Problem Family

So mere days after the City gave away piles of taxpayer money to a dead asshole who got shot after he shot a Chicago Police Officer, guess who got caught with TWO guns?

• One week ago, the day before Thanksgiving, lawyers quietly filed a two-page stipulation to dismiss a lawsuit at Chicago’s federal courthouse.

  According to the paperwork, the city has already reached a settlement agreement with the estate of Dexter Reed, the 26-year-old who was shot dead by Chicago police officers after he opened fire on them during a traffic stop on March 21. The parties agreed to refile the case only if the City Council rejects the deal, which is not detailed in the filing. By law, aldermen must approve settlements of more than $100,000.

  Three days after the filing, shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, Chicago police officers arrested Reed’s 25-year-old brother after they allegedly found two loaded firearms inside his SUV during a traffic stop. He was arrested, charged, and released to await trial without incident.

Amazingly, since this guy followed police orders, he didn't get shot. He must have been the smart one in a family of assholes.

He also didn't get held without bond for having two guns, one of them stolen and the other forbidden to be in his possession due to a Domestic Violence arrest. But hey, Crimesha had to get her last punches in against the unjust system.

Banana Republic Inbound

Remember how the dems and their tame pets in the media were warning everyone about the lawlessness of a second Trump administration along with the intervening four years of lawfare, surveilling parents attending school board meetings, imprisoning grandparents praying at abortion clinics and holding "rioters" arrested for trespassing (while being guided by DC police) in jail for years on end?

Now they're talking about issuing blanket pardons for people who haven't even been investigated:

• President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.

  Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.

Of course, Patel has vowed no such thing. Criticism isn't a crime. He has said he'll go after those who broke laws, which is NOT what the fbi and the "DoJ" has been doing the past four years.

But even the fact that they're seriously considering this is antithetical to the Rule of Law and the presumption if innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. Should this come to pass, the feds or any party could come in with the intent to break the law knowing that they'd be pardoned in the end and face no consequences.

Kind of like what Crimesha, Prickwrinkle, Conehead and Fata$$ have been doing to Chicago, Cook County, Illinois for the past number of years, though instead of pardons, they use non-prosecution, knowing that they'll never face a hostile opposition.

Another Missed ShotSpotter

CWB still keeping track of the places where ShotSpotter used to give us a heads-up on shots fired calls:

• Around 8:47 p.m. Tuesday, somebody called 911 for a person down in the 4000 block of West Wilcox. “Person down, but not quite,” a Chicago police dispatcher said dismissively as she read the assignment. “He’s just laying there and yelling. But he’s under the influence. Fire’s en route.”

  As it turned out, the man had actually been shot in the back. The bullet exited through his abdomen. Nobody had called to report gunshots in the area.

  It’s unclear how long the man was lying there before someone called 911, however CPD says the shooting occurred at 8:42 p.m., about five minutes before the “person down” call was dispatched to police.

  Had Mayor Brandon Johnson not disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter service on September 23, the dispatcher likely would have known about the shots fired and had units on the way before any 911 calls came in. And she’d be able to quickly make the connection between a man on the ground yelling and the gunfire, expediting the police and fire response.

And the dispatcher treating it like just a drunk yelling on the sidewalk is poetic in its own way.

Conehead and that stripper patronizing alderreature (married to the corrupt City Treasurer) will likely never pay a price at the ballot box, but it's still amusing to see the casualties stack up under their watches.

NYC Assassination

Certain voices on the left are actually celebrating this:

• UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed Wednesday in a “brazen, targeted attack” outside a Manhattan hotel where the health insurer was holding its investors conference, police said, setting off a massive dragnet hours before the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting nearby.

  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called it a “horrific and targeted shooting.” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said: “This was not what appears to be a just random act of violence. It seems to be clearly targeted by an individual, and we will apprehend that individual.”

  New York City police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that a masked gunman was waiting around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday for Thompson, 50, head of one of the largest insurance providers in the nation, outside the New York Hilton Midtown hotel...

There's video of the shooter waiting nearby for quite some time before he shot the CEO. His wife said he had been getting threats. 

We're going to go out on a limb and assume it's something like panti-fa or one of those associated groups. If we're correct, we may have just entered a new and disturbing era of politically generated violence that hasn't seen the light of day since the Weathermen bombings.

Be aware.

New Roommates?

So many illegal aliens, they just wander into temporarily vacant houses:

• Two migrants are facing felony charges after a South Shore woman allegedly found them in her apartment when she returned home from a Thanksgiving getaway. And, prosecutors say, one of them had a gun.

