Summer Already?

It's 70 degrees tonight and downtown is going up.

This social media post says Streeterville:

• link here

If the link doesn't work, we're pretty sure it will turn up other places in short order.

More Cameras

Did this really happen?:

• You heard it here first, there’s an email coming out today for inside people and lockup guys. All inside people must wear their vest and BWC. And people issuing equipment must activate their BWC when issuing equipment. I guess there was a fight between radio room guy and a copper in 012 where guns were pulled. Also WOLs will take note of what time BWCs are docked for inside people. Also lockup officer must leave BWCs on whenever there is a prisoner in a cell and leave it running all day. No more splitting the shifts for inside people.

There are already dozens of cameras in lockups and more in the newest stations public areas. But hey, better surveil everything and everyone all the time.

This is what happens when hiring standards fall.

Mike Needs Money

The feds looking for a sizable amount from Madigan:

• Federal prosecutors say former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan should forfeit $3.1 million for the nearly decadelong bribery conspiracy involving ComEd that a jury convicted him of last month.

  The feds filed their request Friday with U.S. District Judge John Blakey, who is expected to hold a hearing on the matter June 9. That hearing is set to take place four days ahead of Madigan’s June 13 sentencing, also before Blakey.

  The judge gave lawyers in the case until the end of the day Friday to file other post-trial motions, which could serve as a preview of the issues Madigan will raise on appeal. Madigan’s defense attorneys filed a request later in the day for acquittal or a new trial, insisting that “Michael Madigan is not corrupt.”

A jury of his peers says he is corrupt though. Extensively so, along with a bunch of other people currently serving time.

The amusing part is that the money he took was actually spread amongst almost half-dozen other people and a law firm. That was the trick - ComEd paid the law firm and Madigan pocketed a share as the "rainmaker" partner, because who wouldn't hire a law firm with the Speaker of the House's name on the door?

So Mike might need some commissary money while serving time if this fine sticks.

Lieutenants Made

In the dark of night, a promotion list sent out late Thursday:

 

And only two "merit"? 

That's 13%, right? No one else qualified?

Attention No Seniority POs

You want off of midnights? 

Do you want to contribute to the District level manpower shortages?

Are you ready to sell your soul to downtown?

 

Just be aware that the Department has a bad habit of exploiting Units like these. A really really bad habit. They sell them as something new and different and an "opportunity." But ask anyone who was in SOS, TRU, MSF, what happens when you start out DETAILED to these units, and then suddenly, you are ASSIGNED there. 

When the Unit gets disbanded - and they all seem to get disbanded eventually - the Department gives you a "superbid" for your new adventure (or ignominious return) to Patrol. The "superbid" covers three Districts, and they always seem to be 003, 006 and 007. And then just to make in really interesting, PAtrol clcosed District bids every month or every quarter for the next year or two or three.

Ask the last few northside  cops from SOS still on the job - the Department posted "no bids available" for nearly a year after they got disbanded. Or the cops from TRU - the only District that had openings was 003 for nearly eighteen months and most of them were already in 003 when they got disbanded. Everywhere else was a one-for-one trade between commanders.

Be vary very careful if the Department is looking to start up a new unit when they can't even fill the beat/rapid cars in 100% of the Districts on 100% of the watches. The only way to get cops into the killing fields is to circumvent Contractual protections, by luring in the short sighted, then changing the assignment parameters after filling the Unit. It's been done many times before.

New Speed Cameras Up

Sorry about the size of the picture - we can only post what we are provided with since we shun social media. You can click for the regular sized version, and see what your computer will let you expand it to:

1341 W. Jackson? There's no Park there. Skinner Park doesn't come anywhere near touching Jackson - it's on the Adams side.

Better get the recruits in the habit of paying their tickets to Conehead early we suppose.

Civilian Director at IAD?

Rumor mill heating up:

• Looks like the new Chief of IAD will be a civilian Executive Director, former Cmdr Tim Moore.
  

Former commander or not, he wouldn't be sworn any more. And aren't there are certain sensitive investigations that are supposed to be run by sworn personnel? There were all sorts of issues with this in the not too distant past.

UPDATE: And, as our more astute readers remind us, why bring back a former commander? Unless he's serve with the current crop of shady exempts and they need him to continue sitting on certain information until the statute of limitations has run its course.

UPDATE: ....former commander of IAD? That makes the suggestion from the readers even more likely.

PPP Justice?

And it only took us how many years to find out about it?

• An Illinois mental health worker claimed she was an author who had made $115,000 selling books in 2020 before her side business cratered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  A state correctional sergeant at Stateville prison claimed he ran a private security company on the side that brought in $100,000 in 2019 and also was hit hard by the pandemic the next year.

  Now, both have been forced to resign, among 41 state employees listed in reports by the Illinois Office of Executive Inspector General as having defrauded the federal Paycheck Protection Program designed to bail out ailing businesses during the pandemic.

  The reports say those 41 employees are suspected of ripping off the fraud-plagued PPP program for more than $900,000 in loans. Most of the loans in the program were forgivable, meaning they didn’t need to be repaid as long as they went toward approved purposes.

  All of the employees have resigned, many of them several years ago, but the reports weren’t made public until this year.

There are plenty more over at OEMC. There are rumored to be more than a few among the exempt ranks. 

Haven't they reached retirement age yet?

