Saturday, August 29, 2026

Weren't These Illegal?

This is what happens when you stop effective traffic enforcement:

  • A 42-year-old man was killed Friday afternoon when his ATV struck a Nissan Rogue in a collision in Ashburn, Chicago police said.

    The crash took place along the 8400 block of South Pulaski Road at about 2:08 p.m, police said.

    The unidentified man had been taken to Christ Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

    The Major Accidents Investigation Unit is investigating.

Should be a quick investigation, seeing as how the ATV was likely 100% being operated illegally and unsafely.

A while back, a reader sent us a social media video of someone driving an ATV down the street, speeding and popping wheelies....while driving directly beside a CPD squad car. It appeared to be a female and there was zero enforcement. She wiped out at an intersection, so we don't know if anything happened after that. Maybe someone has the clip?

But CPD hasn't been allowed to chase motorcycles or similar vehicles for decades now, because it's "too dangerous" to the asshole riding the bike. After all, they might crash, kill themselves or someone else, and then the City gets sued, so it's easier to just forbid the Police from enforcing the Law. That expanded greatly over the years to where any fleeing person isn't pursued lest the ghetto-lottery pays out millions. That expanded to foot chases, too, as we were getting ready to retire. 

Does anyone know if the Stop Stick Unit has ever deployed a single tire deflation device? 

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67 Comments:

Blogger Anonymous said...

Imagine if the bottom 5% of Chicago population would just go away?

8/29/2026 12:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don’t write any tickets. Why would I punish the person that lawfully stops their vehicle? The mope that takes off leaves me with eluding reports and whatever other B.S. the department can throw at me weeks later. I’m the one being punished. Traffic stops not allowed when I’m in the car.

8/29/2026 02:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a great turn of events. Enjoy the giant ATV in the sky , homie.

8/29/2026 05:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This has been going on for years. This is not new. Since Covid and Fentanyl Floyd Protests allowed them to run wild.

8/29/2026 05:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like karma handled 2 illegal things at once

8/29/2026 05:54:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

stop stick did deploy recently and it is not going to end well for them

8/29/2026 06:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

as the criminals learn they won't be chased let's hope in encourages them to do more wheelies and ride faster, so it kills more of them faster

8/29/2026 06:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On the atv crash, Darwin

On the video with the squad car near the lady who eventually crashed, let’s hope the squad car just turned the corner after cheeka crashed. Would have been epic ghetto policing.

And stop sticks unit is prob full of bosses kids working 0600-1500 with weekends off and take home cars.

Earned not given.

8/29/2026 06:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Patrol vehicles are all equipped with stop sticks as standard equipment in normal parts of America.

8/29/2026 06:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And not a hint in the article that those vehicles are not street leagal.

8/29/2026 07:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would have been better if he hit a wall instead of involving some poor motorist.

8/29/2026 07:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A few years ago a driver of a car on the roadway was stopped, pulled from their vehicle and beaten by a gang of these riders. Police did nothing as I recall.

8/29/2026 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wave, laugh, leave.

8/29/2026 08:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm the same way...We don't do traffic stops. Why bother
But we do talk about ....Midnight Basketball

8/29/2026 08:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't do any proactive work in the ghetto and avoid all other ghetto BS you can

8/29/2026 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With the current moron mayor not in charge normal law enforcement is not possible. Florida or any red state will welcome you, escape Chicago.

8/29/2026 08:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It has been decided. By your “betters”- that there are NO rules to be enforced whilst in the “community”. Guns allowed, murders allowed, robbing and maiming allowed, no stopping them, no ticketing them, no chasing them, no arresting them. ATVs on the sidewalks and streets just added to the list. Stop sticks? Nope- not wise- a crash, and YOU get the blame. Write up the report and go home to your family.

8/29/2026 08:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Back in the day we made motorbikes which was a lawnmower engine on a 20 inch bicycle. Good ones could do 40mph. Cops used to chase up relentlessly in the 8th district. We'd always get away..

8/29/2026 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Today is the 21st anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans. It brought about 100, 000 "not refugees" into Houston for temporary housing. Most never left. TURNED A REPUBLICAN CITY INTO A DEMOCRAT CITY ALMOST OVERNIGHT...

8/29/2026 08:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are they saying that if the stop sticks caused him to crash and die it’s all good.

8/29/2026 09:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe he was riding to a job interview.

8/29/2026 09:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ATV accidents...another invention of the ghetto minded to unalive themselves under the Darwin and Murphy laws. And as long as we need a "Stop Sitck Unit" it only shows how woefully underfunded and top heavy CPD is. Anybody know when bids in this unit are going to open up? (crickets...)

8/29/2026 09:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These days of policing, I'm so glad to hear about this happy ending for the asshole in this traffic crash and NO Police Officer will get sued over this stupidity!

Just write the traffic crash report and make sure you write the "at fault ticket" to protect your investigation and yourself down the road for followup investigation purposes and court purposes and who cares if the driver is dead!

8/29/2026 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CPD used to have a terribly maintained fleet of ATV's. Several officers were killed or paralyzed as I recall.

8/29/2026 09:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If it was me I just keep driving didn’t see nothing ! Tired of scraping this shit off the streets !

