More Baseless Allegations

This is what passes for "reporting:"

• An inside source says some Chicago Police officers are arresting Black, legal gun owners for personal gain, despite them having valid FOID cards and concealed carry licenses. 

  This comes nearly two months after CBS News Chicago uncovered multiple cases in which CPD officers stopped Black gun owners for minor traffic violations and then charged them with felonies, including unlawful gun possession, even though they had legal firearm licenses.

  The source, whose identity CBS News Chicago is protecting, is a decorated police veteran who rose through the ranks. The person came forward to offer a rare glimpse into what motivates some officers.

  "You know, if I'm going to be honest, I think race is a big factor," the source said. "Police might think folks on the North Side are more affluent, and they have more means to come back at you if you arrest them for situations like this."

As proven time and time again, race  being a factor in traffic stops was revealed to be a non-starter. How many years has the Sparklefart TSSSSSSSSSSS card been in existence? Twenty now? It was supposed to be two years. And all it showed was nothing about race being a motivating factor. Compliance with the Vehicle Code, knowing the Rules of the Road, maintaining insurance and licensing requirements were cited far more often in the minority communities, but that was directly attributable to economic and educational factors that no one wanted to talk about.

Oh, and the upgrades to charges? That isn't decided by the CPD - that's a function of the States Attorneys office, and they rely on a database "maintained"  (ha-ha) by the Illinois State Police. 

Does anyone know if the David Harris quoted in the SeeBS article is the former commander?

• "You shouldn't be arresting people who are obeying the law, period, full stop," said David Harris, an expert in police law.

Because someone by that name was giving out a WWF Championship-type belt regularly for big number generators, many of which ended up being dismissed at Court for assorted reasons. It would be highly amusing if he was the one criticizing arrest numbers. 

Time for a Rumor

This one popped up in the comments:

• To the teams: changes coming
  
  Gangs and narcotics to downsize
  2-3 tac teams per district
  Robbery task force disbanding
  Drag racing team combined into cirt
  Prt disbanding  

Numerous people are already debunking parts of it, namely the PRT teams. But other comments are saying the "drag racing team" will be rolled into another unit. As for the tact teams, as we were walking out the door, some Districts have been fielding five teams while beat cars go unmanned, which is ridiculous. 

There really needs to be a top-to-bottom revamping of the manpower distribution and some people are going to have to work midnights, the way we all did. 

Indiana Bears?

We assume this is merely posturing:

• The Bears’ sole focus for a new stadium is no longer Arlington Heights — and no longer Illinois.

  In the team’s latest change of heart in a yearslong quest for a new home, Bears president and CEO Kevin Warren sent a letter to fans Wednesday evening saying the team will explore other locations for their planned new domed stadium — including northwest Indiana.

  Warren wrote that Arlington Heights remains “the best and only path forward in Cook County, given there are no other viable alternatives,” and vowed to explore taking the team elsewhere.

  “We need to expand our search and critically evaluate opportunities throughout the wider Chicagoland region, including Northwest Indiana,” Warren wrote. “This is not about leverage. We spent years trying to build a new home in Cook County. We invested significant time and resources evaluating multiple sites and rationally decided on Arlington Heights.”

This is a massive opportunity for political graft and corruption that comes along once in a lifetime and it would be completely believable for Illinois pols to blow the entire operation.

Fun times ahead! 

Great News at Sentencing

Justice at last:

• In March 2023, Rocio Lasso said she received a phone call “no one awaits.”

  The call that her son, Chicago Police Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso, had been killed in the line of duty.

  “Receiving that phone call tears your heart into pieces,” Rocio Lasso said Tuesday through a court interpreter. “For us as a family nothing is ever going to be the same. Part of me died with him.”

  On Tuesday afternoon, nearly three years after the officer was gunned down on a Gage Park playground, Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. sentenced Steven Montano to natural life in prison.

  Because Montano was under 21 years old at the time of the shooting, he is still eligible to seek parole after serving 40 years under Illinois law.

If Chicago still exists in forty years and the FOP (or its successor) still represents the rank-and-file, someone organizes some sort of futuristic teleportation trip to any Parole Board hearings to make sure this asshole serves well beyond the first forty.

Or maybe he just gets shanked in prison one day - that would save taxpayers a lot of money. 

End the Christmas Parties?

CPD Christmas parties have long been a point of contention. Commanders push overpriced tickets for overpriced venues that serve substandard food and there isn't any real accounting of whose pocket the money ends up in.

And now this:

• A Chicago police officer has alleged that another officer sexually assaulted her Friday morning after they attended a Christmas party with other cops assigned to their Southwest Side police district.

  Officers responded Friday afternoon to Trinity Hospital, where a nurse told them that a 26-year-old female officer had reported being assaulted by her 37-year-old male co-worker, according to a police report. Both officers are assigned to the Chicago Lawn district and had attended the party together.

  A police spokesperson said a “known offender” was responsible, but no one had been arrested.

Almost certainly, it's going to go the route of "he said, she said" and everyone involved was drunk. Someone will get transferred, someone will get offered a "spot" to drop the accusations, it's happened dozens of times before.

Nothing will ever change, though it should. How long ago was that exempt member's secretary driving drunk from a Christmas party and killed that lady visiting town? We don't recall that outcome....but the parties continued the very next year.

