This Took a While

This one was a long time coming, and the CWB blog does (as usual) an outstanding job reporting on how the entire system worked to keep this piece of garbage OUT of prison....until it just couldn't any more. Some highlights:

• More than two years after a judge found him guilty of participating in an armed robbery that left a man dead outside a suburban movie theater in 2017, Torrey Lewis has been sentenced to 85 years in prison.

  While CWB Chicago did not report on the original murder case, Lewis drew our attention in 2024 when he was charged with possessing firearms after being shot while on electronic monitoring in the murder case. It was the second time authorities accused him of possessing guns while wearing an ankle monitor after the killing. 

Got that so far?

• gets shot
• and caught with a gun 
• while on EM for murder
• for the SECOND time 

After being charged with 160 counts of murder (yes, one-hundred sixty) and twenty-five other charges, he got a bail of $300K....and the fun really began. We aren't going to steal all of CWB's reporting, but the story reads like a dystopian documentary of a "justice system" that failed at every turn.

It culminates in an appearance by ....  (wait for it) ....the SAFE-T Act!!!

• But barely a year later, while still on electronic monitoring in the murder case, Lewis was again accused of illegally possessing firearms. This time, authorities said they discovered the weapons after Lewis was shot while taking advantage of the unrestricted movement afforded to electronic monitoring participants under the SAFE-T Act.

  Around 10 a.m. on January 31, 2024, Lewis was using one of his weekly “free movement” days, during which people on electronic monitoring in Illinois are permitted to leave home as long as they remain within Cook County.

Yep, he used his "unrestricted movement" day to commit more crimes! Who would have thought such a thing was possible???

He must have been too politically embarrassing to remain free as an example of the SAFE-T Act failures, so a judge was told to sentence him to 50 years PLUS 31 years PLUS 4 years - all to be served CONSECUTIVELY, not concurrently, with a projected release date of 2096 at age 103.

Go read it all at CWB. Then stop voting for democrats.

Firework Suicide?

Deliberate?

• Authorities now know what happened on the Eisenhower Expressway last Thursday, leading to a bomb squad response and shutting down the interstate for hours.

  It was a firework mortar that went off inside the SUV being driven by 47-year-old Jorge Vaca from west suburban Cicero. A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case told NBC Chicago the fireworks rocket was ignited inside Vaca's vehicle and shot into his chest.

  It wasn't a bomb, and nobody did it to him, they said. The question is, still, why did it happen?

  Heavy fireworks are supposed to be blown off in open spaces - for obvious reasons - or into the sky, well away from people.

  But that is not what happened inside the SUV being driven westbound on the Eisenhower Expressway.

There were also a bunch of reports regarding shell casings scattered around the crime scene, but seeing as how it's the Ike, what neighborhoods it runs through and what happens there on a daily basis, these were probably just left over from one of the usual eight or ten weekly shootings

Crime WAS Down

But the trend appears to be reversing:

• The number of people shot and killed over the weekend doubled compared to the same weekend last year. While the total remains significantly below long-term averages, the increase underscores the ongoing challenge of sustaining 2025’s public safety improvements that Mayor Brandon Johnson frequently touts in the media.

  Through the end of May, homicides were up 6% compared to 2025, and the number of non-fatal shooting victims had increased 7%, according to CPD. Johnson now faces the unenviable task of trying to maintain his narrative while shootings appear to be on the rise as summer heats up.

And as we've stated for decades now, tying your messaging to week-by-week numbers, let alone month-by month comparisons is foolish in the extreme because of exactly this. 

Not to mention, the Machine doesn't really want Conehead to run again, so the media is being told to twist the numbers any was possible to make the citizens think things are worse than they might otherwise perceive (though in this case, they're not that far off the mark).

Can We Demonize This One?

What do you think Conehead?

• A 13-year-old boy was ordered held on gun charges Monday, hours after Chicago police publicly accused him of carrying out a weekend shooting that wounded four children in Bronzeville.

  In a news release Monday morning, police said the teen pulled a gun around 9:40 p.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of South Prairie Avenue and opened fire on the four other boys.

  Responding officers later found the boys — an 11-year-old, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old — suffering from gunshot wounds, police said. They were taken to hospitals in conditions ranging from good to fair. The suspected shooter was arrested about 20 minutes later in the 4600 block of South Calumet Avenue.

