Officer Wounded

This sounds like a series of unfortunate circumstances:

• A Chicago police officer and a 16-year-old boy were accidentally shot by the same bullet during a chaotic scene Thursday afternoon in Englewood, according to police officials.

  Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling, who spoke to reporters outside the University of Chicago Medical Center about 4 p.m., said the shooting was an “accident.” Officers were conducting an “investigatory stop” involving a 16-year-old in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue about 12:30 p.m. when they realized he had a gun in his waistband, according to police.

  When an officer reached to grab the gun, it “inadvertently” went off, with the bullet hitting the teen in the groin and then the officer in the leg, Snelling said. One shell casing was recovered.

It is unknown if the gun was "cocked" while in the waistband of the teen.

It is also unknown if the teen was "decocked" following the discharge of the weapon, which truth be told, would be the best outcome of all since he wouldn't be able to breed the next generation of stupidity.

In any event, the Officer was rapidly transported to the hospital by his partners and should be okay following a stint in physical rehab. 

The teen will likely be released by Crimesha without spending a single day in juvie detention.

The parent(s) will face zero charges or accountability.

Fata$$ will try to pass another series of laws against law abiding gun ownership despite the fact that not a single law abiding citizen was part of this blatant disregard of existing law.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Frank Main Catches Up

Almost a full day behind the curve, Frank found a story to write about:

• A Chicago police commander of major narcotics investigations was struggling with almost $840,000 in debt earlier this year, including more than $30,000 in taxes he owed the IRS, according to bankruptcy records.

  Joshua Wallace, 50, is one of the two finalists to become the next police chief in Des Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register newspaper first reported on Wallace’s bankruptcy filing in February.

Frank also did some actual reporting and discovered a mini-scandal regarding certain Department rules:

• His debt raises questions because in the past, the police department routinely vetted the credit history and financial background of officers who investigate narcotics trafficking, law enforcement sources said.

  They said large debts can be a disqualifying factor because of the potential for an officer to pilfer money from police funds seized in drug cases in order to pay off debts. Police applicants who have big debts are often rejected from entering the training academy, city records show.

  “An officer might have $10,000 in student loan debt, and he discloses it, and we were fine with that,” one high-ranking former police department official said. “It’s a judgment call. But close to a million in debt? I don’t know about that.”

Our readers discovered a slightly larger issue that Frank didn't though:

• His partner from 006 is in federal prison for stealing money on traffic stops. Now you put this guy in charge of Narcotics. Smart move

Although you'd think that would be a red flag of sorts, the number of gold stars with former partners in prison is actually quite astonishing. We can name three without even trying.

Brandon's Bodies Stacking Up

CWB has started a separate heading just for these incidents - follow it here.

In the meantime, here's number 4 (aggravated battery):

• A man who was shot during a robbery in a West Side park on Sunday night sought help by walking to a nearby gas station. But, records show nobody called 911 to report the shots, which were fired in an area previously served by the city’s ShotSpotter network.

  Police said the 48-year-old was in Horan Park in the 3000 block of West Van Buren when two armed men confronted him around 8 p.m. They demanded his property and shot him in the back, according to CPD. The men fled on foot without getting anything from the victim, who was listed in fair condition.

Number 5 (homicide):

• Chicago police found a man lying dead with gunshot wounds to his chest and back on a West Side street overnight. There had not been calls of shots fired in the area, which was monitored by ShotSpotter gunfire detectors until last week, for over an hour.

  A 911 caller reported the man down at 1:52 a.m. in the 4800 block of West Adams. Investigators found about a dozen bullets and an ammunition magazine a few steps from the victim’s body.

And number 6 (homicide):

• Yet another murder victim has been found lying alone on a street previously monitored by the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. He is at least the third person found fatally shot without any 911 calls reporting gunfire since Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the city’s relationship with ShotSpotter on September 22.

  Police received a call of a person down in the 3500 block of West Cermak around 11:47 p.m. Tuesday, according to Chicago police. Officers found the victim, who had suffered gunshot wounds to his back, chest and arm. He was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Not a single call to 9-1-1 reporting shots fired in any of these incidents.

Suggestion to Larritorious and Conehead - pull the cops out of these neighborhoods and re-deploy them to the parts of the city worth saving....you know, where people WANT the police and actually CALL the police when they hear gunfire. It would be a far better use of taxpayer dollars.

On Purpose?

Or some weird coincidence?

• A downstate woman has been detained pending trial after prosecutors accused her of shooting a dozen rounds into an off-duty Chicago police officer’s home.

  CPD officers took Bobbi Barnes, 51, into custody in Danville after local officers arrested her on unrelated charges, a Chicago police report said.

  The off-duty officer and her young daughter were sleeping when someone fired shots through their bathroom and living room windows in the 10100 block of South Winston around 4:57 a.m. on March 14, according to prosecutors. Court filings offer conflicting ages for the daughter, with one saying she was 8 years old and the other 11 years old.