  The victim, a 48-year-old woman, returned to her apartment in the 7300 block of South Phillips around 5:45 a.m. Saturday, only to notice that her door had been damaged, a Chicago police report said. When she put her keys in the lock, the door swung open, and she encountered a man “holding a firearm speaking Spanish in an aggressive manner,” the report stated.

  She decided to go to the lobby and call the police. The cops talked with her and then knocked on her apartment door, which was allegedly answered by 20-year-old Yenifer Josefina Querales Garcia.

  Officers detained Rainer De Jesus Escobar Tona, 24, as he exited a bedroom, the report stated. According to prosecutors, police found a loaded .40-caliber handgun, an empty extended magazine, and a rifle optic scope inside a suitcase in the bedroom.

We're assuming the victim couldn't identify the initial man with a gun, but finding a rifle scope without a rifle attached raises a bunch more questions. The obvious lesson here is "Don't go on vacation....unless you have a house sitter." 

Good to see these are the people that Fata$$ and Conehead think are deserving of protection from immigration law.

$300 Rule Back in Effect

Years ago, Crimesha unilaterally decided she would decline to prosecute shoplifting charges unless the total monetary loss was in excess of $1,000. This was in direct contradiction of the law passed in Springfield that set the felony charge at anything over $300.

Illinois legislators, being gutless cowards who couldn't confront a fellow democrat, even if she was a totally incompetent lawyer violating the standards in place, stood by and watched as shoplifting and assorted retail crimes skyrocketed, making not only Chicago, but many suburban mall-scapes suddenly "business unfriendly" and shrinking the tax base by hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue and lost tourism.

O'Neill-Burke is (allegedly) changing that starting immediately:

• At the same time, published reports indicated O'Neill Burke had also moved immediately to rescind policies established under former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx to essentially decriminalize most cases of shoplifting in Chicago and elsewhere in the county.

  According to reports, O'Neill Burke would move to prosecute as felonies all cases of shoplifting involving the theft of at least $300 in merchandise or if committed by someone with a prior conviction. Those prosecution standards would comply with state law, as written.

  Previously, Foxx had directed her team of prosecutors to not charge shoplifters with felonies unless the accused thieves stole at least $1,000 worth of merchandise.

Again, this was illegal - Crimesha had ZERO authority to create law. We said at the time (and still say today) that she should be disbarred for this. Because crap like what she was doing led directly to shit like this:

• A serial shoplifter accused of stealing merchandise 12 times after being released from jail when Illinois eliminated cash bail last year has been given a nine-year prison sentence.

  Charged in August 2023 with felony shoplifting while on bail for another felony shoplifting case, 44-year-old James Tolbert sat in the Cook County jail, unable to afford the $1,600 bail deposit he needed to get released on an ankle monitor.

  Barely three weeks later, Illinois eliminated the cash bail system. Tolbert’s attorney filed a motion asking Judge Kenneth Wadas to remove the cash bail requirement. Wadas agreed, and Tolbert went home with an order to stay in the house from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.

  After that, officials claimed, Tolbert shoplifted or robbed Sunglass Hut and Ulta Beauty locations in the Loop and on the Magnificent Mile a dozen times.

"a dozen times" that they can pin on him. The actual number is closer to three dozen we've been told.

There's plenty of blame to go around - all at the feet of democrats, who love criminals more than they like or tolerate citizens and successful businesses. But Crimesha, more than anyone, deserves every bit of contempt we all can muster toward her arrogant bullshit.

All That Money

Sunday, we brought up the PPP fraud allegedly perpetrated by the head of IAD swindling taxpayers for a little over $20K in COVID money. She used an address belonging to (maybe) a relative in the 011th District.

Now, one of our readers emails us a web search that shows THIRTY-FIVE separate PPP loans from a single address....about two blocks over from Yollie's fake address:

That's also an 011th District address occupied by a Salvation Army shelter building. We had no idea the Salvation Army was so forward thinking as to allow people seeking emergency shelter to run businesses out of their buildings.

We were also told that the general area of the 011th District had more PPP loans per capita than any other location in the United States. We're talking millions upon million of dollars worth, which makes us wonder why - in such a business friendly environment - the 011th District is such a hotbed of shootings, murders, robberies and open-air drug markets.

City Council Meeting

Conehead even getting ripped by what you would assume was his voting base (link here):

Maybe Juicy Smollett was right - this is MAGA country?

Quick Thinking

A feel-good story:

• An Illinois officer is being hailed as a hero after he jumped into action within minutes when a pregnant woman called 911 to say her brakes had suddenly stopped working and she was quickly approaching a lake.

