As Suspected....

Those Police District Councils are simply money laundering operations for political whores:

• The chairman of the police council tasked with improving policing in some of Chicago’s most violence-plagued neighborhoods has not shown up for work or responded to emails or phone calls in nearly a year, but he continues to collect his city paycheck, according to city officials and his fellow council members.

  David Boykin, the elected chair of the 6th District Council, has not attended a single council meeting since April 2025 and has not responded to communications from his colleagues, according to Aisha Humphries and Ciera Whitaker, the two other members of the three-person council.

This is at the low end of political graft, a mere $500 per month, not like those Somali health care swindles going on for multi-billions of dollars in Minnesota or the lesser lucrative here in Illinois for a single billion of so.

But it adds up. 

Third Time Not the Charm

A lawyer representing himself is said to have a fool for a client....but this guy is 3-and-0:

• As an amateur lawyer, Robert Ellis is now three-for-three in courthouse victories.

  Last week, a Cook County judge found the 67-year-old Englewood man not guilty of a felony charge of impersonating a police officer. It was the third such case filed since 2018 in which Ellis has prevailed after representing himself legally.

  [...] Ellis was arrested twice in the 1990s for felony police impersonation and convicted of both offenses, along with arson in 1997.

His "department" is a joke:

• He was appointed by Pembroke Township officials, even though the community of 2,000 people in rural Kankakee County had never put any officers through full police training, didn’t have a police station — or squad cars — or a budget.

So he goes out and buys a badge somewhere - in this case a "Beta United States Railroad Corporation and Police Department" badge and passes himself off as a cop.

Where are his e-learning records? Has he done Consent Decree training? Is there a list of awards and certifications he's gone through? How can he call himself an officer without any of these qualifications? 

Digging Deeper

Making excuses for his ignorance:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson Tuesday defended his decision to order Chicago police officers to document alleged abuses by federal immigration agents for potential felony prosecution after the county’s top prosecutor questioned his plan’s “legality.”

  Johnson said the executive order he outlined last weekend is “not something we thought we would have to do as a local municipality.”

And it still isn't. It's a waste of police resources for something that has already been decided on multiple occasions by Federal courts and the actual US Constitution.

Maybe concentrate on why four homicides occurred in the 012th District on Tuesday? We remember years when four homicides covered four or five months in 012. Of course, we also remember when four homicides was a normal day in other places. 

He also middled the States Attorney:

• He noted that O’Neill Burke has “said publicly that she is prepared to prosecute federal agents,” but hasn’t had evidence presented to her office. That’s why he’s trying to create a clearer pathway for accountability.

She said her office doesn't conduct independent investigations, which is kind of different - it puts the onus squarely on Conehead's not having any jurisdiction over federal actions.

Learn to Code

One of the larger and more famous media outlets is circling the drain....one foot in the grave as it were:

• The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it is laying off hundreds of its employees, which marks one of the newspaper’s deepest workforce cuts in its history.

  This development is part of a broader trend as legacy media outlets are rapidly losing viewers and readers.

  [...] The layoffs are expected to affect hundreds of journalists across multiple departments, including local news and international issues, according to The New York Times. The daily “Post Reports” podcast is shutting down, as well as the Metro section, which covers Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. 

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the paper years ago and it's lost money ever since, hundreds of millions of dollars. Libtarded newspapers are a dying enterprise - we've seen it here with both the Fibune and the Slum Times, the latter operating as a non-profit for business and a charity case for otherwise unemployable hacks. 

We keep hoping this is the year that the Slum times will go under. The paper keeps getting smaller and smaller while ad revenues plummet. They're doing at least as badly as the Washington Post and there isn't a billionaire looking to bail them out.

A Shaky Start

Barely a day went by since we wrote what (we thought) was a pretty tame article about the new head of COPA and the retired sergeant popped into our comment section about his mostly positive experience working with her.

And then, the wheels fell off:

• The Chicago City Council will vote Feb. 18 on a proposal that would allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate whether CPD officers have violated city law by helping federal immigration agents.

  COPA’s newly appointed chief administrator, LaKenya White, told a joint session of the Immigrant and Refugee Rights and Police and Fire Committees last week that her office is prepared to investigate 40 complaints filed against the Chicago Police Department over its interactions with federal agents since June.

  Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance prohibits all city employees from helping federal agents enforce immigration laws in nearly all cases.

  Elected officials, residents and immigrant rights advocates have said they repeatedly witnessed CPD actively helping ICE agents detain dozens by clearing the way for agents to make arrests by blocking streets, protecting ICE vehicles and “escorting” ICE agents to their destinations.

Do you know what one of the complaints is?

• a CPD supervisor shaking hands with the head of ICE on the scene where he showed up....you know, being polite and professional, introducing himself as the CPD person in charge to the Federal person in charge.

That's it. Also, keeping the streets clear and passable is a function of the CPD. So is making sure protestors abide by the Law, as in "not blocking streets." 