  No injuries were reported.

Random crime or something more sinister?

Misspent Money

News out of North Carolina, Georgia and parts of Florida is sketchy, with all sorts of unsubstantiated rumors. But what isn't a rumor is the Federal Emergency Management Agency is claiming to be broke:

• Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the remainder of hurricane season, yet $640 million has been allotted to DHS specifically for issues related to illegal immigrants.

  “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds — FEMA does not have the funds — to make it through the season,” Mayorkas revealed.

Along with the billions sent (laundered) to Ukraine, FEMA can't even take care of Americans this hurricane season. 

Not only that, but we're remembering the pictures of tens of dozens of military helicopters plucking survivors off of rooftops and transporting good to New Orleans just a few years back. 

Now? Not a single shot of military choppers in the air, and in fact, many reports of the units who did rescue work during Katrina being told they won't be deployed to North Carolina or Georgia, which is where they're based. 

Incompetency? Or a deliberate non-response to states likely to vote a certain way?

Better Hire Internally

So in the grand tradition of CPD exempts looking for post-Chicago employment, this guy is trying for Police Chief in Des Moines, Iowa:

• The city of Des Moines has announced the two finalists for the chief of police position.

  The search started earlier this year after current Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert announced his retirement.

  The city says the two finalists are Maj. Michael McTaggart of the DMPD's operations division and Joshua Wallace, a commander at the Chicago Police Department.

That was from last week.

This broke less than twelve hours ago:

• One of two finalists to become Des Moines' next chief of police, overseeing an $85.6 million budget, is $840,000 in debt and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year

The article is paywalled at the Des Moines Register, but there's a Yahoo video report here.

We're going to imagine he just spent himself out of the Iowa job....and a few others.

Moves and Rumors

Larritorious (or his puppetmaster) are making some moves:

• 1. Deputy Chief Shemash to Street Deputy. She requested the transfer because she can’t handle the job, so we’ll put her in charge of our most important critical incidents?!?! Literally broke down crying at a deployment from the stress. WTF.
  
  
  2. Deputy Chief Calderon to Deputy Chief A3 (replacing Shemash). He’s a much better critical incident supervisor than manager. Again, WTF!! 
  
  
  3. Cmdr Betancourt to Deputy Chief (replaces Nieves)
  
  
  4. Cmdr 025 to Cmdr 010. He was only visiting 025 for a few periods. 
  
  
  5. Lt. LA (189) to Cmdr 025. Lt. is the working police despite his connections. 
  
  
  6. 2 Captains promoted. Was originally slated for 5 Captain promotions. (nfi)
  
  
  7. Cpt. Fenner moved outta 005 (to make room for a competent Captain to help the new Commander get promoted to Deputy by April 2025 ) 
  
  
  8. Cmdr DH 001 retiring in May 2025 (instead of being demoted). His ppl are negotiating a lateral (lol) until retirement. This guy survives it all (like a cockroach). 
  
  
  9. Cmdr YP 002 being demoted since she hit the medical during the DNC.
  
  
  10. A few more gold stars to be shuffled but the list is not complete.

Rearranging the deck chairs as the ship sinks further into the abyss.

Charges Dropped

And the f#$%ing over of a murdered Officer comes to an unhappy conclusion:

• Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday vacated the conviction of the alleged gunman in the 2011 murder of Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis, a year after charges were dropped against the other defendants.

  It marks the latest fallout in a case tainted by accusations of misconduct by police and prosecutors and paves the way for [a mudering scumbag] to leave prison just over a year after he was handed a life sentence for fatally shooting Lewis.

Next up, another screw job of taxpayers, though it's unknown if it'll be Chicago, Cook County or a combination of both.

The Impossible Happened Again!

The CTA insists that this could never happen. Ever:

• A 23-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday morning after she spat on and then wounded a man she was arguing with on the CTA Red Line, Chicago police said.

  According to police, a 33-year-old man was a passenger on the CTA Red Line in the 1000 block of West Argyle Street about 8:40 p.m., when the woman approached  him and spat at the victim and an argument ensued. The woman pulled out a firearm during the argument and shot the victim to the left shoulder, police said.

There are laws you know.

And signs.

And Fata$$ has state lawyers appealing the recent decision that Concealed Carry is legal on public transit.

Reminder

You don't hate the media enough.

SeeBS is "reporting" today that the Kackler was never the "Border Czar," but a quick scan of their own reporting shows this headline:

And their own reporters use the term "Border Czar" on countless occasions.

This isn't a one-off for the media either:

They all reported it. And now, they're lying because the Number One issue in polling recently is:

• the border / illegal immigrants

So they just lie.

This is Insane

A murdered cop's family has to hire a lawyer in an attempt to ensure Crimesha doesn't drop all harges against the killer(s)? What the actual f#$%?

• The family of slain Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis has asked to weigh in on a potential decision to release the last of three defendants charged with his 2011 murder, the latest wrinkle in a troubled prosecution.

