Explanations Please

Don't forget, there's an FOP General Meeting this week on 17 September at 1900 hours to vote down any surviving By-Law proposals that would strip you of National representation.

In the meantime, someone - or  many someones - should be asking questions of the three-person investigative committee, along with the executive board about some of these issues: 

• Between 2020 and 2023, Lodge 7 experienced a dramatic revenue surge—but their financial surplus has almost completely collapsed. Annual revenue rose from $7.9 million in 2020 to $10.6 million in 2023. Yet their surplus (revenues minus expenses) plunged from $1.9 million to just $311,000 during the same period.

• Despite collecting millions more in dues, virtually none of that additional money remains at year end. This alone should prompt questions, but members are prevented from asking them, because they are denied access to the union’s financial records.

• At the same time, “Other Expenses” have exploded with no clear explanation. These vaguely defined costs more than doubled from $3.4 million in 2020 to $7.1 million in 2023.

• “Other” is a catch-all category that gives no breakdown of what these millions of dollars are actually spent on. This is especially concerning given that the president has repeatedly blocked members from reviewing the underlying financial documents that could explain these expenses. This pattern—vague expenses combined with secrecy—is a known hallmark of union corruption and embezzlement.

• The same risk factors are now present at Lodge 7: massive unexplained spending growth, collapsing surpluses, and leadership actively obstructing financial transparency. That combination is exactly how other unions were looted from the inside before federal intervention exposed it.

• Last week, after charges were brought against John, the 1st Vice President introduced a motion calling for a forensic audit of the Lodge’s finances. The reaction was explosive, you would have thought someone had yelled “fire.” The entire board erupted in opposition, with the retirees shouting the loudest. After heated back-and-forth and multiple concessions, the board ultimately agreed to allow only a limited audit of the credit card accounts, and even that passed with just one holdout: Duckhorn.

If we had a business and....:

• revenue was up from $7,937,923 in 2020 to $10,662,133 in 2023, (a THIRTY-FOUR percent increase over four reporting periods) but....
• net income fell from $1,938,536 in 2020 all the way down to $311,646 in 2023 (an EIGHTY-THREE percent loss)....

We'd be demanding answers across the board....or from the Board if you like.

But hey, do the math yourself - here are the publicly available financial documents with the numbers cited. Just don't post them on the FOP Bulletin Boards - you might get a letter from Jim trying to keep the lights off.

No Retro for CFD?

A couple comments late last week (rumors as of now):

• City just told cfd they have no money for retro , sorry .
• Many Chicago Fire Fighters are being told they WILL NOT be paid retroactive pay going back to 2021. The reason?   The city is saying THEY ARE BROKE.   WTF?   

Again, rumors. But a couple points:

• if the City is refusing to abide by the negotiated Contract, wouldn't that void out all sorts of stuff....like prohibitions on job actions and ::cough cough:: strikes? 
• the City is also refusing to pay a court ordered judgement in favor of the PBPA regarding VRI money owed that is racking up thousands, perhaps millions in interest and penalties....what party was it screaming about obeying court orders just a few months ago?

And we certainly hope that some people in the different unions are looking into this historical precedent from north of the border:

• Wallace Edwards' 13-year war to collect a debt from the Soviet Union is over. The Rusians have surrendered. Edwards, head of Waltham Press Ltd., won a 1973 court judgment against the Soviet government for a $26,000 printing job he performed for it during the Expo '67 World's Fair, but the Soviets refused to pay.

  Until Thursday, that is. Assailed by Edwards' seizure of a Soviet ship in Toronto harbor and his assault on the Russian Embassy's operating funds, the Soviets have agreed to settle the debt.

After attempting to stiff the Canadian printer for tens of thousands of dollars, the enterprising tradesman sued, won a judgement against the Soviet Union, and had the sheriffs seize a nearly 600-foot freighter valued in the tens of millions until the commies came up with his money.

We would be amused beyond measure should the CFD or the PBPA get a lien against some Chicago properties, like the Bean or the Picasso or maybe portions of the CTA or an entire airport, and then put it up for sale unless Conehead came up with the money owed. 

We can always hope.

Where are the Tax Bills?

This from back in July and guess what? Nothing has come out since then either.

Not that we're looking forward to the expected massive increases, but it would be nice to see what we're going to have to come up with so we can start the appeals process and then start campaigning against these thieves:

• The second installments of Cook County property tax bills are theoretically due on Thursday, Aug. 1.

  But thanks to technology problems, the bills haven't even been mailed out yet.

  What we know:

  The question FOX 32 sought to answer was when would those Cook County tax bills be ready to go?

  The consensus was, thanks to those technical problems, "we just don't know."

