eggs for their annual “Easter Eggstravaganza” at Altgeld Park Hope Field at 515 S. Washtenaw Ave.

  Children of all ages raced to collect as many eggs as they could, filling their colorful Easter baskets.

  Now in its 13th year, the parish-run event also featured food, games and music for children and their families.

Readers of the blog will recall a few years back that Altgeld Park is the location where a suburban school had come in to play football against local school, and everyone ended up on the ground as gunfire rang out a few yards away from where children were playing. The suburbanites were appropriately shocked that such a thing could happen - not being aware that the 011th District led the city in homicides most of the past forty years....and led the nation in per capita violent crimes on more than one occasion.

The kids were obviously "scrambling" to get their share of the eggs before the "Shots Fired" calls started up. Again.

One Way to Handle Crime

Let the CTA do it (click for larger version):

Hopefully, no one was actually chasing the suspect as foot chases are prohibited.

You know COPA would file charges in a heartbeat.

Speaking of Equipment Replacements

ISP needs new cars - guess how many and guess how long it'll take?

• More than 1,000 Illinois State Police vehicles are near the end of their life, but the agency might not be able to replace them anytime soon.

  The Illinois Department of Central Management Services recommends that vehicles in the ISP fleet be replaced every eight years or 150,000 miles, but it’s taking much longer, ISP Director Brenden Kelly told a Senate appropriations committee last month.

  “At this rate, with this funding mechanism we have, it will take about 18 years to replace our fleet,” Kelly said. “So while we’re not expecting a miracle in terms of some legislation to solve that for us permanently, we recognize that we’re going to have to continue to, piecemeal, find those sources of funding where they can be found.”

And given that the lifespan of the cars is around eight years, the first vehicles replaced will have been themselves replaced at least once, perhaps twice.

It's a never ending sinkhole. 

Tragedy in Kentucky

Most Officers hope and pray for a lengthy peaceful retirement when they leave the job. Some look for a job as far away from law enforcement as humanly possible. Others take security gigs around the edges of law enforcement. And a small number look for second careers as the Police because they enjoy it and feel they still have contributions to make to the community.

This was that last case:

• A Chicago native and longtime leader on the Chicago Police Department SWAT Team was critically wounded in a shooting in Kentucky, where he now serves on the Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department.

  Deputy Rick Coyle, who grew up on Chicago’s South Side and attended Brother Rice High School, moved to Kentucky with his wife in 2019 after retiring from CPD. After joining the sheriff’s department, he took on a role as a school resource officer (SRO) with Crittenden County Schools in 2024.

  According to Kentucky State Police, Coyle remains in critical condition after he was shot in the line of duty Thursday night. Sources with knowledge of the situation tell WGN-TV he was shot in the head and a bullet struck him in the vest.

The praise pouring in from former co-workers here is extensive. Coyle retired to Kentucky and was working as a School Resource Officer. There's a video we saw of teachers and school kids wishing Coyle and his partner a Happy School Resources Officers Day from a few weeks ago and it's obvious that these people appreciated and loved their SROs (if someone has the link, post it in the comments). 

One of the job requirements was one day every week or so, the Officers had to work regular patrol duties, not unusual in smaller departments. This time, while serving guardianship paperwork on a subject, things went south and Coyle was shot in the vest and head. The assailant was killed in the ensuing gun battle and Coyle was airlifted to a trauma hospital where (as of this writing) he remains in critical condition. There is other information, rumors mostly, but it isn't our place to speak of what the Sheriff, Governor or family haven't released. 

Prayers and best wishes to his family, friends and co-workers....here and in Kentucky.

Nice Fire Department Conehead

Courtesy of the Contrarian, this isn't dangerous at all:

• Here is something with which all Chicago residents should be racked by anxiety. Yesterday, as CFD battled a fire at 74th and Yates in South Shore, the Battalion Chief declared an extra alarm and requested a tower ladder.
  
  
  Woefully, the closest tower ladder available across the entire city was located at Grace and Damen. This ladder traveled 156 blocks — some TWENTY MILES — to respond to the extra alarm.
  