  Cook County prosecutors spoke with members of Lewis’ family two weeks ago, leaving them with the impression that the state’s attorney’s office was considering dropping its case against Alexander Villa, according to attorney Tim Grace, who is representing Lewis’ mother and sister in a request to be heard before any moves are made in the case.

  Villa is set for a hearing Wednesday in front of Judge Carol Howard.

Two of the assholes have already been freed? And two of Crimesha's employees have resigned under pressure for misconduct? Are they going to be charged and disbarred? Is Crimesha facing any repercussions for fucking up yet another murder case?

We were friends with Clifton Lewis and he deserved far better than this fate.

Please List Your Assets

What part of this:

...isn't being understood?

• About 2 a.m., members of a Chicago police robbery team were on patrol when they saw two people believed to be armed get into a black 2007 Lexus ES in the 5500 block of South Pulaski Road, police said.

  Officers began pursuing the sedan, which fled at a “high rate of speed” for about 4 miles before running a red light, smashing into Smith’s 2024 Kia Soul and hitting a building in the 3500 block of South Ashland Avenue, police said.

  A male passenger of the Lexus was ejected and landed on the sidewalk among the rubble of the partially collapsed building, according to a police report.

"high rate of speed"? 

Four miles?

Suspect launched from crashed vehicle and died?

Lawsuit incoming. In a just world, no one would give a shit that a criminal died in the commission of a crime, but this isn't a just world, and we've been sounding these warnings for years now.

School Board Voting

There's going to be an elected school board for what we think is the first time in Chicago history. The Slum Times has a guide here, but this is the more important one - shorter and simpler (click for larger version):

Anyone who has been endorsed by or accepted donations from the CTU should be an automatic "No" vote. There are plenty of other options other than the candidate being bought.

The CTU already has Prickwrinkle and Conehead in their back pockets. They don't need the school board rubber stamping their outrageous demands.

Two Plus Two Equals....

....five?

This popped up in the comment section:

• What about the millions going to these so called violence interrupters? Who are they reporting too? Where is the transparency with them with progress? Do they have to hand in paperwork to someone in the Mayors office? This is a complete handout program to worthless organizations that contribute nothing to helping. 

We still meet up with co-workers, active and retired. And we talk about things....changes, rumors, strange decisions, politics. They're smart people, and we consider ourselves reasonably intelligent and well read. So when we put together certain things, we wonder what's going on behind the scenes:

• ShotSpotter goes under after a lengthy City Council battle;
  
• a friend says a couple of low level command staff met with some HQ type command staff who said that in additional to the regular aldermanic notifications that go out after shootings, a number of pilot districts will be making a "violence interrupter" notification will be made;
• the comment at the top of this post appears along with a second one asking essentially the same thing.

So what's up? Conehead suddenly has a few million bucks from what was spent on ShotSpotter and certain "progressive" aldercreatures need money to grease the skids for the violence interrupters that they're touting as an alternative to police....who they want to disband anyway.

Something strange is afoot, it costs millions, and the only thing adding up is our property tax bills.

Crimesha Trying to Empty Prisons

All with a bunch of lies about "wrongful" convictions and an eye toward certain law firms making money suing the city, county, state and police:

• Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is responding to calls for more wrongful convictions from decades ago to be dropped.At a rally Monday outside of her office, there was urgency, as Foxx is not running for reelection.

  During her tenure, Foxx's office has moved to vacate hundreds of wrongful convictions. But both sides agree it's not enough.

  "This stuff needs to stop; people's families have been dying while they in prison. Their children are growing up estranged, these human beings," exoneree Clayborn Smith said.

  Outside of 69 W. Washington St., cries got Foxx's attention. "Why are these men still suffering? What do they have to keep fighting?" said Jasmine Smith, with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

  Protesters want those wrongfully convicted to be released. They particularly want the review of 25 cases.

The lib-tarded thieves over at Channel 7 don't list the alleged cases nor the basis for declaring them "wrongful" convictions. As far as we know, they've been run through the court system and many upheld at carious levels. We're sure that many pled guilty to avoid trial and now are lying because some ambulance chaser convinced them there's some basis for a payout.

The system is broken, probably beyond repair.

Suspect Pictures?

For some reason, Channel 7 is publishing the pictures of suspects in certain cases:

The story:

• Chicago police looking for suspects wanted for a knife attack.

  Police said three males attacked a man with a knife earlier this month.

We're amazed that they assumed the suspects' genders.

Speaking of Wasting Money

Look who woke up and smelled the coffee:

• Despite spending millions of dollars on hundreds of miles of bikeways, American cities are seeing a big drop in the number of people who pedal their way to work. That's according to the latest American Community Survey (a smaller, more detailed version of the U.S. Census), which found declining bike ridership across most American cities last year.

  The drop was most pronounced in bike-friendly Seattle, home of the $12-million-a-mile bike lane. In 2015, 4 percent of Seattleites (16,300 people) biked to work. That rate fell to 3.5 percent (14,600 people) in 2016 and 2.8 percent (12,000 people) last year.