  Cook County public officials blame a 10-year-old contract with a Texas-based company called Tyler Technologies for the delay. The contract was inked by the county in 2015 and was supposed to modernize the property tax billing system within three to five years.

"technical problems"? But DuPage County (which uses the same company) got their bills out on time.

So the problem is probably along the lines of they are figuring out how hard they're going to have to manipulate the tax multiplier. Then they have to take into account favors from the assessor, the clerk, the treasurer and the county board, not to mention the CPS usual maxing out of their share. Then they have to figure out how much everyone else has to make up shortfalls for things like the head of the CTU living in Indiana, downtown discount deals for Madigan's and Burke's law firm clients, and the usual "exemptions" for aldercreatures who misrepresent the building they're living in.

After all that, maybe you'll get a tax bill that only goes up 20%. 

Gaslighting to a New Level

Anyone know when this interview came out?

• Link Here

Governor Porkulous is with Jon Stewart we think, and he's claiming that democrats never advocated for defunding the police, that it was all a Trump thing. and he (Fata$$) has hired more police than ever before.

Um....where exactly? CPD is short 2,000 at least. He isn't sending money to Conehead. ISP Troopers? Short as well.

And just for fun, here's almost seven minutes of democrats saying, advocating, and demanding defunding of police that we found after three seconds of searching the internet. Tie that into the SAFE-T Act and the no-bail provisions across the country....you get the picture.

But Porky is out there lying his ass off. 

Better lie harder - there's still plenty of ass to go around.

More Fraud

So the head of the CTU had an Indiana address as her primary residence for years, garnering massive tax breaks.

The District Attorney in New York who conducted unprecedented lawfare against Trump was committing mortgage fraud on a grand scale with her primary residence listed in Virginia.

One of the Federal Reserve governors had not one, not two, but three separate mortgages, snaring tax breaks for at least two of them under false pretenses. There might even be a fourth that is being looked into. (UPDATE: some morons are citing an NBC report that Cook had paperwork that the second mortgage was a "vacation home." That was PRELIMINARY paperwork with ZERO legal standing. It showed the higher mortgage rate for a second home (which she rejected) and then signed the actual legally binding UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY with the lower rate locked in - that's absolute proof of fraud. All comments citing the NBC gaslighting will be deleted - and try not to believe the lying media) 

And now, locally, more residential fraud:

• The head of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has been getting property tax breaks in Michigan that are allowed only for a primary residence for years even though he’s required to live in Cook County, an investigation by Injustice Watch has found.

  Leonard Dixon, who at $280,000 a year is among the county’s highest-paid officials, has been the superintendent of the center for a decade. It’s one of the country’s largest youth jails.

  Asked where he lives, Dixon told a reporter, “I live in Chicago.”  And a spokesman for his boss, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, says a review Evans commissioned found that Dixon lives in Illinois.

  But records show Dixon and his wife own a house in Woodhaven, Michigan, for which they receive a property tax break that Michigan law allows only for a homeowner’s principal residence — a tax break they have gotten for the past 30 years. Since 2015, when Dixon took the Cook County job, the exemption has saved them more than $13,000 in property taxes.

He also owns two other properties in Florida in some sort of a blind trust, hiding parts of the ownership details, but he listed his Michigan address as his primary residence, meaning he doesn't live here.

But don't you try anything like that to beat the onerous tax burdens here. 

Must Be Nice

Conflicts of interest out the ass, but hey....no standards for Chicago aldercreatures:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick to lead the Chicago Housing Authority, retired Ald. Walter Burnett, and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett have been paid more than $260,000 as housing voucher landlords for the agency since 2007, a Chicago Sun-Times’ analysis shows.

  Records show the Burnetts have had 10 contracts for properties rented to CHA voucher holders, including two ongoing contracts and five contracts that were active during Williams-Burnett’s time as an employee of the government agency.

  The voucher payments to Burnett and his wife appear to present conflicts of interest, according to the CHA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The business dealings could be a roadblock to his appointment to lead the nation’s third-largest public housing authority.

Burnett was just as good at armed robberies as he is at stealing from taxpayers, maybe slightly better since he hid this for a number of years and almost got away with hiding it until he was nominated by Conehead to run the CHA. Now that's in jeopardy.

A.I. is Funny

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Porkulous is nervous:

• Right-wing internet personality Ben Bergquam on Thursday filmed outside of Gov. JB Pritzker’s home and invited his followers to “take action” after the murder of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, sparking concerns for the Democratic governor’s safety.

  “Made a stop by Governor Pritzker’s house in Chicago today,” Bergquam says in a video with Pritzker’s Gold Coast home in the background. “If you love America and the assassination of Charlie Kirk doesn’t inspire you to take action, I don’t know what will!”