Ms. White is walking a fine line here. Doing what is required to maintain peace and order is NOT assisting ICE, but standing down like the police in Minnesota are doing only abets disorder....which is what democrats want.

Tread carefully. 

One-a-Day Catchup

HeyJackass.com notes that Chicago finished January with thirty-one homicides - one per day. Second best over the last dozen years or so. 

And then February started off with slightly less than one-a-day....until the west side decided to play catch-up:

• Three gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in a fast food parking lot Tuesday afternoon, killing two men and critically injuring a third in a brazen daylight attack in Tri-Taylor. The shooting occurred around 1:20 p.m. outside a White Castle restaurant at 2356 West Roosevelt Road, according to Chicago police and witnesses. The victims were sitting in a vehicle when three gunmen approached on foot and opened fire, CPD said

• A woman on her way to an appointment at UI Health was fatally shot in a parking garage Tuesday in the 1100 block of South Wood Street in Little Italy in what hospital officials say may have been a domestic-related attack, according to a release from UI Health. Investigators with UIC police believe the shooting, which occurred at 1:35 p.m., “may be related to a domestic dispute,” according to the statement. Chicago police deferred to UIC police, according to a spokesperson.

• A man died after being shot while driving in West Town on Tuesday afternoon, according to Chicago police. The man, 32, was driving in the 700 block of North Wolcott Avenue at 4:42 p.m. when he was shot in the chest, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he later died.

We're told that in the second shooting, the woman's child was left unharmed in the back seat.

But it was certainly a messy Tuesday.

Checkpoints?

We see this type of behavior in third world shitholes as law and order breaks down:

• Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators in Minneapolis have set up a makeshift street checkpoint to track federal agents, stopping vehicles and questioning drivers to determine whether they are ICE officers, video shows.

  Agitators could be seen standing in the roadway near makeshift barricades and traffic cones while they stopped or flagged down passing vehicles.

  In one clip, an agitator dressed in a black coat and black mask was seen approaching a stopped vehicle and directly asking the driver if they were "ICE," before allowing the car to proceed.

Someone behind pallet and garbage bin barricades, masked up, with no visible indicators of office stopping traffic, demanding ID and "running plates" in some half-assed database? Must be a democrat-run $hithole.

Send in the troops. 

Did We Break the Park District?

That voting site for a famous Italian to replace the Columbus statue?

So did we break it?

Or the gutless Park District people took it down once it was pointed out that it was probably too accurate a representation of Chicago voting for the past eighty or ninety years?

Sounds Insurrection-y

This would seem to be a violation of the NCIC protocols:

• Hey SCC: federal agent here (not FBI). Did you know IL SOS is no longer sharing DMV information with DHS ORIs? DHS “dispatches” (not in the sense you all get dispatched to calls) for a number of federal agencies, nationwide, not just ICE. NY, CA and IL all are restricting access so federal agents (I have nothing to do with ICE but god bless em) cannot run a license plate or DL out of those states. Should DOJ kick those states out of NCIC? Just another step on the road to eroding law and order.

Pretty sure there are rules in place about this, especially as the funding comes from federal taxes.

As We've Said for Years....

If there are no consequences for crimes, you're going to get more crimes committed....and this time, it killed someone:

• A man who repeatedly benefited from generous plea deals in gun cases, including a two-year sentence for his third felony gun conviction, was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to murder.

  Standing before Judge James Obbish on Monday, Isaac Corona, 29, admitted to murdering 21-year-old Justin Gamino in Back of the Yards in May 2022, just four months after being paroled in his third sweetheart plea deal.

Three felony gun convictions, and he was still getting sweetheart deals....from Crimesha!

CWB does the heavy lifting, listing cases and reduced sentences that he got over and over and over. They also list a couple of judges that aided and abetted the ongoing leniency that contributed to the murder:

• Judge Flood
• Judge Angela Munari-Petrone

We're going to recommend our usual habit - vote "NO" on every single judge in Cook County this election, and get your spouse, family, friends and neighbors to do the same.

But what we really want to do is concentrate on two very very bad judges especially:

• Peter Gonzalez who knows the system is broken, says in court that the system is broken, yet continues to release individuals like the "Loop puncher" to attack unwitting pedestrians;
• Tyria Walton who infamously released the naked crack addict who stole a police squad car and ran over an Officer in the 011th District. Then when the bad publicity ensued, manufactured a lie about being threatened by CPD Officers, but failed to notify Cook County Sheriffs or file a formal complaint with COPA/IAD regarding this alleged "misconduct."

She didn't file the beef because it might have required a signed affidavit and you can't have a blatantly false document like that floating around with a judges signature on it.

Are we tilting at windmills? Probably. But what else do we have?

This Guy is Everywhere

We hadn't seen his name around for years. Now it's in our email, all over our comment sections, in our mail delivery about the pension election, in mailers from unknown sources, and we've even managed to write about him a few times these past weeks.