  This decrease comes as the city of Seattle is throwing a lot of money at building out its biking network. In 2015, Emerald City voters approved the Move Seattle levy, which raised some $94 million to add 110 miles of bike lanes, greenways, and associated infrastructure. Costs have since increased to a point where Seattle residents may get only about half the miles they were promised.

And that's just Seattle.

Here in Chicago, the bike lanes cost approximately $1 million per mile and you can only use them reliably about seven months of the year. Not only that, they cost commuters a full lane of traffic, drastically increasing automobile travel times (contributing to pollution increases), end up destroying delivery routes/times (contributing to economic costs), increased police/fire/ambulance response times and lord only knows how many parking spots.

But paving and concrete people got their connected contracts, and they paid off politicians along the way. And the city unions (Streets, Laborers, etc) went along with it all because, at some point in the not-to-distant future, they'll be paid to take it all out. Job security!

Keep paying those rising property taxes.

Here We Go Again

The ShotSpotter technology isn't even gone from utility poles and the lib-tards over at the Tribune have tapped one of their tame monkeys to attack the next target (paywalled article - find a proxy server to get around it):

• The police radio crackled with a report of six gunshots near a busy corner in Humboldt Park. In a city that has struggled more than most to solve serious crimes, this summer 2023 shooting offered detectives an immediate advantage. At that corner, police had long ago mounted one of thousands of sophisticated surveillance cameras, the kind that could rotate around a 360-degree view, or zoom in to see activity up to four blocks away.

  Sure enough, records show, an officer tapped into a live feed from the camera in time to see that a wounded victim had managed to get inside a restaurant. But the camera hadn’t captured images of the shooter. No video from the camera was put into evidence, and the case, like so many others, remains unsolved.

  What happened that night in July 2023 underscores the potential and, at times, futility of the city’s massive, 20-year bet on a network of cameras typically affixed to utility poles across the city. In the shadow of the 2001 terrorist attacks and in a city with persistent crime problems, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley pushed the so-called Police Observation Devices as a game changer, one that would “stop violent crime before it occurs.”

  Two decades, hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of cameras later, an Illinois Answers Project and Chicago Tribune investigation has found that reality has fallen far short of those early promises. While installing thousands of police surveillance cameras has undoubtedly helped catch criminals and solve crimes, Chicago’s ever-growing system has yet to become the crime-fighting panacea Daley predicted.

We've railed against a lot of this for years....tens of years. All the cameras ever do is increase the chances that your victimization is preserved on video in the unlikely event of an apprehension and prosecution. More likely, it ends up being FOIAed and put on one of those ghoul websites or passed around on social media.

The two purposes of cameras (and ShotSpotter for that matter) is/was:

• to make money via a connected contract for someone who would then make a sizable donation to the appropriate political candidate, and
• to make money via electronic storage for someone who would then make a sizable donation to the appropriate political candidate.
  

Forget gigabytes. Does anyone have any idea what storage companies charge for terabytes? Petabytes? Chicago has thousands of POD cameras, all sorts of red-light and speed cameras, not to mention squad car cams, body cams, and drone/helicopter footage, all generating TONS of data on an hourly basis. And all of it gets stored for a looooooong time.

Petabytes might be a thing of the past already.

Is That a Banana?

Sometimes the headlines just make us stop for a moment:

• Man gets 6 years for distributing cocaine while dressed like a banana

And the story, too:

• A judge this week sentenced a man to 6 years in prison for distributing cocaine while dressed as a banana in River North. She gave him five more years for a second cocaine distribution charge, which he picked up after a stolen truck he was riding in crashed into the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument in Lakeview while the banana case was pending.

  [...] Rodriguez’s troubles began on October 29, 2022, when a stolen Audi crashed in the 100 block of West Hubbard, and a paramedic told police that they saw a man dressed in a banana costume run from the wreckage.

  Rodriguez, wearing a banana costume, returned to the scene while police were present. In his arrest report, officers noted he was “the only person in the area wearing a banana costume.” Police said he tossed a bag containing about $2,500 worth of cocaine shortly before they arrested him.

The radio traffic must have been one for the books. A foot chase would have been awesome, but dude returned to the scene of the crime.

And speaking of bananas, Sgt Taggart from the Beverly Hill Cop movies has passed at age 76.

FBI Erased Evidence

Guess how many days suspension you'd take if you deleted (or attempted to delete) video footage. Now imagine you're the fbi, the supposed "elite" law enforcement agency in the nation:

• Just hours ago, we published a breaking report drawing renewed attention to the significance of DNC surveillance footage that the FBI presented to the public in furtherance of its investigation of the January 6 pipe bombs. In late 2022, we published a series of damning articles definitively showing that the FBI was withholding critical DNC surveillance footage from the public, and in all overwhelming likelihood, the footage the FBI presented to the public was deliberately degraded in quality so as to prevent the public from being able to identify the bomber.