  Sources close to the governor told the Sun-Times the video has prompted additional concerns over Pritzker’s safety. The Illinois State Police Executive Protection Unit currently provides 24-hour security for the governor, his family and the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield.

The left is slowly waking up to just how much damage their rhetoric and vitriol is biting them in the political ass. They've been calling everyone since Goldwater a nazi or "the next Hitler" and then want everyone to "tone it down" when their latest tran-tifa supporter goes off the rails.

For a guy simply filming on the public way and advocating absolutely nothing. 

Eileen O'Neill Burke for Governor!

We are freaking speechless at the moment - we thought these days were long gone:

• Prosecutors have charged seven men with felony murder, saying they were part of a crash-and-grab burglary crew that killed a motorist while fleeing a break-in at the Louis Vuitton store on Michigan Avenue this week.

  Most of the men have significant arrest records, but one of them, according to an individual familiar with the investigation, works as an anti-violence “peacekeeper.”

  Just before 5 a.m. Thursday, a group of burglars backed a pickup truck into a display window at the high-end retailer’s Mag Mile location, 919 North Michigan Avenue. Video shows several men running through the compromised storefront and running out with trash bags filled with merchandise. Prosecutors believe that merchandise valued at between $500,000 and $1 million was taken.

  Chicago police officers arrived as the crew fled the scene in up to six vehicles.

And look at that - another "peacekeeper." Likely paid by Conehead using Chicago taxpayer money. How much was that budget shortage again?

But hats off to the States Attorney for actually doing her job trying to uphold the law and protect innocent victims. We have no idea what the Evans-Prickwrinkle corrupted DEI judicial branch will do, but O'Neill Burke gets full credit for charging everyone according to the Law. 

Well done Ma'am. 

ICE Shooting

Suburban Franklin Park:

• Federal immigration agents fatally shot a man Friday morning in a Northwest suburb after he allegedly attempted to flee a traffic stop and struck an officer with his car, officials said.

  The shooting comes days after President Donald Trump’s long-promised immigration enforcement campaign launched in the Chicago area, generating widespread fear in immigrant communities in the city and suburbs.

  [...] During the stop, a man allegedly resisted arrest and attempted to drive his car into officers, dragging one officer, ICE officials said. The officer opened fire and shot the man, according to ICE. He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

  [...] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican consulate in Chicago identified the man as 38-year-old Mexican national Silverio Villegas González. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified him. ICE said the officer was also taken to a hospital with “severe injuries.” His condition has stabilized, according to the statement.

So....illegal or not? The Mexican consulate is chiming in, so probably not a citizen, so the legality of his presence is suddenly pertinent to the investigation, correct?

And seeing as how he attempted to murder a federal officer with a large metal object on wheels, it becomes an even more pertinent question. 

Still a Trump Win

He pushed Fatass's and Conehead's buttons for weeks....and they fell for it, hook, line and sinker, holding press conferences, threatening lawsuits, fully backing ILLEGAL ALIENS over Chicago, Illinois citizens. Now they're claiming "victory" because the National Guard might be headed to Memphis:

• President Donald Trump apparently has backed down from his promise to send the National Guard into Chicago — for now.

  Mayor Brandon Johnson credited the vocal opposition of Chicago and Illinois Democrats against federal intervention for Trump’s announcement Friday that he’ll instead send the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee — though he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” Trump said.

  “Because of the unified opposition from community leaders and elected officials in Chicago and throughout the state, the Trump administration backed down from its threats of sending in the National Guard to Chicago,” Johnson said in a statement.

Do they not realize that if the upcoming weekend - warm temps and Mexican Independence Day "festivities" - spirals out of control, they're going to look like morons for turning down federal help that would have freed up CPD to handle (and maybe prevent) mayhem?

If we were driving downtown this weekend and ran into a street takeover, fireworks, open lawbreaking, we aren't blaming the feds. We'd be blaming Conehead and Fata$$ for it. 

In that spirit, we'll predict seven dead, twenty wounded for the weekend, beginning seven hours ago at 1700 hours Friday until 0500 hours Monday - sixty hours.

The System is Still Broken

And nothing on the horizon seems to say it'll get fixed:

• A Chicago anti-violence worker has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for a string of violent carjackings in West Englewood that left one victim shot and others threatened at gunpoint.

  U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins handed down the sentence for 23-year-old Jamari Edwards, who admitted in April to carjacking three people during a single week in August 2022. Edwards also pleaded guilty to federal firearm charges tied to the crimes.

Anyone know who was paying the salary of this "anti-violence" worker who was out committing ...um... violence? Was it Chicago taxpayers who are already staring into the Conehead abyss of a massive budget shortfall?

Or this:

• An 18-time convicted felon is now accused of scaling more than 10 floors to burglarize one of Chicago’s most exclusive private homes while the owners were asleep.