Another Parole Success Story

Illinois really needs a "truth in sentencing" law or something like the feds have where you do 85% of your time before parole is even considered:

• A 16-time convicted burglar is back in jail this morning, accused of burglarizing two more businesses less than 48 hours after getting out of prison. In addition to his 16 burglary convictions, 58-year-old Vance Patton has been sent to prison for four other felonies, too.

  Patton was released from the Graham Correctional Center in Hillsboro last Thursday, March 20, according to state records. By sunrise on Saturday, he had made the 227-mile trip to Chicago, secured gloves and a face covering, and committed two more break-ins in the Beverly neighborhood, according to prosecutors.

  Police said video showed Patton throwing a brick through a storage facility window in the 1900 block of West 95th Street and taking $1 from the cash register. He then walked across the street and threw a brick through the front window of Flippin Flavors, 1848 West 95th Street, and stole five sodas from the cooler, according to his arrest report. Officers searched the area and found Patton after a nearby resident called 911 to report a suspicious man in their backyard. According to CPD, he had five cans of cold soda in his backpack: two ginger ales, one Pepsi, and an orange Crush. The cops also recovered a black face covering and gloves.

  Prosecutors asked Judge Susana Ortiz to detain Patton, but she declined their petition.

The judge said he could be out on an ankle monitor.

He just got out two days prior, traveled two-hundred-twenty-seven miles, and already has two additional burglaries to his name....and the judge thinks he should stay free on no bail with a monitor he can just cut off to go burgle more businesses.

With sixteen separate convictions for burglary, he should have been serving between sixty-four and two-hundred-forty years. Concurrent sentencing probably cut that down, but why are Illinois taxpayers constantly putting up with (and paying for) this bullshit?

IDOC is "considering" revoking his parole, but seeing as how they let him out in the first place and parole revocation is an almost miraculous happening, we're not going to hold our breath on that one.

Once is Happenstance....

So we wrote about Arena being an asshole on Monday. The post went up early in the morning as most posts do. Within sixteen hours, it was all over the Slum Times main page under Fran Spielman's byline. We didn't think much of it because the entire story had been reported by Crain's three days prior. We cover stuff we think cops might be interested in and they might not always have an opportunity to read about. Anything original is usually "inside baseball" type stuff.

However.....twice is coincidence.

We posted the email from Billy B regarding uniforms not being uniform on Wednesday, early in the AM. This time it only took fourteen hours for it to be all over the Slum Times front page again. They got a couple extra quotes from Catanzara, but it certainly looks like the media, particularly the rapidly sinking Slum times, is surfing our site and comment sections for stories, seeing as how they don't have any actual reporters left.

Three times is enemy action.

Be aware that we cannot prove and have no intention of proving everyone who reads or posts here is CPD. But if the Slum Times is going to be ::ahem:: stealing content again as they did years ago, the only decent thing to do is give proper credit (as we do via links) and send the Chaplain's $25 as a thank you (WGN's Ben Bradley being the only one who ever donated a dime), though in the Slum Times case, we'll drop the donation to $10 because we know you're all hard up for money. 

They REALLY Mean It

Here they go again (click for larger versions):

 

Closing with a quote from Sparklefarts word salad that made almost no sense? Great job there Billy.

In the meantime, shit or get off the pot - either enforce Uniform Standards across the board or quit blowing smoke up everyone's asses. 

And we mean ACROSS THE F#$%ING BOARD. Not just pants and sweaters and shirts and properly tailored uniforms. We mean shaving and haircuts and fingernails, both sexes, all races, and all manner of radio strap pins, velcro patches, ethnic designators, etc. Otherwise, you lose all credibility and open up the Department to all sorts of grievances AND lawsuits.

We were on the job when we all stood roll call three and four times a week, hats and batons on, weapons every Wednesday. We even got gigged by Inspectors for wearing our clip-on tie in the button hole. And the old timers told us (correctly) that we had it easy because they stood roll call six days in a row, all watches. 

Media Notices Arena Sucks

The Slum Times picks up on the fact that Arena is unpopular every where he goes:

• Former Northwest Side Ald. John Arena (45th) has his work cut out for him if he hopes to make a dent as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new Springfield lobbyist.

  Arena has no prior relationships or track record in Springfield, and is getting a late start on the city’s formidable to-do list with just over two months to go in a spring session dominated by the state’s massive budget shortfall.

  Johnson has struggled to build a strong list of accomplishments in Springfield, beyond convincing Illinois Senate President Don Harmon not to call for a vote a bill that would have extended a moratorium on public school closings and shielded Chicago’s selective-enrollment, magnet and charter schools from major changes.

  The mayor also has a tense relationship with Gov. JB Pritzker. After a recent clash between Pritzker and Johnson over the governor’s stalled hemp regulations initiative, Pritzker complained that the mayor and his team “don’t have good relationships in Springfield, in part, because they don’t do the outreach that’s necessary.”

  Some of Arena’s former City Council colleagues are upset with Johnson’s decision to hire the former Northwest Side alderperson because of political bridges Arena burned with them during his two terms as a Chicago alderperson.

Arena is simply a Grade A scumbag, good only at making enemies and acting like a petulant child whenever things don't go his way. Conehead appointing him to go to Springfield where Arena is probably the only person less popular than Conehead, is a stupid move from a stupid mayor.

Conehead to Steal $175 Million

He's up against some hard deadlines:

• A critical mass of Chicago school board members has come out against reimbursing City Hall for a disputed pension payment, dooming its chances of passing. That leaves Mayor Brandon Johnson with less than a week to either change their minds or figure out another way to come up with the money to close the city’s 2024 budget in the black.

