Board Meeting Tomorrow

What is the decision going to be?

Frankly, we'd be surprised to see actual accountability.

We'd be less surprised by criminal indictments in the not too distant future. 

Vallas on the "Great Displacement"

We were told that this was all our imagination:

• Whether by accident or by design, the “Great Displacement” is already underway. Illinois is experiencing a colossal demographic upheaval — losing affluent residents through outmigration while gaining relatively poorer ones through both interstate and international migration. This shift is largely the product of the state’s so‑called progressive policies. High taxes and fees remain the primary reason Illinoisans cite for leaving, followed closely by hopelessly failing schools, rising crime, limited economic opportunity, and expansive sanctuary measures that encourage low‑income in‑migration.  

  According to Wirepoints, Illinois continues to hemorrhage wealthy residents. Since 2000, the state has lost roughly 1.6 million people — third most in the nation, behind only California and New York. Chicago’s population, even with the recent influx of migrants, is now at its lowest level in nearly a century. Almost every county in Illinois has experienced a decline in population.  Even more troubling, Illinois isn’t merely losing residents — it’s losing income.

  The IRS reports that in 2022 alone, 87,311 residents left Illinois, taking with them $9.9 billion in adjusted gross income. The real damage runs deeper: The outflow disproportionately includes residents in their prime earning and spending years. This brain and income drain erodes the tax base, shrinking critical property, sales, and consumption tax revenues that support state and local budgets.  

People far smarter than us were warning of this ten and twenty years ago. We were new to the scene back then and Vallas is a mere toddler where this is concerned.

Now, with multi-billion dollar businesses and their associated tax generating capacities fleeing for friendlier jurisdictions, the panic has become real, even among the leftists who are going to end up having to make difficult choices between their pet programs and their legal obligations.

Still Discovering Side Effects

In the 1950's, after a medical disaster where ten children died after receiving a faulty polio vaccine, the entire world-wide immunization effort was put on hold until a cause was determined and corrected.

Compare that to the COVID "vaccine" effects that are still coming to light:

• Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have demonstrated strong efficacy in preventing symptomatic disease, but adverse cardiovascular side effects have been reported. This study investigated whether noninvasive arterial pulse waveform analysis could help identify cardiovascular responses following administration of Moderna's mRNA-1273 vaccine.

The study showed that of those taking the Moderna "vaccine," ninety-one percent suffered measurable, adverse cardiac issues, from accelerated heartbeats to a measurable hardening of the arteries to dying.

NINETY-ONE PERCENT and they never stopped administering it.

And they tried to force everyone to take it, threatening jobs, livelihoods, schooling, social interactions to get you to comply, Groot and Snelling leading the way here in town and in this Department. And no one ever held accountable.

Who is Violent Again?

And where is it coming from?

• M3 Strategies surveyed 459 likely 2026 Democratic primary election voters in Illinois
  from October 23rd – October 25th.

  Among the key findings:

• 42% of Democratic primary voters say violence is “sometimes” or “mostly” acceptable to stop ICE, while 39% stated that it’s appropriate to physically pull ICE officers away while they are trying to handcuff someone.
• 81% of Democratic primary voters agree with the statement that “Trump and many of his supporters are like Nazis.”
• The vast majority (71%) of Democratic voters support Governor Pritzker doing “whatever it takes” to keep ICE and other federal law enforcement out of Illinois, and to stop the Feds from picking up and deporting undocumented immigrants in Illinois.
• The vast majority (71%) of Democratic primary voters want ICE officers to be prosecuted when Democrats take back control of the federal government.

This is a survey of "likely democrat voters." Where do you think they are getting their ideas to be so....insurrection-y? And before you answer, go down a couple posts and check out the alder-dumbass trying to open a police car.

Fata$$ Projects....Again

Porky learned a swear word and couldn't wait to try it out:

• Gov. JB Pritzker told President Donald Trump and his Republican allies to “f--- all the way off” during a speech last month before Illinois’ largest teachers union.

  Video of Pritzker’s F-bomb started gaining traction on social media Sunday, two weeks after the Democratic governor and potential 2028 presidential contender got a standing ovation for his profane takedown of Trump administration education policies.

Yeah, we know the President swears, too. It's not the best look.