  Prosecutors say 46-year-old Robert Berry entered a residence in the 200 block of East Lake Shore Drive around 3 a.m. on August 19, 2025. The block, which includes the landmark Drake Hotel and a row of early 20th-century luxury co-ops, is one of the most expensive stretches of real estate in the city. The victims’ home was recently on the market for $8.4 million.

Yet another SAFE-T Act triumph and broken Parole system that puts criminals back on the street with the full support of democrats. Someone with eighteen convictions shouldn't be breathing fresh air for decades, yet here he is climbing up ten stories on fire escapes to commit more felonies.

Knowing who lives in that part of town though, they probably would have welcomed this repeat offender into their home had they woken up. Husband might have even offered him the wife. 

Evans Out?

Where the heck did this come from?

• Timothy Evans, the longtime Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, lost his re-election bid on Wednesday to Circuit Judge Charles Beach. The vote, Evans’ office said, was 144 to 109 with one spoiled ballot.

  Evans, who has led the county’s courts since September 2001, will be replaced by Beach, a judge who served for years in the Pretrial Division and oversaw initial hearings for defendants newly charged with crimes.

  The Chief Judge is elected every three years by a vote of the circuit’s judges. A source who was present for Wednesday’s balloting said another contender, Judge Nichole Patton, dropped out and threw her support behind Beach.

So almost a year ago, we had a non-Prickwrinkle candidate win the States Attorney spot.

Now, we have Prickwrinkle's handpicked Chief Judge launched by the circuit judges?

• Have the wheels come off the Prickwrinkle machine? 
• Is Beach going to revamp the rules that Evans upended concerning bail? 
• Does O'Neill Burke have a judicial ally in the ongoing battle to regain control of the justice system fighting against the "just us" people (or folks)? 
• Is Dart going to have to reopen parts of the jail that he shuttered? 

And lastly, if Prickwrinkle is losing her grip, Conehead is in real trouble. He might be in line for another nervous breakdown. 

Crime is Still Down

A brazen six-car convoy?

• A crash-and-grab burglary crew fleeing from a break-in at the Louis Vuitton store slammed into another vehicle on the Mag Mile, killing its driver, police said. CPD has also revealed that seven burglars are in custody, including five who were in the vehicle that crashed.

  It all started around 4:53 a.m. Thursday when the crew used a pickup truck to ram through the Louis Vuitton storefront at 919 North Michigan Avenue. Witnesses told police that at least six cars pulled up, and offenders scooped up merchandise from the compromised store. Officers arriving moments later saw the getaway vehicles leaving the scene.

  One of those getaway cars, a Kia Stinger, didn’t make it far. Police say the Kia sped south on Michigan Avenue and plowed into an eastbound Honda CR-V at Ohio Street. The Honda’s driver, an unidentified man believed to be in his 40s, was rushed to Northwestern Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to CPD. Five people from the Kia were also hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. All are now in police custody. Stolen merchandise was recovered from the Kia.

And now we get to see if O'Neill Burke is an actual States Attorney or just another Machine tool. She's been better than the last few who occupied that office, but....what have you done for the voters lately?

A death in the commission of a felony used to mean that EVERYONE involved got charged with Felony Murder. This is an especially egregious crime, representative of a massive breakdown of law and order, and O'Neill Burke was recently quoted as in favor of full prosecution of felony theft offenses.

What's it going to be? 

This Sounds....Familiar

But it can't be. 

Mass transit is the safest it's ever been, even back in April:

• Witnesses to a fatal stabbing outside the Central Green Line station stepped in and detained the killer until police arrived, officials said. Emily Carlson, 25, of Glendale Heights, died from a single stab wound she received to her upper back around 1 p.m. on April 24.

  Prosecutors said 54-year-old Willie Holmes spat on Carlson and a witness reacted by punching Holmes. Holmes allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed Carlson in the back. CTA cameras recorded the encounter.

The stab pretty much severed her aorta and she bled out in seconds.

We keep thinking about North Carolina for some reason.

Good thing crime was under control the entire year. 

Remembering

Because everyone seems to have forgotten in this hyper-partisan political atmosphere.

 

Twenty-four years.

Here Comes the Cover-Up

Jim Backstabbitch sent out an email to all the Unit reps (click for larger view):

 

You mean these charges? (summarized for clarity - we have multiple copies from multiple sources)

1. Misappropriation of funds: On or about 08/13/2021, the president mishandled the expenditure of funds earmarked for a 2021 National FOP Presidential campaign and did not deposit funds into a campaign fund;
2. Misappropriation of funds: Between 08/2024 and 03/2025, the president refused to reimburse the Lodge for funds used for the 2024 Christmas in July Party;
3. Misappropriation of funds: On or about 2/12/2025, the president admitted to putting the 2023 Vision and Voice campaign funds into an interest-bearing CD;
4. Abuse of Authority: On 08/06/2025, the president unilaterally purchased a painting for a total of $10,809.85, contrary to established Lodge procedures;
5. Misappropriation of funds: Between 08/05/2025 and today, the president used cash owed to the Lodge for the 2025 National Dinner Cruise for other purposes, which includes cash tips and dinners.