He's taking shots at Conehead, too:

• Over the weekend, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order meant to hold federal agents accountable for criminal misconduct. But there are questions about whether such an order could actually be carried out.

  A former Chicago Police Department chief of detectives weighed in Monday on Mayor Johnson's weekend executive order directing police to investigate immigration agents who are accused of possible misconduct.

  [...] "We need to be working with the federal government. We cannot be at odds with the federal government; it serves no one's best interest," said Eugene Roy, former CPD chief of detectives.

  [...] "The Chicago Police Department should not be put in a position where they are investigating federal agents who are investigating federal crimes, which is clearly a federal jurisdiction. It serves no useful purpose," Roy said.

  Roy calls Mayor Brandon's Johnson's executive order directing police to investigate federal agents for possible misconduct nothing more than political theater.

And he's bucking the political establishment that made him? 

Will wonders never cease?

Another Chomo Teacher

Off-duty CPS wiener waver:

• A former Chicago Public Schools teacher with a history of sex-related misconduct has been sentenced to five years in prison for exposing himself to young girls on the city’s Far North Side.

  Elliott Nott, 51, pleaded guilty to two counts of exploiting a child before Judge Domenica Stephenson last week. She sentenced him to concurrent five-year terms, though the sentence will be cut in half by state law and reduced by 475 days Nott spent in jail awaiting trial and another 163 days of “program credit” earned while he was detained, according to court records.

All public employees need body cameras, in-vehicle cameras and classroom cameras so that taxpayers can see how their money is being spent. 

Hey, if everyone else used all sorts of off-duty and ex-cops' behavior as justification for body cams, it only seems fair that we do the same thing for teachers.

Conehead the Moron

There sure seem to be a lot of elected morons in Illinois. 

That doesn't say much about voters that keep electing them either.

• Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed the ‘ICE On Notice’ executive order directing members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to investigate and document alleged illegal activity by federal immigration agents and refer evidence of felony violations to the Cook County State’s Attorney's Office for prosecution.  

  "Nobody is above the law. There is no such thing as ‘absolute immunity’ in America,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “The lawlessness of Trump’s militarized immigration agents puts the lives and well-being of every Chicagoan in immediate danger. With today’s order, we are putting ICE on notice in our city. Chicago will not sit idly by while Trump floods federal agents into our communities and terrorizes our residents.” 

  Executive Order 2026-01 creates a framework for public accountability in the event federal agents violate local or state law while operating in Chicago. Mayor Johnson’s order makes Chicago the first city in the nation to leverage local authority to pursue legal accountability for misconduct by federal immigration agents. 

But lo' and behold, guess who said her office wasn't consulted about any of this, even though Conehead said she was?

• Within hours, O’Neill Burke publicly contradicted the mayor’s claims.

  “Mayor Johnson’s statement is not true,” O’Neill Burke wrote on Twitter. “The CCSAO did not receive the Executive Order until it was released to the public. We do not provide legal approval of any matter until we’ve reviewed it. On such a critical issue, it’s important we get it right.”

So who are you going to believe - an actual lawyer familiar with (at the very least) actual law? Or a failed social studies teacher from the CPS system that can't get more than one-third of kids reading, writing or 'rithmeticing at grade level?

Then the head of the FOP got involved:

• The head of Chicago’s largest police union unleashed a scathing attack on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s executive order establishing protocols for potential prosecution of federal immigration agents, calling the directive a “piece of toilet paper” and questioning the competence of city leadership.

  FOP Lodge #7 President John Catanzara Jr. provided the remarks to The Center Square following Johnson’s signing of an executive order on Saturday that the mayor said would lay the groundwork for criminal prosecution of federal immigration agents accused of misconduct while operating in Chicago.

And what report - pray tell - exists to document "potential crimes"?

• GOCR - Non-Criminal?

That's a GREAT use of police resources! Especially if you read the US Constitution:

• Article VI, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

That is the Supremacy Clause, the basis for numerous US Supreme Court decisions whereby Federal authorities operating under Federal Law are pretty much immune from contradictory state laws.

This means that everyone, from O'Neill-Burke to Catanzara, is far smarter than Conehead, who  is trying his best to be some sort of....king....with his "executive orders," which don't really fall within the scope of his powers as there is no local law that can override Federal Supremacy.

A bit of advice - don't get roped into generating some sort of paperwork under this "order." Politely refuse it as "not part of the duties of a Chicago Police Officer." 

If ordered, be sure to activate your body camera - after all, this is a "police action." Ask for precise directions as to (1) report to be used, (2) proper headings, and most importantly (3) the name, rank and star of anyone giving the order starting with your sergeant and working upwards from there. Maybe even have a witness nearby (preferably your Unit Rep) and take your time, making sure of spelling, grammar structure, dates, times, witness names, witness addresses....

After an hour or three of malicious compliance, this whole thing goes away. 

Voting Time!

And anyone can do it, multiple times, without limit!