Luckily, it looks like Felony Review will get the charges downgraded for now:

• Police initially said he was charged with felony counts of aggravated battery, unlawful possession of a weapon and having a gun without a license.

  But the Cook County state’s attorney’s office later said he isn’t actually charged with the counts of aggravated battery tying him to the shooting. He appeared in court Monday and was ordered held on three counts of unlawful possession of a weapon. the state’s attorney’s office said.

  In a second news release, issued after the hearing, police said “charges were amended in court pending additional investigation.”

Still, very much "demon-like" behavior.

Channel 7 Still Stealing from SCC

The content thieves over at Channel 7 seem to have discovered crime reporting is part of their jobs again, and guess what they're doing? Right there on their front page:

• At least 18 people have been shot, two fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.

  ABC7 is tracking the shootings across Chicago from Friday at 6 p.m. to Sunday at 11:59 p.m.

Seriously? We've been doing Friday 1700 to Sunday 2359 hours for nearly two decades (extra bonus hours on holiday weekends), and Channel 7 moves an hour and pretends it's an original idea? Are they accounting for rush hour or something?

• here's a hint - those doing the shootings aren't usually coming home from jobs, so that hour doesn't mean much. We used 1700 hours because the number of potential innocent victims on the street went up.

If they use anything different from HeyJackass.com stats, then they're continuing the propaganda BS put out by the Department.

If they start betting pools based on casualty counts, we're going to be mildly irritated....and amused.

By the way, nice Saturday night Conehead:

• Nearly half of the victims shot overnight in Chicago were children and teenagers, including an 18-year-old who died from his injuries.

  Chicago Police have reported at least 15 people were shot from around 9:30 p.m. Saturday to just after 5 a.m. Sunday. Seven of the people shot were between 12 and 19 years old.

  The violence hit nearly every side of the city, including a shooting that left a woman critically wounded in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

We'll guess Conehead didn't ask the pope for divine intervention regarding crime.

CTA Crime Still an Issue

In the first two pages of the CWB blog, there are no fewer than five separate CTA crimes in recent days along with a few others that finally reached resolution via the courts. 

Another criminal who (A) can't read signs, (B) doesn't recognize the red circle BANNED meaning and (C) happens to be a felon who can't have a gun in the first place:

• A 43-year-old Chicago man is facing gun charges after Cook County Sheriff’s Police allegedly found him rolling a joint on the Red Line and then discovered a loaded gun in his jacket.

  Around 2:35 p.m. on May 31, deputies were conducting a routine patrol on a train car at the 69th Street station when they saw Kenneth Stapleton rolling what appeared to be a cigar stuffed with a green leafy substance, the sheriff’s office said Friday.

  Stapleton was detained for violating CTA rules, and a records check turned up an active warrant connected to a forgery case, officials said. During a search, deputies recovered a loaded firearm from his jacket and learned that he did not have a Firearm Owner’s Identification card or a concealed carry license, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors approved a charge of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon later that day.

That Red Line certainly is a shit-magnet.

This one got Federal charges:

• Federal prosecutors have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul University student and taking him on a terrifying crosstown Red Line ride during which they repeatedly threatened to kill him while making electronic bank transfers and issuing ransom demands to his friends and family.

The sheriffs can't do it alone, so a couple of successful federal prosecutions would go a long way to making the CTA ride-able again.

New Category at HeyJackass.com

It might not be totally new - their site is chock full of information all the time that it's sometimes difficult to keep up with everything, but we saw this one yesterday and it made us chuckle:

 

Yep, the two sites that we check daily are working together on crime stats....something you most likely won't see in any the so-called "main stream" sites that are nothing more than propaganda arms of the Machine. Hopefully, this collaboration runs smoothly an for many years to come.

Vigilante Story Falls Apart

Sounds like a bunch of drunk idiots:

• Friday afternoon began with reports of a sexual assault and two stabbing victims at State and Lake.

  By the end of the night, detectives were telling a different story.

  Initial police reports described a sexual assault, a fight, and a woman stabbing two men.

  Hours later, detectives revised the incident, changing the alleged sexual assault to “unwanted contact” and ultimately determining that only one person had actually suffered a laceration.

And the "eye-stabbing"?

• Questions also remain about how the 25-year-old man received his injury, why an alleged eye stabbing was later removed from the narrative, and what evidence led detectives to revise the incident from a reported sexual assault to unwanted contact.