But then Porky starts the usual dem trick of projecting his own party's behavior onto his opponents with no sense of irony:

• “Books are being banned. History is being erased. Republicans want to take billions away from public schools and pump it into private institutions. They want to punish teachers for telling the truth. They want to criminalize educators for supporting LGBTQ students. They want to turn classrooms into cultural war battlegrounds.

What a crock of shit this bag of shit spews:

• books aren't being banned - they're being evaluated for age-appropriateness and parental approval;
• history IS being erased - by the left tearing down statues across the country, renaming military bases, cancelling holidays, etc;
• teachers already turned classrooms into cultural battlegrounds - they're just getting pushback for the first time ever, and they can't handle that 

Perhaps the country will finally hold teachers accountable for kids being unable to read or do math at grade level and base any future pay raises on measuring their success .... or failure.

Charges Filed, Charges Missed

A bunch of politicians have been charged criminally for interfering with ICE enforcement actions:

• Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five other protesters have been indicted on federal charges, accused of damaging an ICE agent's vehicle while trying to block it from driving into the immigration processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, last month.

  Abughazaleh and five others were indicted on two counts each: conspiracy to impede or injure a federal law enforcement officer; and forcibly impeding, intimidating, or interfering with a federal law enforcement officer while engaged in official duties.

  The other defendants include Catherine Sharp, who is running for a seat on the Cook County Board of Commissioners; Michael Rabbitt, who is the Democratic committeeman in the 45th Ward in Chicago; Brian Straw, who is running for Oak Park village trustee; Andre Martin; and Joselyn Walsh. According to the indictment, Martin worked for Abughazaleh. In addition to running for Cook County Board, Sharp is the chief of staff for Chicago Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th).

There idiots better not be charging taxpayers for their legal bills.

But they've missed at least one that has more photographic evidence attached:

There's alder-dumbass Rosanna Sanchez attempting to open an ICE vehicle to free a handcuffed arrestee. Remember, this is the alder-dumbass who was in a Streets and San vehicle, chasing ICE, speeding, running red lights, and committing numerous traffic violations that could have maimed or killed any number of civilians, passers-by or law enforcement personnel.

We really need to see more arrests, more charges, maybe more than a few restraining orders. There's a giant under-utilized prison camp in Guantanamo, Cuba that could serve as a temporary detention center for federal detainees.

Northside Shooting

Remember when this used to be a nice neighborhood?

• Four people were wounded overnight in Lakeview when at least one gunman opened fire on Clark Street, just two blocks south of Wrigley Field.

  Chicago police said officers responded to reports of gunfire around 1:45 a.m. in the 3400 block of North Clark Street, a busy nightlife area lined with bars and restaurants. They found three victims at the scene and a fourth victim later walked into Thorek Hospital for treatment.

  Surveillance video reviewed by an officer showed the suspected gunman, described only as a man wearing a red hoodie and light-colored jeans, escaping in a white Chevy pickup truck that headed north on Clark Street.

There was another multiple-victim shooting on the west side this weekend, but that was only three, so it doesn't technically count as a "mass shooting."

Still, another weekend of almost twenty shot. 

Another Bad Idea Resurrected

Mayor slave Conehead is attempting to bring back an idea so bad, that the 9.5-Digit Midget abandoned it years ago:

• There are bad ideas, really bad ideas, and then there is whatever Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing next. His latest desire is a head tax on job creation in the city.

  America’s worst mayor is proposing a $21 a month tax on each employee of businesses that have more than a hundred employees. Chicago is facing a $1 billion budget shortfall for 2026, and the mayor’s office projects the tax would bring in about $100 million in new revenue. The mayor seems not to have heard of the truism that if you tax something you get less of it.

And that's from the Wall Street Journal.

Mayor slave Conehead doesn't appear to have heard of  companies like Citadel or Boeing. Citibank closed it's only corporate office on LaSalle Street a while back. United Airlines still maintained a suburban presence along with it's Sears Tower address, and they just downsized the downtown spot. McDonalds is is probably headed back to it's Elk Grove Village campus. And then there's a long time business called the Chicago Bears - based in Lake Forest, but about to abandon all ties with Chicago. The White Sox aren't far behind either.