Good News on the Lawsuit Front

This is unusual:

• A federal jury on Tuesday rejected claims and awarded no damages to a man who brought a lawsuit over his February 2020 shooting by a Chicago police officer inside a CTA Red Line station.

  The shooting followed a lengthy struggle during a rush-hour commute.

  The jury deliberated for a little less than two hours at the end of the seven-day civil trial. In the end, it answered the call from one officer’s attorney to “send a message” to Ariel Roman, the man shot by the officer, that his actions on the train platform were “inexcusable.”

  The panel repeatedly watched video of Roman’s struggle with officers on Feb. 28, 2020, during which the officers also used Tasers and pepper spray to try to subdue him. Officer Melvina Bogard, who shot Roman, told them she feared he’d push her onto the train tracks.

You can argue tactics, procedures, incompetence, whatever. But the proper message that was sent here needs to be broadcast far and wide:

• There is ZERO right to resist the police. 

Even if you're a Supreme Court Justice and you know one-hundred-percent, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the stop and subsequent arrest are unlawful, you do not get to decide that on the street. You decide that in Civil Court after the fact. 

Too many plaintiff attorneys, abetted by morons in the media and urged on by ignorant politicians, have been pushing that narrative for far too long and it needs to stop. 

This was a first step. 

Obviously Corrupt Suburb

The Markham Officer who found that gun in the felonious "violence interrupters" car and who was ordered by the chief to release said felon and return said gun to the owner?

She got fired:

• The Markham cop who found a gun in the center console of a convicted murderer’s car, only to be ordered by the department’s chief to let the man go, has been fired.

  Markham Police Chief Jack Genius terminated Probationary Police Officer Kayla M. Heller on December 8, the same day CWBChicago informed Genius that the outlet was preparing a news story about the October 8 incident involving Tyrone Muhammad, a convicted killer and U.S. Senate candidate who works as a violence interrupter.

  State records show Heller was initially certified as a law enforcement officer on December 20, 2024, and sources familiar with her employment say she was set to complete her one-year probationary period with Markham PD this coming Saturday.

  But those same state records show Markham separated Heller on December 8 as the Illinois Attorney General’s Office was pressuring the town’s police department to provide CWBChicago with video footage related to Muhammad’s traffic stop, detention, and release. CWB sought the attorney general’s intervention after Markham wrongfully refused to release any information about the October 8 incident despite two open records requests.

Granted, she was "probationary" and so has little recourse aside from a hugely expensive lawsuit, but we all know exactly what happened here.

And chief moron Genius appears to be politically untouchable as he has faced corruption charges of his own, selling badges among other things. But somehow, he landed a chief job in one of the more crooked suburbs here in Illinois. 

Another Isolated Incident

Funny thing about these "isolated incidents." They happen pretty often:

• A woman and a teenage boy were stabbed while walking in the Loop on Monday night, according to Chicago police.
  
  Officers responded to a call of people stabbed and found that the victims, a 19-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy, had been attacked by two offenders in dark clothing who approached them on foot, according to a CPD statement. Police said one of the offenders pulled out a sharp object and stabbed both victims before fleeing on foot.

  The woman suffered a puncture wound to the abdomen and was taken to Northwestern Hospital in serious condition, while the boy was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital with cuts for treatment of a cut to his hand and a puncture wound to his abdomen. CPD said he was in good condition.

But don't worry - crime is down.

Judge Keeps Predator in Jail

Of course, it was a US Magistrate, not a crooked Cook county DEI judge:

• A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer accused of using his gun and badge to rape multiple women will be held in federal custody while awaiting trial, a judge ruled Monday.

  U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling peppered a defense attorney for Officer Luis Uribe with questions about why she should expect him to follow orders while on release, given that he allegedly committed crimes while serving as a law enforcement officer himself.

  Defense attorney Mary Judge eventually retorted, “I don’t think you’re going to release him,” as Holleb Hotaling ticked off concerns such as Uribe’s knowledge of electronic monitoring — and how to thwart it. Holleb Hotaling eventually found Uribe a “danger to the community.”

Gee, you'd think that if there was evidence of a continued danger to the community....

• you know like thirty or forty arrests, 
• history of mental illness, 
• multiple missed courts dates, 
• failure to follow court directives

....there might be a reason to keep the offender in custody. 

Chicago "Lost its Mind" Financially

Some harsh words from the Washington Post:

• The editorial board of the Washington Post called out Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday, arguing he has mismanaged Chicago to the point the city has financially "lost its mind." The board argued that Chicago has an extensive history of using short-term economic gimmicks, and Johnson and his allies are more of the same.

  The board said that Chicago’s net operating budget increased almost 40 percent between 2019 and 2025, which, according to Grant McClintock of the Civic Federation, was "subsidized in large part by temporary federal pandemic funding that kept the City financially afloat." 

  [...] "The pandemic is over, but many of the programs and personnel positions established during that time remain, and without the benefit of the federal funding that previously supported them," he said.

Good thing the Post didn't get hold of Conehead's Northwestern Memorial Hospital Mental In-Patient Frequent Flyer card. It wouldn't just be Chicago that would be accused of losing its mind.

Conehead is hanging his imaginary budget numbers on the Civic Federation, which has claimed there's no hard evidence a head-tax would drive businesses out. This is the same Civic Federation that "....told the city last year not to pay the full pension amount...." so you'll excuse us if we don't really trust their judgement.