And here we were hoping that there might be a "fighting back" trend developing, but probably not. We guess it will all have to continue getting worse before it gets better.

Light Posting

We are traveling at the moment, so posting the rest of the weekend will be light.

Open post for now.

Comments may be delayed. 

Silence....

Still no new info on the "explosion" death on the suburban Eisenhower.

No name either, so the speculation of "Abdul Muhammed Jones" recently released from prison remains that - speculation.

We certainly hope no one is trusting the fbi or ATF to come up with actual information. 

More Vigilantes Please

We're enjoying this more than you can imagine:

• Chicago police say a man sexually assaulted a woman as she walked through the Loop on Friday afternoon, but the attack took an unexpected turn when another woman allegedly stabbed the assailant in the eye before officers arrived. A second man who intervened in the confrontation was also cut during the chaos, according to police.

  Crime scene tape surrounded the entrance to theWit Hotel at 201 North State Street, where the attack unfolded shortly after 4 p.m., according to witnesses.

  Police said a 24-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk when a 31-year-old man sexually assaulted her. The suspect then became involved in a physical altercation with a 25-year-old man who intervened, CPD said. As the two men fought, a 36-year-old woman at the scene allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the suspected assailant in his right eye. She also cut the other man on his left wrist, according to police.

We're going to go out on a limb here and say the guy who got cut across the wrist was probably a Good Samaritan who got in the way of the woman wielding the knife. If true, maybe he'll refuse to cooperate and everyone can just agree the shitbag who got stabbed in the eye is the only offender.

Hopefully, the first of many instances for the Summer of 2026 - the year Chicagoans just got fed up. 

 

Darn You Legal Gun Owners!

A mess on the south side:

• More than 50 evidence markers dotted a Back of the Yards street Friday morning after gunmen unleashed a hail of bullets into a group of people, killing two victims and wounding five others in one of the city’s most violent shootings of the week.

  Cook County Crime Stoppers is now offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooters.

  The attack occurred around 12:26 a.m. in the 5100 block of South Wood Street, according to Chicago police. Two masked gunmen approached a group standing on the block and opened fire, witnesses reporting the sound of automatic gunfire as the men fired dozens of rounds. Investigators placed more than 50 evidence markers around the area, most sitting next to individual shell casings, a sign of just how many shots were fired.

But since this occurred outside of the usual 5:00 PM Friday to 11:59 PM Sunday time frame, it doesn't count as a weekend shooting.

By the way, temps rising all of next week, so get ready for some non-demonized mayhem. 

Oh No!!!

It's the Indiana Bears....

Or is it?

• The Bears’ board of directors met Thursday and decided to move forward with their plans to build a stadium in Indiana, positioning the team to play its home games out of state for the first time in its 106-year history.

  The Bears’ Friday announcement to “advance our stadium development project in Hammond” tips the scales significantly toward Indiana — but falls well short of eliminating Illinois from contention.

  The precise stadium site in Hammond depends on which permutations of the Wolf Lake property the Bears choose. The Bears have a long list of boxes to check, too, ranging from environmental reports to traffic surveys to financial agreements.

  A league source cautioned the announcement didn’t eliminate Arlington Heights as an option, were the state to find a way to give the Bears property tax certainty on the 326-acre plot they own. In fact, the source said, there was “still a lot of ballgame left to play” for Illinois lawmakers. It’s unclear whether waiting until the Senate and House reconvene this fall would be too late for the Bears, though. The team considers Arlington Heights — not Chicago — the only viable choice in Cook County.

So this is yet another ploy in a long series of ploys over tax breaks and such. 

There's still a long way to go, but voters are getting a bit fed up with all the posturing. We are having a hard time finding anyone who actually cares as most season ticket holders already live in the suburbs and would like nothing more than to skip the downtown trip. 

Now They WANT ShotSpotter?

Or a replacement (which Conehead probably wants....as long as his team is getting the connected contracts):

• A Chicago City Council Committee is talking about public safety and St. Sabina's Father Michael Pfleger is calling out city leaders.

  He and others are upset that the city has not yet replaced the Shotspotter system, which detected gunshots and alerted police.

  Several advocates including those who have personally lost children to gun violence were clear that if there is no replacement for Shotspotter then the system needs to be brought back.

  It's been two years since the gunshot detection system was dismantled in Chicago.