• Chicagoans can vote through Sunday to pick a notable Italian to be honored with a statue in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park, where a statue of Christopher Columbus once stood.

  Eight notable Italian Americans are finalists in a little-advertised contest for the honor:

• Amerigo Vespucci, the explorer after whom America is named.
• Antonin Scalia, a former U.S. Supreme Court justice appointed by former President Ronald Reagan.
• Enrico Fermi, the creator of the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago.
• Florence Scala, an activist who challenged the construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago in the early 1960s in Little Italy and served at Hull House.
• Maria Montessori, a physician and educator who developed a new way of teaching very young children through play and hands-on activities.
• Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, who served poor Italian immigrants in Chicago.
• Phillip Mazzei, who aided the American Revolution and is credited with inspiring former President Thomas Jefferson to include the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence.
• Renato Dulbecco, a virologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering that some viruses can cause cancer.

No Joe DiMaggio? Frank Sinatra? Tony Accardo? Ah well.

In any event, here's the link to go vote.

And the best part is:

• Officials said only Chicagoans should vote in the contest, and should cast only one ballot. While the online form created on a Microsoft platform asks voters for their name and ZIP code, there is no mechanism to prevent people from outside the city from casting a ballot by creating a false name and picking a random Chicago zip code.

  Park District officials said “submissions are monitored for irregular or duplicate voting patterns.”

In other words, it's EXACTLY like Chicago elections have been for over one hundred years!

Go vote today! Then do it again! And again! And again! 

New COPA Head

Anyone familiar with CPD history knows that following the Summerdale Scandal in 1960, Old Man Daley was under political pressure to reform the Department. He was forced to appoint a committee to hunt for a new supernintendo.

But Old Man Daley had a plan - he brought in a police "expert" to head the search committee, a nationally known person named O.W. Wilson. The committee went through the motions, and then Daley had his inside guy on the panel pull one of those, "Aw shucks. The best person to head the CPD is the guy running this search committee!"

This has the same feel: 

• Chicago’s police oversight board on Thursday tapped the interim head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to lead the city agency charged with investigating serious allegations of Chicago Police Department misconduct on a permanent basis.

  The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability voted unanimously to select LaKenya White, a 26-year veteran of Chicago’s police accountability system, crediting her with improving “the quality, consistency and timeliness” of investigations conducted by the agency better known as COPA while improving the morale of the staff and “internal operations.”

  “COPA’s work requires leadership that understands both the technical demands of complex investigations and the human impact those investigations have on families, officers and communities,” said Remel Terry, president of the police oversight board known as the CCPSA. “LaKenya has spent her career inside Chicago’s police accountability system, and she understands how this agency operates at every level.”

Someone from the inside doesn't feel right - the institutional bias of COPA (OPS, IPRA) is well known and well documented. But we've already had a comment or two from a retired sergeant who claims she's actually not bad - not a "friend" by any means, but someone who follows the procedures established and who would allow investigations to proceed where it goes instead of steering it politically.

If has nothing to do with us anymore - we're out of the system. But we have plenty of friends still in it and we worry about them getting to the finish line. 

Hopefully, it works out. Time will tell. 

Bank Fails

Banks fail. It happens. There's an almost-candidate for mayor who cost taxpayers something like $150 million and he's paid no political price for it.

This one turns out amusing for different reasons:

• State regulators closed Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust on Friday, marking the first bank failure in the United States in 2026 and Chicago’s second in as many years.

  The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation ordered the River North-based bank’s closure due to concerns over its financial stability.

And who bought it?

• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was named receiver and brokered the sale of most of the bank’s $261 million in assets to First Independence Bank in Detroit, including all deposits.

A bank....from Detroit. 

We had no idea anything associated with Detroit was financially viable. 

Interesting, to say the least.

"Merit" Strikes Again

When you don't DO the job, you don't KNOW the job:

• O/T Area One Detective Commanders Watson had her first of many depositions from her unit the other day. She put it off a few times, but they finally forced her to go. She was asked “What does ATC stand for?”, and she stated she didn’t know. She was then asked, “What was a SPAR?”, and she couldn’t explain what it was or what SPAR stands for. There’s a lot of chattering going on at Corp Council right now. 

Someone taken care of their entire career, shielded from having to make snap decisions, probably protected from having to deal with the public, supervise under stress, perhaps even making (or approving) an arrest involving Use of Force....now supervising a Detective Area?

And testifying under oath in court. This will probably cost taxpayers millions. Again. 

Granny Clampett

She just can't stay out of the news as the most incompetent carpetbagger of all time:

ILLEGAL ALIENS have no business enforcing laws when they can't follow the law themselves.

(note: ILLEGAL ALIENS are different from resident aliens who are here legally, have green cards, have declared their intentions to become citizens and are in the midst of the process - we've served with more than a few and all were good cops.)

Rules for Thee....

Wrong message there Chief:

• We all know how Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns crew advocates relentlessly for gun control for the little people. Yet these same mayors keep getting popped for—you guessed it—illegally possessing guns? Well, hold their beer, because the University of New Hampshire just dropped a sequel. You can’t make this stuff up.