Porkulous is nominally opposed to the head-tax....as long as companies relocate to the suburbs, he doesn't care what Mayor slave Conehead does. It's when companies like Caterpillar leave the entire state that Porky gets nervous and starts stress-eating again.

Don't Look Now....

Taxes, fees and tolls just went up massively in Illinois:

• As the clocked ticked down and Illinois' veto session came to a close, Illinois lawmakers in Springfield in the wee hours of Friday morning approved a new, $1.5 billion transit funding bill for public transportation agencies, mainly in the Chicago area.

  The new bill passed passed without large, and controversial statewide tax increases that had been previously proposed, like taxes on streaming services, a $5-per-ticket concert and new speeding cameras in the suburbs.

  However, the bill is still likely to raise sales tax in Chicago and the suburbs, and will significantly hike fares for trips on the Illinois Tollway, including to O'Hare International Airport.

Tolls will be climbing from $0.75 to $1.20. RTA sales taxes raised in Cook and surrounding suburbs.

And don't worry about your electricity bill - they raised that, too!

• A proposal to bring more power online in Illinois to meet high demand and potentially help curb rising electric bills was sent to Gov. JB Pritzker after state lawmakers passed the plan Thursday.

  The measure is aimed at creating more power in Illinois as the state and the country face a rising demand for electricity from big data centers.

  A major piece of the plan is the funding of giant battery storage, which aims to capture power during points of low demand, store it and release it when there is high demand.

Gotta love that word...."potentially."

We've been hearing it for decades, but can anyone tell us the last time an electric rate actually went down? We went over our bills for the past few years, and even dug around in our bank records and the only time our electric bills were lower was when we used less electricity - the rate charged never budged a penny while Illinois closed power plants and banned building nuclear reactors.

But what's another $7-to-10 billion dollars from the diminishing population of taxpayers and companies fleeing Illinois for cheaper power and costs of living? 

Illinois is a slow motion disaster, but it's picking up speed lately. 

Closing Time Delayed

If you show up to work and no one is there yet, you missed the "Daylight Saving" switch.

Again.

And you aren't getting paid for that hour.

Open post on a Sunday morning. 

Meeting Changed

A sudden change in the start time for the FOP Board meeting next week:

• Catanzara has changed the meeting time of the FOP Hearing Committee to 9:45 AM on November 5th, without informing the general membership, and you are advised to attend the full Board Meeting at 9:45 AM for the hearing and the Board's vote on recommendations.

  Note

  • Attend the trustees meeting, note the changed meeting time
  • Attend the FOP Hearing Committee hearing, note the changed meeting time

Here's the actual email:

 Why would....never mind. We all know why.

Watch Out 006

Lieutenant assignments out - and Asshata "Cop-Killer" Oogabooga is headed south:

Nice to see Personnel is helping her hide by only using one of her surnames and not the one she freely chose to praise a murderer of the police.

Paid Leave of Absence

Interesting:

Out of sight, out of mind.

But still getting paid, so still on-the-clock while being a general communist pain-in-the-ass. 

Super-What Now?

Seriously, what's he supposed to be?

Clark Kent after a hot dog eating contest?  

Three-hundred pounds of dumbass crammed into a twenty-five pound sack?

We can hear the spandex screaming from here. 

Maybe try this next time: 

 Hello Sailor!

I.C.E. Holiday?

Again, Porkulous hates Americans in general, Illinoisans in particular, and is only looking out for ILLEGAL ALIENS:

• Gov. JB Pritzker has once again made it clear where his loyalties lie – and it’s not with law-abiding Illinois citizens. In a stunning letter to the Trump administration, Pritzker asked federal officials to pause ICE operations over Halloween weekend so that illegal aliens could “enjoy the holiday in peace.”
  
  The memo, according to Politico, addressed to U.S. Homeland Security officials, including Acting ICE Director Lyons and Commissioner Scott, demanded that federal agents stand down from October 31 through November 2.
  
  Pritzker claimed that immigration enforcement during the holiday would “traumatize children” and “force families to live in fear.”

Boo-fucking-hoo.

Less kids out trick-or-treating means more candy for us! Plus, now we have a great idea for our Halloween costume this year:

Candy for legal residents only!

UPDATE: The Secretary of Homeland Security told Porky to get stuffed.