  In the piece in question from earlier today, we broke the news that we learned from a highly trusted source that a government employee (not the FBI) investigating aspects of the January 6 pipe bomb case went to the DNC and viewed its footage from the evening of the 5th. This government employee reported that he or she definitively and clearly saw on the video the pipe bomber planting the bomb. The employee also did not notice any degraded quality, as is evident in the footage the FBI presented to the public of the pipe bomber on the evening of January 5th. There are a number of critically urgent questions that arise from this explosive information.

The most critical question being "Where is the original footage?" The answer is, "It's gone":

• According to the letter from the DHS IG, the FBI attested to them in writing that it was no longer in possession of ANY of the DNC surveillance footage in March 2022.

The most surveilled city in the nation, and the clearest video of the person planting the "pipe bomb" on 06 January is "missing." Completely believable!

The obvious explanation is the footage was just too damn clear and someone would have recognized the fbi stooge planting the "device," but since they were able to ::cough cough:: certify the vote, the "device" wasn't needed, but it was accidentally discovered by someone not in on the game.

But hey, don't worry. There are delegates to Congress saying the quiet part out loud:

• Democrat delegate to the US House of Representatives accidentally says the quiet part out loud. She admits the DOJ and FBI are weaponized to go after people with opposing views. The DOJ and FBI "serve as a check against white nationalism, great replacement theorists, Christian nationalists, white fragility, fascists, and the twice impeached convicted felon, former president and would-be dictator Donald Trump."

Anyone else thinking it's time to disband the feebs and start over?

What's the Point?

There's almost nothing that the Cook County courts will hold anyone for:

• A Cook County judge rejected a prosecution request to keep a man in jail as a public safety risk for allegedly shooting at an occupied car while Chicago police officers looked on. Judge William Fahy denied the state’s detention petition for Malik Williams, 23, deciding instead to send Williams home with a nighttime curfew.

  Chicago cops were on patrol when they saw Williams open fire on the car with a black rifle near 5800 South Aberdeen around 9 p.m. on September 14, according to the allegations. The officers immediately turned on their emergency equipment to pull Williams over.

  Williams bolted from his Infiniti Q50 with the rifle in his hand, according to a CPD report and the state’s detention petition. Both documents said he ignored the officers’ commands and threw the gun as he continued running. Officers arrested him nearby after he fell, and they also recovered the Stribog SP9A1 Grand Power firearm that he had ditched, according to the police report.

Someone turned up shot later, the gun was stolen, and he's home with a "curfew."

We'd tell the voters to wake up, but it ain't happening. Move out if you can.

As Predicted

The first two were merely wounded. 

This is a dead body, lying in the alley, for maybe TWO DAYS:

• A woman was found shot to death in a South Side alley on Saturday morning after a resident called 911 because her body had been in the same place for about two days.

  Chicago cops found four shell casings in the alley, which was monitored by ShotSpotter until Mayor Brandon Johnson terminated the city’s contract with the gunfire detection system earlier this week.

  Police responded to the 9500 block of South Avenue N around 9:30 a.m. after a resident called 911 to report that a woman had been lying in the same spot for two days. CPD said the woman, who remains unidentified, had suffered gunshot wounds.

  “Did we have any ShotSpotters?” an officer asked his dispatcher upon arriving at the scene. He quickly remembered the new reality for Chicagoans: “Oh, I’m sorry. We don’t even have ShotSpotter. Disregard.”

Nice dig by the responding Officer. We admit to smiling.

But this is some third-world type shit, brought to you by Conehead and the CTU "progressives" who own his ass.

Tow Truck Bumper Cars

We were just writing about tow truck operators needing to be pulled over more, and this happens (with linked video):

• Footage shared on social media of three tow trucks crashing while racing to a separate wreck as police ran for cover showed a chaotic scene Thursday afternoon on the Southwest Side.

  Around noon, three “unknown” tow trucks were responding to the crash in the 6600 block of South Cicero Avenue when they crashed into each other, Chicago police said.

  One tow truck rear-ended another and as the striking tow truck attempted to make a U-turn, it struck another tow truck, police said.

  Footage shared on social media included shocked onlookers, and police said all three tow trucks fled the scene.

The video is something else. One can see how that woman got killed over the Mexican Independence Day mayhem holiday a few weeks back with assholes like these driving and crashing into each other over a measly tow.

Crime in Wrigleyville....

....and Pennsylvania?

• When Chicago cops busted Christian Buie and Harold Wade with a van full of stolen catalytic converters on the North Side in 2015, prosecutors only charged them with misdemeanors and they eventually received probation sentences.

  Buie, Wade, and a third man received much less favorable outcomes on similar allegations this week in Pennsylvania: prison sentences of 5 to 15 years.

  Early last year, Pennsylvania authorities said Buie, 32, Wade, 30, and Antonio Johnson, 43, traveled from Chicago to Pittsburgh in December 2022 to steal more than $200,000 worth of catalytic converters from vehicles.