And the Brandon Body / Conehead Corpse count stands at eighty-four according to CWB blog.

Were all eighty-four casualties pillars of society? Of course not. 

Will they be missed? By a small segment of their respective populations.

But what pfather pfleger forgets is the right people aren't being paid off, so the system stays inactive for now. Remember, the system was "racist" for being installed where the gunshots were most prevalent and the criminals were mostly minority and the voters were mostly stupid for buying into that narrative. 

Premature Detonation?

A lot of questions in the burbs:

• All lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway reopened on Thursday evening, after being shut down for nearly nine hours after a person was found dead in a vehicle surrounded by shell casings on the roadway.

Someone dead on the Eisenhower isn't that unusual. Someone dead amidst a collection of shell casings is slightly unusual.

But look who showed up to investigate:

• It’s unclear exactly what happened but the Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed one person has died, and WGN9 reported that a bomb squad responded to the scene. Illinois State Police said they were assisting a federal investigation at the scene.

The "federal" part of the investigation included the ATF and fbi, drones and robots.

Bomb? Portable meth lab? BBQ gas cylinder?

Fun times - stay aware. 

Teen Takeover Discussion?

Why are politicians "discussing" lawbreaking? 

• As more so-called teen takeovers could be planned in Chicago this week, the concern over the gatherings seemed to be split in a South Side room, literally, on Tuesday night.

  "They're saying they want places to go, things to do. We have park districts and everything in our communities. Let's open it up for them," one woman said.

  Organizers with Acclivus, a community health organization, hosted a teen takeover listening session in Washington Park.

  "The kids are just dangling. They don't have nothing to do," one young person said.

  Tuesday night's meeting came as Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth said there will be intermittent closures of DuSable Lake Shore Drive ramps if necessary in response to planned large gatherings at Foster Beach on Thursday and Friday.

  Parking restrictions will be in place along the lakefront from Lawrence to Foster on June 4 and June 5 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., and the DuSable Lake Shore Drive off-ramps at Lawrence and Foster will be closed if necessary, Manaa-Hoppenworth said.

They have plenty to do - they just don't do it. 

They could also get....we dunno....jobs?

There are twenty-six MILES of beaches, many within walking distance of where these teens live:

• 12th Street
• 31st Street
• Rainbow Beach
• 57th Street
• 63rd Street 
• South Shore 

Just to name a few that are far closer than Foster Avenue. What's the attraction of going that far away from home, besides the abundance of victims and the lack of police manpower?

There are laws in effect - enforce them aldercreature. Stop making excuses for misbehavior.

Nice Double Standard Larry

So this is a top story in the Slum Times:

• David Ross passed the strenuous test to join the Chicago Police Department’s mounted patrol in 2023 by, among other things, climbing onto a horse, lifting five bales of hay and moving a 1,200 pound dumpster.

  The only problem: Officer Ross was on medical leave at the time and was supposed to be recovering from an “unbearable” knee injury sustained during an on-duty crash, police records show.

  Police investigators recommended he be fired for violating the department’s leave policy, according to the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

But this is what Larritorious signs off on for "merit" sergeant and now "merit" lieutenant:

• when Yau she was a PO and was on IOD limited duty she was caught running the chicago marathon and instead of her being fired she only took 10 days and subsequently since then was merit sgt and now merit LT,

We guess if you're heavy enough, you can get away with all sorts of violations of Department rules....like banging recruits on a regular basis.

Political Season Underway

The first big name announces her intent to run for Conehead's job:

• Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza officially launched her campaign to become the next mayor of Chicago on Wednesday.

  In her announcement, she said Chicago deserves more competence.

  She's the latest to join a crowded field of politicians looking to become the next leader to occupy City Hall's fifth floor.

  But she was the first to have an official launch party.

She's got a tough road ahead of her, and middle-of-the-road isn't quite going to cut it. She's going to have to go scorched earth against a few of the entrenched Machine candidates and appeal to the stay-at-home voters to come out in droves. Thirty-three percent turnout isn't her friend - that's the commies / progressives / CTU friends.