  Enter Steven Lee, the 50-year-old Chief of Police at the University of New Hampshire. He recently testified that college students absolutely shouldn’t be trusted with guns on campus. Reason? “They’re too drunk,” he said.  The gun control advocate, using his professional position as Chief of Police — advocating that New Hampshire protect the kids by keeping them disarmed.  Assume they’re constantly intoxicated and irresponsible.

  Fast-forward to present day: Chief Lee — badge, gun, and all — was pulled over in Portsmouth at almost 1 a.m.  (Pro-tip for the chief: nothing good happens after midnight.) Chief Steven Lee was (allegedly) hammered enough to earn himself a pair of shiny bracelets and a DUI charge. He’s now on paid administrative leave (because of course it’s paid), has plead not guilty, and a trial set for March.

We'd expect nothing less from a "chief" of a university police force.

Good News on Two Fronts

So Police are still allowed to shoot people attempting to commit murder:

• Chicago police officers who fatally shot a man as he stabbed a victim in the middle of a busy West Side street in May 2024 have been cleared of wrongdoing, according to documents released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

  The incident occurred late on May 27, 2024, in the 300 block of South Cicero Avenue, where Tracey Watson, 35, was shot and killed by officers as he stood over a victim making stabbing motions.

  According to COPA’s findings, a witness flagged down two officers to report that Watson was chasing their friend with a knife. The officers spotted the men nearby and attempted to engage them. From their patrol car, one officer ordered Watson to drop his knife, but Watson ignored the command and continued advancing toward the victim, COPA concluded.

  As officers stood nearby, the victim fell to the pavement, attempting to protect himself while Watson stood over him making stabbing motions. The officers “verbally directed [Watson] to drop the knife several times, and [Watson] failed to do so,” COPA said in a written summary report.

And an actual miracle - cops aren't responsible for gravity killing uncoordinated morons!

• A Chicago police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in a foot chase that ended with the pursued man falling, suffering a fatal head injury, and later dying in June 2024, according to a newly released report.

  Community activists rallied around the death of 22-year-old David Curry, with Black Lives Matter Chicago labeling the incident a “police crime” and saying Curry’s life was “cut short” as he “ran for his life.” But documents released Thursday night by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability show the agency found that the officer involved did not violate department policy.

  [...] One officer got out of the squad car to chase Curry on foot. COPA said Curry continued running, turned, and collided with the cop. The force sent him falling backward, and he struck his head on what investigators described as an uneven concrete slab. The officer told COPA that his hands were raised in front of him to grab Curry’s shirt when Curry suddenly turned, causing the collision. Investigators said video evidence and other information supported the officer’s account.

Good thing no one had to call Use of Force "expert" Larritorious.

Reviewing E.M.?

This should have been done years ago:

• Cook County’s new chief judge on Wednesday announced sweeping changes to his office’s electronic monitoring (EM) programs, requiring all major violations to be reported to judges within 24 hours and lowering the threshold for what constitutes a major violation from 48 hours of unauthorized absence to just three hours.

  The updated protocols represent Chief Judge Charles S. Beach II’s first major policy initiative since taking office on December 2 amid intense criticism of the court’s handling of electronic monitoring.

This follows a series of near-constant bail provision violations that never result in anyone being taken back into custody. 

These violations undermine any remaining trust in the system and reflects badly on democrats facing re-election as they are the only party in power in Chicago and Cook County.

It also provides endless fodder for alternative media sites to run pictures like this:

Judge Gonzalez doesn't like this and neither does Prickwrinkle. Beach is running interference for a corrupt judiciary.

Rahm's Own "Code of Silence"

After spouting off about something he made up on the spot and had zero proof that it ever existed, the 9.5-Digit Midget gets his own shot at the politicians "Code of Silence:"

• A federal judge reversed course Friday and barred former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel from being called as a witness in an upcoming civil trial over alleged police misconduct.

  U.S. District Judge John Tharp changed his mind two days after telling lawyers Emanuel “put himself in play” with a December 2015 speech acknowledging a code of silence at the Chicago Police Department.

  The new ruling followed a flurry of court filings earlier in the day, in which each side pointed fingers at each other as Emanuel’s potential testimony drew nearer. The legal dust-up came as Emanuel, a Democrat, seems to be positioning himself for a presidential run in 2028.

This of course, occurred following the Van Dyke shooting and Rahm's efforts to hide, restrict and deny video evidence that led to the "16 shots and a cover-up" chants that made his last political run a non-starter.

It will also come up prominently should he try to run for the top office, dooming him to yet another ambassadorship somewhere down the line. 

Durbin the Moron

Years ago, he called US Troops "nazis" and never apologized. 

Then he was tied to the Capitol Hill baseball game shooter and never adequately explained that connection.