  The Williamson County Sheriff's office said it received a 911 call from a driver who said her vehicle "would not stop" early Monday morning.

  Officers caught up to the woman, who said she was on her way to pick up a relative from work, as she traveled westbound on old route 13 at Division Street near Carterville in downstate Illinois.

  "The vehicle had brake lights visibly activated however, the vehicle was not decelerating and continued traveling at approximately 30 miles per hour," the sheriff's office wrote on social media.

The Officers were able to direct the woman to an airport runway and she drove in circles until they were able to distract the mad bomber with.....no wait, that was a movie we saw once.

They were able to get in front of her car and slow her down with a controlled bumper-to-bumper collision and bring her to a halt. Quick thinking all around.

Our Traffic Review Baord would have labeled it "Preventable" and handed out a three day suspension along with Driving School.

O'Neill-Burke's First Day

Time for a crack-down!

• Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke vowed Monday to crack down on gun criminals as she takes the reins as the top law enforcement official in a county she says is “being overshadowed by crime.”

  “We have unparalleled opportunities here. We have world-class universities, we have infrastructure. We even have a fresh water supply,” O’Neill Burke said after a ceremonial swearing-in as the county’s top prosecutor before hundreds of supporters at the Ivy Room in River North.

  “We are primed to boom, but we are being overshadowed by crime right now,” she said. “While our crime rates are beginning to come down, the progress is not sufficient, particularly when it comes to gun violence.”

Fresh water supply? Okay.....roll with it we guess. We had no idea the food deserts and such were actual deserts. Maybe we can truck water in?

How about a little "truth in sentencing" and following the guidelines set forth by the Legislature? That alone would reduce crime by double digits. 

Or how about this - instead of fighting the incoming Administration, how about referring a few of these gun crimes to Federal prosecutors and start sentencing these assholes to fifteen years out-of-state? Crime would drop by a third (33%) the first year as evidenced in Operation Exile.

Meanwhile, on the south side, the struggle to hit 600 continues:

• At least two people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting Monday afternoon in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side.

  Emergency crews responded to a call of multiple people shot just after 2 p.m. near 59th Street and St. Louis Avenue, Chicago fire officials said.

  Two people were pronounced dead at the scene, according to fire officials.

That's some dedication right there to make O'Neill-Burke work hard on her first day.

UPDATE: up to three dead now, five wounded

UPDATE: Venezuelans? Various reports are saying a house full of illegals. If only Conehead, Fata$$ and other democrats cooperated with federal authorities in rounding up illegals.....

Two Hundred Forty Four

Even with a one-day holiday "reprieve," the city grabbed a sizable number of cars parked on snow routes:

• Hundreds of unhappy car owners filed into the city’s impound lots on a bitter cold Monday to retrieve wheels that were towed for the start of the annual overnight winter parking ban.

  The city issued an unheard-of, one-day reprieve on Sunday, giving drivers informational flyers instead of tows on the first night of the ban.

  But 244 drivers were still caught unaware Monday morning and found their vehicles towed, according to the Department of Streets and Sanitation.

  That’s slightly less than the 263 vehicles that were towed last year on the first day of enforcement. The winter parking ban is enforced 3 to 7 a.m. from Dec. 1 to April 1, regardless of whether snow is on the ground.

So 244 cars times $320 for tow, ticket and one day storage is just over $78,000.

How many days of Conehead grooming does that work out to?

Stop Creating Money Pits

 16 and 17 District Scanner discovered somewhere Conehead could start saving money:

• No. No more patronage jobs.
  
  
  We have an "Office of Public Safety Administration," a "Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability," an "Office of Violence Prevention" and a police department.
  
  
  Use what you have already. We don't need an "office of gun violence reduction."
  
  
  It would merely be a redundant, bureaucratic money pit to fund. The resources are there. Use them efficiently without soaking taxpayers with more costs.

Another layer of bureaucracy? Golly.

We really could use one of these new "DOGE" offices here pointing out how much money Chicago has been pissing away for generations. Or maybe even an investigative reporter or three.

Hey Larritorious?

How are you allowing this grifter to run Internal Affairs?

That's a PPP Loan for $20,833 using an address for a residence she doesn't live at, for some sort of "business" she never ran before COVID and hasn't run since.

The loan was "forgiven" probably meaning taxpayers ate the cost for someone who was already making $150,000 or more a year from those same taxpayers.

Cuck Goudie, you want to get in on this one?

Another Crimesha Special

This time, costing a cop his life:

• A 37-year-old Chicago man has been charged in the Friday morning shooting death of Oak Park Police Detective Allan Reddins, officials said on Saturday.