  Board of Education President Sean Harden postponed a pivotal vote last week on the approval of a $175 million pension payment from Chicago Public Schools to the city, a clear sign it lacked enough support to pass. He said the delay was due to an imminent contract agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union — though that deal has not been reached.

By the way, these are the people who want a 9% pay raise while there are entire high schools that can't read:

The City Council is also getting in on the act, warning Conehead about stealing the money without their approval:

• Fifteen independent City Council members put Mayor Brandon Johnson on notice Tuesday: Any move he makes to use city funds to cover a $175 million pension for nonteaching school employees must be made with legislative consent.

  Johnson does have not have the votes on the partially elected Chicago Board of Education to approve a borrowing or refinancing measure after seven board members declared their opposition to the mayor’s favored option.

  As a result, the mayor is now on the clock to come up with a plan B before city auditors close the books Monday on 2024.

But without an impeachment or recall provision, who's going to stop him? 

Maybe force the CTU to pay 9% of their salary to the pension funds like every other city union does, instead of the paltry 2% they currently do, saddling taxpayers with more unsustainable costs.

Congrats Chicago!

Homicide Capital of the Country....again:

• For the 13th consecutive year, the city of Chicago once again reigned as the nation’s homicide capital in 2024 with 573 murders.

  Ted Dabrowski, the president of Wirepoints, believes that the illness has festered for too long.

  Even as overall murder rates across the country dipped, Chicago also claimed the top spot for the highest murder rate per capita among big cities at 21.5 per 100,000 population. That’s three times the level of Los Angeles and nearly five times that of New York City.

Other places are seeing thirty, forty, even fifty percent drops in crime. Conehead is bragging about two and three percent drops in homicides while other categories climb yet again. 

Granted, Conehead is only on the hook for two of the thirteen years, but no one should be bragging when Chicago is still in the top spot after four mayors and at least that many supernintendos. It simply points to the systemic failure to address crime at all.

Don't Demonize!

Because this isn't satanic at all:

• A boy charged with the murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend used a Facebook AI tool to look up the number of years a teenager can be sentenced for murder, prosecutors said.

  The 15-year-old boy was ordered held in custody after he was charged with murder in the slaying of Kaylah Aleah Love whose body was found last week in Horan Park on the city’s West Side.

  The boy, who is not being named because he is a minor, was expressionless as his mother sat behind him at a Juvenile Court hearing in front of Judge Stuart F. Lubin on Monday morning.

  A motive was not disclosed during the hearing, and the two were described as being in a dating relationship and the boy was her classmate at Manley High School.

Because this is completely normal behavior, right Conehead? Nothing demonic at all. And the internet phone searches about "How much time can a teen get for murder?" Not a single demonic lesson to be drawn. (answer - not much at all)

As a side note, Manley High School is one of those schools built to hold around 1,000 students, but that has under 100. It's darkly amusing that even with all that staff and administration, no one picked up on any warning signs.

 

The Future is Here

Well, not here per se. It's in New York as usual....and Chicago will end up stealing it at some point:

• The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is now sending drones out on 9-1-1 calls to do the business that their Candy Crush-addicted human officers are too busy to tackle — and surveilling everyone in sight while they do it.

  As the cybersecurity news site The Record reports, these "drones as first responders" — or DFRs, as the NYPD calls them — can fly up to 45 miles per hour, filming everything on the block with telephoto cameras that can, per manufacturer Skydio, identify faces and license plates from nearly a mile away.

  Launched last year as part of embattled mayor Eric Adams' quest to shove technology into everything regardless of public opinion, these drones were initially only going to respond to "select priority public safety calls," according to a press release issued last November that formally announced the program.

  As The Record notes, however, the NYPD's definition of "select priority" seems awfully vague — and it doesn't actually report how many drones are deployed on police calls, either.

Quite a lot of secrecy surrounding the use of drones, mostly because they don't want everyone knowing how much data they're collecting and how accurate and detailed a lot of the hardware is - the pictures and video footage is astounding to say the least.

It's lucky Illinois and Chicago are too bankrupt to do any of the expensive pioneering work that will eventually end with a gigantic spy network in all major cites. Fata$$ and Conehead are certainly waiting for a democrat administration to gift them the billions it will cost to set up such a network.

Anyone wanting to be part of DRONE FORCE had better have their qualifications (i.e. pilot licenses) in place, because the connected are probably already enrolled in classes.

Countdown Accelerates

No longer a newspaper, but a full scale propaganda rag:

• For more than 75 years, the Sun-Times Editorial Board has been an important voice in Chicago, advocating for the well-being of our city, holding the powerful to account and helping readers understand and navigate the complexities of the news.

  [...] As a nonprofit media company, this is an important opportunity for the people of Chicago to become the voice of Chicago. Beginning today, the Sun-Times will no longer offer editorials — pieces expressing a stance on news topics, written by our editorial board.

  When the Chicago Sun-Times was acquired by Chicago Public Media, our new status as a nonprofit meant the editorial board could no longer make candidate endorsements, a major change to what is traditionally considered a core function of editorial boards. Editorials are traditionally unsigned, and when trust in journalism is so precarious, we believe it is essential for our readers to understand exactly who is speaking to them.

  To that end, we will continue to publish Letters to the Editor, which we receive in abundance every week and run in print and online. We will also continue to publish op-eds and guest columns from community members, leaders and scholars.