This time, he's on the floor of the Senate, misrepresenting Law Enforcement operations in Minnesota in an effort to keep ILLEGAL ALIENS in the country. Then he pulls the stupidest move we've seen in years:

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) displayed a poster of an AI-generated image falsely depicting the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti — in which one AI-created federal agent is clearly missing a head — while delivering remarks on the Senate floor.

Here's Dick on the Senate floor:

Here's a better look at the picture he's using to condemn law enforcement:

 

Anyone know where the Border Patrol agent's head is? Because it sure looks like the "nurse" probably just chopped it off, meaning the shots fired were completely justifiable, not to mention deserved - someone chops off a head, they're getting every shot we can dish out.

And not a single media outlet in Chicago is mentioning that the senior senator from Illinois, a "man" within the line of succession to the Presidency, is using fake A.I. generated slop in his official capacity, to advocate for open borders, zero immigration restrictions and dissolution of the national identity.

Maybe Rahm is onto something.

Maybe Zeke is, too. 

Kept in Jail?

How does DuPage manage to keep violent offenders in custody?

• The 19-year-old Westmont man charged with murdering a 30-year-old pregnant woman in Downers Grove on Monday will remain in custody as he awaits trail.

  DuPage County Judge Joshua Dieden denied pretrial release for Nedas Revuckas during a hearing Thursday morning. Revuckas is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing Eliza Morales 70 times, mostly in the head and neck, and then setting her apartment on fire over an online sale gone wrong, according to prosecutors. Eliza, who was five months pregnant, leaves behind her husband and toddler, both of whom were not home at the time of the incident.

It's not like the offender was a habitual criminal:

• Revuckas has no prior criminal background, worked as a painter and complied with police. But Dieden said that if he was released and placed on home confinement, the entire community would be in danger.

But somehow, they managed to keep him in jail.

It's odd to say the least. 

Medical "Professionals"

Some lib-tard infiltrated our comment section whining about how the dead nurse up in Minnesota deserved our sympathy and ICE deserved our condemnation because he "treated veterans at the VA."

First up, fuck off.

Second, explain this:

• Alex Pretti was thrown to the ground by federal agents while protesting an immigration operation in Minneapolis 11 days before he was fatally shot by Border Patrol officers, new videos show.

  In one video of the Jan. 13 incident posted online Wednesday, Pretti is seen shouting and spitting at an unmarked SUV with flashing lights. As the vehicle begins to move away, he kicks out one of its taillights. A federal agent wearing a gas mask and helmet emerges from the rear passenger seat, grabs Pretti and throws him to the ground. Other federal agents join and try to subdue him.

  Pretti’s jacket comes off during a scuffle, and when he gets up, a handgun is visible in his waistband. At no point in the footage does he reach for his gun.

So he previously attacked agents....WHILE ARMED....and wasn't shot. But his luck ran out the second time. We're supposed to what? Support committing felonies on multiple occasions while armed? Are you fucking nuts?

And after the incident in New York with hospital staff refusing to treat NYPD Detectives because they might have been ICE, this started appearing in our search results:

• The nurse who wished White House Press Secretary to suffer a severe 4th degree tear during childbirth has been fired.

• A male nurse in Florida will likely lose his job after posting that he will refuse to treat supporters of President Trump. On Sunday, an anesthesiologist named Erik Martindale sparked a social media uproar after posting on his Facebook account that he would let MAGA supporters suffer and refuse to perform any anesthesia on MAGA clients.

• A nurse at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has been fired after making a series of videos suggesting ways to harm ICE agents. [...] "Sabotage tactic, or at least scare tactic. All the medical providers, grab some syringes with needles on the end," she said. "Have them full of saline or succinylcholine, you know, whatever. Whatever. That will probably be a deterrent. Be safe."

And this article covering a series of events where medical "professionals" are basing medical decisions on politics rather than the Hippocratic Oath.

Dark times ahead, meaning disengagement (so you don't have to risk being "treated" by someone who would harm you) is now a requirement of the job.

So....Why?

What exactly was the point for losing your job and facing prison?

• A Chicago police officer is accused of accepting cash payments in exchange for lending out his department-issued encrypted radio, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday. Alain M. Dillon, 37, faces multiple counts of bribery and official misconduct.

  Dillon took multiple $500 payments from an unidentified person in exchange for personal access to Dillon’s CPD-issued radio, Raoul said, without saying who used the radio or for what purpose.

Was he letting these persons listen to the radio? Like tow truck operators?

Was he letting them run plates over the air to out rivals?

Were there Search Warrants being executed somewhere?

These weren't terrorists, were they?

So....what and why? 

Retiree Pension Election

So after the retired rep passed, there's a spot open on the Board. There are two names on the ballot:

• Saul Del Rivero
• Eugene Roy - former exempt

We have received no campaign literature for either.

We don't know Del Rivero.

We only know Roy from his extramarital fling with a subordinate at his vacation home where the wife caught him in flagrante delicto which resulted in quite the scandal at the time. The subordinate later made sergeant somehow....maybe it was a secret study group?