  Oak Park police said Jerell Thomas has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder of a peace officer, possession of a stolen firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in connection with the shooting.

  Police said investigators consider Thomas a "habitual criminal" with a previous history of multiple arrests for aggravated battery to a police officer, domestic battery, battery and resisting a police officer.

Had this piece of shit been properly convicted and properly sentenced for any of his previous crimes by the piece of shit States Attorney, he wouldn't have been on the street with a stolen gun murdering a Police Officer.

One day i the not-to-distant future, we hope Crimesha is standing at the bottom of a very large mountain as a Barq's root beer truck crosses the summit and a large snowstorm rolls in, coating the unsalted road with ice. It would be epic.

"Takeover" Shooting

Where's the Traffic Unit with the stop sticks?

• Two people were shot in separate vehicles while leaving a street takeover on the Southwest Side overnight. The gathering at 79th Street and Western Avenue was one of several takeovers, impromptu events where fans block intersections so drivers in tricked-out cars can spin donuts in the street, reported across the city.

  Chicago police officers reported that a crowd of up to 100 people threw objects at them and their squad cars as they broke up a gathering at 87th Street and Ashland around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

  Another takeover occurred at 55th Street and Pulaski Road at about 1:30 a.m. At least one participant threw bricks toward CPD units, striking at least one patrol car.

  But the real trouble started when a takeover involving about 100 people broke up at 79th Street and Western Avenue around 1:45 a.m.

In addition to the stop-stick people, perhaps the gas teams from the Bulls "celebrations: could be re-formed, re-equipped and re-deployed to these "gatherings."

Nice Jail Dart

And in the Cermak Hospital wing?

• The man accused of shooting and wounding an Orthodox Jewish man in a targeted attack before firing on responding police and paramedics died in custody Saturday afternoon, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said.

  Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, an immigrant from Mauritania in northwest Africa, died Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

  Sheriff’s staff were conducting routine security checks in Cermak Health Services — where Abdallahi was being held — at 3:30 p.m. and discovered Abdallahi unresponsive in an “apparent suicide attempt by hanging” in his cell, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he died. Sheriff’s officials said no foul play was suspected and that no risk of suicide had been detected beforehand.

This was the asshole shooting at police and paramedics, popping in and out of gangways before being brought down. We suppose this is a better outcome than Crimesha's office deliberately sabotaging the case before she left it behind as a live grenade for the incoming administration. 

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Fortunate Son

If you didn't hear the national news Sunday night because you were traveling or eating leftover Thanksgiving turkey, the vegetable "president" pardoned his son on Federal gun and tax evasion charges.

The pardon also stated:

• "For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted....."

That's an ELEVEN YEAR blanket pardon which (unsurprisingly) includes all the kiddie porn on Hunter's laptop along with tens-of-million in laundered Ukrainian money....and also covers the "10% for the Big Guy" whom Hunter may have been compelled to identify and testify against once the drooling dementia patient was out of office.

Going to be an interesting two months coming up.

Our Favorite Holiday

Winter Parking Ban Night!

• Chicago’s winter overnight parking ban begins 3 a.m. Sunday and so will the towing of vehicles parked along the prohibited routes.

  From Dec. 1 to April 1, vehicles parked on the more than 107 miles of streets between 3 and 7 a.m. will be towed.

  While the ban primarily is meant to ensure that streets can be safely plowed during snowfall, it is enforced regardless of the weather.

It also enforced to the tune of 200 cars, give or take a dozen, and a minimum fine/fee of $235.

The media is always asking questions about "quotas," they ought to look into the Streets and San / tow company quotas starting in about three hours.

Closing on 600

As of a few hours ago, the homicide total stood at 564.

Thirty-six more in 31 days?

Still doable.

Boston Mayor Backtracks

A whole boatload of blue state $hithole governors and mayors are advocating "insurrection" against the upcoming illegal alien removals....except not the racist in Boston (from an X/Twitter account):

• After publicly coming out against President Trump's mass deportation plan, Michelle Wu, the Mayor of Boston, is now backtracking & saying that she never intended to pick a fight with Border Czar Tom Homan
  
  
  "My comments have never been directed towards the federal government or anyone except for our own community members.”
  
  
  Tom Homan's strong statements are working.

Homan's statement is that he was more than willing to charge politicians federally with obstruction and put them in prison.

Remember, this is the mayor that held a segregated Christmas party last year and didn't invite anyone of a pale complexion. 

How long until Conehead and Fata$$ bend the knee?