Budget talks have stalled again, raising the possibility of some sort of a shutdown where the City will pay everyone in I.O.U.s or something.

D.C. CompStat Exposed

NYPD had upper level exempts write a couple books on how CompStat manipulated numbers for years.

We wrote tens of dozens of articles about CompStat being crooked with the able assistance of insiders, alternative media sources like HeyJackass.com and CWB blog and may have inspired a few media reports here and there.

Now, the US Attorney in DC has reported to Congress that :::gasp!!!:::  DC police have been lying for years about their numbers:

• U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Monday that a months-long federal investigation uncovered widespread misclassification of crime reports by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), making crime statistics across Washington, D.C. "artificially lower."

  Pirro said the findings were based on a review of nearly 6,000 reports and interviews with more than 50 witnesses, showing that D.C.’s crime numbers were significantly understated.

  "It is evident that a significant number of reports had been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than it was," Pirro said in a statement.

Hell, we even wrote two days ago about Conehead and others claim crime is down....if you don't count all the stolen vehicles.

What are the three types of lies?

• Lies
• Damn Lies
• Statistics

A fourth type should be "Compstat." 

Porky the Hypocrite - Again

Eager to denounce the President over an unkind observation:

• The Democratic governor joined numerous politicians Monday in condemning President Donald Trump’s dismissive response to the violent attack.

  [...]

  Speaking at an unrelated downstate press conference, Pritzker called Trump’s comments “another example of the terrible nature of our president.”

But he spent how many weeks and months calling Trump a nazi, a fascist, a dictator and all manner of vile crap?

Did he ever get around to condemning this?

 

He didn't? 

So the outrage only goes one way?  

Good to know.

(Lucy Martinez is still employed by the way, teaching children. And Rob Reiner - who's political stances we disagreed with 100% of the time - actually condemned the lefties celebrating Kirk's murder, which puts him a step above this bitch and Fata$$)

Firefighter Injured

Struck by falling debris:

• A Chicago firefighter was injured while crews battled an apartment fire in frigid conditions overnight in Humboldt Park on the city’s Northwest Side.

  According to Chicago Fire Department officials, the fire broke out around midnight as Saturday turned to Sunday in an apartment building in the 1100 block of North Lawndale Avenue. It’s not clear where the fire may have started, but it spread to two neighboring buildings.

  Officials say about 100 firefighters responded to the blaze. A mayday call went out, and the firefighter was one of two people hospitalized. A CFD spokesperson said the firefighter was injured when he was hit by debris. He appeared to be alert as crews loaded him onto a stretcher. He was then taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in fair to serious condition.

This was during the negative temps the other night, the type of call where you can see the icicles forming on the hoses, ladders and firefighters as they work. We saw a few of these fires back in the day, hydrants frozen up and down the block, hoses bursting, salt trucks standing by with tow trucks to drag equipment out of the ice jams.

Nights like that, we were always grateful someone else was doing that job.

Get well soon. 

Let's Go Judge Beach

Does this one fall under your "review" currently underway?

• Marlon Miller returned to a Cook County courtroom on Friday, accused of randomly attacking three women in the Loop this week at a time he was supposed to be confined to his home on electronic monitoring for randomly attacking four other women in the Loop.

  The alleged attacks occurred just days after a judge refused to keep him in jail despite another judge’s warning that the 40-year-old had a “very violent history,” a prosecutorial request to keep Miller in jail, and intense public scrutiny of the county’s electronic monitoring failures following the CTA train fire attack that left a woman gravely injured.

And these judges are?

• [...] On October 10, Chicago police arrested him in the 100 block of East Lake Street on misdemeanor reckless conduct charges. [...] Judge Luciano Panici, Jr. released him the next day.

  Then, around noon on November 15, Miller was arrested inside a Dunkin’ in the 7500 block of North Paulina Street after a 22-year-old woman said he slapped her across the face. [...] Judge Susana Ortiz, noting Miller’s three recent battery convictions, ordered him onto electronic monitoring administered by the chief judge’s office. Court records show Miller failed to appear in court 5 days later... [...]

  [...] Prosecutors attempted to resolve the situation on December 1 by asking Judge Peter Gonzalez to detain Miller in custody due to the escalating number of random attacks and his repeated violations of electronic monitoring. [...]  Gonzalez refused to detain Miller and sent him home again on an ankle monitor.

It's an epidemic.

Crime Monitor

What's that commercial from a few years back? Lifelock?

• "I'm not a security guard - I'm a security monitor. I only notify people if there's a robbery....there's a robbery."

It's reality:

• A 23-year-old Calumet City resident who has been arrested six times in Chicago this year, including multiple times on the CTA, is accused of sexually assaulting a disabled woman after pushing her out of her wheelchair at a downtown Red Line station.

  During a detention hearing on Saturday, prosecutors said the 33-year-old woman was riding an inbound Red Line train when Rasheed Griffin boarded her car near Belmont around 2:45 a.m. Thursday. As the train continued toward downtown, Griffin allegedly wrapped his legs around her wheelchair and began kissing and groping her while saying he wanted to perform sexual acts. 

  [....] Video allegedly showed Griffin wheeling her off the elevator and knocking the wheelchair over, sending the woman to the ground. She landed on her stomach and struggled to breathe from the impact before Griffin climbed on top of her, pulled down her pants, and sexually assaulted her, according to prosecutors.