  
  This is an utter outrage.
  
  
  Of the ten tower ladders in Chicago, 5, 10, 16, 24, 39, and 54, all are out of service. At the moment, only four tower ladders are in service, TLs 14, 21, 23, and 63, all of which are stationed on the North and West Sides of the city. This leaves the whole of the South Side of Chicago —which unfortunately experiences a higher number of fires — without sufficient equipment to fight large-scale fires.
  
  
  This shortage of equipment is inexcusable and undeniably imperils residents whose taxes pay for fire protection. This equipment shortage also creates dangerous conditions for CFD called on to fight fires.
  
  
  So, now that you know, @ChicagosMayor, are you going to do something about this?

Here's exactly what Conehead is going to do about it:

• declare this is the result of systemic racist within the CFD; 
• spend another $400 million on ILLEGAL ALIENS; 
• have a nervous breakdown

Is any enterprising "reporter"  going to pick up on this story? Maybe figure out the average age of a whole shitload of CFD apparatus? Find out when the last time was that CFD was able to buy a new engine / truck / tower? See if the rumor we had over a year ago about CFD losing it's Federal accreditation due to poorly maintained out-of-date equipment is any closer to happening?

House for Sale

Asking price - $1.5 million:

• This extraordinary custom-built estate redefines luxury living in Chicago's West Elsdon neighborhood. Constructed in 2005 with a full masonry and stone exterior, the residence offers over 5,760 square feet of living spaces, combining high-end mechanical systems with exceptional custom craftsmanship. 
• The privately gated residence features 5 spacious bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, 2 powder rooms, including 3 bedroom suites with private bathrooms, offering comfort and privacy for family and guests. Every closet is finished with custom shelving systems. 
• The first level showcases radiant heated floors, providing consistent and energy-efficient comfort. The second-level elegant living room features a gas fireplace and a stunning Rich Toffee custom library wall complete with a rolling ladder, creating a warm and sophisticated gathering space. The expansive chef's kitchen is equipped with Sub-Zero side-by-side oversized refrigeration, double ovens, two dishwashers, and a built-in trash compactor. The second-floor private garden includes a charming outdoor fireplace and beautifully maintained perennial landscaping creating a peaceful sanctuary above the city. A built-in elevator provides convenient access to every level of the home. 
• The primary suite on the third level features a private balcony, built-in cabinet and a spa-inspired bathroom with a standalone shower and deep Jacuzzi soaking tub. The expansive rooftop deck offers breathtaking 360-degree skyline views, providing the perfect setting for entertaining or relaxing. 3-car heated garage plus additional outdoor parking spaces within the gated grounds. 
• Located just 15 minutes from Downtown Chicago, the property offers convenient access to I-55, I-90/94, and I-294, as well as the Pulaski Orange Line and Midway International Airport, this exceptional property offers the rare combination of size, privacy, luxury amenities, and convenient city access. Schedule your private tour today!

We were thinking of scheduling our own private tour, just so we could take a giant dump one of the bathrooms.

Oh, the seller? 

• Convicted Aldercreature Ed Burke 

We don't know if he's hurting for money or is moving out of town. 

There aren't too many comparables for the neighborhood because the building is so out of place for West Elsdon. The eight-foot brick fence around the yard is a plus if you don't like talking to the neighbors.

Fifty-Five Years

And surprisingly, he will allegedly serve every day of it:

• A Chicago man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston, who was shot and killed during a robbery as she returned home from her shift in 2023, Cook County prosecutors announced Thursday.

  Judge Adrienne Davis handed down the sentence after Joseph Brooks pleaded guilty to the slaying: 35 years for murder plus a 20-year gun enhancement. By law, Brooks must serve every day of that sentence.

  Joseph Brooks pleaded guilty to first-degree murder before Cook County Judge Adrienne Davis. He is one of four men charged in the May 6, 2023, killing of Preston, 24, which prosecutors say occurred during an armed robbery spree that stretched for hours across Chicago’s South Side. Brooks admitted to shooting Preston as she reached for her weapon during the robbery, prosecutors have said.