Suburban Cop Killed

Oak Park, responding to a "Man with a gun" call:

• A police officer was shot and fatally wounded in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Friday morning around 9:30 a.m.

  CBS News identified the officer as 40-year-old Oak Park Police Detective Allan Reddins, and he was declared deceased at 10:10 a.m.

  ABC 7 noted that Reddins responded to call about a person with a gun leaving a bank. Shots were fired upon Reddins’ arrival on scene.

  Reddins was shot in the left side and rushed to Loyola University Medical Center, where he died. The suspect was shot in the leg and he, too, was transported to Loyola, where he is in good condition.

  Reddins is the first Oak Park Police Department officer killed in the line of duty since 1938.

Deep sympathies to the Oak Park PD, his family, friends and co-workers during this trying time.

Contrarian Calls Out Cook County

Sure seems like Sheriff Dart is becoming increasingly irrelevant:

• Instead of holding a hearing about why so many people are harmed or murdered under Sheriff Tom Dart and Chief Judge Timothy Evans’ GPS and electronic monitoring (EM) programs, Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Commissioners held a meeting to vote to move the Sheriff’s EM program under the direct supervision of the Office of the Chief Judge and then had their affiliates issue a celebratory public statement. This action of moving control over the EM program from Dart's office to the Chief Judge will likely place up to 1,400 defendants, most of whom are charged with violent crimes or weapons charges, under a program that is not equipped to monitor them.

  The recent harm caused by perpetrators on these GPS bands include the brutal murders of Officer Enrique Martinez and the horrific murder of a victim of domestic violence, Lacramioara Beldie, who this week was stabbed to death by her abuser who was wearing a GPS band. This tragedy also resulted in the injury of a heroic, off-duty police officer, who was struck by gunfire while attempting to Beldie's life.

  Ms. Preckwinkle, Judge Evans and the Cook County Board are members of the same group of elected officials who still insist the SAFE-T Act is enormously successful. They dismissed a call to action issued by Clerk Iris Martinez to address the fact that defendants are being released and then refuse to appear in court in and astounding 74 percent of cases; they ignore that residents and businesses fear for their safety; and they refuse to act even after being told that murders in domestic cases went up 110 percent last year.

And once again, this is Paul Vallas, guest writing over at The Contrarian, making it more and more obvious that he may have really scared the $hit out of the Prickwrinkle Machine. It would have been amusing to say the very least if he had won the mayoral election....sometimes disruption is as good as reform.

CWB Saturday

A whole slew of articles of interest over on the CWB website this past week:

Learn how to handle your gun in a moving vehicle:

• Detectives are questioning a woman after a man was shot while handling a gun with her in Lakeview on Wednesday morning.

  Cops responded to the 2900 block of North Pine Grove shortly after 3 a.m. when the woman called 911 to report that her boyfriend had been shot in the head. Officers found the 25-year-old man inside a Nissan Altima, critically injured, according to CPD.

  The woman, 23, told police that she and the man were passing a gun when it “went off.” Officers recovered a firearm at the scene.

The lesson here is "Don't." Ironically, the guy who got shot is the CCL holder.

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Another great job by Crimesha's office:

• It is one of the most shocking and consequential shootings Chicago has seen in recent years: A 16-year-old boy was shot dead steps from The Bean in Millennium Park during a large gathering of teens in May 2022. And it was caught on video.

  The death of Seandell Holliday prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot to largely ban unattended minors from the crown jewel of Chicago’s parks, which she encircled with security fences and metal detector-equipped admission gates. Many of those restrictions continue to this day.

  Marion Richardson was 17 on that fateful spring evening, but prosecutors charged him as an adult with two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.

  This month, a judge found him not guilty of those charges, saying prosecutors fell short of proving their case, although she did convict him of felony firearms violations.

Judge Carol Howard used every single avenue that Crimesha's people left open to justify letting this scumbag skate on a murder charge. He's on video with the gun, dropping the gun, picking it up again, and being arrested with it, but that doesn't prove he shot anyone. Wasn't there ballistics evidence? GSR tests? If not, why were charges even filed for the murder? That's gone now.

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Chase authorized?

• Two boys, one only 12 years old, are charged with carjacking a woman at gunpoint in the South Shore neighborhood after Chicago police supervisors permitted cops to engage the hijackers in a vehicle pursuit on Tuesday evening.

  Around 5 p.m., two carjackers wearing ski masks and displaying guns confronted a 50-year-old woman in the 8300 block of South Kingston, officials said. They took control of her 2017 Kia Sportage and drove away. Chicago cops found the vehicle about two hours later near 83rd Street and Mackinaw Avenue. The officers set up surveillance and sprung a trap when the two hijackers returned to the car and drove away.