Keep the Heat On

For any Nathan Hale parents reading:

• UPDATE on the teacher from Nathan Hale, Lucy is either taking time or is suspended. The school is quietly planning on bringing her back after the new year. Apparently on Monday for report card pick up a lot of angry parents showed up. The pressure campaign is working the admin thinks it will blow over by the time 2026 rolls around.

There's another Parent/Teacher Conference date in mid-March for any interested parties. 

And if we recall, there ought to be Local School Council meetings every single month with a portion dedicated to "Community Input."

Inform Yourself

For anyone has been screaming "fascist" and "nazi" at cops, ICE and republicans, do yourself a favor:

• Google "Operation Arctic Frost" and read what's going on in Washington - don't read Wikipedia as they're part of the problem

It seems the drooling vegetable's FBI and the DoJ (in conjunction with all sorts of Sparklefart connections) were weaponized to the point they were:

• issuing almost 200 subpoenas with no criminal charges ever filed;
• demanded communication logs of over 430 republican lawmakers including 8 US senators;
• grabbed financial records of hundreds of business owners and conservative fundraising groups;
• gag orders on companies who were threatened into turning over data 

You want to see a "fascist" network being uncovered, look over there. 

 

Democrats Hate You

Remember, this a$$hole was elected to be a United States REPRESENTATIVE, but who is he looking out for?

So....not US Citizens, but ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Also, ICE called 911 today, alerting Chicago authorities that they were being chased by a vehicle with "M" designated plates - a municipal vehicle.

Who could that have been?

• So...up in 016 and 017 Aldercreature Roseanna Sanchez of the 33rd Ward was chasing around Border Patrol agents in a marked streets and san vehicle with flashing lights, and running through all sorts of red lights and stop signs. Chasing down BP agents yelling and screaming and acting like a crazy person. She was yelling at CPD, and threatening to call the mayor on them because they are not "protecting the community". This woman has gone completely insane. 

Again, someone elected to REPRESENT Chicago taxpayers. But she's operating a non-emergency vehicle in a dangerous and unsafe manner, interfering with Federal officers doing Federal work.

Can you imagine if she hit another vehicle? Or ran over a pedestrian?

And she's going to yell at CPD while she attempts to protect ILLEGAL ALIENS who don't belong here and didn't elect her? 

Democrats are Morons

Dickhead "Turban" Durbin is historically ignorant, but he's counting on you being more historically ignorant:

• Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II while speaking Monday at the U.S. Capitol during a Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing on immigration enforcement.

  During remarks delivered from the Senate floor, Durbin said, “There was only one parallel in history that I can think of that has occurred in my lifetime, and that of course, would be the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War Two.”

And who was it who forcibly relocated those Japanese-Americans (80,000 of whom were actually born in the United States) and seized their property, leaving them destitute and without legal recourse?

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a democrat and hero to the party that has been working tirelessly to destroy the foundations of the country.

Remember, this dimwit also called US troops "nazis" back in the early 2000s. 

He's far from the most ignorant, but he's among the more prominent.

And then there's this moron, so desperate to find racism in anything the President does, he has to manufacture it:

• By seeking to assert control over civic architecture, Trump is creating a physical testament to his destruction of democracy, Reinhold Martin, an architecture historian and Columbia University Professor, told TPM. It’s an aesthetic offshoot of Project 2025’s goal to gut public welfare and government services, Martin said.

  [...] Trump is also leaning on the idea that architecture can be used — as groups like the Daughters of the Confederacy realized in the post-Reconstruction era — to hearken back to a whiter past. “The classical architecture stuff is a dog whistle for white nationalists,” said Martin, who co-edited a book titled “Architecture against Democracy.”

So building a ballroom that would let State Dinner attendees avoid Port-o-Shitters on the East Lawn is a bad thing, because it invokes racism?

Can anyone tell us what is Sparklefarts "dog whistling" for with this architectural gem?

 

Kind of reminds us of the project buildings up and down the Dan Ryan where we used to spend evenings in getting our ::ahem:: step counts in. We wonder if it will smell the same?

A Recording Studio?

Hey teachers, we know most of you are "progressives," communists, and really bad at your job of actually teaching. But stuff like this makes the current FOP scandal look like Amateur Hour:

• The Chicago Teachers Union’s latest federal filing tells you how the union spends members’ money and it calls into question what the union isn’t telling them.