Calls for Feds to Investigate Crimesha

Once again, the Chicago Contrarian has a piece by Paul Vallas, pointing out just how corrupt and useless Crimesha Foxx was and how her actions continue to drain scarce taxpayer dollars:

• Recent revelations surrounding former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx sent shock waves through Chicago’s legal and political circles. In a recent deposition, Foxx acknowledged that Gabriel Solache and Arturo Deleon-Reyes, who obtained Certificates of Innocence with her blessing, were both guilty of perhaps the most horrific double murders and kidnappings in recent Chicago history. That extraordinary admission reinforced longstanding concerns Foxx’s approach to conviction integrity had ignited Chicago’s now multi-billion-dollar wrongful-conviction liability crisis.

  Yet lost amid the public reaction was another remarkable aspect of Foxx’s testimony — one that had never been publicly disclosed. Foxx was deposed about the case of Marilyn Mulero, one of eight defendants whose murder convictions were vacated at Foxx’s behest in August 2022, in cases connected to former Chicago Police detective Reynaldo Guevara. At the time, Foxx announced that a “comprehensive case-by-case review” had uncovered police misconduct by Guevara that called all of the convictions into question. 

  What the public was not told, however, was that deposition testimony and emails now indicate that no meaningful independent factual review ever occurred. Instead, the vacaturs were precipitated by lawyers affiliated with civil rights firms that now represent many of those same defendants in lawsuits seeking massive damages from the City of Chicago. 

Crimesha's outright corruption has the potential to cost taxpayers a further BILLION dollars on top of the tens of millions paid out in cases where exactly ZERO evidence of innocence was ever presented in court.

As usual, go read it all for information you won't get from the bought-and-paid-for "media" types who are merely tools of the Machine. 

Naperville Did What???

They arrested their way out of a situation?

• Nine people were arrested and nearly three dozen citations were issued after large groups of mostly teens gathered in downtown Naperville on Monday evening.

  The gathering began around 5 p.m. June 1 along the Washington Street corridor between Chicago and Van Buren avenues. Anticipating large crowds, the Naperville Police Department deployed multiple teams of officers throughout the downtown area to deter criminal activity and maintain public safety.

  Five juveniles were arrested during the event. Charges included battery, assault, obstructing identification, criminal trespass to state-supported land, illegal possession of cannabis, illegal possession of tobacco by a minor, disobeying a peace officer and interfering with a peace officer.

Golly, if word of this gets out, it could completely revamp policing as we know it!

Don't Fall for This BS

The Department is looking to screw you into signing away Contractual Rights in the name of hugs and kisses. But they're asking for input:

• Thank you for visiting the Chicago Police Department’s public comment forum for the revised draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive.
  

  As part of our ongoing mission to grow trust within the communities we serve, CPD again invites the community to review and provide feedback on the revised Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive beginning June 2, 2026 through June 17, 2026. After the comment period concludes, CPD will review the additional feedback received to guide future revisions to the drafts. CPD will consider your comments before finalizing the directive.
  

  Below you will find a draft of the Community Police Mediation Pilot Program directive. Please provide your feedback in the space below the draft directive. Thank you again for your continued partnership in building a safer Chicago.

The title of the proposed Department Directive is: Community - Police Mediation Pilot Program.

It is essentially a "bitch-and-moan" session where you meet with a complainant on "neutral ground" and they get to bitch about how you treated them. The draft says nothing will be recorded, no recording will take place, no records will be preserved.

Don't fall for it. You have Contractual protections for a reason and you have recordings during actual CR investigations made for many reasons. Don't let COPA and IAD screw you out of protections while they further neglect their jobs to do actual thorough investigations.

Criminals Can't Read Signs

Doesn't this mean anything????

We guess not:

• An armed man fired a shot during a robbery attempt aboard a Green Line train last week, prosecutors said.

  The victim, a 26-year-old man from Ohio, was riding the train southbound near 47th Street when 19-year-old Marquise Smith approached him around 1:15 a.m. on May 28, prosecutors said.

  “Do you want to die?” Smith allegedly asked the victim, who immediately moved to the other end of the train car. But officials said Smith pulled out a handgun and pushed him from one end of the car to the other while trying to take his camera at gunpoint.

  The victim crossed between cars while the train was moving and then blocked Smith by closing the door behind him and using his body weight to hold the door shut, prosecutors said. Smith, standing between the two train cars, allegedly fired a shot into the air, and the victim quickly activated the train’s emergency signal, alerting the train operator.

We're just going to say it - if you ride the CTA without a means of self defense, you're soft. 

It's obvious no one is checking the criminals, so why would you worry about being checked?