  With a supervisor’s permission, the cops launched a vehicle pursuit, chasing the Kia, which had a flat tire, for several minutes. Both hijackers bolted from the car near 8600 South Escabana. Officers arrested the 12-year-old and a 15-year-old after foot chases. The cops also recovered two handguns.

Nice to see someone taking the risk to chase actual violent criminals despite the inherent risks....like the ones in the story directly below:

• COPA, the agency charged with investigating shootings and major accidents involving Chicago police officers, has released videos and other records from a car crash that left a man dead and two others injured as cops were following a suspect vehicle last month in McKinley Park.

  Early on October 1, CPD patrol officers focusing on a robbery pattern in the 5500 block of South Pulaski saw two people they believed to be armed get into a black Lexus sedan, according to the police department.

  COPA said the vehicle fled when officers tried to investigate, and the police followed the Lexus. At 35th Street and Ashland, the speeding Lexus ran a red light and struck a vehicle that was making a turn in the intersection.

This is going to be one of those "following, not chasing" ones, with no one arriving on scene with lights or sirens and crooked COPA pulling out all the stops (buffered video, non-Department recordings, GPS data) to hang everyone out to dry. 

Unfortunately, society, the Department and the political administration has decided that letting criminals get away with impunity is better publicity than actually apprehending mini-Capone's and making them face consequences for their demonized behavior.

Vigilante Maybe?

What do people do when they can't (won't) count on the cops being around?

• A man is in critical condition after someone shot him as he was “exhibiting erratic and dangerous behavior” on a busy Lincoln Park street Wednesday afternoon, according to the local alderman.

  “There is reason to believe this is an isolated incident wherein the victim and offender had a preexisting relationship,” Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43) said in an email tonight, adding that the case is still under investigation.

  Police said a 34-year-old man was approaching people on the sidewalk in the 2400 block of North Clark when an “altercation” broke out around 3:58 p.m. During the conflict, another man pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking the victim in the chest.
  

The shooter left the scene afterwards - why stick around and get railroaded like that guy on the New York subway, who merely restrained a psycho that was even higher on drugs than George Floyd was? Much easier to "shoot and scoot" in the blue shithole cities.

We've said it for years now - all these "defund" the police a$$holes aren't going to like what happens when the police can't/won't/are restricted in how they respond to disturbances like these.

Chicago is Lost

What in the actual f#$% is this?

• Hey SCC,
  
  Please tell me you’ve seen the video, along with heard the radio transmission of beat 712, two females on midnights last night. They got CHASED by a black Dodge Durango..got on the air called a 10-1 saying “please help.” They fled from said Durango lights and sirens. How is that not cowardice?! Here’s the kicker, one of the female POs in that car, she was the same one who got beat up by her off duty baby daddy in the 007th district lot..and denied signing complaints. Someone get these two females off the street before they hurt themselves or another PO.
  

.....we're actually speechless. 

What exactly do we expect the citizens to do if this is what's patrolling one of the less desirable parts of town?

Enforcement of Everything

We opened up our news browsers the other day and these three stories were right at the top:

• A girl has died after being hit by a car Monday evening in Schaumburg. Schaumburg police said officers were sent to the intersection of Algonquin and Thoreau Drive just after 5 p.m. for reports of a crash involving a pedestrian who turned out to be a child.
• A west suburban restaurant owner has died after he was struck by a teenage driver while crossing a road in Oswego last week Thursday.
• An 18-year-old girl was hit by a car and killed after running into the street late Monday night in the Ashburn neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side, according to police.

It is happening all over the place, not just the city, almost like everyone forgot how to drive....or was never taught....or the distinct lack of enforcement of anything aside from red light cameras and/or speed cameras.

Here's an idea for Larritorious - how about a citywide traffic enforcement month or two, where everything across the board gets pulled over, inspected and cited - broken tail lights, burnt out headlights, cracked windshields, tints, rims, etc. Don't neglect the movers - no signals, improper turns, lane usage, roll stops, turns on red, etc. Make people nervous the way anyone gets when they see a Wisconsin State trooper in the rear view mirror. We remember some training in the closing days of our career about "police legitimacy" being built around traffic stops and the cited individuals respecting cops more if they were cited for what they did wrong. Well?

Give Chicago a traffic stop reputation. Zero tolerance in every neighborhood so no one whines about "racist traffic stops" and other BS. And if the ticketed person shows up in court with proof of everything being fixed, no fines for those occurrences.

Then the month after that, start on the bicyclists. Maybe even the pedestrians.

