Another Slum Times "Error"

The other day, we wrote about the Slum Times attributing nine shooting deaths and one stabbing death to being "police related." We poked fun at them and CWB picked up on it, asking for explanations.

The Slum Times blamed a programming bug and said they had corrected it. Their "Homicide Tracker" site notes the corrections and also blames it on a programming "bug." An editor also appeared in our comment section, thanking us for discovering the error and noting they had corrected the issue:

• Thank you for flagging this problem with the Sun-Times violence tracker. Due to a bug in the tracker, some homicides were incorrectly described as having police involvement. The bug was fixed this morning. — Ari Soglin, Interim managing editor-news

  1/22/2026 12:48:00 PM

Hooray for accountability, right?

Not so fast - it seems this "error" appears other times, at least once that CWB discovered and tipped us off to. Here's one from October of 2025 (click for larger version):

First thing you should notice is TWO separate guys named Oman Cobbs, 48, appear to have been murdered on the same day. The second one is listed as a "police shooting." If you click on the link, you find this story:

• The October death of a 48-year-old man found in a suitcase on the Southwest Side was shot to death in a homicide, officials said.

  Around 11:55 a.m. on Oct. 17, officers responded to the 3300 block of South Kedzie Avenue near the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Chicago police said.

  There, officers located a green suitcase and inside it found a “badly decomposed” body of Omar S. Cobbs, according to police reports and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

So the Slum Times summary is that not only are Chicago Police killing individuals across the city, afterwards they're stuffing them into suitcases? We must have missed that lesson back in our training days and we don't recall anything like this in the e-learning modules before we retired. Is this a Consent Decree thing?

We'd hate to think the media was so incompetent at their jobs (and their editors so ignorant as to what was being published) that this happened regularly. Oh wait, we already think that and - once again - this proves it.