8/29/2026 10:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I’ve personally seen miniature ATVs being driven by some of the fine residents of the Austin neighborhood on Superior and. Chicago Ave on the sidewalk - right around the corner from Mayor Conehead’s house.

Apparently, this is what “neighborhood safety” looks like now. Nothing to see here, folks. Just keep moving.

8/29/2026 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can only use stop sticks on a car that is stopped and that you have informed the driver they have been deployed. They are useless, move on.

8/29/2026 10:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And long guns

8/29/2026 10:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

so right.

8/29/2026 10:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Way off topic!
Watched Dolly Parton on Johnny Carson show. Blast from the past when
regular ole TV was worth watching and no extra charge.
The young folk have no concept of which I speak

8/29/2026 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I give our communist mayor and all the citizens who keep voting in the same LOSERS the police service that they want!!! NO SERVICE at all give them a report no arrests and leave! Do not under any circumstances stop any vehicles or persons, dont want to make the natives feel like they are getting picked for being criminal losers!

8/29/2026 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago ain’t normal.

8/29/2026 11:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Darwin does more than a career in police work could ever do.

8/29/2026 11:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who the hell made you car commander? You get that by “ merit” ? If you were in MY car I would stop everyone I could just to piss you off. You’re one of the reasons this job has problems within the ranks never before seen. You should just hook up with one of your boy toys that you can control and STFU.

8/29/2026 12:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How do I get assigned to this "Stop Stick Unit?"...seriously

8/29/2026 12:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We could rewrite the book on Chicago values.

8/29/2026 12:03:00 PM  
Blogger I Voted For Kamala said...

Not even a final pizza at Vito and Nick's

8/29/2026 12:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hear Mississippi’s lovely in the winter! Don’t need to walk in the street to avoid shoveling snow either.

8/29/2026 12:49:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Something tells me you don’t do much of anything at all.

8/29/2026 01:49:00 PM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

Ferguson Effect.

2020 Effect.

8/29/2026 01:59:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We have seen this. It’s called The Purge.

8/29/2026 01:59:00 PM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

Public roads would be a lot safer. CTA would be an amazing ride. Downtown would be clean and free from bums and illegals. Jails would cost less to operate. Democrats would have less excuse to illegally funnel tax money. Overall, society wins when scum is removed.

These are changes that result in immediate improvement in the quality of life of regular working people.

8/29/2026 02:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stop sticks are commonly used by citywide units and work very well from the stories they tell. I have heard they are no longer funding replacement units (city is broke as usual). When those deployed sticks get taken to HQ for replacement, they get turned away, saying there isn't any to be given for the 1-for-1 swap.

8/29/2026 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

13% of the population commits 90% of the crime.

8/29/2026 02:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Send Jobless Jarvis to get the mileage.

8/29/2026 07:27:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Welcome to the Thunderdome

8/29/2026 07:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You must be the jag off that nobody wants to work with. After years of bouncing around with no partner, you never realized that it’s you with the problem.

8/29/2026 07:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hillbilly

8/29/2026 08:19:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just watched it. Fabulous. Many thanks

8/29/2026 08:47:00 PM  
Blogger Anonymous said...

These people are one of the reasons why the department is canceling RDOs and implementing 12-hour tours from 11-17 Sept for the mexican independence day.
Such waste of time, money, and resources.
Yes I want them gone.

8/29/2026 09:29:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

2 people at cpd atv training crashed. Totally dangerous and not road worthy. Scary as fuck to ride. There was a big sticker on them saying do not ride on the street.

8/29/2026 11:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Car Commander said...

Some real Junior G-Men on here; pure of heart and straight shooters. I sleep safely in my bed because rough men stand ready in the night to visit 625 ILCS compliance on those who would turn right on red when clearly posted not to. Hold that chin high, you da Real Po-leese.

8/30/2026 02:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

master blaster: groot riding the back of conehead

8/30/2026 03:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You recall wrong...

8/30/2026 06:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well nobody else said so I will; HA HA HA HA HA
🤣

8/30/2026 06:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope the Nissan will be ok

8/30/2026 08:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mobs of these every Friday afternoon on far W. Division Ave

8/30/2026 12:46:00 PM  
Blogger Over said...

Rode Those ATVs all summer along the lakefront. They were a lot of fun to ride. You couldn’t take corners too fast, however,.. how about the Cushman ?

8/30/2026 02:06:00 PM  
Blogger Over said...

I think they got rid of them after a F1 ran over someone during a downtown parade. Her incompetence ruined it for everyone,

8/30/2026 02:07:00 PM  
Blogger Over said...

Remember the mini motorcycles? Many a semi truck took those out on Pulaski and Cicero . Not their fault if they can’t see you on the dark…..

8/30/2026 02:09:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I used to run from the police too...! lol! Good times...

8/30/2026 05:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Driving through Mt. Greenwood last week, I saw several people
(or folks) on ATVs and trail bikes riding along city streets.

8/30/2026 05:43:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What if the dead guy was at fault?

8/30/2026 11:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

😆😆😆😆😆😆

8/31/2026 07:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

add in golf carts , vehicles do not stop at stop signs. someone will be killed before summer is over.

8/31/2026 02:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

NGAF about these oxygen thieves

9/01/2026 02:30:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

#never-forget-raheem-mills

9/05/2026 01:09:00 PM  

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