Happy Thanksgiving

As usual, we are thankful for each and every one of our readers, without whom we would just be talking to ourselves....which as we get older, seems to be happening more.

If you're lucky enough to be off, enjoy your time with whomever you're spending it.

If you're working, stay safe and keep an eye on each other, especially if responding to drunken domestic disturbances during these crazy times.

Holiday Party Warning

After last year, we're surprised that the Department didn't cancel holiday parties across the board:

• The City of Chicago has been named as a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from last December when an off-duty police officer, accused of driving drunk, fatally struck a pedestrian.

  The lawsuit alleged that Officer [go read it at the link], 40, became intoxicated at a city-approved holiday party in River North, honoring retiring police officers, before driving and causing the fatal crash.

  According to the amended complaint, a Chicago Police Department employee designated the event at Tree House, a popular bar in River North, as an official city-approved function. The lawsuit claimed [...] was overserved alcohol at the party despite being visibly intoxicated, a violation of CPD policy, which prohibits officers from consuming excessive alcohol. It further alleged the city was liable as [...] acted within the scope of her employment during the event.

If they're going to claim that the "scope of her employment" involves that she allegedly took part in planning the event, then there are a boatload of career house mouses who should be walking on eggshells, knowing who acts how at these events. 

Drunk driving and overserving are just two of a litany of offenses that they could be tagged with.

Don't be that guy or gal.

Nice Staffing Choices Conehead

Why do Chicago democrats permit such behavior among the chosen few?

• Ronnie Reese, the former communications director and one-time press secretary for Mayor Brandon Johnson, was fired late last month for failing to meet professional standards, according to a memo obtained by NBC 5 Investigates through a Freedom of Information Act request.

  A copy of Reese’s termination letter shows while he was fired Oct. 23, an internal memo explaining to staff the reasons behind his termination wasn’t crafted until more than a week later – on Nov. 5 – which came after Reese’s departure had already been reported by news media.

  Additional documents shared with NBC 5 Investigates and first revealed by the FOIA Bakery late Monday show Reese faced additional complaints about his alleged behavior for more than a year prior to his firing.

A year?

There was that aldercreature had to give up his spot as Floor Leader for touching another aldercreature. Some high ranking drunk copper had to resign in disgrace after his Johnson (not Conehead) made some bad choices. There are all sorts of stories if you know where to look and where to listen.

But they'll keep certain....untouchables....around until there's enough sunlight to make a pretend effort at disinfecting the backrooms.

Scandal Still On-Going

They're hoping to drag it out so long, everyone forgets about it:

• A state watchdog has identified at least $7.2 million in fraudulent claims and more than 275 instances of misconduct by state employees accused of bilking a federal program designed to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Since 2022, the Office of the Executive Inspector General has been investigating allegations that state employees fraudulently claimed Paycheck Protection Program loans for small businesses they didn’t disclose or entirely fabricated. State workers may engage in secondary employment, but only if it’s disclosed and permission is granted.

  Employees from 13 different state agencies are involved in the fraud and have illegally taken these federal public funds, according to the OEIG, which is charged with investigating allegations of misconduct within state government. As of April, more than 60% of those implicated to date worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services, which operates mental health hospitals and developmental centers across the state.

Still no word on all the exempt members of the CPD who were doing the same thing?

Well Thank Goodness!

We were worried that downtown was turning into a $hithole, but it's all good now:

• A 19-year-old woman who was shot outside the Loop Macy’s Saturday night may not have been the intended target, according to police reports obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

  Just before the shooter opened fire in her direction, an altercation between two groups of male teens had occurred, according to a report.

  Investigators learned the victim was “not likely the intended target,” the report said.

  The assailant, only described as a male teen wearing a gray hoodie, shot her in her leg left, pelvis and right hand just before 9 p.m., when the woman was in a crosswalk outside the Macy’s at 111 N. State St.

Don't worry tourists - if you catch a stray round, it probably wasn't meant for you. Don't let this effect your decision to return to our fair city and spend money.

Lawsuits Incoming

New York City is going to be on the hook for hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Is Chicago next?

• The New York Supreme Court this month hammered the final nail in the coffin of a New York lawsuit against 17 busing companies contracted to transport illegal border crossers from Texas to New York City. It did so as New York City Mayor Eric Adams warned of ongoing budget constraints and recently announced budget cuts, blaming the migrant crisis.

  In January, Adams sued 17 busing companies contracted to transport illegal border crossers from Texas to New York City. In August, the New York Supreme Court dismissed his request to halt their operations.

  This month, the court granted Texas’ request for a dismissal, ending the 11-month saga.