There are three more jagoffs awaiting trial for this murder. 

We don't know if jagoff #1 is providing any testimony against his cohorts, but with a Guilty plea landing him fifty-five years in a state with no Death Penalty, we can't see what leverage the State has to compel testimony. Hopefully, the case against the rest is a as strong as the first one.

RIP Officer Preston. 

Feds Step In; Conehead Steps on D@#$

Good news on one front:

• Chicago’s top federal prosecutor said he’s taking “no chances” that Sheridan Gorman’s alleged killer will be released, filing an illegal gun possession charge Thursday against the Venezuelan immigrant already charged with the murder of the Loyola University Chicago freshman.

  No federal court date has been scheduled for Jose Medina, 25, who was ordered detained Friday by a state court judge in connection with Gorman’s slaying. Medina’s attorney actually asked Cook County Circuit Court Judge D’Anthony Thedford to hold Medina in jail so he won’t be deported.

  Now the feds have charged Medina with possessing a Smith & Wesson .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol while being unlawfully present in the United States, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

Obviously, state courts cannot be trusted not to SAFE-T Act the killer free to either flee or kill again, so this is a good thing.

In the meantime, Conehead continues to place criminal ILLEGAL ALIENS above Chicagoans:

• Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is responding to 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman’s murder, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, by saying the federal government ought to pass amnesty for illegal aliens.

  During a press conference this week, Johnson was asked about his remarks at a recent No Kings rally in Chicago in which he said, “We have to end the assaults against immigrants,” just as Sheridan Gorman’s family was holding the Loyola University freshman’s funeral service and burial.

Nothing about the rape of a Mather HS Student by an ILLEGAL ALIEN. And skipping over the murder of a Loyola student by another ILLEGAL ALIEN. That's just two high profile crimes committed by people who broke the law by entering and remaining in the country. No one is "assault[ing]" ILLEGAL ALIENS. In fact, they're the ones assaulting Federal agents when they resist lawful arrest.

We trust everyone has seen Porkulous in his campaign commercials, talking about how much he likes walking on the lakefront, talking to citizens (all while his security team is off to one side) and has no problem that an eighteen-year-old was just walking on the lakefront with friends hoping to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights when she was executed by an ILLEGAL ALIEN. 

Hypocrisy knows no bounds. 

Media Business as Usual

A reader of ours took a "reporter" to task over the WTTW report that said excessive force complaints were up 46%. The actual headline:

• Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data

A pretty straightforward misrepresentation of the what the numbers actually revealed as it turned out. Our reader wrote to the "reporter" asking for a retraction:

• Your Feb 23rd article "Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data" has been completely blown apart by CWBChicago.

  As YOU should have done, CWBChicago uncovered that a mere FOUR percent of these allegations were sustained last year. They even included a nice detailed chart to illustrate your own data set over the period 2022-2025. The chart shows on average just some 6-7% sustained allegations over 2022-2025.

  Criminals lie. Do "reporters" lie too?

  A retraction is in order.

The "reporter," of course, immediately admitted to misrepresenting the facts and issued a clarification:

• HAHAHAHAHA....April Fool!!!!

The "reporter" - who is a worthless police hater with a lib-tarded anti-police agenda written into her DNA - was very condescending to the letter writer:

• I appreciate your feedback! I'd like to direct your attention to this paragraph of the story: "In a statement to WTTW News, a CPD spokesperson said it would be 'inaccurate' to 'characterize an increase in excessive force complaints as a definitive increase in use of force' by police officers, since those allegations have not been probed for accuracy."

  The story does not assert that all of these complaints have been sustained; as you can see, it includes the information that they have not.

  For your reference, the number of complaints filed against officers was one of the reasons the Department of Justice investigated CPD in 2015 and 2016 and is a metric tracked by federal officials as part of the consent decree process.