  The victim screamed that she was being raped, drawing the attention of a CTA customer service agent who summoned a security guard. The guard took a picture of Griffin as he fled and sent the image to other security officers and CPD.

That's just great:

• "I'm a security monitor. I only notify people if they're being raped....you're being raped."

Six arrests this year, four of them in the past two months, and free to roam the rails, raping a wheelchair bound woman.

Gee, it's good thing he didn't have a bottle of gasoline.

• "I only notify people if they're on fire....you're burning." 

No wonder the feds want to suspend funding this crime ridden hellhole. 

Multi-Level Suburban Scandal

It pays to be a so-called "violence interrupter" in Markham:

• A convicted murderer now working as a violence interrupter was allowed to walk away without charges after cops found a firearm in his car during a routine traffic stop, according to records obtained by CWBChicago. That’s because the town’s police chief personally intervened and ordered cops not to prosecute the matter.

  And, CWBChicago has learned, the directive from Markham Police Chief Jack Genius came down before officers submitted the case for routine review by prosecutors.

• During the stop, Muhammad repeatedly mentioned elected officials and called attention to a Harvey alderwoman standing nearby.

  He also questioned the officer’s decision to run his plates, asking, “That’s how you do it? Is that profiling?” “It’s not profiling at all,” answered the officer.

  “All the doggone shootings, violence I stop in Chicago, I just making sure,” Muhammad replied.

  After taking a seat on the curb, Muhammad told a backup officer, “I do, um, violence prevention,” then nodded toward a woman watching the stop and added, “and that’s our alderman right there.

The aldercreature appears to have been Colby Chapman (Markham 2nd Ward).

But wonder of wonders, CWB discovered a completely different woman showed up at the Markham PD to claim the weapon later, meaning that a convicted felon (who couldn't own a weapon) and a Markham aldercreature in the car (who didn't own the weapon) were both within arms reach of an unsecured unattended weapon - which all sorts of democrat politicians have passed laws about threatening fines, jail and revocation of FOID cards.

Which is happening when exactly?

And Chief Moron needs to face charges, too. 

Careful Out There

Traffic accidents are still one of the leading causes of injury or death of Officers:

• A 33-year-old woman was given several citations after she ran a red light and plowed into a police car Thursday night in Fuller Park on the South Side. Around 10:50 p.m., the officers were in a marked squad car going north in the 4200 block of South La Salle Street when a silver sedan going west ran a red light and struck them, Chicago police said.

  The officers were taken to an area hospital where they were in good condition, police said.

  The sedan driver, a 33-year-old woman, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and was in good condition, officials said. The woman was issued four citations: disobeying a red light, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and operating a vehicle without registration.

Too soon to ask if she was an illegal unfamiliar with driving on cold, icy streets?

In any event, get well soon Officers. 

Crime is Down....Sort of

A couple people sent us this graphic from the HeyJackass.com site:

So crime is down....if you only count certain categories:

• homicides are down - hooray! But as we've said before, these things are cyclical. Show us the numbers on a five year or ten year trend....then we'll talk;
• shootings are down - well, that kind of follows. Less dead probably means less people got shot;
• burglaries are down slightly, reasons may vary;
• robberies are up from the Groot years, but down from the Rahm years;
• car jackings are down from the Groot years, but up from the Rahm years; 

Stolen cars (which is actually a crime) is where the effects of "Don't Pursue/Chase" can really be seen. If you reward bad behavior (and not chasing is a "reward" - the reward of zero consequences) then you're going to get more of it, which you see in a doubling of thefts fro the Rahm years and nearly doubee-and-one-half from the Groot years.

The sheer disparity in stolen vehicle numbers means if you leave that entire category out of the equation, then by golly, crime IS down.

But not really. It's just a numbers game. 

And Again

It never ends:

• A 27-year-old man who escaped electronic monitoring earlier this year is now charged with trying to kill a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer who tried to take him back into custody on the South Side, according to prosecutors.

  Members of a fugitive apprehension team tracked down Antwan Ford on December 2, six months after he cut off his ankle monitor device and disappeared from his Ford Heights home, officials said. When officers located him near 74th Street and Colfax Avenue, Ford drove his black GMC Terrain directly at a task force officer, according to prosecutors. Ford allegedly pinned the 51-year-old officer between the SUV and a building, then continued driving. The injured officer was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital with injuries to both legs.

  Ford is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery of a peace officer, and leaving the scene of an accident involving injury. He is the 22nd person accused of shooting, killing, or trying to shoot or kill someone in Chicago this year while on felony pretrial release. Judge John Hock ordered him detained on the new charges.

Only 22 offenders? That appears to only count the people (or folks) who "escaped" E.M. If you add in all the SAFE-T Act offenders and the parole violators, it would be a bit higher.

For God's Sake.....WTF?

This bad penny keeps turning up?

• Embattled Chicago police Det. Marco Torres discussed plans to pay a gang member “a grand” to “get rid of” a fellow female detective he was convicted of assaulting during an abusive relationship, a newly filed lawsuit alleges.

  Torres texted another officer on May 20, 2024, and asked for his ex-girlfriend’s home address, saying he needed it to pay the would-be hit man, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court.

  Torres was later convicted of threatening the life of the plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit anonymously as “Jane Doe” and already has a pending whistleblower lawsuit against Torres and the police department.