Now the bus companies will be suing for costs associated with the illegal impounding and associated expenses. It seems that if the Biden/Harris administration throws open the borders to all arrivals, then if they sign waivers to be bussed somewhere else, is all perfectly legal, and blue cities have to eat the cost of their virtue-signaling.

Sucks when there are consequences to your stupid actions. Chicago taxpayers have Groot and Conehead to thank for this.

What Gang are They From?

These guys look foreign:

• Three men are charged with possessing cocaine and firearms, including a machine gun, after running from a stolen car on the Northwest Side, officials said. The driver of the Lexus got away, but not before someone fired shots at Chicago cops.

  Around 2 a.m. last Wednesday, CPD officers were searching the Irving Park neighborhood for a car that may have been involved in a previous incident involving a man with a gun, according to a police statement. As cops approached the parked Lexus in the 4600 block of North Knox, at least four people bolted from the vehicle, police said. An officer detained one man at the scene while another cop chased the remaining suspects. That’s when someone fired shots, forcing the officers to take cover, according to CPD. No injuries were reported. Police found two shell casings in the area.

  Back at the Lexus, which was outfitted with stolen license plates, police allegedly recovered four firearms: a handgun on the center console was equipped with an extended magazine and an automatic fire switch, allowing it to generate machine gun fire; a 5.56 rifle and two more handguns were found in the back seat area, according to court filings. Officers also found a “large amount” of suspected crack cocaine individually packaged inside the car, officials said.

All with other pending cases and/or convictions.

We're Supporting This

That Denver insurrectionist mayor might have overstepped his bounds:

• ....Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has said he will go to jail before he allows Homan to deport any illegals from his city. Yeah, that's pretty damn stupid on multiple levels ...

  Homan had this to say about the situation on Hannity, watch:

  Tom Homan: me and the Denver mayor agree on one thing, he is willing to go to jail and I am willing to put him there. pic.twitter.com/RWB9r15tCv

In addition to this mope, we'd love to have the Border Czar come to town and see what Fata$$ and Conehead have to say about deportation efforts here.

• Conehead would be reduced to a quivering wreck in seconds, probably offering to wear a MAGA hat, give up his (alleged) mistress and his suburban home;
• Fata$$ would stage a hunger strike, which would last for a year.

If the new administration repurposes Gitmo, Illinoisans would be eternally grateful.

Crimesha the Liar

As she prepares to exit office, she leaves the same way she entered - lying her ass off.

Here's the interview with Craig Dellimore on WBBM Newsradio and at the 5:30 mark of the interview, she claims - without evidence and without a grain of truth to it - that the blog posted she had two daughters along with her address.

THIS IS A LIE. It never happened.

We don't post addresses. Shortshanks never got that treatment. We think we may have posted a picture of Rahm's front porch once, but that was after his "wife" had a hissy fit when someone left some tomatoes from the garden on the porch. Groot's abode was attached to a RedFin realtor listing on the internet.

Anything like what she claims never saw the light of day here.

But when you're an incompetent lawyer, alleged husband beater, criminal coddler, who makes up law while washing root beer out of your clothes, it's par for the course.

FOP - Please Clarify

From an email, and a few comments the past weekend:

• There’s an issue I think that needs to be brought out ..at the last meeting it was stated that if you get a cr number and you get called more than once , the fop will deny representation for the second statement even if it’s Job related . A bad cr you can be called more than once . We pay 1000 a year in dues and what’s the point if we can’t get legal representation

In this day of re-opened / never closed Log Number investigations, where COPA and IAD release records that are thirty and forty years old along with dredging up past histories and suing cops long since retired (and in some cases, deceased), the need for competent counsel at ANY investigative questioning is unquestionably needed.

What's going on? Did someone misspeak or mishear something?

Bears One Step Closer

To leaving for Arlington Heights:

• The Bears say they want to stay in Chicago, but their potential drive to the northwest suburbs just got easier.

  Team officials announced Monday they’ve reached a tentative agreement with the village of Arlington Heights and local school district leaders who’ve sparred with the Bears over the property tax valuation on the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse, the 326-acre plot the team closed on early last year as a potential new stadium site.

  After about a year of wrangling over the size of the team’s property tax bill — and a year of political roadblocks to the Bears’ hopes for funding a new stadium in Chicago — the team says it has a memorandum of understanding that opens the runway for them to land in Arlington Heights.

We said before, all the posing and talk about a lakefront stadium (generously assisted by politicians giving away taxpayer dollars) is just leverage to use in negotiations with Arlington Heights.

It sure looks that way even more so.