It's pretty much been either a dead fish wrapper or a bird cage liner for decades now.

But paying $2 for a sudoku puzzle you can find for free on the internet and twenty pages of crap written by either the AP, the Washington Post, A.I. or some lib-tarded journalism major who minored in basket weaving? 

It's only a matter of time now.

Showing ATF the Door

Looks like we won't be getting a wholesale disbanding of the fbi

But we may be getting something nearly as good:

• A report from CNN indicates FBI director Kash Patel — who is also ATF acting director — plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI.

  This will represent a cut of roughly one third of the ATF’s current agents.

The thousand "agents" will be tasked with assisting in securing the border. As this isn't something most of them signed up for, we expect a sizeable number of resignations to follow, whereupon they can start picking all the vegetables and produce that the illegal aliens used to harvest.

The atf exists solely to infringe on Second Amendment Rights, sio this is a good thing.

Additionally, something else is good on the horizon:

• The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), is planning to hold a legislative markup on March 25, 2025 at 10 am EST. The committee will be considering several bills during this markup, two of which are of crucial importance to law-abiding gun owners. A committee markup is often a critical step in advancing legislation to the floor of the U.S. House for passage.

  The first piece of legislation up for consideration, and the NRA’s top priority, is H.R. 38, the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC). This bipartisan legislation would provide nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry license holders and for residents of Constitutional Carry states. This legislation currently has 177 cosponsors in the U.S. House.

When you drive a car, your license is considered good in all of the United States. The privilege of operating a car doesn't stop when you leave home. So carrying a firearm - an enumerated Right in the Constitution - shouldn't stop at a state border either.

If and when this is properly enshrined in Law, it'll get rid of quite a bit of the crap Fata$$ has been doing to undermine our ability to buy a firearm.

Set to Fall?

Rumor popping up here and there - we're getting more than a few emails:

• Yoyo being named First Deputy is payment for services in kind over at Internal Affairs. Snelling didn't want her, but Conehead doesn't want Larritorious, who was only in place to be a fall guy if the DNC Convention went south.

  It didn't, so Yoyo is in place so that after a summer of increased crime numbers, constant manpower issues, endless days off cancelled and the return of pantifa/dem/anti-Trump protests, Snelling can be fired and Yoyo takes over.

We're seeing some of this, especially with some of the rhetoric coming out of the left. Keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Still Soft On Crime

Anyone remember this guy?

That's Mike Dukakis, former governor of Massachewyournuts and presidential andidate who lost to George Bush Sr back in 1988. His claim to fame (besides this goofy tank picture pretending he supported the military) was that he was soft on crime. In fact, an entire set of commercials by the Bush campaign successfully told the tale of Willie Horton, A MURDERER SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE, who was out on a weekend pass when he committed assault, armed robbery and rape.

That's right. Massachewyournuts was so progressive in 1988 that they let a murderer go out, unsupervised, on weekends because incarceration was cruel. Needless to say, the reputation stuck and Dukakis lost badly and democrats were saddled with the well deserved reputation of caring more about criminals than citizens.

Well, California's governor Newscum isn't that silly. He isn't paroling murderers nearly that often. He's much more efficient at being soft on crime:

• A mass murderer strangled his wife during a conjugal visit in his California prison, according to prosecutors.

  David Brinson, already serving life for four murders, had claimed that his wife, Stephanie Dowells, a 62-year-old grandmother, had fainted when she was found dead after an unsupervised overnight visit last November at the Mule Creek State Prison near Sacramento.

  But an investigation showed that his wife had been throttled, with her death ruled a homicide, prosecutors told KCRA.

Are you f#$%ing kidding us? 

Serving life for four murders, and he gets conjugal visits? And now he gets a fifth murder victim? And that's just that we know of....he probably has more that weren't discovered or prosecuted.

This ought to sink any national ambitions this moron had. LA Fires, hundreds of billions in California debt, mass exodus of taxpayers and corporations, and now, sending murderers victims to kill?

Can't wait until Trannysaurus Rex and company gets deposed for that paroled murderer stabbing the eleven-year-old to death.

CFD Uniting with....CTU?

Via Paul Vallas:

• Under the banner of “solidarity,” Chicago Fire Department Local 2 has formed an alliance Chicago Teachers Union. They should go into this with their eyes wide open. CFD is aligning itself with a union that is demanding a contract that will effectively cost upwards of $3 billion and wreck both the schools and city’s finances. Take a guess at which union contract will receive priority by the former CTU lobbyist turned mayor?
  
  
  It should not be forgotten that the CTU was silent as police struggled for 5 years to complete a contract. Where has CTU “solidarity” been for firefighters and paramedics while they have waited 4 years for a contract?
  
  
  While firefighters and paramedics waited to settle their contracts and the city cut over 2,100 public safety positions, CTU members enjoyed salary increases ranging from 24-48% and schools added 9,000 more positions. 
  
  
  On top of receiving 56% of all property tax revenue, CPS receives additional city subsidies totaling almost $1 billion and will even need more to finance the CTU contract. 
  
  
  The CTU is no friend of public employee unions. It consumes an ever larger share of taxpayer dollars and expands membership at other unions expense while actively demonizing the police. 
  
  
  Just ask SEIU how that’s going.

Are fire fighters are expecting CTU to support them via a picket line or something? Maybe some sort of "me-too" clause to finally finish their contract? This would make our suggestion that the CTU be declared "essential" and therefore unable to strike an immediately bigger issue.