  Best regards,

  [police hater with a lib tarded anti-police agenda written into her DNA]

The paragraph in question is seven or eight deep in the article, and as every third grader knows, people who read that far past the headline are few and far between, especially after the past few years of anti-police narratives being peddled in the media. "Editors" in charge of propaganda know this and they write their headlines accordingly, to catch the passing interest of the uneducated who then apply the headline to their internal biases.

And as any reader of the "consent decree" knows, there are no federal officials involved in the CPD "consent decree" aside from a retired federal judge who signed off on some document present to them. An actual Consent Decree involves tons of Federal money pouring into the Department to enact reforms....and that seems to be lacking around here. 

HQ Parking Violations

This is happening? (from an e-mail):

• What happened to taking care of our own? I don’t mean covering up wrong deeds but just plain ol’ professional courtesy.

  I went to 35th and Michigan today to clear from medical and wasn’t allowed in the lot cuz it was full and so I parked in front of HQ (granted I know we aren’t supposed too) I had my ID around my neck, ran inside and cleared. There was a squad behind me saw me get out, I looked right at her. I came back out to a ticket, a ticket from one of “our” own. I thought it was an Aprils fools joke. Nope! Unreal that we give our own Parker’s now.

Do they still only have four spots for the Medical Section patients?  A Department of 10,000 Officers (allegedly), a few hundred on the Medical at any given time....and four spots for them to check in and see their nurse.

There's got to be a simple fix for this. 

Overstaffed? Understaffed?

Twisting the numbers until they scream in pain:

• A long-awaited, detailed study of the Chicago Police Department’s workforce allocation is now public and some of its findings will surprise the department’s biggest critics.

  One headline: some of the city’s most violence-plagued police districts were found to be among the most overstaffed in the city, while some districts considered safe and affluent were found to be understaffed.

The metric being used? Something they call "proactive time:"

• The 767-page report by Matrix Consulting Group examined CPD’s workforce from countless angles, but no section is likely to generate more discussion than its district-by-district breakdown of patrol effectiveness.

  The firm measured something it calls “proactive time,” the share of an officer’s on-duty hours not consumed by handling calls. The idea is that officers need breathing room beyond just answering calls to do proactive policing, community engagement, and problem-solving. Matrix set a minimum target of 40%.

  Citywide, CPD is barely clearing that bar at 40.1%. But the overall number, the study argues, conceals severe inequality across the department’s 22 districts. But those inequalities affect Chicagoans of all races and incomes in neighborhoods across the city, according to the study.

And the numbers being tossed around?

• The most overstaffed district in the city, according to Matrix, is the Lincoln (20th) District, which stretches from the north end of Uptown through Edgewater. Officers there have a proactive time rate of 63%, meaning nearly two-thirds of their on-duty hours are uncommitted. The firm calculated that if the city were to simply redistribute officers to bring every district to the 40% floor, Lincoln would lose 50 of its 135 officers.
• More startling still is what the study says about Englewood. The 7th District, which recorded 141 shooting victims in 2025 and is routinely among the most violent areas in the city, ranked as the second-most overstaffed district in CPD at 56% proactive time. A pure reallocation approach would strip nearly a quarter of Englewood’s officers, a cut of 53 positions.

These are ridiculous findings.

But Larritorious sees an opportunity:

• Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and other officials said the proposed changes would allow for better supervision, greater opportunities for community policing and more consistent response times across neighborhoods.

  But Snelling said the study isn’t just a call for increased manpower — it’s guidance “to help us become the most efficient department that we can possibly be.”

  [...] The study, commissioned by the City Council over two years ago and conducted by the Matrix Consulting Group, found major “work load inequality” that has resulted in inconsistent services and inadequate supervision. It identifies the need for at least 273 additional patrol officers and 132 sergeants, but also calls for moving about 600 officers out of jobs that could be filled by civilians.

  Civilian positions cost less than those held by sworn officers, and moving cops out of those roles could help fill gaps in patrol. Shifting those 600 officers to the street could ultimately help the department reach the goals identified in the study for adding more officers and sergeants.

This just sounds like another empty promise to gut hidden positions, none of which we believed during our careers and none of which we'll believe moving forward until there are actual parking spots open at HQ and the Academy instead of dozens of cars parked in aisles, over curbs and in the grass medians. 