There's also a list of receipts submitted into evidence backing the charges - we'll guess it's only a matter of time before someone forwards those to us, too.

We read over the By-Laws, and guess what doesn't appear? 

• anything forbidding the membership from being informed of the charges
• anything forbidding the posting of said charges on bulletin boards in non-public areas

We're also told that the Courts have often recognized that union leadership will claim "confidentiality" as a pretext to conceal wrong doing and malfeasance, which it seems might be happening at this very moment. 

In any case, if the Board is attempting to keep the membership in the dark, rest assured we'll do what we can to drag them back into the spotlight. 

This Tub of Shit

Fata$$ is blaming the administration and a fake "insurrection" for a political assassination:

• Link to Tub of Shit statement

Just a reminder:

 

Did you see the US Congress yesterday? The Speaker asked for a moment of silence, and the howls from the dems reminded us that these leftist assholes couldn't stand for a kid dying of cancer, so they weren't about to shut their pie mouths for a father of two gunned down for daring to win arguments against their narrative.

This statement by Porkulous should end his national aspirations. 

Interesting Fund Raiser

Someone is exploring the possibility of ending the City Residency requirement:

• City of Chicago employees have been long held under the big thumb of residency. Historically that hasn't been a completely terrible thing, however as we all know too well the city has changed. This is not the once great Chicago I was born and raised in. This is no longer a safe place to raise our families, educate our children, or even afford to live in some instances. Therefore, I have set out on a quest to take on the residency requirement that handcuffs us all.
• The initial process entails a fact finding and research component that will be necessary before we can consider filing a lawsuit. This research component has been negotiated to a flat rate of $10,000 with the attorney. I want to make very clear that this initial process DOES NOT mean we are filing a lawsuit. This DOES NOT mean we are going to win if and when we do. This is a research endeavor to see what our chances and basis for a lawsuit would be, I want to make this very clear that you are donating to fund the initial research component and should we decide to move forward there will be additional fundraisers as this will not be a cheap process.

This is, of course, the longest of long shots. Illinois passed a Law a long time ago (decades and decades) that municipalities with a population of over one-million were allowed to set residency rules for their employees. It has been accepted practice since then and for some reason, the unions all went along with it.

But....

In every instance when similar laws have been challenged at the Federal level, the unions have won (Milwaukee and Pittsburgh if we recall) to name two. NYC has something like a "six-county rule" for their employees. Many other government entities have a "seasonable driving distance" in case of emergency call-outs.

And not to put too fine a point on it, we can name at least a dozen cops of all ranks who got caught living outside the city for years and managed to buffalo the City into zero disciplinary action. 

We can also name numerous elementary and high schools where the number of suburban city stickers on teacher vehicles outnumber City of Chicago stickers on a daily basis. It's almost like different strokes for different folks. Funny how that works.

In any event, we neither recommend nor denounce this effort. Everyone should make their own choices, spend their own money, explore all the options. It's becoming far too dangerous and expensive to be tied to a city sinking under the weight of incompetence. 

(WARNING: Any comment stating "you knew what you signed up for" will be summarily deleted. We all know, we all did, we didn't have to like it, and everything changes at some point with enough effort. If we followed your advice, we'd still be answering to the crown in England)

Chopper Chasing?

After the Rolex store daylight robbery, a bunch of commentators said that the helicopter had followed the suspects back to Englewood before six were arrested.

Now we get this story a few days later:

• A black Chevy sedan led Chicago police on a chase throughout Chicago Tuesday evening.

  Chopper 7 was over the chase just after 5:30 p.m. It traveled from the Northwest Side to the West Side. Police cars did not appear to be in pursuit for the entire time.

Um, then that wouldn't (technically) be a chase, would it? 

But if they were followed, either by one of the helicopters or a drone (which we're told might be federal and based out of DuPage airport), then that would be a step up. No bad visuals of chases that go wrong, no cops injured, any crashes are directly attributable to the criminal.

This would actually be an intelligent move, a rare occurrence for certain. We just have a heard time seeing the helicopter up with any meaningful flight time given the maintenance issues they had a few months ago.