And they were unfortunate enough to run into a non-Soros-affiliated States Attorney who was only willing to plea it down to years in prison and not a Crimesha love fest. 

See you in a few years boys.

She Still Hates You

The solution - hate her back:

• Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubled down this week on calling half of former President Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.” 

  [...] In the article, the former secretary of state recalled a meeting she had with a former white supremacist who now works to deprogram people leaving hate groups as an entry to discuss her “deplorables” comment, and said the term is “too kind a word” for some of Trump’s most fervent followers. “In 2016, I famously described half of Trump’s supporters as ‘the basket of deplorables.’ I was talking about the people who are drawn to his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia — you name it. The people for whom his bigotry is a feature, not a bug,” Clinton wrote. 

  “It was an unfortunate choice of words and bad politics, but it also got at an important truth. Just look at everything that has happened in the years since, from Charlottesville to Jan. 6. The masks have come off, and if anything, ‘deplorable’ is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we’ve seen from some Trump supporters,” she continued....

And be sure to vote appropriately, as in "not for the party that hates you."

Sox Sux

It's all cyclical - we've been here for historic highs and lows of the Blackhawks, Bears, Cubs and Bulls. The Sox are no different, but it still looks like along way back....if they don't move to Nashville that is.

That is all

Hmmmm....Ya Think?

Media types are genuine morons:

• There are many factors that are making it hard for the downtown shopping districts to fill empty spaces, but could crime be one of the hurdles? Smash-and-grabs and retail theft have spiked in Chicago in the last several months.

  After previous I-Team reports, we heard from viewers asking if crime was keeping businesses away. So we dug into the data and spoke to experts close to the issue.

  Thieves driving vehicles right through store windows aren't rare. Retail crimes have businesses like Chicago Sports on the Mag Mile on guard, but they're resilient.

  "We don't consider leaving," said owner Tyler Reyes. "We've been open since the eighties, but I do think currently it has been a big factor, especially during since the pandemic. All the, you know, the rioting, the looting."

  But could current, persistent crime be keeping businesses from filling a record high number of empty storefronts? The Loop has a current vacancy rate of 30%, and the Mag Mile has a vacancy rate of 26% according to Stone Realty.

Once you work crime into the business equation (which includes high taxes, high rent, high parking costs, declining foot traffic, costly insurance) you can see why vacancy rates are at thirty percent....and climbing.

How could anyone do business when you're losing money?

Diversity is Our Strength!

And screening illegal aliens? That's racist!

• President Joe Biden’s administration is allowing up to 650,000 criminal migrants and suspects — including at least 13,099 migrant murderers and 222,141 migrants facing criminal charges — to roam through American communities, according to a dramatic data dump by a House Republican.

  “The data says that, among those not in detention, there are 425,431 convicted criminals,” reported Fox News, which got the information from Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-TX).

13,000 extra murderers on top of what we already have here. 

And don't believe the fbi lies about "crime is down." The numbers they're using don't count Los Angeles or New York City along with a few hundred other smaller jurisdictions.

EM on the Way Out?

We've been hearing this, too:

• Hey SCC ! Got a new Story for you. Sheriff Tom Dart is attempting to collapse his Electronic Monitoring Program. These guys who are getting put out on EM are repeat offending daily weekly monthly. All the Chicago Police on here can confirm - How many times have you recently made a new arrest and the guy had a bracelet on???? Well Sheriff Dart has had enough. He wants to wash his hands of it and put all blame on the Judges. Program currently has 1500 offenders. Can you imagine if these 1500 go unmonitored and set free in the community ????

Imagine it? We've seen it. EM does nothing to deter criminals from being criminals, And they'll commit any crime they want to while wearing the damn thing. If they want to cut the bracelet off, there's nothing stopping them and zero repercussions when caught. They just get a new bracelet from the judge and Tommy.

Maybe a County reader could let us all know.

Love Letter to Larry

Are they grooming him to run for mayor?

• Many of Chicago’s top leaders are facing strong headwinds.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson has suffered embarrassing defeats, and he’s now trying to force out his public schools chief.

  The heads of the city’s transit and housing agencies have both faced calls to resign. And the police oversight boss is at the center of lawsuits alleging bias and whistleblower retaliation.

  Larry Snelling, meanwhile, has established himself as a steady hand over his first year as the city’s top cop, leading a historically scandal-plagued department out of a tumultuous stretch. During the Democratic National Convention — Snelling’s first big test — he emerged as the calm face of the city.

The article is extensive, covering wins, loses and somewhat even handed with criticisms, even pointing out Conehead's pathetic attempt to hitch his political wagon to the Convention success - after the fact and after all the politicians had left town. 

Go read it all, remembering that Larritorious was one of the more enthusiastic exempts stripping Officers who dared to exercise bodily autonomy. Anyone willing to deprive you of your personal Freedom can never be fully trusted in our opinion.

As to the future?