We would also warn that this will only give ammunition to those who seek to disband and ban ALL public sector unions moving forward. The CTU is headed for a hard fall at some point as they attempt to bankrupt Chicago.

Conehead Conehead Conehead

Another brilliant hiring choice by mayor Dumbass:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson is turning to a former member of the City Council to organize and fight for his Springfield agenda.

  Former Northwest Side Ald. John Arena will join the administration March 24 with little runway to deliver on Johnson’s priorities with the General Assembly’s spring session already well underway. 

For those who don't remember, Arena is the city council asshole who kept secret files on anyone who dared to protest his plans to bring low income housing to neighborhoods that didn't want it. 

He also kept especially detailed files on Police and Firefighters, mostly through his toady, current state rep Lindsey LaPointe. Between the two of them, they filed numerous false allegations via the CR process and whatever process the CFD handles complaints. If we recall, there were a couple of lawsuits and Arena lost his aldermanic race the next time around based mostly on his "secret police" tendencies.

Stacey Stacey Stacey

Anyone from the investigative media going to.....haha....investigate this?

• Off topic but why isn’t this being addressed especially by the media:
  
  Stacey Johnson gets TWO officers paid at Sgt’s rate to drive her and her son to an out of state sport event? Why? Must be nice. Does the city have to pay for their hotel rooms, food and gas too?
  

We know she has a city office tucked away somewhere with expensive furniture because that was the previous scandal barely mentioned by the media, but as stated in the past, we didn't vote for her nor her purely ceremonious role that seems to cost taxpayers tens of thousands of scarce dollars. 

Now we're paying for bodyguards to drive her and the kids out-of-state on non-city related events? Does she think she's Ed Burke, with a driver and city car, headed to an out-of-state golf outing?

Bit of Good News

An appeal finally ends with a decent result: 

• The Chicago Police Board Thursday agreed with a recommendation from the city’s top cop that two officers involved in the shooting of an unarmed man in Pilsen in 2022 should not be fired from the department.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability had recommended Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso be discharged for violating use of force guidelines, failing to render aid and failing to secure the scene in the July 2022 incident that left Miguel Medina wounded.

  But Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling disagreed with COPA, arguing that both officers complied with Chicago Police Department policies and proposed no discipline for the officers. In cases where the superintendent and COPA disagree on police discipline, a police board member is selected to rule on the dispute.

  On Thursday, board member Steven Block sided mostly with Snelling in his decision, agreeing with the superintendent that Liakopoulos complied with police department guidelines and should not be disciplined. But while he also agreed that Reynoso didn’t violate use of force rules, Block sided with COPA’s allegations that Reynoso failed to render aid and secure the scene.

Remember, both Officers were acquitted at trial despite Crimesha's intense efforts to railroad both of them. A gun was pointed at them by a juvenile offender and an accomplice got wounded. Mistakes happen, but the don't necessitate a felony charge....unless it's an obvious case of Crimesha being racist, which she always was.

Just Can't Let Go

Guess who's running for reelection?

• Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has announced she is running for reelection.

  “With a new administration at the helm in the federal government causing chaos and uncertainty, now is not the time to step aside from this important work,” Preckwinkle wrote in a campaign email. “Now is the time to lead the fight to protect all residents of Cook County.”

  The announcement was first reported on Politico’s Illinois Playbook newsletter.

She'll win, too, because incompetence in the CTU and City Council never stopped her from failing at Cook County Board president, presiding over Dart's failed tenure and backing Crimesha's disastrous enabling of crime. 

Cook County has to be the most redundant and useless of all governing bodies.

From Where Again?

They caught him in Georgia:

• An arrest has been made in a deadly triple shooting on Chicago's South Side that happened in January. U.S. Marshals arrested a fugitive hundreds of miles away who they said is the member of a Venezuelan street gang.

  The Department of Justice announced that the suspect, Ricardo Gonzales, was arrested Thursday in Cobb County, Georgia during a multi-agency operation. Investigators said he's a high-ranking member of the Tren De Aragua Venezuelan gang.

Golly. He was here from Venezuela, harbored by Conehead and Fata$$, given free money, phone and shelter and how does he pay back such democrat generosity?

• Gonzales is accused of kidnapping three women and taking them to an alley near 78th and Oglesby in the South Shore neighborhood, where they were shot in the head.

  Two of the women died at the scene, Chicago police said.

And now, as an added bonus (if a conviction can be secured - we still have our doubts) taxpayers will get to pay for his food, medical care and shelter for the next thirty or forty or even fifty years!!!

What a time to be alive!

Not a Single Mention

The media morons are at it again:

• Byron Lamb still has nightmares about the day he was hospitalized after being pulled over by the Chicago police.

  It was September 2018, and he was taking his two young children to his mother’s house when officers pulled him over in West Pullman for allegedly running a stop sign.

  They ordered Lamb out. He refused.

STOP. Just stop. Right there. You know where this is headed.

The article is a lib-tarded piece of trash by the Slum Times and an outfit called the Investigative Project on Race and Equity. they're attempting to make yet another racial mountain out of a molehill, citing a number of cases where CPD used force against persons armed and unarmed.

Guess what they never mention, not even once?

• An officer’s ability to order a driver out of their vehicle is supported by the US Supreme Court rulings in Pennsylvania v. Mimms (1977) and Maryland v. Wilson (1997). 