  Torres now faces felony charges of harassing another officer and threatening to get her fired if she testified against him, court records show.

Didn't someone from SOS do ten years behind bars for "soliciting" the murder of a fellow officer?

And this guy, with his habit of beating females, phone harassment, witness intimidation, with one guilty plea already......jeez Snelling, cut your loses and lead the Department away from this useless fuck.

We harp on disbanding the fbi for all of their corruption, but this asshole makes us think disbanding CPD might be a viable option in the near future. Or at least, firing everyone in Personnel who hired this one (along with all the other disasters of late) and then disband the Police Board that can't follow its own disciplinary practices.

IOD Rumor

We have it from two different people that the officer currently stripped for killing his partner isn't serving at Alternate Response (callback), Unit 376.

He's being carried IOD. 

If true, we'd imagine taxpayers would be entitled to know, what type of injury? 

Otherwise, shouldn't he be at Callback, answering phones and typing reports, the same as numerous other Officers?

What's the Word Again?

Insurrection-y?

• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of legislation Tuesday morning to protect immigrants from "unjust" federal immigration enforcement actions.

  The new law puts several preventative measures in place, including banning civil immigration arrests at courthouses.

  Thousands of people were arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents during two and a half months of heightened enforcement action the Trump administration dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.

"unjust"? These are laws passed by the House and Senate and signed into Law by the President and upheld by numerous Court decisions, in some cases decades ago. That's pretty much the textbook definition of "just."

We certainly hope that Porkulous is the first governor that goes to fat camp Federal prison over these obviously unconstitutional "laws" passed solely to cater to people who can't vote, can't hold jobs and can't receive benefits that are supposed to be going to actual citizens.

Post Under Review

This post "Oops (Again)" was flagged by the tech overlords for being "misleading" even though it quoted an actual lame-stream media source (WGN) and an actual medical study by Stanford regarding cardiac damage by the "vaccine." 

Evidently, they don't like when thinking people apply their interpretation to events affecting billions of lives. Our twenty-thousand daily hits are a threat?

We toned down the harsh language to see if it passes through their censorship regime. 

They're still hanging their hats on the "scamdemic" even though every single week another brick gets knocked out of that wall.

Contrarian Rant

The Contrarian has a hell of an article up, describing in gut wrenching detail how the "justice" system in Cook County failed (and continues to fail) citizens in general and one victim in particular:

• You don’t hate the Neo Machine enough.

  No matter how much you despise the Godfather of the crimes against Chicago humanity, JB Pritzker, aka Governor “Let ‘em leave” Pritzker.

  No matter how much you loathe Brandon “Mayor 6.6” Johnson…...

  No matter how much you detest his bosses:

• Boss Toni Preckwinkle and the instruments of her evil, late, unlamented apprentices:
• “State’s Attorney” who was in fact lower on the scale of justice than a public defender and defense attorney for drug dealers, Kim Foxx.
• “Chief Injustice” Tim Evans
• Boss Stacy “The Notorious SDG” Davis Gates

• You may think you couldn’t hate them any more than you already do.

  But you’re wrong.

  You’re wrong because they’re still in office.

From there, the author describes the gasoline attack preparation and eventual assault on Ms MaGee in detail along with the life altering injuries suffered once the terrorist (and let's face it, he's a terrorist) ignited the gasoline.

It's a piece you aren't going to see anywhere else, because the media is gutless, as are the politicians who enabled this sad state of affairs.

And likely, Chicago voters won't show up at the polls to punish anyone, because they've been trained not to. 

"Justice System" Failures Continue

SAFE-T Act failures abound.

Electronic monitoring continues to be a joke.

And as we've been pointing out for decades, the Parole system is broken beyond repair:

• A 21-year-old man who walked out of prison the same day he arrived in August is now accused of being part of a violent armed robbery crew that Chicago police suspect was responsible for 28 holdups during November. Prosecutors have filed charges against Marquis Terry in four of those cases, including one in which a victim was kidnapped and driven to Chase Bank locations across the city.

  Terry previously drew coverage on CWBChicago when a stolen, loaded machine gun was found in his high school locker last year. Records show he received a five-year prison sentence in mid-August for possessing the weapon. But during the roughly 500 days he spent in the Cook County Jail awaiting resolution of the case, he earned 900 days of credit. Combined with the state’s mandatory 50 percent sentence reduction, he was released from prison on August 14, the same day he walked in.

You know where criminals can live, and all the crimes they continue to commit don't bother the law abiding citizens?

• prison

Funny how that works. 

Save Some Money

Fire this guy:

• A high-ranking member of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration was arrested over the weekend on drunk driving charges outside the Park District’s South Shore Cultural Center, authorities said.

  Luis Zepeda, first deputy commissioner of the Department of Streets and Sanitation, was taken into custody about 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the 7100 block of South Exchange Ave, according to Chicago police, and released later that day.

  He was cited for two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence and one misdemeanor count of obstructing traffic. It wasn’t immediately clear when his next court date was.

  Asked whether City Hall was separately disciplining Zepeda, Johnson’s spokesperson deferred comment to DSS, which confirmed an internal investigation but did not elaborate.

For some reason, the only local coverage was the Tribune, and it's behind a paywall. Every other site seems to have neglected covering this story.

We Rest Our Case

The Percy L Julian High School at 103rd and Elizabeth:

Those who can, do. 

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, run the electronic billboard.

Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy

Here comes disaster:

• The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner, Officer Carlos Baker, was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5.

  The lawsuit, filed in Cook County court against Baker and the Chicago Police Department, says the breakup stemmed from Baker’s infidelity and that Rivera had threatened to tell his live-in girlfriend about their relationship.

  It says Baker showed up uninvited at Rivera’s home a day before the Gresham District tactical officers chased a gunman into an apartment in Chatham and encountered a second armed man, leading Baker to fire a single gunshot, which pierced Rivera’s back, killing her.

This one is going to get ugly if it gets as far as depositions, and worse if it goes to an actual trial:

• Baker has been stripped of his policing powers since August, though not as a result of the shooting. That step came after the department said he tried to obtain surveillance video that captured a fight he and another woman got into with a female police officer inside the vestibule of a bar in Wicker Park. The female officer was treated at a hospital for a split lip.

  Since joining the department in December 2021, Baker has faced three suspensions and two reprimands, records show, including being disciplined over a complaint that he failed to arrest a home invader — on his first shift working the streets.

  He accrued five complaints as a probationary officer, when the department could have fired him because he had few union protections.

Not to mention the "man on a bridge threatening to jump" months ago.

There's going to be a harsh spotlight shining on hiring and disciplinary procedures that should cost a lot of people their jobs and perhaps punitive damages. Corp Counsel might even end up referring this one to outside law firm(s).

That's Not a Rat

That's a moving target!

• Perhaps off topic but there apparently isn’t any money for rat control at the CPD range. My ex partner’s daughter is OTJ and recently had to qualify at the range. The qual session was canceled due to a major rat infestation with rats running all over. Any confirmation? 

No idea if this is the new Academy range (which is a disaster anyway), the old Academy range (which is so outdated and polluted, it's near useless) or one of the Area ranges (broken more often than not and contaminated so badly the EPA ought to be notified.)

But we can name twenty or thirty guys who would have been skipping bullets off the floor, nailing rats just for shits and giggles. 

First SAFE-T Failures, Now E.M.

CWB is going to be busy if they're going to be keeping track of SAFE-T Act failures AND Electronic Monitoring failures - they're going to have to hire extra staff!

• A Chicago man who escaped electronic monitoring while awaiting trial for a series of violent CTA robberies is back in custody. Unfortunately, according to prosecutors, he sexually assaulted a child while he was on the run.

  Last year, prosecutors asked Judge David Kelly to keep 21-year-old Davaughn Credit in jail pending trial on allegations he participated in a violent cross-town robbery spree in Chicago. But Kelly, who earned a statistically-proven reputation as the most defendant-friendly judge in the Cook County court’s pretrial division, sent Credit home on an ankle monitor.

  Credit allegedly escaped from electronic monitoring last month, but he resurfaced this week in Jasper County, Indiana, where officials say he molested a young girl he met online.

  According to court reporting by Region News Source, the sexual assault case began less than three weeks after Credit went AWOL when a woman reported her 11-year-old daughter missing from Chicago. 

Good thing we have actual judges overseeing the program now! That will hold criminals accountable for sure.

CWB should also hire someone to specifically keep track of these unqualified judicial hacks who keep releasing criminals and the lawyer associations who endorse them. Not that we wouldn't stop our practice of voting "No" on every single crooked Cook County judge anyway. 

Police Shooting

We were always told 020 was a "retirement" District:

• Chicago police fatally shot a man in Arcadia Terrace late Tuesday after he dragged an officer while trying to flee in a stolen vehicle that investigators had been watching, according to CPD. The department said the officer who was dragged suffered minor injuries.

  A tactical team from the Lincoln (20th) District was watching a stolen BMW in the 5700 block of North Washtenaw Avenue when a second car pulled alongside the stolen vehicle around 10:25 p.m., according to a preliminary statement from CPD.

  According to CPD, two men got out of the arriving sedan and moved toward the stolen BMW. Tactical officers moved in to investigate. One of the men returned to the driver’s seat of the sedan, and officers ordered him to get out, but he refused and struggled with them, CPD said.

  During the struggle, the man allegedly accelerated the car with an officer still partly inside. Police said the officer fired a single shot, striking the driver, and the vehicle then collided with an unoccupied parked car. The officers pulled the man from the seat and began medical treatment until Chicago Fire Department crews arrived, CPD said. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital and pronounced dead. His identity has not been released.

Officer is going to be fine, aside from the five different "oversight" committees trying to further demonize the police while making excuses for the assailant/criminal.

Good job Officer. 

Where the Money Went?

Someone can help us understand these pages from the City budget? 

Are we reading these correctly? (click for larger versions)

Is this a PAST budget proposal? The header shows $150 million under the 2024 heading, up from $51 million in 2023? 

Or this one:

Does this mean:

• $150 million APPROPRIATED for 2024
• $220 million SPENT in 2024 (up $70 million)
• zero for 2025? 

Or this one:

Meaning:

• $200 million in 2024
• zero in 2025
• zero in 2026?

Is this half-a-billion in "savings" since 2024? And Conehead still wants to shut down the government unless he's allowed to float another couple of billion in unsecured bond debt?

We aren't accountants, but it sure seems like pots of money are being shifted around.