• Asked if he has any ambitions beyond policing, Snelling smiled and said, “My aspiration is to find some rest and go fishing.” “If you’re talking about politics,” he added, “absolutely not.”

Yeah, we've heard that one before.

Leave Him There

They're still trying to get Hoover out of a life sentence:

• The notorious co-founder of the Gangster Disciples street gang sat with his hands shackled in his lap Thursday, listening from a thousand miles away, as a judge in Chicago asked the question that could lie at the heart of whether he grants mercy to Larry Hoover after 26 years.

  “How many murders is he responsible for?” U.S. District Judge John Blakey asked.

  The judge directed his question to Hoover’s defense attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, who had just argued that Hoover’s once-monolithic gang is now a “splintered, disorganized group with no hierarchy,” and that prosecutors simply feed the “mythology” of Hoover to keep him locked up.

Behind that supposed "mythology" is a charismatic SOB who could rally the splintered group into the force it was in its heyday. Even after his initial conviction and sentence of 150 years, he was running the gang from Illinois prisons before federal wiretaps got him sent to Colorado's SuperMax prison. That was the only thing that separated him from the driver's seat of his criminal network.

Society shouldn't be willing to take that risk. Hoover can leave when he's dead.

This Won't End Well

Class warfare at the ballot box never ends up the way the "elites" want it to:

• A 3% tax on individual income over $1 million would flood Illinois’ coffers with at least $4.5 billion in new revenues annually, a new state estimate shows weeks ahead of an advisory referendum on earmarking that money for property tax relief.

  The estimate, obtained by WBEZ through a state open-records request, marks the first time Gov. JB Pritzker’s Revenue Department has weighed in on the effects of imposing that new proposed tax on the state’s wealthiest citizens to ease what is a leading financial issue daunting the middle class.

  Voters are being asked this question now because lawmakers in May voted to bring it forward as part of a broader election package that Pritzker signed.

  The exact wording of the ballot question reads: “Should the Illinois Constitution be amended to create an additional 3% tax on income greater than $1,000,000 for the purpose of dedicating funds raised to property tax relief?”

"flood Illinois coffers"? Not likely.

You know what will flood? Millionaires leaving Illinois for other locations, or at least changing their primary residences. New Jersey tried this a few years ago, and more than half of all millionaires (who had already fled New York), left New Jersey for tax-friendlier locales. These are the people who can afford a second (or a third) house and can easily afford to move, even if it's just on paper. They have lawyers on retainer to do the paperwork adjusting titles, insurance, voting addresses, etc. Hell, Bruce Rauner moved himself and his company to Florida rather than stay in this rapidly devolving state.

And guess who's left behind to pay an even bigger portion Illinois' out-of-control debt?

More "Plan-demic" Revelations

The more time passes, the more the entire narrative crumbles. This is from her book:

• Deborah Birx from her memoir, explaining how "two weeks to flatten the curve" was just marketing for harsh, months-long lockdowns that she was really planning:
  
  
  "On Monday and Tuesday [March 9th and 10th, 2020]…we worked simultaneously to develop the flatten-the-curve guidance I hoped to present to the vice president at week’s end. Getting buy-in on the simple mitigation measures every American could take was just the first step leading to longer and more aggressive interventions. We had to make these palatable to the administration by avoiding the obvious appearance of a full Italian lockdown. … No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it. Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them."

They're not even hiding it.

Brandon's Bodies #2

We guess since no one is dead yet, "Brandon's Bodies" makes more sense than "Conehead's Corpses." For the second time in two days, a person was found, shot, and not a single 9-1-1 call was made to report gunfire:

• A man was found shot and critically injured on an Englewood sidewalk Tuesday night, Chicago police said.

  Nobody called 911 to report the shooting, which occurred less than 48 hours after the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that surveilled the block was deactivated at the instruction of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. At least one other victim has been discovered shot in a ShotSpotter zone since the system went dark.

  Around 10:06 p.m., Chicago police officers responded to a call from someone down in the 5200 block of South Wood. A 911 caller had reported that a man was lying in front of a house, yelling for help.

  Officers found the 45-year-old victim on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the left leg, a CPD media statement said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition.

The 9-1-1 call was for a man yelling, not about shots fired. And of course, no crime scene was located, so even if an arrest was made, there's next to zero evidence recovered.

Along with the drop in prosecutions, we're going to predict a sharp rise in revenge shootings as the gangs engage in a tit-for-tat approach.

Gang War in 33rd Ward

And the aldercreature of the 33rd is one of the more vocal anti-police turds:

• Last week, CBS Chicago reported on the gang war in the Old Irving Park neighborhood. 

  Responding to the increase in gunfire heard in the neighborhood, one local resident said: "The gunshots keep ringing out day and night."

  At a recent CAPS meeting, Chicago Police said that there is indeed a gang war in Old Irving Park, which is in the heart of the 33rd Ward. A ward that covers the Albany Park, Ravenswood Manor, Irving Park, and Avondale neighborhoods, the ward is represented in the City Council by Alderman Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez. While Ms. Rodriguez-Sanchez has declared herself an Independent, she is, in fact, firmly aligned with the City Council's Democratic Socialist Caucus.