Rumor

How many officers are we talking about?

• Off topic.. The entire caps office in 012 failed to qualify with their primary weapons and are pending the 7 hr mandatory firearms refresher

Far too many cops fire thirty rounds, once-a-year, at qualification time. That isn't nearly enough to be even remotely proficient at using what is arguably the most important tool on your person.

Someone is going to argue, "How many times would a CAPS officer need to use their gun?" and the answer is, "If it's even once, you better be capable." 

Crime is Down?

We're beginning to have our doubts.

Maybe it's the ages of crime victims that are down?

• A family had simply pulled over to find a house where they were to meet an out-of-town guest when a 16-year-old on probation for armed robbery walked up to the driver’s side, took a shooting stance and opened fire, leaving their 12-year-old son with a fractured skull, bullet fragments on his brain and temporarily paralyzed, prosecutors say.

  The pulled over in the 900 block of North Leamington to locate the address around 6:45 p.m. on February 3, prosecutors said. The 12-year-old was in the backseat next to his 1-year-old sibling. As the father searched for the house, he saw Nasir Pitts approach on the driver’s side and take a shooting stance, according to a detention filing.

  The father screamed for the family to get down as Pitts allegedly fired five shots, striking the boy in the head. Prosecutors said the father sped away from the scene while the mother called 911. Officers and paramedics caught up with them and transported the boy to a hospital, where doctors found a fractured skull and bullet fragments in his brain. He suffered temporary paralysis and continues to receive treatment, the detention filing said.

The sixteen-year-old shooter was ::surprise!:: on probation for an armed robbery....committed when he was fourteen.

The twelve-year-old victim wasn't the youngest crime victim by the way:

• A young girl was among three people shot Wednesday on the city's South Side, Chicago police said. All three victims were reported to be in good condition after escaping with their lives from what appeared to be a barrage of bullets.

  The shooting happened just after 4:45 p.m. in the Lake Meadows Shopping Center at East 35th Street and South King Drive i n Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, right outside Baskin Robbin's and Subway restaurants.

  The victims, an 8-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, were at the location when a dark-colored SUV approached and at least one person fired shots at them from the vehicle, police said.

  The girl was shot in the foot, the woman was shot in the knee, and the man had multiple gunshot wounds, including to his arm and chest. CPD said. They were all taken to hospitals and were reported to be in good condition.

At least we're not New York....yet. A seven-MONTH-old in a stroller caught a stray round and died Wednesday.

Fill in the Blanks

Did the changes finally drop?

• …this matches our last list that was delayed because of vetting delays in the mayors office.
  
  
  
  DC BoCT to Chief BoCT.
  
  Cmdr 005 to DC Academy.
  
  Lt M. BIA to Cmdr BIA.
  
  Lt B. Const. Policing to Cmd Const. Policing.
  
  Lt TP Detail Section to Cmdr Detail Section.
  
  Cmdr (PO) Detail Section to P.O. in OCD.
  
  (New) Captain Frogie to Cmdr 005
  
  Cmdr 012 to Deputy Chief A/3.

"vetting delays" probably means they have outstanding tickets, fines, lawsuits or they haven't taken their Ethics Test yet this year. And they waited until 01 April for payroll purposes. 

 

UPDATE: Here's some of the names from another emailer:

• Chris Papaioannou to Chief of Counterterrorism

  Karla Johnson to Dep Chief of Constitutional Policing

  Lt Tim Parker to Commander Detached Servuces (Mayors unit?)

  Lt Berlage to Cmdr Wellness & Support Group

  Lt Jonathan Medina to Cmdr IAD

  Jimmy Baier to Dep Chief A/3

  Cap Greg Froggy Jackson to 005 Cmdr

  Demotion: Harold Lewis back to P.O.

Lewis had something to do with the Conehead detail.