  CTU’s filing shows it spent $173,000 on a “recording studio” in New Mexico with no helpful context on its purpose. But it did have a pool.

  If CTU released its annual audits to members, as required in its internal rules, spending on a “recording studio” in New Mexico might have an explanation. But since it hasn’t released those audits since September 2020, members can only guess.

  Each year CTU files a report with the U.S. Department of Labor detailing the money it has received and spent in the previous fiscal year. Buried within its 2025 report is a $173,000 expense to On Point Studios.

  The location: Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Given the huge number of hidden sex beefs against CPS/CTU members (over 400), might this be their version of Davis-Gatestein Island?

Charges

From the "Shots Fired" up in 016:

 010 District gang banger. 

Spot the Difference

So this happened at court:

• A man who dragged a Chicago police officer with his car during a 2021 traffic stop in Englewood, prompting the officer to fire a shot at him that missed, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison.

  Prosecutors said 40-year-old Jermaine Little was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Malibu when officers pulled him over shortly before 7 p.m. on August 13, 2021. Police had been responding to a ShotSpotter gunfire alert in the area and noticed Little speeding away from where the shots had been detected.

  Three uniformed officers approached the vehicle and reportedly smelled burnt marijuana and a joint was visible in Little’s center console, prosecutors said. When one officer opened the driver’s door and tried to remove Little, he allegedly pulled his arm free, grabbed the steering wheel, and threw the car into reverse.

Judge William Gamboney gave this asshole twelve years.

But DEI Judge Tyria Walton found Whitley Temple not guilty of Attempted Murder for essentially the same actions. Then she made a number of accusations against Chicago cops without once notifying the Sheriff, IAD, COPA or any oversight committees of the allegations - just the media.

No Longer Number One

Chicago is now Number Two (pun intended):

• A new town is claiming the unsavory title of “rattiest city,” a title long-held by Chicago, according to a study released Tuesday by Orkin pest control company.

  For the last 10 years, Chicago has held the unwanted title of “America’s rattiest city,” a label the city has been trying hard to shed. The city was granted its wish when Los Angeles took over the No. 1 spot.

  [...] The shift was likely influenced by weather patterns, urban infrastructure and human behavior, the pest control company said.

  However, Chicago still holds the No. 2 spot — with New York City in third place and San Francisco in fourth.

"weather patterns"

It's always "global warming." 

Some Small Accountability

Amazing that it happened in Chicago:

• A college staff member who went viral for calling on leftists to shoot Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and for them to be "wiped out" was reportedly canned.

  Calling for murder/assassination is not First Amendment-protected speech, and in fact, it is outright illegal when aimed at intimidating or impeding a federal officer. Wilbur Wright College decided that it no longer wanted to be associated with Moises Bernal after his “No Kings” protest rant turned bloodthirsty, per Fox News. And it’s probably time for federal charges against Bernal — with attacks on ICE up 1000%, authorities cannot afford to ignore explicit calls for violence.

But that Lucy Martinez at Hale Elementary is still on staff as far as we can tell.

How Do They Afford the Ammo?

Seriously, are prices down this much that they can afford to be this extravagant?

• Nearly 60 shots were fired in an ambush Saturday afternoon that left one man dead and two others wounded in Little Village.

  Devonsha Conquallin Collier, 35, and two other men, 39 and 42, were walking back to their vehicle in the 3100 block of South Saint Louis Avenue after buying car parts to work on the 42-year-old’s car around 3 p.m. Saturday. That’s when two gunmen — one dressed in all gray and armed with a rifle and another in all black and armed with a handgun — jumped from a silver four-door Honda and opened fire before fleeing in an unknown direction, according to Chicago police reports obtained by the Sun-Times.

  Collier, of the Grand Boulevard neighborhood, was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital Collier, who was shot twice in the head, twice in the abdomen and three times in the back. was later pronounced dead at 3:54 a.m. on Sunday, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Meanwhile, a 39-year-old man was shot in the back, and another man, 42, suffered gunshot wounds to the back, arms and hip, police said. Both were listed in fair condition at Stroger Hospital.

  Detectives recovered 33 rifle rounds and 24 nine-millimeter rounds from the scene, officials said.

Who's got the website for getting ammo this cheap?