Junk Bond Status

CPS keeps digging that hole: 

• On August 28, 2025, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the fourth-largest school district in the US, passed a $10.2 billion budget and is facing a $743 million deficit. Prior to the budget passage, the big three credit rating agencies each rated CPS General Obligation (GO) Bonds “non-investment grade speculative,” also known by the more pejorative title “junk bonds.” CPS bonds received a Ba1 rating from Moody’s and a BB+ rating from both S&P Global and Fitch Ratings.

  The name “junk” refers to the risk that investors face that CPS will not make interest payments or repay the principal when the bond fully matures. To offset this risk, junk bonds offer high interest rates to attract investors. This is especially significant because GO bonds are backed by “the full faith and credit” of CPS, meaning the district promises to use all existing revenue to pay back the debt and, if necessary, raise new taxes to pay the debt.  

And since this is Chicago, run by incompetent morons and people who couldn't pass Econ 101 with a open book and all the answers, this means a MASSIVE tax hike is coming. 

Soon.

And taxpayers will get even less return on their "investment" in future generations of leeches. 

Another One?

These only pop up on our radar when it means there's a dead body lying out in public:

• A man was gunned down outside the Archer Orange Line station early Sunday morning, and for ten long minutes he lay on the ground without anyone calling 911 about gunfire or his injuries.

  The delayed response wasn’t just because a hesitant CTA worker waited ten minutes to call 911 after hearing the gunshot, but also because Mayor Brandon Johnson pulled the plug on Chicago’s ShotSpotter network one year ago this month. The controversial decision removed a system that once alerted officers to gunfire in the city’s most violent neighborhoods, even when people did not call 911.

Luckily, the aldercreature representing this area (Julia Ramirez) voted against ShotSpotter, so no whining from that direction.

Your Replacements

Bring a lunch....going through Fata$$ might take a few hours.

Nice HQ Larritorious

So this video clip is making the rounds:

• VIDEO LINK

A bunch of non-demonized yutes pull up in front of "Public Safety HQ"....driving the wrong direction down Michigan Avenue by the way. They jump out of their cars, appear to be filming a rap video, and start climbing over the vehicle and waving around a number of guns.

In front of Police HQ.

How far the Department has fallen. 

Bears Leaving

Verifying what we've been saying for how long now?

• Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren reiterated in a letter to fans the day of the home opener that the team is dedicated to building a new stadium in Arlington Heights.

  "The Chicago Bears belong to more than just Chicago. We belong to the entire state of Illinois," Warren said. "We are at a pivotal juncture of the Chicago Bears franchise to build a new stadium, our future home in Arlington Heights, which will require zero state money for construction. This is the year to finalize our stadium plans so we can officially bid to host a Super Bowl as soon as 2031. This is the moment to begin moving toward that future, and we want you with us."

This will be one of the defining moments of Conehead's legacy. He didn't start the process, but he was there at its low-point. 

Illinois and Cook County don't care - they'll still get their tax revenue. But Chicago won't. 

What Democrats Support

Stomach churning:

 

This happened two weeks ago in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The media suppressed it because it didn't fit the narrative.

They're making excuses for this and some are actually defending it.

He's been arrested 14 times (minimum) and released without meaningful restrictions every time.

She died....because of democrat policies in a democrat blue city shithole. 

Not Sustainable

It's far past time to gut the CTU and reform CPS spending (click for larger view):

 

The email we got along with the picture says:

• In 15 years, Chicago has lost almost 90,000 students, spending per student has DOUBLED, property tax revenue has more than DOUBLED and less than a quarter kids can read or do math appropriately.

And they want raises based on these failures. 

Dumping Ground

Kind of ridiculous when you think about it:

• A renewed search for a couple at the center of a 50-year-old cold case has led to the discovery of nearly 100 cars that were submerged in the Chicago River. Edward and Stephania Andrews were a married couple from Arlington Heights who disappeared on May 15, 1970.

  [...] In another attempt to locate the missing couple, members of the Chaos Divers team jumped into the Chicago River last week in search of the Oldsmobile.

  [...] The team came to Chicagoland last week in an effort to help crack 10 local cold cases and was focusing on Edward and Stephania’s disappearance. However, their efforts to uncover answers inadvertently revealed another curious case.

  During their search on the Chicago River, between Cicero and Diversey, Chaos Divers located nearly 100 cars sunken in the water.

Ninety-seven cars....so far.

If there are any old Auto Theft detectives reading, you might be able to improve the clearance rates by double digits.

And anyone working Cold Cases might want to see if any bodies parts are recovered when they start clearing the wrecks. 

J-Fledgar Resurfaces

This interview is from a week or two ago. In it, J-Fled says Chicago could use the Federal help that is about to drop because cops are doing nothing but running from call to call....which prevents nothing. It turns out that CPD is merely that Lifelock "security monitor" commercial that was running a couple years back. All well and good - we were saying the same thing more than a decade ago and pointing out it was only going to get worse. 