Another One

And it almost always seems like it's in the Ward of an aldercreature who actually wanted ShotSpotter around:

• Officials are still trying to identify a man who was found fatally shot in a West Side alley early Tuesday after no one in the neighborhood called 911 to report the gunfire that killed him. The man is the latest shooting victim to go undiscovered in an area that used to be covered by the city’s ShotSpotter network.

  The gunfire detection system was dismantled last year by Mayor Brandon Johnson despite repeated attempts by a supermajority of the City Council to keep the technology active.

  A 911 caller reported finding the victim bleeding and unresponsive in an alley behind the 1800 block of South Ridgeway at about 12:37 a.m. Officers arrived to find the man lying on the pavement with gunshot wounds throughout his body. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Chicago police.

  The caller told officers he had heard gunfire earlier in the night but did not report it at the time. No one else in the area called either, according to dispatch records. Investigators recovered four shell casings in the alley.

You'll know the money problems are over when Conehead re-instates some version of ShotSpotter 2.0 early next year.

Withholding Funding

Unlike the Chicago Public Schools, someone in Washington is refusing to send good money after bad:

• A federal directive issued Tuesday threatens to choke off Chicago Transit Authority funding unless the agency immediately boosts law-enforcement presence and reverses what federal officials call a years-long surge in violent crime and worker assaults on its buses and trains.

  The order, issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration, follows the November 17 attack in which Lawrence Reed, a man with a long criminal history who was wearing an ankle monitor for a pending felony matter, allegedly set a 26-year-old woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop. The case is one of countless headline-grabbing violent crimes aboard the city’s transit lines.

Unfortunately, there aren't any police to assign, so efforts to boost those numbers will likely fall flat.

What Did You Expect to Happen?

The whining on the west side is amusing to behold:

• Dozens of residents frustrated about hikes on their property tax bills this year attended Monday night’s community meeting hosted by Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in West Garfield Park.

  Residents sat down with members of Kaegi’s office to find tax exemptions for which they are eligible. They also met with the Cook County Board of Review to submit appeals of their tax bill, which Reed, 54, filed during the event.

  Predominantly Black neighborhoods on the South and West sides are bearing the brunt of the county’s tax burden shift from the Loop to the city’s neighborhoods, according to a Cook County treasurer’s office report.

  Angelina Romero, spokesperson for the assessor’s office, said a major reason for that shift is the Board of Review’s continuous reductions given to large commercial properties, such as retail and data centers.

Nothing about the wondrous parenting skills on the west side for the past sixty years or so. Criminals raising criminals, allowing the non-demonized to run rampant, and finally spilling out of the neighborhood confines into the traditionally "low crime" areas, driving middle class residents and businesses out of the city and destroying the tax base.

Would the proper reply be "Reap what you have sown" or "FAFO"? 

Good Question

But you'll never see actual answers about how to fix it:

• Illinois lowered its standards in 2025, but over half of third graders still couldn’t read at grade level. It’s a critical milestone. See how your students did.

  Even under loosened proficiency standards, over half of Illinois third graders couldn’t read at grade level in 2025.

  How well did your local public school prepare children to read by the critical third-grade milestone?

We can't reproduce the graph here (it's 243 pages) , but CPS on average seems to be around 80% of students are NOT proficient at the 3rd grade level. You can search for schools at the link up top.

Enrollment is down, scores are down, but taxes are up - massively. 

Safe-T Act Winner

Imagine you're an ambitious kid. An over-achiever. You do eight years of grade school, graduate with good grades, honor roll accolades, and you go to a decent high school.

In high school, you continue on your upward trajectory. Advanced Placement courses, maybe a few summer classes for college credit, great grades, top-of-the-line ACT/SAT scores and honor roll again. Colleges are beating down the door and offering all sorts of scholarship money. College is a foregone conclusion. 

Four years at a top tier institution, more top scores, great grades, honor roll, Dean's lists, summer internships, the works. You realize you have a gift and you decide you want to take full advantage of what you've been given and contribute back to society. Medical school beckons.

Four more years of school - probably the most difficult of your formative years as yet, but you do it. The debt is probably mounting, but this isn't just a job you're shooting for - it's a calling and you want to make the most of it. After all, you're twenty-six now. It's at your fingertips. Just one more decision to make and given your past SIXTEEN years of schooling, you want a challenge.

You decide on Cardiology - one of the most challenging of fields and one that is undergoing constant evolution as science advances. Three years of medical residency followed by three years of fellowship, tortuous hours, stressful social life, a schedule of conferences to make sure you're up-to-date. If it all goes to plan, you're a brand new cardiologist at age thirty-two.

Now you have to land a good hospital where you may finally start to see the rewards of your TWENTY-TWO years of efforts. You apply all over - Cleveland clinic, Cedar-Sinai, Mayo Clinic....and you land a Top Ten Cardiology hospital in Chicago - Northwestern Memorial Hospital. It's a dream come true.

And then, you get into a parking garage elevator:

• Chicago police have arrested Sean Popps a dozen times this year, almost all of them for allegedly trespassing or damaging property on or near Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Streeterville campus. That string of cases follows seven arrests in 2024, again mostly on or near the hospital grounds. Records show he was also arrested at the facility twice in 2020, twice in 2021, once in 2022, and once in 2023.

  But the 39-year-old will not be returning to Northwestern for a little while. That’s because a judge ordered him jailed after prosecutors accused him of violently attacking a physician on an elevator at the hospital’s parking garage.