Cause and Effect Alexi

From the Contrarian X / Twitter feed, pointing out Giannoulias's campaign commercial:

• [Giannoulias] Car insurance premiums are crushing Illinois families. We are fighting back! Our bill has passed the House and now heads to the Senate. Please call your senator and urge them to support Senate Bill 1486.
• [Contrarian]  Interesting how Alexi omits the fact over 23K cars are stolen in Chicago every year.
  
  
  This number excludes vehicular hijackings.
  
  
  CPD won’t even send a car to your house when someone calls 911 to report their car stolen.
  
  
  CPD will not chase a stolen car.
  
  
  CPD will not investigate hit and run crashes unless the collision results in great bodily harm or death.

Insurance companies aren't in the business of losing money, so they increase rates based on real actuarial recommendations and studies that show democrat policies of rewarding crime instead of punishing it are money losers for them, so you're going to pay a pretty penny for basic coverage. 

RIP Firefighter Altman

Private funeral was yesterday:

• Friends and loved ones of fallen Chicago firefighter Michael Altman said their final goodbyes during a funeral Tuesday morning in southwest suburban Oak Lawn.

  The private funeral service was held at the Blake-Lamb funeral home at 4727 W. 103rd St. after planned services on Friday were canceled when Altman’s wife went into labor Thursday.

  Despite steady rain, first responders and community members lined the street outside the funeral home as Altman’s casket, draped in a Chicago flag, was carried to a procession bound for his final resting place at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip.

  Altman, a firefighter and EMT, died March 17 from injuries he suffered the day before while fighting a fire in a Rogers Park apartment. The blaze was in a four-story building in the 1700 block of West North Shore Avenue. Altman fell after the floor collapsed, fire officials said.

The weather matched the mood of the day.

Monday Night Wilding

Reports of a rowdy teen "takeover" in the streets of Hyde Park Monday night after daytime temps had topped off in the upper-70s.

Video is mostly on social media sites that we don't patronize, but it's good to see / hear that the non-demonized yutes are terrorizing the people that voted for exactly this type of behavior. 

Hopefully they saw it up close and personal, because it's going to get even worse as the weather warms further and school lets out in a few months.

Crime Still Down

Meanwhile, another passerby (tourist? day tripper?) manages to catch a round with her leg just off the Mag Mile:

• A woman was shot while walking at one of the busiest intersections along the Magnificent Mile on Monday evening, the unintended victim of a gunman who was trying to shoot someone else nearby, Chicago police said.

  The shooting happened around 9:27 p.m. in the first block of East Chicago Avenue, just west of Michigan Avenue, and set off a chain of events that left a man’s car riddled with bullets and caused a three-car collision along one of the city’s most heavily trafficked commercial strips.

  Police said a 22-year-old man was driving a red sedan when someone in a white sedan pulled up and opened fire on his vehicle. The red sedan was struck multiple times, but the driver was not injured.

  But a 25-year-old woman walking nearby was not as lucky. A bullet struck her in the left thigh, CPD said. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition.

Maybe Conehead can start a "Tour Chicago Emergency Rooms" type of tour?

Attempted Murder Charges

For all the "crime is down" we keep hearing, there sure are a lot of people pointing (and firing) guns at police:

• A non-compliant sex offender with two active warrants, now accused of trying to murder a Chicago Police Officer, bragged to cops who arrested him that he just got out of prison for beating other police officers, prosecutors say.

  Menard Allison, 34, was ordered detained Tuesday on charges of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer and several other felonies stemming from a Saturday night encounter near 67th and Halsted streets that started like a slapstick comedy but soon turned deadly serious.

  [...] Prosecutors said he fled into the parking lot of Kennedy King College, where, by coincidence, a third uniformed officer in a marked car was just pulling in on patrol. That officer saw Allison running from the other unit, and his in-car camera recorded what happened next: Allison allegedly pointed a handgun with his right hand at the officer’s car and fired multiple shots. The camera captured several muzzle flashes and a blue laser beam trained on the squad car, as well as a bullet striking the pavement between Allison and the vehicle, prosecutors said. No injuries were reported. 