Delivery options? 

Shots Fired at Police

Well, a single shot:

• A man was taken into custody Monday afternoon after allegedly ramming two Chicago police vehicles and firing a gunshot at officers during a pursuit on the Northwest Side, according to CPD.

  Shortly after 4 p.m., police said, an officer assigned to the Jefferson Park (16th) District tried to stop a Jeep Cherokee for a traffic violation. The driver allegedly struck the marked squad car with his vehicle and sped off. As officers pursued him, the man allegedly fired at least one round out the back of the SUV, striking the police vehicle. No officers were injured.

  The chase continued to the 4500 block of North Meade Avenue, where the suspect crashed into another marked squad car. He then ran from the scene but was captured in the 6100 block of West Eastwood Avenue, according to police.

  Officers did not return fire during the incident, and no injuries were reported. A firearm was recovered from the Jeep, police said.

Can't wait to see the background in this particular individual. He'll probably claim he thought he was being pursued by ICE or something.

Well done Officers. 

Conehead the Ignorant

The hair product used to shape his cone is obviously leaking into what's left of his brain:

• Chicago’s self-professed “progressive” Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Saturday that there are no “illegal aliens” in his city and it is racist to say there are.

  He went on to say that if we refer to “undocumented individuals” as “illegal aliens,” then we should also call all black people “slaves.”

Um....no. We don't think we will. We will continue to call you a dumbass though.

First up, you were never a slave. Neither were your parents. Or grandparents. Slavery officially ended 160 years ago. The country fought a Civil War over it.

Second, you think it affords you some sort of protection or - dare we say it - privilege from being descended from those unfortunate souls. It doesn't - it's just a crutch you use to cover-up your own shortcomings. Constantly.

Third, to be undocumented means to be be ILLEGAL, and ALIEN is a person who is not a citizen or national of a particular country. The term is completely appropriate and actually legally defining. 

• He went on to once again conflate racism against blacks with the migrant issue, and added, “Listen, the legal term for my people were slaves. You want me to use that term, too?”

  Johnson then climbed on a soap box and scolded the press about its penchant for attacking “human beings.”

  “Let’s just get the language right,” the mayor snipped. “We’re talking about undocumented individuals that are human beings. The last thing that I’m going to do is accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.”

"were." Past tense. As in "Your people were freed 160 years ago."

ILLEGAL ALIENS "are." As in "They are presently and still ILLEGALLY in the country.

See the difference? You were a school teacher, right? You taught grade school? So the language is correct - no one is calling them "not human." Those using the term ILLEGAL ALIEN are legally describing their state of being.

As for being "racist," we've seen ICE arresting and expelling all races - white, black, Hispanic, Asians of all types - there's nothing racist about immigration status.

• Indeed, Johnson is so sold on his support of illegal aliens that he could not bring himself to say if he would support deportation for a violent migrant who raped his wife.

  [...] Johnson constantly shoehorns anti-black racism into the migrant debate as if opposition to illegal aliens taking American jobs, swamping schools and hospitals, engaging in rising crime, and stealing welfare and healthcare funds from citizens is the same thing as hating black people.

Conehead is supporting ILLEGAL ALIENS to the detriment of actual black people. Their illegal employment at artificially depressed wages takes away entry level jobs that would usually go to Americans....perhaps economically disadvantaged black Americans? 

The ILLEGAL ALIEN children who go to school are eating up instruction time that could be better used attempting to get the reading and math scores up - perhaps in the poorer American minority neighborhoods so that when one of those entry-level jobs opens up, an American teen or single mother could get it, work at it, and get promoted to something better?

But then they might end up voting for republicans. Better to import a new voter than try to convince someone who notices things haven't gotten better in North Lawndale or Englewood after one-hundred years of The Machine being in charge.

Barz Fallout Continues

WTTW picking up the ball and running with it now:

• The agency tasked with investigating misconduct by Chicago police officers identified a troubling pattern of undocumented and unprofessional stops of Black people in a downtown police district, according to a document obtained by WTTW News.

  The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which is better known as COPA, received more than 50 complaints that tactical team officers assigned to patrol Lincoln Park, West Town, Old Town, River North, Streeterville, the Gold Coast and parts of Logan Square conducted “problematic” traffic stops and searches in 2024, according to a letter from Steffany Hreno, COPA’s director of investigations, to the head of Near North (18th) Police District.