  Rodriguez-Sanchez, along with the five other socialists in the City Council, is in favor of cutting spending for the Chicago Police Department (CPD).

The entire Contrarian article is an eye-opener, and hints at more problems on the horizon, not only for the residents who voted this "progressive" into  office, but for the Department moving forward. We're awaiting more info, but rest assured that the 33rd Ward will most likely be on the leading edge of a pilot program that will result in anyone with time on the job to bid out of the affected Districts.

Why New York?

Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka P. Diddy, aka Diddy, is facing massive charges for all sorts of depravity, but for some reason, the charges were filed in New York, even though many of the crimes occurred in California from 2008 until the present day - including a trove of blackmail tapes recording all sorts of celebs and politicians.

Anyone know why? Besides the fact that from 2010 until 2016, the State of California Attorney General was a woman named Kamala. Odds are he'll be dead by Election Day.

And speaking of national politics, you know that Tapioca Brain is still upset he got launched from the race and he's sticking the knife in deep:

• President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he delegated “everything” as commander-in-chief to Vice President Kamala Harris, including foreign policy and domestic policy.

  The acknowledgment is significant because it contradicts Harris’s talking points. Harris has tried multiple times to distance herself from the Biden-Harris record.

He tied all of his policies to her like a twenty-ton anchor.

Feds Investigating....democrats?

New York City mayor indicted:

• Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on charges connected to a federal probe, sources told The Post — as the defiant mayor claimed he was being persecuted by the federal government for speaking about the city’s migrant crisis.

  The historic indictment — the first for a sitting New York City mayor — is expected to be unsealed Thursday by US Attorney Damian Williams, according to the sources. The news was first reported by The New York Times.

  Adams will surrender to authorities early next week, sources said.

But other reporting says this is about bribe money from Turkey about a Manhattan consulate building, and the investigation has resulted in numerous other officials - including the police chief - to resign.

Conehead appears safe though, as no nation with an ounce of sense would pay to open a consulate here. They'd be the ones getting envelopes from Chicago attempting to fill the massive vacancies downtown.

Brandon's Bodies?

Personally, we'd vote for "Conehead's Corpses" but it isn't our call:

• Less than 24 hours after Chicago ended its relationship with ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer found a woman shot and critically injured on a South Side street previously served by the gunfire detection system.

  Nobody called 911 to report hearing gunshots in the area, and no one called to report a shooting victim.

  A CPD sergeant came upon the 30-year-old woman on the sidewalk in the 7700 block of South Dobson around 9:15 p.m. on Monday. She had suffered two gunshot wounds to her leg and was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, CPD said.

Hopefully, CWB keeps this going the way that have with the running count of aggravated batteries and homicides committed by persons out on no-cash bail.

But this explains Larritorious's email the other day telling Officers to encourage citizens to call 9-1-1:

The only important part of this email is the "situational awareness" portion - you won't have an address to head toward, so you'll have to pay very close attention as you approach the general area of a call.

Who's Running the Show?

We're pretty sure that the government is supposed to run things on behalf of the people - "consent of the governed" and all that. So how is CPS dictating how the schools are run as money pits?

(yes, we're aware that the CTU runs large portions of the government and Conehead is the union's bitch)

• In an extraordinary set of comments Tuesday that brought the leadership tussle at the top of the school system further into public view, Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said he would not resign at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s direction.

  He argued his departure would leave a “leadership vacuum and instability” in his wake and decried “outright lies” about his administration.

  Martinez also proposed a self-imposed school closings moratorium until 2027 as a way to fend off what he called a “misinformation campaign” from the Chicago Teachers Union about plans to close schools, a union effort aimed at heightening scrutiny around Martinez’s job status.

  And he received a letter of support from a group of leaders that include two former CPS CEOs and a couple dozen city and state elected officials.

There are (at minimum) one hundred schools being under-utilized every single day. And each of these schools are wasting million of dollars on an annual basis in facility and staffing costs. Here are a few:

Sixty-four students in a school built to house almost thirteen-hundred? That should be first on the list, and we don't really care what gang borders are being accommodated. 

Taxpayers deserve to have their money spend appropriately and properly. Yes, that's a tall order in corrupt Chicago, but accountability has to start somewhere, so why not at the biggest money drain on the budget.

Qualified Immunity Gone in This Case

These cops and their supervisor from Normal, IL appear to have pretty much forfeited any sort of qualified immunity they think they might have been entitled to:

The Legislature wrote that qualified immunity doesn't cover willful and wanton disregard for the law....and the Court found that there is enough willfull-ness and wanton-ness within the accusations to allow this to proceed to trial. There will be a "listing of assets" very shortly.

Don't get trick-bagged by ignorance of the law, nor by supervisory ignorance of the law.