Just in case anyone forgot, if you're in a car and someone is shooting at you, you are permitted to run them over with the vehicle - deadly force met with deadly force - and in this case, all the evidence you need is being recorded by the dash cam. Nice to see they kept this one in custody.

Great Training

You may have heard a Secret Service agent protecting Mrs Drooling Vegetable "accidentally" shot himself in the "leg" the other day.

It wasn't an accident....and it wasn't in the leg:

Story here. 

WTTW Lies while CWB Reports

WTTW continues to embrace the libtarded narrative.

CWB pretty much embarrasses WTTWs half-assed reporting:

• The WTTW headline was damning: “Excessive Force Allegations Against CPD Officers Rose 46% Since 2022: Data.” How can it be that after all of these years of efforts to improve the city’s police department, there is still so much excessive force being deployed?

  But allegations are just allegations. And WTTW’s report did not explore how many of those complaints were ultimately found to be valid. In fact, the outlet does not appear to have requested that data before filing its story. So, CWB Chicago did it for them.

  As it turns out, the numbers look quite different once you filter for complaints that actually held up under scrutiny. The worst year for bona fide excessive force complaints in WTTW’s data set was 2022, and even then, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability sustained just 15% of cases.

CWB then cites (and charts) the complaints and rates of sustained allegations.

Guess what?

• criminals lie;
• supporters of criminals lie;
• family members of criminals lie;
• people with an agenda to push lie constantly

Good to see someone taking up the pursuit of truth instead of propaganda. 

You can never hate the libtarded media enough. 

Trooper Injured

West side accident overnight:

• A state trooper was among two people hurt in a crash involving an Illinois state police squad car early Monday near Garfield Park on the West Side.

  Around 4:15 a.m., state troopers responded to a crash involving the injured trooper at Jackson Boulevard and Homan Avenue, state police said.

  The trooper and the driver of the second vehicle were taken to area hospitals with unspecified injuries, officials said.

  No further details were immediately available.

Any further info would be appreciated. 

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Please Break...Please Break

Never have we wished for rust and metal fatigue to occur:

• video link here

We wouldn't trust any equipment attached to a CTA train, but this fool? 

More Stupid

Coddling criminals yet again:

• A Chicago alderman has introduced legislation that would prevent the Department of Streets and Sanitation and private towing companies from collecting fees if the tow was made necessary by federal immigration enforcement actions.

  Chicago Flips Red Vice President Danielle Carter-Walters said in a social media post that the proposal by Alderman Andre Vasquez would require taxpayers to cover the towing costs for vehicles owned by people who are in the country illegally.

We didn't vote for a "sanctuary city."

We didn't vote to give licenses to all manner of unqualified motor vehicle operators. 

We didn't vote to give hundreds of millions of dollars to ILLEGAL ALIENS.

But here's an alderasshole who is going to require that we give more money to people who shouldn't even be here. 

Is There no End to the Stupid?

You got proposals to tax and serialize ammunition.

You got a moron proposing to outlaw one of the better tools for tracking down murderers with facial recognition.

There's allegedly a pilot program in the works to mail out tickets for loud mufflers (we don't mind this one much).

And now, there's this (we didn't write these paragraphs, so save grammatical criticisms):

• If you get two speeding tickets or more, Starting Jan 1, 2028, you will be required to have a speed limiting/tracking device in your car and truck under a new law proposed by Illinois Democrats.
  
  
  This device, known as an Intelligent Speed Assistant device (ISA) would have to be in your car or truck for three years under the new law. Plus pay $30.00 a month “monitoring fee” to the state. 
  
  
  Illinois Democrat Martha Dueter has introduced HB 4948 that mandates drivers with two qualifying speeding or reckless driving offenses within 12 months face license suspension until they install an approved active ISA device. They must remain in the program for 1–3 years, data limits, and penalties for violations. The program would begin January 1, 2028.
  
  
  Note: These devices often include GPS sensors that immediately notify authorities if speed is exceeded. In addition, your location could be tracked by the state of Illinois.

The constitutional obstacles in this one are extensive, along with the enforcement impossibilities.

Anything for a buck - vote democrat for more!