Assorted media outlets are all going to look for their own spin on this and use it as a cudgel to beat the Department with for years on end - like they did with Burge and they did with Abbate.

Yet another example of how the politically connected cause disproportionate amounts of damage by being placed into spots they didn't earn or deserve.

"...depending on where you look"

Porkulous (and Fox News) are arguing over homicide numbers, and both are conflating homicide totals with homicide rates:

• Fox News anchor Bret Baier confronted Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over Chicago’s murder rate on Wednesday.

  During an exclusive Fox News Channel interview, Baier and Pritzker clashed over the murder rate in his city. The anchor brought out research data to contest the governor’s on-air claim that Chicago isn’t even in the 30 American cities with the highest murder rates.

TOTAL homicides are lower this year, but Chicago still leads the nation in the total number of dead bodies. Homicide RATES fluctuate, where it's more dangerous in certain cities compared to Chicago based on killings per 100,000 people. 

Amusingly, if you do it by neighborhood, Chicago runs away with both categories.

It's all a numbers game exploited by both sides, but as we reported for years, those numbers are untrustworthy in the extreme. Check out this from a week ago:

• D.C. police officers are feeding information to the Justice Department as it probes accusations of manipulated crime data, according to the D.C. Police Union and five other people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an investigation in progress. The voluntary cooperation of about three dozen from the police force, according to three of the people, reflects long-standing frustrations about how violent crime is categorized by supervisors — and surfaces as public safety in D.C. continues to capture the president’s attention.

  Some rank-and-file officers and detectives have complained for months — in some cases, years — that managers were recording serious crimes as more minor ones to make their police districts appear safer or avoid the ire of top department brass. Some kept lists, documenting cases where they believed a higher-up improperly classified a crime as a lesser offense. One such tally, obtained by The Washington Post, lists more than 150 instances since March 2024 where staff in a Southeast D.C. police district believed offenses were, at least initially, inappropriately classified.

Or this one, closer to home:

• Officials in President Trump’s Justice Department have been scrutinizing crime data in recent months — they’ve found evidence that Democratic politicians have been skewing crime stats for their own benefit ahead of the midterm elections, The Post has learned.

  Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker — a vocal opponent of Trump’s use of federal troops for both immigration enforcement and fighting big-blue-city crime — has lately touted double-digit declines in Chicago crime rates where “shootings and homicides on our highways are down 60, 70, 80% depending on where you look.”

Gee, if you only count "highway homicides," then yeah, you're numbers are going to be massively skewed, and Fata$$ is undoubtedly looking at statewide numbers. The "depending on where you look" is what he's using for cover, because if you look at I-190 (the O'Hare circle) those rates are going to be lower than the Dan Ryan or the Stevenson. 

We could quote stats from Jefferson Park, compare it to North Lawndale and claim crime was down hundreds of percents, too. It wouldn't mean a damn thing, but it makes for great soundbites. 

CompStat was built on this bullshit, too, and we wrote dozens of pieces pointing out that the only persons who benefited from any of it were the politicians.

What Do They Expect?

All sorts of people whining about tear gas. 

If you don't want to get gassed, stop with this bullshit:

• Residents on Chicago's Northwest Side are outraged after federal agents, once again, deployed chemical agents against protesters. This time it happened as parents and children were heading to a neighborhood Halloween parade in the Old Irving Park neighborhood     

  "Started hearing some whistles and when I looked out I saw two fully uniformed Customs and Border Patrol agents tackling a guy to the ground Literally in my front yard right here," resident Brian Kolp said.

  That man been working on a nearby home when federal agents chased him down and took him into custody in the 3700 block of North Kildare. His brother said he is an undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S. with his family when he was 4-year-old.

  Within moments, angry neighbors poured out of their homes, joining protesters blowing whistles who had been on patrol looking for federal agents.

Unreported was the numerous sticks and rocks thrown at federal officers, but hey, that's routine for Chicago. 

So the feds, who are tasked with enforcing National Immigration Law, arrested an ILLEGAL ALIEN, and the neighborhood got upset because democrats told them that no one is above the law....except ILLEGAL ALIENS and assorted other voting groups that tend to vote left because that's who promises them money. 