HeyJackass.com has a section for "2026 Self Defense" 

 Three total incidents? That number is far too low:

• 2025 was 4 dead, 9 wounded
• 2024 was 8 dead, 19 wounded
• 2023 was 8 dead, 15 wounded 
• 2022 was 9 dead, 16 wounded

Make Self Defense Great Again - boost those numbers. 

How Does This Keep Happening?

Gun grabbers and democrats tell us that MORE gun restrictions are always the answer....but then this happens:

• A Chicago man with a lengthy criminal history is facing felony charges after a 2-year-old boy allegedly found his loaded handgun and fatally shot himself inside a Pullman home. Prosecutors said Jamonte Shaw found a loaded 9mm handgun belonging to 31-year-old Johnny Hughes inside the home they shared with Jamonte’s mother and siblings in the 900 block of East 104th Street.

  At the time of the shooting, Hughes was asleep on a couch in the residence while Jamonte’s mother was in the kitchen with her 9-year-old and a 4-month-old. Sometime around 12:41 p.m., Jamonte allegedly found Hughes’ firearm and shot himself, prosecutors said.

  [...] Hughes is prohibited from possessing firearms because of his criminal record, which includes convictions for unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon in 2016 and 2020. Prosecutors said his record also includes convictions for reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated fleeing and eluding, both in 2016.

  During a detention hearing, Judge Ankur Srivastava ordered Hughes detained pending trial. The judge cited Hughes’ history of gun offenses, the presence of multiple children in the home, and the fact that Hughes was already on felony pretrial release when the shooting occurred.

  Hughes faces charges of possession of a firearm by a repeat felon, aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon based on a prior conviction, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon with two or more prior convictions, and child endangerment causing death.

Multiple felony convictions....and still out, armed and committing more felonies.

You know what would fix this? More Gun restrictions on the Law abiding portion of the citizens! 

Bears Drama

The senate said "Sure," but the house said, "We can screw this up even more!" 

We had a heck of a time understanding this part:

• Illinois senators tossed up a desperation heave by passing a bill that would authorize Cook County municipalities with populations of at least 70,000 to create their own financing authorities for publicly owned stadiums that would eliminate the Bears’ potential property tax bills. But their House colleagues didn’t take up the measure for a vote, leaving the stadium saga in limbo once again.

So the Bears would pay for their own stadium, something along the lines of $2 billion or so, which we fully support. 

Then the Bears would "gift" the stadium to the local financing authority (making it "publicly owned") and thereby relieving themselves of the stadium property tax bills (though they'd be on the hook for any other structures built on the Arlington Race Track property, i.e. hotels, restaurants, casinos, etc).

The distribution of stadium revenues is less well defined for the Arlington Heights location while the Indiana people have said the Bears can keep all of that money.

So a lot more bribes and favors have to be worked into a possible deal, sometime before summer - which is twenty days away, give or take a couple weeks.

Upcoming Street Naming

An Honorary Street naming on tap:

• ....received notice from [...] the Chicago 38th Ward Aldermanic Office, [...], that an Honorary Street Sign Dedication was approved and scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 13th at 12 Noon, on behalf of, Sgt. Tom "Buzzy" Eichler, USMC, CPD. 
   
  The location will be on OPAL (7832 W) and SCHOOL (3300 N) Streets in Chicago, 60634.

  Help is needed, I'm sure, to spread the word to friends of Buzzy and his family for this distinguished event in his honor.

Sgt Eichler had quite the reputation back in the day, an actual war hero for actions at the Battle of Khe Sanh and a record involving multiple Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and the Silver Star - someone who should have a street named in their memory.

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Zero Tolerance Experiment?

Seems like last week there was a minor effort to crack down on Compliance Violations downtown:

• New videos show street vendors being escorted away from their carts in the Loop—facing fines, citations, and possible arrest.

  Experts say this is something that's happening more and more recently and is renewing conversations about the legality of vending in the city's most popular areas.

  Typically, around Michigan Avenue, vendors line that part of Millennium Park, but as of Monday, the majority of those vendors were missing. Those who were there shared videos showing their fellow vendors being whisked away by Chicago police.

And they're complaining that the law hasn't been enforced for years, decades even, so it's unfair to enforce it now:

• "One ticket is maybe alright, but like the police are strict now—every week, every Saturday and Sunday they come," he says.

  Marlen Romero is also a street vendor selling fruit.

  "Because we have needs, we have to support a family, I have four children here," she said.