  In the Mimms case, the Court ruled that police officers can instruct drivers to exit their vehicles during a traffic stop without needing additional probable cause or reasonable suspicion. This authority was expanded in Wilson to include passengers.

We'll print this in capital letters so the media and anyone else too mentally infirm knows that we're yelling it at them: THERE IS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO REFUSE AN OFFICER'S ORDER TO EXIT THE VEHICLE. NONE. NADA. ZERO. Any refusal is automatically a criminal charge, you are essentially under arrest, and a refusal to be handcuffed is Resisting, meaning Force is authorized to effect said arrest.

We've known thousands of cops over our career here, we've met and worked closely with a few hundred suburban cops, and a few dozen State Troopers. If you add up the windows broken, gallons of OC sprayed and TASERs deployed over refusal to exit a vehicle, it would be an impressive total.

You know what's even more impressive? Not a single CR number was ever sustained for any of it against any involved Officers, because we knew the Law, we applied the Law properly, and we wrote the paper correctly. We didn't "get away" with anything because there was never anything to "get away" with. We were correct, the criminal was wrong and the Courts concurred.

But the Slum Times.....well, their shtick is overplayed, boring and tedious.  

Barz Out (UPDATE)

One of the more controversial individuals in the command structure finally got slapped down a peg.

• After being told he was going to work a St Patrick's Day event, Barz told the higher ups "nope," that he was going to Japan on a "vacation" and he was leaving in a few months anyway so do whatever.

Seems that they did "whatever" and Barz had to be escorted out of HQ after being demoted to captain and blowing his top. 

Now, when is the media going to pick up on the Yoyo's cover-up for the domestic detective being left in place while the victim - who saved and forwarded multiple emails outlining the offenses to her commander and the commander of IAD (Yoyo) - was told to bid elsewhere to avoid a co-worker who threatened her with death?

UPDATE: Someone get word to Barz....

OPEN OFFER - if you want to burn this entire administration to the ground, reach out to us with a narrative of incidents or cases you buried at IAD for the upper echelon, past and present and even futures. 

Names and dates. 

We don't care if you shade the narrative to make yourself look good. We don't even care if you admit you levered promotions for yourself from any of it. Everyone already knows. 

We just want to see some sunlight.

Shooting on Thursday

We're sensing a distinct lack of outrage in the community, so we're guessing this guy deserved it?

• Police responding to a domestic situation fatally shot a man who pointed his gun at police Thursday morning in the Pullman neighborhood, Chicago police said.

  The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the man as 43-year-old Devon L. Smith, who was pronounced dead at 8:15 a.m. at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

  Around 7:05 a.m., officers responded to a domestic call of a person with a gun at an apartment complex in the 900 block of East 100th Street where an armed man was in a bedroom with a woman, police said in a statement.

  As officers attempted to deescalate the situation, the woman fled the room, and Smith allegedly pointed his gun at an officer, police said. The officer then fired, striking Smith, according to the statement.

Sure seems like he deserved it. 

Amazingly, the States Attorneys office is silent while the investigation moves forward....you know, like they're supposed to do. It's been how many years since that office shut the Hell up and waited until there was actual evidence to make statements?

Pedestrian Killed

CPD can't chase for speeding.

CPD can't chase motorcycles for anything at all.

So what's to stop this from happening even more? (answer - pretty much nothing):

• A motorcyclist was wearing a helmet camera as he sped around traffic and struck a pedestrian at 73 mph on the Northwest Side, prosecutors said. The crash killed 26-year-old Camryn Green and left the motorcyclist, Jonathan Jaimes, 20, badly injured.

  Jaimes’ helmet camera allegedly showed he also rode faster than 150 mph on the Kennedy Expressway in the moments leading up to the collision.

  Shortly after 3 p.m. last Friday, March 14, drivers heading in both directions stopped to let Green cross the street in the 6500 block of West Higgins, not far from her home. Prosecutor Mike Pekara said Jaimes sped southeast along the yellow center line, passing the cars that stopped to allow Green to cross. One of those drivers later told police they heard the motorcyclist rev the bike’s engine as he roared toward the intersection and collided with Green.

Seventy-three on a neighborhood street as schools are getting out. One-hundred-fifty on an expressway.

This first person to invent some sort of futuristic "ray gun" that fries the electronic components that keep a car or motorcycle operating will be rich beyond their wildest dreams. Governments will shovel money at them.

Remember when the alder-dumbasses were going to have pedestrians carry little flags while crossing the streets and wave them overhead so drivers would see them....maybe? We'd suggest that pedestrians start carrying cinder blocks when venturing into crosswalks. That might catch some attention.

Street Takeover Stopped?

Who delivered the testicles to HQ?

• Street takeovers by stunt drivers and spectators who take over intersections have been causing headaches across Chicago for several years. While entire social media pages are dedicated to sharing videos of the events, it’s rare to see footage of Chicago police aggressively addressing a takeover.

  Today, we’re pleased to share some video that shows exactly that: cops rolling into a takeover in Lincoln Park, tossing tire deflation sticks under the tires of escaping cars, and making arrests.

  The footage of the March 2 takeover comes from a city surveillance camera mounted on a pole on the corner of Fullerton and Cannon Drive, right next to Lincoln Park Zoo. It shows the entire event, from the arrival of the first participant to arrestees being hauled away in squad cars.

And then, amazingly, the StopSticks come out, some tires got flattened, and two people actually went to jail. Someone drove down a nearby bicycle path to get away, but we're stunned that anyone ended up in handcuffs.

