Exempt Brain Trust

This is what happens when you put crooked IAD assholes in charge of stuff:

• An investigation into the constitutionality of Chicago police raids on an unlicensed Far South Side strip club and another building in April 2023 found that a district commander cracked down on those locations at the request of an alderman — and broke numerous rules in the process, records show.

  Tyrone Pendarvis, commander of the Calumet District on the Far South Side, retired in August 2024, more than a year after one of his officers came forward to complain about those searches. During the early morning raids, that officer was recorded on his body-worn camera asking a fellow cop, “Is this illegal?”

  “No, we good, we with 500,” the other officer replied, referring to the code number for Pendarvis.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, in a report completed in November, said if Pendarvis hadn’t retired, the agency would have recommended he be fired for violating numerous department rules. COPA also recommended Sgt. [JC], working with Pendarvis that day, should be suspended for up to 180 days and undergo training on legally executing searches.

Larritorious said if Pendarvis hadn't resigned, he was going to suspend him for sixty whole days. Wow....and the sergeant gets half-a-year, meaning a financial hit of over $60K and his insurance lapses, though perhaps better than a punitive damages judgement.

Guess who Pendarvis used for his illegal raids?

• [Lt] Kimble said he thought Pendarvis chose young and inexperienced officers who would be unlikely to challenge his direct orders because they could be disciplined for doing so.

Gee....like tack-tickle officers being told to get blue cards without writing a single ticket for the observed violations because blah blah blah....you know the drill. 

Thirty days versus one-hundred-eighty.

And speaking of IAD, what's with letting Yoyolanda administer the Oath at the graduation the other day? Did the Oath cover lending your car to dope dealers so they could transport heroin?