And instead of teaching their children to mind their own business and obey the law, they drag them out to use them as props when the manufactured outrage crowd provokes a perfectly legal and efficient countermeasure approved in the Federal Use of Force model.

More of this please. 

What Changed?

It's only been a year. 

Last October, Sparklefarts was all over the place, telling everyone to vote for the black woman:

• Former President Barack Obama kicked off a campaign blitz for Vice President Kamala Harris Thursday in Pennsylvania, where he delivered remarks at a rally and spoke candidly to Black men at a campaign field office in Pittsburgh, urging them to get behind the vice president's candidacy.

  Obama thanked the volunteers working at the field office and said that he wanted to "speak some truths" after saying he heard reports that "we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," noting that this lack of enthusiasm appeared to be "more pronounced" with Black men.

This October, Sparklefarts is campaigning in Virginia, telling everyone to vote against the black immigrant woman running for governor:

• Former President Obama will campaign with Democratic Virginia gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger in Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 1, Spanberger’s campaign announced Tuesday.

  Obama last campaigned in Hampton Roads in 2012. His upcoming campaign stop with Spanberger will mark the first campaign visit of any Democratic president to the area in more than 10 years.

Something must have altered the universe? Anyone see Eric Holder around so we could finally have the "conversation" he was begging for all those years ago?

Detective List (Amended?)

We've gotten two different lists - we're assuming the second one is the amended list. 

It goes from ten "merit" picks DOWN to eight

Rank order promotions from forty UP to forty-two.

No idea what's going on there.

 

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What Will Porky Do?

As we predicted, the pardon at the federal level merely put the ball in Fata$$'s court, leaving him holding the live grenade:

• Since President Donald Trump commuted his federal life prison sentence five months ago, Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover has had three heart attacks and remains imprisoned in “extreme” conditions in Colorado, his lawyers say.

  Now, Hoover is asking Gov. JB Pritzker to finally make him a free man. Hoover’s lawyers sought clemency Wednesday from the Democratic governor in a petition that offers new insight into how Hoover has fared since Trump famously released the onetime Chicago gang leader from the federal government’s so-called supermax prison in Colorado.

  Despite receiving clemency from Trump on his federal conviction, Hoover still has a sentence to serve on a state murder conviction.

Hoover deserves to leave prison, horizontally and in a hearse. But this is a blue-state shithole, run by a fat commie billionaire who's always looking for angles and exploitative opportunities. 

But a commutation or pardon would likely impact any national ambitions as the "soft on crime" commercials write themselves. 

Think Dukakis, but with a few hundred extra pounds.

Blago Rips Fata$$

An Op-Ed in the Washington Times:

• I know a thing or two about being at odds with the political establishment, and I am no stranger to corrupt prosecutors in law enforcement. Yet even in the most contentious days of my governorship and during my darkest days in my fight for justice, I never dreamed I’d see the day when the governor of Illinois would publicly attack our law enforcement officers for doing their jobs to enforce our immigration laws.

  Nor could I have ever imagined that I would see the day when a governor, elected by the citizens residing in his state, would encourage civil disobedience and incite violence in defense of illegal immigrants, tens of thousands of whom are violent criminals. Yet here we are. J.B. Pritzker has not only crossed the line; he has erased it altogether.

  I believe deeply in the idea that America is a nation of immigrants. My own father was an immigrant who came here with nothing but hope and a belief that America was the land of opportunity. Still, there’s a difference between supporting legal immigration and undermining the rule of law in the name of political opportunism. What Mr. Pritzker is doing is dishonest, deeply disrespectful and dangerous.

Basically, Blago ends up saying what sane people have been noticing for a while now:

• you can't claim "no one is above the law" and then say that people who BROKE the law to come here ILLEGALLY are immune from the consequences of breaking the law.

It's hypocritical in the extreme....but when has hypocrisy ever hindered a democrat from grabbing the spotlight and shining it everywhere except at themselves?

Dick "Turban" Durbin and Fuckworthless were bitching about the President not granting blanket disaster relief to a couple of blue states, but both were mysteriously silent when the drooling vegetable's FEMA people were ordered to bypass hurricane damaged homes in the south that displayed Trump signs. 

People are (finally) noticing the inconsistencies.