  The case marks yet another instance in which Cook County’s criminal justice system cycled a repeat offender back onto the street only to see the behavior violently escalate.

  Around 1:39 p.m. on November 2, a 42-year-old cardiologist entered a Northwestern elevator at 236 East Huron Street, according to court filings. Popps allegedly followed onto the lift and immediately began punching her in the head. He continued striking her, punching her again and again as she stumbled backward, covering her face with her hands, prosecutors said.

  A Chicago police report added that the woman sustained multiple bruises, abrasions, and hematomas to her face, head, arm, and hand. She had no prior contact with Popps, officials said, and the attack was entirely unprovoked.

TWELVE ARRESTS just this year. On top of the THIRTEEN arrests since 2020. On top of at least "thirty incidents" that one  security guard recalled, with another guard remembering incidents tallying "...approximately two times a day over the last 19 months.”

The SAFE-T Act in action.

Now imagine you're a forty-two year old Northwestern cardiologist who was just attacked in an elevator:

• concussion? wouldn't be surprised;
• broken bones in hand or arms shielding yourself? you're surgical skills have been diminished how badly? for how long?
• PTSD issues? that's going to come up at Medical Review Board hearings should anything go south, and in cardiology, a lot of things go south a lot of times.

Who is accountable if her skills (ten years experience after twenty-two years of schooling) are partly or completely destroyed? She's probably not fortunate enough to have inherited a string of hotels and trust funds to fall back on, although that is EXACTLY who is to blame for her current situation.

Just Disband It

That "premier" law enforcement agency? They're too political to survive:

• Joe Biden’s FBI under Director Christopher Wray knew Brian Cole was the January 6 pipe bomber back in April 2021, but for some reason chose not to take him into custody and charge him with crimes.

  Brian Cole, 30, of Woodridge, Virginia, was taken into custody last Thursday and charged with use of an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

  Cole admitted to investigators that he planted pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, the night before the Capitol riot.

  After nearly half a decade, the FBI appeared to crack the case less than one year into the Trump Administration.

According to those in charge now, ZERO new evidence was uncovered this year. They just went over all of the documentation generated in the initial stages of the investigation and ::voila!:: there was everything needed.

Except Biden's people sat on it for OVER FOUR YEARS, because the offender wasn't a politically viable offender - black, autistic, big supporter leftist causes, anti-ICE, anti-Trump. That didn't advance the narrative, so it was all hidden away.

That's not a law enforcement agency. That's some wanna-be secret police political bullshit, and something that can't be recovered from. 

Fata$$ Releasing More ILLEGALS

Remember, these ILLEGAL ALIENS (supposedly) can't vote, (supposedly) can't be eligible for ObamaCare, and (supposedly) can't be hired to legally work in most cases.

So why keep them here?

• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is warning that Illinois officials are releasing violent criminal illegal aliens despite active immigration detainers, a move the agency says is putting the public at risk. 

  In the letter shared with Fox News Digital, Todd Lyons, ICE's senior official performing the duties of director, said Illinois has "tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens" in custody – individuals who, he noted, have committed crimes ranging from murder and rape to child pornography and armed robbery. 

  Lyons said these offenders "should be swiftly removed from the United States … and not be returned to our streets to wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens." 

  According to data provided by ICE, Illinois has released 1,768 criminal aliens with active detainers since January 2025. ICE said the crimes tied to those offenders include homicides, assaults, burglaries, weapons offenses and sexual-predatory crimes. 

Every single ILLEGAL ALIEN is a criminal by definition - they broke the law to get here and they need to leave, voluntarily or by force if necessary. You can argue about whether or not they are eligible to get back into line for a legal pathway, but there needs to be consequences and deportation before they are even allowed to go to the back of the line and apply via the existing process.

Fata$$ isn't even differentiating the known, accused, convicted felons from the run-of-the-mill misdemeanor types any more, so you know what? Everyone goes.

A Shutdown?

Oh no:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson warned Monday morning that Chicago was headed for its first-ever government shutdown after a marathon weekend meeting failed to break the budget deadlock gripping the city.

  In a letter to the 26 members of the Chicago City Council who have signed on to a plan to bridge Chicago’s $1.19 billion budget gap without hiking taxes on large firms, Johnson said he was open to new ideas and continuing negotiations but said he would not allow the city’s budget to be balanced “on the backs of working people.”

  “These proposals by some members of the Council are not ‘shared sacrifice’; it is only the poor who are sharing the sacrifice,” Johnson wrote. “Doubling garbage fees, cutting youth employment, and selling Chicagoans’ debt to the highest bidder puts significant additional financial strain on those with the least ability to afford it.”

“on the backs of working people.” 

This after a onerous property tax increase - but he'll blame that on Cook County.

"Tax the wealthy!" but the wealthy will just move out of town like they've been doing for years now.

"Head tax!" which will causes businesses to close or move away, putting more pressure on the "backs of working people" who will have to commute farther. 

• Officials cannot pass a short-term ordinance to keep City Hall functioning while negotiations continue, officials said. That means without a budget agreement, more than 30,000 workers will not be paid and city services will stop.

So what shuts down when no one gets paid? Garbage pick up? Snow plows? Parks? Water Department? Water treatment?OEMC? Fire, ambulance, police responses? Illegal alien services? We didn't notice when the federal government shut down for weeks. 

It's About Time for This....

Anyone know where the FOP Books are?

That is all.