No word if this is a going to be a regular thing. The video is all the way back from 02 March, which was a Sunday night, and the entire Street Takeover Unit was rumored to be off weekends....you know, when street takeovers actually happen. 

Maybe it was just Friday and Saturdays?

Busy Summer on Tap?

Rumor out of HQ:

• Per Talley all HQ people to be changed to 4th watch… you know what that means… a lot more protests in their future. Not just protests but changes of hours from days to nights etc for protests and no more 2 hour change of start time protections.

Fourth Watch is still Tact hours, right? That brings back some memories, whoa nelly.

Yoyo is looking to make herself less popular than the previous Chief of Patrol who ruined everyone's weekends all year long with cancellations for reasons that ended up being BS most of the time.

But the good news for all the HQ house mice - you can always volunteer to go back to the Districts. Some of you might even have built up some actual seniority now after years of hiding downtown. You might be able to actually get to Third Watch!

Is This Something?

It looks like something (click for larger image):

If we're reading that correctly, there are 3,000 more annuitants than persons paying into the pension fund? That doesn't sound sustainable, even with an above average rate of return on the investments.

Lawsuit Tossed

Looks like the Courts (some courts) are recognizing the hamstringing of the CPD is pretty much complete:

• A federal judge has dismissed Dakotah Earley’s lawsuit that tried to hold the city and a handful of Chicago police officers responsible for not pursuing a carload of armed robbers who later shot and nearly killed Earley during a holdup in Lincoln Park.

  The lawsuit, U.S. District Judge LaShonda Hunt recently summarized in her order dismissing the case, sought to hold the city responsible for “a policy that chills and hampers police officers from pursuing fleeing suspects.”

Remember - current policy is that an Officer cannot be punished for refusing to chase. It's not what most of us signed up for, but an out-of-control system of ambulance chasers, crooked pols and complicit judges has made the tort system too costly for cops to do anything but observe crime.

Notice however, that didn't stop the lawsuit from being filed:

• Shortly before [plaintiff] Earley was robbed and shot, CPD officers found the BMW on Museum Campus Drive and tried to pull it over. But the driver sped away, and the cops let it go.

  “It took off. We tried to put a stop on it,” an officer radioed. “We’re not following. We’re not chasing. Show us heading into [the station] to do an eluding” report.

  Almost exactly an hour later, that BMW rolled up to the corner of Webster and Wayne in Lincoln Park. A gunman got out of it and ambushed Earley. Police believed the crew responsible for robbing the BMW’s owner and Earley may have robbed 20 people on the North Side in three days. Most of those occurred after police ended their pursuit of the BMW downtown.

While we can all feel bad for the plaintiff (who lost his leg in the ensuing robbery), this is the culmination of years of (what we believe to be) poorly thought out law:

• Warren v. District of Columbia
• DeShaney v. Winnebago County
• Castle Rock v. Gonzales

These cases (and others) hold that police have no specific or affirmative duty to protect an individual from a situation that the police did not create. In this case, the police did not create the robbery or aggravated battery that resulted in plaintiff's loss of a leg. But we do see how police could be - rightly or wrongly - deemed partly responsible for not breaking the chain of events that led to the physical harm. 

Personally, we'd argue that the politicians hamstrung the police department's ability to break the chain of events by making it financially dangerous for the cops to do anything, but when was the last time you ever saw a politician held responsible for making bad law? 

The best way to level the playing field is stop imposing restrictions on citizens from carrying guns. A few dozen wounded and dead robbers would do far more than the Department ever could.

Getting the Message Yet?

They've been sending the signals for years now:

• An Illinois House committee on Tuesday moved to overhaul how Illinois police officers execute search warrants in response to the botched 2019 raid at Young’s home, which includes banning what’s often called “no-knock” warrants.

  [...] The House Judiciary- Criminal Committee voted 8-5 to pass House Bill 1611, but lawmakers in both parties expressed concerns about the logistics of implementing the new limitations.

  Under the proposed law, police must knock, announce themselves and allow a person at least 30 seconds to answer the door when executing a warrant at a residence. Entering a home without police announcing themselves or waiting 30 seconds for an answer would only be permitted in emergency situations to prevent injury or other harm others.

  However, judges can sign off on an exemption to allow “no-knock” warrants if law enforcement successfully presents evidence that announcing themselves at the door would jeopardize a person’s life or evidence in the case.

Does anyone reading - or anyone who has a functioning brain cell - think that there is a single judge who'd ever sign off on a "no-knock" exception? Ever? Not if they want the endorsement of the Machine - Chicago, County or Illinois Combine. 

Can anyone recall the last time voters got rid of a judge? We've been advocating for years that everyone vote "No" across the board on ALL judges, even if it's only to send a message to the judiciary that voters are paying attention.

Newsflash!! They aren't. But we keep hoping. At least until we leave this blue state shithole.

A Bad Example

This idiot again?

• Three months after he was sentenced to probation for threatening to kill a fellow Chicago police detective, CPD homicide Detective [MT] has been charged with harassing a third officer in an attempt to keep her from testifying against him.

  As he faced charges of assaulting a female detective in 2024, prosecutors at a hearing Wednesday said [MT] allegedly called another detective and tried to persuade her not to testify in the case, using a prepaid “burner” phone.

  [MT] was charged with simple assault and battery of a third detective, with whom he was having an extramartial affair, during an argument in front of his house in 2023.