Who's qualified? Who has our best interests in mind? 

 

CCL for the Win

Sadly, he only wounded one of the offenders:

• A licensed concealed carry holder shot an armed man who tried to rob him early Tuesday morning on the Northwest Side, according to Chicago police, and officers tracked one of the suspects to his home by following a trail of blood.

  It happened around 2:40 a.m. in the 5200 block of West Montana Street, police said.

  Officers responded to calls of shots fired and learned that a 39-year-old man was exiting his vehicle when two men approached him on foot, police said. One of those men pulled out a firearm and demanded the victim’s belongings, according to CPD.

  The victim, who is licensed to carry a concealed firearm, drew his own gun and fired shots at the would-be robbers, police said. One of the suspects was struck multiple times in the legs, according to police.

Better luck next time Citizen!

Pay Your Fines Stacy

For someone who whines about millionaires and billionaires not paying their "fair share," how about just paying what you're supposed to?

• As president of both the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, Stacy Davis Gates wants government to take more from Chicagoans and businesses.

  But despite making $273,105 as a union boss, she apparently doesn’t believe government should take from her.

  Davis Gates has let $1,544 in Chicago water, sewer and trash bills pile up, according to the city’s Freedom of Information Act response from Dec. 16. She also owes the city $1,843 for parking tickets and speed violations.

We never made close to $273K, but you can bet on the few occasions we got a speeding ticket or a red light camera ticket, we paid it as soon as it arrived, because (A) we were likely ion the wrong and (B) there were job-related penalties if we ended up on that delinquent list.

Between the fines she and Conehead owe, Chicago might have had a balanced budget.

Shooting Update

The Police shooting the other day seems like a domestic gone crazy:

• Prosecutors have charged a paroled six-time felon with shooting a woman inside a South Side apartment and then trying to shoot the Chicago police officers who chased him into an alley, an encounter that ended with officers returning fire and seriously wounding the suspect. No officers were injured.

  Pierre Davis, 28, was taken into custody Friday night in the 7900 block of South Ingleside Avenue. Chicago police said no officers were physically injured. A 22-year-old woman who was shot earlier inside a nearby residence was hospitalized in good condition.

So offender shoots female, flees, is chased, and then exchanges gunfire with the Police.

How did a six-time felon get a gun anyway? We thought Porkulous made that impossible....and Conehead....and Crimesha....and Groot....and Rahm....and Shortshanks....and....

But they'll make every effort to take away your guns. 

Still A Murder a Day

Via HeyJackass.com:

 

Kind of surprising with the freezing temps and amount of snow.

But one-a-day would still be a drop over the course of a year.

Not very likely though. 

Known Offender

Seems the Minnesota attacker had a habit of interfering with Law Enforcement:

• Democrats want you to believe that Alex Pretti, the man who died during a violent clash with Border Patrol in Minneapolis, was an innocent legal observer with a heart of gold. It turns out that Pretti’s armed assault that resulted in his death was not his first illegal interference with federal immigration officers.

  The underlying issue here is that Democrats have encouraged their activists to believe that they can commit any amount of violence and dangerous illegal behavior without any real consequences. The leftist activists deliberately endangering the lives of federal immigration officers on the streets, and fueling an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,347% increase in assaults, see themselves as heroes for their violence. Yet they also melt down anytime that violence backfires on them. Alex Pretti committed a felony and threatened officers with deadly violence one too many times. He fell for Democrat lies and it cost him his life.

The felony he was committing?

• 18 U.S. Code § 111 -  (a) In General.—Whoever—
  (1) forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties; or
  (2) forcibly assaults or intimidates any person who formerly served as a person designated in section 1114 on account of the performance of official duties during such person’s term of service,
  shall, where the acts in violation of this section constitute only simple assault, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and where such acts involve physical contact with the victim of that assault or the intent to commit another felony, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

Committing a crime while armed pretty much negates the "he was allowed to carry a weapon" argument, because the minute you cross that line, the "allowed" falls by the wayside. Not to mention he wasn't carrying ID, which is a required component of Minnesota Law.

We could argue and counter-argue forever on this one. Was it unfortunate that someone chose to break the law? Yep, but he was an adult making bad decisions. Two-thirds of all assaults on Federal Officers care coming from nine cities - all blue state, blue city shitholes:

How about turning over all ILLEGAL ALIENS currently in state custody to the feds for immigration and deportation hearings and the feds wouldn't have to be in neighborhoods hunting for criminal ILLEGAL ALIENS. Texas has turned over more ILLEGAL ALIENS than all of these cities combined and the only assault was couple leftists attempting assassinate federal officers, accidentally killing a couple ILLEGAL ALIENS in the process.

In the meantime:

Residency Decision?

We get emails every so often:

• I'm not sure if this has been addressed, but I came across something recently that I thought that you and the troops may be interested in regarding residency.