  Her husband had to run and rotate locations to avoid being seen by the police.

  "Meantime, we're looking to sell. I know there are laws here, I know is prohibited, but we're not hurting anyone, and sometimes they treat us like thieves," she said. 

Um, you're hurting actual established businesses who pay rent, property taxes, business licenses, etc. And you're selling in locations prohibited to be at. Not to mention you have no running water, no health inspections, no refrigeration for perishable items etc. Oh, and your tracking of Sales Tax Revenue leaves a lot to be desired. 

That $100 peddlers license (valid for two years) doesn't offset the downside of creating a Third World atmosphere.

Another Conehead Corpse

They just keep piling up:

• Police found a gunshot victim lying dead in a vacant lot in South Chicago on Saturday morning, apparently hours after he was killed. Exactly when the murder occurred is not known because nobody called 911 to report the gunfire, and Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network in September 2024.

  Police responded to a report of a person down in the 8000 block of South Marquette Avenue at about 11:47 a.m. Saturday. Officers found a male who appeared to be in his late teens lying face down in a vacant lot with gunshot wounds to his chest and flank, according to Chicago police.

No one called 9-1-1 and the body laid there for around ten hours....half of it during daylight. 

We get the feeling it's going to be an entertaining summer of bodies.

An Un-collectible Judgement

We doubt the family will ever see a dime:

• A man who was allegedly intoxicated and drag racing at 102 mph when he slammed into another vehicle, killing its driver in June 2023, has been ordered to pay $21 million to the victim’s survivors, according to court records.

  Marvin Bonilla, 28, had a blood alcohol content of .13 as he raced his Ford Mustang around 4:45 a.m. on June 23, 2023, according to a Chicago police crash report. At the intersection of 59th Street and Pulaski Road, he allegedly plowed into a Toyota RAV4 driven by 51-year-old Alberto Onofre.

  [...] He is currently awaiting trial on reckless homicide and other charges.

  Six months after the crash, and more than a year before criminal charges were filed, Onofre’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bonilla. Cook County Judge Michael Otto later entered a judgment ordering Bonilla to pay a total of $21 million to Onofre’s wife and three children. The award includes $10 million for Onofre’s wife and approximately $3.67 million for each of his children, court records show.

But in the event he ever happens to win the lottery, the family is in line to collect first.

So....why couldn't this be standard practice for Officers attacked and injured by individuals who are never held accountable by the criminal "justice" system? That way if they ever won the lottery or (more likely) got some sort of settlement from the City over some other nonsense, Officers would be in line to collect before the criminal ever saw a dime.

SAFE-T Act Fugitive?

It certainly sounds like someone that the Porkulous Act released:

• A convicted bank robber who was on felony pretrial release and wanted on an active arrest warrant was shot and killed by federal agents after he opened fire during a standoff on the West Side on Thursday afternoon, officials said.

  The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased man as 25-year-old Abdulhafedh Abdulhafedh.

  In 2023, Abdulhafedh pleaded guilty and received a four-year sentence in Will County for financial institution robbery tied to the attempted robbery of a BMO Harris Bank in New Lenox. Court records also show he received a three-year sentence in Cook County that same year for possessing a stolen vehicle and aggravated fleeing.

  More recently, Elmhurst police arrested Abdulhafedh on March 11 on a charge of possessing a stolen motor vehicle. He was released pending trial, failed to appear in court, and has been the subject of an active arrest warrant since April 14, according to court records.

Gee, a convicted felon in Will County AND Cook County....AND picked up another felony charge two months ago....and he got released on THAT charge after he pinky-promised he'd show up for his next court date. Which he didn't. 

He had quite the record, too, according to reporting by the CWB blog. 

And none of it seemed to provide even a whisper of a hint to Cook County judges (like Lyke and Thedford) that maybe....JUST MAYBE....this one wasn't really a good candidate for pre-trial release.

Anyone sick of democrats loving criminals more than law abiding citizens yet? 

Assignments

So the recent Lieutenants and Captains got their assignments (click for larger views):

 

 

Are those Inspection Division assignments are the usual "no-show" gigs for someone on the way out the door?

A Day Late....and a Week Early

Someone sent us these posters, but they ended up in the Spam folder, so we just found them. 

First up, this past Friday night:

Darn, we missed it. Any reports?

But we're early for this one!

Anyone know if these are legit?