  [MT] last year was found guilty of the assault charge and sentenced to one year of probation that includes a provision that he is not allowed to carry a gun. As that case was pending in May 2024, prosecutors allege he called another detective, identified by prosecutors as “KC,” who was a police academy classmate and mutual friend of [MT] and the officer he assaulted.

So, violated one of the Day One rules at the Academy - BBB will get you in trouble.

Forgot the ancient maxim, "Don't s@#$ where you sleep/eat."

Continued to contact someone involved on the periphery of the initial instance via a burner phone - which is not as untraceable as you think....something a detective ought to know. That is a rather large No-No.

Sorry to say, at this point the involved Detective is what is known as "an example." As in, an example of what not to do. As in, an example of continued bad decisions. As in, "They are going to make an example of you because you didn't learn from previous mistakes."

Where Are the Dads?

So this morning, we woke up and saw a miracle. A Chicago news outlet finally covered the Deerfield middle school scandal:

• Trans advocates are pushing back against a north suburban mom who says her 13-year-old daughter was forced to change in front of a transgender classmate.

  The controversy at a middle school in the North Shore community of Deerfield comes at the same time as a federal complaint has been lodged against Chicago Public Schools and the state board of education for allegedly “forcing students” to share bathrooms and locker rooms with transgender classmates.

What? You hadn't heard about it?  It's been all over the conservative leaning news sites for over five days (see the links on the right hand side of the blog.) In summary, a couple of thirteen year old girls discovered a boy, claiming to be "trans," was in their locker room, and they rightly brought this to the attention of school administrators. The administrators, being AWFLs (affluent white female liberals), promptly did the correct thing:

• they accompanied the girls to the female locker room, told them that the tranny's feelings were more important than any issues they had being uncomfortable, and attempted to make them change in front of the tranny.

Here's the three accused administrators (click for larger version):

 

Right off the bat, that's Unlawful Restraint. We'll let anybody from the Sex Crimes Unit opine about the basis for Criminal Sexual Assault, but it's there. And the media kept it mostly quiet, out of sight, out of the news at least in Chicago....until John Kass wrote about it:

• You hear that gruesome story of the 13-year-old middle-school girl from Deerfield confronted by school officials and ordered to disrobe in front of a male classmate? It sounds too AWFL to be true.

  But it happened, according to her mother Nicole Georgas who said Tuesday she was filing a police complaint with the police in Deerfield on top of a complaint she filed with the U.S. Department of Justice. The mom alone standing up for her daughter’s privacy was repeatedly mocked and insulted by hostile trans activists as she addressed a crowded District 109 School Board meeting.

  The story has gone viral world-wide and was broken by the Lake County Gazette and Dan Proft’s radio show “The Morning Answer.”

Kass even cites world famous author JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame, who has taken notice of suburban Deerfield and brought her voice to the fray. This is a BIG deal. The school denies it happened, but somehow a boatload of "activists" showed up at the school board meeting where the mother showed up to lodge a complaint.

Has anyone reading ever raised a teenage girl? Hormones, body issues, and a hyper-sexualized Hollywood trying to crowd out parental influence. It's a challenge, and let us tell you, if some AWFL or anyone attempted to make our kid undress in a situation that made them uncomfortable, a school board complaint would be the least of their worries. A federal lawsuit (which is being filed) would be small potatoes to.....well, we'll just leave that one unspoken.

And while the Chicago media neglects their duty to inform the public (again), only Kass has the testicular fortitude to mention who is completely to blame:

• JB Fata$$ Pritzker

Or as we're thinking of calling him now, Tranny-saurus Rex.

He's a big tranny advocate. He's looking to pick fights with Trump, who has ordered funding cuts for those school districts that fail to comply with federal directives and Executive Orders. He wants to be president. Is it that big a leap to say he probably sat on the media and made them keep quiet for nearly a week? Seems very likely.

Time for Knife Control

Lib-tards want to be more like Europe, so it's time to start talking about banning knives:

• A man is in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest during a fight in the Loop. The daytime attack was caught on video.

  Chicago police said the 27-year-old victim got into an argument with another man near the corner of Dearborn and Van Buren around 6:15 p.m. Video posted by Chicago Critter shows the assailant holding a knife and taking full roundhouse swings with the weapon.

Not what you want the tourists to see in broad daylight - video at the link up top.

And that was just a wounding - there was a fatality, too:

• A Chicago man was stabbed to death on the city's Northwest Side, police said.

  The man found with multiple stab wounds on Tuesday at about 7:53 p.m. in the 3500-block of W. Sunnyside Avenue, CPD said.

  He was rushed to the hospital where he died.

Perhaps we can be like England and ban all kitchen knives?

Supposedly, the only thing keeping Illinois from going down this path so far is Fata$$ can't figure out how to cut his 4x4x4x4 breakfast, brunch, immense lunch, deep-fried afternoon snack, massive dinner and tasty dessert.

Sun Times Layoffs

:::suppressed laughter:::

• Thirty employees of the Chicago Sun-Times (CST)—around 20% of its payroll—have agreed to resign after accepting buyout terms ownership offered them, according to a report published online by the paper Tuesday evening.

  The Sun-Times’ David Roeder said most of the cuts consist of writers and editors, many of which have decades of experience with the paper.

Of the listed layoffs/buyouts, the only ones we recognize are Telander (sports), Morrissey (sports) and Sneed (gossip).

We keep anticipating either a merger with the Trib or one of the papers going under. The legacy media is thisclose to useless anyway.