  There is an interesting police board ruling from August 2025 where the Superintendent requested that an officer be terminated for living in the suburbs. BIA spent " 180 hours and 63 covert surveillance sorties of six to eight officers in covert vehicles" to prove that the officer was living in the suburbs and not residing in his Chicago residence. The police board found the officer not guilty due to the legal definition of residency. The board stated, " All officers and employees of the city shall be actual residents of the city.” “Residency” is not defined by any rule or statute. Residency is a nuanced determination set out in case law. It is important to note that establishing residency and abandoning residency are two different propositions having differing requirements of proof."

  The board goes ahead to site Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al as the case law:

  First, to establish residency, two elements are required: (1) physical presence, and (2) an intent to remain in that place as a permanent home [citations omitted]. Second, once residency is established, the test is no longer physical presence but rather abandonment. Indeed, once a person has established residence, he or she can be physically absent from that residence for months or even years without having abandoned it[.] Maksym et al. v. Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago et al, 242 Ill.2d 303 at 319 (2011), quoting Kreitz v. Behrensmeyer, 125 Ill. 141, 195 (1888). (All emphasis in the original.) (Maksym’s continued reference to short absences is irrelevant to Respondent’s case.)

  (This case is actually Rahm Emmanuel's case to remain on the ballot after he was accused of not actually residing in Chicago.)

  We were all told when we joined the department that we must actually have to continually reside in a Chicago residence or be terminated. With this Supreme Court definition, if you initially establish your residence in Chicago, it would appear that you could then leave your residence for an extended period of time without having "abandoned" it. If you continue to pay a mortgage/rent, utilities, upkeep, etc on your Chicago residence while not physically being there, it would appear that you are in compliance as a resident.

  I am curious how this can play our for future incidences of officers spending extended amounts of time away from their Chicago residence or for those who have already been terminated.

Read the decision at this link here.

Anyone who has been around a few years can name at least three exempts who lived outside city limits, but no investigation was ever undertaken because of political clout. We can name at least as many aldercreatures who maintain residences in multiple jurisdictions and split time among them all. Not to mention someone who (if rumors are to be believed) currently lives in Lombard where his son and namesake plays basketball for a suburban high school. 

But hey, these are all rumors. 

Another Dumb Idea

Illinois.

Springfield.

Democrats.

All kinds of stupid - this bill is so poorly written:

• HB-3320 would force gun manufacturers to pay fees to help cover the medical bills, rent, court costs, etc of violent criminals if they get shot by a lawful gun owner —while committing a crime!

  That’s how Pritzker wants to ‘undo the effects of gun violence’ — by making gun manufacturers pay violent criminals if they get shot while committing a crime!

If a completely legal product sold in a completely legal manner is used legally....and said product functions properly and as designed, then there shouldn't be extraneous fees, fines or penalties attached to said product. 

There's a petition to sign electronically to express your displeasure with said bill, but we all know Springfield routinely ignores these. 

And if they don't ignore it, they merely do a "gut-and-replace" on some other piece of legislative bullshit like Fata$$ did with that other gun bill that was passed out of committee as an insurance bill after meeting all of the "open meeting" requirements, then had 100% of the language stricken and replaced with anti-gun legislation which was then passed in the dead of night.

Links here and here. 

Bunches of Hypocrites

There's a bill Porkulous signed last month to conceal information about government officials:

• Amid growing national fears about politically motivated violence and threats, Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly last fall to pass a sweeping statute allowing public officials to shield their personal information from public view.

  But the new law — signed last month by Gov. JB Pritzker — also erects a barrier between citizens and records long considered essential to democratic accountability, including marital status and basic information about whether lawmakers, county clerks and other officials actually live in the districts and communities they serve.

What else do they want to conceal?

• Under the law, government agencies, businesses and private individuals must redact and refrain from sharing the personal information of many current and former public officials upon request, though notably not those seeking office. Home addresses, phone numbers, personal email addresses and even marital status can all be removed from public view at the official’s discretion. The statute makes no explicit exception for journalism or political speech and applies retroactively, allowing officials to demand the removal of previously published material.

  Questions as basic as whether an elected official meets residency requirements — a cornerstone of representative government — could become legally fraught to investigate or publish.

And guess what else they're whining about?

• Democratic Rep. Katie Stuart of Edwardsville, the chief House sponsor of the law, said the legislation was modeled after a 2012 measure that allows judges to request the shielding of their personal information. That law was enacted after the 2005 killings of the husband and mother of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow by a disgruntled litigant. Stuart said the measure reflects a sobering escalation in political hostility and violence.

  “Our spouses, our children, our loved ones deserve to be protected and not be put at risk,” Stuart said. “And really, nobody needs their life at risk to do the job of serving the public.”

Gee, you mean like Federal Officers wearing masks so as not to be doxxed? That's going on right now....including threats to Officers' spouses, children, schools that their kids go to, etc.

But politicians - especially democrats - are our betters, so they deserve complete secrecy while outing everyone else?