But now we're told that J-Fled did some kind of on-line seminar for police chiefs and cites his experience with the feebs along with his time spent playing the supernintendo. And during one of these seminars, he (allegedly) makes a stunning claim:

• fully 25% of 9-1-1- calls in Chicago go unanswered, leading directly to the so-called "drop in crime" that Porky and Conehead are bragging about. Not only that, but the number is expected to rise significantly during the rest of Conehead's reign, approaching 40% due to manpower and staffing shortages.

We have little reason to doubt this, though we would have guessed a bit lower. Over the past week, we've monitored a number of comments regarding calls to 3-1-1 going unanswered for hours....meaning all of THOSE low level non-emergency crimes aren't being logged at all. As we exited the department, we saw the daily sheets with multiple cars down, not to mention we still get comments and photos of the worksheets from concerned cops.

Do any readers have access to or a link to this seminar (webinar?) where this claim is made? Not that anyone besides us, CWB and The Contrarian might post about it.

Remember, the Media is Useless

Here's a Community Alert issued by the CPD recently (click for larger view):

You'll notice about halfway down the page, there is a good description of the offenders....in fact, it's pretty much exact.

But here's the Channel 7 report:

• The suspects have been described as two females and four males who use a white van, a gray 2023 Chevrolet Colorado without license plates, a black Chevrolet Traverse with custom white rims or a white pickup truck.

  One of the female suspects is about 5 feet tall and 120 pounds with brown eyes, and short, black hair. The other female suspect is about 5-foot-3 with hazel eyes.

  One of the male suspects is about 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-7, around 140 pounds and between 20 and 25 years old. He wears a beige baseball cap, a white face mask, an orange and yellow vest, a light green shirt and blue pants. The second male suspect is about 5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8, 175-180 pounds and between 48 and 58 years old. He has short, gray hair and wears a black baseball hat with a red "B" on the front, white glasses, black mask, white shirt and white pants.

Criminals change clothes all the time. They even steal other cars so as to avoid detection. If only there was something that didn't change....

Oh well, here's another Community Alert (again, click for larger view):

This time, the description is a bit vague.

But don't worry! Channel 7 rides to the rescue again:

• Chicago police issued an alert Monday about a series of robberies downtown in which suspects snatched gold necklaces off victims. In each incident, the suspects targeted lone, unsuspecting victims on park property, and stole gold chains and necklaces from them.

  The suspects are described as one to four men and women ages 20 to 40 and one male suspect in a black T-shirt, blue jeans and white gym shoes.

Golly, groups of men and women wandering downtown together, with a clothing description that probably changes every single day.

Anyone know why the media even exists any more? Besides ginning up fake outrage and driving the "progressive" narrative that only morons are supporting any more. 

Get the Popcorn Ready

 

F#$% Your Plans

Those family plans that you had in the works for months and months, maybe even a year or more with thousands of dollars out-of-pocket? Yeah, you can forget about them:

• Off topic but just so people know, Hein has taken a red pen to all the To/Froms for next weekend and denied everyone asking to keep their RDOs. In a lot of cases he has approved time due requests where people are out of town with flights and hotels but then denied their RDOs. So basically have fun in Mexico but get new flights and eat the cost of the hotel cancellation so you can be back in time to work your RDOs. 

Or this one:

• I was privy to an email showing everyone that had their To From denied to maintain their rdo and it’s disgusting. Your a bridesmaid for your sisters wedding? Denied. You’re going on a vacation planned three months ago? Denied. Tons of them. Crazy.  

That used to be the great thing about police work and rotating days off - you knew AN ENTIRE YEAR IN ADVANCE what your days off were and could work with your family to schedule big events, like weddings! 

So when the Department tells you that they care about you, your family, your mental well being - especially if you're doing a destination-type once-in-a-lifetime event - THEY'RE LYING!

Meanwhile, people are saying Hein is going to be overseas for the entire duration of days off that everyone else has to show up for?

Fun Week Ahead!

And just to make it more fun, keep this handy:

• Federal agencies make it easy to report the identity of someone who's in the US illegally, either online or over the phone. You're never required to identify yourself, but there are additional precautions you can take to ensure you're truly anonymous. This is especially important if you're reporting dangerous criminal activity and are worried about your safety, or the safety of your friends and family.
• Use the Homeland Security Investigations online tip form or call the ICE hotline at 866-347-2423 to report illegal immigrants to the US.
• Call 1-800-BE-ALERT to report illegal border crossings to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
• Contact local police if you have reason to believe the people who are undocumented are also violating state criminal law.

You can probably skip that last one. 

National Push to Kill SAFE-T

Restricting federal funding for states that support criminals? Sounds like what we voted for!

• Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump issued executive orders directing the Justice Department to take steps toward eliminating cashless bail nationwide, Republican lawmakers are moving to codify those orders with new legislation.

  Sen. John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee introduced two separate bills that would effectively punish states and cities with cashless bail laws by cutting off critical federal funding. The proposals, they argue, would “keep violent criminals off the streets” and restore public confidence in the justice system.

  Cornyn’s “Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act” would amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to bar Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants from going to states or cities that restrict cash bail for certain offenses. Those grants are the leading source of federal criminal justice funding, supporting everything from police departments and drug treatment programs to mental health courts and crisis-intervention teams.

The odds of Conehead and Porkulous defending the wrong side of another 80-20 issue are nearly 100% at this point....because they're that stupid.

Shooting in 015

Crime is down! Pinkie Swearsies!

• Chicago police officers shot and killed a man during an early morning confrontation in the Austin neighborhood Saturday after a burglary crew rammed two squad cars and pinned an officer, according to CPD.

  The chaos began at 3:44 a.m. when a CPD officer monitoring surveillance feeds in the Austin (15th) District spotted four males trying to break into a black SUV in the 5500 block of West Thomas Street. Three of the men jumped into a blue Nissan Maxima that was waiting in the street near an alley. The surveillance officer reported that the Maxima’s driver was armed with a rifle.

  Within minutes, patrol units swarmed the area. Police said the Maxima’s driver intentionally rammed two marked CPD vehicles at Chicago Avenue and Waller Avenue, trapping an officer. That officer opened fire, hitting a male suspect, police said. Officers gave medical aid to the wounded suspect, who was taken to Stroger Hospital and later pronounced dead.

Literally days away from his upcoming rap album party, where not one, but TWO mass shootings were planned, all cut short by the demonization of these altar boys.

In any event, well done Officers and good riddance to the dead scumbag. 

Alder-Moron Vasquez

So the 40th Ward aldermoron Andre Vasquez posted a video on his social media. We don't have the link but someone sent us a still shot from it:

He gives a little speech to the effect of, "Can you believe cops are writing these tickets? Why aren't they fighting real crime? Why are they getting paid overtime to hassle the neighborhood residents?"

Um....

• the City Council authorized CPD to write tickets for violations of Ordinances. If you don't want them writing parking tickets, there's a simple solution for someone in the legislative body;
• "real crime" is down, right? And cops gotta fill their day somehow without racial profiling, stop-and-frisks, or traffic stops of any sort whatsoever since the "progs" are outlawing it; 
• no one gets overtime for writing parkers....never have, never will;
• the neighborhood residents call on their aldercreatures to restrict residential parking in the hood, they get signs put up, and then they call 9-1-1 to report violators all the time. You want to take it up with your voters?
• and of course, those aren't CPD issued tickets. Those are Department of Revenue tickets....you know, making up the shortfall in the budget that you approved.

Don't expect an apology from this idiot though. 

If someone has the link to the actual video, post it in the comments. 

Crime Still Down

Meanwhile, un-demonized yutes with sledgehammers are walking the Gold Coast:

• A brazen midday smash-and-grab burglary of a Rolex store on the Magnificent Mile ended with six suspects in custody on Friday afternoon, Chicago police said. An initial estimate valued the stolen goods at over $250,000.

  Citing preliminary information, CPD said four males broke out an exterior glass window with an object around 2:37 p.m. and took property from within. The offenders fled on foot before entering a red Nissan SUV and fleeing southbound from the location.

  Video recorded by a passerby, posted online Friday evening by @ChicagoCritter, shows one of the thieves smashing the store’s window with a tool, possibly a sledgehammer, and reaching through the hole to grab merchandise. The window next to him has a large gaping hole visible, too.

CWB has video and judging by the audio, it seems that filming the mayhem has become sort of a tourist-y attraction in its own right.

This Again?

This pops up every so often, and is a clear example of why you ought to show up at FOP meetings to keep an eye on shit:

• The City's position is to eliminate all post-retirement health benefits except for statutorily required benefits and benefits promised to a closed group of certain annuitants who retired prior to August 23, 1989. The City has entered into a collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police for the periods of 2017 through 2027; that agreement includes the CBA benefit for the full term of that agreement. At this time, other than the new collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police, it is not known whether or when the CBA special early retirement health benefits will be specifically eliminated, modified, or extended.

  Therefore this year's reporting of liabilities is based upon benefits.

Someone addressed it in a different comment section, saying that if you retired under a current Contract, then they can't retroactively take things away - they can only screw the younger guys and gals moving forward. Which means whatever leadership is/was in power would have to sell you out....which is exactly why you show up at the meetings. 

Maybe not every meeting, but enough to stay informed.